recompose, refine

1 files changed, 69 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/album/the-felt/album.txt b/album/the-felt/album.txt
index e2a7df45..3696dd74 100644
--- a/album/the-felt/album.txt
+++ b/album/the-felt/album.txt
@@ -10,13 +10,19 @@ URLs:
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 Track: Jade Dragon
 Artist: Robert J! Lake
+Duration: 3:27
 References: Viva la Vida
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/jade-dragon-2
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/jade-dragon-2
+- https://youtu.be/et0432j4c5s?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
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 Track: Swing of the Clock
 Artist: Solatrus
+Duration: 5:58
 References: Three in the Morning
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/swing-of-the-clock-2
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/swing-of-the-clock-2
+- https://youtu.be/kEGailT_BHs?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
 Commentary:
     <i>Solatrus:</i>
     <i>(original commentary)</i>
@@ -26,7 +32,7 @@ Commentary:
     Also a lesser known fact: It was actually considered for a flash animation, in a similar vein to Alex Rosetti’s Squiddles song. But, due to the difficulties in organizing a full song animation, especially one that was twice as long as Squiddles, it was just impossible to do realistically.
     <i>(commentary redux)</i>
     Ah, this song. The memories.  Not really any pre-song history so I’ll just get right into how it was created and why I took this song in this direction.
-    Swing of the Clock, henceforth shortened to SotC (not to be confused with Shadow of the Colossus! It’s just a hilarious coincidence) was the first song I started writing after joining the team. Multiple fake band albums were in progress (The Felt and Squiddles), but at the time I had no idea how to even approach Squiddles (see <a href="track/squiddles-in-paradise/index.html">last week’s post</a> for details).
+    Swing of the Clock, henceforth shortened to SotC (not to be confused with Shadow of the Colossus! It’s just a hilarious coincidence) was the first song I started writing after joining the team. Multiple fake band albums were in progress (The Felt and Squiddles), but at the time I had no idea how to even approach Squiddles (see last week’s post ([[Squiddles in Paradise]]) for details).
     So, I decided I’d try to do something orchestral. I went with a few ideas, but for some reason I kept wanting to write a song with a swing feel in it, though that’s more Midnight Crew than Felt, yet at the same time I wanted to do something that was clearly Philip Glass influenced. The small scraps I started before finally settling on a starting point (none of them were saved, sorry!) all shared two major common pieces: a ticking clock, and an arpeggio piano inspired off of Clark Powell’s Three in the Morning.
     Both are still in the song, though amusingly many people didn’t notice the piano. It’s there. In reverse. :D
     While I was messing around with the early ideas for SotC, I managed to create a nice sounding bass synth, but I ended up replacing the sound with a couple of clarinets to keep the focus on orchestral instruments instead.
@@ -46,16 +52,25 @@ Commentary:
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 Track: Rhapsody in Green
 Artist: Clark Powell
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/rhapsody-in-green-2
+Duration: 3:54
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/rhapsody-in-green-2
+- https://youtu.be/O4x3DKbvi1Y?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
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 Track: Humphrey's Lullaby
 Artist: Toby Fox
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/humphreys-lullaby-2
+Duration: 2:06
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/humphreys-lullaby-2
+- https://youtu.be/N_Iddbz7p-k?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
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 Track: Clockwork Reversal
 Artist: Thomas Ferkol
+Duration: 1:41
 References: Clockwork Apocalypse
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/clockwork-reversal-2
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/clockwork-reversal-2
+- https://youtu.be/b9BtuKqfPkY?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
 Commentary:
     <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i>
     Clockwork Reversal was my second contribution to the Felt.  I love the melody of Endless Climb.  I loved the music box-esque remixes on Volume 5 even more.  Before I got on the team, I had written Clockwork Apocalypse, an orchestrated version of Clockwork Melody.  After realizing Audacity could reverse music, I started experimenting.
