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| -rw-r--r-- | album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/comfortable-bugs.yaml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/homestuck-vol-2.yaml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/hush.yaml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/rust-apocalypse.yaml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/squiddles.yaml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/the-wanderers.yaml | 7 |
11 files changed, 16 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml index 08549578..dda8ccbc 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ Commentary: |- Stay tuned for [[Rust Servant]] commentary on Friday! - <i>Myotishi:</i> (full size artwork) + <i>Myotishi:</i> (full-size artwork) <img src="media/misc/teal-hunter-full.png" width="480" warning="hanging (abstract)"> diff --git a/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml b/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml index 82e19e0c..4a666f90 100644 --- a/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml +++ b/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Commentary: |- After spending part of the year doing a lot of different kinds music for commissions, I honed in and got personal on Comfortable Bugs. Flavors of Steely Dan, The Beach Boys, Roxy Music. I wanted the sounds time forgot. This an album for you and the stereo. Get comfortable. - + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20170523002054/https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/comfortable-bugs), sometime 10/10/2016 - 5/23/2017) Get comfortable. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml index 75c8465b..a4d8fe41 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ Commentary: |- Track: Skaian Overdrive Additional Names: - Name: Skaian Overdrive* - Annotation: >- + Annotation: >- [original release](https://web.archive.org/web/20160615084929/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/skaian-overdrive) - Name: Skaian Overdrive- Annotation: >- diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-2.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-2.yaml index a441d8a7..4f8e4727 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-2.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-2.yaml @@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ Commentary: |- The rock version of "Harlequin" sure made a scene, blasting through people's speakers as the background music for the Green Slime Ghost pogo game. Joseph nails the tough bits along with some sweet harmonics on the chorus. - *(Continued in [[Explore]]!)* - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=626), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Oh, the rock version of [[Harlequin]]. That was such a cool deal. That was I think one of the first really collab-y things I did, where it was like, "hey, let's work with multiple sources, let's take this person's piece" - that was a [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley]] composition - "let's take that and let's arrange it some other way," and we got live guitar on that one - not my playing, but, y'know, better than I could have done that quickly. I think it's so funny that when it comes through the speakers, it's just, *so* stupidly loud... it just blasts you with energy. @@ -173,9 +171,7 @@ Commentary: |- I tried towill write something a little more thought provoking this time without too much drummage in the background. It came out smoothly, and I do think it's quite the haunting melody. I was unaware that [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] wanted me to finish the original loop, and someone else remixed a longer ending for it, doing quite a fantastic job. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, from [Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) - - *(Continued from [[track:harlequin-rock-version]]!)* + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (arranger, from [Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) "Explore" was one of Buzinkai's distinctive snippets that I arranged - the melodies she writes are always strong, and the only appropriate scale to work on with that kind of material is grand. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml index 86544602..aa2bead6 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-3.yaml @@ -196,8 +196,6 @@ Commentary: |- The remix of Nick's [[track:ohgodwhat|"Ohgodwhat"]] is a terrifying little affair - that I even made it mystifies me. - *(Continued in [[Chorale for Jaspers]] & [[Pony Chorale]]!)* - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=751), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] did us a little favor around that time, by creating interactive elements that he could use to include otherwise unused music. So first, there was [[flash:338|Dave's beat maker]], and then later [[flash:830|the FreshJamz player]], where I had mixed [[Ohgodwhat]] done as a remix with all kinds of goofy stuff added on. @@ -265,8 +263,6 @@ Sheet Music Files: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, from [Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) - *(Continued from [[Ohgodwhat Remix]]!)* - My signature efforts from this album, of course, are "Chorale for Jaspers" and its corollary (or chorale-ary?) [[track:pony-chorale|"Pony Chorale"]]. They were the first two Homestuck tracks to feature vocals with me as the cat and [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] as Maplehoof - for this I am proud. