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I'm also a fan of the Yamanote Line. I made a psychedelic AI audio-visual collage inspired by it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwUSzUvShqcaa I made field recordings during my last stay in Tokyo. From those, I made a song for each station of the Yamanote line, using the Jingle in the prompt. The visuals were made similarly. Used mainly Suno, Udio, Runway and Ableton Live.
A couple of months ago, riding the subway through Ginza Station for the first time in a while, I noticed that the door-closing melody was from the 1949 song Ginza Kankan Musume [1, 2]. I’m normally not very familiar with Japanese pop music, but I happen to have the song on a playlist I listen to together with my five-year-old grandson. It brought a smile to my face, as it’s a cheerful, very slightly risqué song from…
I don't know how to describe this, but Japanese enjoy putting a little bit of joy into every thing, like Ronald McDonald, but real.
I was just in Japan a few months ago. It was my fourth visit, but the first for my partner, who found the different departure melodies notable and a really nice, cute, joyful thing. We made a point to listen to them whenever we were taking a train somewhere (which was of course very often, multiple times per day). In a way it feels like a funny thing to have near top-of-mind when it comes to memories of a trip that w…
What interesting is, the implementation is completely simple multi pages HTML5/CSS/Vanilla JavaScript. No framework. And it just, works.
Leaving Japan next week after living in Tokyo for 6 months. This website is going to hit different very soon. ドアに注意下さい
It takes very little effort to implement. You could hold melody competitions for local communities. It is a nice thing which sparks joy and it's also something that people would want to travel and experience. You could hold a competition with local schools every year to develop a little 5 second melody.
I just think of this from a UK point-of-view. It's like we completely forget what makes life interesting and everything has to be boring and mundane.
I was just in Japan a few months ago. It was my fourth visit, but the first for my partner, who found the different departure melodies notable and a really nice, cute, joyful thing. We made a point to listen to them whenever we were taking a train somewhere (which was of course very often, multiple times per day). In a way it feels like a funny thing to have near top-of-mind when it comes to memories of a trip that w…
Going off [0] where Okachimachi, Uguisudani, Nippori, Nishi-Nippori, Tabata, Sugamo, Otsuka, Mejiro, and Yoyogi are covered by the same lesson, I guess they must be? [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNs2Ka0C_w4
https://w.atwiki.jp/trainmelody/pages/273.html
https://wikiwiki.jp/sta_melodys/%E5%B1%B1%E6%89%8B%E7%B7%9A
https://atosmatome.wiki.fc2.com/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E9%A...
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Thia give me PTSD flashback. My first job out of high school was bic camera. Those melodies are fun at station because they only play it when train is coming, but full blasting it 24/7 (including rest room) makes your brain go numb. I go in to a trance state of corporate drone mode with a 営業スマイル(sales smile) and bendy-hip when I hear that tune
I can imagine. I have the Yodobashi Camera jingle permenantly seared into my brain, and I am only a customer! When I worked at a gym, they played the same 10 or so songs all day every day. My heartrate rises when I hear them.
I'm also a fan of the Yamanote Line. I made a psychedelic AI audio-visual collage inspired by it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwUSzUvShqcaa I made field recordings during my last stay in Tokyo. From those, I made a song for each station of the Yamanote line, using the Jingle in the prompt. The visuals were made similarly. Used mainly Suno, Udio, Runway and Ableton Live.