Dr. Garrett Schumann

Michigan friends! Join me and my Resonant Soundscapes collaborators Marcus Elliot, Michael Malis, @saratea.bsky.social, Chien-An Yuan, and Julie Zhu at the Detroit Public Library next Sunday, 10/18 (2-4p, CSJ Friends Auditorium) for a live-improvised scoring of the silent horror classic "Häxan"!

In one of the first statewide data points for enrollment this fall, Michigan's public universities saw their first collective enrollment decline since 2022. The smallest institution saw a 14% decline in just one year.

I'll be interested what my students think about this tomorrow morning, the last two shows have sparked rich conversations in large part because many were passionate fans of the headliners

Current* conditions near Marquette, MI:

Seeing other countries use their laws to confront their bad faith hard right politicians makes Joe Biden's "Welcome home" to Trump in January 2025 harder to swallow than it already was

It’s a real thing I can hold in my hands!!

poorhouse apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1903

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Critical theory is now intolerance?

So who arranged the Blank Check theme music for orchestra and then record it?

Unbelievably, I messed up something else about this assignment Canvas page that I didn't notice when I made changes last night and of which I remained unaware until a different student complained to me in an email this morning What a disaster

it was almost the perfect crime because no one has submitted anything to the assignment in question (I needed to update a link on the assignment's Canvas page and forgot and then a student emailed me about it tonight)

I forgot to update something on Canvas last week because our 6yo had a half day and parent-teacher conference (and I'm forgetful), do you think my students will accept that as an excuse?

your moment of zen via some film i scanned today

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Jair Bolsonaro still unsure whether to go for a celebratory trip to the hospital or a consolatory trip to the hospital

I wonder if there are any Alban Berg lovers on this app who have been momentarily confused tonight

So many executives seem unconcerned about making statements that reveal themselves as terrible parents

I got to watch most of the first half at my parents' place and the Texans were so uninspiring and then as soon as I left they tied the game

The Texans really suck today

youre laughing. he poked fun at the decor of the cheesecake factory and youre laughing

My high school girlfriend grew up in Kerhonkson!

Fingers-crossed there's some kind of market correction before our kids go to college!

… where he assembles records like a dub producer, and where every player studies light and color without telling the rest of the band. Then he explains why he refuses to let a dysfunctional planet stop him from choosing love. Listen in: podcast.thetonearm.com/wadada-leo-s...

On today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, we welcome trumpeter, composer, and AACM veteran Wadada Leo Smith, whose new album, 'Constellations and Hemispheres,' gathers four ensembles recorded over five years. The conversation follows him into the studio and into his scores … #JazzSky

Every year this one house in Ann Arbor has the largest pumpkins for Halloween

The baseball game isn't over yet?

This tour starts in one week! ⭐️✨⭐️✨⭐️ Halloween costumes heavily encouraged for SLC 🎃🌀 🎟️ bandsintown.com/faetooth

Headshot by the amazing photographer Christian Nathael. I love how it makes my viola look. The color matches its sound.

Trinidad Chambliss was kicking ass in Big Rapids and UM wasn't able to get him to transfer two hours to the southeast?

All four of those pieces rock, what a killer recording

“The real creative process of this EP was the long period of The Ferals living with these songs, even though the writing took place across a whole decade,” wrote @katsteih.bsky.social about her new EP, "Feral Geometry," with The Ferals. strattonsetlist.com/2026/10/24/k...

Has anyone pointed out in the lead-up to today's college football slate that the University of Utah and the University of Houston, who play each other tonight, have very similar-looking logos?

Abdul is very corny

I really haven't paid attention to college football this year, the top 25 is full of shockers for me

We have a backyard blaze going

and maybe a few friends to build with

“Our compositions rest on the rhythmic cadence of Ellroy’s speech, trying to amplify it, following the train of his thoughts and the paths he takes, phonetically and expressively.” Don’t miss Tony D’Onghia’s interview with Italian noir combo Calibro 35 on The Tonearm:

This is amazing! Most endowments go to buildings, sports, or students. Very few go to faculty… almost as if they are not really important. 🙄

lol at IU's TV ad name checking the "World Famous Jacobs School of Music" even though the state government and university leaders have terminated a bunch of degree programs at the music school in the last few years

lol, FOX could not resist showing the historic Ypsilanti water tower multiple times in that bumper footage despite the fact that UM is in a different municipality altogether