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A short announcement. The podcast will be back in September.In the meantime, we’ll continue posting our creative progress reports on this blog here!Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.com

Felicia walks us through another melody from her Bachelor's thesis project, and Grace talks about writing a knowledge base.Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes • Anyhowly: Ep 1904: Inversions and Fricatives • Wikipedia: Retrograde (music) • Wikipedia: Inversion (music) • Anyhowly: Ep 1906: Finding Time • Painscience.com • Exrx.net

Felicia came up with lyrics for a song, and Grace tries to invent an imaginary world for her project.Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Episode 1904: Inversions and Fricatives• Wikipedia: Variation (music)• Wikipedia: Rojak• Wikipedia: Adaptation (film)• Wikipedia: The Orchid Thief (not The Flower Thief, sorry!)• The Sufferfest: Visit Sufferlandria• Wikipedia: Chamois leather• Zombies, Run!• Wikipedia: Camera obscura• Wikipedia: Weight plate• BBC Sport: Cycling & suffering: a special relationship• Example of powerlifting singlet and belt:> Titan Support Systems: Triumph Solid Color Singlet> Pioneer Belts: Pioneer Cut 13mm Suede Power Lifting Belt

Felicia and Grace watched a musical, and now they're going to talk about it (mostly Grace is going to talk about it).Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Wikipedia: Bat out of Hell The Musical• Wikipedia: Meat Loaf• Wikipedia: Peter and Wendy• YouTube: The Dominion Transformed | Bat Out of Hell > Time-lapse of Bat Out of Hell’s set being built at the Dominion Theatre in London• YouTube: American Idiot cast performance at 2010 Tony Awards> Check out the TV screens in the back wall of the set!• Wikipedia: Paradise by the Dashboard Light• Wiktionary: Falx• Note: Maybe Sahara is Bat Out of Hell’s Tiger Lily?

Felicia and Grace discuss the challenges of finding time to create stuff, around the other obligations of life.Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Relay FM: Cortex #44: Existential Time Tracking• Toggl• Bullet Journal• YouTube: A Simple Time Tracker for the Minimalist Bullet Journal by Matt Ragland• YouTube: Sight Reading Competition by TwoSet Violin• Relay FM: Cortex #80: Ice Fortress

Felicia has some lyrics about golden castles for her Bachelor's project. Grace is embarking on a quest to write 800 words a day. They discuss how Anyhowly's weekly deadlines affect their work.Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Episode 1904 for more information about Felicia’s Swan Lake melody• Wikipedia: Swan Lake > Alternative Endings• Wikipedia: Into the Woods• YouTube: Andrew Huang > Hacking Jazz• graceteng.ninja: Scribble Sketch #1: Madrid, May 2011

Felicia has a song for her Bachelor's project and walks us through inversions and retrogrades. Grace has a verse and walks us through fricatives and plosives. They discuss what they've learnt recording the podcast so far. Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Episode 1901 for more information about Felicia’s project• Wikipedia: Inversion (music)• Wikipedia: Retrograde (music)• Anyhowly: Episode 1903 for more information about Grace’s project• Julia Cameron: Morning Pages• Wikipedia: The Noonday Demon• RhymezoneEvolution of Grace’s verseONEFloatingDriftingA fog. A dream.A picture out of focus.TWOA fog. A dream.A picture out of focus.Floating. Drifting.Fading to the distance.Dissipating. Awakening.THREEA fog. A dream.A picture out of focus.Floating. Drifting.Fading to the distance.Dissipating. Awakening.A soft light in the darkness.FOURA fog. A dream.A shadow in the darkness.Floating. Drifting.Fading out of existence.Dissipating. Awakening.A soft light in the distance.A flicker. A gleam.A picture comes in focus.

