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Matt Sargent

@mattsargent.bsky.social

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Guitar, pedal steel, microphones, computers.

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 11d

This week in Basel, Joan Jordi Oliver performs my new long piece for saxophone and electronics, Wanderer and The Road.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 9h

I remain convinced that any educational paradigm that stakes it’s legitimacy on “catching cheaters” has already fundamentally lost the plot on how to do education.

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 13h

I lost my iLok and looked for hours. You'll never believe where it was. It was in my bag in that little compartment where I put my iLok.

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 14h

It's honestly really polite that some restaurants call themselves "small plates" so you know not to go there.

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frapis.bsky.social @frapis.bsky.social · 2d

Fry: Wait, I'm having one of those things. You know, a headache with pictures.
Lela: An idea?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 3d

For the grand opening, a brass band called Horny on Main.

Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 3d

You know, I really like A Softer Focus: I would start there.

The new album she has out (or about to come out?) is also really excellent.

This period is what I was thinking though, re: your post: youtu.be/8jxQTs6wios?....

OPTION Interviews - claire rousay - May 4, 2020

YouTube video by Experimental Sound Studio

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 3d

Society realizing that musicians are generally schedule-oriented organized people who are really good at their job (challenge level: impossible)

Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 3d

Some eras of Claire Rousay.

Corey Fogel had that knitting/drumming practice.

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Working on a shorter companion piece for solo saxophone from the "Wanderer" materials.

Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Free masons, in this economy?

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 4d

There's that Michael Daugherty piece where the person has to dress up at Elvis.

Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 4d

The uncanny valley between Free Masons and expensive masons is discount masons.

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Erik Carlson @rkcrlsn.bsky.social · 4d

I bounced my last album to masonry

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 4d

I can't drive 55(-limit tuning)

Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Show your loyalty and/or to the brand.

Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Oh man, do I need this Sho-Bud steel hat??

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 4d

I would bounce my audio to an old barn loft before bouncing to cassette.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguitars.day · 4d

Gibson Firebird V-12

I'm a big fan of the Gibson Firebird. I thought I knew about all the different variants (bicentennial, Thunderbird, Mandobird, etc.), but I just found out Gibson made a 12-string version in 1967 and 1968. It's got the non-reverse body style. There are two mini-humbuckers, and each one has its own tone and volume control. There's also a 3-way switch. In fact, everything looks like a normal Firebird except for the 6/6 split headstock.

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 4d

a Goose and Geese cover band called Ganders.

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Just noticed that there only a handful left of "Illuminations" on @sawyereditions.bsky.social. This set of pieces is one of my favorite things I've ever made.

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Matt Sargent - Illuminations, by Matt Sargent

3 track album

sawyereditions.bandcamp.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 24d

(painting a screed on my car with my bare hands) this shit is going to look so convincing

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Parker r.i.p. 🙏 There's no other guitar like a Parker (for good or ill & your mileage may of course vary) & the few of them that have turned up in my life have invariably had an outsized impact. Safe travels, KP.

Selena Kane at Seattle's FUNHOUSE, short grey dress, hair all in her face, velour coat, with a black & white Parker Nitefly guitar.

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famous bog body @bogbird.bsky.social · 5d

are you wasting your life or are you chillin in cedar rapids

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