音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Nothing is 100% perfect. Owning a nutcracker doesn't necessarily mean you can break any nut by your hand. Which I'm saying my recent status. Either Mozart or Akiko, I can just loop.
...and loop and loop...

Well, before I spend more space to talk about my looping madness, lemme bring here something else very briefly.

Since early last week, I was trying to train Mr. Camel. I wanted him to deliver emails in cmd.exe or termal. And on this Friday, I made it with my penguin. Good, then I turned to focus on tweaking with Ms. Harvestasya, and then all the trouble raised like flood. I've tried at least 5 different modules, yet I all got the same (I assume) result: Failed to connect to SMTP--How the hell this could happen? °A°
But now I'm tired to continue this fight. At least PenOS works.

Ar Nosurge's two song albums have been released a while ago. Kenji Kawaii's composing made the biggest surprise (and Kenji's stuff is his, no matter that's Akiko or anyone else singing). When listened to them at first, I was a bit depressed--Haruka and Noriko had too few songs!! ~_~

Frankly, most songs are good. Just I have to complain regarding quite a lot of the song titles.

I've noticed the naming pattern of both Ar Tonelico and CielNosurge long time ago. But I never realised that the C.N. song names are so Perl! Since I ever did a simple search, and in the range of my knowing languages, only Perl matches the style the most.
So I made these dummy files last week:
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(By the way, you might already notice that my playlists are matching the Black Syndicate in Detective Conan :3)

Right, back to the complaint itself. I've never seen SO MANY stupid song names in batch! I'll make a list here. Not mentioning those cryptic combination of text of course.

I was trying to find a chance to play (or loop) both albums for more times, but currently, I got addicted to "Class::CIEL_NOSURGE;"--without knowing what she's actually singing! I'm so glad to hear Akiko's other traditional Japanese styled arrangement since her last piece "Hiraitesanze". Similarly, I spent in total of 11 hours during the weekend to visualise my "melodic reflection" toward this song. Now it's 98% finished, I just need a title for it. Hope I can find one in next a few days (before my heart cools down to talk more here). After looping this song for 100+ times, now I'm in a super Ojou-sama mode. So call me Ojou from now on!! xD

Finally, a piece of real life memory.
In last week's teaching, I've encountered the dumbest question.

Me (reading the question): "For a restriction enzyme, does it cut your DNA strand into bigger or smaller pieces?"
(and I paused for 2 seconds.)
Me (continued quietly, unsatisfied): "It's a dumb question."
Me (looked at my students): "Smaller. Any questions?"
Me (paused for another 2 seconds): "Alright, next question."

Dumb enougb. Even a person who doesn't know what a restriction enzyme is can answer this question. u_u

↓ This is so cool!!

I'm so glad that I took that class, so all of us got a chance to enter the "CAVE" and dismembered the human model as much as we wanted!

Yet while turning the lights on, you might never image how real things were (although it's labelled as "Fakespace").

Anyway, I'm not good at describing the entire thing, but it did stay in my memory (and will never be removed).

To rip 26 CDs in a row isn't fun!!

Started from my Don Giovanni crusade (followed by a short Die Zauberflöte trip), I've fallen into Sir Gardiner's world so deeply that I couldn't hold myself from buying that box! Meanwhile, the Karajan Conducts Tchaikovsky was in the suggested section, and only one in stock. So thus I took the last piece.

And what I want to say here is,
Only the Germans can do "B9" properly!
Obviously, B9 is Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

So far, of all versions I've listened to, Furtwängler's interpretation recording is my favourite, followed by Kurt Masur--Right, Karajan isn't here, surprisingly, at least not as marvellous as the first two. Interestingly, both of Furtwän and Masur are Germans. For other versions, Gardiner's was too light and Bernstein's was too plain. However, I myself believe Solti's will be excellent, but too bad, I haven't got a chance to try his version. I do admire Gardiner's Mozart and other Baroque performances, they're all fantastic, but when things come to Beethoven, it may not work well to integrate too much cheerful mood as for Mozart. Or maybe my feeling solely came from the crappy rip (by whatever reason, the ripper's disc was scratched too much so the resulting file was crappy)...

(don't ask me what I'm writing, I have no idea either!)

Today's last line:
I swear I'll have a black cat in future, and since then I'll only wear in black~

Mozart is such a concentration killer!
I was planning to have some reading, but due to the sudden appearance of "Per queste tue manine", a piece of treasure hidden behind most recordings, my mind was trapped and the original plan was completely ruined--That's why now I'm writing a new post, to complain of course.

As my Don Giovanni Fest goes, I've played this opera for so many times that almost every single phrase had been engraved in my heart. So I was surprised when a never-been-heard brisky leading melody jumped out at where Donna Elvira would appear with "In quali eccessi o numi Mi tradi". Then I looked up its title, couldn't recall. That was an unknown piece for sure. Although afterwards, I realised that this duetto was also included in few others' performances such as Gardiner's 1994 and Jacobs' 2006 recordings, it was Solti's 1978 recording brought it to my attention. Maybe I was in a lossy mood so that I could notice something different. Anyway, I feel so unfair for it. How could people decide to omit it while the piece itself is so beautiful and charming (I agree it's not well connected to others dramatically)?!

Together with "O statua gentilissima" and "Ah! Chi mi dice mai", now I add "Per queste tue manine" so they are my top three favourites from Don Giovanni. Also, as I said in the beginning. This duetto is so pretty that I kept telling myself "Only one more time, I'll stop and do my things", yet I simply kept failing mercilessly.

↓ The damn great spell that got me intoxicated for the whole night!

Bringing the topic about Don Giovanni again, I remember I read a few days ago from an opera guidebook. The author said Mozart might not be the best choice for opera beginners due to the complexity in terms of musical composition or this or that, regardless the beaufitul melody. That's ridiculous! Melody is the pith of music. If the melody isn't beautiful, people might drop halfway, especially for beginners (I know someone who escaped from even Vivaldi's catchy "Four Seasons"!). I doubt that a person who knows no classical music would enjoy Mahler or Bruckner or Schoenberg instead of Mozart (obviously I'm biased, since the formar two are quite dull to me and the third is nothing but being worse!). Or, is the author expecting a beginner could act like a scholar who can analyse the entire piece--giving that the author's recommendations are based on so much aspects!

Also from another book (another classical music guidebook or that sort), the author claimed speaking of classical music, most people would link to romantic era that they listen with care, while Bach and Mozart's works are mostly used as daily life BGM. Again I doubt about it. My case is at the opposite side. Like what happened tonight, Mozart ate up my night time. Yet I could leave Liszt's transcendental etudes flowing as my "working BGM" (I'm NOT negative, I do love Liszt, although not of most).

In conclusion, those so-called guidebooks are merely references. You might get insights after a quick browse, but don't rely on and fully trust them. After all, the authors are humans too, and of no time, humans can be free of biases. At last, I'm glad that I didn't read any of such years ago--when I just dabbled in the world of classical music.