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    1/31/2008

    Graffiti a never-ending problem for merchants

    I wish they wouldn't erase everything before my camera took care of all the existent.

    "I have pictures of graffiti everywhere, from Sherbrooke St. to Mount Royal Ave.," Fénelon said.

    "We know the problem, we've discussed it with many people on the street, but there is no efficient solution today.  

    "We want to be able to find a solution to be more efficient to remove graffiti quickly so they don't have the incentive to come back and do more."

    Graffiti became a problem last year and the problem "accumulated," Fénelon said.

    Graffiti were neglected during major street and sidewalk renovations.

    "We can't get rid of graffiti using water hoses because of the winter.

    "We will be more efficient in the spring. When we have something efficient in place, we'll tell our members to call us so we can send someone to fix it," she said.

    Plans by the city to install more garbage cans and assign a manual cleaner to sweep up refuse should help create a climate of cleanliness on St. Laurent, Fénelon added.

    Graffiti a never-ending problem for merchants

    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.

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    1/30/2008

    Deeper and simpler

    The 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 values

    When 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 Minima

    I 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 variables

    Being 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

     

    荷尔蒙先生早安,泡饭小姐晚安

    对于潜在对象的挑选,荷尔蒙先生是这样的:

    看脸蛋,更看身材.如果三围当中一定要做个取舍的话....杀了他吧

    学历不重要,可学历比他高很重要,重要到马上弃置于名单之外.

    工作也不重要.总是加班到没时间参与约会这个前戏的工作,就不应该存在于这个社会.

    谈吐很重要,装也装出一副谈凡高想着潘玉良谈红楼梦想着金瓶梅的深度.

    泡饭小姐对感情这个问题看法如下:

    吃西餐干吗呀,不如吃振鼎鸡;

    吃振鼎鸡也费钱的,不如在家吃;

    在家吃的话......我们吃泡饭吧.

    只要人是这个人,吃什么都无所谓.

    荷尔蒙先生存在的很天然,启蒙于荷尔蒙既而发乎于情,只要对方同样的接受,那就绝不能违背意愿的止乎于理.男欢女爱,大家MUTUALLY ENJOY.

    泡饭小姐不是不能吃西餐,虽然连PIZZA都夹不牢而飞出去;只是她想,吃泡饭很舒服呀.何必正襟危坐那么痛苦的动刀叉呢.

    潜在对象确定后,荷尔蒙先生是这样的:

    不能太费劲.太费劲得到的,就象老母鸡炖汤,滋味可能不过尔尔,煤气倒费了不少.

    开始由不得对方,结束同样不告诉你.3分钟烧开了水,随便我花3小时冷却或者再烧热,对方不得有异议.

    这样问题就来了:当荷尔蒙先生恰巧遇见了泡饭小姐,结局如何?

    泡饭小姐等着他回来吃泡饭,可惜荷尔蒙先生开始厌倦,并被另一个吃西餐的优雅女士吸引,决定去烧另一壶开水.

    荷尔蒙先生永远在开始,适合说"早安".口气清新语调欢快.

    泡饭小姐适宜结束.吃点小菜弄点泡饭,不撑也不饱,正好.

    echo's echo of the heart

    Getting into the groove

    I 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 classification

    Modern 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 aliasing

    Revisiting 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.

    1/21/2008

    奈々ちゃんお誕生日おめでとう~

    これからもっと幸せになるくださいね!

    pcgames0408nana16

    Mystery

    Was 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

     

    反思:胡紫薇大闹央视揭张斌丑闻 棒喝道德底线



    作者: 华声国际传媒网
    CNETNews.com.cn
    2008-01-03 19:48:04
    关键词: 胡紫薇 张斌胡紫薇 张斌外遇 张斌婚外情 张斌老婆 张斌妻子 张斌

            胡紫薇大闹cctv5新闻发布会事件,不仅仅是一个张斌同志忠诚度的问题,而是整个中国的现实悲哀!和胡紫薇一样受伤害的女人其实很多,更准确的说是太多,在中国伪男女平等的背后,依然是不良之风、低级价值观的影子。胡紫薇拷问了张斌,也拷问了中国男人们,同样,紫薇同志也在拷问自己,拷问着中国的女人们。张斌这样的事在中国早就见怪不怪了,只是由于紫薇和张斌的这场感情风波发生在了一对名人身上,发生在了一个特定的场合下,而发挥了巨大的影响力。 正如胡紫薇所说这是一个国家、一个民族的价值观问题。

