good title

rewatched the revue starlight movie again (4th time i guess, i swear i watch other things too) and once again thinking about what stages are/mean as well as practice, roles, rules, frameworks, and the people/things that (ful)fill them. you know, simple things really.

'Branch and Bound' sounds like an upper-midscale chain of houseware stores that would carry painted tree branches sold as hat racks or to hang your keys from

was already looking forward to the 'cosmic princess kaguya' movie but now the yt channel is posting seiyuu covers of classic vocaloid songs like saori hayami singing kz's 'tell your world' www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OI...

had a dream last night about a language model but the inputs and outputs were dalmatian-colored frogs. you could conditionally generate new frogs by gently placing the frogs to condition on into a little open box. similar procedures for fine-tuning for other downstream (sorry) frog-related tasks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmFx... today's jam. most of the song is in Eb major and does this ii-V-I-V/ii thing but then it modulates to the bIII in Gb major which immediately does this I-V/IV thing and it's great. it gets there through the bridge which does IV-bII/vi-vi-iii-V/V in Eb major.

happy 100th berio berio's folk songs (particularly loosin yelav and particularly dawn upshaw singing it) is the piece that got me hooked (and still one of my favorites of his) www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkTe...

listening to (and quite enjoying) Herhums's Humming in Chaos: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Discovered the artist through Mid-Air Thief(!) working on a few tracks on their other album To Save Us All.

if i long for my daily cup(s) of tea, am i steep yearning

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf3T... the heavy use of mode mixture with the thick synths give this unsettled, offkilter feeling. towards the middle where the vocals go from a triple to duple feel speeding up with the texture thinning in to guitars is fun and prob my fav part of the song. fun song.

one of my favorites from hermeto pascoal is zurich off of só não toca quem não quer. youtu.be/DeAdF-WM4cw?... particularly the 2nd mvt where the melody starts going over the 5/4 barline and then hermeto pascoal's vocals doubling the piano solo

current slight fixation on 'lemon melon cookie' by tak, which also makes me wonder what a lemon melon cookie would taste like www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l8V...

the bit in "polyrhythm" by perfume where the ostinato going over the bar line that keeps getting shorter and shorter is so very very good www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbiS... (also i've been listening to a lot of perfume and capsule over the past week)

wasting time trying to figure out a way to preserve registers in overleaf's vim mode so i don't have to redefine vim macros every time. best solution i've come up with so far is pasting macros into a separate overleaf file and then yanking them in to a register one-by-one

finally getting around to suisei hoshimachi and next color planet is such a banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQHV... that rest where everything drops out when the verse(?) comes back at 1:46 is just so funky and so good (esp with how dense the orchestration is) also that bassist is a monster, geez

there are so many collisions of acronyms in my head. two for example: CCA - canonical correlation analysis / char's counterattack MMD - maximum mean discrepancy / miku miku dance

frequent ii-Vs in diff keys (ii-V of vi, of IV) , chromaticism, & mode mixture in the dynazenon OP. having seen V/V not resolving right away here (mostly going to bVII) and in other tunes i've been figuring out make me rmbr that it's just all dominant prep (and voice leading) and that's why it works

today during groceries one stop gave me back the coins amount of 41 cents and then the next stop needed me to pay the coins amount of 41 cents and so i thought "neat, what are the chances?" and then i thought "wait, what really are the chances?" and then it all became too much to think about

speaking of aria, didn't know that choro club (who were responsible for a lot of the instrumental music in the anime) collaborated with joyce moreno www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYuD...

spirale is interesting not just bc it's the OP of aria the origination but bc the verse is in C maj (w/ some bVII ), the chorus in G maj, and the bridge mb emphasizing A min and it does so many things to obscure what key it's actually in www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj7V... . airy and ethereal feeling

came across the gershgorin circle theorem tonight which seems neat but then i started wondering why it's called the circle theorem when it's really about gershgorin discs and then i started thinking about compact discs and then started thinking about the compactness of discs and circles and then

i like the sound of the V/V that doesn't immediately resolve here in the verse and chorus www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3x... (I-iv-I-V-vi-V/V-IV-V in G major for the verse). feely bluesy-ish.

last night's listening - ichiko aoba on kexp youtu.be/SB7PKTQR6TU?...

still listening (and playing bass) to re:mikus. currently obsessed w carol www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA4K... slower tempo compared to the original helps it groove really hard. like the expressivity of super-overtoney gliss(ando)y synth bass throughout the album

been listening to the beth gibbons tiny desk quite a bit www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-D... really like the orchestration in this. lot of colors for not so big of an ensemble. some fav bits are when the shekere pedal comes in in the first tune and the broken chords in the acoustic guitar in the second

think i've listened to re-mikus more than anything else over the past 3 or 4 months i particularly like finder www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXaV... . the cleaner orchestration and the piano accomp really help it groove harder than the original did

back in my "obsessing about 'fetch' by melt banana" phase (as if it ever ended) the 1.5 minute build up into kaleidoscopic shreddiness in 'candy gun', the poppiness of 'zero' 💯💯💯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5zv...

whole album is great (midori takada - through the looking glass) but this bit is my fav atm (trompe-l’œil) with all its sparseness. discogs says instrumentation is cola bottle, harmonium (which drifts in an out), and clay bells www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwZH... www.discogs.com/release/3697...

pretty sure infoNCE is pronounced like beyonce which also means that some future contrastive loss function beyond infoNCE (or even beyond contrastive?) should be called beyoNCE

the revue starlight movie is still so good (and even better) the third time around, a movie good to watch when thinking about stages of all sorts: physical and non-physical www.youtube.com/watch?v=576x...

are there any other thirds named after federation starship captains?

a good name for a restaurant specializing in pozole would be "bone broth and hominy"

always a good time to listen (and relisten to (and relisten to)) the fujii kaze tiny desk www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGyQ...

tempted to center my thesis enough around statistical learning theory just so i can title it 'great expectations'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rITb... (obsessing over ∀ gundam again) moon is interesting keywise in that it sounds kinda like it might be Emaj? (deceptive cadence with A nat -> authentic) then iii-vi which turns out to emph F# (w/ A#). then the chorus sounds C# dorian? (but re-emph F# a ton with the A#)

somehow a very fitting name for a gundam series

that time of year i guess