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wan b2b8abf397 pulse: creator's notes minor 2026-06-01 19:04:34 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 8548c8eef3 pulse: creator's note 2026-06-01 07:42:10 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 5ce8d717e7 pulse: removed 'plagues' due to me forgetting to sing it & started on the creator's note 2026-05-28 15:54:14 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock a86c6bc59a pulse: atmospherical -> atmospheric 2026-05-19 05:50:26 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 92786dbbf0 pulse: refinements 2026-05-16 23:55:09 +09:00
wan 91b08e189a pulse: reviewing structurally complete song 2026-05-15 15:20:27 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 8ac49634d7 pulse: much progress, almost fixed first passthru 2026-05-14 23:26:22 +09:00
wan a9cc99c1ef pulse: song 1 locked 2026-05-12 18:34:57 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 90f1e5235d pulse: progress and inheritance notes 2026-05-12 10:58:28 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 07f985c393 pulse: making progress with the song 2026-05-12 09:43:10 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 637c4d8ae3 pulse: keeping up 2026-05-11 12:43:01 +09:00
wan cd8fc1ab2a pulse: verses refinement 2026-04-14 15:30:15 +09:00
wan 8b367fa780 pulse: not sure what changed but for my sins 2026-04-09 13:08:59 +09:00
wan c74698d75b pulse: ending verse initial version 2026-04-01 14:53:47 +09:00
wan 60aeff3f2c pulse: minor updates 2026-04-01 12:50:51 +09:00
wan d735b3429f pulse: something good 2026-03-03 18:06:58 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 53c817f046 pulse: minor changes 2026-03-03 11:59:14 +09:00
wan e403754426 efforts 2026-03-02 04:22:54 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 6ef6aaa352 I'm rather satisfied with the opener. for now... 2026-03-02 04:22:54 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 947c3082ea opener refinement 2026-03-02 04:22:53 +09:00
mikkeli d1b19f0ee5 Merge pull request 'beijing: started working' (#2) from songs/beijing into master
Reviewed-on: mikkeli/ncmr-songs#2
2026-03-01 19:22:00 +00:00
mikkeli eef1facf3a Merge branch 'master' into songs/beijing 2026-03-01 19:21:53 +00:00
mikkeli 5ad0158ddc Merge pull request 'songs/tunnels completed' (#1) from songs/tunnels into master
Reviewed-on: mikkeli/ncmr-songs#1
2026-03-01 19:19:47 +00:00
Mikkeli Matlock db5409b813 tunnels: done 2026-03-02 04:18:49 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock c91ab8db25 tunnels: added lrc 2026-03-01 18:42:34 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 66c8f39b99 tunnels: added japanese interlude 2026-03-01 17:12:05 +09:00
Mikkeli Matlock 481890aa5a beijing: started working 2026-02-20 18:40:53 +09:00
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# You and me and a gentle journey
*(WIP)*
## Translation
You know there was a dream I had long ago
Of a somewhere that is far away
And a journey for the two of us
An end I am yet to have you see
All of the lost stuff
Collecting but dust
Forgotten up there on overhead racks
Its going to take time
Until the end and (should)
Should you feel like dreaming
Youre always welcome on my shoulder
A voice of comfort
A voice of yours
The scenery a-flowing by
The swaying train, and this feeling merged and intertwined
In a stream of journey to which
For now I shall give myself away
If not with me you abide
There wont be not such meaningful events left
To go across the borderline
## Original for my sins
いつか見た夢の話
遠い遠い国のこと
仕舞い忘れた
私たちの旅
忘れ物
置いてきた
網棚の上にあった
まだ時間が
かかるみたい
寝てていいよ
ほら肩にもたれて
深い深い眠りに落ちると
聞こえるの
ほら 懐かしい声
君の声
二人ならどこまででも
行けると信じていると
笑う君を
ああ愛しいと思う
流れてく景色
揺れる列車とこの思いが
紡ぐ旅に
今は身を任せよ
二人で歩けないなら
そこに意味はないんだと
泣いた君を
ああ美しいと思う
境界を越えて届け
あの日の記憶の欠片
いつか思い出すよ
この旅路を
placeholder until I remember what the new title actually would be
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[ar:Northwich committee of magic researches]
[ti:Tunnels]
[al:Shirakaba Express Service]
[00:23.82]The long dark road spanning within the mountains
[00:26.92]is plagued by tunnels
[00:28.72]and an illusion induced by mechanical and neural fatigue
[00:31.76]that the night sky is but an arch over
[00:33.55]the long dark road spanning within the mountains.
[00:35.99]
[03:54.89]月も星も、見えぬ。
[03:58.77]
[04:02.18]靄は眩む。
[04:04.17]
[04:07.10]集中すればするほど、
[04:15.12]輪郭が、溶けていく。
[04:18.16]
[06:09.15]The long dark road spanning within the mountains
[06:11.71]is plagued by tunnels
[06:13.34]and an illusion induced by mechanical and neural fatigue
[06:16.27]that the night sky is but an arch over
[06:18.43]the long dark road spanning within the mountains.
[06:20.90]
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and an illusion induced by mechanical and neural fatigue
that the night sky is but an arch over
the long dark road spanning within the mountains.
*Interlude*
月も星も、見えぬ。
靄は眩む。
集中すればするほど、
輪郭が、溶けていく。
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# 海淀
## 思考区域
我觉得我不想思考北京这个概念。一思考就全都是不爽的负面的难受的东西首当其冲[sic]涌出来。
北京对我来说是一种烙印,不是胎记。烙印稍微带那么一点耻辱感但说实话又不是很重。可能情感上更接近纹身吧。
## 工地
```cpp
```
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# 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
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.
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.
第二部。
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
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
Eccentric sediments launch unbidden perpetuity
## Planning area
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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
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## 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
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 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
// '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
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'.
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// 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
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// 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
Spectral broadcast lossy with a narrow sight
No perceived replies per design
// needs further tweaking
// --- stanza: the receiving end ---
Isotropic funnel strikes a packet rain
Fine-grained bags of acks 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'.
A dim light 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
Curtain shut before the Fresnel bights
Plasma buildup swells your rover's thighs
// ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro
p.....
u.....
l.....
s.....
essential sentiments lay unconditionally permanent
// 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
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.
- 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'.
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# 西苑
可能会改标题吧