From 947c3082ea454000c9efecc5fb65fd93eb343856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:55:15 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 01/28] opener refinement --- wip/pulse.md | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 5cc866d..8454173 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -38,12 +38,10 @@ Literally, there can be long, essay-like, paragraphs (not too many) with structu ```cpp // Opener Surface. -The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves -blurring the electronic signs over the outbound informational motorway. -Images imagined in the imaginary region of the protruding obelisks many kilometres away -from this here expanding entropy killing various variables as abnormal heat usually may. +The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves, +blurred electronic signs over the outbound informational motorway. +Distant stations estimated [1] perform the collimation rite. // think a submarine surfacing at night to do some radio comms as the starting point, then infuse it with a fever dream -// 'Images imagined in the imaginary region' is half wordplay, half multimedia transmission with a loss (signal-wise). the obelisks are basically antennae. Dive. The black screen of stalemate conceals the black stars, the black comets, the black meteorites @@ -57,9 +55,9 @@ now the only traces, obscured and indifferent to all but those with a special br // The pseudo documentary narration, half-blended into the background music // in a metalingual sense the music is the background noise and the narration is the signal with a low SNR. Or one could consider the roles swapped. -The term "ambient frequency" refers to the aggregate of background signals present in a given environment. In urban contexts, this includes electromagnetic interference from power infrastructure, wireless communications networks, and consumer electronic devices. The ambient field is not centrally coordinated. No single source generates it. It emerges from the cumulative output of many transmitters operating within similar parameters. The resulting noise floor is persistent and of low significance under normal circumstances. Signals that fall below this threshold remain technically present but are not distinguishable from the noise itself, and are not considered practially receivable. +The noise floor of a receiving environment is the aggregate of all background signal energy present across a given frequency band at any instant. In urban contexts, primary contributors include electromagnetic emissions from power distribution infrastructure, wireless communications networks, and consumer electronic devices. The noise floor is not centrally coordinated; no single source generates it. It emerges from the cumulative output of many independently operating transmitters, each functioning within its own parameters, whose combined effect is persistent and largely uniform. Under standard conditions, this background level is treated as a fixed baseline rather than a variable of interest. Signals whose amplitude falls at or below this baseline remain physically present in the medium but cannot be distinguished from the background by a receiving system, and are not considered recoverable. -An impulse signal, sometimes referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal with zero amplitude at all points except for a single instant, at which point its amplitude approaches infinity while its total energy remains finite. In practical applications, true impulse signals cannot be generated; they are approximated by short-duration waveforms of high amplitude. The impulse response of any linear system - that is, the system's output when presented with an impulse input - fully characterises that system's behaviour. From a single impulse and its response, the complete identity of the system can be derived. This property is considered fundamental to signal analysis. +An impulse signal, also referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal with zero value at all points in time except a single instant, at which its value is notionally unbounded, subject to the constraint that its total integrated area equals unity. In practice, true impulse signals cannot be physically produced; they are approximated by short-duration, high-amplitude pulses of sufficient bandwidth. The impulse response of any linear time-invariant system — that is, the output produced when an impulse is presented as input — fully characterises that system's behaviour under any subsequent input. In the absence of any input, a system at rest produces no output and exhibits no properties that distinguish it from any other inactive system. From a single impulse and its measured response, the complete transfer function of the system can be derived. This property is considered foundational to systems analysis. // build some tension with bass and drum and fiddle here From 6ef6aaa35280ecd0e43822ff02cdac48292aa1bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:15:44 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 02/28] I'm rather satisfied with the opener. for now... --- wip/pulse.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 8454173..ea2f1af 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ Literally, there can be long, essay-like, paragraphs (not too many) with structu ```cpp // Opener Surface. -The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves, -blurred electronic signs over the outbound informational motorway. -Distant stations estimated [1] perform the collimation rite. +The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves. +Blurred and mangled electronic signs over the outbound informational motorway. +Distant stations estimated in abnormal heat perform the collimation rite. // think a submarine surfacing at night to do some radio comms as the starting point, then infuse it with a fever dream Dive. From e403754426fceac6ca857cba93ecaf652b80b0ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:46:59 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 03/28] efforts --- wip/pulse.md | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index ea2f1af..c74da50 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Literally, there can be long, essay-like, paragraphs (not too many) with structu 1. "Surface." - the breach, the fever-dream opener 2. Instrumental - let the image settle 3. Essay/documentary - the explanatory core, almost clinical, "semi-boring scientific" (this is where the concept gets stated plainly before the rest of the song complicates it) -4. Instrumental + fragments - the logic starts dissolving +4. Instrumental - going into the poemic verses 5. Poem-ic verses - emotional density, maybe climax, maybe not 6. P-U-L-S-E 5-liners - trademark closer, acrostic constraint 7. Instrumental outro @@ -68,16 +68,23 @@ Acoustic aberrations dissipate // sahb - duwd - sao - nihk - skay - lahrs - vehk - tahr - rayz, // (ah - ) kaws - tihk - ax - bahr - ray - shaxns - dihs - sah - payt -Spectral broadcast lossy with a narrow sight -No perceived replies per design -// needs further tweaking +// --- stanza: the receiving end --- +// the rover is also a receiver. dual nature - emitter and listener. +// signals arrive occasionally. sparse, not a stream. +// the rover knows others were lost - not reported, but inferred from being a transmitter yourself. +// what arrives gets a grin. brief. acknowledging the crossing, not the content. +// what didn't arrive is genuinely unknown. not mourned. the protocol doesn't carry that information. +// tone: observational, not mournful. emotion doesn't assert itself - detectable only if you're paying attention. +// could be more than a couplet. give it room if it needs room. +// rhyme: lax, not strict. sonic texture matters more than scheme. The ocean as a desert buries all of its life Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline // (thax - ) ao - sheh(n) - naes - ax - deh - zahrt - bah - riys - ao(l) - lahv - ihts - layf // (dehk - thax - ) shehl - wit - ax - pahr - fekt - thahr - mow - klayn +// 'deck the shell': intentional vagueness between 'decorate the outer shell' and 'knock on the border surface'. -A dim light dies in the rover's eyes +Light dims and dies in the rover's eyes Or the next one could never come otherwise // Thoughts: 'the light dies' because a pulse is mostly dormant you wanker. You have to let the light die so it lights up again, simple as From 53c817f046c858e0436216b495d42929502497e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 11:59:14 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 04/28] pulse: minor changes --- wip/pulse.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index c74da50..bdfd4a9 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Distant stations estimated in abnormal heat perform the collimation rite. Dive. The black screen of stalemate conceals the black stars, the black comets, the black meteorites -their questionable glitters and gleams, once emissions of brave borderers and dark adventurers +their questionable glitters, once emissions of brave borderers and dark adventurers now the only traces, obscured and indifferent to all but those with a special breed of faith. // 'Dive' - an opposite to 'Surface'. This is on the receiving end. // Just see this as 'receiving other guys' pulses'. @@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ Acoustic aberrations dissipate // tone: observational, not mournful. emotion doesn't assert itself - detectable only if you're paying attention. // could be more than a couplet. give it room if it needs room. // rhyme: lax, not strict. sonic texture matters more than scheme. +Oscillation + The ocean as a desert buries all of its life Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline From d735b3429f6928970742d274c7256e821c5f9ef0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 18:06:58 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 05/28] pulse: something good --- wip/pulse.md | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index bdfd4a9..8bbe779 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -76,9 +76,8 @@ Acoustic aberrations dissipate // what didn't arrive is genuinely unknown. not mourned. the protocol doesn't carry that information. // tone: observational, not mournful. emotion doesn't assert itself - detectable only if you're paying attention. // could be more than a couplet. give it room if it needs room. -// rhyme: lax, not strict. sonic texture matters more than scheme. -Oscillation - +A remnant funnel struck by a packet rain +Fine-grained acknowledgements ground astray The ocean as a desert buries all of its life Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline @@ -95,5 +94,5 @@ p..... u..... l..... s..... -essential sentiments lay unconditionally permanent +essential sentiments left unconditionally permanent ``` \ No newline at end of file From 60aeff3f2ce41e37c782ed4b9def8f3e2fbc2328 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 12:50:51 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 06/28] pulse: minor updates --- wip/pulse.