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diff --git a/album/alterniabound.txt b/album/alterniabound.txt index f67ef8f6..40a386e6 100644 --- a/album/alterniabound.txt +++ b/album/alterniabound.txt @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ Commentary: (Tavros' Battle Theme) <code style="color: #a15000">uHHH...I DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW TO BEGIN THIS COMMENTARY.</code> So I might as well just introduce myself as MightyMoose. I do a lot of really short tunes for Homestuck that are often more silly than epic-sounding. And this is another one! More specifically, this is a remix of Radiation's "dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS" in the style of a Pokem-- er, Fiduspawn battle. As a handful of you on the forums may know, I've always been a bit of a Pokemon fan. Other songs included in Alternia have focused more on SGRUB or Flarping, but I've wanted to do a Fiduspawn song for a while now. This song kind of acts as an homage to both Tavros and the old Pokemon games. I tried to invoke the style of the battles in the classic Game Bro Boy versions when creating this song. - Listen closely and you can hear snippets of other Homestuck pieces! I absolutely love doing this. (Most of my other songs feature the opening notes of Vagabounce somewhere. <a href="artist/david-ko/">Ooh, go find them!</a> It's like a treasure hunt!) + Listen closely and you can hear snippets of other Homestuck pieces! I absolutely love doing this. (Most of my other songs feature the opening notes of Vagabounce somewhere. [[artist:david-ko|Ooh, go find them!]] It's like a treasure hunt!) <i>Toby Fox:</i> This track was awesome to work on. David's songs are always really darn fun, and while fiddling around with it I was barely cognizant of the irony that I was arranging someone else's remix of my own track. Hope you all enjoy the little touches I did with the drums and the weird guitar-ish NES synth. This is probably the music that's playing in game when Terezi and Karkat are playing on the cover. diff --git a/album/ancestral.txt b/album/ancestral.txt index be9eed69..10414542 100644 --- a/album/ancestral.txt +++ b/album/ancestral.txt @@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ Commentary: Named for my art blog, Space Serenade (A Lullaby For A Restless Sleeper) is meant to be a lullaby sung by Dolorsa to Signless. It's also a really darn long lullaby but who cares. I will also bet money this has to be the song with the longest name on this album let's be real. <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> - (<a href="track/the-demise-of-neophyte-redglare-at-the-hands-of-the-unruly-mob/">It is not. ::::)</a>) + ([[track:the-demise-of-neophyte-redglare-at-the-hands-of-the-unruly-mob|It is not. ::::)]]) <i>Phil Gibson:</i> The Dolorosa is probably one of my favorite ancestors; an icon of the tenacity of love and compassion that can endure even with the harsh, unforgiving troll society. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/album/beyond-canon.txt b/album/beyond-canon.txt index f130b3e6..47076b3e 100644 --- a/album/beyond-canon.txt +++ b/album/beyond-canon.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ URLs: Commentary: <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> track art for <i>Beyond Canon</i> is from the <a href="https://hsfanmusic.skaia.net/post/619761136023257089/unofficialmspafans-we-are-proud-to-announce-the">Beyond Canon Track Art Anthology</a>! artist commentary and (gasp!) art WIPs come from the booklet linked there. much thanks to project organizer Ucklin for keeping me updated with the anthology and offering to share the art with the music wiki. here's their commentary below! :) - (PS: <a href="track/cosmic-carousel/">some</a> <a href="track/light-burns-out-gestalt/">tracks</a> <a href="track/after-the-sun/">had</a> <a href="track/narrative-command/">their</a> <a href="track/crystal-hung-in-firmaments-descent/">own</a> original track art, mainly created by their musicians, shared on soundcloud or youtube. while all the main art images have been swapped with what's in the anthology project, i've kept those in the commentary notes for these tracks!) + (PS: [[track:cosmic-carousel|some]] [[track:light-burns-out-gestalt|tracks]] [[track:after-the-sun|had]] [[track:narrative-command|their]] [[track:crystal-hung-in-firmaments-descent|own]] original track art, mainly created by their musicians, shared on soundcloud or youtube. while all the main art images have been swapped with what's in the anthology project, i've kept those in the commentary notes for these tracks!) <i>Ucklin:</i> <center>BEYOND CANON<br>a track art anthology</center> <b>Artists</b> @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ Commentary: <i>Sean William Calhoun:</i> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keoJTpGQxPE">YouTube</a>) <blockquote>Holy crap. Impeccable. I might transcribe this for my music project.</blockquote> - This might make it a bit easier — I made a notated blueprint before I started producing it (notated on two piano grand staves, because that's easy for me to parse, but it's certainly not a playable two-piano score). It's not 100% accurate to how it wound up (and I'm not going to fix it, because I don't have any use for an accurate "score"), but if you take this as a slightly-flawed transcription you can probably get the rest relatively easily. <a href="media/misc/narrative-command-blueprint.pdf">(link!)