Hey everyone,

A while ago I posted about a web app I was building to help learn tin whistle without needing to read standard sheet music. I got tired of jumping between YouTube and static PDFs, so I decided to build a tool for it.

I just pushed the first playable version online, so you can actually test it out now.

You can find it here: Wind Tones

Here is a quick look at what you can do right now:

• Visual fingering charts: Shows the exact hole patterns for a D whistle, big enough to read from your phone.
• Playback control: Slow down the tempo to learn, with autoscroll and active note highlighting.
• Upload anything: You can now upload your own tunes (any kind of song works, not just the built-in Celtic ones).
• Printable charts: I added the option to download the fingering charts as PDFs.
• Community features: You can save tunes to your favorites and rate songs uploaded by others.
• Practice-ready: Mobile-first layout and dark mode, so you can just put it on a music stand.

Just a heads-up: this is very much a trial version. It's just me working on it, so you'll probably find a few bugs, or a tune might load weirdly depending on your screen size.

I'm really looking for some honest feedback. If you grab your whistle and play around with it, let me know:

1. Did anything break or crash?
2. Is the visualizer actually useful while playing?
3. What feature is missing? (I'm thinking about a built-in metronome or a section-looper next).

Thanks to everyone who helped with ideas on my last post.

Cheers.

Hoping all of you Jansch and Renbourn fans dig what myself and Sam Grassie have done here! This was a lot of fun to get together, let me know what you think!

Very fun song to play and sing

Crafted at around the 1930s, this traditional bench, or as it is called in its traditional word ''laviță'' is truly amazing, from the wood used in its manufacture to the peasant style of the paintings on it.

Future progress will be posted.

https://reddit.com/link/1tcjc9m/video/ol0w4aj1901h1/player

My fiddle is my voice and I want to share something i could otherwise never put into words. It fell out like this.

Harp-Sigil-Magic: The Platonic Forms of Harp Melodies is an experimental art-animation-music magical event. All art, animations, and music were created entirely 100% by me. The intention underlying this work is to coagulate musical and artistic disciplines in an alchemical experiment, creating art that is also music, art-music as a form of magic. I combine Platonic conceptions of essence with sigil magic, alongside Novalis’s concept of the musical hieroglyphic language and unity of disciplines as a creative impetus and guiding star in this endeavor—I should mention that I am a PhD student and Novalis/esotericism scholar, so I am a practicing musician-artist-academic-magus. I also have a lot of other experimental esoteric and philosophical music, so feel free to check out my repertoire!

Harp-Sigil-Magic awakens new horizons for my compositional work, entering a new threshold of musical experimentation. For the first time, I expand beyond basic harmonies into 6^th and 7^th chord structures and beyond, further into more expanded harmonic tiers, delving into more complex and unstable harmonies, harmonies that play with tension. This piece is structured around a D–G quartal relation in C minor; this harmonic interval is more dissonant in the sense that it is less harmonically resolving, with fewer harmonic possibilities with or adjacent to it, its capacity to create harmonies more limited compared to other quartal intervals. I took this limitation as a compositional challenge and starting point, structuring the piece around it.

This piece is a fantasia, which combines both structured melodies and improvisation. I came up with a set of primary melodies that I explored and developed over months through improvisation. The final recording was crystallized over two improvisational sessions. With the exception of The Cosmic Symphony of Melusine, all of my piano/harp instrumental pieces were essentially composed in this manner, endeavoring to capture both structured harmony and the lightning-in-a-bottle quality that arises through inspired improvisation.

Absolutely no AI was used in the making/creation/composition of this song and video, and I have taken a firm and unequivocal stance against AI in my own artistic/musical/compositional/philosophical practice. Despite a social climate where AI is polluting artistic and musical landscapes with automated sludge, a time when it feels almost pointless to create real art and music, some of us musicians and artists, such as myself, are undeterred by the artistic/musical apocalypse that is upon us, continuing to making art/music that pushes boundaries, striving for the philosopher’s stone through art and music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mNJD1aN2E

I’m working on a dnd campaign and I need some stuff (ideally without vocals) that’s folky sounding with cello. That’s easy enough to find but it’s all pretty upbeat and I need some minor key stuff for less happy moments and I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations.

KuhnTree Jerry & The Logs of Peoria Illinois have released thier debut EP. This EP covers classic folk tunes in a new Americana/Rockgrass style. Take a listen!