      这不是胡紫薇、张斌一个家庭的悲哀,是中国家庭的悲哀,是中国人价值观的悲哀,是中国社会价值观的悲哀。

      中国刚刚从封建社会走出百年,那些遗留的错误的男尊女卑观点还依然存在,加上当下社会文化多元化、性自由、性开放的幌子,很多中国男人,甚至七八十岁的老学者大摇大摆地怀抱第三者;很多中国女子,甚至是年轻女子不顾廉耻的,为了金钱投向中国男人的怀抱。社会风气败坏!中国社会的中庸文化,其实有很大的闷骚成分,使得很多人喜欢撒谎、喜欢胡说八道、喜欢指鹿为马,当一个社会对一种不道德的错误行为进行默许认同的时候,这个社会环境足以让人感到忧虑。

      胡紫薇给了所有这些“自娱其中”的中国男人和女人们一记响亮的耳光,但愿能打醒一群梦中人。

      男人奋斗为什么?可能很多男人会说:为了家庭,为了孩子,为了妻子。而张斌事件透露出的气息让我们依稀感到很多人在装单纯了,这部分人其实赚钱为了泡妞,为了妻子还是为了被判妻子呢?中国社会的毒瘤不是其他的,就是我们社会的价值观,而中国男人是否能系住自己的二尺小枪是一个很重要的问题。我们的文化越来越宽容,但是不等于自己有了更多的借口,不尊重女性是中国男人不自爱的最重要表现。

      反过来女人奋斗是为什么?其实这个问题是不应该这样说的,很多女人会认为“我为什么要奋斗”?当傍大款俨然成为一种时尚的时候,这些女人们为了金钱,为了安逸,舍弃尊严,宁愿成为小二、小三、小四的时候,岂又是男人自制力的问题。不尊重自己,又何谈得到男人的尊重。最后无非就是周瑜打黄盖,一个愿打一个愿挨。

      胡紫薇闹上了CCTV,借这个舞台给了当下中国这种扭曲的文化当头一棒,相信会有幡然醒悟的,也依然还有怡然自得的,冲这一点,应该感谢胡紫薇。中国社会经济的发展,文化宽容度在提高,性自由、性开放的程度恐怕已经不亚于西方了,只是国人更懂得寻找ML场所,这些给中国文化提出了严峻考验:中国文化是否会剥离千年的美德文化,而转为快感文化。随着经济的发展,道德是否沦丧到底,考验,反思!

    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. Thoroughly refactored my code for my research. As usual, it led to a greater overhaul and nevertheless was a pleasant experience; the next step clearly emerged from the effort today.
    2. Updated my personal coding naming conventions, language-dependent and task dependent.
    3. Called parents; received a call from my brother, they are ready to welcome their first baby. I wish it would be a girl because there is guaranteed physical quality.
    4. Talked to my former senior for advice on my new job; turned out to be less challenging than I thought; might wanna go on a ski trip.
    5. Finished leftover from the day before yesterday.
    6. Finished the movie <One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest>, masterpiece; one note, the "political leader" was projected onto a nurse (female); I wonder whether that suggests that women are more formidable symbol of power or women better represent the essence of power, if gender was by all means a parameter here.
    7. Realized by hint from someone that the thing I wanted to write subconsciously borrowed EVA's ideas.
    8. Reason 4's editing interface feels quite confusing; need tutorials.
    1/18/2008

