tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29444996010272915112011-11-18T22:37:45.278+08:00a window to the maturing ideas of an aspiring theorist and pedagogist through his musings...wkzhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880845565613308606noreply@blogger.comBlogger1211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2944499601027291511.post-75250735990871426942011-11-18T22:37:00.002+08:002011-11-18T22:37:45.317+08:00

I have moved!

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It is rather disconcerting to have a lack of peers or supporters, but I guess that's no reason to stop working. It all started with intonation theory - how to optimise the tuning of any chord. The intrinsic elegance of some structures drove me to develop a theory to understand the construction of these chords, but upon studying other fields and finding blatant inconsistencies, I dumped it and

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Every few years, I realise that I'm not quite me anymore; that's when I neglect my current blog and fantasize about setting up a new one under a new title. I think I've talked about this before. Hmmm.... Anyway, it's common tests now, so I'm not supposed to be so free as to have time to blog or do anything BUT ummm, well... Out of the blue, I managed to squeeze out an altissimo F# on my flute.

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I was never quite satisfied with the alto flutes I've played, but I couldn't quite tell why... until recently. (The main reason for this renewed interest is because I have to play it soon, and also added it in the instrumentation of a recent arrangement for its timbre.) I knew the rationale of the various changes in design for the alto flute, the main thing being a wider bore; what for? to

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I've taken my occasional dab into music theory recently, and this time was trying rather hard (I dont' have time to "try my best") to find articles on Lewin's General Musical Intervals and Transformations, a theory he put forth quite a while ago but only recieved attention recently. As far as I can tell, (correct me if I'm wrong,) Lewin's focus is on "transformation" as the dual of what he calls

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I've not posted for a really long time (once again, seems to have been the case for a really long time) but I just couldn't resist; okay fine, I could have, but this was by choice; to post something that came to my mind (and would likely stay in my mind for quite a while, which may be unnerving if I keep feeling the urge to post it.) About the plausible move to Wordpress... it's so so very

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I was looking at this blog's actual page because I wanted to see how the new blogskin looked like; definitely not as dull as the previous one. I must say, Blogger's template editability is becoming more idiot-proof; that also means it's a less powerful tool. For that reason, as well as the fact that "metaharmonist" no longer accurately describes my primary preoccupation (alliteration ain't

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A question about a voice leading problem has plagued me ever since it occured to me: why does a motion from the subdominant to the tonic in a tonal context sound out of place? or a fall from the leading note to the dominant at a perfect cadence? I could never answer those questions satisfactorily, and I still cannot, but perhaps it's starting to become clearer. I am aware that music theorists

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Hur hur, allusions. It has yet been another very, very long time since I've posted, mostly because I've nothing important enough for me to fork out time to post... until today. Many things have passed since, and I'll touch on one or two before going on to the main point... in the next post. I've been invited to play the alto flute for a Children's Day performance at the Esplanade concourse this

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It has been a very long time since I've last posted. Many things have happened: OMM trip to Penang, the first band sleepover in school this year, ACS' 125th Founder's Day, looming deadlines of everything, et cetera. It occurred to me that my rantings of music theory and whatnot on this blog doesn't serve as a resource, but rather, it is a reflection of the maturation and development of my

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It's been another long while since I posted, again for the same old reasons... nothing to write, no time to write... well, I've a bit more stuff now. Greg Patillo's coming to Singapore! I've had better brush up my beatbox skillz and practice infusing it into the flute consistently. About infusing stuff, check out this xkcd comic, it stumped me for a while; thankfully Google came to my rescue. (

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I've not posted for a really long time, partly because I've no time, partly because I've nothing to post; or at least nothing quite significant enough to warrant the use of my time. OMM's going for a short over-the-weekend tour to Penang in mid-February, and they for some-strange-reason invited me to play piccolo; under mentorship, of course, I'm still sub-par; I didn't even make it through the

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Today was a terrible day. But that aside, I think I shall wake up slightly earlier tomorrow so I can go to MacDonalds, buy a MacMuffin, and watch the MacTerrapins bask on the MacRocks in the MacPond. Now that's an idea for a product name. Practising Bach's Partita in A minor for solo flute, I got pretty frustrated by the fact that I had to breath everywhere in the Allemande given that that is

