Denizens and Dancing
Mar. 10th, 2025 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyress[the denizens are the voices in my head. If you speak "multiple", it's a form of that. Don't worry about it otherwise. And with this, you've officially gotten more context then when I posted this on Bluesky a couple days ago.]
Listening to Fretless (probably the best contra band who aren't) and watching the denizens dance with each other and happy-crying a bit because it is so good to be a little freak and okay with myself
(all the denizens are superbly musically inclined --they have a better connection to instrumentation than I do. Zaphod pretty much only does percussion (including piano), the other three swap through most of the strings section with alarming alacrity. Alis focuses on fiddle, cello, and rock-bass; Hyde on guitar, violin, and viola; Gabe on fiddle, upright bass, and piano when Zaph's not doing it. Hyde and Alis take turns DJing when that's the vibe, but it's a little rarer for them to come out for that.)
All of them CAN ring bells (I could have handbell Royal if we weren't stuck inside one body) but Hyde finds it boring, Zaphod struggles with concentration (regardless of whether he's trying two or three bells) and Alis only rings things I/we are dead-solid at. Gabe rings like I do.
Gabe in general is the folkiest/has most similar hobby space to me. He's the only one who will dance Scottish with me, and the only one who really ever thinks about footwork or technique. Hyde will dance with people (esp blues) but not generally alone. Alis dances alone like I do: wild and fully.
And the three of them(and sometimes me) will all dance together and it's really fucking good.
***
As an additional note that didn't make it to Bsky, I misspoke when I said Royal: it's cinques, uncovered.
~Sor
MOOP!
Listening to Fretless (probably the best contra band who aren't) and watching the denizens dance with each other and happy-crying a bit because it is so good to be a little freak and okay with myself
(all the denizens are superbly musically inclined --they have a better connection to instrumentation than I do. Zaphod pretty much only does percussion (including piano), the other three swap through most of the strings section with alarming alacrity. Alis focuses on fiddle, cello, and rock-bass; Hyde on guitar, violin, and viola; Gabe on fiddle, upright bass, and piano when Zaph's not doing it. Hyde and Alis take turns DJing when that's the vibe, but it's a little rarer for them to come out for that.)
All of them CAN ring bells (I could have handbell Royal if we weren't stuck inside one body) but Hyde finds it boring, Zaphod struggles with concentration (regardless of whether he's trying two or three bells) and Alis only rings things I/we are dead-solid at. Gabe rings like I do.
Gabe in general is the folkiest/has most similar hobby space to me. He's the only one who will dance Scottish with me, and the only one who really ever thinks about footwork or technique. Hyde will dance with people (esp blues) but not generally alone. Alis dances alone like I do: wild and fully.
And the three of them(and sometimes me) will all dance together and it's really fucking good.
***
As an additional note that didn't make it to Bsky, I misspoke when I said Royal: it's cinques, uncovered.
~Sor
MOOP!