Very fun! Thanks for sharing with your fam 💜 I’m visiting with my folks and brother and his fam at the moment. We all live far from one another so these moments are precious!
This silly old tune always brings me back. My Grandma used to hum and sing this all time, and I had a cassette tap that my own kids played into oblivion 😵💫😂🧡
Pete Seeger - Skip to my Lou
https://open.spotify.com/track/2iLdiTzf3vgGWxjKnvcscS?si=iJ-QL_zQTOiJ6B_W9W0FDQ
Thanks for the music and zap! I know the song of course, but haven’t heard this version before. Love the banjo on it!! Man, the connection to Grandma is really sweet. Currently staying at my Gram’s cottage for a few weeks and the whole place is steeped in memories of her.
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GM and Happy Monday!
A little throwback today — ⭐️Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star ✨
I recorded this while busking last week….
This version of the song has the main tune followed by an “obligato” variation — the cool part is that the two parts can be played together like a duet 🎻🎶 I used to play it this way with my mom when I was a kid, but I’ve hardly played it since then! It’s funny the music that comes out when I’m just playing for a couple hours in a row.
💜 Do you have a song that brings you right back to childhood?
As always, I appreciate your support, reposts, and zaps! ⚡️
#musicnostr #childhood #family
https://blossom.primal.net/2439a1de7cc9d1d451a0bac62b5e42eba760b8847f62c8a20cb52e4639b589a3.mov
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🎶 My brother’s visiting and we always end up jamming when we’re together. He’s on guitar here, just off camera, I’m on violin — this one’s about 2 minutes long.
I love how you can hear us searching at the start, then landing on something really beautiful and groovy together, then searching again … and then it ends in a funny way.
I love improvising with my brother, it’s such a cool way that we’ve connected over the years. Who could ask for better… family, community, deep listening, co-creation, finding new things together in real time. 💜⚡️
What do you do with your family that brings you closer together?
#musicnostr #family #guitar
https://blossom.primal.net/c02e08a77d7501b25087f2ee4d725d1426e8c13757652a810b267a9728abd91c.mov
👀 In case you missed it earlier… jamming with my brother while he’s visiting. He’s on guitar, I’m on violin — I think we found something groovy, beautiful, and fun 💜🎶
How do you spend time with family?
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I love that image! I’m always fascinated by the connection of music to memory 💜
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🎶 My brother’s visiting and we always end up jamming when we’re together. He’s on guitar here, just off camera, I’m on violin — this one’s about 2 minutes long.
I love how you can hear us searching at the start, then landing on something really beautiful and groovy together, then searching again … and then it ends in a funny way.
I love improvising with my brother, it’s such a cool way that we’ve connected over the years. Who could ask for better… family, community, deep listening, co-creation, finding new things together in real time. 💜⚡️
What do you do with your family that brings you closer together?
#musicnostr #family #guitar
https://blossom.primal.net/c02e08a77d7501b25087f2ee4d725d1426e8c13757652a810b267a9728abd91c.mov
https://fanfares.io looks perfect for this! Chat to nostr:npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9
Nice! I’ll definitely check this out. Thanks for the comment!
I’ll be posting my daily violin video soon!
That’s awesome. Yeah, I love their little chirps and the humming wings!
It’s very cool. I feel like I’ve expanded my network in a really exciting and meaningful way.
I love hummingbirds!! I’m watching them here too. If you like hummingbirds, once I went to Mindo, Ecuador and there was a place in the forest to observe them and I saw thousands and fed them straight from my hand!!
Reposting - a quick explanation on what #mkstack and #shakespeare are for any curious. There's also a great tutorial on how to use the latter by the one and only nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq37amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwfjkccte9ejx2un9ddex7umn9ekk2tcqyqlhwrt96wnkf2w9edgr4cfruchvwkv26q6asdhz4qg08pm6w3djg3c8m4j:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK9gHjQr7nc
It's a great era to build things, you should join in on the fun. 🙂
Nostr is cool because I’m being exposed to tools and ideas that weren’t in my field of view in my everyday life as a musician. Can’t wait to try these things out!
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Here’s a little improv I recorded while busking 🎻✨
It feels like it could be the start of a new tune… feels emotional, a bit raw.
What does it make you feel?
#musicnostr #music #violin #emotion
https://blossom.primal.net/049183cec684682db27de0309b14196001a1758eb7bd10bd5ded0c6c23f5aa9a.mov
What does this improvisation remind you of?
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Yes, for sure! And I will keep posting videos, I’m loving it here! Feel free to check out my “Works” page too, I have more of my compositions there: https://www.matthiasmcintire.ca/works
Sounds like you guys are doing all the right things to get your ensemble off the ground. There’s something fun about envisioning all the firsts that could happen in the Nostr space — still very open. But there’s no rush of course. It’s just nice to be building relationships in another way and with a slightly different angle from “real life”.
Totally understand! Has your ensemble commissioned new works before?
Wow! Very nice recording, video, and performance. That would be very cool first!! I wonder about the first Nostr crowd funded new music commission too 🤔🤔🤔
Haha I feel you. There’s different kinds of practise too… more and less annoying 😆 That sounds like a great program, right up my alley as a contemporary and classical person! I have composed one choral work myself — for choir and string orchestra!
So cool!! Would love to follow this!
Also, what’s a #zapathon? 😅
GN all 💜
Why I'm Vlogging on Nostr
https://blossom.primal.net/1be35762ef4cbb30d531014e902c76aecc9fe6bf9e533a1d17afb7e22f171ae6.mov
Sharing my string playing and music here has been a game changer in just one week of posting! Loving it here 💜
Thanks nostr:nprofile1qqsr58jpl64j7u3v7fzkff8ymmmyhzp8g2wlcwm0txndgu7av8fatjcpz4mhxue69uhkg6t5w3hjuur4vghhyetvv9usz8nhwden5te0vejk2ern9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshkcctwvuhk2msyrc5yz for listening to my first Nostr release!! My orchestra music is refreshing 😀
Dude thank you! 🙏 I’m glad you’ve enjoyed it and I super appreciate the note too!!
Thank you nostr:nprofile1qqs2yhlelnwff86wnuplvamcpzugpvfwl7s8cwdpjdk899pw9mhmj5cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm0d9hx7uewd9hszynhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4es7sv7vf! That’s amazing you used to go to the contra dances! I have come across a bit of Rodney Miller. Great player!
This is super cool! I’m looking for something sort of like this to put in my Nostr profile … a simple link to a paywall that’s “pay what you want” that either contains or sends to a download for a music file / song. My current solution is not this sleek… check out my profile. I haven’t found anything that exactly fits my use case yet, and I’m not a coder! Any advice on where to find something like this? Or have you thought of creating something like this?
I know right?? That’s super exciting
Sure! What would that look like? I’m still getting everything dialed in on my profile, I still might change lightning wallets and other things… trying to get up and running quickly and iterate if not perfect!!
Yeah something dead simple and free would be ideal, at least for now