Grace talks about starting work on a song. Felicia talks about her composition for the week. They discuss two concerts that they saw together.Apologies: The de-esser and de-plosive plugins are 10,000km away in Singapore, so all episodes before April may sound a bit harsh! :(Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow NotesAnyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Episode 1901• Wikipedia: Pippin (musical)• YouTube: Extraordinary from Pippin• Someone Who Plays The Piano: Celestial Playground (Week 17)• Wikipedia: Time signature > Simple vs compound•• Correction: 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 are all considered compound metres.• We’re not sorry for the detour about scales and modes. If you’re confused, we suggest looking at: •• Beginners: musictheory.net: Key signatures •• Not beginners: Wikipedia: Scale (music) •• Correction: D-flat major and B major do not share the same notes. They share six out of seven notes. • Wikipedia (German): Capitol (Mannheim)• Wikipedia: Willemijn Verkaik• Partial list of songs mentioned: •• YouTube: High Flying, Adored•• Wikipedia: You’ll Be Back •• Wikipedia: It’s All Coming Back To Me Now • Wikipedia: Bat Out of Hell The Musical• Wikipedia: Dance of the Vampires• Theater Freiburg: Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg• Wikipedia: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich) •• (movements listed as per programme) •• Nocturne •• Scherzo. Allegro •• Passacaglia. Andante•• Burlesque. Allegro con brio • Wikipedia: Symphony No. 3 (Bruckner) •• (movements listed as per programme) •• Mehr langsam, Misterioso •• Adagio, bewegt, quasi Andante•• Ziemlich schnell •• Allegro • Wikipedia: Romantic music• “Allegro ma non troppo”: fast but not too much. (As noted above, the fourth movement of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 is in fact “allegro con brio”: fast, with spirit.)• Vimeo: Elias David Moncado•• > Adagio in G minor• Wikipedia: Alban Berg• Wikipedia: Twelve-tone technique •• Additional context: Grace mentioned the class about music in Catalonia because that’s where she first encountered twelve-tone music, through the music of: •• Wikipedia: Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (Schoenberg’s only student from Spain) •• Wikipedia: Xavier Montsalvatge

Grace talks about editing Anyhowly Episode 1901. Felicia talks about composing under time pressure. They discuss how to classify the piano.Apologies: The de-esser and de-plosive plugins are 10,000km away in Singapore, so all episodes before April may sound a bit harsh!Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Episode 1901• > Episode 1901a (unedited version of Episode 1901)• Wiktionary: Frankenbite• Someone Who Plays The Piano: Kite Dancing• Wikipedia: Orchestra > Instrumentation• Wikipedia: Hornbostel-Sachs• Wikipedia: Theremin• Musanim: The Double Revolution of the Theremin• Wikipedia: Piano extended technique• > Wikipedia: Prepared piano (Grace’s John Cage reference)

This is an unedited version of Anyhowly Episode 1901. For more context, listen to Anyhowly Episode 1902.

Felicia talks about her idea for her Bachelor's thesis. Grace talks about her idea for a musical. They discuss Swan Lake.Apologies: The de-esser and de-plosive plugins are 10,000km away in Singapore, so all episodes before April may sound a bit harsh!Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Wikipedia: Lead sheet• Julia Cameron: Morning Pages• Wikipedia: Pippin (musical)• YouTube: Extraordinary from Pippin• Wikipedia: Swan Lake• > Alternative Endings

