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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

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Unit 3 in my textbook might be worth a gander

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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 thinking of referencing the data he's collected about tunes called at jam sessions but it would be great if I could ask him a couple of questions about 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 · 12/02/2025

That’s an acceptable answer

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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 · 26/01/2025

I love the score but I can’t stop acting like those three-note piano arpeggios are ear training exercises.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The nature of labels and categories. I don’t know, like I said, galaxy brain.

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

It mostly happens to me when I’m prepping before the semester. So detrimental to a to do list.

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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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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I’m having to watch it on my phone in the one room with dark shades

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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...

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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 · 17/01/2025

Yeah I’m in the yuck camp too. Maybe not universally, but the guy who used it was a podcast bro so that didn’t help.

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

I have so many handwritten graphics like this. It’s so satisfying somehow.

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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 · 10/01/2025

That’s great, happy to hear it!

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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 · 01/01/2025

One of my favorite albums ever

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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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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Listening to him is like eating your vegetables but without the nutrients

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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 55 could be seven 8-bar phrases with an elision of some kind, I'm sure this has happened.

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

By measures, 55:34 would be viable Fibonacci numbers for a standard length pop song. I wonder if people have done this?

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

OK so on further inspection, by measures, it's 52 measures up to the bridge and 32 measures after, including all the way to the end of the fade, which is more like 1.625. The youtube upload has a couple seconds of silence at the end, so maybe it's not quite as golden as I thought. Still interesting.

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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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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I kid you not, I searched mc before posting exactly this. It’s the only/best answer.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

That might as well be a picture of my car, Hermie.

A closeup of a tabby-tortie with her chin and paw resting over the edge of the couch back

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Once I started pouring a cocktail out of a mixing glass and into the sink instead of into the glass. Not my best work.

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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 · 14/12/2024

Oh I disagree! Coffee and a Bloody Mary is perfect.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

He *was* unpalatable to that same segment of the population.

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Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

It didn’t accomplish as much as we’d hoped (I still mask), but the vaccine was still a game changer and saved so many lives.

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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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