- [[track:nicer-links|Nicer links]] + [[Nicer links]]

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@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
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     <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, [new Homestuck album!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618035217/http://www.iambowman.com/), 06/13/2010)
 
-    Radiation, or [[artist:toby-fox|Toby]] as I've never actually had the chance to refer to him, sent me his midi arrangement of Happy Cat Song, a sort of lighthearted version of [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|Chorale for Jaspers]], so I loaded VSTs for each part and balanced it, along with adding a "meow" sample in for good measure. The effect of it reminds [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] of arriving in a village in "final fantasy or chrono cross or something and it's initially all peaceful and then by the end of the game it's totally raped and pillaged." So the calm before the storm then? MEOW
+    Radiation, or [[artist:toby-fox|Toby]] as I've never actually had the chance to refer to him, sent me his midi arrangement of Happy Cat Song, a sort of lighthearted version of [[Chorale for Jaspers]], so I loaded VSTs for each part and balanced it, along with adding a "meow" sample in for good measure. The effect of it reminds [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] of arriving in a village in "final fantasy or chrono cross or something and it's initially all peaceful and then by the end of the game it's totally raped and pillaged." So the calm before the storm then? MEOW
 
     <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html), sometime 6/13/2010 - 3/26/2011)
 
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html), sometime 6/13/2010 - 3/26/2011)
 
-    A lot of tracks on <i>Volume 5</i>. There's a few different [[Chorale for Jaspers|"Chorale"]] arrangements on here, of which I participated in two - for [[track:happy-cat-song|"Happy Cat Song!"]] I produced and provided vocal samples, and for "Hardchorale" I brought the house down with a series of loud meows that almost got me evicted from my apartment (the video does exist, I promise).
+    A lot of tracks on <i>Volume 5</i>. There's a few different [[Chorale for Jaspers|"Chorale"]] arrangements on here, of which I participated in two - for [["Happy Cat Song!"]] I produced and provided vocal samples, and for "Hardchorale" I brought the house down with a series of loud meows that almost got me evicted from my apartment (the video does exist, I promise).
 
     <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1184), adapted to text, 7/20/2024)
 
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ Commentary: |-
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     <i>HunZhen:</i> ([[static:feedback|email feedback]], excerpt, 2/25/2025)
 
-    At 1:07 in "White", there is a little reference about [[track:skies-of-skaia|"Skies of Skaia"]] from vol.1
+    At 1:07 in "White", there is a little reference about [["Skies of Skaia"]] from vol.1
 
     <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/1353743089164095548/1381953184569884754) re: [[track:skies-of-skaia]] ref, excerpt, 6/10/2025)
 
@@ -690,13 +690,13 @@ Referencing Sources:
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     List of leitmotifs used in here:
 
-    0:03 [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]]<br>
+    0:03 [[I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]]<br>
     0:19 [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|Chorale]]<br>
-    0:27 [[track:black|Black]]<br>
+    0:27 [[Black]]<br>
     0:48 [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|Ballad of Jack Noir]]<br>
-    0:59 [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]]<br>
-    1:05 [[track:penumbra-phantasm|Penumbra Phantasm]] (along with [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew|I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]])<br>
-    1:18 [[track:non-compos-mentis|Non Compos Mentis]]<br>
+    0:59 [[I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]]<br>
+    1:05 [[Penumbra Phantasm]] (along with [[I'm a member of the Midnight Crew]])<br>
+    1:18 [[Non Compos Mentis]]<br>
     1:23 [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|Chorale]] (variation, mixed with [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|Ballad of Jack Noir]])<br>
     1:33 [[Black]] (again, along with [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|Chorale]])<br>
     1:47 [[track:the-ballad-of-jack-noir|Ballad of Jack Noir]]<br>
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     I've been writing music among the longest out of all of the team members (9 and a half years now), but definitely not <i>the</i> longest. However, I definitely have to say I've improved more over the past two years than the seven years before that just from working with so many talented people.
 