</a> + This might make it a bit easier — I made a notated blueprint before I started producing it (notated on two piano grand staves, because that's easy for me to parse, but it's certainly not a playable two-piano score). It's not 100% accurate to how it wound up (and I'm not going to fix it, because I don't have any use for an accurate "score"), but if you take this as a slightly-flawed transcription you can probably get the rest relatively easily. [[media:misc/narrative-command-blueprint.pdf|(link!)]] <blockquote>I don’t want to do this beautiful track a disservice by comparing it to music that’s already been made, because it’s one of the most original and creative songs ive ever heard, but it also does kind of sound like all the songs on [[album:Cherubim]] had a brawl and kicked the shit out of each other</blockquote> It intentionally sounds tangentially like a bit of OG Homestuck music (without quoting anything). Calliope's music is a little like some of One Year Older (like [[Firefly Cloud]]) and [[Voidlight]] (from HS Vol. 10). At the beginning of Homestuck^2, Dirk said "Finally, this story is back on the rails. Maybe we can get back to what things were like in the good old days," so his music sounds more stereotypically Homestuck, with the quasi-chiptune style that's in a lot of classic Homestuck music. <blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>have fun trying to transcribe dirk's 13/8 section lmao</blockquote><i>but consider: 13/4</i></blockquote>but consider: 13/1</blockquote> diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.txt b/album/cosmic-caretakers.txt index 55cfff56..8a4c59d6 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.txt +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.txt @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/CN2oWjAy6EI Commentary: <i>Interrobang:</i> - This piece has been in the works for a LONG time. I started it in March of 2017 and though most of the compositional work was completed by July of that year, I didn't finish polishing everything up until late April 2018, after many months of procrastination and tweaking. The idea of the track is simple, it's Jake's Grandmother, Jade English, writing a song for her signature eclectic bass sometime in the 80's, which you probably already knew from the title. Anyway, I wanted to make a song that you could supposedly 'play' on the eclectic bass, which meant I had to figure out what exactly the components of such an instrument were (see <a href="media/misc/eclectic-bass-diagram.png">the accompanying diagram</a>). I chose the iconic Yamaha DX7 (used in tons of 80's pop) to be the keyboards of the instrument as it could make the sounds I wanted, and I had an emulation (Digital Suburban's "Dexed") on hand. Other instruments used in the song were Karfoyer Audio's "Pastabass" and "Swagbass" for the bass guitars themselves, as well as Full Bucket Music's "Ragnarók" (used to flesh out some bass frequencies at the song's peak), and some built-in GarageBand instruments (drums) and effects. + This piece has been in the works for a LONG time. I started it in March of 2017 and though most of the compositional work was completed by July of that year, I didn't finish polishing everything up until late April 2018, after many months of procrastination and tweaking. The idea of the track is simple, it's Jake's Grandmother, Jade English, writing a song for her signature eclectic bass sometime in the 80's, which you probably already knew from the title. Anyway, I wanted to make a song that you could supposedly 'play' on the eclectic bass, which meant I had to figure out what exactly the components of such an instrument were (see [[media:misc/eclectic-bass-diagram.png|the accompanying diagram]]). I chose the iconic Yamaha DX7 (used in tons of 80's pop) to be the keyboards of the instrument as it could make the sounds I wanted, and I had an emulation (Digital Suburban's "Dexed") on hand. Other instruments used in the song were Karfoyer Audio's "Pastabass" and "Swagbass" for the bass guitars themselves, as well as Full Bucket Music's "Ragnarók" (used to flesh out some bass frequencies at the song's peak), and some built-in GarageBand instruments (drums) and effects. Compositionally, I started out with the ostinato that closes [[track:rhapsody-in-green]] (Clark Powell) from the Felt album, but played in reverse, adding in an FM pad (the aforementioned DX7) and [[track:skaianet]] by Mark Hadley on the other bass guitar. The introduction section transitions into variations on [[track:verdancy-bassline]] by Kalibration, and closes the track's first half with a medley of various Jade-related songs. The second half is an original thing (though the beginning is a variation on [[track:afraid-of-the-darko]] by RJ! Lake) that I had build in complexity and intensity before dropping off to end the piece. Reference-wise, I tried to keep things centered roughly on Jade, as well as some other skaianet/felt sort of stuff that I thought fit the Alpha world and Jae's