Grace and Felicia talk about how context affects how art is created, and how context affects how art is interpreted. Actually, it’s mostly Grace talking about Crazy Rich Asians, and how applying a Singaporean or American lens makes the film look very different. Then Felicia talks about ethnomusicology, programmatic music, concert programme booklets, and then Grace and Felicia talk about hidden messages in German sculptures and context in modern art. Twitter: @_anyhowly Grace: graceteng.ninja Show Notes Wikipedia: Crazy Rich Asians (film) Wikipedia: Crazy Rich Asians (novel) Guardian: Crazy Rich Asians review The language discussion: Wikipedia: Cantonese Wikipedia: Mandarin Chinese Wikipedia: Hokkien Grace said “Kaki nang” at first, which is actually Teochew. In Hokkien, the expression is “Kaki lang”. Wikipedia: Jiaozi (dumplings) Vox: The symbolism of Crazy Rich Asians’ pivotal mahjong scene, explained Wikipedia: Singapore Mahjong scoring rules Vulture: Crazy Rich Asians Is A Shiny, Affluence-Porn Rom-Com With a Big Immigrant Heart Wikipedia: Tyersall Park Asian Male Sexuality, the Money-Phallus, and Why Asian Americans Need to Stop Calling Crazy Rich Asians the Asian Black Panther Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Rice, pp. 101-102 Wikipedia: Graceland by Paul Simon (aka “a certain Simon”) Wall Street Journal: Cultural Borrowing Is Great; The Problem Is Disrespect by Kwame Anthony Appiah YouTube: If Gandhi Took A Yoga Class by CollegeHumor Colorlines: Performing Blackness Won’t Fill Our Asian-American Culture Deficit by Muqing M. Zhang Wikipedia: Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz Wikipedia: Program music Wikipedia: Gesamtkunstwerk Wikipedia: Leitmotif or idée fixe YouTube: Symphonie Fantastique Mvt 4, March to the Scaffold conducted by Leonard Bernstein Idée fixe appears at 4:20 Orchestral hit at 4:28 Timpani roll at 4:30 Major chords at 4:32 Wikipedia: Guillotine (aka the “chop head”) Apple App Store: The Orchestra NPR Classical: Marches Madness: Off With His Head! Wikipedia: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 Orchestra of the Music Makers OMM’s Mahler’s 2nd programme booklet OMM’s video about Mahler’s 2nd Wikipedia: Freiburg Minster (cathedral) Süddeutsche Zeitung: Photo of the rear-facing gargoyle on the Freiburg Minster Translation of caption: At the Freiburger Minster one can find a gargoyle who drains rainwater out of his naked behind. According to legend, the stonemasons were insulting the Archbishop, whose palace lay across from it — but who only moved in long after the figure had been carved. Various other legends say the stonemasons were insulting the City Council or other church entities. The Munich monument with two lions is the Feldherrnhalle Okay, Grace misremembered the story of the lion sculptures. One lion faces the Residenz, the palace of the Bavarian monarchs, and that lion has its mouth open. The other lion faces the Theatine Church, and that lion has its mouth shut. The message is that the army should speak to the monarchs but listen to the church, or something like that. Who knows, maybe Grace’s tour guide was making it up. We have not been able to find a source for this anywhere. Wikipedia: Haydn’s Symphony No. 45 (Farewell) Wikipedia: Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 (Surprise) Anyhowly Episode 6: How Does A Canon Form? for discussion of International Klein Blue and Vantablack Wikipedia: Representation (arts) Wikipedia: Abstract art Wikipedia: International Klein Blue Wikipedia: 4’33” by John Cage

