From 837b2fa4a90e625a0719898cf6ec7ff481d4071e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 12:15:46 -0400 Subject: bring over updated commentary formatting from new-contribs --- album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml index 7e5ab856..bfedb8c2 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml @@ -96,8 +96,11 @@ MIDI Project Files: - 'Revelawesome - MrCheeze.mid' Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: + Another "Andrew asks for music for situation X" - In this, he wanted a dramatic reveal that was basically too epic and obviously a piss-take. The two main ones that were used for this and Hardlyquin (Both were used in the comic for more or less the same joke). The goal was to basically make something so dramatically epic and life-changing that it would just be incredibly silly. (I believe Hardlyquin ended audibly on a joke sound, while I wanted Revelawesome to be played as straight as possible). + And it was. + The music was based on some earlier work I did on an old Sonic Fangame (Completely forget which one - Think it was a boss theme) that I re-tuned for orchestra and gave it more of a buildup. The name was a play on Andrew's penchant for Portmentaeeu that-word-meaning-combining-two-words-together. --- Track: Hardlyquin @@ -115,6 +118,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Harlequin Commentary: |- Mark J. Hadley: + When Andrew asked us to do something for a shock and surprise for the upcoming reveal of John's Dad's room, this is what I came up with. I slipped some Harlequin in there for good measure. The original version was exactly as it appears in the comic (complete with the record scratch at the end), and I lengthened it for the soundtrack since it was so very, very short. Somehow it came out creepier in that version. --- Track: Mutiny @@ -171,7 +175,9 @@ MIDI Project Files: - 'Carefree Victory - Twix Stix.mid' Commentary: |- Andrew Huo: + Carefree Victory is really Hadley's baby, and I would feel like I'm plagiarizing to really call it my own. I really just dictated his piece, called Carefree Action, put it into PXTone, added some lines, changed the tempo, and added a coda (which wasn't even used in the comic, I think?). + One of the lines I added, for the intro, was roughly inspired by Cave Story music. I'm pretty Cave Story-influenced, especially with Homestuck stuff. --- Track: Guardian V2 @@ -225,9 +231,13 @@ Sheet Music Files: - 'Ballad of Awakening - EuniverseCat.pdf' Commentary: |- Malcolm Brown: + Jade. I think, at least if not Jade then certainly something about Dreams (Which a lot of the story was turning into via the Prospit/Derse stuff). It was prevalent that a lot of Jade's character was coming from vague aloofness, yet a degree of precognition via dreaming that would prove central to the character and the concept of Sburb. + Thus, it's a playful kind of dream-like melody. A little scatterbrained a quite unusual (Namely due to the time signature which is something like 6/4). I came up with the melody years ago, and it's mostly just playing about on the sharp/flat keys on a keyboard. I generally don't like incorporating it too much because the chord progression sounds a bit too close to Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" (Which was released way after I originally came up with the melody for BoA, but is infinitely more popular) + Despite being used in 'The Flash Where Nothing Happens' and also being quite long, it's still one of my closet favourite tracks. So much so I did a remake that never made it to any album because it wasn't really anything new. In any case, it's [[track:joy-and-dreams-eternal|here]]. + I then took an enormous break from HS (shortly after doing a Squiddles track that I don't particularly like) and wouldn't be back 'till around about the time of AlternaBound had started being a discussed thing. --- Track: Sburban Jungle -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5