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I decided to amuse myself for a moment by Googling "mathematics in music" then opening the first 10 hits. It appears that the idea of "math+music" revolves around expressing notes as frequencies, using that to plot out tuning schematics and temperaments, using combinatronics to permute members of modular groups and attempting to incorporate special constants and sequences into the compositional

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On my trip to Australia, I spent a little time thinking about harmony, and with much thought, I'm in agreement with Tom Sutcliffe's idea of harmony having a syntactic structure similar to natural languages. Apparently a common but misused idea. I liked it that he mentioned that he is not forming a theory to "impose" or to use a "metaphor." Some things I didn't like about it was his over-reliance

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A while back I asked myself why the axes of a Cartesian graph was imposed to be orthogonal. The answer came after a long time of thinking: it is an arbitrary choice to please Pythagoreas. And this choice to melded together geometry and algebra, paving the way for other great things. But nobody highlighted that to me. In this sense I think it'd be good to teach introduction to vector spaces even

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I've once again added the tagboard in. I initially removed it because there were many "blogwalkers" out there. (Go google it if you don't know what that means.) But because Klarissa mentioned it *awww* I've put it back on. Ah girl arh, stalk publicly can or not? That goes to the rest of you too. Currently there's only one kind soul whose presence is known. Recently I came across this video on

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It has been a very long time since I've posted, partly due to lack of coherent thinking, partly due to lack of time, partly due to lack of marshmallows, but mostly due to laziness. Pahud came and went, and I didn't attend any of his masterclasses or performances. To miss the master! oh, what a [insignificant] tragedy. I watched a video of his masterclass on YouTube, featuring Marcus Tay, playing

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Having read several websites and blogs in the past many hours (lapsing into days already,) I feel the pinch of having to read a word-only page with bad formatting and poor presentation. My eyes hurt and so does my brain. In case you didn't get the title of one of the previous posts, "O64" is a play of "N64." Don't know what that is? Google's here to help you. (And to track down your browsing

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I concede: the Sankyo alto flute we got isn't so useless after all. SG$15,000 of sterling silver keys mounted on a sterling silver body; at this scale, it's no joke. Apart from the pricey price tag, it weighs three times my Muramatsu EX, introducing arm strain and fatigue which I've not experienced for a long time. In the past I thought the tone was too weak... until I understood flute

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My research interests in the past few months have veered off course for a while, so much so I find myself in a position whereby I am confused with what my goal is, what my definitions are, and where did my train of thought originate from. I realised that what I have been studying is, really, music theory and music cognition. "Metamusic," by itself, is simply a conjecture of "ideal music" which

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I have this sudden rekindling of my fascination with pipe organs after watching some Bach fugues on Youtube. Especially the lower registers. A few years back, when the band visited Sydney for the 17th Annual Australian International Music Festival, on the first day we toured the city a bit. We walked past this buildling, the Town Hall, did we go inside? I don't remember. But an ignorant child I

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Mr. Wolf, I hope you're reading this, because you're featured at the bottom of this post. I think this is one of the few spans of time I get to sit down to read and listen technical dissertations on music and random things like string theory (no pun involved). With a few simple searches, I realise I'm not alone, well, perhaps not "lonely" if I may put a more subjective term. There are many

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One soul commented! I feel so appreciated. Thank you... uhhm... "Anonymous." Please include at least some means of contact so I can follow up, otherwise I will just ignore comments in future. Unfortunately, it seems that our band is becoming more and more childish. Today I asked a certain person, a prospective student conducter, if he wanted to learn how to work out intonation. He expressed

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Althought I purposed to work a bit on metamusic on my trip, there was no fruition. Such things cannot be rushed, and indeed, this isn't rote learning. But nevertheless I have come up with some things recently. Metamusic emerged from an effort to explain musical phenomena, which itself is an extension of an effort to explain harmonic phenomena called metaharmony, which in turn was explored

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I'm off to Kuala Lumpur to visit my cousin for her birthday. It's a 5 hour bus ride (short for some, I know) and since my dad doesn't want me to bring my laptop I'll only be able to do paper work. But since CASEETOKIA's all on the computer... that restricts what "work" I can do. Mandarin exam's over, so that's out. I wouldn't be lugging my English and Econs over, so that's out too. That leaves