Felicia and Grace talk about how artistic canons form, how art progresses, and how cultural periods are defined. It's a long, meandering walk through art and music history. Show Notes Wikipedia: Western canon Wikipedia: Musical repertoire YouTube: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (complete) Wikipedia: Johann Sebastian Bach Wikipedia: Baroque Wikipedia: Renaissance Wikipedia: French Revolution YouTube: John Williams’ Imperial March, by the Prague Film Orchestra YouTube: Video Games Live at Gamescom 2017 Wikipedia: Gesamtkunstwerk Wikipedia: Jazz standard Wikipedia: The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky Wikipedia: Art movement Wikipedia: Ludwig van Beethoven YouTube: Beethoven’s Piano Sonato No. 2 in A major by Daniel Barenboim — an example of how early Beethoven sounds like Mozart Wikipedia: Lieder tradition Wikipedia: Great man theory Wikipedia: German romanticism Wikipedia: Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn: Reviving the Works of J.S. Bach Wikipedia: Hungry Ghost Festival (aka “Seventh Month”) YouTube: Göteborgs Symfoniker, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, plays Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, 1st movement Wikipedia: BBC Proms Wikipedia: Also Sprach Zarathustra YouTube: 2001: A Space Odyssey Opening Scene featuring the iconic theme from Also Sprach Zarathustra Wikipedia: Crazy Rich Asians (film) Wikipedia: Paul Klee Fondation Beyeler: Paul Klee exhibition Wikipedia: Avant-garde Quartz on the Yamaha Venova Wikipedia: Hulusi Wikipedia: Natural horn Wikipedia: Saxophone LA Times explains why the saxophone hasn’t found a home in the orchestra Wikipedia: Jan van Eyck Museo del Prado: Collection Wikipedia: International Klein Blue Wikipedia: Vantablack Guardian: Anish Kapoor talks about Vantablack Guardian: Man falls into art installation Wikipedia: Computer-generated imagery Wikipedia: Cinéma vérité Wikipedia: Sound film Wikipedia: En plein air Wikipedia: Pointillism For pointillism in music, see Wikipedia: Punctualism Aftershow Wikipedia: Sackbut Wikipedia: Bassoon > Etymology Wagner tuba Wikipedia: Lindwurm Wikipedia: Lindt & Sprüngli Wikipedia: Dulcian — predecessor of the bassoon Wikipedia: Shawm YouTube: Schalmeien Kapelle Freiburg, aka the “orchestra of the many-headed oboe”, performing in Freiburg’s old city

Following up from our previous episode about Felicia’s educational experiences, it’s now Grace’s turn to talk about her creative education in school.Show Notes Spin crackers Theatre Studies and Drama at Victoria Junior College Wikipedia: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring For the young’ins: VCD and DVD Wikipedia: The Phantom of the Opera (musical)) Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor Zequinha de Abreu’s Tico Tico by the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Daniel Barenboim Theatre Studies and Drama 2018 syllabus and exam format (warning: very dry read) — the curriculum changes periodically, but it’s pretty close to what I had. Wikipedia: Tarzan (musical)) Grace’s A Level Theatre Studies texts: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco Agamemnon, from the Oresteia by Aeschylus Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Wikipedia: Theatre of the Absurd Wikipedia: Theatre of ancient Greece Wikipedia: Noh Theatre Wikipedia: The Second Coming (poem)) by W. B. Yeats Wikipedia: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot An example of the fishbowl sound effect: Sci Guys: Singing Wine Glass Wikipeda: Turandot Wikipedia: Madama Butterfly Wikipedia: The Three Musketeers Wikipedia: Wayang kulit (Indonesian shadow puppetry) Wikipedia: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Wikipedia: Something Rotten! Wikipedia: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen New York University: Undergraduate Film and Television Amazon: a certain highly-rated filmmaking guide The overly-blue storefront photo in question Wikipedia: Production sound mixer New York University: Marco Williams — Grace took four classes with this guy

A deep dive into how Singapore’s education system and cultural priorities affect music education in Singapore. We have pretty strong feelings about this topic… let’s just leave it at that. Show Notes Wikipedia: Education in Singapore Wikipedia: Primary School Leaving Examination Examples of specialty programmes in Singapore schools Wikipedia: Singapore-Cambridge GCE O Level > Subjects How to compute L1R5 (don’t faint) Third languages offered in Singapore A fancy map of Singapore’s education system Note: Felicia went to a workshop at a tertiary institute where the participants learnt to build a speaker. The instructors’ station was a solder station, not a glue gun station. Wikipedia: Singapore-Cambridge GCE A Level > Subjects Music Elective Programme Admission Requirements Example of ABRSM exam format (Grade 5 Piano) Scales on the piano… … in similar motion … a 3rd/6th apart … in contrary motion … chromatic Wikipedia: ABRSM Wikipedia: Trinity College London MOE’s Art and Music Teacher Training Scheme Wikipedia: Livery company Wikipedia: Guild TED: Do schools kill creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson Wikipedia: L’art de toucher le clavecin (Couperin’s Art of Playing the Harpsichord) New Republic: Stop Forcing Your Kids To Learn A Musical Instrument

