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Uncanny valley of sound

Excuse this post lacking of subject, just to avoid search engine. I am repeating these tweets after 7 years of his death. I appreciate my husband who put up with my speech in every dinners about my most respected musician for 3 weeks now. #fb — Fujisaki Kickno (@kickno) February 12, 2012 ここ数週間でがくっと体重が落ちたんだけど、筋肉も落ちたみたいで、7mileがちゃんと走れなかった。ともちゃん引っ張る引っ張る; — Fujisaki Kickno (@kickno) February 5, 2012 今日も夜2時くらいに目が覚めて、結局寝に戻れなかった;最近ずっとこのパターン。寝不足で気持ち悪いー。今夜9日ぶりのレッスン、出ないともっとブランク長くなって後で大変なことになるんだよな・・・。 — Fujisaki Kickno (@kickno) February 6, 2012 Since I am an auditory centered person, attending the show (great show!) without him gave me a strong sense of deficiency, cut-off and a lot of flashbacks of my memory. These make me sick. Since the inheriting guitarist is such a skillfull guy (and, good person), accurately copied phrasing by him created; uncanny vally of sound. Hopefully this is just for me. Hopefully everyone else enjoyed the show. Don't mistake. They are DOING...

Chromesthesiaの話

最近このCognitive Disorder(知覚変異?)があまり日本語で話されていないことに気づきました。 なので日本語エントリ。 米国でくらしているうちに、私は英語でこの症状にあたることに気づきました。 ● Chromesthesiaとは --- Many synaesthetes, however, are born with the variance known as chromesthesia. This results in specific sounds, pitches and timbres generating corresponding colours and textures in the field of vision (or, as some describe it, in the “mind’s eye”). --- 聴覚で聞いた音を色や質感として理解する脳の働きをする症状を、Chromesthesiaといいます。日本語での呼び名を私は知りません。 ● Chromesthesiaはどう見えるの? 私は認知学専門家ではないので、他の方はわかりません。なので私の場合だけを話します。 1.日常生活 まったく問題ありません。だだ、比較的人ごみを「うるさい」と感じてイライラする閾値は低いので、耳栓は常に持ち歩いています。 2.音をちゃんと聞こうとする場合 Chromesthesiaは、主に集中して聞いているときに発生します。録音された音をヘッドホンで聞きながら通勤しているときは発生しません。 録音された音でも、静かな環境で集中して聞くと発生します。 しかし一番発生率が高いのは、生の音を聞く機会です。ここではコンサートの場合と、授業の場合を二つの例を上げます。 例1. コンサートなどの場合:  色を感じ、その場の空気の質感?が変わります。色の錯誤認識が一番頻繁に発生し、会場のライティングとは関係ないため、音の影響でライティングと混ざった印象を受けます。 感じ方はレイヤを重ねた感じ。ずっと見えているわけではなく、一瞬見えて消えたり、しばらく続いたりします。 音をトリガにして自分の記憶が見えることもあります。これはちょっと、心理的にキツイ場合もあります。😥 支障が出た唯一の例では、スタン...

I broke my bone in my upper left arm.

Therefore, no climbing record for this summer. Doctor says healing will take at least a half year. Bummer. :(

Southern (Omote) Tanzawa without dog 表丹沢(ソロ&犬なし)

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Summary. Nice pace climbing up, though failed for my ill-planned route coming back. I arrived at Shibusawa sta. 6:45 am, and the line of the people who were waiting for the first bus to Ookura stop, the entrance to the hiking route, was quite long already. At the Ookura stop, there was a Caucasian guy who seemed to be inquisitively looking at hiking registration post and its card ... written in Japanese only.  So I helped him to submit hiking registration. The city of Hadano should also place a multilingual hiker registration form. The town around Ookura bus stop The route I took was starting from the  prefectural forest park . The route is well managed and paved alongside the river. Most of the people I rode with bus apparently used another major path to To no dake. So the path was quiet. Other than the odd entrance to open the netted door for deer to get in, the route reminded me of walking down Yarisawa last year. The path to climb up to Nabewari mountain...

Inukoeji (Dog summiting path) in Tanzawa 丹沢の犬越路 with Dog

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We climbed up Inukoeji (Dog summiting path) where the army of Takeda clan used to march for the purpose of military attack back in the 16th century. Takeda clan used military dogs, so we took our dog too... well, we always take our dog to trek anyway. The path has paved road used for lumberjack business even now. Motor vehicles need to have a permit to pass, but pedestrians can use anytime. Having said that, I wouldn't use this path after dark.  The place is quite silent. They even have an 800m tunnel to connect to the other side of Tanzawa, West side of Tanzawa where holds massive Tanzawa Lake. That hollow existence adds creepiness to the whole path. On the bright side (literally), at the top of the Inukoeji path is the peak of Oosugi-Maru. There is an evacuation hut and bathroom. I had a sweet bean bread for breakfast there. We did not go up to Mt. Omuro, but Mt. Fuji was partially visible from the path. Mt. Fuji  We parked our car at Kannnogawa ...

蛭が岳 Hirugatake (in the beginning of season in 2019)

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  Among several routes to climb up Mt.Hiru, I like the routes from Aone village, since these routes have the least climbers because of  its inconvenience in public transportation. In the early morning, I drove to  Kibikara yama Parking Lot.  The parking lot could contain barely 5 small cars, but was empty at the time of 6:30 am. Going through block gate build for vehicles, permitted to go over for walking climbers only, I walk on the paved road up to the intersection to Haccho-saka route. BTW, if you see any climbing path prefixed by "Haccho", that would be the indication of steep hill in Japanese climbing community. The path going up to Haccho kashira would take good 2.5 hours of walk. Here is what I tried to record a video footage with GoPro. I apologize for my clumsy angle configuration, since my phone app was not prepared well for this expedition. After reaching up to the top of Hacchozaka, the route change to a nice and easy ridge route t...

Kiyosato-Fujimi plateau (Yatsugatake) trip in the storm : 2 清里~富士見高原(八ヶ岳) 台風21号 (2)

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Before moving to Fujimi plateau, we climed up to Iimori yama This was meant to be quick and easy hike. Iimori yama Then we drove to the hut we rent out for next two day, which have fences around yard for dog. You have to be careful for the rural area rule. We arrieved this local town, to the station area around 2pm, expectng to have some lunch. But all of these shops are closed. Since they operate 11-1pm, and 17pm-20pm. in the old style everyone live in the same schedule. We ended up with going local chain grocery and picked up some Tako-Yaki. Fujimi resort rental house The hut was quite old, and do not have enough lighting.  But had decent laundry machine and laundry line under awning.  (No detergent, nor laundry clip) Not only the laundry machine.... I mean, they have good table stove and frying pans, but no condiments, tin-foil nor microwave. They got nice bath chair and washing bowl, but no shampoo nor conditioners. Kitchin sin...