as i said before, this acc isn’t really active anymore…(perhaps that’ll change!) but for those who still want to follow what i’m up to, i’ve just set up this soundcloud to dump things here, as i keep working towards putting together my portfolio! do listen, follow, and the rest of it :)

sorry friends, dff isn’t really active anymore

if you’re still around and remember me, congrats! you’re an OG 

just wanted to actually put out a message saying i really don’t keep this blog updated anymore at all, and i’m very sorry! but really appreciate all the support and love i got from you guys

if you want, you can follow me & my musical journey on my facebook page here, which i set up earlier this year now that i’m actually starting to make a career!!! (PS hoping to properly release some compositions/music or something soon…) 

feel free to message me on that public fb, as i really don’t check tumblr anymore

thank u and love u,

ronan

Sometimes i feel i’ve got to

*Tchaikovsky physically manifests in my house and fires two canon balls, destroying my home*

run away

Mood: The 2nd movement of Bach’s 3rd Brandenburg Concerto that is just two half note chords

Has this been done yet

Both are gold

JUST WATCH IT OK

Holt shit

YES

I am scared and confused.

(:

I love this….those kids are geniuses…and do they actually know how to play/tongue/bow the instrument they were playing in that video? Not doubting them or anything it just looked like they swapped instruments….

Ok, as the person in the blue shirt on the left, I can explain what is going on here.

On the far left, you see a clarinetist playing a broken cello.  She does not know how to play the cello.  (Nor does that cello have any intention of being played.)

My friend and I are collectively playing a frankenstein of an instrument that I like to call the “Eb bassooninet.”  It’s an Eb clarinet with a bassoon bocal attached. It sounds like a dying duck.

The bassoonist in the middle is the only one playing a normal instrument normally.

Second from the right, you see a clarinetist playing half a clarinet.

Finally, on the far right you see a clarinetist playing a Bb clarinet that is pulled out so far at every joint that it approximates an A clarinet.

The best part about this video is that everyone is actually a really accomplished musician, not that you’d guess it xD

au contraire, this is the kind of thing ONLY accomplished musicians are fucking weird enough to come up with

A friendly reminder that Shostakovich’s crazy ass once wrote an opera about a disembodied nose that grows to human size and sings

Comment to John Cage’s - In a landscape. This made me laugh way too much.

someone: you can’t write a symphony for 1000 people, mahler

mahler:

good news guys! you never have to listen to vivaldi again, here is every piece he ever wrote

Now just write this for small string orchestra and harpsichord and you’ll get flocks of “Gorgeous divine music” and “why can’t composers write like the genius masters of the past”