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In an effort to warm up my grey matter to write the rest of my TOK, I shall blog. The subtleness of words, a blessing to literature, a bane everywhere else. I'm not a man of words, so I can't think of any literary examples now. But take for example, in mathematics, homonyms aren't the most welcome: the same word can mean totally different things in different fields. Of course, finding new words

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Sometimes how naïve we can be is baffling. Have you ever practiced your flute's high range (or some other high-pitched instrument) in an enclosed room? Have you ever noticed those funny rumbling noises that seem to pop out of nowhere, that change everytime you segue into another note? Of course, everything must have some mechanism of operation.  I used to find it a very interesting phenomena,

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I've not posted for quite a while: have been busy lately, and Blogger's posting system seems to have gone down recently, so I'm using a pure HTML editor here. Talking to an old friend, I realised that the theory of metaharmony and metamusic are byproducts of trying to answer the question, "Why the heck does everybody like Pachebel's Canon's chord progression?" It feels like I've embarked on some

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Just in case you're blind, I've just added a new section: flute fingerings. I was at first hesitant to add it, but later I decided that I might as well "share the joy" and not be selfish and be nice and, oh, just stop being so egoistic. The list is quite short now, but I expect it to expand vastly. I hope blogger allows for such long pages, it might get lengthy... I hope to add other pages too,

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I took out Moyse's "100 Easy and Progressive Etudes" and tried playing some... boy do I feel noob. I guess I had better get down to some serious practising now. I spend a good deal of time last night thinking about vector spaces and Cartesian planes. Questions like, "what exactly is a vector?" "what defines a dimension?" "why are the x-axis and y-axis perpendicular to each other?" "why does the

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I've not posted in a while. Finally! Exams are over! Was so bored last night, went onto academicearth.org to watch lectures... I didn't absorb the physics one on EM resonances and cutoff frequencies too well, though it seemed pretty cool and made sufficient sense. The math one on linear algebra was... boring and unhelpful (which explains the empty front row seats, though the matrice rows were

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I'm writing this out of sheer unfocusedness, can't seem to keep my foot on my Physics. English papers' over now, I ain't need no mo' worreh' 'bout ole' Twain's Huck 'un unca' Hesse's Siddartha, tho' I betta' get 'un me' otha' subjec's, toh'. (I think we're all suffering from a bit of madness here. Whee~) I stumbled upon (yes, there's such a website too, FYI.) some music theories recently. I

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The worst time to be posting: 9½ hours before my math paper. That's alright, I'll give myself the excuse that I need to "unwind" before I commence a brain-overdrive. I really hope I don't lose 20% of my marks to careless mistakes and 30% to undone questions. Throughout the post Blue Functions I mentioned about Ticheli's Blue Shades. Humming to myself and recalling all the parts (yes, even

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Gone are the ACS(Independent) Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble's glory days, thanks to damn political strife, restrictive protocols and utter allocative inefficiency. Of course, we can always evaluate the situation and make the best we can, but knowing how things work, that'll never happen. Nevertheless, it is good to reminiscent and to remember things we learnt and the things we did and the

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I'm terrified by the fact that random readers from some random part of the world can randomly click on my blog and randomly read a random post about some random thing, and that some random thing may be a figment of my bygone immaturity, and so if you realise that a huge chunk of the archives is missing... well, you know why. And random linkers include regarded institutes. Of course, that's

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Toying around with flute design for a while, I thought of some things. Yeah, it's been a while since I've posted anything on it. It dawned upon me that hooking phalanxes over roller arrays wouldn't work out too well to navigate about foot notes (haha pun not intended) so... I designed a simple (12+)-touch array wherewhich at least 4 keys are duplicated. The only problem is that the excess weight

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It's rather depressing to think that, if the theory of metamusic were true, then it implies that there really is no "theory of everything of music" and that most of our efforts to this day of formulating a fundamental theory of music has been futile. Of course, it does support the widely held notion that music is a subjective art, as all arts are, but it also states that despite the subjectivity,

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When you envision a theory from scratch (or gashes, whichever applicable), you'd run into the problem of creating definitive terms, often having to borrow from other fields of study only to find that it adds to the confusion, else invent a new word from a seemingly random mass of letters. For example, "functions" and "quarks". More problems are encountered if terms are applied before the theory

