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diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index efeaa1a3..484401bf 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo) (War, hammer, of, Zillyhoo) Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) "Calamity" was inspired by the very same update that inspired the Pantskat craze - [the image of Gamzee returning, Warhammer of Zillyhoo in hand](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3847) is translated into two sonic elements, ie honks and chanting. What I've enjoyed really intensely about [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew's]] sense of humor in Homestuck and his other adventures is his gradual elevation of silly details onto the pedestals of utter drama, and with this track I tried to recreate that. You laughed at the honks and the chanting before - now your heart races (at least I hope). @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Do You Remem8er Me - Quaddy (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, original commentary) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, "original commentary", via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) Alas poor Vriska. This scene stood out quite a bit from the Scrapbook Near-end-of-act Scratch-a-thon as being yet more humility to Vriska as a character - first hinted at during John's talk with her around the whole 'lifdoff' time (which is also why most of the song is taken from [[track:lifdoff|lifdoff]].) @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ Commentary: |- Also I was trying to channel some of the style from the music of the Little Big Adventure games. The soundtrack for thems' awesome and ya'll should go listen to it! - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, tumblr version) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, "tumblr version", via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) "DYRM" was essentially cre8ed as a sort of 8acking track to the John and Vriska 'date' sequence (around about here). The idea was to do a sort of schlocky romantic 8allad that combined elements of Johns goofiness but with the tragedy that hey - Vriska's dead. Over the course of it, we travel through John and Vriska's memories, and she's trying to get him to remem8er something important, so there's that element too. It's kinda sad, 8ut in a way it's also a 8it of a cele8ration of Vriska - She's surprisingly polarizing with a lot of the fan8ase, as the 8est characters often are... :p @@ -375,9 +375,9 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Ocean Stars Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) - The [[album:squiddles|Squiddles!]] album gets no love. There, I said it. I've mentioned before how awesome it is and how dramatically it has undersold compared to the rest of our material, but apparently everyone is too terrified of its My Little Pony meets Cthulu approach to give it a shot. Trust me, you'll like it more than you think you will. + The [[album:squiddles|Squiddles]] album gets no love. There, I said it. I've mentioned before how awesome it is and how dramatically it has undersold compared to the rest of our material, but apparently everyone is too terrified of its My Little Pony meets Cthulu approach to give it a shot. Trust me, you'll like it more than you think you will. Anyway, one of the most surprising tracks on that particular album is [[track:ocean-stars|"Ocean Stars"]], a peaceful, mysterious little ditty imagined by [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark]] with a nautical theme in mind. I thought it had a beautiful little structure, and I guess the song must have stuck with me because at some point I found myself playing its chords over and over on my keyboard faster and faster until I was sure it would make for a great little indie rock inspired track. So I did just that. @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ Art Tags: - CD - Rabbit Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) Before going into a description of this track, I must make a long-overdue rebuttal to the factors that overshadowed its reception. Yes, I know this song and its track art pertain to the Wayward Vagabond. Yes, I know it's sad that Andrew [[flash:4109|"killed off"]] the Wayward Vagabond on the same day that this album was released. No, I had no idea that would happen nor do I care how incongruous the song's mood seems in relation to that particular plot point. @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ Art Tags: - Frogs - LoFaF Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) Uh oh, [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] and I showed up to the album with the same song idea. That's like two girls showing up the party in the same dress. Awkward! Good thing for Jit and I that, like the two girls in that famous scenario, we each have our own swagga and wear those dresses like the hot young messes we are. Wow, don't quote me on that. (Too late - DPF) @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - track:terra-solatrus - track:frost-vol6 Commentary: |- - <i>Solatrus:</i> (composer) + <i>Solatrus:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) That's a remix of Terra and (obviously) Frost. @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ Commentary: |- I was counting [[flash:5238|"[S] Dirk: Synchronize."]] and [[flash:5252|"[S] Dirk: Unite."]] as one animation, that just happened to be chopped into two parts. Next one is [[flash:5261|EOA6.3]], at the end of Pause 2. Song: Unite Synchronization (Sometimes I name animations after songs. [[flash:1940|Descend]], [[flash:4109|Cascade]]...) By [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown]]. We have entered the Brown Zone. You have been warned. - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, original commentary) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, "original", via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) This was an idea borne of two things. Firstly the Dave & Jade vs Noir battle in the banner (Original title was 'Redshift'), and secondly a post-scratch Dave trying to regroup with all the kids (hence - 'Unite' - keeping to the kind of single-world direction thing HS has going for it i.e. Descend, Ascend, Cascade, etc). @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ Commentary: |- The breakbeat drum thing was also fun to do. - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (commentary redux) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, "commentary redux", via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) The idea behind this guy was something similar to the traditional idea of some HS songs being about movement ([[track:descend|"Descend"]], [[flash:1668|"Ascend"]], [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|"Upward