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/mguybowman/status/1669411378359328771), 6/15/2023) @@ -305,8 +301,6 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, from [Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) - *(Continued from [[Ohgodwhat Remix]]!)* - My signature efforts from this album, of course, are [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|"Chorale for Jaspers"]] and its corollary (or chorale-ary?) "Pony Chorale". They were the first two Homestuck tracks to feature vocals with me as the cat and [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] as Maplehoof - for this I am proud. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=770), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml index 3cf7c7a0..565cb6ab 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-5.yaml @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Chorale for Jaspers Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, [new Homestuck album!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618035217/http://www.iambowman.com/), 06/13/2010) - + Radiation, or [[artist:toby-fox|Toby]] as I've never actually had the chance to refer to him, sent me his midi arrangement of Happy Cat Song, a sort of lighthearted version of [[track:chorale-for-jaspers|Chorale for Jaspers]], so I loaded VSTs for each part and balanced it, along with adding a "meow" sample in for good measure. The effect of it reminds [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] of arriving in a village in "final fantasy or chrono cross or something and it's initially all peaceful and then by the end of the game it's totally raped and pillaged." So the calm before the storm then? MEOW <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html), sometime 6/13/2010 - 3/26/2011) @@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ Commentary: |- Some of the other elements of the ambiance (the wind, the really high notes that echo for a long time) I drew from the soundtrack to World of Goo, specifically the track ["Jelly"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qznYSE7J4ZQ) which I noticed bore a strong resemblance tonally to Jit's composition. To seal the melancholy, I doubled the piano melody on guitar using a very cool, muted sound with a lot of echoes and pitch bends. I signed the tune by adding a cadence from [[track:sburban-jungle|"Sburban Jungle"]] at the very end. Really, the track should probably be listed simply as "Ruins" if not for the fact that there is not official piano rendition of the piece. I think it would be really cool to hear such a version of the tune if Jit ever found himself recording material in a studio again (as he did for [[artist:james-dever|James's]] piano suite [[album:sburb|Sburb]]). - + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([new Homestuck album!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618035217/http://www.iambowman.com/), 06/13/2010) Erik's piano piece [[track:ruins]] was one of those tracks where I just kind of went browsing the forum, looking for something to contributed to, and lo and behold it showed up. It was a very evocative piano piece despite being recorded without any particular wealth of gear. Either way, I chose sort of a synth-ish, distant string sound and a couple of other tricks (there are two guitar parts buried in that arrangement) in order to compliment the ambient noise from his recording and stuck in a reference to [[Sburban Jungle]] at the end for good measure. The effect is satisfyingly ambient and I can imagine listening to it while driving a long distance on a rainy day. @@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html), sometime 6/13/2010 - 3/26/2011) [[track:ruins|"Ruins"]] by Jit was fun to arrange - did that one pretty much on a whim, hoping to imitate the quality of the World of Goo soundtrack. - + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1139), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) I also arranged strings for a piece by Erik Scheele, which was called "Ruins". He had submitted [[track:ruins|Ruins]] to the forum, and I said, well, here's my, you know, decoration - my production on top of it, I said, this is Ruins *with strings,* and for whatever reason it was just published on the album as as, you know, "Ruins" - in parentheses - "(With Strings)". Which, I was just like, *yeah,* it's really just Ruins... but you know... whatever. And I like that it had that Myst-like interactive element that went with it. That felt like something that touched home for me. I'm already a big Myst fan, and I would have loved to be somebody making music for Cyan, and so it was sort of a fulfilment of that dream. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index e155ad21..b77eac78 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ Commentary: |- > 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! Thanks! Appreci8 the love ::::D - + I 8elieve I already did commentary on these tracks, 8ut they were 8efore the Tumblr and on the devast8ed crater that is the MSPA forums, so what the hey let's go again........ <u><b>Do You Remem8er Me?"