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Xanthoria Elegans

@xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social
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microtonal composer, ethnomusicologist, alchemical reenactor, conlanger. enamored with mars and minerals and windmills

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cakemittens @cakemittens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
guys let's start using the word "flammabilia" *turns directly to camera* flammabilia. having run out of fuel, I scoured the forest for flammabilia. flammabilia.
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
no one wants to be trapped in a moment of eternity anymore. the old time-loops lie in the yard, brimming with rain; leaves collect in the deep end of wednesday
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the timeline secretes a pale honey in my post's wake. 5 people gather to like it. the others perform a waggle dance indicating the location of a better post
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
vocaroo.com/1g2I4LjGjnGB inspired by a dm. maybe one day i'll do all of them
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
every night i open up the tetragrammaton and seed it with sinhala pilla, matras, thai vowel marks. i can say it now, and it fits the meter of a song Mother sang about a fox
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spookyobscurae @tinyobscurae.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
we’ve tried pop music. now it’s time for unpop music
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spookyobscurae @tinyobscurae.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
every morning I eat my own heart in the hope of gaining my own strength
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spookyobscurae @tinyobscurae.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
every morning is a new novelty oversized cake to burst out of
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i enjoy taking pictures of sunset monsoon clouds and compositionally interesting moon arrangements
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🔴🟠🟡⚪🟢🔵🟣 @heatdeath.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
kosmulski's modified buckyball :D 120 units, so it took a few hours, but wonderfully easy assembly
big modular origami model in a rainbow color scheme. it's got the same geometry as a soccer ball, but the pentagonal faces protrude a bit, and the centers of the faces are open
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sława Przybylska - "Samotna Harmonia" youtube.com/watch?v=JRG1...
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Sława Przybylska - Samotna harmonia [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Polskie Nagrania
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
for tlaloc tuesday, you can buy a tlaloc in exchange for cacao or jade or quachtli, or get 2 for 2 hearts, at your local tlaloquería. huitzilopochtlis are hearts-only, quetzalcoatls half off
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
ranting voca.ro/1b8EeWl2KebA
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🎶 Paaaaanjandrum, jandrumming as a pan, and that's why it's called panjandrum!
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Playing a recreation of a historic instrument, the Tamil yazh: www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Zk...
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The Sound of Yazh | Uru Custom Instruments
YouTube video by Uru Custom instruments
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
beef: it's what's for dinner. it's what for dessert. beef is the color blue when i close my eyes. it's the parallax of millicandled stars. the last time you looked at me this way was beef. beef is a footprint that comes striding over the heads of sleeping astronomers
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TRAELMYX ΘΔ | 84% @xymle.art · 09/07/2026
noodled around with @sintel.bsky.social's Tessera for a lil neat looking microtonal/xenharmonic DAW
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CTHUEL HURAMCHEK 🎃 @greaterrealityarea.net · 11/07/2026
EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT "When I was about ten or so, I swallowed seventeen packets of sea monkeys, all at once. It turned out my immune system was missing an antibody or two, and I had an undiagnosed fistula, so the pleura between my organs turned into a... www.greaterrealityarea.net/experimental...
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EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT
"When I was about ten or so, I swallowed seventeen packets of sea monkeys, all at once. It turned out my immune system was missing an antibody or two, and I had an undiagnosed fistula, so the pleura b...
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Higgledy piggledy, just intonation's a System of integral harmony which Makes up a small part of microtonality; EDOs, maqamat use any old pitch.
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
mermalade is jellified mermaid tail, graded smooth, scaly, or flukey. connoisseurs let jars of orange-tailed minimerm "breathe" overnight, until the swimming settles
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Mel Scale preinfarction.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... Explorations in psychoacoustic melodic equidistance and altered chromatic scales.
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The Mel Scale
The mel scale is an object from psychoacoustics. I only know about it from a short and fairly unclear wikipedia article. The scale is suppos...
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
i saved all my curliest glyphs for you. "limaçon, lissajous, rosette, harmonogram," i chanted, until your screen buckled into hyperbolic flowers
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
touching grass isn't enough. i need to fall through an under-meadow where all mowed lawns go and find grass kissing itself in a mirror, but only on the blades
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Polyphonic pitch analysis with Pytch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=LPt8...
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pytch v2
YouTube video by Georgian Church Hymns
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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The guqin, an ancient Chinese zither, is tuned in 5-limit just intonation: preinfarction.blogspot.com/2026/06/chin...
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Chinese Tuning On The Guqin
I want to learn about historic Chinese tunings. We're going to look at tunings of the Chinese zither called the qin, also called the guqin (...
