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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Must one play Bach's WTC with piano or harpsichord? (One of features of baroque music is that one usually can use any instrument.) Well, piano's sound is quite mellow. But BWV 847/1 Prelude No. 2 in C minor with harpsichord... is just cool. It SHREDS.

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J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847/1

YouTube video by Trevor Pinnock - Topic

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px 💕✨ @pixelpixel.cat · 22/04/2025

*AAAAAAA*

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If you feel for something sweet this morning, why not to have a taste of this dessert?

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Chocolatina doça

YouTube video by Kasia Penta

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Sven Petersen @svenpetersen1965.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I have plaid music for over 20 years, but I have never been good at staff line stuff. This will be some coding fun. Jingle on piezo buzzer 🙂

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Ausretrogamer @ausretrogamer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Is it pinball time? Of course it is!

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I hope to compose some prog rock in the near future... If not ba-rock, ha-ha. But I am quite alone, I have no band for now. We'll see.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/12/2024

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like: ⚓️ Popeye 🕵️ The Maltese Falcon 📖 The Sound and the Fury 🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms 🏠️ A Room of One's Own 🙌 Hallelujah 🎺 Bolero and many more! 🧵👇

Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

BWV #795 - Sinfonia No.9 F-moll of J.S. Bach - is incredibly chromatic. I don't think it is to be played for a broad circle of listeners in its time - but it sounds incredibly modern. When you learn these rules of counterpoint and have this... It's totally amazing.

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It took some time, but finally my first album is available at Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/3jhmex... Or check kasia-ea.github.io for MP3s. I mean, $4 per 1000 streams? That works for popular musicians, but not numerous little ones.

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TUL Forschung 1

Kasia Penta · Album · 2023 · 9 songs

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/12/2024

And why is it important to preserve 78s? According to audio archivist George Blood, "To remember half of recorded history, it is important to preserve 78rpm discs." Read the rest of George's essay on 78 preservation: blog.archive.org/2024/08/26/v... 🕳️ #VanishingCulture

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Vanishing Culture: On 78s | Internet Archive Blogs

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Retroarch is intuitive with a gamepad, but so counterintuitive with a keyboard! You can't know back button for Backspace in the emulator, Esc doesn't call emulator menu, but quits it at all! Retroarch shows what to press for OK and Cancel on a gamepad, why can't there be a keyboard tip as well?

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

As far as I love logic games, I wonder, how many such games are there for the ZX Spectrum and MSX? And are there "match three" games?

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Old Windows icons are very elegant, and I am glad I can download them from github.com/trapd00r/win.... Well, if I need to browse Win98 ones online, I use win98icons.alexmeub.com.

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GitHub - trapd00r/win95-winxp_icons: default icons from win{95,98,2000,xp}

default icons from win{95,98,2000,xp}. Contribute to trapd00r/win95-winxp_icons development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Now I've met some real abstraction layer bullshit. Front app downloads 80 MB of data from backend in order to serve the user 800 KB compressed file (2 MB uncompressed). We were told these libraries could make development faster, but for that price? AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER WEBSITES MAY BE THE SAME D:

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Quand j'avais 5 ans, j'ai utilisé Norton Commander, et aujourd'hui, j'utilise FAR Manager! C'est amusant bien sûr...

La petite fille féline utilise Norton Commander sur le grand ordinateur en 1995 à gauche, et la grande femme féline utilise FAR Manager sur son portable en 2025 à droite

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Al à limite @siestasse.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

🎉 Joyeux anniversaire 🎉 Le single de 'You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)' du groupe 'Dead Or Alive' est sorti il y a 40 ans aujourd'hui 🎂

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Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Official Video)

YouTube video by DeadOrAliveVEVO

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I like to use old computers on daily basis! Or I would like to use?..

- Guck mal, ich hab' euch schon gesagt dass ich mit meinem Spectrum surfen kann!
*hat ein RPi (so schnell wie 1000 Spectrums sind) mit ZX Spectrum verbunden*

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I wish it weren't so true! But hey, I met cool youngsters who know the old tech that deep so they can give me a lesson or two! I am totally glad when younger people know the tech deeper than me :)

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

So PSX emulation has no issues on GPD Win, whereas 3DO emulation has issues. WELP. Not that it's unheard of with a bit more obscure systems.