@@ -63,7 +78,10 @@ Commentary:
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 Track: Chartreuse Rewind
 Artist: Solatrus
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/chartreuse-rewind-2
+Duration: 4:57
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/chartreuse-rewind-2
+- https://youtu.be/TBsDTu-NOkA?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
 Commentary:
     <i>Solatrus:</i>
     <i>(original commentary)</i>
@@ -83,44 +101,68 @@ Commentary:
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 Track: The Broken Clock
 Artist: Erik Scheele
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-broken-clock-2
+Duration: 3:10
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-broken-clock-2
+- https://youtu.be/Mmzhi4T6wtM?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
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 Track: Apocryphal Antithesis
 Artist: Clark Powell
+Duration: 2:51
 References: Endless Climb
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/apocryphal-antithesis-2
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/apocryphal-antithesis-2
+- https://youtu.be/PTd8rhHHyEs?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
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 Track: Trails
 Artist: Mark Hadley
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/trails-2
+Duration: 2:29
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/trails-2
+- https://youtu.be/rzL0-oyDy7s?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
 Commentary:
     <i>Mark Hadley:</i>
     At its heart, Trails is basically a fugue, with a melodic line being repeated and played over the previous one. Trace and Fin follow past and future trails, so I made the first melody in the first half hollow and somewhat indistinct, since it is a "future trail" for the second melody that will come in a few bars later. In the second half I reverse this and have the indistinct melody come afterwards, a "past trail" of the melody that just played.
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 Track: Baroqueback Bowtier (Scratch's Lament)
 Artist: Clark Powell
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/baroqueback-bowtier-scratchs-lament-2
+Duration: 4:06
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/baroqueback-bowtier-scratchs-lament-2
+- https://youtu.be/leIKuIH2FIg?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
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 Track: Scratch
 Artist: David Ko
+Duration: 3:10
 References: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Ultimate Koopa
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/scratch-2
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/scratch-2
+- https://youtu.be/3OVpWgisy0o?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
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 Track: Omelette Sandwich
 Artist: Mark Hadley
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/omelette-sandwich-2
+Duration: 3:32
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/omelette-sandwich-2
+- https://youtu.be/a1FivIzXv48?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
 Commentary:
     <i>Mark Hadley:</i>
     I imagined this song being played by Eggs and Biscuits. Shortly after the melody plays, it stops and rewinds back to the beginning, adding more instruments and speeding up the song slightly. This repeats until it is barely the same song anymore, fast and furious instead of the simple cello and viola duet that it starts with. After all the parts are in place, the parts start dropping out one by one until it goes back to the simple start. I went with the abrupt sound of a tape recorder instead of something more subtle, because Eggs and Biscuits aren't know for their subtlety.
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 Track: Temporal Piano
 Artist: Erik Scheele
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporal-piano-2
+Duration: 3:49
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporal-piano-2
+- https://youtu.be/rzNIMmObP3k?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
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 Track: Time Paradox
 Artist: Thomas Ferkol
+Duration: 3:06
 References: Westminister Quarters
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/time-paradox-2
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/time-paradox-2
+- https://youtu.be/96HRN6bFYqU?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
 Commentary:
     <i>Thomas Ferkol:</i>
     This was the first piece I submitted for an album once I got on the team.  Basically what happened was: I am visiting somewhere in Chicago with only my phone’s connection to the internet, check the MSPA forums and find a message notification waiting for me.  Radiation congratulates me on getting on the team.  After some moments of sputtering disbelief, I read on.  He says if I want to get started on something, the Squiddles was being finished up and the Felt was on the table.  So, for the next couple hours I was invigorated, consumed wholly during the car ride and time in the hotel before I finally fell asleep with working on a track for the Felt.  Time Paradox was made.
@@ -129,13 +171,22 @@ Commentary:
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 Track: Eldritch
 Artist: Alexander Rosetti
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/eldritch-2
+Duration: 2:02
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/eldritch-2
+- https://youtu.be/6hDMo_pcaD8?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
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 Track: English
 Artist: Toby Fox
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/english-2
+Duration: 3:30
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/english-2
+- https://youtu.be/6zMnNCDaKuE?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu
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 Track: Variations
 Artist: Robert J! Lake
+Duration: 6:03
 References: Rhapsody in Green, Jade Dragon, Swing of the Clock, Afraid of the Darko
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/variations-2
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/variations-2
+- https://youtu.be/M966V66lLuE?list=PLlGklfYAdslavhtb5kUefK1V_ki5NvbVu