    3.J-Pop, Chill-out

    Artist Song Album
    田中理恵 "瞳のトンネル" <24 wishes>
    I. Where is the Magic?
    1 Spectral, spatial, tonal balance full in all three aspects.
    2 rhythm arrangement each instrument plays its distinct part in the completion of the global rhythmic stream; the mixing makes them pretty identifiable.
    II. 11 Aspects (brief)
    1 Concept chill-out, tunnel (eye's tunnel), night, cure
    2 Melody sparsely spaced high-pitched local hills; catchy key change leader
    3 Rhythm intricate
    4 Harmony smooth transition with beautiful key changes
    5 Lyrics cliche
    6 Density full
    7 Instrumentation spectrally full
    8 Song Structure straightforward transitions with elegant key changes
    9 Performance so-so vocal, everything else perfect
    10 Equipment Q N/A
    11 Recording Q vocal is clear
    III. Which of the 11 is the mix based on the most?
    3, 7
    IV. Compression Level
    1 Overall 5/10
    2 vocal 6/10
    3 snare 8/10
    4 others 5/10
    V. 4 Tools on each instrument
      Volume EQ Pan FX
    Overall Dynamics Overall Dynamics Overall Dynamics Overall Dynamics
    1 vocal 2   low-cut   center   reverb (2) bridge (chorus, double, fatten)
    2 kick 5 4 (chorus)     center      
    3 snare 4 3 (interlude)     center   dry verse (single), chorus (double, fatten)
    4 shaker 4       left      
    5 conga 4 0(chorus) low-cut   right      
    6 tambourine 4 (bridge)              
    7 bass 3   hi-cut, lo-cut, lo-mid boost   field      
    8 keyboard 4       center right (intro)    
    9 electric guitar 4 3 (interlude)     left      
    10 acoustic guitar 4- 4 (chorus)     right      
    11 background vocal 5       +center+      
    12 reggae guitar 5 (bridge)       center   reverb (4)  
    13 melodic synth 2       field stereo panning reverb  
    14 bells 3~2 (bridge-chorus)       center -> field      
    15 ambience 6 (verse)       center      
    16 electric organ 5 (chorus)       field      
    17 synth bed 5 (bridge)       +center+      

    Comments

    1. 13.melodic synth is the unique foreground role in the interlude, so its volume was set to Level-2.
    2. Don't quite understand why the acoustic guitar on the right was not as loud as the electric guitar on the left.
    3. All rhythmic instruments and chord-progression involved instruments were emphasized when they functioned.

    Lyrics

    瞳のトンネル

    無理しないで いつでも あえるから
    素肌の距離こえて よびあおう
    夢のトンネル のぞいてごらん
    昨日の涙 星のよう

    いつのまにか ついている 瞳の傷
    内緒で たどらせて ほしい
    だれにも いえないくらい つのる想い
    だから 暗闇も平気

    こわれたなら その場所 見せてごらん
    いろんな君の中 入りたい
    不安な夜 くぐり待ってる
    遠く感じた その手のひら

    少しずつに さみしさ 減らせるから
    変わるの おそれたら だめさ
    記憶の奥いくほど 好きになれる
    もっと優しくのぞいて

    隠れた地図の中 消えない 痛み
    それは 遠い ?郅巍·浃蓼婴�

    うつむくとき よぎった 微笑の傷
    指先で 治してみたい
    光に負けないくらい 満ちる想い
    だから 暗闇も平気

    1/17/2008

    Breaking the spell

    At 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.

    1/16/2008

    梦开始的地方

    一个萝卜一个坑

    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)

     

    不是有人嫌我…短么——栗子味儿的老倭瓜

    带三个表 @ 2008年01月12日2:50

    唐蕊、苏云、张芯、婷婷、黄琬婷、杨蔓、汤子星、陈影、梁辉、肖淑平、雨天、金美熙、李雪、张瑜、可佳、李雨寿、王远、岳薇、彭芳、雪儿、吉培、杨秋、黄韵、师雅、陈洁丽、朱容蝶、唐彪、红英、廖芳、杜岩、彭柯、刘亮鹭、梦雨、晓艺、彤菲、曾子、秦齐悦、雯靖、李贤、江雪、任雪晨、赵鹏、王量、童丽、姜苏、张炜、王利滨、张濛、赵蓉、李燕君、恬恬……

