Ever get a group of songs stuck on repeat in your head, all at the same time?

Picture this:

1. Teach several pieces to students over a period of several days/weeks.

2. Perform with and/or conduct said students in a concert of these pieces.

3. Also be the recording engineer for the concert, and dive into post work on the recording immediately after getting home.

Right now 8 pieces of choral music are having a cage match in my brain.

#cosomusic #cosoteachers #cosochoral #musicproduction

Memory for music doesn’t diminish with age

Eighty-year-olds are able to identify familiar tunes just as well as teenagers can.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02369-7
#cosomusic #musictheory

STOP what you're doing and listen to this amazingness. The songwriting is phenomenal, and every member of the band is performing at a virtuoso level. I'm blown away.

Willow - Tiny Desk Concert

Willow Smith: vocals
Liso Lee: guitar, vocals
Zach Tenorio: keys
Mohini Dey: bass
Taylor "The Pocket Queen" Gordon: drums

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248099246/willow-tiny-desk-concert

#cosomusic

What an unbelievable piece and incredible performance. The video and audio work are also stunning. This is a long piece, but at least watch Pillar I and Pillar VII. Very few of you will have heard anything like this before. I know I had not.

Andy Akiho - Seven Pillars
Sandbox Percussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXHORWr6xQ8

#cosomusic #musicproduction

This is SO freaking cool.

Tracking Yuja Wang’s Heartbeats During Her Rachmaninoff Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuA9l77ODbs

FYI, there is probably no other pianist alive who could play these 5 concerti in one concert.

#cosomusic #cosoclassical #cosomusicians

#cosochoral concert today!

I was able to record our dress rehearsal Friday night. The choir is a bit more distant sounding in this recording than I'd prefer, because the setup was not what I anticipated. Still I think it came out pretty well considering.

I recorded two different tracks: a pair of my omni's, and my friends 414's in mid side. If you click the V2 icon to the right, you can compare.

/nosanitize
https://samply.app/player/BA8P68bBYGlfg0QX0Oja/

#cosomusicians #cosoclassical #cosomusic

This one goes out to all the people who didn't use their eclipse glasses properly.

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

https://youtu.be/V83JR2IoI8k

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Guitarists: you're going to want to see this.

Jacob Collier demonstrates his custom 5-string acoustic and electric guitars and his unusual approach to the instrument.

https://youtu.be/WknTbYOet4c

#cosomusic #musictheory

30 cassettes of previously-unheard Marvin Gaye recordings have been discovered in Belgium!

As you might expect, there is a legal fight surrounding them.

Here's hoping that a sensible agreement can be made, and we all get to enjoy more of Marvin's amazing music.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68674814

#cosomusic

Prepare to be transported.

This is, IMO, the most stunningly beautiful music for Passion Week ever written. (Sorry, JSB.) This performance is one of my top favorite albums of all time, dare I say better than any Russian choir I've heard perform this piece.

Alexander Grechanonov - Passion Week, Op. 58
Phoenix Bach Choir
Kansas City Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65aDlqi4KQI&list=OLAK5uy_mE8P4-ORpqRcxQtt0qwH2tSUwqRTjG_Tk

#cosoclassical
#cosochoral
#cosomusic

Jacob Collier's new arrangement of Bridge Over Troubled Water is one of his best yet. And the best part is Tori Kelly's phenomenal solo starting at about 3:30. I don't know how I had not heard her before, but she is easily one of the most skilled pop vocalists in recent years:

https://youtu.be/wHdoTVJgMjM

Lest you think this is all autotuned, be prepared to have your mind blown:
https://youtu.be/qwbk7b4s6K4

#cosomusic

Here's some samples of the concert I performed in and recorded yesterday.

The choir is made up of volunteers from various community and church choirs that are friends with the organizers, and is mostly amateur. Orchestra is all pros. The only rehearsal all together is the morning of the concert.

Before listening, go into audio options at the bottom and enable lossless. 😎

https://samply.app/p/RwCzXO0aMDv9UKyVW5wS

#cosomusicians #cosoclassical #cosochoral #cosomusic #musicproduction

Beastie Boys - Hey, Ladies

https://youtu.be/Naf5uJYGoiU

#cosomusic

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't It Rain? Live 1964
https://youtu.be/Y9a49oFalZE

#cosomusic

@SteveMurgatroyd
Hey there! I see you've been posting album covers of a lot of great music, but have you considered posting links to performances on YouTube so folks unfamiliar with said pieces can listen?

There are perilously few of us posting classical - some more would be appreciated.

Please use #cosoclassical and #cosomusic . If you check #cosochoral you'll find a lot of my posts also.

I'm about to hear a concert of one of my all-time favorite #cosochoral works, the Duruflé Requiem. I have never had the opportunity to hear it performed live, and I'm SUPER stoked.

See you on the other side.

#cosoclassical #cosomusic

I just finished editing together some level matched test track compilations. One is classical; the other rock/pop/hip-hop. Each compilation is 14-15 minutes.

A few of these tracks are favorites of certain people here, but there may be some new ones in there for you.

Also, don't think that the Classical compilation is all polite and quiet. These are meant to be torture tracks.

Enable Lossless in Audio Options before listening.🤙

https://samply.app/player/CZiDKvJ0HRgkEJgj96LM/

#cosomusic
#musicproduction

Here's my favorite guitar-based album for @BillyBones birthday:

Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session, 1983
https://youtu.be/P7A12LuA8-U

#cosomusic

Rick Beato discusses the Super Bowl halftime show. From 4 min on, he discusses how algorithmic music services and social media are harming our musical culture, and why you only tend to see artists who have been around a long time doing these big shows.

https://youtu.be/kQsrJfrKthA

#cosomusic

#SuperBowl Music Critique Thread

#cosomusic