Society for Musical Liberation
@somulib.bsky.social
An organization dedicated to bringing true musical freedom to the masses. All tones / all rhythms / all musics are for all!
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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
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Kyle Gann is a favorite as a composer and a writer.
Brilliant mind.
#microtonal
#microtones
#justintonation
#xenharmonic
#ambientmusic
Brilliant mind.
#microtonal
#microtones
#justintonation
#xenharmonic
#ambientmusic
From Kyle Gann’s Hyperchromatica, now featured on @scorefollower.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=khvH...
Kyle Gann — Geometry [w/ score]
YouTube video by Score Follower
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February 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Kyle Gann is a favorite as a composer and a writer.
Brilliant mind.
#microtonal
#microtones
#justintonation
#xenharmonic
#ambientmusic
Brilliant mind.
#microtonal
#microtones
#justintonation
#xenharmonic
#ambientmusic
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woke 2 mandates all microtonal and fractional time signatures
October 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
woke 2 mandates all microtonal and fractional time signatures
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Sam Altman should rot in hell.
And OpenAI should be stripped for parts.
Fuck these AIbros--they do not care what harm they inflict on the world, and we just seem to continue to allow them to do exactly what they want.
And OpenAI should be stripped for parts.
Fuck these AIbros--they do not care what harm they inflict on the world, and we just seem to continue to allow them to do exactly what they want.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Sam Altman should rot in hell.
And OpenAI should be stripped for parts.
Fuck these AIbros--they do not care what harm they inflict on the world, and we just seem to continue to allow them to do exactly what they want.
And OpenAI should be stripped for parts.
Fuck these AIbros--they do not care what harm they inflict on the world, and we just seem to continue to allow them to do exactly what they want.
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i made a helpful reference
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i made a helpful reference
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MassGrave is a collection of scripts that are open source (see below) that are mostly running a bunch of the old archaic Windows service programs using magic tricks.
Because fuck AI, fuck Windows 11.
Share the video above with the people you know are on Windows 10 still.
Because fuck AI, fuck Windows 11.
Share the video above with the people you know are on Windows 10 still.
GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts: Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting...
Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting. - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
github.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MassGrave is a collection of scripts that are open source (see below) that are mostly running a bunch of the old archaic Windows service programs using magic tricks.
Because fuck AI, fuck Windows 11.
Share the video above with the people you know are on Windows 10 still.
Because fuck AI, fuck Windows 11.
Share the video above with the people you know are on Windows 10 still.
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to me, “you should create for yourself” and “you deserve to be acknowledged for what you make” are two statements that should coexist. chasing engagement will rot your soul, while being neglected will see your passion wither. loving what you make is a failsafe for when the engagement never comes.
April 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
to me, “you should create for yourself” and “you deserve to be acknowledged for what you make” are two statements that should coexist. chasing engagement will rot your soul, while being neglected will see your passion wither. loving what you make is a failsafe for when the engagement never comes.
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Reminder: Oppose and repeal all the age/ID verification laws. They're not protecting their kids but they are censoring you and demanding your personal info.
Tell them to stop.
Tell them to get rid of this shit.
Tell them to stop.
Tell them to get rid of this shit.
There are still people at conventions telling me, "They won't ban porn!" but these ID verification laws already have. Because there is no federal, safe and secure way to make those verifications happen; we will simply see site shut down or ban porn all together. You have to be realistic.
Finding out that so many people have purchased my books but never backed them up anywhere safe?! People really thought porn wasn't in trouble, huh? They really thought that Itchio could go on forever with anti-porn bills breathing down our necks... 😭
September 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Reminder: Oppose and repeal all the age/ID verification laws. They're not protecting their kids but they are censoring you and demanding your personal info.
Tell them to stop.
Tell them to get rid of this shit.
Tell them to stop.
Tell them to get rid of this shit.
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they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
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Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.
September 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.
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I can tell how bad things are getting at any time based on the number of people who dm me saying they saw this post floating around their discord servers
August 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I can tell how bad things are getting at any time based on the number of people who dm me saying they saw this post floating around their discord servers
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If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up
September 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up
Erotic art is just the beginning. The goal is total cultural control.
Remember the whole fuss about gangsta rap? About atonality? How quarter-tones represented "a primitive, even barbaric condition"?
These ghouls will come for and take EVERYTHING that you value and enjoy, unless they are stopped.
Remember the whole fuss about gangsta rap? About atonality? How quarter-tones represented "a primitive, even barbaric condition"?
These ghouls will come for and take EVERYTHING that you value and enjoy, unless they are stopped.
this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are
September 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Erotic art is just the beginning. The goal is total cultural control.
Remember the whole fuss about gangsta rap? About atonality? How quarter-tones represented "a primitive, even barbaric condition"?
These ghouls will come for and take EVERYTHING that you value and enjoy, unless they are stopped.
Remember the whole fuss about gangsta rap? About atonality? How quarter-tones represented "a primitive, even barbaric condition"?
These ghouls will come for and take EVERYTHING that you value and enjoy, unless they are stopped.
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The right-wing fascist ascendancy is a global phenomenon, and hopping across borders does not mean you can actually hide from it. You may find a slightly better local maximum for your particular needs, but this is a global problem and it requires a global, solidaric solution.