    请原谅我上来就列了一堆读起来比较农转非或者洋转中的人名,你们都不太清楚这些名字意味着什么吧,请让我来告诉你,就像告诉我自己,这世界会变得更美丽。这些人都是歌手,内地的歌手,都出过唱片,有些出过不止一张。你说这些人怎么没听说过呢?又是你们60年代生人喜欢的那些吧?我们60年代生人起的名字都是“张立宪”“张小强”这样的风格,一点都不琼瑶。这些人都是眼前的歌手,二十多岁,风华正茂,似水流年……如果我还有耐心的话,这些名字我可以凑一百个,弄一个百名歌星阵容。

    你说中国流行音乐不景气,我看未必,很景气,枝繁叶茂、五谷丰登的。而且我再告诉你,这些歌手出版的唱片在市场上都挣钱,你信么?爱信不信爱立信。

    你知道不知道其实一点也不重要,你想想,你都不知道这些人,人家的唱片都挣钱了,而你知道的那些歌手,他们的唱片却不挣钱,有点像摄影技术里的“倒易律失效”吧?其实不是失效,是中国的唱片市场都很变态。

    我给这些歌手起一个名字:“发骚歌手。”就是这些人专门出版发烧唱片的。说到发烧唱片,我觉得很有意思,以我不太擅长的音响发烧常识来判断,我的概念是,没有任何一张唱片是冲着发烧效果录制的,发烧友为了测试音响效果,可能会拿一些比较特殊的唱片测试硬件器材,来判断器材的优劣,如果能成为试金石,就是发烧唱片。如果说一张唱片在进棚之前就冲着发烧去的,那是违背音乐本性的。但是,中国这类发烧唱片非常多,都是冲着发烧去录制的,听起来很滑稽对不?

    前面列举的发烧歌手录制的唱片都是在广州地区的发行公司发行,也就是说,在全球唱片业不景气的情况下,在我国广州,唱片业一片欣欣向荣的景象。2006年夏天,我去广州采访了几个做发烧唱片的人,当时想写篇采访,后来没写。采访中我了解到,广州人民之所以发烧,是因为数字化的烧录把他们烧坏了,逼着他们不得不寻找新的出口,于是选定了发烧唱片。一些唱片公司老板给了我一堆发烧唱片,我回家听了听,以我的耳朵判断,跟发烧没关系,糊弄一下出租司机还可以。而这些唱片的多数消费者恰恰是开车族,汽车音响的品质再好也好不到哪里去,你想想这些唱片能发烧么?

    但,这是一场非常成功的企划,这类打着发烧旗号的唱片,成本不高,但是价位非常高,在市场上的价格都在30-50元左右,能卖掉1万张就挣钱了。而且,这些歌手名字对盗版商毫无诱惑力,因此没有盗版,卖一张赚一张,而且他们还特怕宣传,一宣传就有可能有盗版,干脆连宣传推广费用都省下了。在一个数字化的年代,居然还有这么一片净土,这就是聪明的广东人民。

    你又会说,谁会买这些唱片呢?当然,作为有文化、有品位、很文学、很文艺、小资、白领的你,你肯定不会买这些唱片,当然您可能是个S.H.E.或者“信乐团”另一类垃圾爱好者,并且消费着主流垃圾文化。但你不知道,还有另一部分人同样在消费者所谓的发烧唱片——比如一些开车族,或者广州海印城里卖水货发烧器材的小老板以及与之相关的那些有钱不知道怎么听音乐非要鼓捣一套高级发烧音响骚包的人们,他们是这些产品的消费者,你真让他们听一首卡拉扬指挥的曲子未必能接受,但是听一首貌似很发烧但却是个无名之辈翻唱的流行歌曲,他们却很享受。对了,这些发烧唱片里面的曲目99%都是翻唱的经典老歌,从80年代的流行歌曲到样板戏,从美国乡村歌曲到中国传统民歌,只要好听的,拿来就唱,只要到著作权协会交上几百块钱,就齐活了,几乎没什么词曲创作的成本。而且歌曲很好听,那些没有听过原唱的人,一听都能喜欢。

    这样的企划是不是很牛博网他弟弟——牛博伊?

