Yoshiaki Onishi
@yoshionishi.com
composer/conductor/clarinetist, doubly employed as Assistant Prof at Univ. of Delaware School of Music & at home by his boss Dorian the Cat (he/him) More: https://linktr.ee/yoshiakionishi
Here is Dorian listening to “La main gauche” attentively:
January 3, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Here is Dorian listening to “La main gauche” attentively:
Dorian too is grateful, here posing in front of a very special birthday gift from dear friend @buddytwo.bsky.social (thank you!! 😭💝):
the @academic.oup.com Handbook of Spectral Music, so thoughtfully edited by Amy Bauer, @liamcagney.bsky.social and @willmasonmusic.com.
the @academic.oup.com Handbook of Spectral Music, so thoughtfully edited by Amy Bauer, @liamcagney.bsky.social and @willmasonmusic.com.
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Dorian too is grateful, here posing in front of a very special birthday gift from dear friend @buddytwo.bsky.social (thank you!! 😭💝):
the @academic.oup.com Handbook of Spectral Music, so thoughtfully edited by Amy Bauer, @liamcagney.bsky.social and @willmasonmusic.com.
the @academic.oup.com Handbook of Spectral Music, so thoughtfully edited by Amy Bauer, @liamcagney.bsky.social and @willmasonmusic.com.
Meeting up with friends, some of whom I hadn’t seen in years, and then afterwards congratulating and hugging the composer himself was perhaps the best way to spend the afternoon in NY
October 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Meeting up with friends, some of whom I hadn’t seen in years, and then afterwards congratulating and hugging the composer himself was perhaps the best way to spend the afternoon in NY
On another note, some 1.5k lines later, I made the metric modulation equation work on LilyPond, which I am quite happy about. Probably I could tweak to refine the looks, and I admit my math might be off in the screenshot, but glad I made it. There is another version with the regular flags.
August 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
On another note, some 1.5k lines later, I made the metric modulation equation work on LilyPond, which I am quite happy about. Probably I could tweak to refine the looks, and I admit my math might be off in the screenshot, but glad I made it. There is another version with the regular flags.
Here is my cat Dorian, whom I affectionately call my “boss.”
July 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Here is my cat Dorian, whom I affectionately call my “boss.”
Why of course, my name is Zoshiaki
June 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Why of course, my name is Zoshiaki
Microsoft Word interprets new music
April 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Microsoft Word interprets new music
At least I am reminded to shrink something in my piece?
March 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
At least I am reminded to shrink something in my piece?
Never have I ever doubted my boss Dorian’s modernist (meowdernist…!?!?) tendency
March 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Never have I ever doubted my boss Dorian’s modernist (meowdernist…!?!?) tendency
Some snapshots from the piano recital in Washington DC that I attended last week. As I read the news about Kennedy Center more often as of late, it might not be for a while until I feel compelled to return there.
February 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Some snapshots from the piano recital in Washington DC that I attended last week. As I read the news about Kennedy Center more often as of late, it might not be for a while until I feel compelled to return there.
I was hanging out with a friend from Japan as part of the festival, and we were walking towards the High Line. We heard some chanting and all, and the reason was evident. At least to me. It made me wonder what people like him—far from the US politics—think about all the debacles.
February 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I was hanging out with a friend from Japan as part of the festival, and we were walking towards the High Line. We heard some chanting and all, and the reason was evident. At least to me. It made me wonder what people like him—far from the US politics—think about all the debacles.
Update: I finally got the books I ordered and can’t wait to start reading them.
February 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Update: I finally got the books I ordered and can’t wait to start reading them.
Checking out Flashes, Bluesky’s app that is in the beta testing version. It seems to be good so far. Of course I’d post something related to Dorian. Here he is studying to be a watch repairer.
February 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Checking out Flashes, Bluesky’s app that is in the beta testing version. It seems to be good so far. Of course I’d post something related to Dorian. Here he is studying to be a watch repairer.
Spending an evening in NYC. Attended a concert at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, featuring Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong’s “Soundless.” Vast sonic landscape that reveals itself over the course of a little over an hour. An amazingly paced work, and it was a wonderful composition lesson for me.