</b></u> @@ -872,6 +872,7 @@ Commentary: |- This was the soundtrack for [[flash:5438|Act 6 Act 4]] (literally <i>all</i> of Act 6 Act 4). I was as surprised as everyone else to see the song in the update; I don't think I've had a day made quite like this in a good long while! The Belly Mix was published back on Volume 8, but I originally put this remix together for [[artist:tavia-morra]]. She is a fantastic belly dancer and also, not coincidentally, this song's namesake! Legend has it that she has a full dance choreographed to this song (it's amazing). + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/12054861967/homestuck-volume-8-track-art), excerpt, 10/28/2011) This one has a bit of a story behind it.<br> diff --git a/album/hush.yaml b/album/hush.yaml index 97fb22e7..20a2eea6 100644 --- a/album/hush.yaml +++ b/album/hush.yaml @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ Commentary: |- Hush is my first new record in a few years, and it's just as shotgun as ever. There's dance tracks, rock tracks, and ballads all mixed and cross-pollinated to create this album. The songs are about communication, secrecy, transformation, madness, and silence. No guests this time - just me and my big ego. Fall in the Hush. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20160620235150/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/hush), sometime 1/18/2016 - 6/20/2016) - Fall in the Hush. + Fall in the Hush. # Additional Files: # - Title: Photos and Track Listing # Files: diff --git a/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml b/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml index 5f34c1d3..08da1ac1 100644 --- a/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml +++ b/album/rust-apocalypse.yaml @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Commentary: |- 2. <b>[[Teal Justice]]</b> (an updated and more polished version of [[Teal Hunter, White Dragon]]) 3. <b>[[Violet Armada]]</b> (which I should probably get started on sometime soon?) 4. <b>[[Rust Apocalypse]]</b> - + ...With my original 3 C&M compositions as bonus tracks. Here's what <b>Rust Handmaid</b> is gonna sound like! diff --git a/album/squiddles.yaml b/album/squiddles.yaml index 054d79c9..e704f51e 100644 --- a/album/squiddles.yaml +++ b/album/squiddles.yaml @@ -239,8 +239,6 @@ Commentary: |- For the <i>Squiddles</i> album, I dropped in a good three tracks of fun for the whole family. "Tangled Waltz" is a little piece that [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] repeatedly insists should be set to the image of a million squiddles building a castle out of little blocks. The waltz gets its name from how it gets "tangled" in the middle, turning into some kind of march in quintuple time. - *(Continued in [[Squiddle Samba]]!)* - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1275), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) Tangled Waltz, I think it owes itself a little to Yann Tiersen and the Amélie soundtrack, which I was listening to a lot at the time. @@ -366,8 +364,6 @@ URLs: Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, from [new Homestuck album!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618035217/http://www.iambowman.com/), 06/13/2010) - *(Continued from [[Tangled Waltz]]!)* - "Squiddle Samba", after a few false starts in the writing process, ended up going this whole latin-fusion direction I rather like, complete with a guitar solo that is delightfully out of tune. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1267), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) @@ -681,8 +677,6 @@ Lyrics: |- Commentary: |- <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (composer, from [Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) - *(Continued from [[Squiddle Samba]]!)* - "Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles" is maybe 50% Donovan and 50% pure evil, although you wouldn't know it considering I ended up cutting a set of alternate lyrics that would have been more sadistic than the album's bizarre conclusion. Tavia gets her cameo as the little girl and some of the backup Squiddle voices. <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=1282), adapted to text, 7/20/2024) diff --git a/album/the-wanderers.yaml b/album/the-wanderers.yaml index 8082dcbc..f4f58c11 100644 --- a/album/the-wanderers.yaml +++ b/album/the-wanderers.yaml @@ -371,9 +371,12 @@ Commentary: |- The other is Ruins Rising, which is, again, another treatment of [[track:ruins|Ruins]] by Erik Scheele. This one, the guitar intro is kind of drawn from the Frippertronics technique of Robert Fripp, and, it actually features a lot of re-re-record scratches and cool textures that I hadn't really experimented with before. *(Caption: "God bless the fruity scratcher")* - <i>Raizor:</i> ([Tumblr](https://raizor-blog.tumblr.com/post/6984292673/redrew-an-idea-i-had-a-while-ago-except-way), full size artwork, 06/27/2011) + <i>Raizor:</i> (full-size artwork, 06/27/2011) <img src="media/misc/ruins-rising-full.png" width="320"> + + <i>Raizor:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://raizor-blog.tumblr.com/post/6984292673/redrew-an-idea-i-had-a-while-ago-except-way), 06/27/2011) + Redrew an idea I had a while ago, except way better and quicker and whatnot. --- Track: What a Daring Dream @@ -407,7 +410,7 @@ Commentary: |- Speaking of bonuses, [[artist:noot]] did the art we used for this track. It was one of a few pieces of track art that weren't commissioned. I happened to be looking around for artists and saw this, and I already knew it was perfect. - <i>Noot:</i> (full size artwork) + <i>Noot:</i> (full-size artwork) <img src="media/misc/what-a-daring-dream-full.png" width="500" warning="blood (abstract)"> |