    其实我不感兴趣这些唱片里面的内容,能把我的耳朵骗过去的唱片,一般不多,我感兴趣的是弦外之音,在浏览了众多伪发烧唱片之后,我对企划文案产生了浓厚的兴趣。哥们以前做过企划,所以对各种文案说明都非常好奇,我买一瓶药都会把药品说明书看上好几遍,去药店里不买药总会趴在玻璃柜台上看那些夹在玻璃板底下的各种药品说明书。我去唱片店浏览唱片的时候也会看唱片封面上的各种蛊惑文字,比如,几年前没几个中国人知道Chet Baker是谁,盗版商想盗版这个家伙的唱片,怕没人买,可是这个人确实很牛啊,他就是文化界的余秋雨、骗子界的史玉柱啊。后来村上春树老师拯救了盗版商,村上老师总在小说里提到这个人的名字,然后盗版商在斑驳的唱片封面上写下这么一句话:“村上春树最喜欢的爵士音乐家。”然后这唱片就好卖了。我曾经带着一个小资买唱片,其实丫根本不喜欢爵士乐,顶多也就听听理查·马克斯的《左等右等》(Right Here Waiting,Left Here Waiting)。但是一行字改变了她的品位,让她认识了Chet Baker。可见,企划是一个多么重要的工作,和拯救大兵瑞恩一样。

    我对这堆烂发烧唱片感兴趣的也恰恰是企划文字。这篇博客的标题叫“栗子味儿的老倭瓜”,有人要是不明白的话,去听听侯宝林老师的相声,就是3分钱一斤的老倭瓜,叫卖的时候一定要说是栗子味儿的,因为栗子好几块钱一斤呢,而且香味扑鼻。我说的这些文案大概就有点像小贩叫卖一样,故意制造人的心理落差,让你信以为真,在一种文字制造的幻觉状态下,你真的感到自己升华了。

    这类企划文案基本上围绕着“发烧”概念作文章,我看了很多之后,发现文案充分体现了中国悠久的历史传统——意淫。这里说明一点,我在文中引号里面用的文字皆来自这些唱片的文案,没有半点虚构。

    他们是怎么意淫的呢?比如,他们会这么写:“美妙的旋律动人的演绎,在歌声中绵绵的情感如细水般流淌,温暖感性的嗓音,带你追忆逝去的动人时分,回味沧桑岁月的爱情故事……”当然,这类刚看完半本琼瑶小说的写作水平根本不值一提,连我家楼下传达室的阿姨写的都比这个好,门口的小黑板就是她的企划文案,比如“鲍国安,快件”。这种唱片文案跟没说一样,全是废话。在一个商业时代,要学会智慧且肉麻地说些废话,用来勾引一些无知青年男女来买你的产品。意淫无疑是最好的方式。

    你看这段:

    “中国最好听的声音,经典民谣,发烧真声,苏云充满磁性的女声,演绎天籁般的合唱,乡村民谣节奏元素,爵士、布鲁斯特色、拉丁、华尔兹等丰韵独特创新风格。《新龙谣》是中、西方文化的结晶,其精髓在忠于中国传统音乐文化的基础上融入西方不同地域的音乐文化特色,如爵士、布鲁斯、拉丁和华尔兹等。天籁将自己对音乐的理解和感受透过音乐这一美的形式与音乐爱好者一起分享,我们提供的不仅仅是音乐制品,更是一种音乐欣赏的方式,由音乐的意境、词曲背景更延伸到生活中的点点滴滴的感悟。本辑融合了乡村民谣、爵士、布鲁斯、拉丁、华尔兹的节奏元素,独具创新风格。加上苏云充满磁性的女声,演绎出了天籁般的声音,让人听后回味无穷。”

    这段话已经接近胡说八道了,而且还是一个汉语语法没有学好的人胡说八道,明明三行字就可以说明白,但是啰唆半天越说越糊涂。另外这段文案写的也毫无科学依据,上来就是“中国最好听的声音”,文案里最忌讳把弓拉满,谁信啊,唱歌好听与否没有科学标准,又不是国标馒头。对了,这些文案里面普遍爱使用“磁性”这个词。妈的我听了这么多年的音乐,就一直不明白啥叫磁性,老让我想到一块又黑又丑的吸铁石,还有一个滥用的词叫“天籁”,“天籁”的声音其实就是没有声音,如果把“天籁”的声音转成MP3,估计都会被消掉。这段文案最好玩的是“发烧真声”,这个偏正词组告诉我们,这张唱片是人唱的,乐器都是真的,可是这有什么啊,难道别的唱片都是狗唱的?还有“我们提供的不仅仅是音乐制品,更是一种音乐欣赏的方式”,音乐的欣赏方式是什么?文案里面没有交代,估计写文案的孩子也不知道,大概是单田芳老师的评书听多了,在这里先留个扣儿?到底“欣赏方式”是什么,我们下张唱片分解?