-    But the difference in improvement between then and now is a story for another day. Let's zip right just before I joined the team. While Skaia (Incipisphere Mix) is my first official Homestuck song, [[track:doctor-deep-breeze-mix|Doctor (Deep Breeze Mix)]] is my first Homestuck-related song, which you can download [here](https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-deep-breeze-mix).
+    But the difference in improvement between then and now is a story for another day. Let's zip right just before I joined the team. While Skaia (Incipisphere Mix) is my first official Homestuck song, [[Doctor (Deep Breeze Mix)]] is my first Homestuck-related song, which you can download [here](https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-deep-breeze-mix).
 
     The reason I'm mentioning my Doctor remix is because it <i>very much</i> helped put Incipisphere Mix on Volume 5. From what I was told, it turned a few heads on the team. Kind of hilarious to go back and look at the thread, because multiple of my chums posted just after I did and I wasn't even aware of who they were at the time. Then again, I was still VERY new to the community at the time. My very first post on the MSPA Forums was of a WIP of my Doctor remix.
 
@@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ Commentary: |-
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     <i>HunZhen:</i> ([[static:feedback|email feedback]], excerpt, 2/25/2025)
 
-    At 0:41 in "Clorkwork Sorrow" there is a melody that reference to David's another track [[track:dissension-remix|"Dissension (Remix)"]] at 0:17 (vol.3)
+    At 0:41 in "Clorkwork Sorrow" there is a melody that reference to David's another track [["Dissension (Remix)"]] at 0:17 (vol.3)
 
     <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor, 6/10/2025)
 
@@ -1593,7 +1593,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     By applying an incredibly enormous amount of reverb to the piano part, I hid the low fidelity of the original recording and made it sound as though it was hauntingly played to the listener from the other end of a cave. Given my lack of any truly convincing string samples, I chose instead to use deliberately mechanical strings, gently de-tuning them to sound a bit reminiscent of early string synthesizers, somewhat inspired by ["Crystal Japan"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELO0h04P5k), a creepy instrumental by David Bowie.
 
-    Some of the other elements of the ambiance (the wind, the really high notes that echo for a long time) I drew from the soundtrack to World of Goo, specifically the track ["Jelly"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qznYSE7J4ZQ) which I noticed bore a strong resemblance tonally to Jit's composition. To seal the melancholy, I doubled the piano melody on guitar using a very cool, muted sound with a lot of echoes and pitch bends. I signed the tune by adding a cadence from [[track:sburban-jungle|"Sburban Jungle"]] at the very end.
+    Some of the other elements of the ambiance (the wind, the really high notes that echo for a long time) I drew from the soundtrack to World of Goo, specifically the track ["Jelly"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qznYSE7J4ZQ) which I noticed bore a strong resemblance tonally to Jit's composition. To seal the melancholy, I doubled the piano melody on guitar using a very cool, muted sound with a lot of echoes and pitch bends. I signed the tune by adding a cadence from [["Sburban Jungle"]] at the very end.
 
     Really, the track should probably be listed simply as "Ruins" if not for the fact that there is not official piano rendition of the piece. I think it would be really cool to hear such a version of the tune if Jit ever found himself recording material in a studio again (as he did for [[artist:james-dever|James's]] piano suite [[album:sburb|Sburb]]).
 
@@ -1699,7 +1699,7 @@ Track Artwork:
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     <i>Steve Everson:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/tenebrais/19896197965/could-you-do-some-commentary-on-your-homestuck), excerpt, 3/25/2012)
 
-    My other favourite from Volume 5. It started life as a theme for the Aimless Renegade, inspired by a [[track:desperado|"Desperado"]] theme which I believe was written by [[artist:bill-bolin|Bolin]] back when he was still part of the team. I wasn't really running on any particular goal of contributing so much as liking the style and wanting to make something similar. Imagine the piece as it is now played by some sort of mariachi band and you might have the right idea of what it originally sounded like. Naturally, it didn't quite fit. I liked the melody but it just wasn't working for the whole desert hero thing. So I flipped through my library of voices (small though it was back then) and came across the more electronic one that plays the melody now. I re-tooled the accompaniment to fit, and it became a piece that I always considered a theme for Derse. Hence its title.
+    My other favourite from Volume 5. It started life as a theme for the Aimless Renegade, inspired by a [["Desperado"]] theme which I believe was written by [[artist:bill-bolin|Bolin]] back when he was still part of the team. I wasn't really running on any particular goal of contributing so much as liking the style and wanting to make something similar. Imagine the piece as it is now played by some sort of mariachi band and you might have the right idea of what it originally sounded like. Naturally, it didn't quite fit. I liked the melody but it just wasn't working for the whole desert hero thing. So I flipped through my library of voices (small though it was back then) and came across the more electronic one that plays the melody now. I re-tooled the accompaniment to fit, and it became a piece that I always considered a theme for Derse. Hence its title.
 
