Amitai Schleier (@schmonz@octodon.social) Profile picture
Software development coach. Musician. Bad poet (award-winning). @Agilein3Minutes @JerseyCityJUG @SoCTAgile @notqmail @pkgsrc @ikiwiki
May 24, 2022 116 tweets 90 min read
Can a Scriabin G-flat prelude (Op. 16 #3) be played with a non-striking D-flat? Our New York correspondent has the story. Updated reporting on the 1923 Baldwin with a non-striking D-flat/C-sharp: it is of course easier to hide the problem in G major, which today’s piece is sort of “in”. Scriabin Prelude Op. 13 #3:
Apr 19, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
Most software development is designed to ease the human-relationships bottleneck by reducing our reliance on relationships. Specialized roles, limited interactions.

I believe the bottleneck is more effectively eased by instead honoring, strengthening, and growing relationships. ICYMI:
Feb 28, 2019 14 tweets 6 min read
There are a lot of aspects of #Medtner's music that make him my favorite composer: form, counterpoint, rhythm, ergonomics for the pianist, and balance and painstaking attention to detail in all of these.

Also, some of it you can fucking rock out to. A brief thread: Berezovsky playing the fourth Skazka ("Tale") from Opus 35. Hooooo-lee shit.