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1/31/2008 Graffiti a never-ending problem for merchantsI wish they wouldn't erase everything before my camera took care of all the existent.
Apt #4 The 3rd roommate of mine is S's cat Lola (from <Lola rennt>). She's pretty curious about people and energetic. S is a really nice, cool, and funny guy. The word "nice" should be amplified by a hundred times to stress upon that dimension. As a DJ he develops his own realtime DAWs; unable to accept any of QT/wxWidgets/.....he built his own GUI toolkits! His jokes are probably my first impression of him. Quote DSC02662 1/30/2008 Deeper and simplerThe name ECM used to be deified as a symbol of taste even though the records under the label receive minimal exposure in party hours. What was exactly "the ECM sound"? Someone said before that it's the sequel of Cool/West Coast Jazz or it's the representative of Euro-Jazz. Recently a conversation with the sound engineers revealed something essential that I've never confirmed before: the blatant usage of reverb. This kind of production techniques were never explored so extensively in the pre-ECM history of Jazz recording. True, it is most definitely an over-simplified model; however, imagine that if the reverb were expelled, too much sheer silence (empty auditory space) would be the immediate result of many works made by the label. On the other hand, sound processing aside, the same compositional aesthetics (writing styles) have been there for quite a while by forefathers like Miles Davis; composition/performance alone wouldn't have established ECM as it is. All in all, here in the empire of Manfred Eicher, reverb was far more than a filler production tactics but the punctuation of the audio writing, which sketches the unique acoustic syncopation. My intensified attention to recent Western R&B and Urban-style recording merely woke me up from the illusion that the Chinese music production business has made a giant step towards the international standard. In my ears, the gap remains the same as before, if not greater, relative to the further perfected Western rivals/ancestors. Now I fully understood why my friend J believes, at this stage, that the only regional music in Asia that may have a share of the Western market is J-Pop. A quick comparison between any of 周杰伦's albums and Rihanna <Good Girl Gone Bad> (2007) would prove this an rational argument. From my other experience, the production of any of 水樹奈々's album (a seiyuu singer from a class-B company King's Records) can dwarf the guitar rock recording from mainland China; I've's Trance production make countable similar outputs from Hongkong (黄耀明, 陈奕迅, 王菲....) look like from kindergarten finals. 1/29/2008 Objects or valuesWhen we focus on joy or sorrow, we treat them as objects and seek proper tools to manipulate (e.g., amplify or reduce) them. In particular, sorrow and its family tends to present themselves as tougher obstacles; they seize our attentions and suck our energy dry. However, using a higher level abstraction makes all the difference: take mood as the variable, then joy and sorrow are just values to be assigned to it and they are equivalent; no one is superior to the other. Both of them are both necessary and may be subjected to a Bernoulli process. All we need to do is to make sure that the stochastic process goes on. 喜びに焦点を合わせるか、または嘆くとき、私たちは、物としてそれらを扱って、それらを操る(例えば、増幅するか、または減少します)適切なツールを求めます。 特に、嘆いてください。そうすれば、家族は、より厳しい障害として出向く傾向があります; 彼らは、私たちのこころづくしを差押えて、乾いていた状態で私たちのエネルギーをしゃぶります。 しかしながら、より高い平らな抽象化を使用すると、すべての違いが利かせます: 変数、当時の喜び、および悲しみがただそれに割り当てられる値であり、それらが同等であるので、ムードを取ってください; だれ一人もう片方ほど優れていません。 それらの両方が、ともに必要であり、ベルヌーイの過程にかけられるかもしれません。 私たちがする必要があるすべては推計的な過程が先へ進むのを確実にすることです。 