Movement"]]), so in this case it's 4 things moving, together as one. It was becoming reasonably clear that post-scratch, we'd be separating The beta kids up a bit, and ideally, once the dust settled, they would all meet up again - This track's effectively the kids overcoming whatever barriers in their way to unite. @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ Cover Art File Extension: jpg Art Tags: - Terezi Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) I made the theme for this a long time ago for an RPG a friend was making, but then cancelled. I still really liked the theme, so I modified it slightly and repurposed it for Homestuck. Out of everything I've done for Homestuck, it's still one of my favorites. --- @@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - John Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) Two of the tracks I put on Volume 8 were collaborations with other Homestuck musicians, something I've been meaning to do more of because two heads are usually better than one. The first of the two was "Gust of Heir", a track that James Dever wrote and for which I did the production. @@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ Commentary: |- Anyway, I knew right away where James was coming from when he sent me a midi demo of "Gust of Heir" though originally it was arranged as a piano solo. Without access to a pro recording situation as on the [[album:sburb|Sburb]] piano suite, we knew there would have to be an alternate solution, hence the electronic approach. I played pretty heavily with a set of new sounds, specifically the soundfonts of Ethan Winer, an audio professional whose work was recommended by [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] a good while back. - As I have on many occasions I took cues from [Oblique Strategies](http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/) to get some ideas for the arrangement. Part of the intrigue in producing this piece was that it was fully written, meaning that in some ways I was boxed-in to a complete journey for the song to take musically yet in others free to really explore and discover a unique sound for the song. I really played toggling a slew of effects until this tune became rendering hell for my computer. I stepped a bit outside my own range of comfort and got some drum loops from [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]] to really polish off the piece, adding a touch that otherwise would probably have eluded me. + As I have on many occasions I took cues from [Oblique Strategies](https://web.archive.org/web/20111015072347/http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/) to get some ideas for the arrangement. Part of the intrigue in producing this piece was that it was fully written, meaning that in some ways I was boxed-in to a complete journey for the song to take musically yet in others free to really explore and discover a unique sound for the song. I really played toggling a slew of effects until this tune became rendering hell for my computer. I stepped a bit outside my own range of comfort and got some drum loops from [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]] to really polish off the piece, adding a touch that otherwise would probably have eluded me. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1872), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Explore Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) Hah! If 'Sneaking music' was a genre, here's another one to the mix. @@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ Art Tags: - The Handmaid - Doc Scratch Commentary: |- - <i>Svix:</i> (composer) + <i>Svix:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) Havoc began as an intro section for [[track:my-hibernation-original|another song]] I made a while back but I quite liked the melody and decided to make a separate track out of it. I submitted it to Homestuck as I felt the chiptune nature of the piece fit in with the comic's style and I'd been wanting to write a 'Strife' type tune for some time. @@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Dirgeish - Sburban Jungle Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) "Revered Return" began as a track called [[track:dirgeish|"Dirgeish"]], a .pxtone composition that [[artist:nick-smalley|Nick]] had completed some time ago but never managed to squeeze into an album. Because as a chip tune it had been long overlooked, I decided to take a whack at producing it in a different style for inclusion on Volume 8. I had been looking for a piece that would work as a rock tune, and "Dirgeish" really struck me because of the heavy involvement of drums, its steady pace, and dynamic structure. @@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ Commentary: |- The structure I think might be the most unique part of "Revered Return" - it doesn't waste time by really repeating itself a lot. Nine out of ten times I work on a song I find myself writing or arranging something that moves in a very basic structure like ABAB or AABA or other variants, etc. "Dirgeish" gave me the challenge of establishing coherency in a piece that seemed to move almost completely linearly, and I made sure to preserve its sort of ABCDEFGBA-type structure in arranging "Revered Return" for Volume 8. - <i>Nick Smalley:</i> (co-composer) + <i>Nick Smalley:</i> (co-composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) [[track:ohgodwhat|Remember that thing about ORGMaker?]] Yeah, this song, too. Except add me asking [[artist:andrew-huo|Andrew Huo]] to help finish it and [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Bowman]] to ramp it up, and you've got Revered Return. :3 @@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ Lyrics: |- If you ever go How will I ever, ever survive? Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) So, like it or not, [[track:how-do-i-live-bunny-back-in-the-box-version|my signature song]] seems to be the country ballad made famous by a movie about how Nicolas Cage and John Cusack screw up absolutely everything and destroy the Las Vegas strip. Hence, for Volume 8, I decided to do a more serious version of "How Do I Live" that doesn't mortify me entirely. @@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Black Hole, Green Sun - lugiaa (guitar solo).pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) Not much to say on this really except the title is kind of an ode to Soundgarden. --- @@ -1337,7 +1337,7 @@ Art Tags: - Frogs - LoFaF Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer) + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it ([[track:carefree-victory|Carefree Victory]]) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like [[track:sburban-reversal|Sburban Reversal]], I recommended it as a bonus track. |