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diff --git a/album/9.yaml b/album/9.yaml index 56b91a2..3919012 100644 --- a/album/9.yaml +++ b/album/9.yaml @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>meems:</i> (Composer) yes - <i>Koba:</i> (Entity) + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (Entity) this is a really good carne vale remix man <i>Difarem:</i> (Being) @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (Then it's like hey, uhh, what about we just be super cancerous and uhh, make like a buncha shit. Um, but you have so much other stuff you can do. You have good, like, music people who are willing to do music. But, like what if we made memes! I mean, yeah that's fun, but how about some real stuff? Nah, I like memes. Alright.) Commentary: |- - <i>Koba:</i> (Composer) + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (Composer) ur waifu is shit <i>Sozzay:</i> (Artist) @@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Pipko Fanfare:</i> (Composer) This song started off with me noticing how the chord progressions for flare and old secret are based on the same descending tetrachord bass motif (similar to the one used in megalovania) but with different executions and upper voices. So I tried to blend them together just for some arrangement practice since that was a thing I was doing at the time and it ended up turning into this whole big thing. The idea for it to represent the crazy journey that Hussie has been taking us through over the years - starting off deceptively simple and just growing into this complex intertwined mess of weird time shit and paradoxes and black holes and self-referencial madness - came surprisingly late into the process but helped me make the final call on some arrangement details that I think help it "tell a better story" if that makes sense. (And yes, I know Under The Hat and Pumpkin Cravings aren't REALLY PS tracks but come on you and I both know they FEEL like Problem Sleuth.) - <i>Anonymous CANMT Member:</i> + <i>Cool and New Music Team|[[artist:cool-and-new-music-team|Anonymous CANMT Member]]:</i> more like hiveswaps release saga <i>Shadok:</i> (Artist) diff --git a/album/alternia.yaml b/album/alternia.yaml index 872ff7d..1a58afc 100644 --- a/album/alternia.yaml +++ b/album/alternia.yaml @@ -23,43 +23,64 @@ Additional Files: Files: - Alternia_Commentary.pdf Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary - front) + Hey, just a brief (LOL JK) message from the guy who made this album - Toby "Radiation" Fox, if for some reason you haven't seen that name anywhere yet. - First, thank you so much for buying this!!! I haven't been composing music for very long but I greatly enjoy doing it, so I composed these tracks as a fun way to make some money for college. I also created this album primarily to challenge my own creative limits; I'm usually known for creating hard-rocking, fast-pumping tunes with very obvious video game overtones. With this album I tried to show that I can manufacture a soundscape beyond that... that sometimes I'm capable of variety! (probably not what you'd normally expect from me! SORRY BROS) + + First. thank you so much for buying this!!! I haven't been composing music for very long but I greatly enjoy doing it, so I composed these tracks as a fun way to make some money for college. I also created this album primarily to challenge my own creative limits; I'm usually known for creating hard-rocking, fast-pumping tunes with very obvious video game overtones. With this album I tried to show that I can manufacture a soundscape beyond that... that sometimes I'm capable of variety! (probably not what you'd normally expect from me! SORRY BROS) + Unfortunately I wasn't able to finish the track for the fourteenth troll, Larry, whose track is comprised entirely of the sounds of horses neighing. It was a new genre Andrew and I invented together, and with it I would have consummated my quest to create every type of music known (and unknown) to man. The fact that I didn't finish that track is my only real regret. It keeps me in tears. But overall, aside from that one little fluke, I'm happy with the amount of stuff I was able to pull off, and the amount of improvement I made because I decided to defy the notions of my original style. + So how did this all start, anyway? - The scene: Late May 2010. I was talking to Andrew Hussie (as we are soul twins) when I asked him if I could do a solo album called "Alternia." Alternia's idea was thusly: The trolls have an entire game that none of us would probably ever see in any detail. Taking free reign over this unscripted world, I would go ahead and make a soundtrack to their game session as a parallel to that of the kids, mocking the tracks found in the early Homestuck albums - [[Harlequin]] would be recalled by a track called [[Crustacean]], [[Showtime (Original Mix)|Showtime]] by [[Showdown]], [[Aggrieve]] by Aggrave, [[Sburban Jungle]] would be [[Skaian Summoning]], and the list went on. When fully-formed this album would form an alternate "troll version" of the original Homestuck albums, revealing the similarity in the alternate worlds through song - hence the name "Alternia." + + The scene: Late May 2010. I was talking to [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew Hussie]] (as we are soul twins) when I asked him if I could do a solo album called "Alternia." Alternia's idea was thusly: The trolls have an entire game that none of us would probably ever see in any detail. Taking free reign over this unscripted world, I would go ahead and make a soundtrack to their game session as a parallel to that of the kids, mocking the tracks found in the early Homestuck albums - [[Harlequin]] would be recalled by a track called [[Crustacean]], [[Showtime (Original Mix)|Showtime]] by [[Showdown]], [[Aggrieve]] by Aggrave, [[Sburban Jungle]] would be [[Skaian Summoning]], and the list went on. When fully-formed this album would form an alternate "troll version" of the original Homestuck albums, revealing the similarity in the alternate worlds through song - hence the name "Alternia." + Obviously Andrew was fine with this idea. (Unless in fact you are reading this in the alternate universe where the album was canceled and replaced with the other one we were planning. The one filled with horse neighs.) In fact, he only had one thing to say against my original concept. + I said: "We're not gonna see their game session." + He said: "Whoops don't be so sure!" - And then on 6/12, the troll game session arc started. WHOOPS AGAIN. - Luckily, I was there the exact moment the arc started, and I rushed to the forums to enter "Alternia" in the suggestion box. Hilariously enough, my name was chosen to be the planet's name (Alternia I mean. Although I'm sure Planet Radman McDoucheface was a close second in Andrew's mind). If I hadn't been able to post in the suggestion box when he was choosing the planet's name, and it was named something else, I probably just would have renamed the album "Hivebent." (Or "Radman McDoucheface's BIG HITS.") - By that point I had only completed 4 tracks - [[Showdown]], [[Crustacean]], [[Skaian Summoning]], and [[Theme|"Theme,"]] the latter of which I had to scrap because it was too nice-sounding for the trolls, to phrase it terribly. As Hivebent kept updating I realized that I really couldn't do whatever I wanted with the album because we were actually seeing the trolls' world. I decided that I would just scrap the parallelism and make a track for whatever struck my fancy. And boy was my fancy struck. My fancy resonated rapidly and colly, generating sweet, sweet overtones to each of Andrew's inspiring updates until I had accidentally created a track for every single troll and then some. (Maybe if Larry had debuted in the comic I would have finished that track. Blame Andrew.) + + And then on 6/12, the troll game session arc started. WHOOSP AGAIN. + + Luckily, I was there the exact moment the arc started, and I rushed to the forums to enter "Alternia" in the suggestion box. Hilariously enough, my name was chosen to be the planet's name (Alternia I mean. Although I'm sure Planet Radman McDoucheface was a close second in Andrew's mind). If if hadn't been able to post in the suggestion box when he was choosing the planet's name, and it was named something else, I probably just would have renamed the album "Hivebent." (Or "Radman McDoucheface's BIG HITS.") + + By that point I had only completed 4 tracks - Showdown, Crustacean, Skaian Summoning, and [[Theme|"Theme,"]] the latter of which I had to scrap because it was too nice-sounding for the trolls, to phrase it terribly. As Hivebent kept updating I realized that I really couldn't do whatever I wanted with the album because we were actually seeing the trolls' world. I decided that I would just scrap the parallelism and make a track for whatever struck my fancy. And boy was my fancy struck. My fancy resonated rapidly and colly, generating sweet, sweet overtones to each of Andrew's inspiring updates until I had accidentally created a track for every single troll and then some. (Maybe if Larry had debuted in the comic I would have finished that track. Blame Andrew.) + Now that I think about it, I guess that by making music for points in Hivebent without any established tracks as themes for the trolls, I imitated the first couple of albums in their sort of brave, musical pioneer sort of feeling more than I might have if I had chosen to parallel them completely and more literally, track by track. + So that's that story. + Also I'd like to clarify that this album is supposed to be 12 tracks long, but I can't stop myself from making music when the opportunity arises. So now the album is 12 tracks long, plus a bunch of accidental bonus songs. + Now, as if I haven't gone on long enough, let me toss some rude thank-yous towards some particular people: - - Cindy for being chill with this whole thing and helping me set it up. Also for being an awesome fan. + + - [[artist:cindy-dominguez|Cindy]] for being chill with this whole thing and helping me set it up. Also for being an awesome fan. - Andrew for unintentionally inspiring me to make music to go with almost every update he's ever made (and the ones he hasn't). - - Alex Rosetti (Albatross Soup) for being a cool dude and giving me pointers on some of these tracks. + - [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rosetti]] (Albatross Soup) for being a cool dude and giving me pointers on some of these tracks. - My brother James for listening to my stuff. - - Seth Peelle (Beatfox) for being unreasonably nie and supportive. - - My radio listeners for being chill, nice dudes and dudettes, especially the radiologists (Blueberry, SHaon, angela, and Linnet). - - AndrewNeo and Solatrus for helping that radio exist and encouraging it (skaianet, too). - - The FanGamer / Starmen.net / RadioPSI crowd for putting up with my lazy bullcrap. + - [[artist:seth-peelle|Seth Peelle]] (Beatfox) for being unreasonably nice and supportive. + - My radio listeners for being chill, nice dudes and dudettes, especially the radiologists (Blueberry, Shaon, angela, and [[artist:linnet|Linnet]]). + - AndrewNeo and [[artist:solatrus|Solatrus]] for helping [that radio](http://radio.skaia.net) exist and encouraging it (skaianet, too). + - The FanGamer / Starmen.net / RadioPSI crowd for putting up with my lazy bullcrap - You, by supporting my music with your cash and/or ears (JOIN MY FACEBOOK FAN PAGE). - Larry, for being the best troll. - <hr> - <blockquote><i>Raised from infancy by the mysterious but melodious Rhythm Monks, Toby set out at the age of 10 in pursuit of a single goal: to be the master of all the beats. After years of travelling, he has clearly achieved this goal. None dare challenge him to a battle of rap; humiliating defeat would be the only possible outcome. He is the champion. Today, always in search of a challenge, he has moved on to musically depicting cyborg tits.<br><br>He's pretty cool.</i></blockquote> + + <i>Linnet:</i> (booklet commentary - back) + + <i>Raised from infancy by the mysterious but melodious Rhythm Monks, Toby set out at the age of 10 in pursuit of a single goal: to be the master of all the beats. After years of travelling, he has clearly achieved this goal. None dare challenge him to a battle of rap; humiliating defeat would be the only possible outcome. He is the champion. Today, always in search of a challenge, he has moved on to musically depicting cyborg tits.<br><br>He's pretty cool.</i> + <i>-minibiography written by Linnet, and is presumed to be 100% accurate</i> <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> + Yes, this is a solo album, meant to put music to the troll universe which has been taking shape recently. I believe you will find this album shall only further crystallize the atmosphere of this arc. It will do this because we say it will. But there is some trivia here! Before I started act 5, Toby talked to me about working on an album like this, couched in the assumption that the troll story would never be examined in the detail it is presently, and that this album would only serve as a tonal exploration of a purely hypothetical adventure supplied by the imagination. Turns out he assumed incorrectly! Which only made the project that much more timely and apropos. In fact, the planet Alternia was named after the album, and not the other way around! <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - Track art for [[album:alternia]] and [[album:alterniabound]] is from the <a href="https://alterniaart.tumblr.com/">Alternia/Bound</a> track art anthology projects! Original track artworks, which were largely (though not entirely) crops of panels from the webcomic, have been left in the commentary for each track. + + Track art for [[album:alternia]] and [[album:alterniabound]] is from the [Alternia/Bound](https://alterniaart.tumblr.com/) track art anthology projects! Original track artworks, which were largely (though not entirely) crops of panels from the webcomic, have been left in the commentary for each track. Wallpaper Artists: - Cindy Dominguez - Andrew Hussie @@ -90,13 +111,24 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Crustacean - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (CG Sprite Theme) - [[Harlequin]] (partial) was the first track of Homestuck. Therefore it only makes sense to have something similar be the first track of Alternia. It's not the craziest or intensest thing, so I hope people aren't put off by its inclusion at the very beginning. I feel like it fits the start of the album well though - the variety in noise channels and the oddness of the melody and chords give it a bit of a laid-back "alien" feeling that I feel encapsulates Hivebent. In short, it's the scenesetter track ([[Sunsetter|Sunsetter???]] NOPE). - In any case, hopefully Mark J. Hadley won't sue me for CREATIVE LICENSE. + + [[Harlequin|Harlequin (partial)]] was the first track of Homestuck. Therefore it only makes sense to have something similar be the first track of Alternia. It's not the craziest or intensest thing, so I hope people aren't put off by its inclusion at the very beginning. I feel like it fits the start of the album well though - the variety in noise channels and the oddness of the melody and chords give it a bit of a laid-back "alien" feeling that I feel encapsulates Hivebent. In short, it's the scenesetter track ([[Sunsetter|Sunsetter???]] NOPE). + + In any case, hopefully [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark J. Hadley]] won't sue me for CREATIVE LICENSE. + Oh yeah, Cindy (Betelgeuse) says this track reminds her of an undersea carnival, and that the ending is when all of the underwater elephants are climbing up on top of each other, about to topple down. And that's why it's the best part. + I think that's the best way to describe this song. + Just don't try any other way. + + <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) + + "Harlequin (partial)" refers, as it was [originally credited](https://web.archive.org/web/20100209092013/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/soundcredits.html), to the shorter cut of Harlequin which was used in [[flash:88|[S] John: Enter.]] + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/crustacean.png" width="300"> --- @@ -121,18 +153,30 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Showdown - MrSkullium.