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 8bbe779..347f8d0 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -76,17 +76,17 @@ Acoustic aberrations dissipate // what didn't arrive is genuinely unknown. not mourned. the protocol doesn't carry that information. // tone: observational, not mournful. emotion doesn't assert itself - detectable only if you're paying attention. // could be more than a couplet. give it room if it needs room. -A remnant funnel struck by a packet rain +Flimsy funnel struck by a packet rain Fine-grained acknowledgements ground astray -The ocean as a desert buries all of its life +Ocean as a desert buries all of its life Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline // (thax - ) ao - sheh(n) - naes - ax - deh - zahrt - bah - riys - ao(l) - lahv - ihts - layf // (dehk - thax - ) shehl - wit - ax - pahr - fekt - thahr - mow - klayn // 'deck the shell': intentional vagueness between 'decorate the outer shell' and 'knock on the border surface'. -Light dims and dies in the rover's eyes -Or the next one could never come otherwise +Dim light fades from the rover's eyes +Or the next one could never fire otherwise // Thoughts: 'the light dies' because a pulse is mostly dormant you wanker. You have to let the light die so it lights up again, simple as // ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro From c74698d75bbc47694a24513302d48e5bdc11cb91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 14:53:47 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 07/28] pulse: ending verse initial version --- wip/pulse.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 347f8d0..efa5e54 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Acoustic aberrations dissipate // what didn't arrive is genuinely unknown. not mourned. the protocol doesn't carry that information. // tone: observational, not mournful. emotion doesn't assert itself - detectable only if you're paying attention. // could be more than a couplet. give it room if it needs room. -Flimsy funnel struck by a packet rain +Agnostic funnel struck by a packet rain Fine-grained acknowledgements ground astray Ocean as a desert buries all of its life @@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ Or the next one could never fire otherwise // Thoughts: 'the light dies' because a pulse is mostly dormant you wanker. You have to let the light die so it lights up again, simple as // ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro -p..... -u..... -l..... -s..... +partial coldfront over a landlocked island +unravels the illusion of independent +lamenting functions weave a zigzag pattern +stablising fins break the rogue waves essential sentiments left unconditionally permanent ``` \ No newline at end of file From 8b367fa78032759a09b9fea2dfa17ca9c6ee7e7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 13:08:59 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 08/28] pulse: not sure what changed but for my sins --- wip/pulse.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index efa5e54..bf6198f 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline // (dehk - thax - ) shehl - wit - ax - pahr - fekt - thahr - mow - klayn // 'deck the shell': intentional vagueness between 'decorate the outer shell' and 'knock on the border surface'. -Dim light fades from the rover's eyes +Dim light dead in the rover's eyes Or the next one could never fire otherwise // Thoughts: 'the light dies' because a pulse is mostly dormant you wanker. You have to let the light die so it lights up again, simple as From cd8fc1ab2a5fe4177f0fae59535d1fae5adbe907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:30:15 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 09/28] pulse: verses refinement --- wip/pulse.md | 24 +++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index bf6198f..6a82c31 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -65,34 +65,24 @@ An impulse signal, also referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal wi // more 'rhythmic yelling' than singing, you get the idea Subdued sonic scalars vectorise Acoustic aberrations dissipate -// sahb - duwd - sao - nihk - skay - lahrs - vehk - tahr - rayz, -// (ah - ) kaws - tihk - ax - bahr - ray - shaxns - dihs - sah - payt // --- stanza: the receiving end --- -// the rover is also a receiver. dual nature - emitter and listener. -// signals arrive occasionally. sparse, not a stream. -// the rover knows others were lost - not reported, but inferred from being a transmitter yourself. -// what arrives gets a grin. brief. acknowledging the crossing, not the content. -// what didn't arrive is genuinely unknown. not mourned. the protocol doesn't carry that information. -// tone: observational, not mournful. emotion doesn't assert itself - detectable only if you're paying attention. -// could be more than a couplet. give it room if it needs room. -Agnostic funnel struck by a packet rain -Fine-grained acknowledgements ground astray +Isotropic funnel struck by a packet rain +Fine-grained bags of acks ground astray Ocean as a desert buries all of its life Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline -// (thax - ) ao - sheh(n) - naes - ax - deh - zahrt - bah - riys - ao(l) - lahv - ihts - layf -// (dehk - thax - ) shehl - wit - ax - pahr - fekt - thahr - mow - klayn // 'deck the shell': intentional vagueness between 'decorate the outer shell' and 'knock on the border surface'. -Dim light dead in the rover's eyes +Dimmed light gone from the rover's eyes Or the next one could never fire otherwise -// Thoughts: 'the light dies' because a pulse is mostly dormant you wanker. You have to let the light die so it lights up again, simple as +// The image is good, the language isn't: too plain here. +// Stay optical // ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro partial coldfront over a landlocked island -unravels the illusion of independent +unravels the illusionary legend of ziptie independency lamenting functions weave a zigzag pattern -stablising fins break the rogue waves +stabilising fins break the rogue waves essential sentiments left unconditionally permanent ``` \ No newline at end of file From 637c4d8ae39f9faf8d78a197d034f98fa6eb7a08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 12:43:01 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 10/28] pulse: keeping up --- wip/pulse.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 6a82c31..9d89bab 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Or the next one could never fire otherwise // ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro partial coldfront over a landlocked island -unravels the illusionary legend of ziptie independency +unravelled is the illusionary ziptie independency lamenting functions weave a zigzag pattern stabilising fins break the rogue waves essential sentiments left unconditionally permanent From 07f985c393cd8f78f1204d77d0785945ad157190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 09:43:10 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 11/28] pulse: making progress with the song --- wip/pulse.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 9d89bab..ddcbe7a 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -74,13 +74,15 @@ Ocean as a desert buries all of its life Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline // 'deck the shell': intentional vagueness between 'decorate the outer shell' and 'knock on the border surface'. -Dimmed light gone from the rover's eyes -Or the next one could never fire otherwise +Gone is the spark in your rover's eyes +Or there is no space for another one otherwise // The image is good, the language isn't: too plain here. // Stay optical +// *New line 1*: +// Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights // ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro -partial coldfront over a landlocked island +particular pressure over a landlocked island unravelled is the illusionary ziptie independency lamenting functions weave a zigzag pattern stabilising fins break the rogue waves From 90f1e5235da20d9a985eb7315657c1b72a6305e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 10:58:28 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 12/28] pulse: progress and inheritance notes --- wip/pulse.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index ddcbe7a..0da56c6 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ Or there is no space for another one otherwise // Stay optical // *New line 1*: // Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights +// *potential new line 2*: +// Plasmatic injection in your rover's eyes // ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro particular pressure over a landlocked island @@ -87,4 +89,20 @@ unravelled is the illusionary ziptie independency lamenting functions weave a zigzag pattern stabilising fins break the rogue waves essential sentiments left unconditionally permanent -``` \ No newline at end of file +``` + +## Resume note — 2026-05-12 (reworking the L77-78 couplet) + +Old L77-78 ("Gone is the spark...") being replaced — too plain. **Line 1 locked:** *"Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights"* (Fresnel = the lighthouse lens; "curtain shut" = the old eclipse mechanism, a screen drawn across a steady lamp; "bights" = the bay / the lens's curved ridges / homophone of "bites"). The image is the **off-state of a pulsed transmitter, said without the word "off"**. + +**Couplet anchor:** pulsed transmission up close — one signalet must terminate before the next can send; the dark/off is the mandatory inter-pulse gap, *not* a sad ending. Keep a "rover" somewhere in the couplet. "Spark" is binned (drags toward elegy; "catchlight" clattered phonetically). + +**Line 2 — still open.