place in it, but I did end up throwing in a couple memetic references, see if you can find them both! <i>Jas:</i> Grandma Harley often wrote her grandson about the tyranny of Lord English, obviously not able to hide everything from the enemy. diff --git a/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.txt b/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.txt index 6a0c2a23..96d99396 100644 --- a/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.txt +++ b/album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.txt @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/nQcQxJhk6ak Commentary: <i>James Roach:</i> - I <a href="track/open-the-door/">already</a> talked about this one I guess?? + I [[track:open-the-door|already]] talked about this one I guess?? <i>Toby Fox:</i> This was basically James’s arrangement of MY arrangement of the cutscene where, spoilers, Joey gets HIVE-SWAPPED!!!!!! The part where the choirs are soft was going to be the part when her and Dammek look at each other. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.txt b/album/homestuck-vol-8.txt index 5a1bee3c..fbf16af1 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.txt +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.txt @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/7aYso7j8wsw Commentary: <i>Hilary Troiano:</i> - Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so <a href="media/misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3">here it is</a>. (<a href="https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary">source</a>) + Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (<a href="https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary">source</a>) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Galaxy Hearts Artist: Mark Hadley diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-9.txt b/album/homestuck-vol-9.txt index 4bcd667a..4a660db5 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-9.txt +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-9.txt @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Commentary: About the similarity to Teal Hunter and a fun syncopation lesson: - <p>This was unintentional - I not only started my arrangement of this song before the contest was conceived, Buzinkai made the original song back in 2010. THOUGH as soon as I heard Teal Hunter I KNEW people would call out the similarities because, surprise, there are plenty of them! Here’s the big one: - <p>Both pieces are in 5/4 (5 beats per measure, try counting to 5 over and over on the beat) and use the SAME syncopation (syncopation = the division of notes into smaller off-beat rhythms within the measure) throughout the track. Actually, many many many pieces in 5/4 use this syncopation. See: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nlCNVewMjA">Hollow Bastion</a>. Why do composers keep doing this? Two reasons: One, because it sounds awesome. Second, because the main way to compose in odd time signatures like 5/4 or 13/4** is actually to cut things into smaller units of 3, 2, or 4. Though each measure is comprised of 5 total beats, each measure in these songs is cut into 10 notes of half the length going 123-123-12-12. 3! 3! 2! 2!</p> <p>Wow, that was a very poor explanation. But please go to that Hollow Bastion video I linked and count “one-two-three-one-two-three-one-two-one-two” very quickly along with each note the harp plays. You’ll get it. (And I’m just making things more confusing, but isn’t it awesome how the syncopation switches at the end of the 4-measure phrase to “1234 12 12 12?” The little bit of contrast makes it feel complete.)</p> <p>So, why don’t people just cut things up differently? like 3 2 2 3? it’s definitely possible! Here’s my theory about why people favor the syncopation they do: It seems like ending a measure with a shorter note ON the beat leads into the next measure more naturally. It even sounds like a leadin: dun-DUN! This is supported by the fact that one of the most popular syncopations in existence is the one in 4/4 that goes 3 3 2. This is probably the same principle.</p> <p>3 3 2: ON OFF ON<br>3 3 2 2: ON OFF ON ON</p> - - <p>Besides the fact that the syncopation is identical, the chords and melody are similar and the way the strings are used are basically the same. I have no explanation for this other than… great minds think alike???</p> <p>RANDOM FUN FACT: Awakening is also in 5/4, go to 1:40 and sing the melody to Stress. Hell, <a href="media/misc/stresscombo.mp3">I’ll do it for you.</a> It fits!!! The main melody of awakening also starts with a similar rhythm as Stress. it’s the curse of the 123 123 12 12’s.</p> + - <p>Besides the fact that the syncopation is identical, the chords and melody are similar and the way the strings are used are basically the same. I have no explanation for this other than… great minds think alike???</p> <p>RANDOM FUN FACT: Awakening is also in 5/4, go to 1:40 and sing the melody to Stress. Hell, [[media:misc/stresscombo.mp3|I’ll do it for you.]] It fits!!! The main melody of awakening also starts with a similar rhythm as Stress. it’s the curse of the 123 123 12 12’s.