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diff --git a/album/alternia.txt b/album/alternia.txt index e474e35..5811ba5 100644 --- a/album/alternia.txt +++ b/album/alternia.txt @@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ Commentary: 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 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 - [[track:harlequin|Harlequin]] would be recalled by a track called [[track:crustacean]], [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] by [[Showdown]], [[track:aggrieve]] by Aggrave, [[track: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.) + By that point I had only completed 4 tracks - [[Showdown]], [[track:crustacean|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. @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: <i>Toby Fox:</i> (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). + [[track: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 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. @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: <i>Toby Fox:</i> (CG Battle Theme) - [[Showtime (Original Mix)|John's battle theme]] is simple with a heroic theme. It's catchy and brilliantly written. + [[track: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. @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: <i>Toby Fox:</i> (CG's Medium) - A dark sort of [[Atomyk Ebonpyre]]-y theme for Karkat's medium. The main melody is oddly catchy. + A dark sort of [[track:atomyk-ebonpyre|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. BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRN BABY BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRN. @@ -236,7 +236,8 @@ Commentary: Track: Death of the Lusii Track Art: Aeritus Duration: 2:00 -References: Crustacean +References: +- track:crustacean Art Tags: - Gamzee - Gamzee's lusus @@ -247,7 +248,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: <i>Toby Fox:</i> (Lusus Death Theme) - Not much to say on this one. If you couldn't tell, it's kind of a remix of [[Crustacean]]. + Not much to say on this one. If you couldn't tell, it's kind of a remix of [[track:crustacean]]. AND IT'S KINDA SAD. ALL THE LUSII ARE DYING. THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TO PLAY. @@ -327,7 +328,8 @@ Track: The Thirteenth Hour Track Art: Homestuck Cover Art Date: July 18, 2010 Duration: 2:10 -References: Sburban Jungle +References: +- track:sburban-jungle URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-thirteenth-hour-2 - https://youtu.be/SixKHx18sqk |