Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

Well, I graduated yesterday!! (Okay, so it's 1:45 AM right now, so I guess now it's the day before yesterday?... It was December 12. That we know for sure.)

And I was so tired after the ceremony that on the way home, I could remember every new day I kept falling asleep and waking up - despite playing Super Smash Bros. 3DS to try and keep myself awake, so sometimes my character would end up standing there for a while until I woke up again. :)

And then I got home at 5 PM or so and pretty much went straight to bed - and stayed in bed until about 2 PM the next day. Yes, I was THAT tired after all the stress from this semester...


And guess what pathvain_aelien gave to me as a graduation gift that originally would've been a Christmas gift?

Dark Sky Island, the new Enya CD!!!

I'm listening to it for the second time right now :)


It still feels weird that there's a new Enya CD since so much has changed since the last time there was a new Enya CD with new songs... I mean, this is the first Enya CD with new songs since I started becoming active on LJ. It's the first Enya CD with new songs since this dream from 2009 or earlier (notice where I say "I never got to see what was on the other CD. I want it so badly."? I like to pretend that Dark Sky Island was the other CD in the dream, and that after nearly seven years, I'm finally getting to listen to it). It's even the first Enya CD with new songs since I designed Wænya, which was also nearly seven years ago! Which just goes to show how long I've been putting off all sorts of stuff...

And on the road are you and this entry

Ever since I found out about image sonification (converting an image to a sound or vice versa - in this case, with the horizontal axis corresponding to time and the vertical axis corresponding to pitch), I'd wondered if anyone had ever been able to listen to music "upside-down" by reversing the image vertically so that low pitches become high pitches and vice versa, but I could never find one. However, while trying to find a free program I'd downloaded a while back that used a different approach to image sonification (but I'd either deleted or forgotten about), I finally stumbled upon a program that can edit music as if it were an image, including turning it upside-down!



And there's even a free demo! Isn't it amazing when something you wish existed turns out to exist after all? :)

I never did find the other program that I forgot the name of, though, but I'm wondering if anyone out there happens to know of it.

Its method of converting an image to music, using my uChIN RA G userpic as an example:



Assuming that the red channel is mapped to piano, the green is drums, and the blue is flute (there's over 200 instruments to choose from, I think), most of the piece would be silent (for the plain black background), but towards the middle, the piano would play at only one pitch that is slightly lower than the highest pitch it allows (since all red values on the text are 248), the drums would play at two pitches (that one plus a slightly lower and quieter one for green values of 192, corresponding to the darker yellow/orange pixels), and, occasionally, the flute would play at that same high pitch (as there's only a few pixels - namely, the white pixels - where the blue is 248 instead of 0). And there's options to treat it as a grayscale image and only play one instrument, invert the colors (useful if there's more light colors than dark colors), lower the resolution to make a shorter piece, change the tempo, or have the tempo be faster whenever the instruments are quieter (to reduce the silence in this example).

If you didn't understand that, don't worry - you'd probably understand it better if you'd used the program I'm trying to describe, so that means you probably haven't. But if you do understand that, do you know what the program I'm talking about is called? Thanks!

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Welp, I have somehow managed to survive everything for 18 whole years. Go me!!

I haven't gotten my birthday presents yet, but I did go gambling for a little while (awehla, I mentioned in a comment that it'd be tomorrow, but the plans ended up changing). I won $63!!! And we had a party at the autism intervention group I go to!

And, of course, the usual Museum of Accomplishments post:

( <s>Cake</s> cut for length )

Also, in addition to today being my birthday, this is my 700th post in this journal!! I was going to celebrate with a list of the subject lines from all 700 entries in my journal (and, for once, even my community entries!), but I left my laptop unplugged while I was typing it, and since my laptop doesn't have a low battery alarm (despite claiming that it does), I lost a lot of it and decided to give up. Maybe for my 800th or 1000th entry?

Stay awake for 264 hours to repost this entry

I stayed in bed until 2 PM today. Wow.

EDIT: I just realized this was my 400th post.

Sleep through reposting

I'll be at Camp El Tesoro from June 21-26. Hopefully, I won't make a fool of myself somewhere at camp like I did EVERY SINGLE TIME I'VE BEEN TO CAMP PREVIOUSLY. >:(

I also recently got pathvain_aelien addicted to Mario Kart Wii. Yay!

( And I'm still making comics with the Garfield Randomizer )

OW! OW! Now my head hurts!