September 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The right-wing fascist ascendancy is a global phenomenon, and hopping across borders does not mean you can actually hide from it. You may find a slightly better local maximum for your particular needs, but this is a global problem and it requires a global, solidaric solution.
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surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
September 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
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Some of my more scholarly work is contributing to the expansion of string pedagogy in surprising ways. Esteban Hernández Parra's recent dissertation "Resuena Abya Yala: Otherwise Practices in Bowed Strings Learning and Performance" cites 1 of my pieces abt slave orchestras!
hdl.handle.net/2022/33684
hdl.handle.net/2022/33684
September 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Some of my more scholarly work is contributing to the expansion of string pedagogy in surprising ways. Esteban Hernández Parra's recent dissertation "Resuena Abya Yala: Otherwise Practices in Bowed Strings Learning and Performance" cites 1 of my pieces abt slave orchestras!
hdl.handle.net/2022/33684
hdl.handle.net/2022/33684
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Understand, why fighting this moral panic and fighting against payment processors as well as puritan politicians is so important, started with games, it's now going to your music, if you don't fight, better get ready to see all your stuff sanded down to puritan evangelical sensitivities.
Bandcamp has made a very bad decision which will hurt musicians. BC is requiring all artists and labels to use Stripe payment processor that has closed accounts due to their policy of no sensitive content sold with their system but worse, their policy is to equal LGBT content with sensitive content.
August 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Understand, why fighting this moral panic and fighting against payment processors as well as puritan politicians is so important, started with games, it's now going to your music, if you don't fight, better get ready to see all your stuff sanded down to puritan evangelical sensitivities.
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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
wrd.cm
February 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
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With recent draconian rulings, you may be tempted to not program composers who are awesome. In case you are still looking for music by composers who are awesome, may I suggest investigating our new search tool for chamber music? Have fun making good trouble!
www.composerdiversity.com/chamber-musi...
www.composerdiversity.com/chamber-musi...
February 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
With recent draconian rulings, you may be tempted to not program composers who are awesome. In case you are still looking for music by composers who are awesome, may I suggest investigating our new search tool for chamber music? Have fun making good trouble!
www.composerdiversity.com/chamber-musi...
www.composerdiversity.com/chamber-musi...
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REVOLUTION means NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND.
Not just trading one set of tyrants for another.
Not just trading one set of undesirables for another.
It means the ABOLITION of tyrants and undesirables.
It means building a brave and free new world with every brick we manage to tear from their prisons.
Not just trading one set of tyrants for another.
Not just trading one set of undesirables for another.
It means the ABOLITION of tyrants and undesirables.
It means building a brave and free new world with every brick we manage to tear from their prisons.
February 4, 2025 at 4:29 AM
REVOLUTION means NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND.
Not just trading one set of tyrants for another.
Not just trading one set of undesirables for another.
It means the ABOLITION of tyrants and undesirables.
It means building a brave and free new world with every brick we manage to tear from their prisons.
Not just trading one set of tyrants for another.
Not just trading one set of undesirables for another.
It means the ABOLITION of tyrants and undesirables.
It means building a brave and free new world with every brick we manage to tear from their prisons.
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When self-determination and self-expression are under attack, real liberatory orgs don't back down - they DOUBLE down.
That includes us. A threat to one freedom is a threat to all freedoms, including the freedom to compose and perform music that TRULY reflects your heritage and artistic vision. (1)
That includes us. A threat to one freedom is a threat to all freedoms, including the freedom to compose and perform music that TRULY reflects your heritage and artistic vision. (1)
February 4, 2025 at 6:58 AM
When self-determination and self-expression are under attack, real liberatory orgs don't back down - they DOUBLE down.
That includes us. A threat to one freedom is a threat to all freedoms, including the freedom to compose and perform music that TRULY reflects your heritage and artistic vision. (1)
That includes us. A threat to one freedom is a threat to all freedoms, including the freedom to compose and perform music that TRULY reflects your heritage and artistic vision. (1)
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I fell deep into that rabbit hole and ended up making my own lumatone knock-off, since it's too expensive for me as a hobby (pls dont judge my playing skills 😆) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-V...
IDHATISHIAVLAI
YouTube video by Phlimy
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February 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I fell deep into that rabbit hole and ended up making my own lumatone knock-off, since it's too expensive for me as a hobby (pls dont judge my playing skills 😆) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-V...
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"The Decline of the Working Musician"
"You used to be able to make a living playing in a band. A new book, “Band People,” charts how that changed."
By Hua Hsu
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"You used to be able to make a living playing in a band. A new book, “Band People,” charts how that changed."
By Hua Hsu
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Decline of the Working Musician
You used to be able to make a living playing in a band. A new book, “Band People,” charts how that changed.
www.newyorker.com
October 30, 2024 at 7:33 PM
"The Decline of the Working Musician"
"You used to be able to make a living playing in a band. A new book, “Band People,” charts how that changed."
By Hua Hsu
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"You used to be able to make a living playing in a band. A new book, “Band People,” charts how that changed."
By Hua Hsu
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...