Tonight's Geography of Sound is dedicated to new CD recordings with works by Portuguese composers: Pedro Lima, Angela da Ponte, Daniel Bernardes, Paulo Jorge Ferreira, Nuno Lobo, Gonçalo Gato. Click here at 24h (GMT) to listen: http://www.rtp.pt/antena2/ or listen to it later here: http://www.rtp.pt/programa/radio/p1123 @contemporarymusic @composers #antena2 #radio #newmusic #composer

My cousin, who is in a symphony, is writing a paper on racism in the symphonic music industry. Turns out the symphony administration wanted to feature a black composer to showcase the history of black experience through classical music.

They brought someone on & after listening to the music, they decided it wasn't "happy" enough, so they went another direction entirely, going white again.

"Happy?" What history were they imagining?

#racism #orchesta #symphony #music #composer #blackmastodon

My #Pixelfed node is back up again. I had forgotten to reinstall the bcmath extension when I downgraded #PHP from 7.4 to 7.3 because #Nextcloud on the same machine isn't compatible, which prevented #Composer to pull the latest dependencies, which triggered a PHP Fatal Error. 😅

Ah, the joys of #selfhost without containers! I'm more and more tempted to look into #Docker, but I'm afraid of the learning curve before I get the same setup I have now. Also it probably would involve converting about 20 #Apache configuration files to #nginx which I'm not looking forward to either.

Does anyone have any pointers for either task, containerization and/or migration from Apache to nginx? #help

I knew I could define a minimum version of #PHP in the composer.json but only last week I learned to use the config.platform.php key to force #Composer to update dependencies against the same minimum version regardless of the local PHP runtime version.