Birdsong in the Morning
Some mornings it’s quite noisy when I first go out on the deck. Birds with the creek in the background.
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Some mornings it’s quite noisy when I first go out on the deck. Birds with the creek in the background.
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Small bits of progress around the world but still giant obstacles in the way of you doing what you want with things that you own. Cory Doctorow always has the scoop. Here’s a great post he did in November about the state of things in Canada. Canada’s ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws
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Update 2025: Sadly, Radio Free Fedi shut down at the beginning of the year. The folks over at https://indieart.support have continued maintaining the directory of artists and links and appear to be also adding new artists. Also, check out https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/ – free and open source software for hosting your own music and sharing it on
In 2016 North Carolina passed HB2 otherwise known as “The Bathroom Bill”. Thankfully, it was later repealed after much uproar and the state losing millions of dollars in revenue. My friends in the (now mostly defunct) band Craicdown wrote this song in protest and made a wonderful video. I played for the soundtrack but do
Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. This might possibly be a good thing but hard to know at this point. But right now things are up in the air for the Bandcamp staff and there is no clear word on their status and the status of their newly formed union. See https://www.wired.com/story/epic-games-sale-bandcamp-music-platform-limbo/ and https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2023/09/28/songtradr-bandcamp-acquisition/ So
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I was happy to find a piano accompaniment for the Dittersdorf Concerto for Bass #2 on Musescore.com today. I have a student wanting to play it for an audition. It is generally played in D Major on the modern double bass with solo strings tuned up a step so the piano accompaniment and orchestra parts
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