Jody Hughes

@SquirrelwithaninvisibleW hehehehe

@SquirrelwithaninvisibleW shush, you! The others don’t know about it!

@SquirrelwithaninvisibleW You are quite right that this ought to be right up my street but I just keep not engaging with it, and I guess that’s my subconscious telling me it’s not my thang. I have no idea why, all the signs and portents are good, and yet, nope.

I have pie!

@SquirrelwithaninvisibleW yep for the JFSP but not the books. I don’t know why the books don’t excite me in the same way as the radio stuff.

But Cabin Pressure was a perfect gem, a four-hander with a stellar cast, not a weak moment.

@SquirrelwithaninvisibleW a) John Finnemore: 11/10 absolute genius. I trust you know Cabin Pressure?

b) back in time could happen, who knows? I’ve never tried it. Nor clockwise for that matter.

@SquirrelwithaninvisibleW well then Jodie can finish the job it’s fine with me either way. For I am the One True Jody.

@SquirrelwithaninvisibleW a) which is the worst version / is there a better one / are there better ones?

b) body clock-wise made me giggle. Maybe try moving your body anticlockwise? 🤣

@SquirrelwithaninvisibleW I’m beginning to wish the others actually existed. Jodi-who-cleans-bathrooms, that sort of thing.

@SquirrelwithaninvisibleW Right now we are all lazy. But one of us has turned the oven on so it’s gonna happen now.

@SquirrelwithaninvisibleW Ooh I forgot to ask her!

If I don’t turn on the oven the apple pie won’t bake and I won’t eat any tonight. This is slightly better for future-Jody (more pie in the future) but on the other hand I want pie now. Unfortunately I am lazy now.

#WhatWillJodyDo #NobodyKnows

Or what areas were being avoided as less comfortable, that this was considered a good place to go.

It might be fun to try to imagine what my brain was doing that it arrived at 'I know, let's listen to Doom. A Sigh!'. And then deciding to offer it up to y'all and the fediverse gods.

Doom. A Sigh, By Istvan Marta.

This was written for the Kronos Quartet, and recorded for their disc Black Angels.

It incorporates two folk songs recorded by the composer in 1973 when he visited a Hungarian village largely cut off from the outside world.

His visit seems to have resulted a year later in punishment for the villagers who sang for him by the Hungarian government.

It occupies a very uncomfortable space musically, but not one away from which we should always turn.

https://youtu.be/e-LQ7nBQcjA

@bytebro @keefeglise My pleasure, glad I could help.

@bytebro @keefeglise Yes that’s right. In the Romantic era (big orchestras, complex music) composers would typically write for two harps so they could share out the notes in a way that made them possible (each using different pedal settings).

@keefeglise @bytebro Yeah. The more dense the harmonies, the more restrictive it is. You can’t do a chromatic scale* at any sort of speed on the pedal harp, for instance

* all keys on piano in order up or down

@keefeglise @bytebro Not all harps! I spared you that. The modern classical harp used in all orchestral music and solo classical playing does. It’s a 19thC invention I think.

@bytebro @keefeglise Oops forgot my bona fides: I am a professional music editor, have edited a fair amount of harp music.