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diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml index 6e0ff033..76adcb6e 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml @@ -116,7 +116,9 @@ Sheet Music Files: Files: - 'Crystalmethequins - Do The Musicy Thing (piano score).pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25042898937/the-ancients-have-called-it-crystalmethequins), 6/13/2012) + + The ancients have called it... <b>Crystalmethequins</b>. Let me tell you of this song's origins, for I saw it unfold with mine own eyes. @@ -124,7 +126,7 @@ Commentary: |- Nearly two months later we sat in the back of a van amongst instruments and gear on our way to play another concert, this time at a Houston anime convention. Computers were turned on, headphones were turned up. It was here that Crystalmethequins, begun so many weeks earlier, was finally completed. - After deciding that the track art would not be a hastily photoshopped image of troll Bryan Cranston, I came to someone I trusted. Richard Gung is unarguably the master, and his track art was well worth the cost he took from me in that dark alley. + After deciding that the track art would not be a hastily photoshopped image of troll Bryan Cranston, I came to someone I trusted. [[artist:richard-gung]] is unarguably the master, and his track art was well worth the cost he took from me in that dark alley. The song was chosen from among its peers to open Volume 9. There it stands proudly to this day. --- @@ -684,7 +686,9 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Austin, Atlantis - silverseer (piano).mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25106444118/austin-atlantis-nothing-inspires-me-more-than), 6/14/2012) + + <b>Austin, Atlantis</b> Nothing inspires me more than spaces, regardless of whether they are real or virtual. Examples include cities, mountains, buildings, individual rooms, even entire planets (see [[album:medium|Medium]]). @@ -696,6 +700,8 @@ Commentary: |- Additional fun fact: the entire song is played off key, detuned into the spaces between quartertones. The piano itself is significantly flat. This surprised me in how far it went toward making the song sound "sunken." + Just in case one or two of you might not know, this song and fifty other great Homestuck tunes are all released together on [Volume 9](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-9-10-with-s-collide-and-act-7)! + <i>Nic Carey:</i> ([Tumblr](https://tynic.tumblr.com/post/24964072895/full-version-of-the-track-art-i-did-for-clark)) Full version of the track art I did for Clark Powell’s track Austin, Atlantis, as seen on Homestuck Volume 9 (get it now go go go music music music) @@ -995,6 +1001,8 @@ Sampled Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Clark Powell:</i> ([Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25536699941/jane-dargason-it-may-be-a-little-late-by-now-but), 6/20/2012) + <b>Jane Dargason</b> + It may be a little late by now, but I wanted to give one more of my songs from Volume 9 a post of its own. First let me say that [[artist:robert-j-lake|RJ Lake]] is a joy to work with. We sent Jane Dargason back and forth between us, remixing each other's remixes until the track was in its final state. For reference: @@ -1510,15 +1518,23 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Requited - IronInvoker47.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Clark Powell:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt)) + <i>Clark Powell:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25169140282/requited-back-on-volume-8-i-wrote-a-song-called), 6/15/2012) - Back on Volume 8 I wrote a song called Serenade; the track art for it explains well what the song is about. In a great many ways it was an important song for me. For one, it was the first song I've ever written, by which I mean a short, lyrical work written in a structure including verses and choruses. On top of that the music and the melodies came unusually naturally to me, and it all felt organic and expressive of my situation in life at the time of writing. Serenade is by far the closest emotional connection I have to Homestuck. + <b>Requited</b> + + Back on [[album:homestuck-vol-8|Volume 8]] I wrote a song called [[Serenade]]; the track art for it explains well what the song is about. In a great many ways it was an important song for me. For one, it was the first song I've ever written, by which I mean a short, lyrical work written in a structure including verses and choruses. On top of that the music and the melodies came unusually naturally to me, and it all felt organic and expressive of my situation in life at the time of writing. Serenade is by far the closest emotional connection I have to Homestuck. Naturally I wanted to do things properly if I was going to revisit a tune so personally significant. As part of a larger project I was tentatively calling "cellostuck" I decided to tackle Serenade and record a version with live cello parts, hopefully bringing rich textures and lyricism to the song to reflect the musical and personal progress I had made since writing the original. It came out beautifully, much more so than the other experiments I had tried with other songs. I called the final mix Requited, implying that the song can be seen from the opposite side. Consider Requited the pre-Scratch counterpart to Serenade. For the artwork on this track I asked my chum [[artist:dodostad|Dodostad]] to draw something up. Her style of whimsical, faded character art seemed the perfect match for the song, and she did a magnificent job. + + And of course, you can find Requited published on [Homestuck Volume 9](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-9-10-with-s-collide-and-act-7). + + <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://dodostad.tumblr.com/post/24961331999/track-art-for-requited-by-clark-plazmataz-on), 6/13/2012) + + Track art for Requited by Clark "Plazmataz" on Homestuck volume 9! I was told to draw whatever I wanted so the piece is a nod towards the track art on [[Serenade]]. I'm not very good at romantic pictures but I did my best! :3 --- Track: Princess of Helium Artists: |