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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Where’s Dawn? I’ve been waiting to shake her hand for three minutes! Sir, this is a Wendy’s

Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Really happy to see this video article published. Thanks to @theorymeg.bsky.social for her incredible feedback and encouragement throughout! This is public-facing scholarship but I still wanted to raise some serious questions about the way jazz theory is done. I hope you enjoy it!

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I'm trying to get in touch with David Miller, a saxophonist based in London who developed standardrepertoire.com. Is there anyone who could by any chance facilitate an introduction or share contact information?

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Jazz Standard Repertoire

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

If this is how the SEC refs are going to treat UK, UK should go to another conference. Money talks. #bbn

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I haven't listened to the Miles Davis second quintet in a while (big mistake). Sometimes you start to think, could it really be as good as what I remember of it? Listening to ESP and the answer is, yes, it's that good, it's as good as any music ever made.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Recently discovered that the easiest way to add a table in Word is to type it out with tabs to separate columns, select it, and choose "convert text to table"... in case that will add years onto anyone else's life.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Repeatiatrician (n) - someone who teaches music to children

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Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Six years ago today, the Institute for Composer Diversity was launched, and in celebration of its birthday, we're (finally) launching our Chamber Database! 16K+ total works with 9K+ by women composers and 8.7K+ by composers of color and searchable by over 200 instruments…Enjoy!

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Chamber Search — Institute for Composer Diversity

This Chamber Search page lets you search for music for 1-9+ performers by composers from historically excluded groups.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Why do I always get galaxy brain over things like "what is a scale degree" and "when is a note an object, element, class, or type?" Come on, Geyer, it's a 2-day review of fundamentals 🤦‍♂️

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 22/01/2025

Deep thanks to David Adler at JazzTimes for including my album in this round-up of releases from January. "There’s a restraint at work, a gentleness of timbre, even when the improvisation heats up and a groove starts to kick in." jazztimes.com/blog/new-5-t...

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New 5: Top Jazz Releases, January 2025 - JazzTimes

Carl Allen, Tippin’ (Cellar Live/La Reserve) It’s a bit “if you have to ask,” but here goes, a working definition of Tippin’: It’s when a … Read More "New 5: Top Jazz Releases, January 2025"

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bitch-king of angmar (her) @wetropolitan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I’ll be returning to the Bay Area soon to sing an opera about a young Japanese American family incarcerated by the U.S. government during WWII. 🧵 secure-tickets.berkeley.edu/26079?fbclid...

Poster reads Both Eyes Open

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Pictured behind the text clockwise from top left: an Asian couple in old timey traveling coats anxiously seated together with suitcases, a bald monk holding a daruma doll with one eye painted in, a daruma doll alone

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Stephanie Lamprea @slampreasoprano.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

(1/3) Here are some clips from our workshop sessions this past weekend for Speaking Towards One Another, using wearable tech to generate sound with sign language! Here, Yuki is triggering sound as she completes the sign for "chain".

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I've heard creative as a noun for a person, obviously, but I just heard it used as a noun for creative products. As in, "what was your approach to the creative?"

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Highly recommend this reflective essay from Temple Prof. Seth Bruggeman. It captures the central challenge of teaching today in a system that over time has become entirely transactional, and then suddenly technology that could satisfy the transaction arrived. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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A crisis of trust in the classroom (opinion)

The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 14/01/2025

Really grateful to Chris Ingalls at PopMatters @popmatters.bsky.social for reviewing my latest album. "An unsettling and revelatory work, a sort of “alternate universe” chamber jazz album." www.popmatters.com/will-mason-q...

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Will Mason Quartet's Glorious Celebration of Microtonal Chamber Jazz » PopMatters

Drummer and composer Will Mason used modernist paintings, poetry, and compositions as chief influences on this hypnotic new album.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It was your eyes that saw the colour, your brain that interpreted it, your heart that felt its beauty. You didn't love it because they're the Blue Artist, but because you were always a person who could love the sky. 4/

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This is a super cool visualization of song popularity over time but there’s no explanation of where they get the numbers. Does anyone know how this would work? youtu.be/KX9olRGGiBc?...

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YouTube video by LadyGagaLove

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Learned a new word. Hypostatization: the claim that "this is a thing"

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Stephanie Lamprea @slampreasoprano.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Bought a copy of @amaler.bsky.social 's book, Seeing Voices, and it's mind-blowing. So well written, describes the history & innovations of sign-language music, and sheds new light on music theory, voice theory, language embodiment, and intersections of art forms. 🎶🧏🏻‍♀️✨ global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The bridge to "Always Be My Baby" comes in at just about the golden ratio - 159:257 in seconds, or 6.187. Take from that what you will.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Writing is an act of rebellion. Writing is an act of creation. Writing is an act of salvation. Writing is an act of exploration. Writing is an act of emotion. Writing is an act of confession. Writing is an act of speculation. Writing is an act of reflection. Keep writing.

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Book Published! The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies Really hoping this one will change the conversation in music industry studies. Check it out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies

This book brings together scholars and professionals from around the globe to re-imagine a less exploitative, more socially just music industry.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I've been animated! I teach my students to move their hands as a kinesthetic to identify operations on intervals caused by accidentals - grow, shrink, or shift. This student was taking an exam in the library when other people saw her moving her hands, and thought she was doing magic.

