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!
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
The Year 2023, Common Era
Hi there, I mean, Hello, world. I have returned to blogging.
In this, the year: 2023. At the end.
I don’t have any thoughts about it at the moment that I’d like to share; I’m in the middle of a backup proj I want to get finished. But I felt it must be noted that 2023 just looks so good as a set of numbers. I’m sad to see it go.
That’s all for now.
2020-2021
Just a quick note here to cap things off, might return to blogging but I want to work on other projects. Like a podcast. Gave up on year end lists a while ago, you may have noticed. It was a good way to organize my thoughts, when my thoughts were mostly about new music releases. Though I still have a passion for music, my opinion on whatever just came out or streaming format wars or whatever whatever—just doesn’t seem that important. And the people agree; these posts have never really gotten a lot of comments, maybe none. That’s fine. I can just forget about it and go back to what this blog has always been about, reviewing records.
How many notes are there?
Here’s another video by someone else. Maybe I should make videos at some point. Sorry if I keep going over the same material but no one really seems to be paying attention, I’m just ironing out the concept more and more. Hopefully.
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