** Candidates: +- *"Plasmatic injection in your rover's eyes"* (parked at L84): recovers the electro-optical "spark" register via plasma; reads as the *recharge* phase after the curtain shuts. Caveats — loose rhyme vs "bights"; must read sequential to L1, not "blazing now". +- *"The rover counts the dark that falls between the lights"*: full plural rhyme; the dark = the part you read (a lighthouse is ID'd by timing its eclipses). +- *"No next flash from the rover till this one's out of sight"*: states the sequencing rule plainly; slant rhyme vs the now-plural "bights". +- *"No two flames on the same coastline ignite"*: aphoristic; drops the rover anchor. + +**Register target for L2:** not poetic, not plain — *flavoured* / tilted vernacular, the inch between. Don't shoehorn football punditry; the author works that lever himself when an opening shows. + +Also: L87 changed "partial coldfront" → "particular pressure over a landlocked island" (still P for the acrostic). Acrostic outro L87-91 otherwise considered OK; **L91 is a must-keep** — reverse acrostic, word-initials E-S-L-U-P = PULSE backwards, the thematic landing. Optional second PULSE 5-liner: not yet drafted. \ No newline at end of file From a9cc99c1ef37d4d9dc944a229c4d05c9d213e7c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 18:34:57 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 13/28] pulse: song 1 locked --- wip/pulse.md | 32 ++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 0da56c6..18c180c 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -67,42 +67,22 @@ Subdued sonic scalars vectorise Acoustic aberrations dissipate // --- stanza: the receiving end --- -Isotropic funnel struck by a packet rain +Isotropic funnel strikes a packet rain Fine-grained bags of acks ground astray Ocean as a desert buries all of its life Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline // 'deck the shell': intentional vagueness between 'decorate the outer shell' and 'knock on the border surface'. -Gone is the spark in your rover's eyes -Or there is no space for another one otherwise -// The image is good, the language isn't: too plain here. -// Stay optical -// *New line 1*: -// Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights -// *potential new line 2*: -// Plasmatic injection in your rover's eyes +Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights +Plasma buildup swells your rover's thighs // ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro -particular pressure over a landlocked island +particular pressure plagues across a landlocked island +// placeholder U-L-A lines, change at will unravelled is the illusionary ziptie independency lamenting functions weave a zigzag pattern stabilising fins break the rogue waves +// Locked final reverse acrostic essential sentiments left unconditionally permanent ``` - -## Resume note — 2026-05-12 (reworking the L77-78 couplet) - -Old L77-78 ("Gone is the spark...") being replaced — too plain. **Line 1 locked:** *"Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights"* (Fresnel = the lighthouse lens; "curtain shut" = the old eclipse mechanism, a screen drawn across a steady lamp; "bights" = the bay / the lens's curved ridges / homophone of "bites"). The image is the **off-state of a pulsed transmitter, said without the word "off"**. - -**Couplet anchor:** pulsed transmission up close — one signalet must terminate before the next can send; the dark/off is the mandatory inter-pulse gap, *not* a sad ending. Keep a "rover" somewhere in the couplet. "Spark" is binned (drags toward elegy; "catchlight" clattered phonetically). - -**Line 2 — still open.** Candidates: -- *"Plasmatic injection in your rover's eyes"* (parked at L84): recovers the electro-optical "spark" register via plasma; reads as the *recharge* phase after the curtain shuts. Caveats — loose rhyme vs "bights"; must read sequential to L1, not "blazing now". -- *"The rover counts the dark that falls between the lights"*: full plural rhyme; the dark = the part you read (a lighthouse is ID'd by timing its eclipses). -- *"No next flash from the rover till this one's out of sight"*: states the sequencing rule plainly; slant rhyme vs the now-plural "bights". -- *"No two flames on the same coastline ignite"*: aphoristic; drops the rover anchor. - -**Register target for L2:** not poetic, not plain — *flavoured* / tilted vernacular, the inch between. Don't shoehorn football punditry; the author works that lever himself when an opening shows. - -Also: L87 changed "partial coldfront" → "particular pressure over a landlocked island" (still P for the acrostic). Acrostic outro L87-91 otherwise considered OK; **L91 is a must-keep** — reverse acrostic, word-initials E-S-L-U-P = PULSE backwards, the thematic landing. Optional second PULSE 5-liner: not yet drafted. \ No newline at end of file From 8ac49634d77192ad12a77c8fbcd5b7be6bafa56d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 23:26:22 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 14/28] pulse: much progress, almost fixed first passthru --- wip/pulse.md | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 18c180c..7787083 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -78,11 +78,14 @@ Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights Plasma buildup swells your rover's thighs // ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro +// P: particular pressure plagues across a landlocked island -// placeholder U-L-A lines, change at will -unravelled is the illusionary ziptie independency -lamenting functions weave a zigzag pattern -stabilising fins break the rogue waves -// Locked final reverse acrostic -essential sentiments left unconditionally permanent +// U: +ultraviolet utilitarian paints every third crag bland +// L: +ludicrous lies lament the lawful liberty +// S: +siren sounds soaked in the sauna of substantiality +// E-S-L-U-P: +essential sentiments leave unbidden perpetual ``` From 91b08e189a5d3f56e1e415d754653b9bb38a8f37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:20:27 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 15/28] pulse: reviewing structurally complete song --- wip/pulse.md | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 7787083..31f27f1 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -1,6 +1,41 @@ # pulse under latent semantic envelopes -*(WIP. Description and pieces only now)* +*Lyrics as well as the process of how it became like this* + +## Lyrics, in full + +Surface. +The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves. +Blurred and mangled electronic signs over the outbound atmospherical leeway. +Distant stations estimated in abnormal heat perform the inconsistent collimation rite. + +Dive. +The black screen of stalemate conceals the massive stars, the charred comets, and the meteorites. +Their questionable glitters, once emissions of brave borderers and dark adventurers, +now the only traces, obscured and indifferent to all but those with a special breed of faith. + +The noise floor of a receiving environment is the aggregate of all background signal energy present across a given frequency band at any instant. In urban contexts, primary contributors include electromagnetic emissions from power distribution infrastructure, wireless communications networks, and consumer electronic devices. The noise floor is not centrally coordinated; no single source generates it. It emerges from the cumulative output of many independently operating transmitters, each functioning within its own parameters, whose combined effect is persistent and largely uniform. Under standard conditions, this background level is treated as a fixed baseline rather than a variable of interest. Signals whose amplitude falls at or below this baseline remain physically present in the medium but cannot be distinguished from the background by a receiving system, and are not considered recoverable. + +An impulse signal, also referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal with zero value at all points in time except a single instant, at which its value is notionally unbounded, subject to the constraint that its total integrated area equals unity. In practice, true impulse signals cannot be physically produced; they are approximated by short-duration, high-amplitude pulses of sufficient bandwidth. The impulse response of any linear time-invariant system — that is, the output produced when an impulse is presented as input — fully characterises that system's behaviour under any subsequent input. In the absence of any input, a system at rest produces no output and exhibits no properties that distinguish it from any other inactive system. From a single impulse and its measured response, the complete transfer function of the system can be derived. + + +Subdued sonic scalars vectorise +Acoustic aberrations dissipate + +Isotropic funnel strikes a packet rain +Fine-grained bags of acks ground astray + +Ocean as a desert buries all of its life +Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline + +Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights +Plasma buildup swells your rover's thighs + +particulate pressure plagues across a landlocked island +ultraviolet utilitarian paints every third crag bland +lossy lies lament the ludicrous lawful liberty +siren sounds soaken in the sauna of substantiality +essential sentiments leave unbidden perpetually ## Planning area @@ -35,6 +70,8 @@ Literally, there can be long, essay-like, paragraphs (not too many) with structu ## Construction zone +The first locked in draft version of the song. Things get developed even after this version. + ```cpp // Opener Surface. @@ -79,13 +116,13 @@ Plasma buildup swells your rover's thighs // ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro // P: -particular pressure plagues across a landlocked island +particulate pressure plagues across a landlocked island // U: ultraviolet utilitarian paints every third crag bland // L: -ludicrous lies lament the lawful liberty +lossy lies lament the ludicrous lawful liberty // S: -siren sounds soaked in the sauna of substantiality +siren sounds soaken in the sauna of substantiality // E-S-L-U-P: -essential sentiments leave unbidden perpetual +essential sentiments leave unbidden perpetually ``` From 92786dbbf088fcdba50340f3701bd8fa537f6a55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 23:55:09 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 16/28] pulse: refinements --- wip/pulse.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 31f27f1..5a2a1d5 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights Plasma buildup swells your rover's thighs -particulate pressure plagues across a landlocked island -ultraviolet utilitarian paints every third crag bland -lossy lies lament the ludicrous lawful liberty -siren sounds soaken in the sauna of substantiality -essential sentiments leave unbidden perpetually +Particulate pressure plagues across a landlocked island +Ultraviolet utilitarian paints every third crag bland +Lossy lies lament the ludicrous lawful liberty +Siren sounds soaken in the sauna of substantiality +Eccentric sediments launch unbidden perpetuity ## Planning area From a86c6bc59a24a3979ce92896f4714504663f8cfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 05:50:26 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 17/28] pulse: atmospherical -> atmospheric --- wip/pulse.