From Mark Slobin's 1993 "Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West" (page 30) archive.org/details/subcul… weslpress.org/9780819562616/…

Listening to some Raag Malkauns to calm after the earlier barrage of sound... chandraveena.com/blog/r25-malka…

Just added another 50+ entries to the Timeline of Music Notation the past couple of days which brings the total to over 1300 entries. silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-mu…

I guess we'll be hearing more from Timothy Jackson and the Journal of Schenkerian Studies going forward...

Open access here: escholarship.org/uc/item/64k2c0… "Historical evidence suggests that the fiddle may be one of the oldest uninterrupted instrumental traditions in African American culture, yet most people in the US, including African Americans, do not identify it with Black music"

Love how the implication here is that there are "non-ethnic" instruments. It's the classic way to normalize supraethnic/macro-ethnic (e.g. Western/European instruments) phenomena as neutral and/or universal. reddit.com/r/composer/com…

So in the past 6 weeks I've added over 400 entries to the music notation timeline, and I've barely scratched the surface.

Next Friday, Aug 29, we'll be at the World Affairs Council's inaugural WorldFest Kick-Off Reception. We hear it's already sold out, but you can come see us at WorldFest mainstage on Saturday at 3-4pm! sawpeep.com/events/ Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Divya Karthikeyan | divyakrthk.bsky.social

“[T]he evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill” silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/the…

Some of my more scholarly work is contributing to the expansion of string pedagogy in surprising ways. Esteban Hernández Parra's very recent dissertation cites one of my pieces about slave orchestras! hdl.handle.net/2022/33684

Always makes me chuckle when r/musictheory mods just refer folks to r/GlobalMusicTheory. 😅 reddit.com/r/musictheory/…

Raqs Maqom: Dances & Music of Central & West Asia Sun, Oct 19, 2PM World Affairs Council Lobby 223 S 5th St, Louisville Free but limited seating; RSVP: …rscouncilofkentucky-bloom.kindful.com/e/see-paw-raqs… Raqs Maqom is a collaboration between Crescent Moon Dance Company & Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble

The Bureau of the Royal Household announced Friday night that Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother passed away peacefully at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital at 9.21 p.m. on October 24, 2025. She was 93 years old. #queenmother #พระพันปีหลวง khaosodenglish.com/featured/2025/…

I keep forgetting to post on the micro-platforms. Here's the beginnings of a South Asian Music Theory & Treatises Bibliography I started last summer. Eventually I would like to include info and links to translations as well. silpayamanant.wordpress.com/south-asian-mu…

I keep forgetting to post on the micro-platforms. Here's the beginnings of a South Asian Music Theory & Treatises Bibliography I started last summer. Eventually I would like to include info and links to translations as well. silpayamanant.wordpress.com/south-asian-mu…

"As I'm compiling a bibliography of primary sources about orchestras and ensembles of enslaved musicians I've decided to map their locations." silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/map…