</p> Wow, I really got off track here. But I hope you learned something today. * Yes, Bill Bolin also started an arrangement of this piece before he left the team. I think we were both attracted to the same “essence” present in Buzinkai’s piece. ** Bonus challenge: See if you can count out how I divided the measures in this song! If you can do this, you can easily understand how to compose in time signatures like this. It’s actually VERY simple and derived directly from the other breakdowns I did. @@ -434,11 +434,11 @@ Commentary: (<a href="https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/25536699941/jane-dargason-it-may-be-a-little-late-by-now-but">Tumblr</a>) 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 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: - The original sketch put together by RJ sounded like <a href="media/misc/jane-dargason-sketch.mp3">this</a>. + The original sketch put together by RJ sounded like [[media:misc/jane-dargason-sketch.mp3|this]]. By the end of the process, things had evolved <a href="https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/jane-dargason-2">quite a bit</a>. I also want to take a moment to say that my good friend Dawn did a spectacular job on the track art! She has a wondrous way with colors, and her drawings of the Homestuck kids have a childlike optimism about them. Nothing could have been a more perfect match for a track like this one! (<a href="https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/23084666959/and-for-your-listening-pleasure-a-snippet-of">Tumblr</a>) - And for your listening pleasure, <a href="media/misc/jane-dargason-another-sketch.mp3">a snippet</a> of something called Jane Dargason. It is an unfinished track, part of my work lately putting together some music for Homestuck Volume 9. <a href="album/homestuck-vol-9/princess-of-helium.jpg">The beautiful artwork</a>, for which the music is arguably just a vehicle, is brought to you by the astounding talent of Tavia Morra. + And for your listening pleasure, [[media:misc/jane-dargason-another-sketch.mp3|a snippet]] of something called Jane Dargason. It is an unfinished track, part of my work lately putting together some music for Homestuck Volume 9. [[site:album/homestuck-vol-9/princess-of-helium.jpg|The beautiful artwork]], for which the music is arguably just a vehicle, is brought to you by the astounding talent of Tavia Morra. You remember [[Jade Dragon]], right? The rich wall of sound therein owes itself to the fact that it samples Viva la Vida, from its namesake Coldplay album. Jane Dargason is a spiritual successor, using samplework from Life in Technicolor off the same album. All of this is combined here to surprisingly lovely effect with sounds from an unreleased track by RJ (who, as we have discussed, is the coolest). In short, we have an anthemic Jane tune in the workings! <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> @@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/ZTkdO7c4MEE Commentary: <i>Tavia Morra:</i> - Nick Smalley approached me about this one with a very specific image for this one. He wanted a night time version of Lexxy’s wonderful <a href="media/misc/together.jpg">Beta Kids image</a>. I had a lot of fun sprinkling details in to this image. I think the part that makes me smile most is little Minihoof curled up on Dirk’s chest. + Nick Smalley approached me about this one with a very specific image for this one. He wanted a night time version of Lexxy’s wonderful [[media:misc/together.jpg|Beta Kids image]]. I had a lot of fun sprinkling details in to this image. I think the part that makes me smile most is little Minihoof curled up on Dirk’s chest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group: Bonus tracks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/album/lofam4.txt b/album/lofam4.txt index 5233052f..5a948932 100644 --- a/album/lofam4.txt +++ b/album/lofam4.txt @@ -1896,7 +1896,7 @@ URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-sock-ruse - https://youtu.be/id6W02iqdwk Lyrics: - Please <a href="feedback/">send me</a> the lyrics, i love them but i cannot make out a few parts <3 + (Please [[static:feedback|send me]] the lyrics, i love them but i cannot make out a few parts <3) <i>From <a href="http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=007.jpg">Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, page 7</a>.</i> Commentary: <i>Alex Votl:</i> diff --git a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.txt b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.txt index ab08119a..d01de0fb 100644 --- a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.txt +++ b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.txt @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/Leb48RHyrWs Commentary: <i>Hilary Troiano:</i> - Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so <a href="media/misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3">here it is</a>. (<a href="https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary">source</a>) + Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so [[media:misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3|here it is]]. (<a href="https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary">source</a>) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Moonshine Artist: Alex Rosetti |