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 5a2a1d5..386b65a 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Surface. The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves. -Blurred and mangled electronic signs over the outbound atmospherical leeway. +Blurred and mangled electronic signs over the outbound atmospheric leeway. Distant stations estimated in abnormal heat perform the inconsistent collimation rite. Dive. From 5ce8d717e7b7c0a8fdce355bab93669280093041 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 15:54:14 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 18/28] pulse: removed 'plagues' due to me forgetting to sing it & started on the creator's note --- wip/pulse.md | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 386b65a..13592f9 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ ## Lyrics, in full +第一部。 + Surface. The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves. Blurred and mangled electronic signs over the outbound atmospheric leeway. @@ -18,6 +20,7 @@ The noise floor of a receiving environment is the aggregate of all background si An impulse signal, also referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal with zero value at all points in time except a single instant, at which its value is notionally unbounded, subject to the constraint that its total integrated area equals unity. In practice, true impulse signals cannot be physically produced; they are approximated by short-duration, high-amplitude pulses of sufficient bandwidth. The impulse response of any linear time-invariant system — that is, the output produced when an impulse is presented as input — fully characterises that system's behaviour under any subsequent input. In the absence of any input, a system at rest produces no output and exhibits no properties that distinguish it from any other inactive system. From a single impulse and its measured response, the complete transfer function of the system can be derived. +第二部。 Subdued sonic scalars vectorise Acoustic aberrations dissipate @@ -31,7 +34,9 @@ Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights Plasma buildup swells your rover's thighs -Particulate pressure plagues across a landlocked island +第三部。 + +Particulate pressure across a landlocked island Ultraviolet utilitarian paints every third crag bland Lossy lies lament the ludicrous lawful liberty Siren sounds soaken in the sauna of substantiality @@ -126,3 +131,12 @@ siren sounds soaken in the sauna of substantiality // E-S-L-U-P: essential sentiments leave unbidden perpetually ``` + +## Notes about this song + +Some time after witnessing the rover song went locally viral at the second transparent fes I said to myself there will be a third. Almost immediately after that, I was sure the keyword would be 'pulse'. Then it took me several months to figure out the third recursive acronym composition. +'pulse' is for a very apparent reason. It's literally the last kairo (original) song. That is, the last song in the last album. I know they had more 2hu released after that but that's a different business, isn't it. It also is a very good word in itself because there is vitality, there is machinery, there is electronics and engineering, all in one package. + +### Trivia +- In case you didn't notice, the title forms a recursive acronym. +- Brave Borderer and Dark Adventurer are RN torpedo boats. \ No newline at end of file From 8548c8eef36166edd0970124e2ef53b2e2933b59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 07:42:10 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 19/28] pulse: creator's note --- wip/pulse.md | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 13592f9..abe1550 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -137,6 +137,17 @@ essential sentiments leave unbidden perpetually Some time after witnessing the rover song went locally viral at the second transparent fes I said to myself there will be a third. Almost immediately after that, I was sure the keyword would be 'pulse'. Then it took me several months to figure out the third recursive acronym composition. 'pulse' is for a very apparent reason. It's literally the last kairo (original) song. That is, the last song in the last album. I know they had more 2hu released after that but that's a different business, isn't it. It also is a very good word in itself because there is vitality, there is machinery, there is electronics and engineering, all in one package. + +In a way, I think it's probably true that flair and discipline has a dance of balance in many things, and I take music and association football as two seemingly irrelevant examples. Simply because I'm somewhat invested in those two. +A classical piece in the broadest sense takes many, many players with their respective instruments. There would be a leader violinist or a pianist or similar role but let's face it, for like 99% of the time, orchestra players don't play flashy solo phrases. I feel it's like how you have no-nonsense centre backs and anchor defensive midfielders like Jordan Rossiter, that in a sense stand out even less than a goalkeeper. +Your rock and pop bands of 3, 4, 5 people is something else. Basically everyone needs to be a star. Everyone will have flashy, tricky solo riffs. +And don't get me wrong, I by no means is stating that playing simple notes correctly is inferior to slashing an outrageous riff, or that only getting the ball and passing to the nearest full back is inferior to dribbling over 5 defenders and driving home with a full bollocks swing. That is just not true. Doing the less fancy 'basic' but proper and well is just a slightly, or very different dimension of professionalism. + + ### Trivia - In case you didn't notice, the title forms a recursive acronym. -- Brave Borderer and Dark Adventurer are RN torpedo boats. \ No newline at end of file +- In case you didn't notice, the final verse is an acrostic of 'pulse'. +- In case you didn't notice, the last line is a reverse acrostic of 'pulse'. +- Brave Borderer and Dark Adventurer are RN torpedo boats. +- 'Ocean as a desert buries all of its life' is a blatant steal from America's 'A horse with no name'. The original line is 'ocean is a desert with its life underground'. +- \ No newline at end of file From b2b8abf39717fea76d7fbccbfae72960f942fcdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 19:04:34 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 20/28] pulse: creator's notes minor --- wip/pulse.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index abe1550..1ff1433 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ Some time after witnessing the rover song went locally viral at the second trans 'pulse' is for a very apparent reason. It's literally the last kairo (original) song. That is, the last song in the last album. I know they had more 2hu released after that but that's a different business, isn't it. It also is a very good word in itself because there is vitality, there is machinery, there is electronics and engineering, all in one package. + In a way, I think it's probably true that flair and discipline has a dance of balance in many things, and I take music and association football as two seemingly irrelevant examples. Simply because I'm somewhat invested in those two. A classical piece in the broadest sense takes many, many players with their respective instruments. There would be a leader violinist or a pianist or similar role but let's face it, for like 99% of the time, orchestra players don't play flashy solo phrases. I feel it's like how you have no-nonsense centre backs and anchor defensive midfielders like Jordan Rossiter, that in a sense stand out even less than a goalkeeper. Your rock and pop bands of 3, 4, 5 people is something else. Basically everyone needs to be a star. Everyone will have flashy, tricky solo riffs. From 05d5af3cb7673dd7c066722fb264fa0e01f7c14a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 15:44:16 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 21/28] pulse: creator's note mostly done --- wip/pulse.md | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 1ff1433..0bc4479 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Ocean as a desert buries all of its life Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights -Plasma buildup swells your rover's thighs +Plasma buildup swells your rovers' thighs 第三部。 @@ -134,21 +134,91 @@ essential sentiments leave unbidden perpetually ## Notes about this song -Some time after witnessing the rover song went locally viral at the second transparent fes I said to myself there will be a third. Almost immediately after that, I was sure the keyword would be 'pulse'. Then it took me several months to figure out the third recursive acronym composition. -'pulse' is for a very apparent reason. It's literally the last kairo (original) song. That is, the last song in the last album. I know they had more 2hu released after that but that's a different business, isn't it. It also is a very good word in itself because there is vitality, there is machinery, there is electronics and engineering, all in one package. +I will be just writing about anything I think of related to this song. At least for the first go. It's not really creative when you set yourself an agenda and duly follow it. + +### Why pulse + +Some time after witnessing the rover song go locally viral at the second transparent fes I said to myself there will be a third. Almost immediately after that, I was sure the keyword would be 'pulse'. Then it took me several months to figure out the third recursive acronym composition. +The choice in 'pulse' is for a very apparent reason. It's literally the last kairo (original) song. That is, the last song in the last album. I know they had more 2hu released after that but that's a different business, isn't it. +It also is a very good word in itself because there is vitality, there is machinery, there is electronics and engineering, all in one package. It's kairo plus Northwich committee of magic researches. + +### Educational rock + +It's now a traditional practice to sample random people speaking random stuff in a post-rock / prog rock / chill hip-hop / shoegaze / you name it song. There is a hip-hop remix of Niinistö's new year's day address but I can't really dig it out of the Internet rabbit hole. And to start with literally the first post-rock I ever listened to was the 2hu band 'the distant journey to you' by our Veto guy and there was an excerpt of Kon Satoshi's 'Paprika' in one of the songs. +When I really started to shape this song I was listening to way more Snakes Don't Belong In Alaska than I should. Two of their later songs sampled someone presumably giving a lecture or speech or that sort of presentation. I very much liked it as I'm a big podcast person. It's like listening to your podcasts with psychedelica music accompanying. +I also have been a firm believer that signal processing is something any music-aware people should have at least a slightest idea about. So here we are. It's only natural to make my own mini lecture about some signal basics and incorporate that audio signal into the song. +The other parts of the song are intentionally cryptic, evasive, indirect, fuzzy, ambiguous but the educational bit should be factual enough it can be considered a decent crash course on what it talks about. Aside from being the catalyst for the song's underlying emotional progressions. We'll talk about that later or never. +### Football manager ruined my life and LLM agents severed it into pieces + +Back in your 2022s and 2023s, I wasn't aware of Anthropic and ChatGPT was basically chat powered by GPT. But this time I approach my songwriting as a relatively heavy Claude user. I never fully hand the lyric composition to LLM agents or raw LLMs as that's the fun bit, not the chore bit. +What I personally do is usually tell the Claude 'hey I'm thinking about something like this' in either the plainest of languages or just a draft verse. 