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
pistachio popsicle pies are the antidote to fear. have you ever felt afraid while eating a pistachio popsicle pie? no one has. plus they induce mild pistachio
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Odd Limit Harmony In The Bohlen Pierce Scale: preinfarction.blogspot.com/2026/06/odd-...
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Odd Limit Harmony In Bohlen Pierce
I've heard it said that the fundamental chord of the Bohlen Pierce 7 odd limit just intonation scale is [3:5:7], otonally. In frequency rati...
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
i listened to the vintage synth music here and it's motivating me to go on a quest. i don't know for what. possibly a goblet
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
it's your superbirthday, the shortest birthday containing all possible birthdays. you toast with combinatorial daiquiris, rum lime syrup rum lime rum syrup lime rum
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"check out at this wong-baker face over here" "what did you just call me" "you heard me. 8/10 face-haver. one more eyebrow twitch and they're bringing you apple juice"
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"Chinese" by Volt 44 youtube.com/watch?v=MXXH...
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Volt 44 - Chinese
YouTube video by Volt 44
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Join us in wishing Ume safe travels on her next adventure! It’s hard to believe the tiny calf who arrived looking like a little “watermelon on legs” is now a confident, independent young tapir ready for her next chapter. Over the past year, we’ve watched Ume grow, explore, and capture many hearts. ❤️
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
all her cards are on the table, but the cards are the 4 of corridors, the queen of keyholes, and the joker of doors. the table's in a spruce cabin behind her eyes, snowed-in since 2005
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
i like old recordings that feel lightly haunted and slightly elsewhence
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Artoush - Nefrin (Original 1964 Version) آرتوش آودیان - نفرین (اجرای اول)
YouTube video by Rangarang World
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
welcome to the gloop chat, where messages propagate as ripples, consensus forms as skin, and muting renders 2 gootuals mutually immiscible. solids dni
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
a head bobs up, submerges. puckers part for your spoon, quizzical filaments entwine your fork. oh, you don't want grandma's traditional bioluminestrone?
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Turkish choir sings Roses By The Pool: youtube.com/watch?v=d8dg...
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Ahmed Adnan Saygun - Havuz Başının Gülleri (Çoksesli Halk Türküleri - 2009)
YouTube video by Gloss Musik GmbH
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
language is melting flash fiction
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Language is melting. When I speak, I articulate strings of phonemes simultaneously, murmuring Morse code glossolalia. What I mean is the disintegration of Hockett's design features: discreteness goes ...
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Stephen Weigel analyzes Georgian folk music as deriving from 7-EDO with adaptive JI, and being well notated in 34-EDO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWLb...
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Georgian music theory goes HARD (transcription of Trio Kavkasia's Mravalzhamier in 34-TET)
YouTube video by Stephen Weigel
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Byzantine Chant duet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aN9...
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Δ' ΚΑΤΑΝΥΚΤΙΚΟΣ ΕΣΠΕΡΙΝΟΣ .ΘΡ.ΣΤΑΝΙΤΣΑΣ-Φ.ΚΕΤΣΕΤΖΗΣ
YouTube video by ΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ ΚΑΝΤΕΡΙΣΚΟΣ (meraklis)
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Heebie jeebie is short for herbert jerbert
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
the mirage-struck man returned with date palms rooting in his chest, olives where his eyes were, branded all over with the orchard's shadow
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
my friend was struck by a mirage. the fulgurite preserved the phantom oasis he was walking towards, inverted, in glass. i believe my friend is inside the glass
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astro zithers @lightningcolors.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
hot metal-spearmint ruminations
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I believe that Hot Metal-Spearmint is a solvable problem. It requires what Andrés Gómez-Emilsson calls "scent factorization", a technique for isolating an olfactory quality (wetness, say, or creamines...
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Turning sporadic groups into twisty puzzles: youtube.com/watch?v=xwQ5...
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Turning Sporadic Groups into Puzzles
YouTube video by CodeParade
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qualiaflow @qualiaflow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
crystal fluorescence is either aposematic or uv nectar-guide signaling. mineralvores, unable to parse the difference, cross-pollinate lattices that disperse venom-pollen
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spookyobscurae @tinyobscurae.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
really just think my skeleton should take over control at this point
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spookyobscurae @tinyobscurae.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
sleep should come when i make pspspsps sounds
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Xanthoria Elegans @xanthoriaelegans.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I'm starting to look at typesetting and publishing options for my microtonal music theory textbook. I think I want to use "Sports MIll Goudy" as the font for the non-monospaced body text: fonts.google.com/specimen/Sor...
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Sorts Mill Goudy - Google Fonts
A revival of Frederic Goudy's 'Goudy Oldstyle' with Regular and Italic styles, and extended Latin character coverage.
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