stmilo.bsky.social
(he/him) Professional gamedev/musician, previously Senior Music Analyst on Rocksmith+ (Ubisoft Osaka), BGM/Audio/VO for indies. Australian in Japan. (more details in pinned post!) 日本語はまあまあ. Trans rights, BLM, sovereignty was never ceded. Still masking!
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That probably means your immune system is coming back stronger...!
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And that's a *charitable* interpretation of the current systems, on their own terms... It's natural to expect that governments should fix these things but I think they can't and won't due to their nature. If an NGO could do something about it without dealing with the property market, maybe...
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We *should* extend the thinking. But it's a harder target. Healthcare is a mostly reactive thing for better or worse, whereas real solutions for housing/food supply take years/decades of planning/setup - all easily thrown out when every 4/8 years the new party in government wants to 'make a change'.
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We never really leave the school playground, but sometimes you do get a beautiful sandcastle built.
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The way the keys fade away like incandescent lightbulbs turning off on the note-off message is really something!
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Definitely, disgraceful behaviour for sure.
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You slipped up and revealed the weak point where people can strike you for massive damage? Can't have that info out there circulating
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he should go back to prop comedy. the 'sink' bit was a big hit but i'm hoping he can take it in more of a wile e coyote direction this time
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OK, thank you - feel like I'm understanding a little better. It sounds like the 'interval vector' is a lot closer to what you're hoping for, maybe? Any presentation of the same notes in any order/inversion will have the same interval vector regardless of where you choose to 'start'. (bit of a guess)
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Even so I wouldn't be surprised if you had an intuitive sense of music theory just from listening to it! And similarly, yeah, I really love those moments when somebody on here ties a complex concept together in a neat little bow. Not saying I've done that ever, but Freya has, many times.
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Like, I get it, it does feel messy when presented like this! Not trying to be rude here. But intervals are distances, whereas the clockface makes it seem like the start and end point are the same, abstracting away the fact that an octave higher is actually a different note. Imagine a spiral maybe?
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The clock-face notation will *always* have this effect, because it removes the octaves from the equation and the low-to-high position of notes is what creates our sense of 'root' or chord basis. The moment you put these notes on the stave or piano roll those two chords become quantifiably different.
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For understanding chords in-and-of-themselves as interval patterns above a given base note in the chromatic scale, well, that's basically Fortean pitch-class sets as explained in exercises 33.1-8 here, with reference to the 5-line stave for 'tonal' context. Not really for 'performance' at all either
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Which only strengthens your point about how harmony was conceptualized, frankly - the notation of intervals carries lots of packed-in information about how intervals and the chords they imply are assumed to resolve within the key relationships of common-practice music. Even within equal temperament!
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You're certainly right that the intervals would be different in meantone, but is it really true that the difference in notation is semantic only? An enharmonically-equivalent aug 6th and min 7th have different note names - ie different harmonies, relative to the key, and tend to resolve differently.
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A lot of music theory is more sociological than scientifically rigorous, but there *are* interconnections and once it all clicks together it can be really beautiful/satisfying. Learnt as an adult myself and then taught it professionally, happy to clarify/add context to things if I can!
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el Records! Appears on this great compilation: music.apple.com/au/album/too...
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People who post like this don't do it because they want their reply to be seen - they do it because they want/expect replies like this on their own posts. 'Love Languages' for posting
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They laid people off to keep doing this. Tells you something about downsizing don't it
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you hand some people a jack daniels bottle filled with cola and they still get drunk somehow.
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Wow, free flowers AND candles? At those prices I can't afford NOT to
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