A hand drawn cartoon with four panels. The upper left depicts a student with a question mark above her head with the words "test taking" and music symbols. The lower left shows the same student solving an interval question with one hand above the other, with a thought bubble pointing to the upper right, where I am represented in the same pose in a music classroom. I am bald, face-masked, and bespectacled (it's very accurate). In the lower right others notice the student's hand motions and have speech bubbles: "Is she casting a spell?" "Music theory test maybe?" And the student thinks "Yeah, yeah, it's magic to get correct answers."

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 10/12/2024

Friends, some fun news: my next album is coming out on January 10 on New Focus Recordings and the pre-order link is now live. The band includes Anna Webber, DeVon Russell Gray, and Daniel Fisher-Lochhead, plus me on drums. Lots more info on bandcamp: newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hemloc...

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Hemlocks, Peacocks, by Will Mason Quartet

7 track album

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Rick McLaughlin @rickmclaughlin.com · 09/12/2024

Sixty years ago today, one of the greatest musical performances was recorded. John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” is astonishing. It’s a “desert island” recording for me, however I probably have it memorized by now, I love it so much! #musicsky #jazzsky #johncoltrane en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Love_...

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A Love Supreme - Wikipedia

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is something I've been working on since at least 2021. As usual, it started as a Twitter thread. Cai Wenji <蔡文姬> (c. 170 - 215 CE). Composer, poet, musician of late Han Dynasty. Also a playable character in 'Dynasty Warriors' video game series. Thread: x.com/Silpayamanan...

Cai Wenji <蔡文姬> (c. 170 - 215 CE). Composer, poet, musician of late Han Dynasty. Also playable character in 'Dynasty Warriors' video game series.

L. album "Gathering Gems of Beauty" <畫麗珠萃秀> by He Dazi; text by Liang Shizheng in 1738.
R. v-game char.

#WomenComposers

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Left: from the album "Gathering Gems of Beauty" <畫麗珠萃秀> by He Dazi; text by Liang Shizheng in 1738.
Right: Image of Cai Wenji holding an erhu taken from "Dynasty Warriors" video game series.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I'm so serious, if you stop using your creativity, imagination and thinking abilities you will lose them. Millions of people willingly giving up their intellects, the very thing that makes them human, is a nightmare straight out of our darkest science-fictions.

image of viral tweet that says "so before chatgpt, i was doing things...myself?"

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Lisa Neher @lisaneher.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

'Tis the season for calls for scores, so 'tis the season for some #RealTalk about the impact your well-intended call is having on composers. Ensembles: thank you for being interested in new music, and in discovering composers you aren't familiar with yet.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is why my students love me

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Romel Shearer @romel-ds.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

As a curator, I hear Bahamian musicians often complain that local live audiences only care to listen to what’s familiar or the Top 40, but I’d say that the reason our audiences are at times intolerant of anything that verges out of the mainstream is that we as artists haven’t stuck to our guns.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I cooked turkey parts - the best decision I’ve ever made. (1) cheaper (2) more appropriate amount of food (3) more surface area for dry brine and sear (4) more control and even cooking in oven (5) so much easier to carve. I could go on.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

emotional support honey mustard pretzels

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

What are the considerations around deleting vs. going private on the other place? Is there a real risk of people taking my handle and posing as me? If I'm private is there a real risk of my information being used nefariously by the company? Do they not already have that info?

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Bringing together two themes I've seen - not ceding power preemptively, and finding joy: I'm going to try to avoid being miserable (worrying, losing sleep) about things that he *might* do before he's actually done them.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Let's go Cats beat Duke! This is going to be inTENSE Also why didn't anyone tell me the Canes are good? Some alum I am.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

At SMT, I presented a short workshop on a set of improvisation games that work as a thread through a conventional aural skills curriculum, alongside sight singing, dictation, etc. Materials are available as a pdf at bengeyer.com/teacher. [1/4] #mtped #musictheory #auralskills #improvisation

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Some good news: a book that I contributed to won the Society for Music Theory's Outstanding Multi-Author Collection award! The book is Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom, Ed. Melissa Hoag. Just found out... serves me right for missing the ceremony. [1/2]

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

This is not a line outside a poll site. This is a line of Harris volunteers filling up six buses on W. 62nd St., headed to PA this a.m. This is why we are gonna win it.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Massachusetts, join me in voting yes on the five ballot questions tomorrow. www.progressivemass.com/this-novembe...

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Just checked and confirmed that my mail-in ballot was accepted! I voted for Harris and you should too.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

This is one of the principal mechanisms that made my last job decline so quickly and ultimately prompted me to leave. The administration's initiatives weren't just bad; they also required tons of time from faculty, to the point that my day-to-day was not about students (and certainly not research).

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

For me this is pretty much on the level of the Odell Beckham Jr. catch. The heights of athletic ability. Not just the backwards leap but the ankle-break leading into it. People are amazing.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

I hate to break it to you, but that Iowa poll was not the surprise of the night - look out for my newest journal article, "Denial, Fantasy, and Erasure in Fivd Hundred Years of Music Discourse", in and upcoming special issue of CU Press' 'Public Humanities'!

Screenshot of an email from Cambridge University Press sharing the message that Garrett's article was accepted for publication

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

I've been posting on FB about the election because it's probably the only space where I'm connected to people who might not be planning to vote for Harris. Just as a reminder, it's still an awful platform.

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