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Oof I've not posted for so long, Partially due to lack of time, partially due to lack of things to write about, partially due to lake oc enthusiasm, and partially due to lack of the accompanying pack of chips. (No, it's not actually a prerequisite but it's nice company.) And so this post is a semi-social experiment: if there are anonymous suscribers to this blog, my statistics should experience a

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I'm ill today, at home now, shouldn't have ate those Mark&Spencer's chips without drinking water or something neutralizing-ishhy after it. So my throat's burning, headach, blocked nose. (Fine, it's not blocked anymore because I blew everything out. Yes, I blew everything out. Everything. It's now classified as "runny" if that's the proper nomenclature.) And so I was thinking last night of a new

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Metaharmony, a sort of bane that nobody can agree on. What is "harmony?" I suppose we can define harmony as "the interactions and relations between pitchs across pitch space." The ear, preferring more "harmonious harmony" would in this case have "preferences towards certain interactions and certain relations." Pitch space, that's hard to define, but I would say it's a combination of pitch,

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As you can see, I changed the blogskin... to a template. It's a pain to lose all that control, but when you've reached a stage where programming is beyond your limits and you don't want to have some subdomain on some strange site that redirects all your missing pages... well, hello, Blogger. I should be studying now, but I've no choice but to digress. Some people say that flute players looks "

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I was bored for a moment, so I thought of something. Anyway, I clicked on some "Next Blog" button on the dreaded Blogger navbar just now and ended up at a few interesting blogs. It seems to me that most bloggers keep blogs on a single topic, Singaporean semi-political cartoons, for example. (Yes, I did end up on such a blog.) Whereas there are few people who treat blogs as ranting houses and

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For a long while I wanted to post about something, but I just couldn't think of it. It was something... interesting, applicable, slightly ironic, but didn't come back to me for a while. Anyway, it just came back, so I shall post it. The serialist's nightmare: repitition. Simplistically speaking, one of the main driving forces behind the development of the serialist movement was the underlying

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I figured that I'd have three options: 1) Make several separate blogs and hook them up together.2) Make sure I tag every single post with overarching themes so they can be viewed by tag.3) Relegate everything to page tabs For now, option numero uno looks kinda enticing but too bulky and heavy-duty. Option two might be a good choice. Option three would be utterly unhelpful. Then again, option one

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Dear valued readers: This blog shall be experiencing a major overhaul... soon. Why so? Because I figured that if I lumped everything together: music, metamusic, instruments and flute technical stuff, life, blah blah blah, it'd be too random and irrelevant to most readers, however few and far between they may be. So I shall be setting up a more condusive site that has several pages, and well,

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There are many terrifying thoughts one can have. Some are just eerie bouts, other are simply absurd, but a small portion of those are truly scary. So the thought of posting things of the internet for the express purpose of others' reading... but there are some random people who DO read it, but without acknowledging their presence. These include people who do random web searches and end up here

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I originally intended to post yesterday, but didn't, so oh well. I was calculating the plausible income of being a freelance music teacher with my *AHEM* friend yesterday. It turns out that if one has a large enough candidature and little travelling time, the pay is pretty darn good. The same goes for conducting. Of course, to secure the job is a totally different matter altogether... and here's

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I couldn't help but digress while doing my work. And a few interesting digs... I've this newfound obsession with getting a wood flute that is not Grenadilla. In case you don't know what "Grenadilla" is, it's a type of dense African blackwood (no racism here) that is commonly used to make woodwind instruments, such as the clarinet and the oboe. Of course, there are other types of dense hardwoods

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When Marcus Tay came for band tutorials and told us to "hook over" our pinky to slur from low C# to low B, I didn't quite get what he meant, and thought it was ridiculous to do that. When my ex-teacher ChaoQi let me hear Galway play Rodrigo's Concierto Pastorale with his score, I wondered how Galway slurred that C# to B, so I was pretty sure it was possible. (I was pretty darner sure that Galway

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Yay, I completed my Chaminade Concertino cadenza! Here's a low-res image. (Low-res so nobody can copy, mwahahaha.) Looks pretty, doesn't it? By applying the principles of metamusic I managed to write something more decent than usual. Of course, I only applied very basic stuff, any more than that and it becomes rather impractical for a cadenza. After all, it's to show off the soloist... alone.

