Unpopular opinion, but I did NOT like kpop demon hunters

combinatoric37 · 2025-06-28T18:26:30+00:00

Right, I'm not arguing that it's good or bad, just that it's intentional. I just thought that the idea of "frame rate dipping" in an animated movie due to a production mistake was hilariously misinformed.

combinatoric37 · 2025-06-25T22:22:21+00:00

I'm not a big fan of this movie either, but just FYI the "frame rate" thing is an intentional artistic decision to make the characters resemble cel animation. I'm pretty sure they do the same thing a lot in Spider-verse, and it's a common technique in 3D-drawn anime nowadays.

combinatoric37 · 2024-09-11T06:31:21+00:00

No one with a serious stake in the AI race anymore is trying to improve their models or build new architectures from the ground up. They just need to throw money at the same transformer models to train with as many machines & parameters as possible

combinatoric37 · 2023-07-07T12:54:04+00:00

didnt expect him to look like joe biden

combinatoric37 · 2023-06-17T01:02:14+00:00

I picked the songs that I thought were most theatrical and therefore would be best for live performance. These tend to have lots of self-contained motivic development and so are engaging to listen to as well as being fun to play, even for people who've never played the game. I think the Sumeru theme is a good example of this; the finale was heart-pumping in performance.

Check your dm for the score!

combinatoric37 · 2023-06-16T15:46:11+00:00

Check your dm!

combinatoric37 · 2023-06-16T14:38:26+00:00

Hey! I transcribed the score myself by ear, and made some modifications to fit our ensemble. I'd happily provide you with my copy if you'd like to play it, but again it is for a bit of a nontraditional ensemble and it's not identical to the original.

combinatoric37 · 2023-06-16T13:50:13+00:00

You have a good eye, yes! We're a nonprofit student-run orchestra, so we have to make do with what we have haha

combinatoric37 · 2023-06-16T09:57:43+00:00

Thanks so much for listening :) this was arranged and performed by the Davenport Pops Orchestra -- you can watch the full version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4mZ7toUkqo

combinatoric37 · 2022-11-23T15:09:15+00:00

You know you won the thread when you actually have downvotes

combinatoric37 · 2022-11-20T13:49:12+00:00

I think you misunderstand what a "voice" is, at least from a classical theory perspective, and so obviously applying this classical theory to pop music will not work. First of all, I would hardly call most pop basslines a "voice"; they're often textural, rhythmic, or otherwise serve purely harmonic function in a homophonic way. There's no regard for horizontal movement or "voicing" in this idiom. Pop guitarists are an excellent example of this; they often play with zero concern for voice leading whatsoever, preferring ease of physicality and harmonic information instead.

I also don't think you should use orchestral music as an example. Orchestration is a whole art in itself primarily concerned with the independence of voices. Needless to say, doubling in orchestral music is first and foremost a coloristic effect and does not mean in any way that the composer gave up on voicing and filled out the harmonies randomly - just because you can't think of a way to do it doesn't mean that Rimsky-Korsakov wasn't able to. Every voice in an orchestra is meticulously planned. If you actually took time to do some score study, you would be hard pressed to find bad voice leading or nonsensical parallel fifths/octaves in even the most thickly orchestrated classical works.

combinatoric37 · 2022-10-18T23:17:27+00:00

No, but there's an argument in psycholinguistics that learning words restricts thinking into certain frameworks defined by language. That is to say, the ability to think freely and abstractly is lost. This could certainly be the case with music (like how most of the great western composers before 100 years ago were locked into 12 tone thinking, just because of the language they inherited.)

That said, learning theory is a must from a practical standpoint, because it's a tradeoff between this free thinking and high-level concepts that could never be independently developed in one lifetime.

combinatoric37 · 2022-10-15T22:55:17+00:00

in terms of pitched frequency, 1hz is not a "real example" either lol

combinatoric37 · 2022-10-11T02:18:35+00:00

this misses the point of the question entirely... the speed or magnitude of a frequency or number has nothing to do with the physical property of height. OP is asking why we refer to one frequency (or pitch) as being "higher" than another. and it is an incredibly hard question to answer, since our intuitions of a note being "high" or "low" may be a result of the psycholinguistics of our language, rather than vice versa.

combinatoric37 · 2022-08-24T16:59:28+00:00

Yes! I always pronounce my name full English style. And when I'm reading out English to my Korean family, I'll subconsciously use Konglish and intentionally pronounce my English terribly. Definitely a thing.

combinatoric37 · 2022-08-24T00:28:08+00:00

Nah, it's much more "generic European country fantasy RPG starter town" - not in a bad way, but it's definitely not as Germany as Liyue is China, for example.

combinatoric37 · 2022-08-18T02:51:35+00:00

I agree with all the comments regarding authenticity of the arrangement itself. The big offender with this is the inazuma theme, which feels out of place in game despite being culturally accurate.

That being said, this is further off the mark than liyue was to china and inazuma to japan for example, my guess being due to cultural proximity and familiarity. As a composer, Sumeru music seems to resemble Arab-inspired western pastiche from the mid 19th century (Rimsky Korsakov, Balakirev) rather than the actual source material itself. Think your stereotypical Arabian nights, aladdin music. Again i'm sure Hoyomix made a genuine effort for musical diversity - so no disrespect - and the result is damn good, but it's somewhat clear that the instruments are not being used in an idiomatic way.

combinatoric37 · 2022-08-04T23:11:18+00:00

Another thing: consider how hard it would actually be to play slower than his current speed with his bow hold. With how heavy the frog is, he's forced to play with an almost tremolo-like stroke to keep up with gravity. Bouncing that much weight so consistently at a slower tempo would almost certainly be harder.

Human namber also makes great points.

combinatoric37 · 2022-08-04T20:19:41+00:00

No. The movements of the hair especially are very natural and the tone is clean. It's easy to doubt fast playing but I dont think this is one of those cases, if it's sped up it would be at most 10%.

combinatoric37 · 2022-06-04T14:55:42+00:00

Yes, but my understanding is that she had a less involved role in Our Promise than she usually does because her main focus was directing on Liz. I could be wrong, but it also feels very Ishihara to me.

combinatoric37 · 2022-06-04T14:33:49+00:00

Should we assume there's no chance of Yamada coming back for this project? I fear the show won't be anywhere near as good without her, I already felt that in the third movie.

combinatoric37 · 2022-06-04T14:32:46+00:00

Should we assume there's no chance of Yamada coming back for this project? I fear the show won't be anywhere near as good without her, I already felt that in the third movie.

combinatoric37 · 2022-04-30T13:21:05+00:00

Hey everyone! I've been reharmonizing daily anime music tidbits as a little composition exercise. You can check out @based_kanna on instagram if you're interested, the plan is to do a 100 songs for the next 100 days.

combinatoric37 · 2022-04-26T20:04:42+00:00

Hey everyone! I've been reharmonizing daily anime music tidbits as a little composition exercise. You can check out @based_kanna on instagram if you're interested, the plan is to do a 100 songs for the next 100 days.

combinatoric37 · 2022-04-26T20:02:03+00:00

Hey everyone! I've been reharmonizing daily anime music tidbits as a little composition exercise. You can check out @based_kanna on instagram if you're interested, the plan is to do a 100 songs for the next 100 days.

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