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diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index 5bde00c7..e155ad21 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Commentary: |- The countdown sample is from a NASA recording, I believe it's the launch of Apollo 11. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1809), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1809), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Okay, Homestuck Volume 8. Calamity. Awesome tune. I don't know what else to say about that. I thought [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk-Stab-Walk]] was a cool contribution from Erik, and I just wanted to create something that wove that and the honking and all that, and build up to this big showdown moment between Karkat and Gamzee that never happened! You know, we were all just guessing at what [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] was gonna do next. And sometimes we got it, and sometimes we got it wrong. But at least we got this epic piece of music out of it, huh? @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ Commentary: |- Also I was trying to channel some of the style from the music of the Little Big Adventure games. The soundtrack for thems' awesome and ya'll should go listen to it! - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/44535752440/hi-i-was-wondering-if-you-could-maybe-do-one-of), 03/04/2013) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/44535752440/hi-i-was-wondering-if-you-could-maybe-do-one-of), 03/04/2013) > Hi! I was wondering if you could maybe do one of those "THE CONCEPT, THE NAME, THE TRACK" bits for Do You Remem8er Me? Aside from the fact that I love the song, I was curious as to how you went about writing the percussion for the piece. I mean it's so powerful and it fits, and it does amazing stuff with the escalation of the woodwind and the song in general. Thanks i advance and awesome work! @@ -393,11 +393,11 @@ Commentary: |- This is another example of a song that has the "just right" feeling about its length. I could probably have easily repeated the vocals endlessly as though I was attempting to induce transcendental meditation - it would probably have had the same effect as ["Hey Jude"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA) or any number of other great songs. Owing though to my sense that this album was going to be a long one (my contributions alone come out to more than 20 minutes of music) I decided to capitalize on having achieved the harmony and just let it end when its thought was fully expressed, not unlike the original composition by Mark. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/20/2017) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/20/2017) I was inspired by [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley]] announcing that he had a baby on the way - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1837), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1837), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Ocean Stars Falling - I liked Mark Hadley's [[Ocean Stars]]. I thought it was this incredible little moody thing, and taking it in kind of this indie rock direction was cool. --- @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ Commentary: |- What more can be said about it? This is about as totally poppy (or perhaps J-poppy) as I get. Compared to stuff like [[track:greenhouse|"Greenhouse"]] and [[track:squiddle-samba|"Squiddle Samba"]] this track is right up my alley. It in contrast with some of the other stuff that I've made appearing on the very same album (the minimalist piece [[track:gust-of-heir|"Gust of Heir"]] which I collaborated on with [[artist:james-dever|James Dever]] comes to mind) you'll see that I can go just as far in the saccharine direction as I can into the abstract. For me range has always been an asset I've felt was important to nurture, so with Volume 8 I set the pace for my work ethic on [[album:ithaca|Ithaca]] in terms of never settling to have "found my sound" no matter how well any one idea works. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1849), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1849), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) God, I'm just looking at the list of stuff that was on that record. Escape Pod - with Homestuck Volume 8, it was almost like I, uh, said, you know, it's the eighth volume, so I'm going to write eight songs! *(Caption in post: "I only got to 7")* --- @@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ Commentary: |- The point of this song was to kind of put the action, the drama, and all that teenage chemistry on hold so I could focus on a moment in the story that might be just a little bit more peaceful. Going on a safari for frogs on a newly-awakened alien forest world seems to beckon a very different angle than the heated stakes typically associated with Homestuck. Plus, I've always felt that the environment of Homestuck deserves a little more attention given that nearly 99% of all art generated by the fans are homages to their favorite characters and not the fantastic places imagined by [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]]. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1864), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1864), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Frog Hunt was atmospheric and kind of based on, like, a weather report. @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ Commentary: |- The breakbeat drum thing was also fun to do. - <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/26987751519/do-you-think-you-could-do-some-commentary-on-unite), 07/11/2012) + <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dragonxvi.tumblr.com/post/26987751519/do-you-think-you-could-do-some-commentary-on-unite), 07/11/2012) > Do you think you could do some commentary on Unite Synchronization? That would be pretty relevant now, and I your posts about your songs from Vol. 9 were really cool! @@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ Commentary: |- As I have on many occasions I took cues from [Oblique Strategies](https://web.archive.org/web/20111015072347/http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/) to get some ideas for the arrangement. Part of the intrigue in producing this piece was that it was fully written, meaning that in some ways I was boxed-in to a complete journey for the song to take musically yet in others free to really explore and discover a unique sound for the song. I really played toggling a slew of effects until this tune became rendering hell for my computer. I stepped a bit outside my own range of comfort and got some drum loops from [[artist:clark-powell|Clark Powell]] to really polish off the piece, adding a touch that otherwise would probably have eluded me. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1872), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1872), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) [James] was, ah, such a huge fan of Philip Glass, and we really connected on that. Gust of Heir was me taking a MIDI, I think, that he'd written, and setting that to some electronics, and I just thought it was so cool that somebody else got the appeal of that kind of composition style. @@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ Commentary: |- [[track:ohgodwhat|Remember that thing about ORGMaker?]] Yeah, this song, too. Except add me asking [[artist:andrew-huo|Andrew Huo]] to help finish it and [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Bowman]] to ramp it up, and you've got Revered Return. :3 - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1915), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1915), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Revered Return, that was a piece of Nick's music that I arranged out. That was one where I rewrote the piece, basically, from beginning to end, from this chiptune. At the time it was literally just me going through the haphazard, not really built for multitake thing on FL Studio and trying to write guitar lines that would, you know, go through, nearly one measure at a time, just to get it down. But I was so pleased with the result. --- @@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ Commentary: |- I added a new bridge section in so that [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Thomas Ferkol]] could have a chance to play some real guitar in this one, and of course he showed his colors as a metal guitarist, sending me a duet between harmonized voices. [[artist:david-ko|David Ko]] also appears on this track as the gently-spoken backup vocalist. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, [Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1940), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1940), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) The D8 Night version of How Do I Live, that was like a [[track:how-do-i-live-bunny-back-in-the-box-version|more serious]] attempt with it. I played with the key change a little bit, because I always thought that like, the massive key change on the choruses was like, really corny. So I, I got rid of that, and I added guitar from Thomas Ferkol on that one. The result, I think, is much spacier, much more serious. --- |