fixed quote formatting in How to Bronze Bowman; as well as in What a Daring Dream artwork commentary

- added noot deviantart to artists yaml

3 files changed, 35 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-6.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-6.yaml
index c2b77edd..245dcc9e 100644
--- a/album/homestuck-vol-6.yaml
+++ b/album/homestuck-vol-6.yaml
@@ -78,9 +78,8 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (from [How to Bronze Bowman](https://web.archive.org/web/20110530044130/http://iambowman.com/2011/01/how-to-bronze-bowman.html), 01/05/2011)
     > bowman needs to be bronzed so we never lose him
-
-    someone google "how to bronze bowman"
-    - [Jitka](https://web.archive.org/web/20110530071815/http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?34415-Homestuck-Vol.-6-Heir-Transparent&p=4475117&viewfull=1#post4475117)
+    >
+    > someone google "how to bronze bowman" - [Jitka](https://web.archive.org/web/20110530071815/http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?34415-Homestuck-Vol.-6-Heir-Transparent&p=4475117&viewfull=1#post4475117)
 
     Hi Jitka!
 
diff --git a/album/the-wanderers.yaml b/album/the-wanderers.yaml
index 403be163..22a66343 100644
--- a/album/the-wanderers.yaml
+++ b/album/the-wanderers.yaml
@@ -248,11 +248,15 @@ Art Tags:
 - Serenity
 - Ruined Earth
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Steve Everson:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/19896197965/could-you-do-some-commentary-on-your-homestuck), excerpt)
+    <i>Steve Everson:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/19896197965/could-you-do-some-commentary-on-your-homestuck), excerpt)
 
     My most recent contribution to Homestuck's music, and another of my favourites. This piece is actually pretty old, going back to before [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Volume 5]], where it was much simpler (playing out more like a round) and with poorer sound quality in general. Like most of my music it was inspired by a similar piece from somewhere else - in this case, [the original Bionicle flash adventure game](https://biomediaproject.com/bmp/play/web-games/mnog/) that used to be on the Lego website way back. If you've played it, you might notice the similarity, at least as far as instrumentation goes. It had been many years since I'd last even seen the game, long after it fell off the site, so I couldn't recognise what I liked about the piece and so the imitation I'd made was pretty poor!
 
     Fast forward a year or two. Some discussion with internet friends had led me to find that old flash game again, and I heard my old favourite tune in all its glory (significantly less glorious than I remembered; nostalgia does that to you). Still, it showed me the main place I was going wrong, which was that I'd neglected harmony. All of the three or four lines of music that piece had were monophonic, making a really drab sound, while what I needed where chords. A stupid mistake? Sure, it was, but then, I wasn't that good a musician when I first wrote the piece. I started over, applying all the experience I'd got both from writing music and simply listening to it with a critical ear to get my main contribution to the Wanderers album, and something I could be proud of.
+
+    <i>Emi:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://averyniceprince.tumblr.com/post/7604455794/httphomestuckbandcampcomtrackwe-walk), 7/14/2011)
+
+    Rachel asked me to draw for one of the tracks for the new album, and I honestly couldn't have been more honored!!! ;____;;; I had always wanted to draw the exiles, so this was a perfect opportunity hehe *U*
 ---
 Track: Requiem for an Exile
 Artists:
@@ -389,21 +393,38 @@ Lyrics: |-
     What a daring dream...
     (Just what do you think you're planning on doing with that ring?)<br>(Whatever it is forget it)<br>(The Slayer is miiiiiiiine)<br>(Now w8ke up)<br>(I said W88888888KE!)
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt))
+    <i>Alex Rosetti:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://albatrossthesoup.tumblr.com/post/25964085415/commentary-for-what-a-daring-dream), 6/26/2012)
+    Here's my writeup for What a Daring Dream, as requested:
+
+    ------------
 
     The Wanderers is my favorite Homestuck album. Its focused premise, interesting takes on a theme, and general aesthetic all appeal to me. Not to mention the fact that it contains some of the best songs in the Homestuck discography. This song is not one of those.
 
-    I don't mean to sell myself short, but What a Daring Dream is hard to appreciate on its own as music, and this was intentional. As a matter of fact, I wrote it to underscore WV's dream sequence, which is one of my favorite parts of Homestuck. And even then, my approach wasn't as programmatic as Malcolm's, as he had the same idea with his track, Nightmare. Funny enough, we even ended up giving our pieces the same title, but he was generous enough to change his so that I could keep mine. Of course, because of this the two songs compliment each other very well, and make for a great double-closer to the album.
+    I don't mean to sell myself short, but <i>What a Daring Dream</i> is hard to appreciate on its own as music, and this was intentional. As a matter of fact, I wrote it to underscore WV's dream sequence, which is one of my favorite parts of Homestuck. And even then, my approach wasn't as programmatic as Malcolm's, as he had the same idea with his track, [[Nightmare]]. Funny enough, we even ended up giving our pieces the same title, but he was generous enough to change his so that I could keep mine. Of course, because of this the two songs compliment each other very well, and make for a great double-closer to the album.
 
