HAKUSHOW二四〇四01

Gorillaz | New Genious (Brother)
Wyclef Jean | Year of the Dragon (feat. Ms. Lauryn Hill)
Ciccone Youth | Macbeth
Cabaret Voltaire | Do the Mussolini (Headkick)
Björk | Possibly Maybe
DJ Shadow | Mutual Slump
Cornelius | Cannabis
Mojo Nixon | Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster
tricot | いない
Bladerunner | Thaalapalassi
Cynic | The Space for This
Charlemagne Palestine | Sliding Fifths
宇多田ヒカル | 嘘みたいな I Love You

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Renaming the System

I’m coming back to what I was calling Fixed Integer Notation and renaming it the Decimal Pitch System.

Still working on practical applications, but the mathematical obstacle that I thought I had to overcome is already taken care of by the system of Cents. The cent is generally recognized as the smallest differentiation in pitch perceptible to human hearing. With this in mind, there’s no need to figure out what a microtonal note is fractionally; doing this could mean different things depending on the octave, due to lower pitches being produced by longer vibrational wavelengths. But the point was to find a way to name a microtonal pitch independent of the octave. For example “5” represents the note “D”. “5.5” is the exact quartertone between D and D#. What if you’ve got a note that is slightly flatter than that? It it 5.4? 5.3? It’s still useful as an approximate system, but I was thinking to get it accurate, you might need many decimal points and that’s not practical at all. But using cents only one more decimal point is needed. Every possible note can be written from 0.00 — 11.99 (exactly A440 to an extremely sharp G#).

Ĝis la revido!

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Who the hell am I?

Good question. And altho I may not have a good answer, a new intro post is probably a good idea. I’ve done a lot of random things that may or may not have anything to do with each other and I should explain, to you the person, or persons, or malevolent AI, so kindly showing interest, giving me your time. It’s only fair.

Seems like a lot tho. Can I do it? Probably. Will do it? Absolutely not.

“Jim Haku” is a punk name. You could take it two ways, but you can’t do anything about either. If there’s one thing I am sure of, is that it’s the name I’ve been using for a while. I know because I was there, most of the time. I remember, I think. Pretty sure. Yes…attitude. That’s what Punk is about. The rest I don’t know anymore. I mean I like a lot of music and I’ve just been getting deeper into that. Punk is a lot of fun as young person, because ruining your life is fun, maybe the most fun you can have. But at some point, you can’t get any deeper because your life can’t get any worse without dying, and if you aren’t already famous, it hardly seems worth it. So I have been getting into learning more music theory, and learning more Japanese and there’s actually somewhere to go with these things. And I could even get better at art, photography, writing, life in general. Like, really putting in the effort at these things is not “Punk”. So, maybe the whole thing is questionable.

I accept your question.

Philadelphia
January 2024

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