I love music, many kind of music, music from everywhere. While unlike many japanophile I am not a fan of the J-Pop scene, I appreciate many artists from the Japans. Even if I love music in general I must say that my real love is for experimental music and through years I saw many internationally renown experimental musicians from Japan, musicians that might well be unknown in their own country such as 非常階段 or 灰野 敬二...

This brings me to the question:
ねじ回しかネジマワシか?
I am currently working on an experimental music project made of live treatment of synthesizers with max/msp. I developed the max patcher for about 2 years and decided to name it "nejimawashi". From the name of the patcher comes the name of the project, but if nejimawashi already sounds Japanese, I would like to amplify the "Japan twist" by writing the name in kana. The dilemma comes from the fact that while the patcher is named after the tool, it is not a screwdriver. Would it be more suitable to use katakana as I am "Americanizing" a Japanese word? Would it make sense?
I don't know! And since I will soon be able to print a CD, I want to see what you Japanese think.

Please help me decide what is best. Also feel free to tell me I am a pretentious gaikokujin if that is what you think, I was ready for that when I decided to study Japan culture にひひ
Blog posts from the barbarian (or, Learning Japanese in Canada)

Presentation: The small swamp, Canadian (Québec) Software Engineering student and experimental musician. I'm a native French speaker but I master the English language as both are official languages in Canada. I also speak little Spanish and I'm now studying Japanese on my own.

Why learn Japanese? In America, we all grew up with the Nitendo System, the Family Computer, as well as many other Japanese imports. Through this commercial pop culture, many of us grew accustomed to some aspects of life in Japan. However, we all knew this reflected only a small part of what Japan really is. For me, this complexity of the Rising Sun Empire, hidden in a language I can't even read, always seemed intriguing and mysterious. When I think about the cultu-...wait wait wait, that's going too deep! The real reason? To be honest, one of my friend married a very nice woman from Japan, and I thought it would be nice to get a private teacher while allowing her to think in Japanese with some "Québec barbarians" from times to times.

I started to study Japanese only 3 months ago, and while I sincerely hope to be able to write here in Japanese one day, right now my vocabulary is far too limited to express myself correctly, If and when I do, please feel free to teach, help or correct me when necessary.