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diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 5401708..7f7213a 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -332,6 +332,9 @@ MIDI Project Files: - Title: MIDI by Unknown (piano) Files: - 'Frog Forager - Unknown (piano).mid' +- Title: 'MIDI by Twix Stix (from Sburbmon)' + Files: + - 'Frog Forager - Twix Stix.mid' --- Track: Love You (Feferi's Theme) Artists: @@ -374,6 +377,10 @@ Commentary: |- This song takes its cues most heavily from ["Regatta de Blanc"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-nXWHkVpA) by the Police and [[track:life-in-technicolor|"Life in Technicolor"]] by Coldplay - the meditatively simple rock backup is accompanied by a huge chorus of wordless vocals provided by countless overdubs of [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] and myself. These middle voices are bookended by the twinkling bell sounds in the high range and the rumbling drums and guitar in the low range to make for a very full mix that really surprised me with its depth. I threw in some slowed-down bubble sounds (the same samples from [[track:mister-bowman-tells-you-about-the-squiddles|"Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles"]]) to create the ocean ambiance, something I'd really gotten the chance to hear on a scuba dive I'd done over the summer. This is another example of a song that has the "just right" feeling about its length. I could probably have easily repeated the vocals endlessly as though I was attempting to induce transcendental meditation - it would probably have had the same effect as ["Hey Jude"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA) or any number of other great songs. Owing though to my sense that this album was going to be a long one (my contributions alone come out to more than 20 minutes of music) I decided to capitalize on having achieved the harmony and just let it end when its thought was fully expressed, not unlike the original composition by Mark. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/20/2017) + + I was inspired by [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley]] announcing that he had a baby on the way --- Track: Escape Pod Artists: @@ -815,7 +822,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/12054861967/homestuck-volume-8-track-art), excerpt) This one has a bit of a story behind it.<br> - I am a belly dancer and most mornings I make it a point to drill choreography and fundamentals. At first I was drilling to [some](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1BG8NspIOM) [dance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTx3G6h2xyA) [music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfvIE2pVn3w) to get my blood going, [slowed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQWYrq6LSs) [things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCVJ-uoGOAY) [down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcofrLg1GxI), then moved to some [more traditional music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUGMxkgIGb0). In the process I found [[Even in Death]] made it’s move in to the playlist as the Kodo sound naturally caught my ear. I let [[artist:clark-powell|Plaz]] know this and soon I found him picking my brain for what I listen to when I’m developing a choreography. He sent me versions of Even in Death for my own use. Luckily he decided to stick the new “Belly Mix” version on the latest album. + I am a belly dancer and most mornings I make it a point to drill choreography and fundamentals. At first I was drilling to [some](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1BG8NspIOM) [dance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTx3G6h2xyA) [music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfvIE2pVn3w) to get my blood going, [slowed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQWYrq6LSs) [things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCVJ-uoGOAY) [down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcofrLg1GxI), then moved to some [more traditional music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUGMxkgIGb0). In the process I found [[Even in Death]] made it’s move in to the playlist as the Kodo sound naturally caught my ear. I let [[artist:clark-powell|Plaz]] know this and soon I found her picking my brain for what I listen to when I’m developing a choreography. She sent me versions of Even in Death for my own use. Luckily she decided to stick the new “Belly Mix” version on the latest album. As for the art of the piece I decided to dress as [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido|Hadron Kaleido]] since she was designed to be a dancer. It was the most relatably way to attach belly dancing to Homestuck. @@ -970,7 +977,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15590461411/eidolons-volume-8-hootenanny), excerpt) - Drift Into the Sun started off as me trying to emulate [the opening choir track](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pv2LgRzvKg) of a black metal EP. Soon some big drums and some spacey guitars found their way into the mix (in my attempts to make something on the line of ambient black or doom metal). Finally, I added Dave’s “blast off” to help Rose with a metal-ified version of [[Atomyk Ebonpyre]] (which people keep requesting a full version of… maybe). This was another track that I had a clear design for, following as best as I could the events surrounding [Rose and Dave’s chat on Derse](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3875) before creating the Green Sun, focusing more on the atmosphere surrounding the debacle than what they talked about. After putting the original version up for the team to see, [[artist:clark-powell|Plazmataz]] offered to spruce things up. And they did. And it was awesome. And then [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] said he could make some crazy drums for the last section. And he did. And it was awesome too. And that was how Virginia was founded! + Drift Into the Sun started off as me trying to emulate [the opening choir track](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pv2LgRzvKg) of a black metal EP. Soon some big drums and some spacey guitars found their way into the mix (in my attempts to make something on the line of ambient black or doom metal). Finally, I added Dave’s “blast off” to help Rose with a metal-ified version of [[Atomyk Ebonpyre]] (which people keep requesting a full version of… maybe). This was another track that I had a clear design for, following as best as I could the events surrounding [Rose and Dave’s chat on Derse](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3875) before creating the Green Sun, focusing more on the atmosphere surrounding the debacle than what they talked about. After putting the original version up for the team to see, [[artist:clark-powell|Plazmataz]] offered to spruce things up. And she did. And it was awesome. And then [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] said he could make some crazy drums for the last section. And he did. And it was awesome too. And that was how Virginia was founded! --- Track: Infinity Mechanism Artists: |