From cd407539122f7ce2c0a0b245faa8f2cbd36bfae9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:40:40 -0300 Subject: get media working again --- album/homestuck-vol-9.txt | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/homestuck-vol-9.txt') diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-9.txt b/album/homestuck-vol-9.txt index 2ff9323..f11b8ec 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-9.txt +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-9.txt @@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ Commentary: But no. No, no, no. We ended up shopping for three hours at nine separate stores before we found those goddamn overalls. Bowman livetweeted our journey: - + + Eventually we got the overalls and proceeded to take the most fantastic pictures ever. I’ll be posting up some other photos from that day later on so keep your eyes peeled! All in all, this track is probably the most involved I’d been on a Homestuck album and am so glad it was this one. I had a blast! Lyrics: @@ -268,7 +269,8 @@ Commentary: I can’t say why Buzinkai wrote this piece the way she did, so I’ll instead highlight the differences between the original and my arrangement. About the similarity to Teal Hunter and a fun syncopation lesson: - + + 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. @@ -367,11 +369,13 @@ Commentary: (Tumblr) 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 this. + The original sketch put together by RJ sounded like this. + The original sketch put together by RJ sounded like this. By the end of the process, things had evolved quite a bit. 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! (Tumblr) - And for your listening pleasure, 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. The beautiful artwork, 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, 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. The beautiful artwork, 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, 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. 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! Florrie Haero: @@ -673,7 +677,8 @@ Commentary: The next day I got a message from Radiation saying he’d like to include it on the album (which turned out to be volume 9). So I went back and tweaked the mix a bit (mainly turning down the gain on the guitars and bringing out the strings in the descend section) and sent him the final wav which is what’s on the album. I’m really grateful to be included on the album and I’m glad people seem to like the track. Fun if somewhat nerdy fact: The power down sound that leads into the guitar solo section is actually the sound made when the Hammond organ is switched off while holding down the last chord. The tonewheels inside the organ that generate the pitches start to slow down before the amplifier cuts out so you can hear the pitch lower before the sound stops. After I posted Noirscape it got added to the tracklist for LOFAM2 and straightfacedgriff had actually started doing art for it before I had the chance to quietly let them know that it wasn’t going to be on the album. The art pretty much sums up the scene the music was meant to be describing at the start though (assuming jack has a few more knives up his sleeve for the other guards) so I thought I’d include it here. - + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Dogfight Artist: Team Dogfight @@ -714,7 +719,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/ZTkdO7c4MEE?list=PLy5UGIMKOXpOfcXVfECYjb09aHc2uSEUv Commentary: Tavia Morra: - 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 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. + 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 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. + 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 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track: Another Countdown Artist: Michael Guy Bowman -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5