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diff --git a/album/the-felt.yaml b/album/the-felt.yaml index 2c89a30b..e1151b79 100644 --- a/album/the-felt.yaml +++ b/album/the-felt.yaml @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ URLs: Referenced Tracks: - Clockwork Apocalypse Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15715289410/eidolons-other-commentary-whatsits), excerpt) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15715289410/eidolons-other-commentary-whatsits), excerpt, 1/12/2012) Clockwork Reversal was my second contribution to the Felt. I love the melody of [[Endless Climb]]. I loved the [[track:clockwork-melody|music box]]-[[track:clockwork-contrivance|esque]] [[track:clockwork-sorrow|remixes]] on [[album:homestuck-vol-5|Volume 5]] even more. Before I got on the team, I had written [[Clockwork Apocalypse]], an orchestrated version of [[Clockwork Melody]]. After realizing Audacity could reverse music, I started experimenting. Since the Endless Climb melody was so memorable and it had served as good sort of interlude tracks on Volume 5, I decided to try to make something in a similar vein. Oddly enough, I think the reversed version of the Clockwork Reversal sounds even better than both Clockwork Reversal and Clockwork Apocalypse. --- @@ -201,20 +201,32 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Chartreuse Rewind - almostsix.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Solatrus:</i> - <i>(original commentary)</i> + <i>Solatrus:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + I was honest to God surprised that Chartreuse Rewind made the cut for the Felt. It's not nearly as strong of a song as Swing of the Clock, but it still has its interesting moments. + Originally it was a song called Ascension that I was writing outside of Homestuck. Amusingly, it was inspired off of the work from the Felt, but it was a little too electronic to really fit the album's overall atmosphere. + Long story short, I remixed Ascension into Charteuse Rewind and, out of hilarity, Ascension itself was scrapped. So, the remix of one of my songs survived and the original did not. - <i>(commentary redux)</i> + + <i>Solatrus:</i> ("commentary redux", via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + To start off, I did not expect this song to make it on to The Felt. + Why? Well, it's not nearly as good as Swing of the Clock. I didn't think I deserved two songs on the album (versus other pieces that didn't make it), but nonetheless, that's what happened. + So, where did this song start? Well, it started as inspiration off of The Felt but also from my interest in drum and bass music. Yeah. This song sounded very different at one point. As in, in my head, as a concept. + I never actually did make the version I originally set out to create, instead I made something that kind of sounded like the final version, except a bit more focused on the electronic stuff (e.g. the second half of the official release). + This song's name came out of a subtitle I was using, because this was the remix, not the original. The original was called Ascension, but it ended up getting scrapped. The other peeps on the team started to reference this song as Chartreuse Rewind alone instead of Ascension (Chartreuse Rewind), and the name stuck. + What else... oh, I really love bass clarinet. Before I met Marcy Nabors [she] told me she really liked to play the bass clarinet part. And she actually has played the part for me. Not like it's difficult. + All of my work repeated itself way too friggin' much back then. + There are pieces here and there that are in reverse, yet forward in the chord progression (the xylo, for example, though it ends up flipping turnways in wibbly wobbly time near the end). + Is it a bad song? Oh, no. I've made worse. Far worse. But it isn't particularly an amazing song, to me, anyway. I guess a lot of you liked it, though, and that's all that matters. :D --- Track: The Broken Clock @@ -258,7 +270,8 @@ URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/trails-2 - https://youtu.be/rzL0-oyDy7s Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + At its heart, Trails is basically a fugue, with a melodic line being repeated and played over the previous one. Trace and Fin follow past and future trails, so I made the first melody in the first half hollow and somewhat indistinct, since it is a "future trail" for the second melody that will come in a few bars later. In the second half I reverse this and have the indistinct melody come afterwards, a "past trail" of the melody that just played. --- Track: Baroqueback Bowtier (Scratch's Lament) @@ -328,7 +341,8 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Omelette Sandwich - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> + <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (via [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|early commentary collection]]) + I imagined this song being played by Eggs and Biscuits. Shortly after the melody plays, it stops and rewinds back to the beginning, adding more instruments and speeding up the song slightly. This repeats until it is barely the same song anymore, fast and furious instead of the simple cello and viola duet that it starts with. After all the parts are in place, the parts start dropping out one by one until it goes back to the simple start. I went with the abrupt sound of a tape recorder instead of something more subtle, because Eggs and Biscuits aren't know for their subtlety. --- Track: Temporal Piano @@ -361,7 +375,7 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Time Paradox - Thomas Ferkol (piano score).pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15715289410/eidolons-other-commentary-whatsits), excerpt) + <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i> ([Tumblr](https://eidolonorpheus.tumblr.com/post/15715289410/eidolons-other-commentary-whatsits), excerpt, 1/12/2012) Alrighty, first off is Time Paradox. This was the first piece I submitted for an album once I got on the team. Basically what happened was: I am visiting somewhere in Chicago with only my phone’s connection to the internet, check the MSPA forums and find a message notification waiting for me. [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] congratulates me on getting on the team. After some moments of sputtering disbelief, I read on. He says if I want to get started on something, the Squiddles was being [[album:squiddles|finished up]] and the Felt was on the table. So, for the next couple hours I was invigorated, consumed wholly during the car ride and time in the hotel before I finally fell asleep with working on a track for the Felt. Time Paradox was made. Originally, I made it imagining the recruitment of the Felt, picturing Doc Scratch warping across time and space, assembling the green goons from who knows where, and then witnessing the construction of the Felt manor. It’s a fun track, more energetic than a lot of things I had worked on and definitely influenced by Radiation’s style. The last two sections are still some of my favorite phrases that I’ve written. --- |