Play the anarchist piano!

[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

@atraidez Toronto's Kensington Market

[phooky@hexa.club]

@pluralistic I thought they were teaching pianos to be anarchists

[gueuledatmosphere@mastodon.green]

@pluralistic
The piano's been overthrowing capitalism (not me)

w/ apologies to Tom Waits

[atraidez@infosec.exchange]

@pluralistic hell yeah Toronto

[weldon@mstdn.io]

@pluralistic

“Light the fire piano!”

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow • https://youtu.be/QUJkh5Gf4z8

[oborosaur@hachyderm.io]

@pluralistic my improv is pretty good, but my Kensington Market is a little rusty.

[starchy@infosec.exchange]

@pluralistic buddy that's the only kind I play!

[australopithecus@mastodon.social]

@pluralistic
"Ok so here's the Anarchist piano."
"Sir this is clearly a tin can banjo."
"ANARCHIST PIANO!" *smoke bomb*

[elgringomexicano@mastodon.social]

@weldon @pluralistic Every day on Mastodon brings a new "I've found the right place" moment. Can't believe it took me so long to switch over. Now I'm getting Captain Beefheart in my timeline instead of algorithmic, unwanted shitty slop engagement posts and advertisements.

[chu@climatejustice.social]

@atraidez @pluralistic

Ha. Of course. Kensington. Where else? Certainly not Rosedale.

[elfburgerman@mastodon.social]

@pluralistic
Thank you for clarifying. It seems to me 'anarchist' could just as well refer to 'lessons'. In Germanic languages that are less sloppy than English, this would've been one word with anarchist referring to 'piano', and two with it referring to 'lessons'.

[arod@social.coop]

@pluralistic fun fact: a self-proclaimed anarchist, Antonio Maggio, published the first 12-bar sheet music with "blues" in the title, in 1908. Fascinating story, detained without trial after McKinley was assassinated: https://www.bluescenter.com/2017/07/27/814/

[tarotbird@toot.cat]

@pluralistic Anarchist music lessons are a great idea!

I didn't realize until recently just how political the history of music education is. For much of that history it has been dominated by the theories of racist reactionaries.

Adam Neely did a great introductory video on the white supremacist roots of music theory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

I'd love to see more radical music teachers.

[ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog]

@pluralistic I've jammed with Adam and can confirm he is the real deal, but certainly did not expect to see him popping up on fedi ​

[jaicup@mindly.social]

@pluralistic anarchist pianos have spike bracelets on the legs.

[jaicup@mindly.social]

@pluralistic

[janschiefer@mastodon.social]

@Jaicup @pluralistic The piano going more and more out of tune as it burns is part of the piece.

[jacktrek@mountains.social]

@janschiefer @Jaicup @pluralistic like so? > https://pixelfed.social/p/jacktrek/959012947973756053

[tamtam@mastodon.de]

@tarotbird @pluralistic "nobody could graduate from music academy who could not dance" omg, this is melting on my tongue. I want to be in that world.

[brandoncarey@social.vivaldi.net]

@pluralistic
Plus they're paying the same per-page for copies as everyone else, but using 10 times the toner. A small but subtle victory.