24-Hour Music Blog

Or..."Lady Gaga is a larger presence in my life than God," and "This Morning, I Woke Up and Did Not Feel like P. Diddy"

All the music I hear/heard within the past 24 hours whether I wanted to or not. Let it begin.

~6:30AM
Chopin's Black Key Etude from my roommate's cell phone. It sounds like your typical cell phone ring tone. i.e. it is one of the worst sounds in the world.

~6:40AM
Chopin's Black Key Etude from my roommate's cell phone.

~6:50AM
Chopin's Black Key Etude from my roommate's cell phone. WAKE THE HELL UP.

~6:55AM
I get up and turn my roommate's phone off. I do not care if he misses his 9AM class. I make a note to ask his girlfriend to change his alarm.

~7AM I go on my computer and open Sibelius. The opening music plays. I compose a few bars of a mini-musical about music theory and decide that it's too early for any constructive composition. Plus, I am having a hard time counting eighth notes.

~8AM-9AM
I try to go back to sleep but I hear a knock on my door in the same rhythm as the Mario theme song. I know it is my friend Phil and I get up and give him the tableslips he needs. Can't go back to sleep so I take a shower. I sing "Der Erlkonig" and "The Ants Go Marching" to myself.

~9AM-10:30AM
Open itunes and it is on shuffle. Here is what I listened to while doing some reading (From my recently played list):
"Flying Home" Jason Robert Brown from the musical "Songs From a New World"
"My Name Is" Eminem
"I Don't Want to Wait" Paula Cole
"Gute Nacht" Schubert from "Winterreise" sung by Ian Bostridge with accompaniment by Daniel Harding.
"Der Erlkonig" Schubert, sung by Dietrich Fischer-Diskau
"Womanizer" covered by Lily Allen, orig. Britney Spears
"Party in the USA" Miley Cyrus
"Sleep" Eric Whitacre
"Good Girls Go Bad" Cobra Starship, feat. Leighton Meester
"Tik ToK" Ke$ha
"A Woman is a Sometime Thing" Gershwin from Porgy and Bess
"Main Theme" Nobuo Uematsu from Final Fantasy VII
"Valenti" BoA
"Don't Stand so Close to me" The Police
"Gay Bar" Electric 6
"Dum Maro Dum" Asha Bhosle, R.D. Burman

~10:30AM-11AM
I literally spent this time just sitting and reading in silence. It makes me wonder. What are birds? I don't even know. And then the bells! The bells! Ring ring ring ring ring

~11AM-12PM
The Law and Politics of International Human Rights Class. A cell phone went off, and it was Flo Rida's "Low" Featuring T-Pain. Noticed that there is a distint rhythm to Professor Tannenwald's lecture.

12PM-1PM
MUSC56 Lab with Arlene Cole.
We had to listen to two dictation examples repeatedly. Then a few examples of appogiaturas and passing tones. This hour is full of sounds and chords and noises and music.

~1-2PM
Went to the Ratty to eat. It's always interesting to hear the way crowds make sounds.

~2:00-2:30PM
Someone is warming up their voice. They warmed up extremely high and then very low. I heard strains of Mozart coming from the ADPhi lounge. Sarah Hersman was singing the alto part from "Sularia" from The Marriage of Figaro.

~2:30-3PM
I rehearsed part of the Marriage of Figaro duet (played piano) while Sarah sang
Then we moved onto Schumann's Song Cycle "Frauenliebe und Leben" and ran through the entire thing.

~3PM-4:30
Listened to "Knoxville Summer of 1915" by Samuel Barber on the walk to East Side Mini-Mart
Heard a rock song at ESMM coming from a speaker. I was unable to identify it.
Rehearsed "The Turn of the Screw" opera with Gabriel
Went through Act II Scene 1: Soliloquy and Colloguy, Act II, Scene 2: Miss Jessel and listened to Act II Scene 7: Flora. We listened to recording by Mahler Chamber Orchestra multiple times. I was teaching the part to her, so many sections of it were repeated.

4:30-6PM
Andrew Wong and I rehearsed selections from Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw"
Rehearsed Act II Scene 4: The Bedroom, Act II Scene 5: Quint, Act II Scene 8: Miles, and played through all of the Prologue. F*ck you, Benjamin Britten.

~6PM-6:30PM
At Orwig library studying.
Opened up my Taylor Swift Pandora radio station.
"Our Song" Taylor Swift
"You Belong With Me" Taylor Swift
"Some Hearts" Natasha Bedingfield
"Forever and Always" Taylor Swift
"My Life Would Suck Without You" Kelly Clarkson
"Picture to Burn" Taylor Swift
"Stay Beautiful" Taylor Swift

~6:30-7
Is the quiet hum of the computers
in Orwig music? Yes.
It is.
The high Eb beep of the library scanners
soothes me
I hum the musical example on the page
the printer turns on
vroom vroom
I count 14 pages

~7-7:45
Masumi made a recording of me improvising on "Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga on the piano.
Joe Rim and Lady Gaga I listened to this and was inspired to arrange it for string quartet because Renaissance and Medieval Music reading is stupid. The Sibelius opening music turns on! I decide in the end that I don't want to do it. Instead, I listen to "Starstruck" and "Das Rheingold: Prelude" by Wagner because it is so epic. Just like Lady Gaga.

~9-11PM
Gilbert and Sullivan Pirates of Penzance womens' Rehearsal. We rehearsed the chorus part in "I am the very model of a modern major general," "hail poetry," and "what is this and what is that." Heard "glitter and be gay" during break while one of our sopranos practiced for an aria concert on Saturday. Near the end, I set the keyboard to "church organ" and played the chords to "Paparazzi" while Meghan sang along. We also played some common chord progressions. A few of the songs demonstrated were "Poker Face," "Living on a Prayer," "99 Red Balloons," "Take a Bow," "Bad Romance," and "Heart and Soul"

~11-11:10
Went to the Ivy Room. Heard Cascada's "Evaculate the Dance Floor" and Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance." Also heard a lot of people yelling. Possibly drunkenly. Who gets wasted on a Monday night?

~11:10-1:00AM
Headed off to the SciLi for some work. Some douchebag had "Party in the USA" on repeat in the corner. Besides this, no music. Listening was interesting though. All the clicks. Once you pay attention to the mouse clicks and the clickity clack of the keyboard, it can really drive you crazy.

~1:00-?
Went back home. Someone is playing the piano right now. Some New Age stuff. Gah!! I also talked to the roommate about the alarm clock and he told me to shake him awake when it rings. I am going to sleep now.

So what I would say is that today I didn't go many places that imposed its music on me. A lot of the music I heard today was within my control, which I think is interesting. Overall, I think it is a good summary of the kind of music I listen to. Also, at some point, I am sure I heard "Chocolate Rain" by Tay Zonday but do not remember what the context was.

Also...What is music?
Hey Now, Little Mouse

...We don't even know.