    “弥足珍贵的嗓音、穿梭在红尘的妙音鸟。”
    ——我不知道一个破嗓子有啥珍贵的,有真这么珍贵,去联合国申遗算了,或者这么珍贵的嗓子,该去上个保险,在这里瞎的瑟什么。

    “张芯这个熟悉而又陌生的名字,她的内心像多汁嫩绿的叶子般饱满酣畅(我来注释一下:这说的好像不是个女歌手,更像是一个仙人球)。低调如她,温柔如她、多情如她。她的声乐有质感,有色彩,有光泽,有厚度,有生命。如‘黑色的钻石’,在暗夜中流转,透过云层,发出黑色的金属光芒。这副声音蕴含着无穷大的力量,有着让人无法抵抗的魔力!”
    ——你们看明白了吗?反正我看明白了,这个女歌手就是传说中的“女巫布莱尔”,我喜欢“发出黑色的金属光芒”这类修辞,让我想起小时候看过的一道智力题,在一个前后上下左右都是镜子的封闭空间里,你能在镜子看到几个自己?答案是一个也看不见,因为没有光线,你还看个屌。所以,我现在畅想着“发出黑色的金属光芒”那一定是黑色,你见过黑光么?看来有些企划文案里面还隐藏着智力测验,散发着黑色幽默智力光芒。

    “用那空气一样清纯嗓音完美地诠释许巍不经意留下的熟悉。”
    ——以后最好不要这么打比方,现在最脏的就是空气。

    “绝世情歌对唱 献给天下有情人…本世纪最深情男声/发烧界最佳女声/强力推荐最佳情歌对唱组合/公认绝配好声音/爱依然,情始终/追寻情感的踪迹/品出一份深藏的苦艾。”将诗歌与吹牛逼结合在一起,就是这样的范文。其实我发现中国的发烧界有很多世界之最,比如其他文案里有“本世纪最真实的声音,无可挑剔最深情的男声(注:原来我们听到的大部分声音都不真实)”“发烧界最为柔美自然的极品女声”“二零零七真意最大的纯真录音(注:真意还有程度之分,头一回听说)”“年度最佳流行发烧情歌”“情歌圣手最感人经典”“用最优美动听的旋律见证成长、爱情、故乡、永恒的主题”“用尽心血奉献出来的音乐,拥有最动人的旋律,最真挚的情感。而完美的声音诠释了最能打动人心的词曲。”“最质感的风情韵味女声魂牵梦萦、最动听的沁心洗耳情歌、刻骨铭心一声一叹之间,回到爱恋时光,铅华洗尽……”“史上最甜美的HI-FI女声,娇柔欲滴的吟唱”“中国最好的女中低音重新演绎耳朵能看,眼睛能听的经典影音,一场回顾风潮难以避免,海峡两岸再起共鸣(注:海峡两岸除了开战,我看不会再出现什么风潮)”“完美的音质,顶级的录音,业界最豪华的制作阵容一同奏响DTS发烧最强者”“发烧界最顶尖舞曲(注:电子舞曲从来就没有发烧一说)”“用最温暖的心,听最感人的歌”“广州最上乘的音乐制作班底为硬件保障(注:我领教了“最上乘”是什么样子了)”

    我在凑一个“最”,这是我见过的最让我恶心的文案。

    下面再列举一批经典企划文案:

    “杨蔓柔美的歌声中融入雨天情伤的歌声,细腻和谐交融,爱情的千姿百味澎湃而出,如海啸般激荡直达情感高潮。歌声化作滴滴关怀,长驱直入心底,灌注情与爱,抚平波澜起伏的内心。”
    ——这就叫很黄很暴力!