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (CG Battle Theme) + [[Showtime (Original Mix)|John's battle theme]] is simple with a heroic theme. It's catchy and brilliantly written. + Karkat's battle theme is almost needlessly complicated with sometimes obnoxious rhythms. - There's some contrast here. In fact, when I was paralleling the original albums, Alex Rosetti (Albatross Soup) told me that it didn't work as a parallel because it was a little bit too... all-over-the-place. But in the end I feel like this works for Karkat. After all, he's a ride, indifferent guy, and wouldn't settle for any song that he couldn't firmly rage to. - Interestingly, the melody was created by just stringing notes together until they made an interesting rhythmic and melodic arrangement. Then I added harmony and a disturbing amount of manual vibrato. When I was making it I worried that the melody would sound too forced or forgettable (especially given the way I created it), but in the end it turned out alright. + + There's some contrast here. In fact, when I was paralleling the original albums, [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rosetti]] (Albatross Soup) told me that it didn't work as a parallel because it was a little bit too... all-over-the-place. But in the end I feel like this works for Karkat. After all, he's a ride, indifferent guy, and wouldn't settle for any song that he couldn't firmly rage to. + + Interestingly, the melody was created by just stringing notes together until they made an interesting rhythmic and melodic arrangement. Then I added harmony and a disturbing amount of manual vibrato. When I was making it I was worried that the melody would sound too forced or forgettable (especially given the way I created it), but in the end it turned out alright. + This is a good time to note that I use a VST to emulate the sounds of the Nintendo, not Famitracker (which gives real NES sounds). When I tried to change the pulse mid-note on my VST to get some Virt-esque instrumentation, it kept giving me this static clicking sound. BARF! So that's why the instruments stay the same throughout. I aplogize if the homogeneity bothers you but I figured that the melody was badass enough that its unchanging pulse width is irrelevant. + One last note: At the time of writing this (July 17th) I'm still not credited for this in the comic. Are you reading this, Andrew? Did you forget something???????????? + ?????????????????????????????????????? + no wait let me count these out + ???????? + ok that's better. now I am the biggest jerk. + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/showdown.png" width="300"> --- @@ -148,22 +192,37 @@ Art Tags: - Gamzee's lusus - Alternia Lyrics: |- - Miracles<br>Miracles<br>Miracles - Miracles<br>Miracles - Miracles<br>Miracles<br>Miracles + Miracles + Miracles + Miracles + + Miracles + Miracles + + Miracles + Miracles + Miracles + Miracles MIDI Project Files: - Title: MIDI by Unknown Files: - 'mIrAcLeS - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (TC's Theme) - Gamzee's getting high off some pies. + + Gamzee's getting high off of some pies. + This piece was heavily inspired by EarthBound, which has a really unique, trippy feeling in a lot of its music that I really wanted to emulate here. To maximize this trippiness I added a lot of notes panning from ear to ear, covered in gobs of vibrato. I also put tons of vibrato on the drums (!??!) to make them sound ludicrous and actively shifted the pitch of the chimes so it sounds like they're dropping through a wormhole. Then I reversed a glockenspiel and stole some singing from Chrono Trigger. Whew! + So now when people ask you "how does this piece even work, man," you know the answer. It's right up there. + MIRACLES. + PS - Andrew wanted to put a ton of honking on this track to the point that the actual music was undiscernable. He actually linked me to some free sound websites and told me to register. I guess in that way, this track is off-character for Gamzee. If he wants the honking he's going to have to do it himself and make it a bonus track; I think I'm more content with this track than any of the other oens and I don't think it needs to be ruined by anything except my own voice saying "MIRACLES..." + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/miracles.png" width="300"> --- @@ -178,19 +237,32 @@ Art Tags: - Terezi - Scalemates Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (GC's Courtroom Scene) + Terezi (played by the harpsichord) finds Lemonsnout (played by the oboe) at the scene of the crime, red-handed. Or red-snouted, whichever. There is a panning shot to the courthouse which looms ominously, covering the horizon. + Later, in the courtroom, Lemonsnout weeps for his innocence as the infernal grandfather clock tick-tocks in the background. It's the kind of ticking that resonates with a man's heartbeat. It resonates. + Tick tick. + But will the jury listen to a man like that? SUSPENSE. + Lemonsnout's weeping proves to be fruitless. The trial begins and Terezi refutes his alibi, the evidence on his side falls through, and it looks as if Lemonsnout is deservedly doomed. + However, a glimmer of hope appears - but it appears only to be swiftly extinguished by Terezi's quick wit and sharp tongue (he really does taste like lemons). - Lemonsnout then goes mad, screaming of his innocence until he is forced to concede. ORDER IN THE CORT. ORDER, the judge yells. LAW. LAW! + + Lemonsnout then goes mad, screaming of his innocence until he is forced to concede. ORDER IN THE COURT. ORDER, the judge yells. LAW. LAW! + Fortunately, the judge decides that fate will give Lemonsnout one last chance. Terezi flips the coin, walking slowly towards the now-shaking Lemonsnout. The verdict is observed: - JUSTICE IS BLIND, YOU FOOL!! + + JUSTICE IS BLIND, YOU FOOL!!! + (Lemonsnout screams as he is thrown out the window.) + THE END + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/the-lemonsnout-turnabout.png" width="300"> --- @@ -210,12 +282,18 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Phaze and Blood - IronInvoker47 (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (CG's Medium) + A dark sort of [[Atomyk Ebonpyre]]-y theme for Karkat's medium. The main melody is oddly catchy. - I had a lot of trouble making this piece because the synthesizer I use to emulate the instruments that sound like they come from a Sega Genesis can only have a couple instances of itself open at once before Fruity Loops basically buckles at the knees and runs out of processing power. I ultimately had to render each part individually and stitch them together in Audacity. - My inspiration for this track (and I think superior to it even as a theme for Karkat's medium, at least for the first few notes) is "Burn in the Dark" from Brandish 3. Fantastic track from an awesome-terrible video game with a wicked soundtrack. + + I had a lot of trouble making this piece because the synthesizer I use to emulate the instruments that sound like they come from a Sega Genesis can only have a couple instances of itself open at once before Fruity Loops basically buckles at the knees and runs out of processing power. I ultimately had to render each part individually and stitch them altogether in Audacity. + + My inspiration for this track (and I think superior to it even as a theme for Karkat's medium, at least for the first few notes) is ["Burn in the Dark"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucB7vR5ln1c) from Brandish 3. Fantastic track from an awesome-terrible video game with a wicked soundtrack. + BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRN BABY BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRN. + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/phaze-and-blood.png" width="300"> --- @@ -237,13 +315,20 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'psych0ruins - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (AA Ruins Theme) + I originally wrote the chord progression (and arpeggios) to this song while I was still trying to go through with the original concept for Alternia. I was hoping I could make an alien-sounding song for Karkat's medium using only the hazy skies seen from his window as the inspiration. Unfortunately I only got a few measures done before I ran out of inspiration, and then we saw The Land of Pulse and Haze and I knew this piece was done for. Fortunately I was able to raise what I had written so far from the dead in the form of this track. + Somehow I synthesized that crying sound by accident, but I felt like it was entirely fitting as the mourning of the dead. So I stuck it everywhere. - This track reminds me of Illusion of Gaia and La-Mulana kind of. Two games with a lot of ruins and a bunch of ghosts, dead people, and mysteries. The part at the end in particular reminds me a lot of La-Mulana, because that game is prone to very full synth solos with a lot of bending pitch affairs. + + This track reminds me of [Illusion of Gaia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_Gaia) and [La-Mulana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La-Mulana) kind of. Two games with a lot of ruins and a bunch of ghosts, dead people, and mysteries. The part at the end in particular reminds me a lot of La Mulana, because that game is prone to very full synth solos with a lot of bending pitch affairs. + Today just found out AA was dead all along... this theme seems a lot more haunting now. + Fitting. + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/psych0ruins.png" width="300"> --- @@ -265,12 +350,18 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Walls Covered in Blood - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (AC's Theme) - Mario Paint. If you don't know what that is, you might not appreciate this song. - I really wanted to make a samba with those terrible, lo-fi instruments. So I did. and now I am perfectly content to meow as I please. + + [Mario Paint.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Paint) If you don't know what that is, you might not appreciate this song. + + I really wanted to make a samba with those terrible, lo-fi instruments. So I did. And now I am perfectly content to meow as I please. + But some people might not like my choice to sacrifice sound quality for nostalgic novelty - that's why I made the [[Walls Covered in Blood DX|DX version]]. (Just for little whiners like you.) + Hopefully this piece is successfully cute. As cute as the fabled mountain of cute? I don't think so. I can only hope. If it is, please tell me. I will be so proud. + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/walls-covered-in-blood.png" width="300"> --- @@ -285,16 +376,26 @@ Art Tags: - Tavros - LoSaZ Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (AT Desperado Rocket Chair Joust Theme) + I made this the day I saw AT in a wheelchair in the comic with DAT LANCE. + I don't want to say this is his strife theme because I actually think it would be different than this. But I'll save that for another day. Another album. Another universe. + The important part is that this piece is based around a very certain image I have in my head, and nothing else. + uM, wHAT, + wHAT WOULD THAT IMAGE, + bE, + desperado rocket chair joust duh. FLY FLY FIGHT THEM OFF TAVROS + (Actually, I could see the jousting donation page using this song... Andrew, how much money does it cost for me to request an [S] donation page...?) + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/desperado-rocket-chairs.png" width="300"> --- @@ -313,14 +414,22 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Crustacean Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (Lusus Death Theme) + Not much to say on this one. If you couldn't tell, it's kind of a remix of [[Crustacean]]. + AND IT'S KINDA SAD. + ALL THE LUSII ARE DYING. + THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TO PLAY. + MY SQUIDDLE DOLL HAS A STOMACHE-ACHE. + Et cetera. + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/death-of-the-lusii.png" width="300"> --- @@ -335,15 +444,22 @@ Art Tags: - Kanaya - Matriorb Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (GA's Theme) + I made this 7/8 piece a long time ago, but I feel like it fit well for GA, so I revamped it. It's kind of ghostly and alien in its presentation. But it's also kind of flighty and... caring? There's no way for me to pin this song down with words. Words are heavy. This song is pure flight. The two don't mix. Just listen. - The drums that come in halfway were basically inspired by the Coffee Scene from EarthBound. Really similar stuff there. That song also inspired Gamzee's tune. I guess I just really like it a lot. - What I really imagine is GA walking up in the dream world and flying around, observing the blue orb in the sky and admiring the environment around her. Then she goes and finds AT, wakes him up, and he's totally pumped and happy and flies around doing loop-de-loops. And he's really thankful and all, and kind of wimpy living out his fantasies with his friend watching him. + + The drums that come in halfway were basically inspired by the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6LZ1GqSrEE">Coffee Scene</a> from EarthBound. Really similar stuff there. That song also inspired Gamzee's tune. I guess I just really like it a lot. + + What I really imagine is GA waking up in the dream world and flying around, observing the blue orb in the sky and admiring the environment around her. Then she goes and finds AT, wakes him up, and he's totally pumped and happy and flies around doing loop-de-loops. And he's really thankful and all, and kind of wimpy living out his fantasies with his friend watching him. + And then at the end of the piece they both go back to sleep, so they can wake up. - ( ) - ... and die. + + <br>... and die. + (I imagine that GA would be on the other moon than Tavros actually, but... now that I think about it, wouldn't it be fitting if the two "teams" were split up according which moon they were on? So maybe it's not too far-fetched that I'm thinking this.) + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/virgin-orb.png" width="300"> --- @@ -368,19 +484,32 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'The La2t Frontiier - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (TA and the Trolls vs. Sgrub) + ALL right, team. + Let's go out there and DO this. + what-EVER IT TAKES. + I DON'T CARE IF YOU NEED TO TURN THE SOUND UP TO PLAY IT. + I DON'T CARE IF THAT MEANS USING YOUR CRAPPY MEGAMAN X GUITARS. + I DON'T CARE IF YOU USE OUT OF TUNE SYNTH BRASS. + I DON'T CARE IF YOU PUT [[Guile's Theme|GUILE'S THEME]] AND [[Sunsetter|SUNSETTER]] IN THERE. + AND I DON'T CARE IF WE LOSE. + BECAUSE - WE - WON'T. + + <br>WE + + <br>WON'T. + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/the-la2t-frontiier.png" width="300"> --- @@ -398,10 +527,14 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Skaian Summoning - Unknown (piano, partial).