Yoko Sen Some of my friends say to me, “Yoko, you’re a musician. Just create soothing music and license it to hospitals. You don’t need to do all this research!” But it’s very important to me that my work — the sound I create — is evidence-based. I want to be at the intersection of…
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dVerse MTB/Forms — Blue Forensics
VanGogh’s “Blue Wheatfield with Cypress” Blue ForensicsWhat acts cast this pall upon the bloody world?Weather sprite tricks or via faux-king twit I heard.Normal season’s passing or terminal affliction?A healthy ecosystemic or sick viral acquisition?Which infusive spilled fluid is chosen, preferable?Meltstreams for crops or gunsiphons unutterable?Bright skyball trajectoring sun or nuclear missile?Task: plant seed cellpacks or…
WMM 2026 Day 6 — Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-47)
Portrait of Fanny Hensel, 1842.Artist: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800–1882) Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (b. 11/14/1805 – d. 5/14/1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, later known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and as Fanny Hensel. Her compositions number over 450, and include a string quartet, a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for…
WMM 2026 Day 5 — Wendy Waldman
Wendy Waldman, image from Wendy’s website from wiki:Wendy Waldman (nee Wendy Steiner) (b. 11/29/50) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.Waldman grew up in the Los Angeles area and was raised in a musical environment. Her father, Fred Steiner, was a composer who wrote the theme music for Perry Mason and The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show; her mother was a…
WMM 2026 Day 3 — Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that’s why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.” ~ Ethel Merman Ethel Merman (born Ethel…
WMM 2026 Day 2 — Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf Édith Giovanna Gassion (b.12/29/15 – d. 10/10/63) known as Édith Piaf, was a French singer and lyricist best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France’s greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century. Early LifeThe name “Édith” was inspired by British nurse Edith Cavell,…
WMM 2026 Day 1 — Katrina Leskanich (from Katrina and the Waves)
Welcome, Music Lovers! Here we are, in the SEVENTH Women Music March! I hope you are looking forward to the next 31 days of music by creative female singers, songwriters, instrumentalists, and band leaders. Thanks to a question by Jim Adams, I was reminded not everyone is familiar with Women Music March. As I responded…
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