9 out of 10 times its response pisses me off. Which is consistent with the experience when you do these exchanges with any verified decent human counterpart. No disrespect to my verified 'I can talk poetic bullshit with them' friends but that just happens. And it happens for good. +You see the key here is I have someone to talk to, 24/7, super fluent in languages I speak or not, only restricted by usage limits. For writing lyrics I never hit the limits, by the way. An adversary is an essential upgrade to a rubber duck as it gives you feedback. LLM at the core means this adversary is complex enough to be considered unpredictable and thus inspiring. +Your Claudes and ChatGPTs and maybe Geminis out of the box loves proposing verses after verses which is less helpful. Fortunately, I've tweaked my instances to hold fire and communicate in a more atmospheric way. In a convo I get myself immersed in the atmosphere I initiated and the agent amplified. I guess that's where all the fever dreams root from. + + +### On professionalism and why I consider myself pro enough even if I have no proper proof In a way, I think it's probably true that flair and discipline has a dance of balance in many things, and I take music and association football as two seemingly irrelevant examples. Simply because I'm somewhat invested in those two. A classical piece in the broadest sense takes many, many players with their respective instruments. There would be a leader violinist or a pianist or similar role but let's face it, for like 99% of the time, orchestra players don't play flashy solo phrases. I feel it's like how you have no-nonsense centre backs and anchor defensive midfielders like Jordan Rossiter, that in a sense stand out even less than a goalkeeper. Your rock and pop bands of 3, 4, 5 people is something else. Basically everyone needs to be a star. Everyone will have flashy, tricky solo riffs. -And don't get me wrong, I by no means is stating that playing simple notes correctly is inferior to slashing an outrageous riff, or that only getting the ball and passing to the nearest full back is inferior to dribbling over 5 defenders and driving home with a full bollocks swing. That is just not true. Doing the less fancy 'basic' but proper and well is just a slightly, or very different dimension of professionalism. +And don't get me wrong, I by no means am stating that playing simple notes correctly is inferior to smashing an outrageous riff, or that only getting the ball and passing to the nearest full back is inferior to dribbling over 5 defenders and driving home with a full bollocks swing. That is just not true. Doing the less fancy 'basic' but proper and well is just a slightly, or very different dimension of professionalism. I personally very like no-nonsense centre backs because I played as one because I couldn't do fancy stuff on the pitch. +I don't think I can do fancy stuff in my FL studio either. The justification around all this equity of professionalism had a big portion of making myself feel less useless when I tried and mostly failed to learn to play the guitar then bass. Today I'm totally ok and free of complexes like that. + +The financial stability is also very real. My plan about music has always been 'find a job so I can play with music' and I've finally done it. I mean I never got anywhere around trying to be self-sustainable with music alone or as the main means, but having that peace of mind of a roof above is certainly helpful even for a hobby. Having music to unleash my creativity buildup when there is any also helps me cope with the 'boring' day job so it's a win-win. Probably. + +### Music, bloody hell + +I don't think one should be expecting me to elaborate on how delicate my music craftsmanship is after the revelation and identification as a no-nonsense FL Studio user at best Conference National level. But you see, there are people who watch Conf Nat as devoted as they themselves watch the Prem, or even more. Absolute skill levels are not that much of a matter. + +I opted to go for a classic dual-bass, dual-telecaster setup with various other helper instruments because that's simply my favourite. The second bass actually turned out to be utilised less than I originally planned based on how things went in 'rover over virtually eternal roundabouts'. + +Also, the song started as my experiment of a more techno-heavy style. It didn't end well, but the techno leftovers might be (I'm doubtful) spotted around the place. +Then I switched to the target of making this one the third piece in the recursive acronym trilogy, so essentially I'm doing humble plagiarism on the previous two songs. 'sauna as universal neural analeptic' and 'rover over virtually eternal roundabouts' if you're wondering (no one asked). +Like stated elsewhere the psychedelica influence from SDBIA is faintly visible (audible). I also applied some of the minimalism principles to the guitar lines, they should be perceivably sparser than some contemporaries. + +Drums and percussions have always been my passion but I think I just got too lazy to fine tune every loop pattern. A drum track of eternally-morphing patterns is not realistic in some sense after all. + +### Vocal synthesis masterclass + +Could be stating the obvious, but I'm much better at English than Japanese. When it comes to songwriting I might even argue English enjoys priority over my first language, which is Chinese. So it's a bit of a hassle when there is no good enough Yukari TTS on the shelf. On a side note, Kotonoha sisters got their official English / Chinese TTS but that's a shambles. To put it mildly. +When I discovered GPT-SoVITS which in English is something that allows you to generate many languages in person A's voice and person B's accent (partly), it's only natural that I immediately went for it. It fit like a glove on the foot. +You see, the problem with many voice changers, even in the l'époque de l'intelligence artificielle, is that they end up with English (simplified) pronunciations. Some give you RP but that's not what I want either. It's the models that are my problem and I needed something more weird. +The goal was to mix rallienglanti, Bristolian, and some Aussie flavour to produce the random and weird English I usually speak. The end product is nowhere near that, but equally far from 'standard' English. Which is very acceptable. +Also, this synthesised voice should not be considered truly Yukari in the copyright or trademarks sense. I credited Yukari because I included pieces of Japanese voice made with the authentic A.I.VOICE 2 editor with a valid license. Just saying. + +For the sung parts, Synthesiser V Studio Pro 2 is the weapon of massive destruction of choice as always. The actual labour is rather boring so I'll leave it as 'I mix-matched mostly Spanish and English phonemes'. + +### So what is this song about? + +It's all in the title mate. + +Keep reading if you think that alone is not meaningful enough. + +I'm firmly against providing an answer as standard yet very happy to write my personal interpretations. +On condition that no one promotes the following text as the only valid official explanation to the song, I can give this: + +There is atmospheric pressure around every one of us. It is like the environmental noise that suffocates signals without malice. The noise itself also contains various meaningful, info-bearing signals but all piled up together as a big blob of something. This is the 'latent semantic envelopes' bit. +The pulse is an object as well as an action. It's both the signal that gets sent (and drowned) and the action of sending such signals. Not to mention it also means one's heart beats which is a necessary condition for that guy to be alive. +Pulsing, under 'latent semantic envelopes' or more straightforwardly, under overwhelming noise, is absurd. But if you subscribe to the absurd, it's not really a problem. +That's it. + +I probably should have required signing an EULA to have access to this. + +### A personal crusade against claims of superhuman frequential cognitive abilities + +The decision to use the 192 kbps MP3 as a source of truth, converting from that to nominally WAV and everything else was based on several grounds. But the dominant one is that I never liked high fidelity above a certain threshold of good enough. And that threshold for me is roughly 192 kbps of MP3. Another reason is that I would like even one more person to think outside of the box, into the channels, towards the corner flag, that this is a form of proper, intentional digital lofi rather than lossy media. +It's totally fair to consider this shithousery because shithousery is what I see it as. I'm not doing this digital lo-fi for the sake of art, I do this as reactive banter invoked by phonophile nonsense. If 192 kbps MP3 is good enough to me, then it's good enough. +I do think at 128 kbps I start to sense that something is missing and more information density would be appreciated. So the personal threshold is there or thereabouts. ### Trivia - In case you didn't notice, the title forms a recursive acronym. - In case you didn't notice, the final verse is an acrostic of 'pulse'. - In case you didn't notice, the last line is a reverse acrostic of 'pulse'. -- Brave Borderer and Dark Adventurer are RN torpedo boats. +- Brave Borderer and Dark Adventurer are RN fast patrol crafts, or in English, torpedo boats. And I believe both are playable in War Thunder which is why I know them. - 'Ocean as a desert buries all of its life' is a blatant steal from America's 'A horse with no name'. The original line is 'ocean is a desert with its life underground'. -- \ No newline at end of file +- I have to sneak in the exact words 'rover' and 'sauna', sorry. And in case you didn't notice, they are two related songs. +- Many of the words could be understood with a leaning towards their optical engineering aspects. That said, I was more on the electronics end of my opto-electronic science and engineering syllabus. +- Meta-trivia: this note is plagued by football cliches, and the song has contracted some. \ No newline at end of file From 2d0aaa9dd8d79432e4e9d01de075fca2dd0a9e5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 17:33:32 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 22/28] pulse: minor change on creator's note --- wip/pulse.