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The band year's over. No more SIBF, no more FOA. If it were a few years back, we'd say that MUSE is over too, but politics forbid. Next thing to look forward to? Hong Kong tour, perhaps. Are we having a year-end concert? perhaps. And of course, SYF next year... perhaps. It's rather assuring to know that all the IP sec4s have been psycho-ed into joining IB band already. I mean, my batch took a

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Band FoA's tomorrow. In case, you, dear reader, are some random chap who happens to be in the same country as me, know's about the ACS(Indep) Symphonic Band and is genuinely supportive, it's at 7:30pm and tickets are over the counter at $10. With cramming IOP and IOC and SIBF and whatnot into this period, FoA's utterly stressful, hard to put together and not almost as spectacular as one might

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The stark realisation that there's no time left, oh no. Name me something. I still don't get it, how is the norm of a cross product the area of the parallelogram between two vectors? Man, I should go get the textbook. Darn the derivations. Yes, I spent an hour on writing out notes on exponents and logarithms as real-valued functions. It does not help that 0.5mm 3B lead thickens after a while. I

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You wonder how, you wonder why But there really isn't such thing as the blue blue sky And all that I can see is just a yello corporate tee I'm turning my head up and down I'm turning turning turning red, blue, gold but no brown And all that I can see is just an ACSian in me! Pardon the patriotism, I could think of no other parody. But really, there's no such thing as the blue blue sky! Serious!

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School today was pointless. Did virtually nothing for English, a little bit for Econs, nothing for ToK, a little bit for Physics, recess, an hour forty Chem free period, then dismissed for band. Sheesh, should've brought my com along. At least I fixed MuNam's tone today! I figured it'd be very easy to teach tone with the following breakdown: Speed Volume Direction Focus Resonance With a little

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I find it a terrfying thought that there are certain people who read this blog and that I don't know it. Sure, spread the word, but it's kinda creepy. Is this the price we pay for getting hooked up to the internet? And there they are, publicising our privacy. I wonder if the brownies turned out alright. We'll see about that tomorrow... One has Arnott's Buttersnap Crunch impregnated in it, while

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My ear is still ringing the piccolo high C! Blame the tuning attempts this afternoon, without ear plugs. Worst of all, the tuner registered it as being very sharp so I tweaked the headjoint cork, then it became too flat but I was too deaf to tell! Going deaf, going deaf. *sings out a slighly flat C* Someone should build a piccolo tuner, specifically for tuning the piccolo. Sheesh, it's never

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When life gives you lemons, you add them to the compost pile and ask for more. No particular significance of that line, just thought it'd be nice if "When life gives you lemons..." jokes went the same line as Chuck Norris Facts. When life gives you lemons, say "thank you." SIBF is in 6 days! Will we win? Will we get 2nd place again? Will we fall to the 3rd? Will we lose? Will we bother to go

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I've not been posting for a while. No reason, really, other than being busy and nothing much to talk about. I've been thinking about things for a while, this time, about music pedagogy. I realised the sheer inefficiency of learning instruments: horribly unergonomic mechanisms, semi-incompetent teachers, poor education systems, et cetera, the list goes on. Would it not be nice, if there was an

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Prove this: Pm := { pi ∈ R : 1 ≤ i ≤ m } Xn := { xi ∈ R : 1 ≤ i ≤ n } max(deg(pi)) = 1, max(deg(xi)) = 1 D := { Xn ∈ Rn : fQ(Xn, Pm) = 0, ∀Q ⊂ Pm } F := { Xn ∈ Rn : fPm(Xn, Pm) = 0 } min|D ∩ F| = m + 1 Or in more condensed form, E := { Xn ∈ Rn : fQ(Xn, Pm) = 0, ∀Q ⊆ Pm } min|E| = m + 1 Note that ∀S: Ø ⊆ S Have fun!

