bowman q&a tidbits

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     <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2028), adapted to text, 7/20/2024)
 
     Oh, Minihoof's Adventure - that was another piece of pony music. That was another thing where I was like, really on a roll, and like, writing beginning to end. I feel like I could have written, like... an hour of that, if I wanted to. It's just like, once your palette is figured out with like, the kind of carnival environment that it was supposed to sound like, it was just so easy to just be like - let's have something different happen here, and let's have a little breakdown, and... I could write hours of pony music if I wanted to. (laughs) I don't know why I would, but I could!
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+    *([From the Q&A section](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2893))*
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+    "What song on the Homestuck soundtrack did you have the most fun making?" I'm gonna say Minihoof's Adventure. I hate to say it, but like, every second I was working on that, there was a smile on my face.
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diff --git a/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml b/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml
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     I was really encouraged by Mobius Trip & Hadron Kaleido, even if it wasn't ever incorporated in the comic, I was more motivated to say - you know, I care about my own songwriting and want to continue with it. That meant that I ended up pivoting that year to making more solo music - those of you who follow this channel and know my personal work, it's probably not the biggest history lesson for you, but, that was the beginning of me doing [[group:michael-guy-bowman|a series of solo albums]] that I'm continuing to work on [[album:your-majesty|to this day]]. Of course, I didn't stop making music for the rest of the comic. We worked on more volumes and compilations.
 
+    *([From the Q&A section](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2856))*
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+    "What were your main inspirations for Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido?" I talked about that a little bit, of course Bowie comes to mind again. At the time I was really listening to BT, Brian Transeau - I think that's how you pronounce his last name - and he is a trance music pioneer. I'd been listening to This Binary Universe, and that was a really great album of instrumental electronic music. And then it had a wonderful follow-up album, that was called These Hopeful Machines, and I loved both those albums a lot. I think they were really... I refrain from saying eye-opening... because they were ear-opening.
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     <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20110603145529/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido))
 
     Album art by [[artist:tavia-morra]] and [[artist:richard-gung]]
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     And yet, occasionally, we must indulge these fantasies. We romanticize the past because we remember once that we were able to romanticize the future. To permit legendary origins is to hope for a destiny beyond our crude surroundings. We have the choice to see life as a brief epitaph or as the unfolding chapters of a grand saga. Which way will you turn?
 
+    <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2792), adapted to text, 7/20/2024)
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+    "How much has your process changed between [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido|Mobius Trip]] and earlier works, and [[album:ulterior-motives|Ulterior Motives]]?" You know, aside from like, the software changes, I think I have experimented with - doing things in different orders. Some of the time I was doing things with, like, intention to produce the beat, or come up with the instrumentation or something first, and sometimes I was doing things lyrically first, and trying to have um, a song written in an instrument. Actually, lately, *since* Ulterior Motives, coming up on this new album - that's been the main focus, is to move over from trying to do things with any production idea really in place, and have complete demos, just like a normal singer-songwriter, and then go in and start arranging them as if you're in the studio, and be your own producer.
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+    [...] "When writing music with lyrics, do you write music-first or lyric-first?" Yeah, see, that's why I was like, so nuanced on the other answer. Because you already know - sometimes, I do one or the other. But these days, I would say when I'm writing "lyric first", what I mean to say is that I'm writing lyrics with chords. And sometimes, I have a melody in mind, and I have to like, do settings to the melody - and I think, the challenge for me as a songwriter right now, comes from the synthesis of that - saying, here's the format, and how do you better fit the format? And the result is poetry.
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     <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, 8/11/2024)
 
     > how exactly do you decide on like, the musical style of an album?