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Purgatory’s suffering souls! Wherever in the world you be: If in flaming tar you roll, Or in an icy river freeze, <...> Come, hasten to our company! — And now come closer, everyone — Tonight we’re celebrating Dziady!

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

When you're watching YouTube and the first game you worked on pops up...

A YouTuber holding up a copy of Ghosthunter on the PS2 on the TV on my lounge

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Devourer @devourer.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Periodic reminder that if you have a 32gb WiiU to boot it Since some of them with Hynix chips are currently dying due to not being used #Wiiu #retrogaming

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Some time ago I made little pixel icons of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit computers - at least how these eras felt for me. When we got a tower computer, it probably has been 2002, and there was Windows XP with no thought of 16-bit DOS anymore. Still, I played DOS games pretty fine.

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

But quite often I feel like this

Cat in a jacket and a skirt, in embryo pose, crying

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

I am not much an artist, but I do some doodles

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Some of the earliest gen art was not visual, but musical; "Musikalisches Würfelspiel" games were so popular in the 1700s, even Mozart wrote one! Guillermo Brachetta has created an online version so even without piano (or dice) you can listen to some of the waltzes Mozart's algorithm creates.

Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

I have reworked the counterpoint in the middle voice, now it sounds the way I like :D Now I can continue onward with the composing.

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Autumn Nash 🎃👻💀🖤 @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

When Linux becomes your personality 🐧

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Ficta adventures. As I mentioned, early music sometimes requires some wit. Here's Jacob van Eyck's "O Heyligh zaligh Bethlehem". I am concerned whether F or F# should be there. For me it sounds like F# could suit better in context of harmonic G minor. Or not?..

Jacob van Eyck, 53. O Heyligh zaligh Bethlehem, Modo 3

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I have a long-lasting idea of some retrofuturistic setting like, say, formicapunk, where the tech from 90s has been developed intensively, not extensively. Like Atari Portfolio and similar devices have become quite cheap and popular.

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Unicode hasn't provided enough cat emojis yet - well, since people emojis anyway.

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I haven't practiced Jacob van Eyck for a while, resorting to improvisation. I mean, playing whatever I think. It's not probably bad, but I feel bad - who's to master those passages then?

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

I must not forget about musica ficta in older sources. But, it seems, I did.

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

I am staring at numerous accounts of people who are younger, but a lot more people know them, I am like... capitalism will kill me no matter of what and shred my name into nothing

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Time is quite amusing thing. FFIX has been developed as a "nostalgic entry" about previous NES-SNES games in series. And today we are more years away from FFIX, than FFIX was to FFI.

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

One must not forget that the first Star Wars movie was released in the exciting 70s - and the disc is exciting as it gets for the 70s music!

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Meco - Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk: Star Wars (HD Vinyl Recording)

YouTube video by MauldtheMan

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Some time ago NSA refused to release Grace Hopper's lecture "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" because they had no means to read some old video format. Turns out, they found a VCR and digitized the tape a month later.

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NSA Releases Internal 1982 Lecture by Computing Pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

YouTube video by The Black Vault Originals

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Pas seulement compositrice, elle créa la langue construite la plus ancienne qui nous savons pleinement !

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

When I don't know what music to choose to listen, I can play music myself. But then again, it may be difficult to choose between major and minor scale!

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I had a dream with a beginning of some battle theme, so I decided to develop it and then I got this.

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RPG Battle theme (computed No. 17)

YouTube video by Kasia Penta

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

What I miss about old television is that it feels like it implied intelligent interaction with viewers. Like David Attenborough, but it's not limited to David Attenborough's programs.

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Since I haven't been writing down any qualifiable music stuff for a while, I decided to go silly and just record silly tunes I make when I play.

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Recorder improvisation for August 29

YouTube video by Kasia Penta

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Katarzyna Motyl @kasiamotyl.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Since I can't hear tones properly, I have to read. I've been taught that fourths and fifths have no sense of certain direction. I've checked the sheet for the Intel tune. Fourth up, down - fifth!

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