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 0bc4479..5df11d7 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ I will be just writing about anything I think of related to this song. At least ### Why pulse -Some time after witnessing the rover song go locally viral at the second transparent fes I said to myself there will be a third. Almost immediately after that, I was sure the keyword would be 'pulse'. Then it took me several months to figure out the third recursive acronym composition. +Some time after witnessing the rover song go locally viral at the second transparent fes I said to myself there will be a third. Almost immediately after that, I was sure the keyword would be 'pulse'. Then it took me several months to figure out the third recursive acronym composition. Maybe more than several months. The choice in 'pulse' is for a very apparent reason. It's literally the last kairo (original) song. That is, the last song in the last album. I know they had more 2hu released after that but that's a different business, isn't it. It also is a very good word in itself because there is vitality, there is machinery, there is electronics and engineering, all in one package. It's kairo plus Northwich committee of magic researches. From 1a5c3aba1ed59fbc66b1674490e00a2667397224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2026 17:24:06 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 23/28] pulse: added chinese translation --- wip/pulse_cn.md | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 wip/pulse_cn.md diff --git a/wip/pulse_cn.md b/wip/pulse_cn.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1618313 --- /dev/null +++ b/wip/pulse_cn.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +# 潜在语义包络下的脉冲 + +第一部。 + +上浮。 +静磁噪声、水的平面、还有光波之间是沉默的平衡。 +模糊而残损的电子牌匾，掠过向外敞开的那一线大气余隙。 +热异常里估算出来的远处的站点定期执行和上一次不一样的校准仪式。 + +下潜。 +僵局的黑屏掩住了庞大的恒星、焦黑的彗星，还有陨石。 +它们存疑的微光是勇敢拓边者与黑暗冒险者放出的辐射， +如今只是晦暗不明，无人在意的痕迹，只有一些信仰特殊者关心。 + +接收环境的本底噪声，指某一频段内、任一时刻全部背景信号能量的总和。在城市环境中，其主要来源包括配电设施、无线通信网络以及各类消费电子产品的电磁辐射。本底噪声没有统一来源，也不受集中调度，而是众多独立运行的发射源累积叠加的结果：各发射源均在自身参数范围内工作，叠加之后形成一种持续而大致均匀的背景。通常将这一背景电平视为固定基线，而不作为需要关注的变量。幅度等于或低于该基线的信号，在物理上仍存在于介质之中，但接收系统无法将其同背景区分开来，因而被认为无法恢复。 + +冲激信号，又称单位冲激，是指这样一种信号：它在所有时刻的取值均为零，仅在某一瞬间例外；在该瞬间，其取值理论上为无穷大，但总积分面积须恒等于一。实际中，理想的冲激信号无法物理实现，通常以持续时间极短、幅度极高、带宽足够的脉冲来近似。对任一线性时不变系统而言，其冲激响应（即以冲激作为输入时所得到的输出）足以完整描述该系统在此后任意输入下的行为。若没有输入，处于静止的系统不产生输出，也不表现出任何可与其他静止系统相区别的特性。仅凭一个冲激及其测得的响应，即可推导出系统完整的传递函数。 + +第二部。 + +压低的声音标量，化作矢量 +声学的像差，渐渐耗散 + +各向同性的烟囱砸中一场数据包之雨 +一袋袋细碎的应答被研磨得迷路 + +海洋作为荒漠埋藏自己所有的生命 +完美的温跃层敲打外壳 + +菲涅尔拐角前的帷幕关闭 +等离子堆积，肿胀了流浪者的大腿 + +第三部。 + +颗粒状的压力遍历一座内陆的孤岛 +紫外功利主义者把每三个石头里的第三个涂成无色 +有损的谎言哀悼荒唐的合法自由 +警笛声音浸泡在实在的桑拿里 +诡异的沉积物发射了没人要求的永恒 From 246af3f6508bdf28ad6692c41180751cc086709c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 16:44:24 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 24/28] pulse: cn and jp translations --- wip/pulse_cn.md | 4 ++-- wip/pulse_jp.md | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 wip/pulse_jp.md diff --git a/wip/pulse_cn.md b/wip/pulse_cn.md index 1618313..eafbed6 100644 --- a/wip/pulse_cn.md +++ b/wip/pulse_cn.md @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ 上浮。 静磁噪声、水的平面、还有光波之间是沉默的平衡。 模糊而残损的电子牌匾，掠过向外敞开的那一线大气余隙。 -热异常里估算出来的远处的站点定期执行和上一次不一样的校准仪式。 +热异常里估算出来的远方站点定期执行和上一次不一样的校准仪式。 下潜。 僵局的黑屏掩住了庞大的恒星、焦黑的彗星，还有陨石。 它们存疑的微光是勇敢拓边者与黑暗冒险者放出的辐射， 如今只是晦暗不明，无人在意的痕迹，只有一些信仰特殊者关心。 -接收环境的本底噪声，指某一频段内、任一时刻全部背景信号能量的总和。在城市环境中，其主要来源包括配电设施、无线通信网络以及各类消费电子产品的电磁辐射。本底噪声没有统一来源，也不受集中调度，而是众多独立运行的发射源累积叠加的结果：各发射源均在自身参数范围内工作，叠加之后形成一种持续而大致均匀的背景。通常将这一背景电平视为固定基线，而不作为需要关注的变量。幅度等于或低于该基线的信号，在物理上仍存在于介质之中，但接收系统无法将其同背景区分开来，因而被认为无法恢复。 +任何接收环境的本底噪声，指的是某一频段内任一时刻全部背景信号能量的总和。在城市环境中，其主要来源包括配电设施、无线通信网络以及各类消费电子产品的电磁辐射。本底噪声没有统一来源，也不受集中调度，而是众多独立运行的发射源累积叠加的结果：各发射源均在自身参数范围内工作，叠加之后形成一种持续而大致均匀的背景。通常将这一背景电平视为固定基线，而不作为需要关注的变量。幅度等于或低于该基线的信号，在物理上仍存在于介质之中，但接收系统无法将其同背景区分开来，因而被认为无法恢复。 冲激信号，又称单位冲激，是指这样一种信号：它在所有时刻的取值均为零，仅在某一瞬间例外；在该瞬间，其取值理论上为无穷大，但总积分面积须恒等于一。实际中，理想的冲激信号无法物理实现，通常以持续时间极短、幅度极高、带宽足够的脉冲来近似。对任一线性时不变系统而言，其冲激响应（即以冲激作为输入时所得到的输出）足以完整描述该系统在此后任意输入下的行为。若没有输入，处于静止的系统不产生输出，也不表现出任何可与其他静止系统相区别的特性。仅凭一个冲激及其测得的响应，即可推导出系统完整的传递函数。 diff --git a/wip/pulse_jp.md b/wip/pulse_jp.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24542a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/wip/pulse_jp.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +# 潜在意味包絡下のパルス + +第一部。 + +浮上。 +静磁ノイズと、水の平面と、光波との間の、沈黙の平衡。 +ぼやけて潰れた電子の標識が、外へ開いた一筋の大気の余地の上を過ぎていく。 +熱異常のなかで推定された遠方の局が、一貫性のない合わせの儀式を行う。 + +潜航。 +停滞した黒い画面が、巨大な恒星と、焦げた彗星と、隕石を覆い隠す。 +それらの疑わしい微光は、勇敢な辺境者と闇の冒険者が放った放射であり、 +いまや、ただおぼろげで、誰にも顧みられない、ひとつの痕跡にすぎない。特殊な信仰を持つ者だけが、それを気にかける。 + +ある受信環境のノイズフロアとは、ある周波数帯域内の任意の瞬間に存在する背景信号エネルギーの総和をいう。都市環境では、その主要な発生源として、配電設備・無線通信網・各種民生用電子機器からの電磁放射が挙げられる。ノイズフロアには統一された発生源はなく、集中的に制御されているわけでもない。それは、独立して動作する多数の送信源の累積的な出力から生じるものであり、各送信源はそれぞれの諸元の範囲内で動作しながら、合わさることで持続的かつほぼ一様な背景を形成する。通常、この背景レベルは着目すべき変数としてではなく、固定された基準値として扱われる。振幅がこの基準値に等しいか、それを下回る信号は、媒質中に物理的には依然として存在するものの、受信系がそれを背景から区別することはできず、復元不能とみなされる。 + +インパルス信号は、単位インパルスとも呼ばれ、次のような信号として定義される。すなわち、ただ一つの瞬間を除くすべての時刻で値が零であり、その一瞬においてのみ値は概念上無限大となるが、全体を積分した面積はつねに一に等しくなければならない。実際には、理想的なインパルス信号を物理的に生成することはできず、持続時間がきわめて短く、振幅がきわめて高く、十分な帯域幅をもつパルスによって近似される。任意の線形時不変システムのインパルス応答（すなわち、インパルスを入力として与えたときに得られる出力）は、その後のいかなる入力に対するそのシステムの挙動をも完全に特徴づける。入力がまったくない場合、静止した系は何も出力せず、ほかのいかなる不活性な系とも区別しうる性質を示さない。ただ一つのインパルスと、その測定された応答とから、システムの完全な伝達関数を導くことができる。 + +第二部。 + +抑えられた音響スカラーがベクトル化する +音響の収差が散逸していく + +等方的な煙突が、パケットの雨を打つ +きめ細かな応答の袋が、すり潰されて地に迷う + +砂漠としての海は、自らの生命を埋める +完璧な水温躍層が、その殻を叩く + +幕がフレネルの曲がりの前で閉じる +プラズマのたまりがローバーたちの太ももを腫れ上がらせる + +第三部。 + +微粒子の圧力が、内陸の孤島の隅々まで行き渡る +紫外線の功利主義者が、三つに一つの岩山を無色に塗る +劣化した嘘が、ばかげた合法な自由を悼む +サイレンの音が、実在性のサウナに浸かっている +奇妙な堆積物が、誰も求めていない永遠を放つ From 118213f2ee314879a7a645d4753ce69c121adefd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikkeli Matlock Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 16:47:12 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 25/28] pulse: pulse_cn.md: fixed newlines --- wip/pulse_cn.md | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/wip/pulse_cn.md b/wip/pulse_cn.md index eafbed6..e8635b0 100644 --- a/wip/pulse_cn.md +++ b/wip/pulse_cn.md @@ -2,38 +2,38 @@ 第一部。 -上浮。 -静磁噪声、水的平面、还有光波之间是沉默的平衡。 -模糊而残损的电子牌匾，掠过向外敞开的那一线大气余隙。 -热异常里估算出来的远方站点定期执行和上一次不一样的校准仪式。 +上浮。 +静磁噪声、水的平面、还有光波之间是沉默的平衡。 +模糊而残损的电子牌匾，掠过向外敞开的那一线大气余隙。 +热异常里估算出来的远方站点定期执行和上一次不一样的校准仪式。 -下潜。 -僵局的黑屏掩住了庞大的恒星、焦黑的彗星，还有陨石。 -它们存疑的微光是勇敢拓边者与黑暗冒险者放出的辐射， -如今只是晦暗不明，无人在意的痕迹，只有一些信仰特殊者关心。 +下潜。 +僵局的黑屏掩住了庞大的恒星、焦黑的彗星，还有陨石。 +它们存疑的微光是勇敢拓边者与黑暗冒险者放出的辐射， +如今只是晦暗不明，无人在意的痕迹，只有一些信仰特殊者关心。 -任何接收环境的本底噪声，指的是某一频段内任一时刻全部背景信号能量的总和。在城市环境中，其主要来源包括配电设施、无线通信网络以及各类消费电子产品的电磁辐射。本底噪声没有统一来源，也不受集中调度，而是众多独立运行的发射源累积叠加的结果：各发射源均在自身参数范围内工作，叠加之后形成一种持续而大致均匀的背景。通常将这一背景电平视为固定基线，而不作为需要关注的变量。幅度等于或低于该基线的信号，在物理上仍存在于介质之中，但接收系统无法将其同背景区分开来，因而被认为无法恢复。 +任何接收环境的本底噪声，指的是某一频段内任一时刻全部背景信号能量的总和。在城市环境中，其主要来源包括配电设施、无线通信网络以及各类消费电子产品的电磁辐射。本底噪声没有统一来源，也不受集中调度，而是众多独立运行的发射源累积叠加的结果：各发射源均在自身参数范围内工作，叠加之后形成一种持续而大致均匀的背景。通常将这一背景电平视为固定基线，而不作为需要关注的变量。幅度等于或低于该基线的信号，在物理上仍存在于介质之中，但接收系统无法将其同背景区分开来，因而被认为无法恢复。 -冲激信号，又称单位冲激，是指这样一种信号：它在所有时刻的取值均为零，仅在某一瞬间例外；在该瞬间，其取值理论上为无穷大，但总积分面积须恒等于一。实际中，理想的冲激信号无法物理实现，通常以持续时间极短、幅度极高、带宽足够的脉冲来近似。对任一线性时不变系统而言，其冲激响应（即以冲激作为输入时所得到的输出）足以完整描述该系统在此后任意输入下的行为。若没有输入，处于静止的系统不产生输出，也不表现出任何可与其他静止系统相区别的特性。仅凭一个冲激及其测得的响应，即可推导出系统完整的传递函数。 +冲激信号，又称单位冲激，是指这样一种信号：它在所有时刻的取值均为零，仅在某一瞬间例外；在该瞬间，其取值理论上为无穷大，但总积分面积须恒等于一。实际中，理想的冲激信号无法物理实现，通常以持续时间极短、幅度极高、带宽足够的脉冲来近似。对任一线性时不变系统而言，其冲激响应（即以冲激作为输入时所得到的输出）足以完整描述该系统在此后任意输入下的行为。若没有输入，处于静止的系统不产生输出，也不表现出任何可与其他静止系统相区别的特性。仅凭一个冲激及其测得的响应，即可推导出系统完整的传递函数。 -第二部。 +第二部。 -压低的声音标量，化作矢量 -声学的像差，渐渐耗散 +压低的声音标量，化作矢量 +声学的像差，渐渐耗散 -各向同性的烟囱砸中一场数据包之雨 -一袋袋细碎的应答被研磨得迷路 +各向同性的烟囱砸中一场数据包之雨 +一袋袋细碎的应答被研磨得迷路 -海洋作为荒漠埋藏自己所有的生命 -完美的温跃层敲打外壳 +海洋作为荒漠埋藏自己所有的生命 +完美的温跃层敲打外壳 -菲涅尔拐角前的帷幕关闭 -等离子堆积，肿胀了流浪者的大腿 +菲涅尔拐角前的帷幕关闭 +等离子堆积，肿胀了流浪者的大腿 -第三部。 +第三部。 -颗粒状的压力遍历一座内陆的孤岛 -紫外功利主义者把每三个石头里的第三个涂成无色 -有损的谎言哀悼荒唐的合法自由 -警笛声音浸泡在实在的桑拿里 -诡异的沉积物发射了没人要求的永恒 +颗粒状的压力遍历一座内陆的孤岛 +紫外功利主义者把每三个石头里的第三个涂成无色 +有损的谎言哀悼荒唐的合法自由 +警笛声音浸泡在实在的桑拿里 +诡异的沉积物发射了没人要求的永恒 From 4f67331e262f16aeaf9b9d944e6560d5784e4207 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 09:32:16 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 26/28] pulse: reorganised files. is for the main wiki page and for the secondary, dev gibberish page. --- wip/pulse.md | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ wip/pulse_cn.md | 39 ------------- wip/pulse_dev.md | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ wip/pulse_jp.md | 39 ------------- 4 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 wip/pulse_cn.md create mode 100644 wip/pulse_dev.md delete mode 100644 wip/pulse_jp.md diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/wip/pulse.md index 5df11d7..a53eec0 100644 --- a/wip/pulse.md +++ b/wip/pulse.md @@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ *Lyrics as well as the process of how it became like this* -## Lyrics, in full +## Lyrics -第一部。 +### Raw (what you get in the audio) + +*第一部。* Surface. The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves. @@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ The noise floor of a receiving environment is the aggregate of all background si An impulse signal, also referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal with zero value at all points in time except a single instant, at which its value is notionally unbounded, subject to the constraint that its total integrated area equals unity. In practice, true impulse signals cannot be physically produced; they are approximated by short-duration, high-amplitude pulses of sufficient bandwidth. The impulse response of any linear time-invariant system — that is, the output produced when an impulse is presented as input — fully characterises that system's behaviour under any subsequent input. In the absence of any input, a system at rest produces no output and exhibits no properties that distinguish it from any other inactive system. From a single impulse and its measured response, the complete transfer function of the system can be derived. -第二部。 +*第二部。* Subdued sonic scalars vectorise Acoustic aberrations dissipate @@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights Plasma buildup swells your rovers' thighs -第三部。 +*第三部。* Particulate pressure across a landlocked island Ultraviolet utilitarian paints every third crag bland @@ -42,95 +44,90 @@ Lossy lies lament the ludicrous lawful liberty Siren sounds soaken in the sauna of substantiality Eccentric sediments launch unbidden perpetuity -## Planning area +### Chinese translations -### Outline +**潜在语义包络下的脉冲** -The song is about how one keeps his own rhythm which is kind of different from what his surrounding expects. It's not mortally different that will easily get crushed, also due to the surrounding environment being more of a latent mechanical movement rather than something that actively suppresses abnormalities. -The rather abstract protagonist is the same perspective in 'sauna as ubiquitous neural analeptic' and 'rover over virtually eternal roundabouts'. Not necessarily strict because this protagonist is but an illusionary shadow that's at most half-concrete. She could be any hims and vice versa or any other way round. - -The latent semantic envelopes are the devourer of individual pulses. They don't do it on purpose like there is a single traceable mastermind and the suppression is intentional. It is just ambient and gigantic in volume. There is no malice, just gravity. -Fighting against the ambience is not a real fight, not a winnable fight if the opposition must be defeated. The ambience is in a way the world itself. It is more indefatigable than any of its components. - -The reason for letting out pulses is not to be acknowledged. The reception and ACK is slightly appreciated but not the driving motivation behind the original transmission. We/I pulse for a set of concepts that might be generalised as reasons, but the desire to be received is not part of it. -It's probably easy to conclude phenomenally that if establishing connections is rewarding, then the rewarding emotional spikes become the main reason to keep doing so. Not exactly. But denying is weak and not elegant. The best way to deny something is always presenting a better alternative. The main reason to do anything, including pulsing and establishing connections (consequentially) is authenticity. The action is the reason itself. It's OK to wrap some common sense of this authenticity in forms like 'pulsing is fun, so I pulse' - 'fun' is probably here authenticity masquerading. - -### A bit more concrete +*第一部分。* -FM radio as underlying image. Also fittingly fitting for using FM detune audio FX on a side note. -Submarine, underwater, subsonic and supersonic pings as well as passive hydroacoustic searching. - -Literally, there can be long, essay-like, paragraphs (not too many) with structurally interconneting statements and sentences. But flairs of fragmented fractures of language (almost alliteration) is also appreciated and desired. +上浮。 +静磁噪声、水的平面、还有光波之间是沉默的平衡。 +模糊而残损的电子牌匾，掠过向外敞开的那一线大气余隙。 +热异常里估算出来的远方站点定期执行和上一次不一样的校准仪式。 -**Structural proposal** -1. "Surface." - the breach, the fever-dream opener -2. Instrumental - let the image settle -3. Essay/documentary - the explanatory core, almost clinical, "semi-boring scientific" (this is where the concept gets stated plainly before the rest of the song complicates it) -4. Instrumental - going into the poemic verses -5. Poem-ic verses - emotional density, maybe climax, maybe not -6. P-U-L-S-E 5-liners - trademark closer, acrostic constraint -7. Instrumental outro +下潜。 +僵局的黑屏掩住了庞大的恒星、焦黑的彗星，还有陨石。 +它们存疑的微光是勇敢拓边者与黑暗冒险者放出的辐射， +如今只是晦暗不明，无人在意的痕迹，只有一些信仰特殊者关心。 +任何接收环境的本底噪声，指的是某一频段内任一时刻全部背景信号能量的总和。在城市环境中，其主要来源包括配电设施、无线通信网络以及各类消费电子产品的电磁辐射。本底噪声没有统一来源，也不受集中调度，而是众多独立运行的发射源累积叠加的结果：各发射源均在自身参数范围内工作，叠加之后形成一种持续而大致均匀的背景。通常将这一背景电平视为固定基线，而不作为需要关注的变量。幅度等于或低于该基线的信号，在物理上仍存在于介质之中，但接收系统无法将其同背景区分开来，因而被认为无法恢复。 +冲激信号，又称单位冲激，是指这样一种信号：它在所有时刻的取值均为零，仅在某一瞬间例外；在该瞬间，其取值理论上为无穷大，但总积分面积须恒等于一。实际中，理想的冲激信号无法物理实现，通常以持续时间极短、幅度极高、带宽足够的脉冲来近似。对任一线性时不变系统而言，其冲激响应（即以冲激作为输入时所得到的输出）足以完整描述该系统在此后任意输入下的行为。若没有输入，处于静止的系统不产生输出，也不表现出任何可与其他静止系统相区别的特性。仅凭一个冲激及其测得的响应，即可推导出系统完整的传递函数。 -## Construction zone +*第二部分。* -The first locked in draft version of the song. Things get developed even after this version. +压低的声音标量，化作矢量 +声学的像差，渐渐耗散 -```cpp -// Opener -Surface. -The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves. -Blurred and mangled electronic signs over the outbound informational motorway. -Distant stations estimated in abnormal heat perform the collimation rite. -// think a submarine surfacing at night to do some radio comms as the starting point, then infuse it with a fever dream +各向同性的烟囱砸中一场数据包之雨 +一袋袋细碎的应答被研磨得迷路 -Dive. -The black screen of stalemate conceals the black stars, the black comets, the black meteorites -their questionable glitters, once emissions of brave borderers and dark adventurers -now the only traces, obscured and indifferent to all but those with a special breed of faith. -// 'Dive' - an opposite to 'Surface'. This is on the receiving end. -// Just see this as 'receiving other guys' pulses'. -// 'Brave Borderer' and 'Dark Adventurer' are Royal Navy patrol boats, but the names are kind of fitting and confusing so at home here. Maybe. +海洋作为荒漠埋藏自己所有的生命 +完美的温跃层敲打外壳 -// Instrumental bridging. +菲涅尔拐角前的帷幕关闭 +等离子堆积，肿胀了流浪者的大腿 -// The pseudo documentary narration, half-blended into the background music -// in a metalingual sense the music is the background noise and the narration is the signal with a low SNR. Or one could consider the roles swapped. -The noise floor of a receiving environment is the aggregate of all background signal energy present across a given frequency band at any instant. In urban contexts, primary contributors include electromagnetic emissions from power distribution infrastructure, wireless communications networks, and consumer electronic devices. The noise floor is not centrally coordinated; no single source generates it. It emerges from the cumulative output of many independently operating transmitters, each functioning within its own parameters, whose combined effect is persistent and largely uniform. Under standard conditions, this background level is treated as a fixed baseline rather than a variable of interest. Signals whose amplitude falls at or below this baseline remain physically present in the medium but cannot be distinguished from the background by a receiving system, and are not considered recoverable. +*第三部分。* -An impulse signal, also referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal with zero value at all points in time except a single instant, at which its value is notionally unbounded, subject to the constraint that its total integrated area equals unity. In practice, true impulse signals cannot be physically produced; they are approximated by short-duration, high-amplitude pulses of sufficient bandwidth. The impulse response of any linear time-invariant system — that is, the output produced when an impulse is presented as input — fully characterises that system's behaviour under any subsequent input. In the absence of any input, a system at rest produces no output and exhibits no properties that distinguish it from any other inactive system. From a single impulse and its measured response, the complete transfer function of the system can be derived. This property is considered foundational to systems analysis. +颗粒状的压力遍历一座内陆的孤岛 +紫外功利主义者把每三个石头里的第三个涂成无色 +有损的谎言哀悼荒唐的合法自由 +警笛声音浸泡在实在的桑拿里 +诡异的沉积物发射了没人要求的永恒 -// build some tension with bass and drum and fiddle here +### Japanese translations -// sung part so count the syllables -// more 'rhythmic yelling' than singing, you get the idea -Subdued sonic scalars vectorise -Acoustic aberrations dissipate +**潜在意味包絡下のパルス** -// --- stanza: the receiving end --- -Isotropic funnel strikes a packet rain -Fine-grained bags of acks ground astray +*第一部。* -Ocean as a desert buries all of its life -Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline -// 'deck the shell': intentional vagueness between 'decorate the outer shell' and 'knock on the border surface'. +浮上。 +静磁ノイズと、水の平面と、光波との間の、沈黙の平衡。 +ぼやけて潰れた電子の標識が、外へ開いた一筋の大気の余地の上を過ぎていく。 +熱異常のなかで推定された遠方の局が、一貫性のない合わせの儀式を行う。 -Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights -Plasma buildup swells your rover's thighs +潜航。 +停滞した黒い画面が、巨大な恒星と、焦げた彗星と、隕石を覆い隠す。 +それらの疑わしい微光は、勇敢な辺境者と闇の冒険者が放った放射であり、 +いまや、ただおぼろげで、誰にも顧みられない、ひとつの痕跡にすぎない。特殊な信仰を持つ者だけが、それを気にかける。 + +ある受信環境のノイズフロアとは、ある周波数帯域内の任意の瞬間に存在する背景信号エネルギーの総和をいう。都市環境では、その主要な発生源として、配電設備・無線通信網・各種民生用電子機器からの電磁放射が挙げられる。ノイズフロアには統一された発生源はなく、集中的に制御されているわけでもない。それは、独立して動作する多数の送信源の累積的な出力から生じるものであり、各送信源はそれぞれの諸元の範囲内で動作しながら、合わさることで持続的かつほぼ一様な背景を形成する。通常、この背景レベルは着目すべき変数としてではなく、固定された基準値として扱われる。振幅がこの基準値に等しいか、それを下回る信号は、媒質中に物理的には依然として存在するものの、受信系がそれを背景から区別することはできず、復元不能とみなされる。 + +インパルス信号は、単位インパルスとも呼ばれ、次のような信号として定義される。すなわち、ただ一つの瞬間を除くすべての時刻で値が零であり、その一瞬においてのみ値は概念上無限大となるが、全体を積分した面積はつねに一に等しくなければならない。実際には、理想的なインパルス信号を物理的に生成することはできず、持続時間がきわめて短く、振幅がきわめて高く、十分な帯域幅をもつパルスによって近似される。任意の線形時不変システムのインパルス応答（すなわち、インパルスを入力として与えたときに得られる出力）は、その後のいかなる入力に対するそのシステムの挙動をも完全に特徴づける。入力がまったくない場合、静止した系は何も出力せず、ほかのいかなる不活性な系とも区別しうる性質を示さない。ただ一つのインパルスと、その測定された応答とから、システムの完全な伝達関数を導くことができる。 + +*第二部。* + +抑えられた音響スカラーがベクトル化する +音響の収差が散逸していく + +等方的な煙突が、パケットの雨を打つ +きめ細かな応答の袋が、すり潰されて地に迷う + +砂漠としての海は、自らの生命を埋める +完璧な水温躍層が、その殻を叩く + +幕がフレネルの曲がりの前で閉じる +プラズマのたまりがローバーたちの太ももを腫れ上がらせる + +*第三部。* + +微粒子の圧力が、内陸の孤島の隅々まで行き渡る +紫外線の功利主義者が、三つに一つの岩山を無色に塗る +劣化した嘘が、ばかげた合法な自由を悼む +サイレンの音が、実在性のサウナに浸かっている +奇妙な堆積物が、誰も求めていない永遠を放つ -// ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro -// P: -particulate pressure plagues across a landlocked island -// U: -ultraviolet utilitarian paints every third crag bland -// L: -lossy lies lament the ludicrous lawful liberty -// S: -siren sounds soaken in the sauna of substantiality -// E-S-L-U-P: -essential sentiments leave unbidden perpetually -``` ## Notes about this song diff --git a/wip/pulse_cn.md b/wip/pulse_cn.md deleted file mode 100644 index e8635b0..0000000 --- a/wip/pulse_cn.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ -# 潜在语义包络下的脉冲 - -第一部。 - -上浮。 -静磁噪声、水的平面、还有光波之间是沉默的平衡。 -模糊而残损的电子牌匾，掠过向外敞开的那一线大气余隙。 -热异常里估算出来的远方站点定期执行和上一次不一样的校准仪式。 - -下潜。 -僵局的黑屏掩住了庞大的恒星、焦黑的彗星，还有陨石。 -它们存疑的微光是勇敢拓边者与黑暗冒险者放出的辐射， -如今只是晦暗不明，无人在意的痕迹，只有一些信仰特殊者关心。 - -任何接收环境的本底噪声，指的是某一频段内任一时刻全部背景信号能量的总和。在城市环境中，其主要来源包括配电设施、无线通信网络以及各类消费电子产品的电磁辐射。本底噪声没有统一来源，也不受集中调度，而是众多独立运行的发射源累积叠加的结果：各发射源均在自身参数范围内工作，叠加之后形成一种持续而大致均匀的背景。通常将这一背景电平视为固定基线，而不作为需要关注的变量。幅度等于或低于该基线的信号，在物理上仍存在于介质之中，但接收系统无法将其同背景区分开来，因而被认为无法恢复。 - -冲激信号，又称单位冲激，是指这样一种信号：它在所有时刻的取值均为零，仅在某一瞬间例外；在该瞬间，其取值理论上为无穷大，但总积分面积须恒等于一。