Night Vale's Own String Quartet

The Affanato String Quartet. Night Vale's premier musical experience. Both public and private performances are available. Payment is accepted in credit, cash, or souls. (Not an actual string quartet) Indie Multi-muse OC/RP blog.

[lesbiancolumbo]

good for her

[lemonistas]

[purpl3wren]

[kata4a]

@spiralrapt hey I think I figured out how to get you to like classical music

[memewhore]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[20th-centuryghost]

[singingninja4]

tag yourself. I’m B minor

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

I can’t breathe

[brawltogethernow]

Best wishes to these people obviously but I’m WHEEZING at the concept of a standard horror plot starter but the stranded travelers are an entire fully equipped orchestra.

[gleefully-macabre]

It’s the prequel to every other horror film. Their haunting spirits play the background music.

[gleefully-macabre]

Oh shoot, that actually would be a really cool concept. The film starts with no thematic music, and as each member of the orchestra is picked off, their instrument joins the soundtrack. Subtly, so you don’t really notice, and the end credits are a full orchestral symphony.

[thestraggletag]

DUUUUUDE

[transmadotsuki]

Call that a death note

[moonybyte]

That entire thing could also be used brilliantly for foreshadowing!

Like, you suddenly notice a string instrument in the background music and you haven’t seen a few of them in a while. And the more musically versed you are, the more you figure it out (like in a mystery novel if you happen to have in-depth knowledge about the current riddle) while the “normal” people can get fooled into twists.

The non-musically versed audience hears a new brass instrument and is like “Oh shit, the dude with the tenor horn is probably dead!”, but then he suddenly appears perfectly fine and one minute later they find the body of the Euphonium player.

And if the orchestra members can hear it as well, then it’s of course another layer cause THEY would probably recognize who is playing. And depending on the director, they could go full ‘Tomato in the Mirror’ and imply they know but Just. Not. Say it. (cause why should they, they all DO KNOW). So they are like “Oh no…. No…!” and start looking for the corpse while the audience is still stuck at “Ok, a violin player, but which???”

[maramahan]

Ok not to take a sharp left turn into the absurd, but I high-key want the culprit behind the murders to be a haunted otamatone

Partially because it’s an uncommon, silly little instrument and no one would expect it — but mostly because I am absolutely in love with the mental image of— I mean—

Just imagine one of these suckers drifting ponderously through the ruined halls of a long-abandoned castle, its beady, soulless eyes glowing red as hellfire in that bloodless, bone-white face. An unholy wind whips up from nowhere; sheets of music tear from silent stands to surround that deceptively tiny form in swirling, unnatural frenzy.

It cracks a mocking, mirthless grin, revealing a pitch-black void where teeth and tongue should be — and, inevitable as the death of stars, the creature begins to sing.

An instrument joins. First one, then two, then all the rest: Commanded by that ungodly voice, the Orchestra of the Damned must play.

[1dietcokeinacan]

Having a fadeout at the end of a song is always so funny. It’s like no we’re still playing this music we r just backing away from u specifically. Goodbye

[exeggcute]

one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

[exeggcute]

can you imagine.

[more-oc-questions]

I’m curious–how do you guys go about creating your OCs?

[icealeen]

[nbluxio]

HOW ARE THERE 4 SEASONS

[log4]

Personally I blame that Vivaldi bitch

[minyoongislaysme]

THE CHILLS ALL OVER MY BODY

[render94]

typewriter!

[theclockworkjudas]

I love the orchestra trying and failing to maintain a straight face throughout

[silly-jellyghoty]

Exactly. These people had to rehearse at least a few times all at once yet when it's nkt their turn to play they still look at that guy with the typewriter as if he was the most fascinating thing they have ever seen.

[ironwoman359]

My husband's wind ensemble played this song when he was in high school! you can do it with normal auxillery percussion, but it's so much more fun if you do it with a real typewriter

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

therapist: the semihemidemisemiquaver isn’t real, it can’t hurt you

the semihemidemisemiquaver:

[love-to-love-puppies]

Can someone who speaks sheet music translate for me?

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

fast

[mccoys-killer-queen]

I’m sorry but every time I see this post I’ve wanted to add this video and I can’t hold back anymore

[wolfwarrior142]

That video was hilarious while also making me realize that after having a few years of being taught how to play the piano as a kid and being in band for all 3 years of middle school (first year flute, other 2 years were alto sax), I have no fucking idea how to properly read sheet music.

[akavincent]

@shizonrhu

[curlsandstems]

Have you ever seen a violinist going APESHIT?!

Be sure to check out IAmDSharp!

[thegreynightsky]

GO OFFF

[babydollbucky]

Ok so I’ve been playing for 18 years and i’m a string teacher. Can i just say how IMPORTANT it is for young kids to see a BLACK, MALE-PRESENTING PERSON playing, nae, SHREDDING on a violin? I’ve know maybe 5 black people who played stringed instruments throughout my schooling and teaching (predumably because i’m an upper middle class white woman). In districts where the population is predominantly black, funding is always low, so the instruments are crappy. Kids quit, or the program is dismantled. I’ve seen very few professional string players who are black.

Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.

This person is the real deal. They were clearly classically trained, and seems to have some fiddle training as well. How cool is that?

[lil-tumbles]

But also… RAD PLAYING MY DUDEEEE

[venefica-per-noctem-deactivated]

is he?... you know... *tips cowboy hat*

[wyrmmaster]

It’s actually really funny how many cultures have fox spirits and how many mostly consider them Complete Assholes, whether actively malicious or just dickheads that trick people

You’ve got the Kitsune that can be anywhere from incomprehensibly evil and powerful to doting mothers and good wives, 

You’ve got the Huli Jing in China which were believed to be entirely female and needed male energy to survive, and did so by corrupting high-level politicians- and the Jiuweihu, the big girls that took to leading souls away from Dharma,

You’ve got the Gumiho in Korea, who just straight up eat people’s livers or steal their life force,

In Scandinavia, specifically Finland, fox spirits were believed to be the cause of Aurora Borealis, revontulet, the “fox fire”, as well as just usually messing with people, and then also the Brunnmigi for the Norse which poisoned water because fuck you,

The Celts also attributed them to be wily little bastards that existed to make fools of hunters and apparently that’s where the word “Shenanigan” came from, originally being sionnachuighim, “I play the fox” in irish gaelic,

In Europe you’ve got Reynard the asshole baron, 

and from what I’ve seen a lot of native american tribes also just consider them dicks on the level of coyotes 

it’s like every human that sees one of these

is just like “wow, what an asshole”, it’s great

[an-alarming-number-of-bees]

Assigned bastard at birth

[silentauroriamthereal]

I don’t know who wrote this or why, but this writing is just *chef’s kiss*

**Editing to add: I now know that this was said by Lindy West in her book The Witches are Coming. Good to know! 

[loveismyrevolution]

This is gold!!!

[apprenticenanoswarm-deactivated]

you can pick up The Witches Are Coming HERE!

[classicalshits]