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (The Day the World Died) + but + is there anything i can do to change your mind? + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/skaian-summoning.png" width="300"> --- @@ -430,19 +563,32 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'The Thirteenth Hour - Unknown (partial).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (UU's Theme) + ????????????? + <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) - Thanks to an emailer working with Monckat for helping find the original artwork for this track! - Here's the original art put up on the wiki for this track, by foreverFlummoxed: + + Thanks to an emailer working with [[artist:monckat|Monckat]] for helping find the original artwork for this track! + + Here's the original art put up on the wiki for this track, by [[artist:foreverflummoxed|foreverFlummoxed]]: + <i>foreverFlummoxed:</i> (alternate art) + <img src="media/misc/the-thirteenth-hour-ff.jpg" width="300"> - <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) + + <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> + And here's another piece by Monckat: + <i>Monckat:</i> (alternate art) + <img src="media/misc/altcalbinarytrackart.gif" width="300"> - <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) + + <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> + (The track art anthology for Alternia didn't include a fanart for this track.) --- Track: Spider's Claw @@ -466,14 +612,22 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - "Spider's Claw - Unknown.flp" Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + <small>BONUS TRACKS (WHICH I MADE AFTER THE OTHER SONGS, SO THEY DONT NECESSARILY FIT OR FLOW WITH THE REST OF THE ALBUM)</small> + (AG's Battle Theme, short version) + Rude girls sometimes have bitchy battle themes~ + It's (painfully/venomously) short because my goal was to spend very little time on each bonus track, and just making a few measures was taking up a lot of time. Creating this was a lot of fun though! + I'd love to have had this as a normal track, but this track gives me the feeling that AG is only the kind of character that you play as while the world is ending, not during the regular game. + I'm also sure she has a different track if you fight her as a boss. Why don't you think about what that would sound like instead, little boy? + bluh bluh mwuh mwuh + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/spiders-claw.png" width="300"> --- @@ -489,13 +643,20 @@ Art Tags: - 'cw: asphyxiation (abstract)' - 'cw: body horror (abstract)' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (CT's Unrevealed Theme) + I made this the day CT was first fully visible, before the update. He's a creep. So he stares. And it's creepy. And ominous. So here's your theme, complete with ambient chainsaws and coughing. + I'll be honest - you know all those free industrial soundfonts and creepy (but basically USELESS) presets that come with a bunch of free synths? I had way too many of those. So I decided to just make this. - Also this song is very similar (which I didn't realize until after I finished) to the second track to the Tamashii no Mon OST, which is one of the greatest OSTs to a hilarious and pretty damn cool gem for that crappy old system they call the PC98. (Brandish 3!!! Although I wasn't that keen on Lotus Land Story to be honest. That extra stage was abhorrent.) + + Also this song is very similar (which I didn't realize until after I finished) to the [second track](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ykvrr5_zY&t=330s) to the Tamashii no Mon OST, which is one of the greatest OSTs to a hilarious and pretty damn cool gem for that crappy old system they call the PC98. (Brandish 3!!! Although I wasn't that keen on Lotus Land Story to be honest. That extra stage was abhorrent.) + Those chainsaws are from my favorite game, of course. But who didn't expect that? + This track is kind of hilarious in retrospect, after seeing what Equius has become. He really needs a nice manly abusive wifebeaterly wrestling theme with a lot of highfalutin' harpsichord sensibilities, you know what I mean? I do. Watch out. + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/staring.png" width="300"> --- @@ -516,12 +677,18 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Keepers - Toby Fox.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (CC and CA Theme) - I knew nothing about these two when I made these. (And as of July 17th, I still don't.) I saw CC smiling in what seemed to be a non-malicious way (even though she was culling thigns) and I saw CA taking care of garbage on his island. So I made a sort of semi-melancholic happy-go-lucky island tune, becaus I figure they're sort of mean but genuinely care about the waterworld around them. + + I knew nothing about these two when I made these. (And as of July 17th, I still don't.) I saw CC smiling in what seemed to be a non-malicious way (even though she was culling things) and I saw CA taking care of garbage on his island. So I made a sort of semi-melancholic happy-go-lucky island tune, because I figure they're sort of mean but genuinely care about the waterworld around them. + Plus I just wanted to make a song like this after hearing some nice movie soundtracks and thinking of Chrono Cross. So I did. I always feel like I'm ripping SOMETHING off when I make songs like these. Trust me when I say it's never conscious. I'm pretty sure you can find every measure individually in other songs somewhere. Oh well. I guess it's how I put them together that counts, right? + I asked Andrew and he said Caligula invented horse hugs. So there. + (I also told my mom that. She believed me.) + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/keepers.png" width="300"> --- @@ -544,11 +711,16 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Theme - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Toby Fox:</i> + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (booklet commentary) + (Alternia Theme) + Not the theme to Hivebent. I made this before we had seen the trolls and how brutal they are. So it's overwhelmingly bittersweet and heartfelt. Entirely inappropriate. + Sorry. + That's the end. + <i>Homestuck:</i> (original track art) <img src="media/misc/theme.jpg" width="300"> --- diff --git a/album/alterniabound.yaml b/album/alterniabound.yaml index cfe93f3..31cf0fb 100644 --- a/album/alterniabound.yaml +++ b/album/alterniabound.yaml @@ -16,20 +16,58 @@ Art Tags: - Meteor Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> + Bad news for everyone. - This album is not here to explode your pants off. This album is not one that is going to give you a hemmorage from headbanging too much. If you want hard-rocking, excellently mastered, brainkilling tracks, look no further than Tensei's [[album:strife]] album. It should wet your whistle for heavy metal, and possibly any other multitude of wind instruments you present to its sweaty, testosterone-laden spray. + + This album is not here to explode your pants off. This album is not one that is going to give you a hemmorage from headbanging too much. If you want hard-rocking, excellently mastered, brainkilling tracks, look no further than Tensei's [[album:strife|STRIFE!]] album. It should wet your whistle for heavy metal, and possibly any other multitude of wind instruments you present to its sweaty, testosterone-laden spray. + Instead. + This album is for a special group of people. The people that open the AlterniaBound flashes in one tab and then leave them on repeat, just so they can listen to Horschestra 4000 times. These are the people that complained incessantly when Eridan's theme wasn't on an album, even though it hadn't even existed in the comic yet. Some of these people have named their children after MSPA characters. + You terrible, wonderful people. This album is your fault. + Now go forth and enjoy: Not in MP3, but in WAV; not in OGG, but in FLAC. The nostalgia-rich AlterniaBound tracks you all sought so dearly have been padded out by new experiences, forged from feverish hearths by several of our greatest musical madmen in order to breathe new life into a setlist you saw long coming. The bonus tracks have been tweaked, the equalizers have been set, and the fans, the fans are stoked like the blazes these beats were born hence. Hopefully you will find the tracks carved out from these sick fires to be... sufficiently ill. + Now! Let it begin, young ones. Just keep in mind: + Once you pop, the games don't stop. + Oh, and the games. + WILL THEY EVER? + <i>Toby Fox:</i> ([Bandcamp download blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20111221040912/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/alterniabound)) + + Album includes 8 -- EIGHT!!!!!!!! bonus tracks AND a PDF booklet full of commentary by the musicians! + + Super + + COOL + + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (Bandcamp info blurb) + + Music by:<br> + [[artist:toby-fox|Toby "Radiation" Fox]]<br> + [[artist:tensei|Joren "Tensei" de Bruin]]<br> + [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Scheele]]<br> + [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown]]<br> + [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas "EidolonOrpheus" Ferkol]]<br> + [[artist:david-ko|David Ko]]<br> + [[artist:paige-turner|Paige "Aborted Slunk" Turner]]<br> + [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rosetti]]<br> + [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley]]<br> + [[artist:seth-peelle|Seth "Beatfox" Peelle]]<br> + [[artist:nick-smalley|Nick "OMGTSN" Smalley]] + + With soundfonts by [[artist:the-eighth-bit|The_Eighth_Bit]] + Special vague thanks to [[artist:lexxy|Alexandra "Lexxy" Douglass]] + Cover art by [[artist:hanni-brosh|SaffronScarf]] + <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) + Track art for [[album:alternia]] and [[album:alterniabound]] is from the <a href="https://alterniaart.tumblr.com/">Alternia/Bound</a> track art anthology projects! Original track artworks, which were largely (though not entirely) crops of panels from the webcomic, have been left in the commentary for each track. Banner Artists: - Hanni Brosh diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml index 2a2b728..a11dbab 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-2.yaml @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Commentary: |- This album is extremely great, but why its really brought to perfection is that a whole THREE songs reference We are Number One from LazyTown. This album is about Homestuck, i swear - <i>tripheus:</i> (Album Artist) + <i>trip:</i> (Album Artist) Since cool and new homestuck is blending hmestuck and canwc together, i thought id reflect that in the album art <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Commentator) @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:battle-trainer-battle-pokemon-red-and-blue-versions - Alola Region Theme Commentary: |- - <i>Koba:</i> (Composer) + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (Composer) So i wanted to contribute to this album since i wasn't able to contribute to the first CANHS album, so at first i was being super ambitious song, then i forgot that i am bad at making decent sounding songs so i made a soundfont swap with a mess of pokemon stuff in it instead (i think it went well but to be perfectly fair it's literally just a soundfont swap with a 1 motif put in and one clip of a song roughly put in too) so i hope you enjoy it <i>loading:</i> (Commentator) @@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Noisemaker:</i> (Composer) I should've added more DVS Sax - <i>Koba:</i> ("""Furry""") + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> ("""Furry""") Everyone should always add more DVS Sax <i>Makin:</i> (Artist) @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Explore - track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew Commentary: |- - <i>Starlight Calliope:</i> (Composer) + <i>StarlightCalliope:</i> (Composer) Originally, [[artist:makin]] had signed up to do this song for CANH. At around early-mid October he offered up the spot, and I took it. I played around with several ideas, including remixing Hello Zepp in a polka style similar to [[track:reveilleawesome-sad-polka-mix-with-gong-no-vocals|Reveilleawesome]] from [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck|CANH 1]], before finally settling on the idea of using Hello Zepp, and adding in relevant motifs to the Flash animation, in my normal song style. The whole Kermit the Frog thing is a reference to the Cheerfulbear Muppet Babies comics that, at least as far as I know, was the origin of the references to Saw seen in Homestuck. I feel like the song could have been better polished, but it's nice to finally have completed a song for this team and get to see it released <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Artist) @@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Michael Bowman Remix - Michael's Credit Score Commentary: |- - <i>Cryptanark:</i> (Composer) + <i>Discfortune:</i> (Composer) I have done my meme dump. I am now finally in the club. Also, in addition to finally memeing hard, I've gotten the chance to take the title for highest # of references. TBH, I'm not super happy with the track, but I learned about a lot of techniques and effects so that's pretty cool and new. <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Amplifier) diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml index d54105b..8837e3b 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck-3.yaml @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> (Composer) I just adapted an old mashup [[artist:kobacat|Felix]] made because I thought it would be fitting for Sburb's loading screen. That's all. - <i>Koba:</i> (Artist) + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (Artist) Hi I helped I guess. <i>nights:</i> (Artist) @@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Discfortune:</i> (Composer, 0:00-0:30) Triplets and sixteenths suck together but it's too late to change that now. - <i>Koba:</i> (Composer, 0:30-0:51) + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (Composer, 0:30-0:51) So this was fun to work on. I tried making something that wasn't totally a midi, and I think it came out pretty well. Also, merry Christmas. <i>SplitSuns:</i> (Composer, 0:51-1:02) @@ -1011,7 +1011,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Wheals:</i> (Composer, 2:12-2:35) CRASH. I had a lot of fun with this, my first time trying anything orchestral, and it's probably the best thing I've made so far. For a little extra fun I made it entirely with one sample pack that I had just gotten. Unfortunately I scrapped my original plan to use [[track:voidlight|Voidlight]] in this section, so the song has still never been referenced. - <i>WHATSISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (Composer, 2:35-3:21) + <i>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES:</i> (Composer, 2:35-3:21) SUDDENLY, THE LONGEST PART WRITTEN BY ONE PERSON COMES. This section was made in the span of about 2 days, after the people originally slotted in for this section bailed/didn't finish/were rejected. I think it kind of shows? Still, even if I'm not entirely happy with my piece for this collaboration, it at least blends well with the next section. (Fun fact, originally, the second half of this was just snow halation layered over the original audio. Sadly, that was rejected, but I kept its memory alive with a snow halation piano arrangement instead.) <i>Isoleucine:</i> (Composer, 3:21-3:57) @@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Pipko Fanfare:</i> (Composer, 6:35-6:55) Does this count as 3, 4, or 5 motifs? Even I don't know at this point! - <i>SplitSuns, Hadron:</i> (Composer, 6:55-7:20) + <i>SplitSuns|[[artist:splitsuns]], with [[artist:hadron]]:</i> (Composer, 6:55-7:20) When Hadron offered to make this part a collab, I jumped at the opportunity to do so. The instrumentation I implemented is pretty similar to my previous contribution to this track, which I think is nice as it offers some more cohesiveness overall. Maybe. <i>ft-rj:</i> (Composer, 6:55-7:20) diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-3.