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Watching OMM play Bruch Violin Concerto and Mahler Symphony No. 2 yesterday was great. But before and during the performance I had several thoughts. 1) If an important principle in Metamusic is the Principle of Perception, would not that mean that since the ear is an instrument that senses vibrations, and the body is also an instrument that sense vibrations albeit much less precisely, then

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Looks like the details of the September flute festival @ YST has gone up on Facebook already. Honestly speaking, I am not even looking forward to it. The repertoire is so... uwgh. Chaminade, Borne, blah. I was hoping a little more variety. But Jin Ta's performing the Rodrigo Concerto, that might be worth a watch, haha. Thinking about it, I seem to be doomed to a life of theoretical analyses. I

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I came across Marc-Andre Hamelin's Circus Galop on Youtube just now. Went scouring for the best video... and I think this one's the best! (Although if you want to see a real player piano play it, you'll have to find other videos. The thing is, I've not seen any video of a real player piano actually managing to play everything!) Right now, I can only think of three people who would scream in

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Life has been pretty wonderful the past few days. But I shall not divulge! Anyway, I came across this pretty blog: The Brownie Project. I searched for "most interesting chocolate brownies" and came across this! Why'd I search that? My last batch of brownies had pecans, Hershey's semisweet and some bits of Cadbury with creme brulee filling. Okay, fine, the creme brulee filling disappeared

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I've been quite happy these few days. Why so, I shall not mention. I just want to let the world know that I'm happy these few days. Hello world. I'm so happy these few days! I learnt something very important today: which is the right attachment to the mixer for mixing brownies. All this while I've been using the wrong one! No wonder the mixers always overheat and the batter is so

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While showering between my study time yesterday, I realised a possible way to explain the reason for the (almost) universal disdain for... the tritone. Now, what the heck is a tritone? (I'm putting this here because some people like Dyllis don't know what's a tritone...) It is the bisector of the unit vector of log2×T space. Nah, that's rubbish. It's, logarithmically speaking, half an octave. In

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Mdm Goh Hwee Hwee is so nice! Today while me and Yi Kai were walking to the school library, she popped out of the staff room. We talked a bit, then she found out that we were having common tests, then she suddenly stopped walking, took out two sweets and gave it to us! and said something like "life is tough, cheer up." It's a small deed, but largely warms the heart. It's usually not the big

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Looking back, I figured the Theory of Metamusic is rather young. Mostly, perhaps, because it was so abstract that I refused to touch any element other than metaharmony. Upon realising that metaharmony was abstract enough, I decided to answer simpler, more general questions. But one problem: I don't have a well-defined pool of terms to use, thus inhibiting any formal exposition of the topic.

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All this while, I couldn't think of a way to explain the need of studying metamusic... until a random thought came today. Look at the visual arts: we stress on proportion, colour combinations, blah blah blah... essentially, balance of different elements, I'm sure everyone can agree on that. If anyone can recall Mr. Farlow's lessons, "asymmetrical balance!" ("and Cha-neese ink.") We read novels:

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I've always loved Debussy's Passepied from Suite Bergamasque. The problem is that there are certain parts that are a little... queer. And there are parts where the melodic line is overwhelmed and can't be properly appreciated. Other than that, people insist that it's played sans pedale at most parts, and that tempo should be utterly strict unless indicated. That kinda makes things stuffy and

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I simply can't resist short posts! There's apparently a flute festival in September, not sure if I should participate. I think it's organised by Windworks/Musicgear? I'm not sure. Haha Sean was telling me about how I "should not joint the under-18 kiddies category." There's a fixed repertoire for the competition too, I hope the Khachaturian's on the list. Frankly, it's the easiest concerto I

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Yes I said I'm on hiatus but I CANNOT STAND IT. I shall make short posts... I suddenly have this urge to have an argument. Life seems so incomplete without arguments! I mean the non-hostile, between-friends kinda argument, the kind where you are actually arguing about something that makes sense, yet it cannot be resolved by putting in research efforts, yet does no harm to either party to not

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Hee I'm supposed to be on hiatus, and I'm supposed to be studying too. But I would just like to write: Thank you. Yes, that's it. A one liner. I'm currently wondering if I should be a "selfish" person or not. Not in a bad sense, it's just in terms of prioritising things.

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I'll be on blogging hiatus for a while. Why so? Not for you, dear reader, to know. I may blurt out random rantings on my blog because I'm bored and because I've nobody to talk to. But if there were a somebody to talk to, I would. The internet... what an evil.