实际中，理想的冲激信号无法物理实现，通常以持续时间极短、幅度极高、带宽足够的脉冲来近似。对任一线性时不变系统而言，其冲激响应（即以冲激作为输入时所得到的输出）足以完整描述该系统在此后任意输入下的行为。若没有输入，处于静止的系统不产生输出，也不表现出任何可与其他静止系统相区别的特性。仅凭一个冲激及其测得的响应，即可推导出系统完整的传递函数。 - -第二部。 - -压低的声音标量，化作矢量 -声学的像差，渐渐耗散 - -各向同性的烟囱砸中一场数据包之雨 -一袋袋细碎的应答被研磨得迷路 - -海洋作为荒漠埋藏自己所有的生命 -完美的温跃层敲打外壳 - -菲涅尔拐角前的帷幕关闭 -等离子堆积，肿胀了流浪者的大腿 - -第三部。 - -颗粒状的压力遍历一座内陆的孤岛 -紫外功利主义者把每三个石头里的第三个涂成无色 -有损的谎言哀悼荒唐的合法自由 -警笛声音浸泡在实在的桑拿里 -诡异的沉积物发射了没人要求的永恒 diff --git a/wip/pulse_dev.md b/wip/pulse_dev.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..349002a --- /dev/null +++ b/wip/pulse_dev.md @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +# pulse under latent semantic envelopes: personal dev notes + +The remaining bits of how I came to all this + +## Planning area + +### Outline + +The song is about how one keeps his own rhythm which is kind of different from what his surrounding expects. It's not mortally different that will easily get crushed, also due to the surrounding environment being more of a latent mechanical movement rather than something that actively suppresses abnormalities. +The rather abstract protagonist is the same perspective in 'sauna as ubiquitous neural analeptic' and 'rover over virtually eternal roundabouts'. Not necessarily strict because this protagonist is but an illusionary shadow that's at most half-concrete. She could be any hims and vice versa or any other way round. + +The latent semantic envelopes are the devourer of individual pulses. They don't do it on purpose like there is a single traceable mastermind and the suppression is intentional. It is just ambient and gigantic in volume. There is no malice, just gravity. +Fighting against the ambience is not a real fight, not a winnable fight if the opposition must be defeated. The ambience is in a way the world itself. It is more indefatigable than any of its components. + +The reason for letting out pulses is not to be acknowledged. The reception and ACK is slightly appreciated but not the driving motivation behind the original transmission. We/I pulse for a set of concepts that might be generalised as reasons, but the desire to be received is not part of it. +It's probably easy to conclude phenomenally that if establishing connections is rewarding, then the rewarding emotional spikes become the main reason to keep doing so. Not exactly. But denying is weak and not elegant. The best way to deny something is always presenting a better alternative. The main reason to do anything, including pulsing and establishing connections (consequentially) is authenticity. The action is the reason itself. It's OK to wrap some common sense of this authenticity in forms like 'pulsing is fun, so I pulse' - 'fun' is probably here authenticity masquerading. + +### A bit more concrete + +FM radio as underlying image. Also fittingly fitting for using FM detune audio FX on a side note. +Submarine, underwater, subsonic and supersonic pings as well as passive hydroacoustic searching. + +Literally, there can be long, essay-like, paragraphs (not too many) with structurally interconneting statements and sentences. But flairs of fragmented fractures of language (almost alliteration) is also appreciated and desired. + +**Structural proposal** +1. "Surface." - the breach, the fever-dream opener +2. Instrumental - let the image settle +3. Essay/documentary - the explanatory core, almost clinical, "semi-boring scientific" (this is where the concept gets stated plainly before the rest of the song complicates it) +4. Instrumental - going into the poemic verses +5. Poem-ic verses - emotional density, maybe climax, maybe not +6. P-U-L-S-E 5-liners - trademark closer, acrostic constraint +7. Instrumental outro + + + +## Construction zone + +The first locked in draft version of the song. Things get developed even after this version. + +```cpp +// Opener +Surface. +The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves. +Blurred and mangled electronic signs over the outbound informational motorway. +Distant stations estimated in abnormal heat perform the collimation rite. +// think a submarine surfacing at night to do some radio comms as the starting point, then infuse it with a fever dream + +Dive. +The black screen of stalemate conceals the black stars, the black comets, the black meteorites +their questionable glitters, once emissions of brave borderers and dark adventurers +now the only traces, obscured and indifferent to all but those with a special breed of faith. +// 'Dive' - an opposite to 'Surface'. This is on the receiving end. +// Just see this as 'receiving other guys' pulses'. +// 'Brave Borderer' and 'Dark Adventurer' are Royal Navy patrol boats, but the names are kind of fitting and confusing so at home here. Maybe. + +// Instrumental bridging. + +// The pseudo documentary narration, half-blended into the background music +// in a metalingual sense the music is the background noise and the narration is the signal with a low SNR. Or one could consider the roles swapped. +The noise floor of a receiving environment is the aggregate of all background signal energy present across a given frequency band at any instant. In urban contexts, primary contributors include electromagnetic emissions from power distribution infrastructure, wireless communications networks, and consumer electronic devices. The noise floor is not centrally coordinated; no single source generates it. It emerges from the cumulative output of many independently operating transmitters, each functioning within its own parameters, whose combined effect is persistent and largely uniform. Under standard conditions, this background level is treated as a fixed baseline rather than a variable of interest. Signals whose amplitude falls at or below this baseline remain physically present in the medium but cannot be distinguished from the background by a receiving system, and are not considered recoverable. + +An impulse signal, also referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal with zero value at all points in time except a single instant, at which its value is notionally unbounded, subject to the constraint that its total integrated area equals unity. In practice, true impulse signals cannot be physically produced; they are approximated by short-duration, high-amplitude pulses of sufficient bandwidth. The impulse response of any linear time-invariant system — that is, the output produced when an impulse is presented as input — fully characterises that system's behaviour under any subsequent input. In the absence of any input, a system at rest produces no output and exhibits no properties that distinguish it from any other inactive system. From a single impulse and its measured response, the complete transfer function of the system can be derived. This property is considered foundational to systems analysis. + +// build some tension with bass and drum and fiddle here + +// sung part so count the syllables +// more 'rhythmic yelling' than singing, you get the idea +Subdued sonic scalars vectorise +Acoustic aberrations dissipate + +// --- stanza: the receiving end --- +Isotropic funnel strikes a packet rain +Fine-grained bags of acks ground astray + +Ocean as a desert buries all of its life +Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline +// 'deck the shell': intentional vagueness between 'decorate the outer shell' and 'knock on the border surface'. + +Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights +Plasma buildup swells your rover's thighs + +// ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro +// P: +particulate pressure plagues across a landlocked island +// U: +ultraviolet utilitarian paints every third crag bland +// L: +lossy lies lament the ludicrous lawful liberty +// S: +siren sounds soaken in the sauna of substantiality +// E-S-L-U-P: +essential sentiments leave unbidden perpetually +``` \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/wip/pulse_jp.md b/wip/pulse_jp.md deleted file mode 100644 index 24542a1..0000000 --- a/wip/pulse_jp.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ -# 潜在意味包絡下のパルス - -第一部。 - -浮上。 -静磁ノイズと、水の平面と、光波との間の、沈黙の平衡。 -ぼやけて潰れた電子の標識が、外へ開いた一筋の大気の余地の上を過ぎていく。 -熱異常のなかで推定された遠方の局が、一貫性のない合わせの儀式を行う。 - -潜航。 -停滞した黒い画面が、巨大な恒星と、焦げた彗星と、隕石を覆い隠す。 -それらの疑わしい微光は、勇敢な辺境者と闇の冒険者が放った放射であり、 -いまや、ただおぼろげで、誰にも顧みられない、ひとつの痕跡にすぎない。特殊な信仰を持つ者だけが、それを気にかける。 - -ある受信環境のノイズフロアとは、ある周波数帯域内の任意の瞬間に存在する背景信号エネルギーの総和をいう。都市環境では、その主要な発生源として、配電設備・無線通信網・各種民生用電子機器からの電磁放射が挙げられる。ノイズフロアには統一された発生源はなく、集中的に制御されているわけでもない。それは、独立して動作する多数の送信源の累積的な出力から生じるものであり、各送信源はそれぞれの諸元の範囲内で動作しながら、合わさることで持続的かつほぼ一様な背景を形成する。通常、この背景レベルは着目すべき変数としてではなく、固定された基準値として扱われる。振幅がこの基準値に等しいか、それを下回る信号は、媒質中に物理的には依然として存在するものの、受信系がそれを背景から区別することはできず、復元不能とみなされる。 - -インパルス信号は、単位インパルスとも呼ばれ、次のような信号として定義される。すなわち、ただ一つの瞬間を除くすべての時刻で値が零であり、その一瞬においてのみ値は概念上無限大となるが、全体を積分した面積はつねに一に等しくなければならない。実際には、理想的なインパルス信号を物理的に生成することはできず、持続時間がきわめて短く、振幅がきわめて高く、十分な帯域幅をもつパルスによって近似される。任意の線形時不変システムのインパルス応答（すなわち、インパルスを入力として与えたときに得られる出力）は、その後のいかなる入力に対するそのシステムの挙動をも完全に特徴づける。入力がまったくない場合、静止した系は何も出力せず、ほかのいかなる不活性な系とも区別しうる性質を示さない。ただ一つのインパルスと、その測定された応答とから、システムの完全な伝達関数を導くことができる。 - -第二部。 - -抑えられた音響スカラーがベクトル化する -音響の収差が散逸していく - -等方的な煙突が、パケットの雨を打つ -きめ細かな応答の袋が、すり潰されて地に迷う - -砂漠としての海は、自らの生命を埋める -完璧な水温躍層が、その殻を叩く - -幕がフレネルの曲がりの前で閉じる -プラズマのたまりがローバーたちの太ももを腫れ上がらせる - -第三部。 - -微粒子の圧力が、内陸の孤島の隅々まで行き渡る -紫外線の功利主義者が、三つに一つの岩山を無色に塗る -劣化した嘘が、ばかげた合法な自由を悼む -サイレンの音が、実在性のサウナに浸かっている -奇妙な堆積物が、誰も求めていない永遠を放つ From 76239bc55e2cdddaa34dd7bc277301f63f43fc40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 09:43:58 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 27/28] pulse: move completed files from wip/ to ses/ Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 --- {wip => ses}/pulse.md | 0 {wip => ses}/pulse_dev.md | 0 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) rename {wip => ses}/pulse.md (100%) rename {wip => ses}/pulse_dev.md (100%) diff --git a/wip/pulse.md b/ses/pulse.md similarity index 100% rename from wip/pulse.md rename to ses/pulse.md diff --git a/wip/pulse_dev.md b/ses/pulse_dev.md similarity index 100% rename from wip/pulse_dev.md rename to ses/pulse_dev.md From 19de31034b83002b8e43f95f0d95f135df3e68a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wan Ziyu Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 09:53:28 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 28/28] pulse: minor change on main project file --- ses/pulse.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ses/pulse.md b/ses/pulse.md index a53eec0..4eb8d30 100644 --- a/ses/pulse.md +++ b/ses/pulse.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # pulse under latent semantic envelopes -*Lyrics as well as the process of how it became like this* +For more behind-the-scene shenanigans, see `pulse_dev`. ## Lyrics