    “幸福的爱情都是相同的,不幸的爱情却各有各的精彩。”
    ——瞧这话写的多牛博伊,想让自己的生活变得精彩吗,请你不幸吧。

    “他充满磁性、高亢醇厚的嗓音得到业内人士及广大听众的赞誉和关注。”
    ——我想问一下“广大听众”,您听说过汤子星这个人么?

    “你的耳朵再度被清纯磁性的女声迷幻。”
    ——王朔整天听这个女生的歌估计能写出《我的万岁寒》!

    “以完美颗粒的音乐和全无漏接的音效采集技术,空灵飘渺。”
    ——如果哪位女生来例假了,不妨听听这张唱片,无漏接的唱片,你连卫生巾的钱都省下了。在每个月不方便的那几天,一定要听哦,加油!

    “一张绝对令人惊喜和突破性的音乐专辑。”
    ——对傻子来说,可能是这样。

    “我们想借着这些歌,整理一种女人的情怀。释放女人心底想要吐露的心声,给沉默着的心情以重生的能量。给我们一个凤凰展翅的美好愿望,十个月的时间,可以孕育一个美好的生命,我们则用了十个月的时间筹备了这张《女人花》,我们挑选,我们酌情安排,我们希望这张专辑里所选录的歌能体现出女人们在适当的沉静里又隐藏着的灵动之气。”
    ——您太客气了。

    “现代发烧深情代表作,首席疗伤音乐男声魅力。”
    ——我看着怎么像“燎伤”,还是躲得远一点比较安全。

    “当前发烧市场上,发烧唱片可谓是鱼龙混杂,很少采用“发烧”真正的定义去制作,也极少有发烧碟能经得起音响效果的检测,因而,常让广大乐迷们有货不对版的感觉。对此,我们精心制作了本专辑,想给广大乐迷们货真价实的感觉。本专辑音质好,人声质感强,制作乾净,不同凡俗。录音水平之精良,演唱水准之高,都让人叹为观止,这不仅仅是一张广大乐迷们不容错失的发烧大碟,更是一张名副其实的人声测试碟。无论采用何种品牌的音响播放,本专辑都让你享受到完美动听的音响效果,体会音乐无限的平衡美感,让李雪那低沉又不失深情的磁性嗓音,沁入你的心底,掠过我的耳畔,带给你我一份暖暖的春意……”
    ——这个企划原来肯定在街上张贴过小广告,路数很熟啊。

    “暖风,柔月,藤椅,和你…繁星在天空的怀抱里撒野。”“难道爱一个人有错吗;缘分;寻梦园;离歌;让泪化作相思雨;不想让你哭;给我一个不伤心的理由。”
    ——哦,天哪,难道郭敬明老师也参与文案创作了?

    “装不出的纯。”
    ——黄集伟老师应该把这句话收到民间语文里面。

    “发烧界首个金属磁嗓女声,市场上唯一充斥着新柔情金属摇滚元素第一张发烧专辑。”
    ——一个女人的嗓子要是能发出金属的声音,基本上跟怪物差不多了。“唯一充斥”这个词组用的出人意料,高,实在是高!

    “从今天起,改变你所听见的声音!”
    ——求你把我弄聋了吧。

    “颠覆、超越以往的制作手法!”
    ——难道是用榨汁机录制的?

    “最值得一提的是这张专辑最后的混音技术,让每一首歌最后都清晰干净。”
    ——有哪个录音师希望录的不干净呢?

    “此曲只应天上有!”
    ——落到人间没法闻。

    “重磅落地,新碟轰动乐坛。”
    ——我看连北京月坛那一片都轰动不了,又不是陨石从天上掉下来了。

    好了,大家对这种天籁加无赖的文字估计也受够了,唱片是测试你的耳朵,文案是测试你皮肤的敏感度,意淫的力量不是让你身上掉下一地小米粒,而是掉下一地鸡毛。

    什么东西只要你潜心研究,都会很有意思,不知道有没有人对中国的吹牛逼文化感兴趣,如果有感兴趣的,就直接参考各种公关公司或者文化企业企划部门的文案就可以了,各种吹牛逼的方式应有尽有。

    其实就是个老倭瓜,非说成栗子味儿的,不过总能蒙住几个伤风感冒的人。

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