Evan Ware
@warevolf.bsky.social
Chair, Music Department and Associate Professor of Music (Theory and Composition) at Cal Poly Pomona | Co-Editor of “Music in Star Trek” | Dad | Kenshi | Cook | Transit Geek | Cat Herder | He/Him
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Evan Ware
@warevolf.bsky.social
· Jan 20
Evan Ware: The Quietest of Whispers, by Evan Ware
7 track album
evanware.bandcamp.com
Today, we inaugurated an administration that is both implicated in and indifferent to sexual abuse. As I am a childhood sexual abuse survivor, this lands hard. I doubt I’m alone.
I wrote two symphonies to help myself and others heal. I’m sharing them today. evanware.bandcamp.com/album/evan-w...
I wrote two symphonies to help myself and others heal. I’m sharing them today. evanware.bandcamp.com/album/evan-w...
Some classic Route 66 signage in Glendora, CA
January 19, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Some classic Route 66 signage in Glendora, CA
Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s (any century)
This one is from 1989, but imma say it counts.
This one is from 1989, but imma say it counts.
January 19, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s (any century)
This one is from 1989, but imma say it counts.
This one is from 1989, but imma say it counts.
Starting to come down from sheer panic and realizing that when people I follow on Bluesky write posts like “FUCK” and “HOLY SHIT” and “THE POPE” with no other context, they are talking about sportsball and not world events 😬
January 19, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Starting to come down from sheer panic and realizing that when people I follow on Bluesky write posts like “FUCK” and “HOLY SHIT” and “THE POPE” with no other context, they are talking about sportsball and not world events 😬
I just tried typing “cold packs” and got “cokd oacks,” so that’s how this Sunday is going.
January 18, 2026 at 8:39 PM
I just tried typing “cold packs” and got “cokd oacks,” so that’s how this Sunday is going.
I finally found a use for AI that I can stomach: making my numbingly inconsequential decisions for my #musictheory assignments.
January 15, 2026 at 12:09 AM
I finally found a use for AI that I can stomach: making my numbingly inconsequential decisions for my #musictheory assignments.
Reposted by Evan Ware
So Trump hates our protesters, but loves the protesters in the Middle East?
Can someone make this make sense
Can someone make this make sense
January 14, 2026 at 5:39 PM
So Trump hates our protesters, but loves the protesters in the Middle East?
Can someone make this make sense
Can someone make this make sense
WHOA!
January 14, 2026 at 12:31 AM
WHOA!
Ah, another day of meaning to do things, but only ever managing to barely stemmed the tide of emails
January 14, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Ah, another day of meaning to do things, but only ever managing to barely stemmed the tide of emails
Good news, no monorail in LA!
January 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Good news, no monorail in LA!
We pause to spare a thought for the common zombie: not only must they obtain brains from those that would rather not part with them, they must do so at an shambolic pace, and—to add insult to injury—must somehow get their meal to their stomachs without it falling out of their many rotting orifices.
January 12, 2026 at 3:02 AM
We pause to spare a thought for the common zombie: not only must they obtain brains from those that would rather not part with them, they must do so at an shambolic pace, and—to add insult to injury—must somehow get their meal to their stomachs without it falling out of their many rotting orifices.
Re-upping this because it deserves more love than it got
Slightly diminish a band/musician:
Fivepence None the Richer
Yo Ma
Itzhak Imitationperlman
Musketball Adderly
Stan Doesn’t Getz
They Might Be Slightly Taller Than Average
Smashing Decorative Gourds
Fiona Crabapple
Duran
Charcoal Gray Sabbath
Skin Tone Floyd
Fivepence None the Richer
Yo Ma
Itzhak Imitationperlman
Musketball Adderly
Stan Doesn’t Getz
They Might Be Slightly Taller Than Average
Smashing Decorative Gourds
Fiona Crabapple
Duran
Charcoal Gray Sabbath
Skin Tone Floyd
Slightly diminish a band/musician:
Kilometers Davis
The Discounted Design
Gentle Guy Who's About 6'3"
Whispering Heads
Men With Only One or Two Hats
Kate Sprig
Viscount and the Reform
And Half
Yo La Teniá
Of Halifax
Thao & the You Can Get Up If You Want
Charli IVI
Una Lipa
Tessa Infrared
Kilometers Davis
The Discounted Design
Gentle Guy Who's About 6'3"
Whispering Heads
Men With Only One or Two Hats
Kate Sprig
Viscount and the Reform
And Half
Yo La Teniá
Of Halifax
Thao & the You Can Get Up If You Want
Charli IVI
Una Lipa
Tessa Infrared
January 11, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Re-upping this because it deserves more love than it got
Labne and chicken salad from Samin Nosrat!
January 10, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Labne and chicken salad from Samin Nosrat!
Got thunderstruck this morning with a need to write short stories about life in my hometown forty years ago.
I love short fiction as a format and remain deeply affected by James Joyce’s “Dubliners” and Banana Yoshimoto’s “Kitchen.”
What are some of your favorite short fiction collections?
I love short fiction as a format and remain deeply affected by James Joyce’s “Dubliners” and Banana Yoshimoto’s “Kitchen.”
What are some of your favorite short fiction collections?
January 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Got thunderstruck this morning with a need to write short stories about life in my hometown forty years ago.
I love short fiction as a format and remain deeply affected by James Joyce’s “Dubliners” and Banana Yoshimoto’s “Kitchen.”
What are some of your favorite short fiction collections?
I love short fiction as a format and remain deeply affected by James Joyce’s “Dubliners” and Banana Yoshimoto’s “Kitchen.”
