Music Albums

Well, it seems like I cannot stand posting this here. Mostly because my tumblr doesn’t seem to have many “followers”.

Anyway. In order from most wanted to least wanted, among those that I can think of (but should be all unless I keep discovering new insta-wishlist albums):

PCOCD-001: pichnopop – HAPPYMAKER (will release 12 August)
SBFR-0042: salvation by faith records – Eevee Fan Disc (released 26 May)
PMMCD-004: Prismatic Music – Prismatic Music Vol. 1 (released 2 February)
PMMCD-006: Prismatic Music – Prismatic Sounds (release information N/A)

Yes I have too much happycore songs. Why not 😛

Special Puzzle 11: Canon and Gigue in D

Musical Marathon This is an optimization puzzle. Lay groups of notes on the grid and program a robot to move along a path. When the robot moves on top of a group of notes, the exact group of notes is played. When the robot moves on top of a cell without any group, the previous note is simply held. A group of notes is played for a quaver (half of a quarter, eighth of a measure), so the robot moves at the speed of two units per beat. The given score must be played precisely. The robot may not stop; they must move to an orthogonally adjacent square every quaver. Optimize by using the least number of notes.

Here is the puzzle (Canon and Gigue in D by Johann Pachelbel), and an example solution by me that is fairly optimized (31 notes):

Special Puzzle 11: Canon and Gigue in D
Musical Marathon
(MIDI if you want to listen instead of read)

The path is the following, starting from the black-bordered square (B indicates introducing the robot):
B↓←↑→↓←↑ / →↑↑←↑↑→→ / ←↓←↑→↓→→ / ↓→←↑↓↓←← / →↑←↓→↓↓→ / ←→→←←↓→→ / →↓↓→←←↑← / ↑→↓←←←←↓

(You can imagine it. Sadly I don’t have an applet to play it or something. I need to make some applets heh 😛 )

Yes, as you can see, I’m into optimization puzzles too. Also, I listen to too many songs and I recently (re)played SpaceChem, so…yeah.

I also have a 33-measure (264-quaver) song soon. I only need to create the score 😛

Freedom Dive

Heh. Happy Hardcore.

Current favorite music genre: Happy Hardcore

Current favorite songs (all full versions, not including songs I haven’t found their MP3s):
1. xi – Freedom Dive (222 BPM, happy hardcore)
2. TOMOSUKE – Macuilxochitl (147 BPM, jazz-like thing)
3. Tatsh – HEAVENLY MOON (185 BPM, fast paced and perhaps happy hardcore too)
4. TOMOSUKE – Ergosphere (170 BPM, also jazz-like)
5. Mutsuhiko Izumi – Green Green Dance (165 BPM, country-rock-I don’t know)
6. P*Light – Poppin’ Showers (175 BPM, perhaps happy hardcore)
7. DJ Mashiro – Prismatic Lollipops (202 BPM, happy hardcore)
8. 3R2 – Hardcore Star (180 BPM, definitely happy hardcore)
9. DJ Mashiro vs 3R2 – Are You Ready (177 BPM, pop or something, maybe a hint of happy hardcore)
10. xi – Parousia (158 BPM, worship-like-thing)

As like my favorite Pokemon list, number one is leading absurdly far from the second and the third, which averagely tie. Fourth is not too far behind. The rest is pretty difficult to figure out, like I have about 16 songs that I’m not certain their order to occupy #5-#20… This may be revised later.