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Whoops looks like nobody cares. I think many people think that the Theory of Metamusic only applies to music. Dead wrong, people. It is a study of music from the perspective of neural responses. Here's an example... Imagine Mr Connor giving a lecture, on say... Chaucer. He would have slow-motion parts which he would emphasise every single word, or a burst of bubbly joke, or an imitation of 14th

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Today's a happy day! At least, better than usual, not that usual days are unhappy. So today was a normal day. QED. Need a proof using MI? If ∃(n = k) where day k is a happy day, and day (k + 1) is a happy day, then ∀n where n ∈ Z+... Of course, we all know that that proof can be falsified empirically. I just realised that I've not been practising long tones for a long time. High notes, at least

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I felt like I was too no-lifer for the past few days, so I decided to fold some origami. Naturally, I'd fold the Kawasaki rose. I took a sheet of red art paper from the same stash that was used to fold flowers for Shina's late grandmother, trimmed it to a square, opened up the .pdf diagrams and started folding. I'm particularly contented that my palms didn't sweat while I was folding: in the past

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Yes, I've been obsessed with transcribing Khachaturian's and Mendelssohn's Violin Concertos for flute lately. Why, you ask? Because the other transcribers do it no justice! Some of them, can't be blamed for practical reasons, but others, not so. Quite obviously, the one above is the violin one, given the range and fingerings. The one below is Rampal's arrangement of a passage from the

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HAI CAN HAS STDIO? VISIBLE " Yes, I'm back in Singapore! Ummm... so... I don't know. On the way back, I noticed Malaysia felt very different from Singapore, somehow. Was it the sky? Or the buildings? Or the road? Or the greenery? Well the sky... no, I can't tell much difference. The buildings? Yes, many buildings in Malaysia are less well-maintained than Singapore. The roads? Yes, the roads in

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HEY PEOPLE I'LL BE LEAVING TOMORROW AND NOT BACK FOR A WHOLE WEEK. 0) ERROR: INVALID STRING 1) Do not miss me. 2) Do miss me. 3) Do not lose my tupperware box for brownies. 4) Do check the weather report for hail. 5) Drink lots of water! 6) Keep your meals regular. 7) Make sure you sleep sufficiently. 8) Be nice. 9) Keep yourself contactable. A) Don't kill Darlo. B) Agh. C) Oh no. D) This is in

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AGH! DOOM! BLEUAGH! Oh no! Math Port die 了, 怎么办?! I found few more errors, and found out how to resolve another few too! Especially the one involving linear functions... But most of all, I figured an interesting extension WHICH I did not use in my Math Port at all. To all those who've done the Math Port, here's a nice candy for you =3 If we consider a system of linear equations as a subset of a

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Nice sleep... it's nice that I've managed to catch some good shut eye these two days. Won't be for much longer, though. Yay brownies! Haha I'm probably gonna bake a few before I leave for band camp, but I wonder what I'm going to do with so many brownies! Baked one already, it's mmm-mmm good. I think I should just bring more later... Last night I found a slightly modified fingering for the high

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The immediate interpretation of the title is irrelevant, remember that. Oh! Goodness! Horrors! What have I done? Not one, not two, but four destroyed! I think I figured out how to created internally generated difference tones within my vocal tract by means of coupling an extra tone from my vestibular folds. Hmmm. Lets me sing lower than the piano, if musicality is not concerned. But it's

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Yes! I beat Wei En for Chem by 1 mark! That's all that's needed to keep me happy =3 I was thinking through my M___ P___ and figured that I've made a grave e___! If this gets sp__ted, I'm d__med for s___! Oh no... nevermind, can't do anything about it. Other than that, it should be fine... Ah yes, and the "school term" is over, finally! Though I'll have to go back for "remedials" (extra lessons)

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The more I think of it, the more doomed I feel for Math Port. Yes yes, it's over, yes Natalie, Math Port is over already, but still... AGHH. *slaps himself* don't take such risks next time! Bwfgtvhmm... My flute foot was irritating today. The D# key refused to close properly. Like duh, I knew how to assess that: stuck key, how else? Stuck where? either between the sleeve and post or sleeve and