What are some of your favorite short fiction collections?
Slightly diminish a band/musician:
Fivepence None the Richer
Yo Ma
Itzhak Imitationperlman
Musketball Adderly
Stan Doesn’t Getz
They Might Be Slightly Taller Than Average
Smashing Decorative Gourds
Fiona Crabapple
Duran
Charcoal Gray Sabbath
Skin Tone Floyd
Fivepence None the Richer
Yo Ma
Itzhak Imitationperlman
Musketball Adderly
Stan Doesn’t Getz
They Might Be Slightly Taller Than Average
Smashing Decorative Gourds
Fiona Crabapple
Duran
Charcoal Gray Sabbath
Skin Tone Floyd
Slightly diminish a band/musician:
Kilometers Davis
The Discounted Design
Gentle Guy Who's About 6'3"
Whispering Heads
Men With Only One or Two Hats
Kate Sprig
Viscount and the Reform
And Half
Yo La Teniá
Of Halifax
Thao & the You Can Get Up If You Want
Charli IVI
Una Lipa
Tessa Infrared
Kilometers Davis
The Discounted Design
Gentle Guy Who's About 6'3"
Whispering Heads
Men With Only One or Two Hats
Kate Sprig
Viscount and the Reform
And Half
Yo La Teniá
Of Halifax
Thao & the You Can Get Up If You Want
Charli IVI
Una Lipa
Tessa Infrared
Slightly diminish a band:
Trip Out Boy
Panic! On the way to the Disco
The Wonder Year
Partly Sunny Day Real Estate
Saves the Hour
Slightly Used Found Glory
Kilometers Davis
Trip Out Boy
Panic! On the way to the Disco
The Wonder Year
Partly Sunny Day Real Estate
Saves the Hour
Slightly Used Found Glory
Kilometers Davis
January 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Slightly diminish a band/musician:
Fivepence None the Richer
Yo Ma
Itzhak Imitationperlman
Musketball Adderly
Stan Doesn’t Getz
They Might Be Slightly Taller Than Average
Smashing Decorative Gourds
Fiona Crabapple
Duran
Charcoal Gray Sabbath
Skin Tone Floyd
Fivepence None the Richer
Yo Ma
Itzhak Imitationperlman
Musketball Adderly
Stan Doesn’t Getz
They Might Be Slightly Taller Than Average
Smashing Decorative Gourds
Fiona Crabapple
Duran
Charcoal Gray Sabbath
Skin Tone Floyd
There are no great white sharks on baby blankets and I, for one, think this is missed opportunity.
January 10, 2026 at 2:41 AM
There are no great white sharks on baby blankets and I, for one, think this is missed opportunity.
@theorymeg.bsky.social is killing it this morning!
Had a freewheeling conversation with a colleague yesterday whose expertise is different from my own, and he pointed me to sources I would have never thought to consult. Folks who are turning to LLMs instead of colleagues in the face of ignorance are having an impoverished experience.
January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
@theorymeg.bsky.social is killing it this morning!
This is excellent observation. I also think that the “do it yourself” ethos—another way the world currently opposes crucial academic enterprise—is a way for the powerful to divide and conquer, making us all less able to resist. I will think on your comment carefully as I plan my syllabus for spring.
Somehow we are in a world where the admission of vulnerability and ignorance—two things that are absolutely crucial to the academic enterprise—are so stigmatized that people would rather "do it themselves," even if it leads to worse outcomes. We have to develop pedagogies to mitigate this!
January 8, 2026 at 3:37 PM
This is excellent observation. I also think that the “do it yourself” ethos—another way the world currently opposes crucial academic enterprise—is a way for the powerful to divide and conquer, making us all less able to resist. I will think on your comment carefully as I plan my syllabus for spring.
I got something productive done today.
What is this feeling
so sudden and new?
What is this feeling
so sudden and new?
January 8, 2026 at 12:23 AM
I got something productive done today.
What is this feeling
so sudden and new?
What is this feeling
so sudden and new?
We’re not far in, but I’m already souring on 2026…
January 6, 2026 at 6:27 PM
We’re not far in, but I’m already souring on 2026…
100% agreed and co-signed
Maybe a good time to say again that in my presence here I mostly try to be one of these people, despite the low-level worry that some of you will think "Chris must not care about the horrors" I assure you I care about the horrors but why would you want to read what I of all people think about them
you know what I'm gonna say, but I'll keep doing it: a social media site needs a strong base of relatively non-political-posting people to stay enjoyable. it can't be full of people like me (and I'm in the way upper percentile of "this site needs to have more fun" users)
January 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
100% agreed and co-signed
Reposted by Evan Ware
I made this video on the relationship between Japanese language and Western-based musical styles for the French Society for Japanese Studies. It looks at how word and stress systems interact with musical rhetoric and how gendered language contributes to narrative. youtu.be/IqQ0Iy_7dIQ
Japanese language in Western-based popular music, by Noriko Manabe.
YouTube video by Noriko Manabe
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I made this video on the relationship between Japanese language and Western-based musical styles for the French Society for Japanese Studies. It looks at how word and stress systems interact with musical rhetoric and how gendered language contributes to narrative. youtu.be/IqQ0Iy_7dIQ
My “following” feed is a cluster of horrendous news I can’t face while my “mutuals” feed is a cluster sportsball news that I can’t understand. So imma go transcribe some Telemann or something 🤷♂️
January 5, 2026 at 5:10 AM
My “following” feed is a cluster of horrendous news I can’t face while my “mutuals” feed is a cluster sportsball news that I can’t understand. So imma go transcribe some Telemann or something 🤷♂️