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-3.yaml index 57b4309..a8334a7 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-3.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-3.yaml @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - track:you-dai Commentary: |- - <i>Koba:</i> (Composer) + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (Composer) i've been wanting to make an original composition for a team album for a while and since it's the final album, i figured there's probably no better time than doing it now since it's the final main album all the songs ive made for the team, going back to when i went by the name Sir Felix, i feel very VERY conflicted about a lot of them, especially things like licord that i don't exactly look fondly of since at the time, i made it because i genuinely wanted to make a song instead of making a joke or something (obviously what i wanted to make and what was actually made are different though), but this song i feel pretty proud of, without having to have made it super complex or anything i made this song around the time i was into Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (read the VN or watch the anime etiher way it's very good), and i was really wanting to repliacte a song that kinda brings the vibe of a song youd hear in an early or mid 2000s video game or visual novel, hence why i specifically put the bitrate a little bit low (i don't exactly remember what bitrate i made it originally though lol) @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ Commentary: |- Ultimately, while I never went on to focus on music as a career or even a steady hobby, some of my best times were making music and I wanted to write something for the send-off to CANMT. Sunsetter, both for the name and the feeling it's evoked in me ever since hearing the lyrics, felt like a perfect choice. Starting out, I made a quiet, relaxed track, where I tried to capture a little of the nostalgia I was feeling. Until then I hadn't realized how long it had been since I had made anything, but in the end the style is pretty similar to stuff I'd made before. So I hope you enjoy my little contribution to the final album, Suset [sic] - <i>Sanctferum:</i> (Artist) + <i>Jonah "Sanctferum" Paley|[[artist:jonah-sanctferum-paley|Sanctferum]]:</i> (Artist) I made this for a non-existant cool and new version of [[track:pendulum]] from ColoUrs and Mayhem Universe B, that would have been called "pantaloon". But the actual track doesn't exist and never will. I wanted it on an album regardless so I decided that it would make decent track art for Sunset. Y'know, the sun has set on dabe's life and now he is dead, that kind of thing. The Cool and New Music Team is also dead so it sort of fits, right? ...Right? (Right.) --- Track: lecuid SMASH diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml index 9829d12..1638c8e 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-volume-ii.yaml @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (Your memes... end here.) (I'll never let go. I promise.) -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Griever:</i> also if u can ried jojostukc pls (<a href="https://www.mspfanventures.com?s=13714">mspfanventures.com?s=13714</a>, its not s gret as cool n new but its preti gud @@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Rex English - Umbral Ultimatum - Ham And Steak -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Rom M:</i> "its just rex english by toby fox followed by a soundfont replaced midi of umbral ultimatum followed by ham and steak by malcolm brown." diff --git a/album/gunshow-singalong.yaml b/album/gunshow-singalong.yaml index ea7c455..9f322fd 100644 --- a/album/gunshow-singalong.yaml +++ b/album/gunshow-singalong.yaml @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Groups: - Cool and New Music Team - Fandom Commentary: |- - <i>Tronald Trumpet:</i> + <i>Cool and New Music Team|[[artist:unofficial-mspa-team|Tronald Trumpet]]:</i> <big>[NSFW] Penumbra Orgasm: A Small Loan of A Million Dollars Remix (Gunshow Singalong)</big> --- diff --git a/album/heinoustuck-vol-1.yaml b/album/heinoustuck-vol-1.yaml index 6240acd..02f6c92 100644 --- a/album/heinoustuck-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/heinoustuck-vol-1.yaml @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Color: '#6c7ba4' Track Art File Extension: png Groups: - Fandom -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Yorsh:</i> Heinoustuck Vol. 1, a music album entirely composed of things made by the fans of my Homestuck AU <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=1018">Heinoustuck</a> [wiki maintainer's cw - body horror], is here! The reception I had for both the music submissions and track art submissions was fantastic! Thank-you all! diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml index 43ca9df..e611f2a 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-1-4.yaml @@ -515,9 +515,9 @@ URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-original-loop-2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Um9OiP8dU Commentary: |- - <i>Buzinkai:</i> - <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsG71P_zEIE'>'Doctor' Explained</a> - <i>Partial transcript:</i><br>Hello internet, my name is George Buzinkai. I am one of the musicians, well, I was one of the musicians for Ms Paint Adventures. I wrote such songs as [[Endless Climb]], [[Showtime (Imp Strife Mix)|Imp Strife Mix? Strife Imp Mix]] I think and of course the wildly remixed Doctor, which I have open in the original software I wrote it in. + <i>Buzinkai:</i> (<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsG71P_zEIE'>'Doctor' Explained</a>) + *Partial transcript:* + Hello internet, my name is George Buzinkai. I am one of the musicians, well, I was one of the musicians for Ms Paint Adventures. I wrote such songs as [[Endless Climb]], [[Showtime (Imp Strife Mix)|Imp Strife Mix? Strife Imp Mix]] I think and of course the wildly remixed Doctor, which I have open in the original software I wrote it in. I'm about to show you a few things you didn't know about the song Doctor, and I'm going to show you a few things people get wrong when remixing it. I don't find a problem with it because half the time I don't even notice it but sometimes there are some things. I think some people have listened to the song by ear and have attempted to write a remix using that and I get requests a lot to post a MIDI of this. Due to the fact I wrote it in PxTone that's really hard to do. There is also another reason, the song was built in such a way that it's really hard to give certain things from the song and I'll explain that as we go. First things first all of the instruments except for the main three main three notes of the main chords which you know were written with instruments from the original [[artist:cave-story|Cave Story]]. If you listen to the drum track that's the original Cave Story drum soundtracks. All the other instruments are also from Cave Story. When I was originally writing the song I always wrote top down so believe it or not the first thing I wrote was the bassline. Then as I was going I added the drums, and from there I decided I should add an extra bassline. Once I added the extra bassline I decided it would be a good time to write an actual, you know, melody line. I was originally planning on using strings but I accidentally put in square waves and I fell in love with it right after I did it and I'm like "I can't switch this to strings now so I'm just gonna leave it as it is." Now the rectangle waves [Note: Referring to the main melody of the song.] I'm focusing on right now are written in a really weird way, not one that I would normally use for writing on a piano or something like that. I wrote the top note first and I wrote the other notes just to harmonize with it. From there I wrote the second note. I obviously didn't write the third one yet, I just wanted to make sure it sounded right. From there I wrote the third note which was kind of a crapshoot but you know, why not. Now, the weird part was once I got to the part where it starts the arpeggiation I already had the instruments here but the problem was I had them on different stereo channels. Like this one was on the left speaker this one was on the right speaker and this one's in the center. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml index a24f01c..3f15cf8 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml @@ -344,6 +344,11 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Seth Massey:</i> Some of the more "mechanical" designs in Sburb were fricken cool. Wish we saw more of them. + + <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> ([Bandcamp blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20160615084929/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/skaian-overdrive)) + + \*note: track is not actually [[Skaian Starstorm|"Skaian Starstorm"]]<br> + \*oops --- Track: Freefall Artists: diff --git a/album/intermishin.yaml b/album/intermishin.yaml index d692b8d..e725ef9 100644 --- a/album/intermishin.yaml +++ b/album/intermishin.yaml @@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/variating-sides - https://youtu.be/5gL9HCntBfc Commentary: |- - <i>Koba:</i> (Composer) + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (Composer) So this song was made as a more of an album ender, incorporating (rather just editing together) songs from the album into one. Its mostly taking inspiration from [[track:variations|Variations]] which was the album ender in the original [[album:the-felt|Felt album]]. Before this, I was going to make a [[track:jade-dragon|Jade Dragon]]-type song, but halfway through it started to take too long so I scrapped it. There's still a snippet in the song though, at the end, so it didn't go to waste. Maybe I'll finish it one day and it'll be the best thing you have ever fucking heard idk <i>Makin:</i> (Seer) diff --git a/album/jailbreak-vol-1.yaml b/album/jailbreak-vol-1.yaml index b6a7f67..d472061 100644 --- a/album/jailbreak-vol-1.yaml +++ b/album/jailbreak-vol-1.yaml @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Additional Files: - Title: Bandcamp Banner Files: - banner.png -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> You wake up locked in this album, completely alone.<br> diff --git a/album/jpeg.yaml b/album/jpeg.yaml index 1b7c701..80ed86b 100644 --- a/album/jpeg.yaml +++ b/album/jpeg.yaml @@ -472,10 +472,10 @@ Commentary: |- <i>bobthetacocat:</i> (Artist) the update came and the idea was just laying there so i had to, although scaro did most of the heavy lifting here - <i>Anonymous:</i> (Unknown Person) + <i>Unknown Artist|Anonymous:</i> (Unknown Person) "hi im star and i like sucking giant cocks" - <i>Anonymous 2:</i> (Unknowner Person) + <i>Unknown Artist|Anonymous 2:</i> (Unknowner Person) Now I must admit, the person who so lovingly commented on this Music Commentary tab is surprisingly correct. Yes, I am Starlight and I 100% do like and enjoy sucking gigantic cocks. Honestly, this unknown person has reached the highest peak of humanity's excellence. Never before has such a sentence other than, "hi im star and i like sucking giant cocks," been so perfectly beautiful. As though the sun was in the midst of setting in the dusky haze of the sunset, the sentence also set my hopes in humanity. Into the sky. This sentence is so beautifully perfect, that none can hope to outmatch it. Shakespeare could not possibly even write anywhere NEAR this level of expertise in using the English Language to truly convey what they meant. I am truthfully in awe at the sheer dazzling mastery of words that was wrote up above. But what can we glean from these words of a madman poetry genius such as unknown person? Firstly, we should take a look an analyse the first three words of this person's sentence. "hi im star." This person uses the word hi to establish a friendly, perhaps playful, tone helps to immediately start this sentence off with you beginning to listen to what they are saying. Next, they use the phrase, "im star," to denote that this is StarlightCalliope speaking. This, together with the usage of, "hi," helps to make the reader of the sentence believe that it is StarlightCalliope who typed out this sentence. Now the question is... why would this person need to mention that it was me, StarlightCalliope, if it would already state above their commentary that it was me? This begs the question, was this mysterious writer truly me all along, or was it really some mystery writer that I do not know the name of? This, is for you, the reader of this commentary booklet to figure out. @@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ Lyrics: |- Kuyashii kedo suki tte junjou (<i>It's frustrating, but it's a pure-hearted devotion called love</i>) (Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da-ca, feel good, sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da-ca, feel good) Commentary: |- - <i>yaszu:</i> (Organizer) + <i>yazshu:</i> (Organizer) skyplayer has been MIA for awhile so im just gonna write down commentary that its a fucking siiva joke theres nothing to commentate on <i>Skyplayer:</i> (Artist) diff --git a/album/le-canrivalry-album-is-mandatory.yaml b/album/le-canrivalry-album-is-mandatory.yaml index 1cf038b..0d20c2e 100644 --- a/album/le-canrivalry-album-is-mandatory.yaml +++ b/album/le-canrivalry-album-is-mandatory.yaml @@ -312,18 +312,19 @@ Lyrics: |- How I shot it on one taking it back to the days of trying to lose control TA-kyon Commentary: |- - <i>@RandomDude647:</i> (YouTube Commenter) - 0:00 purple tyrant (bob) - 0:10 rct (bob) - 0:30 extended version of canrival (noisemaker) - 0:36 renai circulation (koba) - 0:36 tick/tock (dif) - 0:40 ghostbusters (golden) - 0:41 island in the sun (xeno) - 0:42 space jam (yazshu) - 0:54 smooth (dif) - 0:54 shelter (xeno) - 0:56 dr pepper (dif) + <i>RandomDude647:</i> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kp_ds6EcFE&lc=UgwCnr4ZY7pbuOFL2O94AaABAg">YouTube comment</a>) + Pasting this so i can see it more easily on mobile + 0:00 purple tyrant (bob) + 0:10 rct (bob) + 0:30 extended version of canrival (noisemaker) + 0:36 renai circulation (koba) + 0:36 tick/tock (dif) + 0:40 ghostbusters (golden) + 0:41 island in the sun (xeno) + 0:42 space jam (yazshu) + 0:54 smooth (dif) + 0:54 shelter (xeno) + 0:56 dr pepper (dif) 1:06 september (golden) 1:11 bonfire ([[artist:ft-rj|sylvarn]]) 1:17 one week (dif) diff --git a/album/lofam.yaml b/album/lofam.yaml index 43fd9c8..59532b7 100644 --- a/album/lofam.yaml +++ b/album/lofam.yaml @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Commentary: |- So that's all that I want to say, really. Enjoy the music. <hr> - <i>Special Thanks:</i> + *Special Thanks:* To Elaine Wang (electronic orange juice/orngjce223), for initiating the project, and for writing the foreword to this booklet. To Jeremy "Solatrus" Iamurri, for his magnificent work in mastering the album. To Catboss (konec0) and melodiousDiscord, for pushing the project forward, and crafting the commentary booklet. diff --git a/album/lofam2.yaml b/album/lofam2.yaml index 0235193..c5736a6 100644 --- a/album/lofam2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam2.yaml @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Commentary: |- Fighting Spirit is in here, and its sequel, and many others I and my compatriots ran across in our scouring of not only the fanmusic thread but tindeck, soundcloud, tumblr and basically anywhere on the big wide internet where MSPA fans celebrate their love of this remarkable work of fiction through music. It's my hope that, having gathered it all here for your convenience, you too are spurred to start your own search for the best, including many pieces that for one reason or another we had to leave off. The Land of Fans and Music is not just this 2-disc set or its predecessor; they're only the tip of the vast landscape of amazing talent. Come in. Explore. Get lost in it, like I did. I haven't regretted it for a second. <hr> - <i>Special Thanks:</i> + *Special Thanks:* <b>-CONCEPTION/ORGANIZATION-</b><br>Lambda Bledsoe<br>Liza Fletcher <b>-ORGANIZATION TEAM-</b><br>Slogbait<br>Veritas Unae<br>Rachel Rose Mitchell<br>Paige 'hrmnzr" Stanley<br>Astro Kid<br>clumsyroyalty (clumsyroyalty)<br>Shoona<br>Charles "Crazy-8" Neudorf<br>Catboss (Cat Boss)<br>Brad "Avinoch" Griffin<br>Mark "Dagoth Xil" Ciocca <b>-MASTERING-</b><br>Brad "Avinoch" Griffin<br>Veritas Unae @@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ Commentary: |- No commentary here! <i>continued from [[JackBot]];</i> <i>THE LUMINESCENT AURA SUBSIDES, AND BOTH OF THE UNCLOTHED EARTH CREATURES ARE PLUNGED INTO INKY BLACK DARKNESS. FAINT SOUNDS AND METALLIC SCRATCHING SUGGEST NEARBY MOVEMENT. THE MOOSE IS VISIBLY SHAKEN... AT LEAST IT WOULD BE IF IT WERE VISIBLE TO ANYBODY. BUT IT ISN'T BECAUSE OF THE DARKNESS.</i> - <i>BUZZING FLUORESCENT LIGHTS FLICKER ON, REVEALING A VAST DOMED ROOM. IN THE CORNER, WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS A CROSS BETWEEN A GIANT SQUID AND A CORGI FIDDLES WITH A PANEL ON SOME MYSTERIOUS MACHINERY. THE NUDIST EMOTES IN SURPRISE. THIS CATCHES THE ALIEN'S ATTENTION, AND IT ABANDONS ITS FORMER TASK, APPROACHING THE NEW ARRIFALS EXCITEDLY. WITH ITS SOFT, FURRY TENTACLES GESTICULATING WILDLY, IT GESTURES TOWARD WHAT ONE CAN ONLY ASSUME IS ITS TORSO. UPON CLOSE INSPECTION, IT IS WEARING A NAME TAG THAT READS:</i> + *BUZZING FLUORESCENT LIGHTS FLICKER ON, REVEALING A VAST DOMED ROOM. IN THE CORNER, WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS A CROSS BETWEEN A GIANT SQUID AND A CORGI FIDDLES WITH A PANEL ON SOME MYSTERIOUS MACHINERY. THE NUDIST EMOTES IN SURPRISE. THIS CATCHES THE ALIEN'S ATTENTION, AND IT ABANDONS ITS FORMER TASK, APPROACHING THE NEW ARRIFALS EXCITEDLY. WITH ITS SOFT, FURRY TENTACLES GESTICULATING WILDLY, IT GESTURES TOWARD WHAT ONE CAN ONLY ASSUME IS ITS TORSO. UPON CLOSE INSPECTION, IT IS WEARING A NAME TAG THAT READS:* <center><i>Hello, My Name Is</i></center> <center><i><big>BNORKEL</big></i></center> --- @@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- <i>Brad Griffin:</i> (booklet editor) No commentary here! - <i>continued from [[The Seer and the Tribesmen]]:</i> + *continued from [[The Seer and the Tribesmen]]:* <i>THE NAKED FELLOW INTRODUCES HIMSELF IN RETURN. OVERJOYED, BNORKEL BARKS UP A CLOUD OF PUNGENT INK. THIS STARTLES THE MOOSE, WHO PROCEEDS TO INSTINCTIVELY CHARGE THEM BOTH. A FLURRY OF ACTIVITY! ANTLERS FLASH, TENTACLES FLAIL, EXPOSED FLESH JUTS OFFENSIVELY.</i> <i>AFTER A BRIEF BUT VIOLENT SCUFFLE, BNORKEL COWELS IN A MASS, LICKING HIS WOUNDED SUCKERS. AMIDST THE COMMOTION, THE FRIENDLY NUDIST WAS KNOCKED THROUGH THE AIRLOCK, BRIEFLY INTO THE FRIGID VACUUM OF SPACE, THEN THROUGH THE PLANET'S ATMOSPHERE AT HIGH SPEEDS.</i> <i>THE MOOSE INADVERTENTLY TAKES CONTROL OF THE SPACESHIP (IT IS A SPACE SHIP BY THE WAY) AND ACCIDENTALLY USES IT TO DESTROY NEPTUNE. BNORKEL DIDN'T LIKE NEPTUNE ANYWAY.</i> diff --git a/album/lofam3.yaml b/album/lofam3.yaml index 4aa1108..2936b03 100644 --- a/album/lofam3.yaml +++ b/album/lofam3.yaml @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Commentary: |- So this sure is a thing! I did art for LOFAM2 and retconned in a nice banner for the rehosted LOFAM1, so naturally I sold my soul to the LOFAM once more to draw things and wrangle some artists for the third album! I consider this project a tribute to the creative side of the Homestuck fandom. You guys rock! I hope yoiu enjoy this album and take a look at all the cool art for it. \- your friendly neighborhood Lune <hr> - <i>Special Thanks:</i> + *Special Thanks:* <b>-CONCEPTION/ORGANIZATION-</b><br>Lune (Artist Wrangler)<br>Veritas Unae (Musician Wrangler) <b>-ADDITIONAL ORGANIZATION-</b><br>Brad "Avinoch" Griffin <- thanking myself<br>Catboss (Catboss)<br>Mark Ciocca<br>Jeremy "Solatrus" Iamurri<br>Lambda "Xzaz" Blesdoe<br>...and everybody who nominated songs! <b>-MASTERING-</b><br>Veritas Unae diff --git a/album/lofam4.yaml b/album/lofam4.yaml index 49c111c..10e4baa 100644 --- a/album/lofam4.yaml +++ b/album/lofam4.yaml @@ -14,12 +14,21 @@ Groups: - Unofficial MSPA Fans - Fandom Commentary: |- - <i>The Unofficialmspafans present:</i> + <i>Unofficial MSPA Fans:</i> + *The Unofficialmspafans present:* <center>LAND OF FANS AND MUSIC 4</center> <b>The Team:</b><br>Lambda Bledsoe<br>Veritas Unae<br>Liza McCall<br>[[artist:keyboard-cait|ndividedbyzero]]<br>Lathan Jury<br>Emily<br>ostrichlittledungeon<br>Makin <b>Booklet:</b><br>Circlejourney <b>Additional Help:</b><br>Mark Ciocca (Dagoth Xil)<br>Yishan "Catboss." Mai<br>Seijen<br>SerialSymphony<br>nights<br>Grace Medley<br>Bambosh<br>wheals<br>Kal-la-kal-la<br>WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES<br>SplitSuns - <b>Special Thanks:</b><br>Elaine "OJ" Wang<br>M. Alex "melodiousDiscord" Moser<br>Brad "Avinoch" Griffin<br>Robert J! Lake<br>Christina "Lune" Lillard<br>The Cool and New Music Team<br>Andrew Hussie & What Pumpkin Studios<br>The Homestuck Music Team + *Special Thanks:*<br> + Elaine "OJ" Wang<br> + M. Alex "melodiousDiscord" Moser<br> + Brad "Avinoch" Griffin<br> + Robert J! Lake<br> + Christina "Lune" Lillard<br> + The Cool and New Music Team<br> + Andrew Hussie & What Pumpkin Studios<br> + The Homestuck Music Team <hr> <i>Lambda Bledsoe:</i> Hey, so, I'm Lambda. I did like 2/3 of LoFaM2 and a little bit of LoFaM3. I also made that list of references that comes up if you google "Homestuck remix list". @@ -1752,7 +1761,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Mathias Ramalho:</i> This track is a joke. It doesn't have a serious purpose. But it is, in fact, an 8-bit track I worked quite hard to make sound good. If you love 8-bit and RJ, then this is the track just for you! - <i>koba:</i> + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> so i worked on this art way back in the beginning of the year just to see if i could contribute to the album and made a piece of art i'm pretty happy about, i don't really do art stuff so this was a first for me but im glad i could have worked on the album in some way still. it was pretty fun working on the art in general, coming up with the idea was pretty quick after i heard the song, but the hard part was trying to draw lil rj for the art (with a trackpad, dont use trackpds), and after a few revisions i think i got it to a pretty close style to the original. anyway glad i could help work on the album, and hope you dudes all enjoy the rest of it <i>Robert J! Lake:</i> (probably not associated) What diff --git a/album/lofam5.yaml b/album/lofam5.yaml index c3a5003..30e0f10 100644 --- a/album/lofam5.yaml +++ b/album/lofam5.yaml @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ Art Tags: - Lord English Commentary: |- <i>Interrobang:</i> - I made this track for the C[[group:canmt|ool and New Music Team]] Felt/Midnight Crew album circa 2018 or so, and it was nominated for "the next LOFAM" long before any actual prep for this album had really started. I actually requested it be taken off of LOFAM5 because I felt it didn't meet my standards anymore, but due to a miscommunication it stayed on. I found this out about 15 minutes before the release stream, which is happening as I type this - Album is sounding great, y'all! Anyway, hope it sounds better to you than it does to me. + I made this track for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]] [[album:intermishin|Felt/Midnight Crew album]] circa 2018 or so, and it was nominated for "the next LOFAM" long before any actual prep for this album had really started. I actually requested it be taken off of LOFAM5 because I felt it didn't meet my standards anymore, but due to a miscommunication it stayed on. I found this out about 15 minutes before the release stream, which is happening as I type this - Album is sounding great, y'all! Anyway, hope it sounds better to you than it does to me. --- Track: A Dream Of Broken Clocks Artists: @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Monckat:</i> A track vaguely themed around Dave, Rose, Derse, and the lovely eldritch horrors next door. For the most part it emerged from wanting to remix some lesser-utilized themes such as [[Switchback]], [[Ace of Trump]], and [[At The Price of Oblivion]] - Rose and Dave chilling on Derse, with some horrorterrors looming above. (I've taken some artistic liberties with the horrorterrors, in being conjoined into a single mass they kinda resemble the horrorterrors in my fanventure The Tapestry more than canon Homestuck ones) + Rose and Dave chilling on Derse, with some horrorterrors looming above. (I've taken some artistic liberties with the horrorterrors, in being conjoined into a single mass they kinda resemble the horrorterrors in my fanventure [The Tapestry](https://mspfa.com/?s=21688&p=1) more than canon Homestuck ones) --- Track: Wayward Directory: wayward-lofam5 @@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ Lyrics: |- From now on I know I'll be more careful where I tread I'm alive, I'm smiling, I'm so tired of being dead -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>heir-of-puns:</i> [[Temporal Shenanigans]] was the first homestuck song I ever heard outside of the comic, and it's how I first discovered the full hs music library. Been wanting to do some sort of tribute to it for a long time. (I also just really really love Aradia <i>Circlejourney:</i> @@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Rex Duodecim Angelus - Scratch -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Tee-vee:</i> I was listening to Demetori as I usually do and once thought "What if the source material for their arrangements wasn't Touhou ?" and of course the first thing that came to my mind was Homestuck, so I thought I could actually run with the idea ! [[Rex Duodecim Angelus]] in all it's dark neo-classical glory seemed like the perfect track to arrange in this style, though I only kept the original melodies and ideas from it so I wouldn't have to go down a rabbit hole of character themes that could derail the intent of the arrangement. The ending section is inspired by another IP entirely (if you can guess what it is I did a fine enough job), but it seemed appropriate given the context. Very happy with how it turned out! Also the title is pretty long winded but I wanted to fit the Touhou/Demetori naming format haha. <i>Monckat:</i> @@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (CLICK IT AND BUY IT, DON'T EVEN LISTEN TO IT, UH BUY IT AND-AND BURN A CD AND TH-THROW THE CD ON THE GROUND AND SPIT ON IT AND THEN BUY IT AGAIN AND THEN TELL YOUR MOM YOU WANNA MOVE OUT, JUST- I'M KARKAT, HEY UH HOMESTUCK VOLUME... IT'S SQUIDDLES TWO IT'S, IT'S VOLUME X, VOLUME TEN, IT'S THE NEW YEAH, DOT COM.) Commentary: |- - <i>koba:</i> + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> i made this song back in 2017 originally and then changed it a bit in 2019 (i think), i have not seen the project file since, it is a mystery on where it has gone, if someone finds it please put it on a usb drive and get it to me via pigeon sleep peacefully, my beloved witch, karkatrice <i>cloudie:</i> diff --git a/album/lofam5a2.yaml b/album/lofam5a2.yaml index ecec986..2c7d776 100644 --- a/album/lofam5a2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam5a2.yaml @@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Requiem of Sunshine and Rainbows Commentary: |- - <i>Koba:</i> + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> before making this track, I never made an original song for a LoFaM album (my [[track:past-funk-is-worse-than-future-funk|previous one]] was taken from a [[album:9|CaNMT album]]), so my idea for this song was to remix a Homestuck song that didn't get much attention in the scene. one of my favorite songs from [[album:alterniabound|Alternabound]] was 'Requiem of Sunshine and Rainbows'. so my plan for this track was to create a remix more slow-paced but also felt more consistently intense compared to the original song. there's multiple melodies from the original song heard in this track, though it might be hard to hear them at first listen since some notes are changed slighly and the melodies are slowed, but i swear they're in there somewhere pls trust me Also I found out after composing the track is that this song was the first time anyone has referenced Requiem of Sunshine and Rainbows apparently?? i want that to change so this song is going to be a message to everyone to also remix the original song because it is great and i love it<br> @@ -3158,7 +3158,7 @@ Commentary: |- W- wait. Why are you leaving <s>so much blank space below</s> *a few pages* after the commentary block. Who is that for. - <i><b style="color: #2ed73a">CALIBORN:</b></i> + <i>Grace Medley|<b style="color: #2ed73a">CALIBORN</b>:</i> <span style="color: #2ed73a">HI AGAIN, IDIOTS. MISS ME?</span> <span style="color: #2ed73a">IT HAS BEEN ALTOGETHER TOO LONG SINCE YOU WERE LAST GRACED/DOOMED BY MY PRESENCE. AND I THOUGHT IT ALTOGETHER RE MISS TO NOT DRESS YOU DOWN. WITH ANOTHER GRANDILOQUENT EXPOSÉ. ABOUT HOW UNFIT YOU ALL ARE TO UNDERSTAND THE BEAUTY OF MY MAGNUM OPUS.