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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

oh yeah constant awareness of all that

kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Venn diagram between people who enjoy Clue (1985) and people who enjoy The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) is a perfect circle

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

gotta be honest, as someone who is constantly less aware and who has the memory of Dory from Finding Nemo, it's great until you can't remember whether or not you've turned off the oven (and you haven't used the oven since Tuesday)

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Haden Plouffe is Very Scary @haydnpuff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Have I mentioned I am wide open for commissions of deeply intimate and off kilter music

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Luke Nemitz @looohhk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

mini cover of the Main Theme for #StarWars: Galactic Racer (which I am PUMPED for and deliberately holding off until the weekend to purchase or else I give my life to it) Star Wars: Galactic Racer by Gordy Haab arr. by Luke Nemitz (@looohhk.bsky.social) Thanks everybody and happy racing!

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yes I've seen it as an adult and it was fun as hell

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Sarah Fritz @sarahfritz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MADAME COMPOSER: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann is here.🤩🥂 Now available wherever books are sold. 🥳 My sincerest thanks to all of you who’ve cheered for this project for many years. This wouldn’t have happened without you.🙏🏻 I hope you enjoy it.❤️ www.austensshelf.com/events/p/pre...

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

normalize sending people who write dumb things in the New York Times critique of their bad takes

Dear Dr. Cruz,

I have read your opinion in the New York Times, and I am writing to you today to express that it was one of the most asinine things I have ever read. What is the point of educating students without them demonstrating the ability to craft arguments in text form, wherein one can edit oneself until one's most optimized argument is achieved? There is intention in wordcraft; there is motivation in the way that we communicate through text. Our individual voices come through in that which we write, and if we stop prioritizing writing in our pedagogy, we risk jeopardizing ourselves.

Socrates did not imagine the world in which we live, that in which writing has become increasingly standardized through AI. Even as I craft this email, Google is ardently suggesting that I change the way I have chosen to communicate with you. I'm not going to "simply the sentence" or "make concise," because doing so would undermine my point, which is that writing is a gateway to developing an aesthetic of communication.

When we describe media, we describe it as text. Film, video games, music, visual art, theatre, and every artform betwixt are evaluated and generated using the skills we develop through writing. I am a professional composer and music teacher, and to imagine that the ability to write is limited to prose (or verse, though I don't see you making that argument, thank God) is hugely fallacious. Do composers not write works of music? Do filmmakers not write scripts? How on Earth do you expect students to generate media without learning the craft of writing? Perhaps, as an apparent proponent of AI, you don't put much stock in human art and the reality that it is the result of human writing at all, which begs the question: why teach?

Sincerely, though only barely,

Kincaid Rabb

(I wrote much more, but went beyond the character limit for alt text. You get the idea.)

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RedFade @redfade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am not joking when I say this. Yummy cake, and food in general is over. Shit from a butt is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all shit from a butt circulating today is from 2-3 generations ago.

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"You went to a concert with real people playing real instruments? That's elitist bro" is mind boggling and I just can't wait to have to deal with it. yay

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

where was the Second Viennese school when we needed them most

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recovering ex-music major @musicsnoob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today my global marketing and management professor made it very clear today that he was trying to piss us off so when he asked “okay so what else should the government subsidize?” I responded with “prostitution” and he stopped the lecture (10 min. overtime) and sent us home thank god for my brain

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Getting told by a harpist that they wouldn't change a thing is a huge compliment. And largely thanks to @daniellekuntzharp.bsky.social and @rosannaharp.bsky.social, it's a compliment I've heard more than once. #musochat

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Everette Minchew @everettem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@wesflinn.bsky.social thanks for renewing #musochat I've missed this.

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Drew Swatosh @auralcomposting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How exciting that someone (@wesflinn) decided to revive #musochat!

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A8. Because I have three (and soon somehow four) concert works about roller coasters, I am the leading expert on writing about the experience of a roller coaster in classical music. #musochat

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A7. The constellation of experiences that has made this most worthwhile is that of the performers who have told me privately that my music was well written for their instrument. Not that it was easy to play, but that it was idiomatic and worked well. I am proudest of the works that work. #musochat

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A6. I try not to think about this. I suppose I'd be bartending. There was a while I was enjoying some success in luxury retail, but I don't know if that could have continued for me. I don't know what I'd be doing if not for composition. Maybe I'd be nothing without it. That scares me. #musochat

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A5. Do not go it alone. The myths of the starving artist, the depressed artist, and the isolated artist are relics of the 20th century and should have been abandoned in it. Find your Les Six. Meet with fellow creatives both often and regularly. #musochat

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A4. I've never needed any individual person to inspire me to do what I'm doing, but my husband (another composer) has shaped shifting priorities beneath my artistic umbrella over the years. #musochat

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A3. I've never had another plan and every time I deviate from a career in writing music, whatever I try to do goes disastrously wrong. My most recent venture was Magic: the Gathering content creation. It did not go well. #musochat

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A2. I've been a composer professionally for about 10 years, but I've been composing for almost 20. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't always imagine I would be writing music. #musochat

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A1. I'm Kincaid (they/them). I live in sunny San Diego, CA, USA. I'm a composer, writer, and pedagogue, but I've definitely been focusing on the teaching of music composition over the last year or so. #musochat

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Storm Surge Gainsbourg @wesflinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hello and welcome to #musochat! To respond, you can reply to a question or quote it. Be sure to give the answer number (i.e., A1. in response to Q1.) and to use the hashtag #musochat in your responses. Let’s begin!

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

this is how I'm finding out about this particular waste of taxpayer dollars

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

yeah that's why it doesn't get performed very often lol harpists looks at the score and they're like gurl what do you mean two octaves and a third above the fundamental

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ackbar7.bsky.social @ackbar7.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Democrats controlled the Congress for 70 years when they centered issues of the working class and were strongly backed by unions. Then in the 90s they decided to be moderate Republicans and have rarely controlled Congress since. "Normie" Democrats have led the party to ruin.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I've had an unexpected handful of experiences in the last few days that have vivified various professional barriers attendant to my position in the faculty underclass, hardening my awareness of them it is dispiriting, to say the least

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As long as you reduce the score to only the winds actually playing/merge parts when they play tutti, it's probably fine. (If you need an extra set of eyes, let Kevin and I know)

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

the best experience I have ever had of that song is a crowd of queer people singing it softly together as they waited patiently for fireworks to start

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thank you so much for coming. It means the world to us.

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I saw it both nights. There's really nothing like it

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Ivavi scene is so cool. Comes out of nowhere, but you're so immersed in the work that you're just like "you know what hell yeah"

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is how it should be done.

Mayor Erica Druski, mayor of Downington PA, posting about the death of Lindsey Graham:

Senator Lindsey Graham has passed away at 71. He served for decades, spoke with great confidence, and leaves behind a record that will ensure historians never lack material.

May his family find peace, and may the country learn from the choices he made.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Uncertainty surrounding Mitch McConnell is frustrating to establishment Democrats. They have all these anecdotes about what a collegial guy he is to work with and how fun he is to be around, but you need an official death for that shit to really land.

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

hey so my husband's opera was premiered and that's cool

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kincaid! the composer @kincaidrabb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The whole step modulation in Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" is queer joy incarnate and I know you said classical or classical adjacent but it's the first thing that popped into my head

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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 12/07/2026

We all have to post as hard as possible about Lindsey Graham's death so we can see who wins by getting cited in an article in the Atlantic about how Bluesky is destroying the fabric of American politics next week.

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