Sunday, May 15
About Trrill
An embarrassment of glitches
Trrill began when Alex Ross made the suggestion that I begin a "scurrilous opera blog" after he'd seen several mentions of opera (in between a lot of fluffy posts about Björk) on my old site, Opacodex.com. I thought it sounded like a marvelous idea, but I knew that La Cieca sort of had dibs on the intersection of "queer," "opera," and "internet" (even before he moved to weblogging proper). I didn't want to be a rip-off artist (but honestly mimicry is my modus operandi), so I opted for a format that would include plenty of pictures and links and mp3s. Trrill became a shooting star in no time, partly (I think) because it originally purported to be authored by three pseudonymous multiples of a dissociative crack whore who was bent on upsetting the status-quo in the painfully stale world of opera.
Some people have asked where I got the name of this site and what the tagline means. Well, I think the title is obvious, but originally, the site opened to the glorious sound of Ernestine Schumann-Heink's trill on one of her recordings of the drinking song from Lucrezia Borgia.
Trrill, like all things, is constantly in flux. I change the layout and format more often than I change my clothes sometimes. Still, I try to make it readable, useable, and enjoyable. I use Movable Type for production. There are archives, an RSS feed, and a podcast (which is really just a feed of the MP3s I post in order to expose some very decent [and sometimes overlooked] music).
You can definitely contact me. But I can definitely go weeks without responding. Zing!
Czk it out
I think I was thinking that this is the part where I show you some of what other people have said about Trrill, as if you care.
Dave Segal, from The Stranger:
One of my favorite new (to me, anyway) music-oriented blogs is Trrill, curated and smartly designed by an original aesthete—Nick Scholl… Trrill is a bonanza of esoteric epicureanism.
Pierre Ruhe, in the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
Trrill.com. With slanted opinions and reckless enthusiasms—performances, CDs, diva worship, insults hurled at other bloggers—this is among the most literate and amusing of the many, many fanatical operaphile blogs.
MARIA CALLOUS: Trrill… is an mp3 blog that pushes opera like you need it. I don't particularl[y] like opera, but this one's well done. Flippantly furious as only angry fags can be - they demand that opera get its props (Propera?) - Now that part I like. Winner of Tuning's coveted "Whythefucknot?" Award for 2004.Manolo:
It is the two parts of the opera news and reviews, the one part of the pop culture, combined with the heaping dash of the snark. It is indeed the most tasty confection.
Writer, designer, singer, & tender shut-in
Ok, seriously now. About me:
- Full-time web developer (and sometimes music critic) for Seattle's (very) alternative weekly, The Stranger.
- Freelance web developer/designer for various musicians and fashion folke.
- Singer, formerly with the Seattle Opera, now on the walk to and from work everyday.
- Sort of a mystic [sorry, Mom].
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