Jim Haku

Channel: Jim Haku

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July 2, 2021, 9:53 am

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Remember this? Don’t worry about it. Y’know, people kinda take the 7 note diatonic scale for granted. This is why it might be confusing when you name the notes chromatically, as we (um, just me so far...

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Against Reaction

July 7, 2021, 3:04 pm

Occurred to me that most people are not aware how pervasive equal temperament is. Just want to make it clear that this is not part of some kind of reactionary movement is favor of the most conventional...

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Fixed Interval Notation: Limits of Use

July 16, 2021, 6:37 am

Hm, sounds legal. Not really, but it’s occurring to me now I’m making a system that’s more for analyzing than composing. Having some latitude with changing what frequency the note “A” is, for example,...

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Fixed Interval Notation: Why…are you? Doing this! To me!?

July 20, 2021, 4:49 am

Look, you came here, alright. This whole thing could be meaningless. I mean everything. But let’s not worry about that. What is just this thing about? Let’s think about Jimi Hendrix again. Most people...

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Fixed Integer Notation: It Looks Real Bad When the Title Is Too Long

July 24, 2021, 4:25 am

See, NOW it’s gone too far. Here we have an example where we’re no longer talking about the thing we’re talking about, but the delivery system of the idea. Can we fix the aesthetics of the delivery...

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Gamelan & Sonic Youth

July 26, 2021, 1:37 am

In many ancient traditions and contemporary settings, music is not written out for the performance. It’s worked out among the musicians, maybe by a lead composer type all at once, or by the group over...

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How many keys are there?

September 9, 2021, 6:34 pm

Here’s a clip of Victor Wooten explaining a very basic concept of music theory that is not always explained so simply. The answer you get is easy once you know, but it’s not the intuitive answer. Even...

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How many notes are there?

September 22, 2021, 11:49 am

Here’s another video by someone else. Maybe I should make videos at some point. Sorry if I keep going over the same material but no one really seems to be paying attention, I’m just ironing out the...

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2020-2021

December 31, 2021, 11:09 am

Just a quick note here to cap things off, might return to blogging but I want to work on other projects. Like a podcast. Gave up on year end lists a while ago, you may have noticed. It was a good way...

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The Year 2023, Common Era

December 31, 2023, 7:31 am

Hi there, I mean, Hello, world. I have returned to blogging. In this, the year: 2023. At the end. I don’t have any thoughts about it at the moment that I’d like to share; I’m in the middle of a backup...

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Who the hell am I?

January 31, 2024, 11:14 am

Good question. And altho I may not have a good answer, a new intro post is probably a good idea. I’ve done a lot of random things that may or may not have anything to do with each other and I should...

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Renaming the System

February 29, 2024, 9:13 am

I’m coming back to what I was calling Fixed Integer Notation and renaming it the Decimal Pitch System. Still working on practical applications, but the mathematical obstacle that I thought I had to...

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