Apple's iPhone 16 Was the Best Selling Smartphone in Q1 2025
#Counterpoint
š¶ Ah, yes, Ethan's blog: where musical classics go to die a slow, verbose death. š¤¦āāļø Bach's "The Art of Fugue" was a flop, but fear not, Ethan is here to revive it with more words than notes. š Because nothing screams "fun" like dissecting unfashionable 18th-century #counterpoint in 2021. š¼š¤
https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/the-art-of-fugue-contrapunctus-i/ #Blog #MusicalClassics #Revival #18thCentury #Bach #HackerNews #ngated
Cartoon Monday (ugh)
#counterpoint #liberty #freedom #immigration #ice #democracy #pope #popeleo #cartoons #monday #cartoon
https://counterpoint.substack.com/p/suspended-liberties-edition
Apple Watch Sales Falling Continuously Amid Lack of New Models
In the past few months, the Liberal Party made a remarkable comeback in the polls. Heading into 2025, the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre were favored to win the most seats in Parliament. But a series of events ā¦ boosted the chances of the Liberals and Mark Carney, the new prime minister. - NYT
Cartoon by #TimCampbell for #Counterpoint
#canada #trump #carney #markcarney #cartoon
https://open.substack.com/pub/counterpoint/p/elbows-up-edition-ff6
iPhone 16e Helps Apple Take Q1 Top Spot in Global Smartphone Market
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/14/apple-q1-smartphone-market-top-spot/
Monday Cartoons: The King and Us
Trump's (Real) Wall
https://counterpoint.substack.com/p/the-king-and-us-edition
#Cartoon #Economy #Trump #Tariff #Wall #counterpoint #chrisbritt #mikebeckom #deportation #immigration #dueprocess #msnbc
āTrumpās erratic policies threaten not only the United States but the entire world. By abdicating the responsibility of mature and responsible global leadership, #Trump is pushing not only America into the abyss but the rest of the world as well. Everyone, especially those who once supported this president, must now try to bring him to his senses; otherwise, they will also end up suffering the consequencesā-PM
Cartoon by #PedroXMolina for #Counterpoint #tariffs
āWhile Americansā 401(k)s disappeared before their very eyes and the stock market continued to crumble, Trump defended his toxic tariffs by saying, āsometimes you have to take medicine to fix things.ā The problem is, we werenāt sick. Now we are.ā-RR
#tariffs #401k #stockmarket #trump #Cartoon by #RobRogers for #Counterpoint
https://counterpoint.substack.com/p/declaration-of-condescendence-edition-c0a
A short set of radio reviews in today's Week.
Counterpoint, the properly tough Radio 4 quiz that's everything Popmaster aspires to be.
Sound Mate and Hot Takes, two comedy panel pilots from Radio Ulster. Something of merit in both, more in one than the other.
Plus the BAFTA nominations for game shows.
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver's_Week_2025-03-30
#GameShow #WeaversWeek #GameShows #Counterpoint #BAFTA #radio
āViolence is never OK. Burning cars, even Elon Muskās cars, is wrong.
But you know what else is wrong? Burning down the foundations of our democracy.ā-RR
#democracy #constitution #trump #musk #doge #tesla
#Cartoon by #RobRogers for #Counterpoint
So it's a round with a melody and counter melody where the answering voices starts a 5th above the originals and mirror the melodic shape.
Basically nobody is going to be able to tell that's what I did without looking at the score. It's showing off for conductors/musicians/and other composers.
But most importantly, I also think it sounds cool.
If you're curious:
A cannon is basically a round (so like Row Row Row your Boat or any other number of campfire songs)
A double cannon is one with two melodic lines that get repeated instead of just one.
A cannon at the 5th means that they melodic lines comes in a 5th above the original statement
A cannon by inversion means that the second instance of the melody goes down when the original goes up and up when the original goes down.
O.k. so maybe "I'm going to write a section of this pieces as a double cannon at the 5th by inversion" was making things hard on myself. Especially since I really didn't want it coming in all "And Now: RENAISSANCE ERA COUNTERPOINT!!", which is a big danger when you're doing modal composition.
BUT, I knew that I'm using a lot of root movements by 3rds. Which works out really nicely in inversion at the 5th.
Plus I don't care about approaching and resolving dissonances in any sort of systematic way. Which simplifies things so much.
Mostly I just wanted to flex that I wrote a short double cannon at the 5th by inversion. And it sounds stylistically like the rest of the piece. Just a denser texture.
āOne of the main strategies of authoritarians is to sow division because they know that the more divided they keep a country, the easier it will be to continue abusing it. #Democrats must not forget this.
They must stop fighting among themselves and confront the common threat, set egos aside, listen to one another, and most importantly, listen to the people.
People must also understand that only by uniting and acting together can they preserve their freedoms and rights.ā-PM
Cartoon by #PedroXMolina for #Counterpoint
āElon Musk is purportedly fixing the country, yet his own company is falling apart literally and figuratively.ā-RM
Cartoon by #RickMcKee for #Counterpoint
#musk #cybertruck #tesla #doge
āWhile millions of families are affected by Elon #Muskās whims, the President of the United States, far from steering him, instead decides to make a commercial from the White House itself to help promote Muskās vehicles, whose sales have been detrimentally affected by his extreme political views. The word āethicsā is noticeably missing.ā-PM
#trump #tesla
Cartoon by #PedroXMolina for #Counterpoint
Trump Economics š¤Ŗ
āIām not sure how much longer we can afford all this winning. The stock market has been taking a prolonged nose dive because of #Trumps policies and #tariffs. People are losing their fortunes, their hopes and their minds a little more with each passing day.ā-TC
Cartoon by #TimCampbell for #Counterpoint
Trump, our āManchurianā President
āIn the 1920s and ā30s, some U.S. lefties thought Stalin was just the beeās knees; their fellow Americans called them āCommie dupesā and Lenin called them āuseful idiots.ā
Now itās the Republicans who think this centuryās Stalin is just the catās pajamas, and right wingers are the full-bore Commie dupes, with no hint of irony or self-awareness.
What has the Master Dealmaker gotten in return for his preemptive capitulating? Just a bunch of bewildered former allies, and a bunch of bewildered enemy Russians who canāt believe their windfall.ā-KA
Cartoon by #KirkAnderson for #Counterpoint
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