1/26/2008 Confession (2) - Local MinimaI think my Sin #2 is the OSD on local minima. Whenever I got stuck in what I do, I became so short-sighted and couldn't let go, i.e., the local minima, for quite a while until my physical condition started to degrade, e.g., feeling hungry or nauseous. It goes all the way back to my middle-school math assignments. I still remember the inferno burning in my mind when I got stuck; even though my brain cycle was already on hold, my eyes were still locked to the paper, shackled to the meaningless pieces in the question. Never did I ask myself: what have I done so far? why did I do all that? where was wrong with the very step I'm taking now? why am I feeling nauseous? Like the practical case, same thing applied to my emotional local minima. Music, movies, parties, and other such external stimulations/painkillers were often summoned as vacation islands. Lack of an real-time analysis or a question-and-answer session at finest granularity sets up new time bomb for the future. My problem is that I need to set up a clock to synchronize my behaviors, constantly checking whether I'm doing the right thing, at the highest sampling rate; no jitter is allowed. In many of my former local minima, all I had to do was to confirm to myself "This is not right", "This does not make sense to me", "I'm not functioning at all", "My brain cycles are totally at a waste", "I'm burning my calories for nothing"; then I need to ask "what should've been right", "what the right result/feedback should look like". The threshold should be placed upon time, i.e., the synchronization clock. A time-out leads to a complete drop of session, with necessary clean-up. 私は、私のSin#2というのが地方のminimaの上のOSDであると思います。 私がすることで立ち往生したときはいつも、私はとても近視になりました、そして、私の物理的な状態が例えば空腹であるか不快であると感じながら退行し始めるとき、初めて、長い間、minimaにすなわち、碁、地方をさせることができました。 それは私の中学校数学課題にはるばる戻ります。 立ち往生したとき、私はまだ私の心で重大な地獄を覚えています; 私の脳のサイクルは既に保留されていましたが、私の目はまだ質問における無意味な断片につながる紙にロックされていました。 自分で尋ねられたIを決してしませんでした: どんなIは今までのところ、そうしましたか?私はなぜそのすべてをしましたか?悪事がどこに私が現在取っているまさしくその方法でありましたか?私はなぜむかついていますか? 実用的なケースのように、同じものは感情的な地元のminimaに適用されました。 音楽、映画、パーティー、および他のそのような外部のstimulations/鎮痛剤は休暇島としてしばしば呼び出されました。 リアルタイムの分析の不足か最もすばらしい粒状における質疑応答セッションが未来の新期間爆弾をセットアップします。 私の問題は私が、私の振舞いを同時にさせるために時計をセットアップする必要があるということです、絶えず私が正しいことをしているかどうかチェックして、最も高い標本抽出率で; ジターは全く許容されていません。 元地元のminimaの多くでは、私がしなければならなかったすべてがそうであった、確認する、自分には「これは正しくない」、「これは私に理解できない」「私は全く機能していない」「完全に浪費に私の脳のサイクルがある」「私は無駄にカロリーを燃やしています」; そして、私は、「ことは正しくあるべきであった」「正しい結果/フィードバックが似るべきであること」を尋ねる必要があります。 敷居はすなわち、時間、同期時計に置かれるべきです。 タイムアウトは必要なクリーンアップとのセッションの完全な低下に通じます。 1/25/2008 The hidden variablesBeing in the interdisciplinary field of art and engineering shifts and even nails your attention to hidden variables in the signals. When it comes to art, people tend to either shut themselves off to the physical signals or use the partials of a signal to spoil their own agenda; in other words, holistic reflection would be our primary reaction; even worse, our peripherals are always faster than our CPUs. Those who focus on the hidden were always the loneliest in the crowd yet most fulfilled in their own frequency ranges. On the other hand, I believe there's always a specific bridge between the vaguest and the most obvious for everyone; it would be really cool to be capable of bringing this to the light in a graceful way that even a new-born kid would learn to appreciate. Regret is an inevitable consequence of life; regret is just a type of temporary mental discomfort / power fluctuation and nothing more. The condition that one ends up with at the moment of regret, however, is probably the result of his/her ultimate pursuit in a Bayesian network. I've always seen people leave marks on their blogs about "be a man", "be a confident woman", "forget about all the past and start a new life" after blatant wining, or taking the opposite direction of acting indifference and making fun of things, trying to bury / imply their discomfort (or regret). The group of people are nevertheless quite successful or at least hard-working in their real lives. The complaints, especially the recurring ones, are just one partial of his/her explicit force of life in their vector space of value system, the other one being his/her accumulated decisions, the hidden variables. When people constantly confess "I don't know what I really want", they actually know it really well because they still make decisions as usual. The only difference that one can make lies in whether using a summation or subtraction to interpret the relationship between the three forces: decisions, regrets/complaints, and the resulted main force. Bearing this in mind, I now have cultivated a deep respect towards people who complain or give excessive negative output, because more often than not, those guys/gals are the toughest. echo's echo of the heart