</span> diff --git a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml index fe33ea9..9ea1d7c 100644 --- a/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml +++ b/album/moons-of-theseus.yaml @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - The Deeper You Go - Got It? Commentary: |- - <i>koba:</i> + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> i made this song cuz the new window is cool and you know what would be cooler? adding more cool songs to it please nintendo give me animal crossing switch at e3 PLEASE --- diff --git a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml index 56cdd22..4d2b326 100644 --- a/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml +++ b/album/more-homestuck-fandom.yaml @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ Artists: Duration: '2:33' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE7K28JkDVk -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Niklink:</i> (wiki editor) This track is also known as 'Hussjam' in the current iteration of the Homestuck Sound Test. --- diff --git a/album/oceanfalls-vol-4.yaml b/album/oceanfalls-vol-4.yaml index 8e2b7fb..58b5b07 100644 --- a/album/oceanfalls-vol-4.yaml +++ b/album/oceanfalls-vol-4.yaml @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Lune (Oceanfalls) Commentary: |- - <i>kobacat:</i> + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> His highness is wrong. The lucky person here is you, and you alone. --- Track: Right Hand Confrontation diff --git a/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml b/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml index 05ce8cb..a4200ff 100644 --- a/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml +++ b/album/of-troles-and-chiptumes.yaml @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Additional Files: - Title: Prototype Cover Files: - Album Art Prototype.png -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>cookiefonster:</i> All songs composed with FamiTracker diff --git a/album/play-the-rain.yaml b/album/play-the-rain.yaml index d4b0ee0..6d4cd57 100644 --- a/album/play-the-rain.yaml +++ b/album/play-the-rain.yaml @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Cover Artists: Color: '#b6beac' Groups: - Fandom -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Lark Mordancy:</i> A collection of Homestuck-based songs. @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - Sburban Jungle - Skaian Skirmish -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Lark Mordancy:</i> Theme for the Warweary Villein. @@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ Artists: Duration: '01:27' URLs: - https://larkmordancy.bandcamp.com/track/verdant-metamorphosis -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Lark Mordancy:</i> + Theme for Aradia's God-Tiering. --- Track: Pacific Lullaby @@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ Artists: Duration: '01:18' URLs: - https://larkmordancy.bandcamp.com/track/pacific-lullaby -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Lark Mordancy:</i> Theme for Jade Harley. diff --git a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml index 28360f7..17e1db3 100644 --- a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml @@ -3360,8 +3360,9 @@ Lyrics: |- Put a smile on that face There's no time to waste So, let's do the odyssey -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Niklink:</i> (wiki editor) + While the lyrics here are from the (probably known to you) English version of the song, the Japanese version was the first version to be created (although both launched simultaneously). --- Track: Katamari on the Rocks diff --git a/album/retcon-2018.yaml b/album/retcon-2018.yaml index 7da671f..fadbcbf 100644 --- a/album/retcon-2018.yaml +++ b/album/retcon-2018.yaml @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: png Banner File Extension: png Groups: - Fandom -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>The Cat Herd:</i> 413 is here, folks and fellows! And with it, Retcon (2018)! diff --git a/album/rust-apocalypse-anniversary-remaster.yaml b/album/rust-apocalypse-anniversary-remaster.yaml index c55559f..6475aec 100644 --- a/album/rust-apocalypse-anniversary-remaster.yaml +++ b/album/rust-apocalypse-anniversary-remaster.yaml @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Willow Ascenzo Referenced Tracks: - Rust Apocalypse -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> A remastered version of [[Rust Apocalypse]], released on the anniversary of the original track, which was itself an arrangement and expansion of [[track:rust-servant|a track I composed]] for the Homestuck album [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a]]. This version has been remastered from the original stem tracks for a brighter, clearer sound, and parts of the choir have been redone for additional clarity. diff --git a/album/sburb.yaml b/album/sburb.yaml index 98b5642..b105aa8 100644 --- a/album/sburb.yaml +++ b/album/sburb.yaml @@ -19,27 +19,48 @@ Art Tags: - Jade - Skaia Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes - front) + Sburb is my proudest accomplishment. It is the bastard child of my hopes and dreams and my most recent accomplishments and ordeals. I set out to write music to capture everything going on in my life as well as find out who I am and what I am as far as a composer. What ended up happening was the creation of twelve powerful pieces that are close and dear to me and are a road map of my trials. The album has a biblical theme with the titles as to fit with the concept of the story of Homestuck being that of creation. Sburb ends up being the catalyst for the existence of our universes and every other one. I hope you appreciate them! These are my comments about each piece as well as a few comments on how exactly I played some of the crazier parts. + Enjoy! + + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes - back) + <b>In Loving Memory of Linda Wright</b> + Without her words of encouragement and pushing me the whole way, I would not be half the man I am today. She was my savior during the worsttime of my life. She inspired me to finish this album, which I almost could not bring myself to do after her passing away. I miss you more than anything, grandma. + <b>Thank you so much:</b> + The Quintanas, the Diguiseppis, the Emmons', Mr. Saliman and Mr. Spare for helping me survive the last year. + The Diguiseppis for giving me a roof over my head. + Jess, Mr. Emmons and the Farrells for putting up with me and teaching me everything I know about music. + Aunt Tammy for always protecting me and supporting any decision I make. + My friends for pushing me to not give up what I love the most. + [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew Hussie]] for this opportunity. For Homestuck. + [[artist:solatrus|Jeremy Iamurri]] for beating sense into me and being a great friend. + [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]] for being absolutely amazing at what you do and performing this album. + [[artist:robert-j-lake|RJ Lake]] for pushing me to be better. + The music team for pushing me, and being the biggest group of bros in existence. + You. For listening. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + Originally written for Homestuck in 2011, Sburb is the first major composition I ever wrote. The pieces were written when I was seventeen, over my junior and senior years of high school and performed and recorded the following summer. The album released about a month before I set off to college and the whole experience was phenomenal. - While I have long lost track with MSPA, I still am good friends with my fellow musicians from the Homestuck Music team including Erik "Jit" Steele, who performed on these recordings. + + While I have long lost track with MSPA, I still am good friends with my fellow musicians from the Homestuck Music team including [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Steele]], who performed on these recordings. + Looking back on it now, I love how obvious my early inspirations are but I do love the work I was able to create during one of the most tumultuous times in my life. Thanks for listening. Additional Files: - Title: Commentary PDF @@ -52,6 +73,8 @@ Additional Files: Files: - banner.jpg --- +Section: Sburb +--- Track: The Prelude Contributors: - Erik Scheele (performance) @@ -66,12 +89,16 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'The Prelude - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> - The Prelude is a piece that I formulated a long time ago. It actually came about from me trying to figure out the chords the harps play in the quiet last section of Saturn from Gustav Holst's The Planets. When I started writing Sburb I decided that it would fit perfectly with the theme that the game creates. The structure of the chords is not unlike how the game actually functions. They work as a juxtaposition of good and evil by using relative major and minor chords. It starts off quietly and on higher octaves to introduce the mood. The next section brings in the Homestuck Anthem as an introduction to the album itself, signaling the beginning of the entire process. The piece suddenly grows in intensity as the left hand C octave ostinatos enter the phrases followed by the calm of the storm. The piece does not resolve, however it does lead straight into the next. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + + The Prelude is a piece that I formulated a long time ago. It actually came about from me trying to figure out the chords the harps play in the quiet last section of Saturn from Gustav Holst's The Planets. When I started writing Sburb I decided that it would fit perfectly with the theme that the game creates. The structure of the chords is not unlike how the game actually functions. They work as a juxtaposition of good and evil by using relative major and minor chords. It starts off quietly and on higher octaves to introduce the mood. The next section brings in the [[Homestuck Anthem]] as an introduction to the album itself, signaling the beginning of the entire process. The piece suddenly grows in intensity as the left hand C octave ostinatos enter the phrases followed by the calm of the storm. The piece does not resolve, however it does lead straight into [[Genesis|the next]]. + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + The introduction to the suite lays the fundamentals and ideas present throughout the rest of the movements. A juxtaposition between major and minor are in every chord creating a backbone of polytonality that I wanted to explore as I formulated the album. - The main Homestuck anthem is weaved through the chords as this album was originally written for and published through MS Paint Adventures and What Pumpkin. The original theme was composed by [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]]. + + The main [[Homestuck Anthem|Homestuck anthem]] is weaved through the chords as this album was originally written for and published through MS Paint Adventures and What Pumpkin. The original theme was composed by [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]]. + The album in its entirety is performed by [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele]]. --- Track: Genesis @@ -86,11 +113,13 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Genesis - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> - This song begins with a C minor chord that both resolves the last piece and immediately sets the mood for this piece. Genesis marks the beginning of the biblical terms as well. The Book of Genesis is the first book of both the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. It is interpreted as the Chosen People being lead to the Promised Land. Sburb is the pathway that leads the kids into the game that is suppose to eventually grow a new universe. It starts off quietly and builds into a fast paced journey. Genesis also introduces my favorite music technique: hemiolas. The right hand plays a melody in triplets while the left hand harmonizes in eighth notes. This creates a strange rhythm and continues the juxtaposition theme created in The Prelude's chords. Continuing the concept of two extremes but together, the song goes into legato, quiet phrases that are immediately followed by staccato, loud phrases. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> - The previous track sets up the resolution that the opening measures provide here. This movement introduces the two against three polyrhythm idea that continues throughout the album as well as a few choice hemiolas. Coming from a percussion background, I find a lot of melodic potential in rhythmic content and this whole suite was a place for me to test that out. + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + + This song begins with a c minor chord that both resolves [[The Prelude|the last piece]] and immediately sets the mood for this piece. Genesis marks the beginning of the biblical terms as well. The Book of Genesis is the first book of both the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. It is interpreted as the Chosen People being lead to the Promised Land. Sburb is the pathway that leads the kids into the game that is suppose to eventually grow a new universe. It starts off quietly and builds into a fast paced journey. Genesis also introduces my favorite music technique: hemiolas. The right hand plays a melody in triplets while the left hand harmonizes in eighth notes. This creates a strange rhythm and continues the juxtaposition theme created in [[The Prelude]]'s chords. Continuing the concept of two extremes but together, the song goes into legato, quiet phrases that are immediately followed by staccato, loud phrases. + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + + [[The Prelude|The previous track]] sets up the resolution that the opening measures provide here. This movement introduces the two against three polyrhythm idea that continues throughout the album as well as a few choice hemiolas. Coming from a percussion background, I find a lot of melodic potential in rhythmic content and this whole suite was a place for me to test that out. --- Track: Eden Contributors: @@ -107,11 +136,14 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Eden - Seppuku (alt starting bars).png' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> - The Garden of Eden is where the first man Adam, and his wife Eve, lived after their creation. It is suppose to be a beautiful, blissful utopia. It also becomes the origin of sin. The piece reflects that concept. The flowing and adventurous nature of the piece is suppose to reflect the beauty and majestic qualities of the land. As far as the kids story goes, it represents the infinite potential of Skaia. This song also continues the same hemiola motif as Creation with triplets played by the right hand and eighth notes played by the left. The glissandos at the beginning and in the middle is an E flat pentatonic run, which basically means I only played on the black keys. Since it's completely ad libbed I wrote out a small little example. Basically, the left hand just continues up normally while the right hand goes back and forth while slowly climbing up (if looking at the sheet music, each note alternates on the hands). - <i>(commentary redux)</i> + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + + The Garden of