-    I composed What a Daring Dream long before we officially started production on The Wanderers. I actually made the first version of it very shortly after that update came out, it being one of those quick flashes of inspiration. In terms of musical influence, there are a few musical cues from Neon Genesis Evangelion that sounded like the direction I wanted to take. All the ones I listened to had this sort of "stuck in your own head" sort of approach to them, which of course is very suited to their subject matter, and that was the reason I thought this sort of music would be perfect for my piece.
+    I composed What a Daring Dream long before we officially started production on <i>The Wanderers</i>. I actually made the first version of it very shortly after that update came out, it being one of those quick flashes of inspiration. In terms of musical influence, there are a few musical cues from <i>Neon Genesis Evangelion</i> that sounded like the direction I wanted to take. All the ones I listened to had this sort of "stuck in your own head" sort of approach to them, which of course is very suited to their subject matter, and that was the reason I thought this sort of music would be perfect for my piece.
 
     I wanted the music to be very hazy and meditative, very much like a dream (naturally). Unclear sounds fading in and out, soft messages you're not quite sure you're hearing. The use of Morse code was an obvious choice, though I did not have the patience to translate every single line of code in that sequence. I just used the same sample repeatedly, altered it a bit, and panned the two versions of it to each side of the mix. I did, however, think it would be worth my time to whisper the English translation of the Morse code, so throughout the piece you hear my voice narrating ever so slightly in the background, even up to Vriska's dialogue.
 
-    The instrumentation was a lucky coincidence since I modeled parts of it off the Evangelion score, and those happened to fit the very broad "Eastern music" theme we were going for for the most part. So the piece turned out to be a great candidate for the album and I worked on it a lot more before submitting it to be on there. Overall it was one of the most fun songs I've had the pleasure of making for Homestuck, and the fact that it spooked some people is an added bonus.
+    The instrumentation was a lucky coincidence since I modeled parts of it off the <i>Evangelion</i> score, and those happened to fit the very broad "Eastern music" theme we were going for for the most part. So the piece turned out to be a great candidate for the album and I worked on it a lot more before submitting it to be on there. Overall it was one of the most fun songs I've had the pleasure of making for Homestuck, and the fact that it spooked some people is an added bonus.
+
+    Speaking of bonuses, [[artist:noot]] did the art we used for this track. It was one of a few pieces of track art that weren't commissioned. I happened to be looking around for artists and saw this, and I already knew it was perfect.
+
+    <i>Noot:</i> (track artist, [DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/shikana/art/Dreams-of-red-and-sunder-215885568) full size artwork, 6/30/2011)
+
+    <img src="media/misc/what-a-daring-dream-full.png" width="500" warning="blood (abstract)">
+
+    > A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
+
+    This was probably the most ambitious thing I have done in quite a while. WV's dream sequence was always incredibly interesting to me, and what it implied. I wonder when we'll get to see how he gets out of being blown the smitheroons.
+
+    Here's hoping it isn't very long before that bit of exposition up there becomes HORRIBLY OUTDATED.
 
-    Speaking of bonuses, Noot did the art we used for this track. It was one of a few pieces of track art that weren't commissioned. I happened to be looking around for artists and saw this, and I already knew it was perfect.
+    Wayward Vagabond and Bec Noir are from MSPA and belong to Andrew Hussie
 ---
 Track: Nightmare
+Additional Names:
+- Anubis (working title)
 Artists:
 - Malcolm Brown
 Duration: '4:13'
@@ -428,11 +449,11 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     Firstly, the concept - It starts of quite dreamlike, then as we get to 1:40 the transformation starts, then there's some more preamble up to around 2:45 onewards, which is the "Red Miles" section where everything starts to go haywire. In betwixt there's lots of creepy choirs, weird noises and distorted barking all set to a kind of pseudo Egyptian theme (One working title was 'Anubis')
 
-    Hidden around 0:25 onwards is a kind of very subtle reference to Black and an even subtler reference to RDA. After that it's mostly original.
+    Hidden around 0:25 onwards is a kind of very subtle reference to [[Black]] and an even subtler reference to [[Rex Duodecim Angelus|RDA]]. After that it's mostly original.
 
     There are various samples hidden around the place, like wolf barks and jackal howling. Also all sorts of bizarre human laughter/screaming/conversation that's been reversed and distorted. Then we get to 2:45 and I attempt to kick it into a kind of bizarre Trailer-music affair with a ridiculous amount of percussion and a lot of staccato strings. Oh and those big brass drones everyone loves these days.
 
-    The ending (3:50 odd) attempts to mimic the beginning of Carapacian Dominion, to act as a kind of bookend for the album. It doesn't do it perfectly, but that's my fault :P
+    The ending (3:50 odd) attempts to mimic the beginning of [[Carapacian Dominion]], to act as a kind of bookend for the album. It doesn't do it perfectly, but that's my fault :P
 
     I quite like this one. I'm not fully sold on the odd sound effects since they're always a bit gimmicky, but the overall theme kinda works. The name was fairly obvious - I did attempt to call it "What a daring Nightmare" but Alex Rosetti beat me to it.
 
diff --git a/artists.yaml b/artists.yaml
index 94b5cf7a..7597fca7 100644
--- a/artists.yaml
+++ b/artists.yaml
@@ -8168,6 +8168,10 @@ Dead URLs:
 - http://www.nonominomusic.com/
 ---
 Artist: Noot
+Aliases:
+- Shikana
+URLs:
+- https://www.deviantart.com/shikana
 ---
 Artist: Norihiko Hibino
 ---