     <i>Koukouvayia:</i> (anthology artist, [Tumblr](https://koukouvayia.tumblr.com/post/159549489998/happy-413-heres-the-full-version-of-the-thing-i), 4/13/2017)
 
@@ -1747,7 +1747,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     (The mental images of one of the kid's planets getting broken/torn apart like I'd imagined still give me the shivers. I still love Hussie so much for creating a villain that actually did something upon gaining obscene amounts of power; rather than just retreating and launching some master plan, he actually went around and started doing shit with his powers. Not something you even really see in Hollywood villains nowadays, far as I know. The protagonists and antagonists are always very separated, no interaction between one or the other, nothing like what Noir does. At least, that was my experience at the time.)
 
-    As for the second bit, well, I'd wanted to make an "industrial, heavy action, stuff going to shit" remix of Perrybob's [[track:mannequin|Mannequin]] for quite some time, and it seemed to fit to transition over to that. In my head, the action was going to shift from Jade's planet to LOHAC, where unspecific action was going to take place. I really don't think I gave the Mannequin section enough time to develop, or really do much, but time constraints dictated I give the music over to the volume 5 collaborative -right then and there-, so it had to be cut off. Mannequin's really great, though, you should give it [a listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyPFa3nEK4&feature=youtu.be).
+    As for the second bit, well, I'd wanted to make an "industrial, heavy action, stuff going to shit" remix of Perrybob's [[Mannequin]] for quite some time, and it seemed to fit to transition over to that. In my head, the action was going to shift from Jade's planet to LOHAC, where unspecific action was going to take place. I really don't think I gave the Mannequin section enough time to develop, or really do much, but time constraints dictated I give the music over to the volume 5 collaborative -right then and there-, so it had to be cut off. Mannequin's really great, though, you should give it [a listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyPFa3nEK4&feature=youtu.be).
 
     Also, as a sidenote, my like for Beck is rather shown in this piece, as is evidenced by my direct attempt to semi-recreate main beat in [Replica](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwSzYOiCinc) to transition between the two sections. #MUSICSECRETSSSSSSSS
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@@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@ MIDI Project Files:
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     <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (composer, via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]])
 
-    This one, man. Not really as well-known as the other three, I don't think, but I'm still happy with various aspects of it. Not really any specific inspiration, I just started out with the thought of wanting to make a contrasting piece to [[Black]]. Especially with the opening piano line, but overall, something more pure and light. Of course, by the time I got around to finishing it, [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] had already stolen the title [[track:white|"White"]], so I called mine "Light" instead.
+    This one, man. Not really as well-known as the other three, I don't think, but I'm still happy with various aspects of it. Not really any specific inspiration, I just started out with the thought of wanting to make a contrasting piece to [[Black]]. Especially with the opening piano line, but overall, something more pure and light. Of course, by the time I got around to finishing it, [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] had already stolen the title [["White"]], so I called mine "Light" instead.
 
     About the middle section, I think that needs a bit of talk about it. I'd just been talking with a friend about Homestuck, telling him about the numerical motif 413, and telling him various examples, and he went and said "Yeah, that could be a chord progression too", and I was like "whooooooooooooooooah". So I used it as a chord progression. For the first while, though, I had this dual guitar line instead of [[track:showtime-piano-refrain|Showtime]], and it was sorta eeeeenh and I didn't know where to go from there. It sat for a while, then suddenly one day in church I was like "oh holy shit showtime would work so well in there". It was like suddenly remembering you left a cake in the oven on 500 degrees for the last two nights, that sort of realization. So it went in, and it worked much better than the stupid two-guitar thing.