Eden is where the first man Adam, and his wife Eve, lived after their creation. It is suppose to be a beautiful, blissful utopia. It also becomes the origin of sin. The piece reflects that concept. The flowing and adventurous nature of the piece is suppose to reflect the beauty and majestic qualities of the land. As far as the kids story goes, it represents the infinite potential of Skaia. This song also continues the same hemiola motif as [[Creation]] with triplets played by the right hand and eighth notes played by the left. The glissandos at the beginning and in the middle is an E flat pentatonic run, which basically means I only played on the black keys. Since it's completely ad libbed I wrote out a small little example. Basically, the left hand just continues up normally while the right hand goes back and forth while slowly climbing up (if looking at the sheet music, each note alternates on the hands). + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + The goal here was to feel like a breath of air after the first two movements had a much more minor modal center. The three over two polyrhythm keeps powering through the movement as I start introducing bass ostinati that act as the pedal tone to the melodic content. + Still in love with those flourishes after all these years. --- Track: Exodus @@ -128,11 +160,14 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Exodus - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> - The Book of Exodus comes after the Book of Genesis. It narrates the mass journey out of Israel by Moses. In Sburb, the players must go through a set of tasks to escape impending doom. This song reflects the process of entering the medium. This is why I encorporated [[Sburban Jungle]] into the beginning and end. The first time Sburb is booted up you hear a bit of Sburban Jungle, just like at the beginning of the song you hear the bottom chords. Later, when John enters the medium (as well as Rose) you hear the song in more complete forms like the end of the piece. When playing, the trickiest part is definitely the triplet ostinato that continues throughout the entire song. The best method to pulling this off is by playing the note on the beat (which will always be either E flat or G) with the left hand and the rest of the notes on the right hand. You will notice that when there are lower notes, there are rests in the ostinato so that you can quickly jump down the piano. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> - Continuing the Homestuck homages, this piece prominently features the bassline from [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Michael Guy Bowman's]] Sburban Jungle. + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + + The Book of Exodus comes after the Book of Genesis. It narrates the mass journey out of Israel by Moses. In Sburb, the players must go through a set of tasks to escape impending doom. This song reflects the process of entering the medium. This is why I encorporated [[Sburban Jungle]] into the beginning and end. The first time Sburb is booted up you hear [[Sburban Jungle (Brief Mix)|a bit]] of Sburban Jungle, just like at the beginning of the song you hear the bottom chords. Later, when John enters the medium (as well as Rose) you hear the song in more complete forms like the end of the piece. When playing, the trickiest part is definitely the triplet ostinato that continues throughout the entire song. The best method to pulling this off is by playing the note on the beat (which will always be either E flat or G) with the left hand and the rest of the notes on the right hand. You will notice that when there are lower notes, there are rests in the ostinato so that you can quickly jump down the piano. + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + + Continuing the Homestuck homages, this piece prominently features the bassline from [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Michael Guy Bowman's]] [[Sburban Jungle]]. + When I was writing this movement I really wanted to explore how much I could utilize the different registers of the piano while keeping a constant ostinato running through the middle register. --- Track: Requiem @@ -147,11 +182,14 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Requiem - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + Requiem masses are masses for the dead. Requiem is the anthem for everything and everybody lost. One portion of Homestuck never focused on is the direct aftermath of the destruction of the Reckoning. Requiem is a theme for all the people and things lost on Earth. The song itself could be very tricky to play depending on how familiar you are with time signatures. The piece is in 4/4 for the majority of the first half. It enters a 5/4 section with a 4/4 continuation of the "siren" effect overlapping. The hemiola only occurs the first time, the second time bringing in a 5/4 melody to accompany it. Immediately afterwards the piece shifts into mixed meter. The 7/8 section is briefly interupted by an apostrophe of 5/8. The ending shifts to 6/8 as the tone shifts from minor to major. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + Continuing my quest to explore rhythm and melody, Requiem's goal was to keep a melody whipping between different time signatures while not feeling jerky or sudden. + I tried to hide the resolution at the end by having a quiet final note low in the bass after the bell like ringing of the final major arrival to add finality while also trying to let the unresolved final chord linger. Erik's performance really nailed it. --- Track: The Meek @@ -166,13 +204,18 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'The Meek - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." The Meek is the theme for the Exiles. They are the ones left to fix and save the Earth 413 years after its destruction. It starts off solemn as the concept occurs to them that it is their duty to repopulate and rebuild. As the piece goes on it gets more intense to reflect all of the shenanigans and gun pointing that occurs as they all converge and meet. After the tension dies away the mood from before is recapped before resolving at the end. However, the last run ends in dissonance, because we don't know how the exile's story will play out. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + A really terrible engraving job on the sheet music by yours truly created a repeated note in the beginning motive that I ended up actually digging more than the original version. - The Meek continues the idea of bouncing between time signatures while trying to keep a sense of structure. Where Requiem was more about a constant pulse, I decided to play with elongated pauses to stretch the phrases. + + The Meek continues the idea of bouncing between time signatures while trying to keep a sense of structure. Where [[Requiem]] was more about a constant pulse, I decided to play with elongated pauses to stretch the phrases. + The second section was during a time where I was really starting to love the idea of modes and modal mixture and just had fun with it. Still one of my favorite passages from the entire album! + I also really love not resolving these movements, if you haven't noticed. --- Track: Chronicles @@ -189,11 +232,14 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Chronicles - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> - A chronicle is an account of chronological events. Homestuck does not follow a chronological structure in the slightest. Chronicles is a piano version of [[track:candles-and-clockwork|Candles and Clockwork]]. Candles and Clockwork in itself is a massive hemiola as each voice exists in a different time signature. The melody is adapted in this piece to match the 3/4 arpeggio. The piece keeps changing to reflect each leg of the journey the kids have to experience in order to finish the game, not necessarily in order. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> - Chronicles is an adaption of an earlier Homestuck track I wrote, Candles and Clockwork. It was one of the first compositions I ever finished and, true to form, is a big hemiola. I wanted an ostinato in a different time signature than the melody which is what I focus on during the first section as I introduce the melody. + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + + A chronicle is an account of chronological events. Homestuck does not follow a chronological structure in the slightest. Chronicles is a piano version of [[Candles and Clockwork]]. Candles and Clockwork in itself is a massive hemiola as each voice exists in a different time signature. The melody is adapted in this piece to match the 3/4 arpeggio. The piece keeps changing to reflect each leg of the journey the kids have to experience in order to finish the game, not necessarily in order. + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + + Chronicles is an adaption of an earlier Homestuck track I wrote, [[Candles and Clockwork]]. It was one of the first compositions I ever finished and, true to form, is a big hemiola. I wanted an ostinato in a different time signature than the melody which is what I focus on during the first section as I introduce the melody. + The second part of the song introduces the final major motive of the suite, a sextuplet accompaniment outlining the tonic and dominant. A staple of the western art canon, it was a good foundation for me to work on some melodies that weren't purely rhythmic noodling. --- Track: Rapture @@ -208,10 +254,12 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Rapture - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + Boss fight music! Kind of. The rapture starts off quietly and peacefully before the sirens break the silence. The sirens lead into a fast paced hectic section before dying down as quickly as it appeared. A sudden destructive force that comes and goes in an instant. This song uses two motifs throughout the album: the siren and hemiolas. Measures 17-19 are more than a little tricky to play. I left a note in the sheet music to help with the ending line. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + Rapture was the boss tune of the suite. The big bad of the album, it brings back the bass and sustain pedal heavy ostinato while trying to juxtapose a simple and quiet melody that bookends it. --- Track: Creation @@ -228,15 +276,22 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Creation - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> - The song that means more to me than any song I've ever written and possibly will again. Sburb is all about creating worlds, thus the resolution of the album comes after the storm (Rapture). No matter how harsh the process may be, the result is beauty and endless potential. This song is completely based around the hemiola motif and the origin of it. It is also designed like a day. The song starts off quiet and slow as the sun rises and slowly gets more complex and full fledged as it rises until mid day when it is most busy. As the sun sets into the later half of the day the song slows down and gets quieter toward the sunset. It resolves with the [[track:homestuck-anthem|Homestuck Anthem]] to imply the loop to the beginning. Worlds are created and the process of Skaia starts again. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + + The song that means more to me than any song I've ever written and possibly will again. Sburb is all about creating worlds, thus the resolution of the album comes after the storm ([[Rapture]]). No matter how harsh the process may be, the result is beauty and endless potential. This song is completely based around the hemiola motif and the origin of it. It is also designed like a day. The song starts off quiet and slow as the sun rises and slowly gets more complex and full fledged as it rises until mid day when it is most busy. As the sun sets into the later half of the day the song slows down and gets quieter toward the sunset. It resolves with the [[Homestuck Anthem]] to imply the loop to the beginning. Worlds are created and the process of Skaia starts again. + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + This movement is framed as a sunset. Starting off quiet, building to a peak before shying away to where it started. + You can definitely see that I was influenced into writing music from the works of Philip Glass and that is in full force here, but even in retrospect I feel like I put a great personal spin on it. - As the sun sets, there's a final recall of the Homestuck Anthem. This movement was originally the last movement before I added the Revelations movements but it fit too well and I could not bring myself to remove it. + + As the sun sets, there's a final recall of the [[Homestuck Anthem]]. This movement was originally the last movement before I added the Revelations movements but it fit too well and I could not bring myself to remove it. + I wrote this the weeks following the passing of my grandmother. It will always be for her and for everything she did for me. --- +Section: Revelations +--- Track: Revelations I Contributors: - Erik Scheele (performance) @@ -251,13 +306,15 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Revelations I - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> - Revelations is the afterthought of Sburb. The three songs were added months after the original nine were finished and pieced together into the album. They are a standalone piece from the rest of the album but still fit the concept of Sburb and Skaia. Revelations is the equivalent of The Ultimate Riddle. Solving and understanding is the purpose behind the entire concept, however it can completely be overlooked and is not necessary to completing the rest of the process. Thousands of people can play the game and create their own universes but never quite solve the riddle. In this sense, it completely is a separate entity because the other nine songs can loop freely with or without its presence. Each of the movements is based around the same arpeggio pattern featured in [[track:chronicles|Chronicles]]. They are another journey completely. - The first movement starts off as a note in the distance, a growing concept. To the sound of a siren it grows and rushes into a full blown idea. The Homestuck Anthem is briefly mentioned to imply a connection but it just keeps going leaving it in the dust. There are better things to get to. It slowly breaks down and flows into the next movement. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + + Revelations is the afterthought of Sburb. The three songs were added months after the original nine were finished and pieced together into the album. They are a standalone piece from the rest of the album but still fit the concept of Sburb and Skaia. Revelations is the equivalent of The Ultimate Riddle. Solving and understanding is the purpose behind the entire concept, however it can completely be overlooked and is not necessary to completing the rest of the process. Thousands of people can play the game and create their own universes but never quite solve the riddle. In this sense, it completely is a separate entity because the other nine songs can loop freely with or without its presence. Each of the movements is based around the same arpeggio pattern featured in [[Chronicles]]. They are another journey completely. + + The first movement starts off as a note in the distance, a growing concept. To the sound of a siren it grows and rushes into a full blown idea. The [[Homestuck Anthem]] is briefly mentioned to imply a connection but it just keeps going leaving it in the dust. There are better things to get to. It slowly breaks down and flows into the next movement. + + <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp rerelease) + Revelations is a three part finale that is completely centered on the sextuplet dominant/tonic motive introduced earlier in the album. Each movement was more exploration of how I can use the same general accompaniment but completely change the melody. - <i>(commentary from movements II and III is from original booklet)</i> --- Track: Revelations II Contributors: @@ -271,7 +328,8 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Revelations II - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + Movement II is the process of solving it almost. It's the path to enlightenment; overcoming obstacles and finding yourself along the way is part of the challenge. --- Track: Revelations III @@ -286,5 +344,6 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Revelations III - James Dever.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>James Dever:</i> + <i>James Dever:</i> (composer's notes) + Resolution comes in the third movement, which is the enlightenment. One simple arpeggio starts and powers the entire piece, which also brings it to an end. The discovery of the answer brings enlightenment but also ends the journey and the entire process of Sburb/Skaia. Thank you for listening. diff --git a/album/shortcuts.yaml b/album/shortcuts.yaml index d22f117..d3a9fc7 100644 --- a/album/shortcuts.yaml +++ b/album/shortcuts.yaml @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Groups: - Casual Sunday - Beyond Commentary: |- - <i>Casual Sundays:</i> + <i>Casual Sunday:</i> an album about love and loss and numbers and places<br>(best listened to on headphones or loud, loud, gorgeous speakers) shortcuts written, recorded, and produced by casual sunday (check individual tracks for credits)<br>mastered by marcy nabors<br>art by robert j! lake casual sunday are: diff --git a/album/songs-unsung.yaml b/album/songs-unsung.yaml index b9427c4..902317c 100644 --- a/album/songs-unsung.yaml +++ b/album/songs-unsung.yaml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Color: '#f6bd0e' Groups: - Tensei - Fandom -Commentary: +Commentary: |- <i>Tensei:</i> I'm releasing an EP containing some of the stuff that I've posted before, including among others the 5 minute 'epic' metal rearrangement of [[track:heir-conditioning|Heir Conditioning]]. diff --git a/album/strife-2.yaml b/album/strife-2.yaml index ed31640..57f535b 100644 --- a/album/strife-2.yaml +++ b/album/strife-2.yaml @@ -139,6 +139,18 @@ URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-okW7YECmI Referenced Tracks: - Crustacean +Commentary: |- + <i>Tensei:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20180930224140/http://tenseimusic.tumblr.com/post/17709451675)) + + If you bought [[album:homestuck-vol-7|Homestuck volume 7]], you might be familiar with the bonus track I did on there, [[track:white-host-green-room|“White Host/Green Room”]], which had this garbled cameo of several Homestuck songs in the intro. If that’s the case, this song might sound familiar because it actually appeared in there for a bit. + + Its full name is “The King in Red”, and its supposed to be this weird pseudo-classical apocalyptic black metal remix of [[Karkat's Theme]]. The reason I never finished this up is because I was pretty dissatisfied with the choir samples, which simply weren’t up to the task. + + Human voice is said to be the single hardest thing to emulate through samples, which I guess is because people are generally used to hearing human voices all the time, so they’re much more likely to pick up on stuff that sounds ‘off’ than in the case of, for example, a sampled hurdy gurdy. + + In a lot of ways, it’s kinda similar to the uncanny valley problem with visual art; making a convincing and realistic human face through 3D modelling is very hard to pull off, and I don’t think it’s been seriously attempted since the Final Fantasy movie (And we all know how that turned out for them). + + Even modern CGI movies like Avatar avoid the concept by creating a distinctly alien race that gets just enough humanlike features to make them look relatable and 'cute’. --- Track: Unite Division (Beta) Duration: '1:43' diff --git a/album/team-paradox.yaml b/album/team-paradox.yaml index b530906..6798137 100644 --- a/album/team-paradox.yaml +++ b/album/team-paradox.yaml @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Commentary: |- Again on the more specific side, I would like to extend my great appreciation to [[artist:charles-neudorf|Crazy-8]] and Sadochist, who created the phenomenal tracks [[track:distortion-land-of-light-and-noise|Distortion]], [[Crazed Royal]] and [[Aliesh's Lullaby]], and [[track:hollow-team-paradox]] and [[track:pure-team-paradox]] respectively. I'm just going to take a time out for a moment from writing this to fondly regard how awful the punctuation in that last sentence was and hope the point still got through. Moving on. Being a musician myself, I can appreciate the immense amount of work that goes into creating a song, and here are these two who are consistently churning out more awesome tunes to grace our humble thrad. So many thanks to both of you for gracing this album with your unique styles. - Finally, I would like to thank the rest of the team. [[artist:red-pen]], blacksheepDaydreamer, Beep, Metaflare and Tribor, without any one of them the team would simply not be complete. Each brings dynamic and unique elements to the table to help put together this awesome story. I just wanted to say what a phenomenal pleasure it has been working with each and every one of you on Team Paradox over the last year, and I look forwards to continuing to do so. + Finally, I would like to thank the rest of the team. [[artist:red-pen]], [[artist:blacksheepdaydreamer|blacksheepDaydreamer]], [[artist:beep|Beep]], [[artist:metaflare|Metaflare]] and [[artist:tribor|Tribor]], without any one of them the team would simply not be complete. Each brings dynamic and unique elements to the table to help put together this awesome story. I just wanted to say what a phenomenal pleasure it has been working with each and every one of you on Team Paradox over the last year, and I look forwards to continuing to do so. <i>blacksheepDaydreamer:</i> So, a Team Paradox album?? That is awesome!! diff --git a/album/the-baby-is-you.yaml b/album/the-baby-is-you.yaml index ad96b15..8b217ed 100644 --- a/album/the-baby-is-you.yaml +++ b/album/the-baby-is-you.yaml @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Additional Files: Files: - lyrics for queer dicks.txt Commentary: |- - <i>Sanctferum:</i> + <i>Jonah "Sanctferum" Paley|[[artist:jonah-sanctferum-paley|Sanctferum]]:</i> (<i>From the Homestuck Sound Test 4/13/2017 Edition release notes:</i>) Simultaneously the worst fucking thing Toby Fox has ever made and his magnum opus that even Undertale cannot surpass, even mentioning this legendary trash opera on the now-defunct MSPA forums was grounds for a ban. Warning: Contains male pregnancy (mpreg), heavy implications of underage sex, implications of incest, time travel, a clip of Karkat saying "MMMMMMMMMMM" that was used in the Act 6 Act 6 Act 1 opening flash, vore, the answer to the Ultimate Riddle, and other absolutely awful shit that has no business being in the Sound Test, or indeed, anywhere. Listen at your own risk, if you dare... --- diff --git a/album/v8lume.yaml b/album/v8lume.yaml index 6e8030e..6973558 100644 --- a/album/v8lume.yaml +++ b/album/v8lume.yaml @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/starry-midnight - https://youtu.be/Nxk_SwHBWGQ Commentary: |- - <i>Koba:</i> (Composer) + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (Composer) its not a vriska track i apologise <i>nights:</i> (Artist) @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/dialup - https://youtu.be/cV8uHxvn_ZA Commentary: |- - <i>gordian12:</i> (Composer) + <i>Gordian:</i> (Composer) "The same note pattern over and over again gets grating after a while, regardless of how many layers you add." ~[[artist:bin]], 2017 @@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ URLs: - https://coolandnewwebcomic.bandcamp.com/track/it-came-from-volume-8 - https://youtu.be/vaZC4drhLMQ Commentary: |- - <i>wiliam_:</i> (Artist) + <i>ostrichlittledungeon:</i> (Artist) because it's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJpoAOPxTw">trailer</a>, i decided to whip up a cool 50s scifi horror film poster thing for the track art! it's probably much more dramatic and cool than the actual trailer is, though. (that's [[artist:nights|nights]] on fire in the bottom right corner <img src="media/misc/mmmBukkake.png" width="48">) --- Track: 'AAAAAAAAAAAAA Canon remix (not actually cannon though) cannon remix: THIT ONE IS CANON.' diff --git a/album/yes-we-canwc.yaml b/album/yes-we-canwc.yaml index b8f59bb..9ca2895 100644 --- a/album/yes-we-canwc.yaml +++ b/album/yes-we-canwc.yaml @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Lyrics: |- [Nak nak nak] (On behalf of all americans, I wish you well and I hope your leadership will lead our economy into a new--) [crash] Commentary: |- - <i>CogenInvalid:</i> (Composer) + <i>CogentInvalid:</i> (Composer) this song is one minute and fifteen seconds long. what could you have accomplished with your life in the time it took you to listen to this song? diff --git a/artists.yaml b/artists.yaml index ade57b6..4d682ee 100644 --- a/artists.yaml +++ b/artists.yaml @@ -432,11 +432,6 @@ URLs: Dead URLs: - https://www.artstation.com/anonei --- -URLs: -Artist: Anonymous ---- -Artist: Anonymous 2.0 ---- Artist: Anthony Lledo --- Artist: Anthony McCarthy @@ -833,6 +828,10 @@ Artist: Becky Sloan --- Artist: Bee --- +Artist: Beep +URLs: +- https://beepony.tumblr.com/ +--- Artist: Ben Sharrin --- Artist: Benedict Ide @@ -928,6 +927,10 @@ URLs: --- Artist: Blackout Crew --- +Artist: blacksheepDaydreamer +URLs: +- https://blueflame91.tumblr.com/ +--- Artist: blackwinterwells URLs: - https://blackwinterwells.bandcamp.com/ @@ -2593,6 +2596,8 @@ URLs: --- Artist: Family Matters --- +Artist: Fangamer +--- Artist: FantomenK URLs: - https://fantomenk.bandcamp.com @@ -3150,6 +3155,8 @@ URLs: - https://www.deviantart.com/lysa - https://hamsterparade.com/ --- +Artist: Handshake Collaborations +--- Artist: Hanni Brosh Aliases: - saffronScarf @@ -4529,6 +4536,8 @@ Artist: Liz Fish URLs: - https://lizardlicks.tumblr.com/ --- +Artist: Liza Fletcher +--- Artist: LizaWithAZed URLs: - https://lizawithazed.tumblr.com/ @@ -6289,6 +6298,11 @@ URLs: Dead URLs: - https://twitter.com/randomincisgone --- +Artist: RandomDude647 +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/randomdude647 +- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwHQ1b4BM7RlMxv-6gDgaxA +--- Artist: Randy Savage --- Artist: Rangaruka @@ -6387,6 +6401,8 @@ URLs: - https://twitter.com/wrenstarling - https://www.weavecomic.com/ --- +Artist: Requiem Cafe +--- Artist: rerollroxy Aliases: - blueglue @@ -7595,10 +7611,10 @@ Artist: Team Paradox Context Notes: |- Team Paradox is a collective name for the group that created and ran the Team Paradox fan adventure. This credit is used when the individual credit for a piece of [[album:team-paradox|Team Paradox music or art]] is unknown. They are: - [[artist:red-pen]] - - <a href="https://blueflame91.tumblr.com/">blacksheepDaydreamer</a> - - <a href="https://beepony.tumblr.com/">Beep</a> - - <a href="http://tribor.tumblr.com/">Tribor</a> - - <a href="https://metaflare.tumblr.com/">Metaflare</a> + - [[artist:blacksheepdaydreamer]] + - [[artist:beep]] + - [[artist:tribor]] + - [[artist:metaflare]] - [[artist:mediokrekarapase]] - [[artist:esabelle-ryngin]] URLs: @@ -7997,6 +8013,10 @@ Aliases: URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/trogg --- +Artist: Tribor +URLs: +- http://tribor.tumblr.com/ +--- Artist: Trisha Yearwood --- Artist: Tristan @@ -8058,6 +8078,12 @@ URLs: --- Artist: Umineko When They Cry --- +Artist: Undertale Wiki +URLs: +- https://undertale.fandom.com/ +--- +Artist: Unofficial MSPA Fans +--- Artist: Unknown Artist Context Notes: >- Sometimes, information on who is specifically responsible for a piece of music or art is not known. This is a catchall artist entry to list them in one place. If you have any information on who any of the artists listed here may be, please get in touch with us! @@ -9179,6 +9205,10 @@ Dead URLs: --- Artist: Messiah --- +Artist: Metaflare +URLs: +- https://metaflare.tumblr.com/ +--- Artist: microwavedsoap URLs: - https://microwavedsoap.tumblr.com/ diff --git a/flashes.yaml b/flashes.yaml index 4fff3f8..1205403 100644 --- a/flashes.yaml +++ b/flashes.yaml @@ -1812,7 +1812,7 @@ Flash: Of Bloodthurst and Bratwurst Directory: fs-vol2 Contributors: - 'Aysha U. Farah (writing: Amisia)' -- 'Anonymous (writing: Cirava)' +- 'Unknown Artist (writing: Cirava)' - 'Danny Cragg (art: characters, backgrounds, endings)' - 'Shelby Cragg (art: colorist)' - David Turnbull (programming) @@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@ Flash: Team Charge Directory: pq-vol9 Contributors: - 'Aysha U. Farah (writing: Nepeta)' -- 'Anonymous 2.0 (writing: Sollux)' +- 'Unknown Artist (writing: Sollux)' - 'Haven Daniels-Taylor (art: Nepeta, Pounce)' - 'Gina Chacón (art: Sollux)' - 'Charlie Flocke (art: backgrounds, endings)' diff --git a/static-page/changelog.yaml b/static-page/changelog.yaml index 7bfb5dc..1fc1a3c 100644 --- a/static-page/changelog.yaml +++ b/static-page/changelog.yaml @@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ Content: |- <h3>other additions</h3> - added full-size art by [[artist:devin-h-s]] to [[track:awakening]], [[track:wsw-beatdown]] and [[track:sburban-reversal]] <h3>data fixes</h3> + - tidied, touched up with links, and double-checked for accuracy almost all transcribed commentary originating in booklets, from albums: [[album:alternia]], [[album:sburb]] + - fixed typos and minor tweaks in commentary for other tracks also: [[track:stab-stab-stab-lofam5]], [[track:furthest-ringside]] (thanks, Jebb!) + - fixed broken commentary formatting in [[track:verdant-metamorphosis]], [[track:alive]], [[track:death-minute-in-duodecimal-regicide-demonica]], [[track:haunt-andrew-hussie]], [[track:jump-up-super-star]] + - fixed outdated names or typos in commentary credits for album and track commentary in [[album:the-baby-is-you]], [[album:shortcuts]], [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck-2]], [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck-3]], [[album:v8lume]], [[album:jpeg]], [[album:cool-and-new-volume-3]] + - divided [[track:revelations-i|Revelations']] [[track:revelations-ii|three]] [[track:revelations-iii|movements]] into their own section in [[album:sburb]], in line with their composer's notes + - added commentary from Tumblr to [[track:the-king-in-red-beta]] (thanks, Lilith!) + - added mini-commentary from Bandcamp to [[track:skaian-overdrive]] (thanks, Lilith!) - added lyrics to [[track:sketches-in-black]] (thanks, Makin!) <h2 id="07-nov-2023"><a href="#07-nov-2023">[[date:07 November 2023]] - directories upon directories</a></h2> |