February 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Spending an evening in NYC. Attended a concert at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, featuring Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong’s “Soundless.” Vast sonic landscape that reveals itself over the course of a little over an hour. An amazingly paced work, and it was a wonderful composition lesson for me.
Another old post of mine on FB, a snippet of conversation I had with Fred Lerdahl when I was taking composition lesson from him that year. Since then for 15 years, masterpieces have always eluded me.
January 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Another old post of mine on FB, a snippet of conversation I had with Fred Lerdahl when I was taking composition lesson from him that year. Since then for 15 years, masterpieces have always eluded me.
Going through my old posts on Facebook now from 2018. I stumbled upon this. I am not sure what the word was that I saw on NYTimes back then... But it feels oddly relevant today, and whatever the word was, we are probably immune to it.
January 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Going through my old posts on Facebook now from 2018. I stumbled upon this. I am not sure what the word was that I saw on NYTimes back then... But it feels oddly relevant today, and whatever the word was, we are probably immune to it.
Because I quit the other platform, I think it is justified to post these photos again to show support for @barenreiter.bsky.social; after all, who doesn't love good music editions? Dorian seems to agree, too.
January 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Because I quit the other platform, I think it is justified to post these photos again to show support for @barenreiter.bsky.social; after all, who doesn't love good music editions? Dorian seems to agree, too.
This is how I will remember the former President Jimmy Carter: how his wife and First Lady Rosalynn Carter and he received Rostropovich, Messiaen, and Loriod at the White House in mid-November, 1978.
From: Hill, Peter, and Nigel Simeone. Messiaen. Yale University Press, 2005. 321.
From: Hill, Peter, and Nigel Simeone. Messiaen. Yale University Press, 2005. 321.
December 30, 2024 at 8:51 PM
This is how I will remember the former President Jimmy Carter: how his wife and First Lady Rosalynn Carter and he received Rostropovich, Messiaen, and Loriod at the White House in mid-November, 1978.
From: Hill, Peter, and Nigel Simeone. Messiaen. Yale University Press, 2005. 321.
From: Hill, Peter, and Nigel Simeone. Messiaen. Yale University Press, 2005. 321.
@santibeis.bsky.social and I worked so hard on this and I’m glad this has been released as of yesterday. Happy listening!
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March 29, 2024 at 7:49 AM
@santibeis.bsky.social and I worked so hard on this and I’m glad this has been released as of yesterday. Happy listening!
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I can’t really speak about the specifics of this book or the review, but it just seems there are many literary and music critics who don’t know how to read or listen. Whenever someone comes to me feeling discouraged about what someone else said about their music, I show this review I got once:
January 10, 2024 at 5:41 PM
I can’t really speak about the specifics of this book or the review, but it just seems there are many literary and music critics who don’t know how to read or listen. Whenever someone comes to me feeling discouraged about what someone else said about their music, I show this review I got once:
I am not sure if the high-pitched sound I heard from the next door was a recorder or some kind of high-tech alarm system, but still, I’ve been having moments of tranquility at home.
September 16, 2023 at 10:09 PM
I am not sure if the high-pitched sound I heard from the next door was a recorder or some kind of high-tech alarm system, but still, I’ve been having moments of tranquility at home.
Having finished the first week of teaching, I can say I am quite exhausted, but that’s because I still need to get used to the way of life here. I think it’s all going to be worth the effort in the end.
September 3, 2023 at 9:56 PM
Having finished the first week of teaching, I can say I am quite exhausted, but that’s because I still need to get used to the way of life here. I think it’s all going to be worth the effort in the end.
Not that I post things that go viral, but the idea that the “formerly known as Twitter” now has even more control over the posted contents and that they could use AI to alter things and appropriate at will seems just so not cool. Considering to leave, though there are some cat contents I’ll miss…
August 31, 2023 at 7:25 PM
Not that I post things that go viral, but the idea that the “formerly known as Twitter” now has even more control over the posted contents and that they could use AI to alter things and appropriate at will seems just so not cool. Considering to leave, though there are some cat contents I’ll miss…