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Some notes about the music, since I did actually listen to it. First, you have talent (but you knew that). Second, I did hear actual music through the shitty synth performance that reminds one of a scene from a '90s video game.
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Then again you probably programmed half the games I played in that day, but are just too shy to tell.
On the plus side, the cheapest free synths these days are way more versatile than what Vangelis or Jean-Michel Jarre had to work with commercially, after investing an arm and a leg for a Casio. So I'm not complaining.
If anything I'd prefer to complain about the opposite, how the synths keep getting better to the point of replacing humans.
Now anyway. Yes, I will try your thing and then thank you. Though I'm kinda busy today, so how about I thank you first and then try your thing later.
11:42 AM
I let a sus chord hang unresolved there. And it was in the same spot in the same kind of phrase, and it was also a C. (Though a sus7 rather than a sus4. So the effect was not identical. But the general idea absolutely was.)
And if you recall, which you don't, that was precisely the one thing that you objected to after hearing the MIDI.
Which then made me sit at the piano and record it, and that's how my whole YouTube channel started in the first place. Just so I could share an unresolved Csus with you.
And upon hearing the piano you approved. And now a year later you are the one recommending it to me.
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@Malavika because I have taken GRE three times but still can't get a high score. The test time given for GRE is too short for me to finish answering all questions though those questions are very easy, far easier than the questions in the exams of my MSc program. Then I have the feeling USA deliberately designed this kind of test to give foreign students hard time and make money from them. I guess TOEFL may also be that way.
also, applying for university programs takes a lot of money. I have been upset in spending so much money in GRE, and don't want to spend further money for application fees in USA.
@Malavika I know USA PhD programs in stem fields usually have scholarship, but PhD programs in other countries also generally have stipend or scholarship but don't require these expensive tests and application fees.
@Malavika we also have cram schools for TOEFL; one of my classmates has gone one of those cram schools and was admitted to USA PhD program.
@Malavika not really? I have beem struggled long after graduation before finding the place to go to.
most people apply for programs in USA or England when they are still in school. But if you want to go to other places, it takes time to search.
Netherlands don't easily accept foreign students and give them scholarship unless you have connection with some professor there.
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@Malavika but you have to pay a lot before getting admission to a USA university if you do finally get admitted there with schilarship.
Applying for universities in a lot of countries doesn't need application fees and those USA tests which take a lot of money
i should say I don't know if applying for UG in other countries requires application fees. But I know PhD don't.
2:22 PM
@Malavika yes, he said:"if you don't please your advisor, he may write bad things about you in your recommendation letter, then you can't go anywhere."
@Malavika in addition, he also scared me multiple times during the process of my asking him to send recommendation letter for me. Like when I informed him too late before the application deadline, he said:"if next time you don't give me enough time, I won't send the letter for you."
@Malavika I said:"I am sorry to inform you late. Please forgive me. I will inform you earlier next time."
@Malavika next time I did inform him earlier, but he didn't send the recommendation letter to the program I applied for by the deadline, and I asked him why not send, and he replied that he was overwhelmed with writing some research grant applications.
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@Robusto I'm just coming back from laternelaufen (which according to Wikipedia is the English word for it, no really), and then subsequently watching the Joker with Joaquin Phoenix.
I have no idea what everyone's beef with the movie is all about. It is spectacular. Not perfect. Certainly not. But fantastic.
Oh and yeah the score is by some Icelandic lady I've never even heard of before (and indeed I'm only guessing she must be an Icelandic lady just from seeing the dottir in her name and then immediately forgetting the entire rest of it), and now that part of the movie is perfect alright. I don't know how anyone can write music that good with so many references jam-packed into it but exactly none of them on the nose. Blink and you'll miss it.
Laternelaufen pronounced [laˈtɛʁnəˌlaʊ̯fn̩] (‘Walking with Lanterns’) is a German tradition for the time around St. Martin's Day. On 11 November (or later/earlier for reasons of appointment) children (usually in kindergarten and elementary school age) walk along the streets holding colourful, often self-made lanterns (Laternenumzug, ‘Lantern Pageant’). Laternelaufen is slightly competing with Halloween, but they are different enough to coexist.
== Memorial to St. Martin ==
Legend has it that St. Martin, a soldier, gave a beggar the half of his soldier's coat to protect the man from freezing to...
Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Todd Phillips, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Silver. The film, based on DC Comics characters, stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker. Joker provides a possible origin story for the character; set in 1981, it follows Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian in Gotham City who becomes the Joker after a series of unfortunate events. Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Bill Camp, Shea Whigham, and Marc Maron appear in supporting roles. Joker was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures...
Hildur Ingveldar Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an Icelandic musician and composer. A classically trained cellist, she has played and recorded with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Múm and Stórsveit Nix Noltes, and has also toured with Animal Collective and Sunn O))).
== Career ==
In 2006, she released a solo album under the name Lost In Hildurness, Mount A, on which she attempted to "involve other people as little as I could." It was recorded in New York City and Hólar in the north of Iceland. 2009 saw the release of her second solo album, Without Sinking, on the U.K.-based audio...
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