Getting into the grooveI never knew I'm so talented in mixing and mastering. Looks like years of oppressive-compulsive sound anatomy started to pay off. ..... While I was in Toronto on the X'mas trip, me and Simon had a reunion lunch; knowing that I was reading sth on mixing, he momentarily raised this possibility of helping him with mastering his old album <rise and shine>, which I had listened to and quite liked at least two or three tracks. We both agreed that there was sth wrong with the mixing but he really wanted to use it as part of his resume for some game music job opportunities this summer. Then I said ok let's do it. Now I've come up with and implemented the rough idea for inter-track timing scheme and effects processing. There were a few rather exciting experiments like pitch-bent, stereo-delay, morphing, and granularization that truly enhanced the raw sound and what's even better is that Simon was amazed even more. Now I've entered the key area of mastering: EQ. I sensed that we might have different preference in spectral balance because, for instance, most of his tracks were pretty heavy in the low-end (even muddy as to have masked other high-end sounds) , which I would rarely do; but to bring out the participant instruments in their context as much as possible, I still took my chances and I'm pretty sure that I've saved a dozen lives in there. Looks like we'll stay in this partnership for a long time. Since I was little, the role I most enjoyed and projected onto myself has always been a supporting one: dub actor, background harmony singer, etc. I guess it could be my destiny to be a supporter, to listen, understand, co-develop, and reinforce (at least in what I do for a living), though I'd rather be totally flexible at least in one area, e.g., best supporting actor and best actor in a leading role, lol. BTW, I think I'm a fan of Al Pacino now and it's hard to believe he's one of the few in Hollywood who were never married. So cool. 1/24/2008 Audio features in genre classificationModern R&B and Hip-hop recording has incorporated a gread deal of the indie electronic aesthetics. The early genres tend to display distinc audio features resulted from specific pioneer techniques, which by themselves are aural tourist attractions; however, as the entire genre tree flourishes across time, the early localized features soon became diversive and started to invade other branches. The hidden driver is the meme, in other words, human interest and copy&paste-based reproduction. When we say "genre evolves", we actually mean that the audio features evolves. As a consequence, audio-feature-based classification should undergo constant upgrades as well. Although there must be the axis features that stay rock steady, but the other concurrent sounds rarely do. Thus the ever hunted target may disappear into the growing bush, which calls for the hunters to hack skillfully. 1/22/2008 Preferable aliasingRevisiting the soundtrack of <るろうに剣心~追憶編>, which were first obtained online in 2001 (yes, the files remain intact), the nostalgia is so overwhelming that even the aliasing from the low bitrate (64kbps WMA) appeared so emotionally preferable; I just love the high-frequency sound out of the aliasing. MysteryWas it a telepathy or sth? Just noticed that a lot of people watched God Father I on the same day as I did and posted on IMDB. 1/20/2008 反思:胡紫薇大闹央视揭张斌丑闻 棒喝道德底线 - CNET科技资讯网
<God Father (I)>[57:00] Putting Mike on the side of the view during the farewell conversation, the setup suggests that sth other than his girlfriend was holding his mind. [58:20] Centering Mike's girlfriend with a fixed shot even when Mike was kissing her places the focus on her confusion and sorrow. 雪が降るWhat I've done today
1/18/2008 3.J-Pop, Chill-out
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Lyrics 瞳のトンネル 1/17/2008 Breaking the spellAt times, movies/TV/Anime may trigger emotional fluctuations. My way of breaking the spell is to think, whenever I can, about questions like "how many takes were behind this great scene?" "How hard would it be to do it if I were the actor or the graphic/sound designer?" "Why did the director give only one minute to the scene?" "How much work is needed to fully adapt this scene to its Anime version?" It worked well. 1/15/2008 本文强烈推荐给学汉语的朋友!!! uedadaさん请进 (中国語を勉強の友達に推薦します!!! uedadaさんはお入りください)
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