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griffincandey.bsky.social
composer—Michigan boy—sentient cloud of cartoon noises—Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at Tennessee Tech
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the redbuds are blooming around here, and that always makes me really, really happy 🌸

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

wheeler's coney island, drive-in, route 10, deposit, new york, 1987

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

submitted 4 days ago • 117 comments

everything about the current political environment has such a severe midlife crisis energy to it

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I’m partnering with PLOMAX for their 30-day PLOMAX challenge. Episode sponsored by KLASTR, America’s #1 military-industrial sports betting app. Link in bio for a 30-day free trial of BYOFØRK, an AI-powered meal replacement service. Comment “HONCH” below to be entered to win a year’s supply of HONCH.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.

submitted 17 days ago • 146 comments

BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology." This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.

submitted 18 days ago • 49 comments

a bassoon twelve-tet named Roomful of Geese

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

it'll do motel office, jonesborough, tennessee, 1987

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

now is not the time for art or theater to back down now is the standard time to have art that is a “scathing allegory” of something

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I genuinely do not understand why it would be difficult for anyone to stop using Amazon I keep seeing well-meaning people posting things like “it’s okay if you cut back even a little bit!” like, what absolute necessities are folks getting from Amazon that they absolutely can’t get elsewhere?

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

ME: I don’t know how anyone is getting sucked into these conspiracy theories ALSO ME: I mean listen I don’t like, 𝟏𝟎𝟎% trust microwaves

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

a while ago on Twitter, there was a thread that was like “what isn’t racist but feels racist” my answer then was barn stars my answer now is barn stars and mass-produced highland cow wall art

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

snow day buddy

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

trying to be on social media way less, which means that my brain latches onto opening any other app which means that I sometimes am just sitting on the toilet opening my bank app (which is just as depressing as opening social media, honestly)

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

does anyone remember Pomplamoose getting into hot water for scamming their fans into helping recoup your costs that were fabricated? I remember as clear as day, but I cannot for the life of me find any digital trace of it

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

A federal judge has blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing sensitive US Treasury Department material

submitted 45 days ago • 68 comments

I recently got a new metronome that uses a big dial instead of buttons to change tempi and it’s so satisfying because every time I turn the dial up one notch faster I feel like the person turning up the heat on the frog in boiling water (the frog in the situation is also me)

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

if we go full-tilt third r**ch, it will be not only horrifying, but embarrassing Germans got duped into fascism after decades of severe economic hardship we will have been swayed into fascism by [checks notes] having one (1) Black president and trying to maybe give everyone opportunities

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist

submitted 49 days ago • 65 comments

if we’re landing in the neo-Medieval warring nation states version of the future, can I at least be the court composer for some pissy little Baron or Duchess or whatever

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

from last week’s workshop of Phenomenal Cage (new opera!) at Vanderbilt — can’t wait to get this bad boy up on its feet officially ♥️

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

paul bunyan statue, route 23, oscoda, michigan, 1988

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

hard for me to feel 100% down when I have a job where I get to see students hungry for—seeking out, basking in—knowledge and art every day they are scared—we are scared—but what a blessing to still be seeking, to still be growing, to still be becoming

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

favorite electroacoustic pieces?

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments