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diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 5bde00c7..e155ad21 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Commentary: |- The countdown sample is from a NASA recording, I believe it's the launch of Apollo 11. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1809), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1809), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Okay, Homestuck Volume 8. Calamity. Awesome tune. I don't know what else to say about that. I thought [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk-Stab-Walk]] was a cool contribution from Erik, and I just wanted to create something that wove that and the honking and all that, and build up to this big showdown moment between Karkat and Gamzee that never happened! You know, we were all just guessing at what [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] was gonna do next. And sometimes we got it, and sometimes we got it wrong. But at least we got this epic piece of music out of it, huh? @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ Commentary: |- Also I was trying to channel some of the style from the music of the Little Big Adventure games. The soundtrack for thems' awesome and ya'll should go listen to it! - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/44535752440/hi-i-was-wondering-if-you-could-maybe-do-one-of), 03/04/2013) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/44535752440/hi-i-was-wondering-if-you-could-maybe-do-one-of), 03/04/2013) > Hi! I was wondering if you could maybe do one of those "THE CONCEPT, THE NAME, THE TRACK" bits for Do You Remem8er Me? Aside from the fact that I love the song, I was curious as to how you went about writing the percussion for the piece. I mean it's so powerful and it fits, and it does amazing stuff with the escalation of the woodwind and the song in general. Thanks i advance and awesome work! @@ -393,11 +393,11 @@ Commentary: |- 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>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (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 - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1837), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1837), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Ocean Stars Falling - I liked Mark Hadley's [[Ocean Stars]]. I thought it was this incredible little moody thing, and taking it in kind of this indie rock direction was cool. --- @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ Commentary: |- What more can be said about it? This is about as totally poppy (or perhaps J-poppy) as I get. Compared to stuff like [[track:greenhouse|"Greenhouse"]] and [[track:squiddle-samba|"Squiddle Samba"]] this track is right up my alley. It in contrast with some of the other stuff that I've made appearing on the very same album (the minimalist piece [[track:gust-of-heir|"Gust of Heir"]] which I collaborated on with [[artist:james-dever|James Dever]] comes to mind) you'll see that I can go just as far in the saccharine direction as I can into the abstract. For me range has always been an asset I've felt was important to nurture, so with Volume 8 I set the pace for my work ethic on [[album:ithaca|Ithaca]] in terms of never settling to have "found my sound" no matter how well any one idea works. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1849), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1849), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) God, I'm just looking at the list of stuff that was on that record. Escape Pod - with Homestuck Volume 8, it was almost like I, uh, said, you know, it's the eighth volume, so I'm going to write eight songs! *(Caption in post: "I only got to 7")* --- @@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ Commentary: |- The point of this song was to kind of put the action, the drama, and all that teenage chemistry on hold so I could focus on a moment in the story that might be just a little bit more peaceful. Going on a safari for frogs on a newly-awakened alien forest world seems to beckon a very different angle than the heated stakes typically associated with Homestuck. Plus, I've always felt that the environment of Homestuck deserves a little more attention given that nearly 99% of all art generated by the fans are homages to their favorite characters and not the fantastic places imagined by [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]]. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1864), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1864), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Frog Hunt was atmospheric and kind of based on, like, a weather report. @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ Commentary: |- The breakbeat drum thing was also fun to do. - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/26987751519/do-you-think-you-could-do-some-commentary-on-unite), 07/11/2012) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/26987751519/do-you-think-you-could-do-some-commentary-on-unite), 07/11/2012) > Do you think you could do some commentary on Unite Synchronization? That would be pretty relevant now, and I your posts about your songs from Vol. 9 were really cool! @@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ Commentary: |- As I have on many occasions I took cues from [Oblique Strategies](https://web.archive.org/web/20111015072347/http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/) to get some ideas for the arrangement. Part of the intrigue in producing this piece was that it was fully written, meaning that in some ways I was boxed-in to a complete journey for the song to take musically yet in others free to really explore and discover a unique sound for the song. I really played toggling a slew of effects until this tune became rendering hell for my computer. I stepped a bit outside my own range of comfort and got some drum loops from [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]] to really polish off the piece, adding a touch that otherwise would probably have eluded me. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1872), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1872), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) [James] was, ah, such a huge fan of Philip Glass, and we really connected on that. Gust of Heir was me taking a MIDI, I think, that he'd written, and setting that to some electronics, and I just thought it was so cool that somebody else got the appeal of that kind of composition style. @@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ Commentary: |- [[track:ohgodwhat|Remember that thing about ORGMaker?]] Yeah, this song, too. Except add me asking [[artist:andrew-huo|Andrew Huo]] to help finish it and [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Bowman]] to ramp it up, and you've got Revered Return. :3 - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1915), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1915), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Revered Return, that was a piece of Nick's music that I arranged out. That was one where I rewrote the piece, basically, from beginning to end, from this chiptune. At the time it was literally just me going through the haphazard, not really built for multitake thing on FL Studio and trying to write guitar lines that would, you know, go through, nearly one measure at a time, just to get it down. But I was so pleased with the result. --- @@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ Commentary: |- I added a new bridge section in so that [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas Ferkol]] could have a chance to play some real guitar in this one, and of course he showed his colors as a metal guitarist, sending me a duet between harmonized voices. [[artist:david-ko|David Ko]] also appears on this track as the gently-spoken backup vocalist. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1940), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1940), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) The D8 Night version of How Do I Live, that was like a [[track:how-do-i-live-bunny-back-in-the-box-version|more serious]] attempt with it. I played with the key change a little bit, because I always thought that like, the massive key change on the choruses was like, really corny. So I, I got rid of that, and I added guitar from Thomas Ferkol on that one. The result, I think, is much spacier, much more serious. --- diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml index 4eef5483..90f9f441 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ Commentary: |- Once again the art is very spiffy so many thanks to Marina! Look at that dude in the corner? That pumpkin is so nom'd! :D - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/21730096226/pumpkin-party-at-colony-13-it-just-keeps), commentary on WIP, 04/24/2012) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/21730096226/pumpkin-party-at-colony-13-it-just-keeps), commentary on WIP, 04/24/2012) <b>Pumpkin Party at Colony 13</b> @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Commentary: |- My favorite touches to this one are all the very mellow sounds that contrast with the brisk pacing of the track - the various pads, the wah-wah guitar, the echoing melody, all of it underlined by drums and brute synth loops. The sudden change in energy when the guitars duck out in the middle and the melody of [[track:showtime-original-mix|"Showtime"]] whispers in is a favorite moment of mine. The very pop ending with its retro house sound was another choice I wouldn't have seen myself making three years back. Hope you enjoy this one as much as I do. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1965), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1965), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) And then Homestuck Volume 9 - oh my god, I can't believe I busted my ass so hard back then... I have Another Jungle, which was more stuff in the style of [[Sburban Jungle]]. I think it's more evolved as a piece, I really love the way it progresses, and it's less copycat from section to section. Just a moment of great composition, if I dare say so myself. --- @@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ Commentary: |- All in all, this track is probably the most involved I'd been on a Homestuck album and am so glad it was this one. I had a blast! - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1988), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1988), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) The GameGrl rap - I loved Erik's [[track:gamebro-original-1990-mix|GameBro rap]], and I thought that - when the idea of there being a GameGrl magazine was introduced - that it would be funny to write a rap and have Tavia perform it. That was based around the idea of there being a gamer girl, as it was, in the 1990s. I think we did a really good job imitating all the, like, nuances of how this girl in overalls with a backwards hat represented the ideals that were being marketed (laughs) through toy commercials, and otherwise, to girls back then. If you think it's cringy, that was the intended effect. --- @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ Commentary: |- Just in case one or two of you might not know, this song and fifty other great Homestuck tunes are all released together on [Volume 9](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-9-10-with-s-collide-and-act-7)! - <i>Nic Carey:</i> ([Tumblr](https://tynic.tumblr.com/post/24964072895/full-version-of-the-track-art-i-did-for-clark)) + <i>Nic Carey:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://tynic.tumblr.com/post/24964072895/full-version-of-the-track-art-i-did-for-clark)) Full version of the track art I did for Clark Powell’s track Austin, Atlantis, as seen on Homestuck Volume 9 (get it now go go go music music music) @@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ Commentary: |- Bowman and I quickly settled on the idea of a picture emphasizing the size of Minihoof, but couldn't decide on a specific way to show it. Maybe put a magnifying glass over the little pony? Having her next to Dirk's hand while he typed on the computer? The energy of the track made us think of little Minihoof running through an obstacle course Dirk set up for her on his desk, thus the stapler, the tacks, the brads, the pencils, and the GameBro Magazines. This was a super fun one for me since I had such a personal investment in it. - <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) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([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! @@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ Commentary: |- What was excellent about working on this track is it's one of the first instances in a while where I had really freed myself from any preconceived goals for the song's form and just decided to write a track from start to finish and see what felt right. I ended up at sort of the golden length - the song begins to loop at 2:15, making it still functional as video game music, and fades out by 2:39. [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] pointed out to me that pop songs that run a bit short of 3 minutes tend to be incredibly satisfying, especially for a first time listener, as they ask for your attention for an amount of time that doesn't wear you down. Out of all my tracks for Vol. 9, this is the one I find the easiest to listen to on a loop. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2059), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2059), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Elephant Gun, I think that one was a bit Frank Zappa influenced. I like the weird breakdown on it that's jumping around. I think if I were playing a game and I had to do a little battle, and (gesturing) press my buttons and pick my attacks while that was playing, I would be pretty hype, and not get, like, bored and driven crazy, the way that sometimes you can be in an RPG. @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ Commentary: |- I was thrilled to get the opportunity of illustrating your music. It’s always so gosh darn fun. =3 - <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/24979824333), 6/12/2012) + <i>8bitkitten:</i> ([Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/24979824333), 6/12/2012) After listening to this energetic strife theme, I imagined Jake English is hunting down a pesky Tinkerbull. >:3 @@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ Commentary: |- <img src="media/misc/elephant-gun-bonus.png" width="300"> - <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/24982629793), 6/12/2012) + <i>8bitkitten:</i> ([Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/24982629793), 6/12/2012) <b>Elephant Gun post edit</b> @@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ Commentary: |- I think he understands a generation so crystal clearly though in a way I'm still never going to. They'll look at him like Andy Warhol someday. He's the next great voice in pop art after him, certainly. They want to give that honor to Banksy or some other pretentious counterculture figure but I think Neil looks up to kitsch rather than down to it. That makes all the difference, like comparing Dan Harmon to Seth McFarlane. Parody should honor its subject, not condemn it - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2082), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2082), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) (gasp) Busting Makes Me Feel Good! Now that's a piece where I have to say... I beat Neil Cicierega to the punch on that! I'm just saying! He did that [Bustin'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE) thing years later. I beat him to the punch. I'm not - no, I'm not sore about that, you know. Parallel thinking. Everybody wanted to make fun of Ghostbusters. It's a weird line. I mean, "busting makes me feel good"... you know, there's entendre built in there, you know. --- @@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ Commentary: |- My demo fused the Spanish sounds associated with Tavros and the electric lead guitar associated with Vriska. The result was just over a minute of power-flamenco silliness which I planned to expand upon heavily until suddenly Tavrisprite exploded less than an hour after I uploaded the demo. I decided the song aught to be short and sweet as well, so I asked Thomas Ferkol to play some additional metal guitar at the end before dropping in an explosion effect and a distantly echoing "honk" from a certain codpiece-wearing merchant. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2104), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2104), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Oh, iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE, I was so happy with that one. I would have liked to have seen the, uh, the [attempted merge](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4829) between Tavros and Vriska go on longer, and wrote it as soon as I saw it happen - wrote, like, the first chunk of it before the additional guitar with Thomas Ferkol on it. And then when they updated the comic and the two of them [immediately blew apart](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4837), I had no choice but to cap it off with the sound of, you know, the whole thing (pfwhoosh) popping apart, and a random honk in, just for the sake of keeping you all on your toes. (dramatic honkscare) @@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ Commentary: |- I'd been playing this particular arrangement live at live shows for a while, and for this recorded version I brought in bandmates Erik Scheele and Marcy Nabors to record their respective parts. Erik delivers the excellent jazz piano, while Marcy added some amazing textures by playing theremin and accordion. I made full use of the wah pedal on my guitar to deliver the very textured guitar performance, and copied Iggy's beloved drum machine loop for the main percussion. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2143), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2143), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) My version of the Midnight Crew song - I called it the post-punk version because it's modeled after [Nightclubbing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVqag7tN8k8), from the Iggy Pop album The Idiot. I suppose he was post-punk at the time, but, you know, 1977, let's be real, Sex Pistols and all that stuff, it was really the breakout of it as a commercial genre. @@ -1945,7 +1945,7 @@ Commentary: |- "Another Countdown" was retooled from its parent track to be far mellower at first - the bass and drum comping is a bit latin in flavor, and much of the song's first half is almost completely quiet until the explosion that finishes off the track. When the concept of the record was changed, it was decided that this relatively short song would be included as a bonus when you purchase the full album. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2192), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=2192), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Oh, Another Countdown, of course I put a little cap on the [[Another Jungle]] thing, with a revisitation of Mark Hadley's [[Sburban Countdown]]. |