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author | (quasar) nebula <qznebula@protonmail.com> | 2024-04-27 18:41:36 -0300 |
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committer | (quasar) nebula <qznebula@protonmail.com> | 2024-05-15 21:40:25 -0300 |
commit | d550b8e5e0b28395a2942e333ed37381d6f0d5a5 (patch) | |
tree | eb292b40c22c595a155ce3b3c99ce9c1bac1cc68 /album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | |
parent | 054ce5cab3a9b940a9990bfcb6fe562c1ebf81e7 (diff) |
miscellaneous bowman commentary additions
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diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 5401708d..00aba201 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -374,6 +374,10 @@ Commentary: |- This song takes its cues most heavily from ["Regatta de Blanc"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-nXWHkVpA) by the Police and [[track:life-in-technicolor|"Life in Technicolor"]] by Coldplay - the meditatively simple rock backup is accompanied by a huge chorus of wordless vocals provided by countless overdubs of [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] and myself. These middle voices are bookended by the twinkling bell sounds in the high range and the rumbling drums and guitar in the low range to make for a very full mix that really surprised me with its depth. I threw in some slowed-down bubble sounds (the same samples from [[track:mister-bowman-tells-you-about-the-squiddles|"Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles"]]) to create the ocean ambiance, something I'd really gotten the chance to hear on a scuba dive I'd done over the summer. This is another example of a song that has the "just right" feeling about its length. I could probably have easily repeated the vocals endlessly as though I was attempting to induce transcendental meditation - it would probably have had the same effect as ["Hey Jude"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA) or any number of other great songs. Owing though to my sense that this album was going to be a long one (my contributions alone come out to more than 20 minutes of music) I decided to capitalize on having achieved the harmony and just let it end when its thought was fully expressed, not unlike the original composition by Mark. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/20/2017) + + I was inspired by [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley]] announcing that he had a baby on the way --- Track: Escape Pod Artists: |