Grace and Felicia wonder what is not art, and end up discussing whether design, popular music, video games, craftsmanship, and food are or can be art. We also briefly visit some classic ideas of art philosophy. Show Notes This particular episode has a lot of links and references! Definition of Malay agak: to guesstimate “Sian Pin Honey Cakes” are usually called Iced Gem biscuits Artnews: Three Things That Are Not Art, According to John Baldessari WWDC 2007: Steve Jobs talks about the iPhone touchscreen Wikipedia: Esplanade — Theatres on the Bay Wikipedia on Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Columns Wikipedia: Fountain by Marcel Duchamp Bands, musicians, albums and songs mentioned during discussion of popular music as art: Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Def Leppard Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody The Who: Tommy ABBA: Mamma Mia! (the musical) Cole Porter: Anything Goes (the musical) Rodgers and Hammerstein Preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray NYTimes: Oscars to Add ‘Popular Film’ Category Monument Valley Alto’s Adventure Celeste Playing for Fun #2: Celeste (Grace misremembered the death counts!) Cuphead Wikipedia: Diego Velázquez Wikipedia: Mimesis Mental Floss reference to Plato and mimesis: 27 Responses to the Question “What is Art?” Wikipedia: Musica universalis Karl Paulnack’s Welcome Address to Freshman Parents at Boston Conservatory The mysterious TED talk is Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius Wikipedia: Quartet for the End of Time Jelly Keys: Shangri-La Flows artisan keycap Wikipedia: Horror vacui Singapore Infopedia: McDonald’s Hello Kitty toy promotion Netflix: Chef’s Table Christina Tosi episode Dan Barber episode Grant Achatz episode Corrado Assenza episode Jordi Roca episode Michelin Guide: Singapore Wikipedia: French Revolution Yves Klein’s International Klein Blue works NYTimes on Richard Serra: Sketches from the Man of Steel (Grace is not sure whether she saw these in the Guggenheim Bilbao or at the Metropolitan Museum of Art…) The David Mamet quote is from his book True and False. Here’s the 1997 NYTimes review of the book. Aftershow Baby names that mean “horizon” Wittner Metronomes (we have the 811m and the 817wh) Hodinkee: A Look at A. Lange & Söhne’s Balance Cock Engraving (is this not art?) Wikipedia: Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez Wikipedia: Saint George and the Dragon by Peter Paul Rubens One Page Books: Romeo and Juliet

Grace and Felicia discuss curiosity, asking questions, and exploring unknown territory. We fall down many rabbit holes, many of them having nothing to do with art or questions. If you're curious about who we are and how we got here, this is the episode to start with. Show Notes Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor Language Rush Eclectic Commentary Deep Travel The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Steve Kuhn — Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers (before conversion to odd meter)

Felicia talks at about her music education and what it’s like to be in music school. We also talk about trampoline parks and order lunch on air. Show Notes Anyhowly 003: Examination Extravaganza Bounce Singapore trampoline park Video: How To Seat Drop Video: How To Back Drop Wikipedia: Sight-reading Wikipedia: Ear training Wikipedia: Time signature YouTube: Invocazione dell’Imeneo by Carl Orff, performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra Wikipedia: Conductorless orchestra Wikipedia: Solfège > Movable do Wikipedia: Mode (music) Ionian mode Aeolian mode Melodic minor Harmonic minor Wikipedia: Interval (music) Wikipedia: Jazz harmony Wikipedia: Yamaha Music Foundation Open Music Theory: Harmonic Analysis Wikipedia: Music education Wikipedia: Tritone Wikipedia: Dotted note Wikipedia: Jewish music Sephardic music Klezmer Mizrahi music YouTube: Alef Bet song Aftershow Wikipedia: Bolster Come on, rest of the world, get in on bolsters. They’re great. Wirecutter: The Best Body Pillow (for all you Americans) Wikipedia: Ant-Man and the Wasp Maki-san 😍 Singlish Pommes Frites in New York City (best fries in NYC) Wikipedia: Sambal