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Gah I am in no mood to do anything. Why, you may ask me? Because I want a bag of chips. Okay, after typing this post, I shall go get a bag of chips, settled. I so regret being a dumb smartass for Math Port. I'm 100% sure of my proof for the extension of Part A, but I am 100% unsure of my extension of part B. Best thing? There are other who claimed that they have the proof (which I claim not to

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Wonderful, Math Port is over! Or as Justin Erh would put it, "Perfect!" Well, Math Port has really burnt my brain. Now things go like this... "Hey I found $10 in my pencil case!" "Oh, that's my $10." "Huh? It's mine." "How do you know it's yours?" "The $10 note is a member of my pencil case. My pencil case is a member of my possessions of which the contents of the pencil case form a subset.

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Finally, the weekend is here! Still going to be busy though... And I need a hair cut, rawr. Great, Autograph crashed. Somehow, bloghopping the few blogs I bloghop, I feel that I can make a distinction between two distinct types of people: the literarists, and the theoreticians, I being the latter. Literarists like to rant random musings in a literaristic (no such word, mind you) way.

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AGH! MATH PORTFOLIO IS SUCKING MY LIFE OUT OF ME! Fortunately, I gave up using Viete's Theorem to prove for an n-by-n system of linear equations with coefficients and constants related by a geometric progression... Hul-lo, partial derivatives! But really, it's really sickening. I don't feel like talking about anything now. Oh yes, the papaya was tasteless. I want some pistachio ice-cream, if f(a

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Gagh, cheering yesterday has left me bfftgkhrrrvvvmmmahhhh today... I wonder how they're going to fare for auditions later. Oh well... Anyway, at least during this period of rest I figured out how to solve the rest of Math Portfolio Part B. Heehee, using... nope! not telling! =P I was thinking, perhaps I should talk a little bit more about the current ToM... so I guess this will be the last

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Today we had CHEERING for the A Div Guys. YEAH WE WON! But I'm really tired now... gagh, work work. "Turn yourself around by π. "Turn back." **funny hand motion** **wink** "Do you get it? "Ah, yes, I failed at it." Is that understanding? I am bored. Thus I shall splutter something about metamusic. The current theory of metamusic (ToM) states that the net affekt, A, of a musical section of a

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Oh, math portfolio is sucking my life outta me! AGHCK! But it is interesting, no doubt. Perhaps I shouldn't expect too much of myself. Hmmm. And ahhh my CAS forms, my dear CAS forms... all unfilled. Gagh, must hand in CAS file by thursday... and Chem IA10, and Physics worksheets, and oh thank goodness Math worksheets are done! Crud, there's still Econs IA, and Chinese presentation, and English

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So, I've got some ideas for a timpani concerto! After playing some arrangement of Super Mario Bros. at band which extended the "coin sound" to an allusion to Petrushka's opening, I guess it would be useful to generate some material by making *ahem* "allusions" to other famous pieces. So... Haha I just joined the fluteland.com forum because I got sooo bored. Current hot topic? Flute mutes. Maybe

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Yes, I have noticed, my blog counter goes up steadily. Please please, if you visit, tag on the tagboard, I hate anonymity. Yes, I do know some of you frequent stal... I mean, visitors. The night breeze gently bloweth; A simple pleasure, A joyful moment, A pristine sensation; To share with one most dearest. Alas, there is none. Whoo hoo, physics test was okay, I guess, especially for the amount

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I went about reading random music-math articles last night. I still can't get over how people assume the absolute authority of the 12-pitch class system. Like, man, all that research into orbifolds and n-dimensional vectors all boils down to a mere human construct. There's gotta be more than that. I beg to disagree with Professor Tymoczko, chords that stack in different order with different

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I'm feeling bored, so I shall post rather general statements about WoW! It was a week of tummy upsets, early mornings, late nights, Tom & Jerry, academic jokes, sleepy bus rides, queer observations, scandalous pillows, non-reflection and good old fun. SO... Yes, that is it. I couldn't be bothered to type anymore than that. Come back, sleep, sleep, eat, tummy pain, sleep, more tummy pains,

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I'm back from Vietnam! Had a PHO of a time! But I can't be bothered to post about anything, bleagh, SO.... too bad.

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OKAY PEOPLE. I'M OFF TO VIETNAM NOW! TAA~

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