Ducksual's Blog

A home for random thoughts and all the little bits of music I record.

[veritasunae]

P[S] - Album Preview

It's a sneak peak at an upcoming album featuring some musicians you might recognise. Releasing on 6/12/18 on http://casualsunday.bandcamp.com. Full credits b...

It’s a sneak peak at an upcoming album featuring some musicians you might recognise. Releasing on 6/12/18 on http://casualsunday.bandcamp.com. Full credits below. 

Cover art by - slog: http://twitter.com/slogbait - cLimeade: http://climeade.tumblr.com

Bane by Mark Hadley: http://twitter.com/agentparsec

Bro Hop by Michael Guy Bowman: http://iambowman.com

Bronze Brawling by Max Wright: http://maxwright.com.au/

Back to Life by David Ellis (featuring Clouds Haberberg and Adam Beveridge): http://dcellismusic.com

Infinity’s Lament by Veritas Unae: http://twitter.com/veritasunae - Mixing by circlejourney: http://circlejourney.net

[S]ynchronise by Malcolm Brown: http://twitter.com/DragonXVI 

[ducksual]

hi! were you involved with the making of noirscape at all? also please please PLEASE keep making baller jams!! blue atom & moonsweater are definitely in my top 10 favorite homestuck tracks

Yeah, I made Cyan Beast, Blue Atom, Noirscape and Moonsweater from the official albums. I’m glad you like them!

[ducksual]

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Been working on solos. Synth and guitar fun!

[spellmynamewithabang]

please watch this, especially if you haven’t bought homestuck volume 10. i think it might change your mind.

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Music Team Stream (For Realsies This Time)

It starts in roughly an hour and a half (2 PM EDT) on this channel: https://www.twitch.tv/steamlord313 

Join us for some Volume 10 commentary and Q&A! The stream will also be recorded and uploaded on youtube for the people who can’t make it.

[ducksual]

LIVE NOW!

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Music Team Stream (For Realsies This Time)

It starts in roughly an hour and a half (2 PM EDT) on this channel: https://www.twitch.tv/steamlord313 

Join us for some Volume 10 commentary and Q&A! The stream will also be recorded and uploaded on youtube for the people who can’t make it.

[ducksual]

That’s roughly 7pm BST for any UK people here.

[ducksual]

Missing Moonsweater Saxophone Scores

So some of you may have noticed that the main Volume 10 album page on Bandcamp advertises ‘Features sheet music for “Moonsetter”[sic]’.

Unfortunately there was a little miscommunication between myself and RJ. I’d sent him part of the working saxophone scores for Moonsweater to use as extra things for the art booklet and he’d taken my sending them to mean including them as a stand-alone thing too.

While I have no problem with including the scores, unfortunately the parts that have been posted are incomplete and contain a number of errors including some very playable parts like this:

These were the scores we used in recording but they needed a LOT of pencil edits to make them readable. I’ve asked if they can be removed from the download as they’re not really usable as is (and they’re missing a few pages anyway).

If there’s any interest at all I’ll tidy up the current parts a little bit, remove anything obviously unplayable and post those later in the week.

However if enough people would like proper performance saxophone scores I will put together a proper (nice looking) part featuring such musical delights as: Tempo markings, bar numbers, dynamics, articulations and more readable note groupings!

Also if people would like I’ll transcribe the improvised saxophone solos (but that may take longer).

Thanks for understanding, and sorry for the mix up.

[ducksual]

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I’ve been working on editing Moonsweater this morning. I finally did the Rhodes solo this week and listening back it’s become clear that the whole solo section is way too long and starts to drag. So I’m cutting back on it, starting with this bit.

As I’ve already recorded this solo I thought I’d share the whole thing before it gets chopped up for the final version.

[ducksual]

Here’s something I posted years ago that’s actually more relevant now.

There are 4 solos in Moonsweater and the second is the (mainly improvised) rhodes solo. However after recording it I felt that the solo section went on a bit too long and I ended up cutting it down.

You can hear all of the bits of the solo that made the final cut along with the bits that got cut out. Things that seem to logically fit together in the final version weren’t actually played together at all.

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Hey guys :) Here’s the trackart I did for Moonsweater on Homestuck Volume 10!!

It was such a pleasure to work with everybody on this and I’m so happy. The entire album sounds fantastic and you all worked so hard. Homestuck means so much to me and I’m just really honored that I had the opportunity to do this <3

[spellmynamewithabang]

maybe you should check out a small indie project i managed

it’s nothing huge, just what i spent the last two months on: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-10

[ducksual]

My contribution to Volume 10!

Great to get together with Malik again for the saxophones.

Thanks Invah for the art! - http://caligulasaquariums.tumblr.com/ (NSFW)

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Homestuck Vol. 10, by Homestuck

25 track album

It’s out, aaaaaaaah!

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Homestuck Music Team Official Live Stream, Listening Party and Q&A. 6/12 4 PM EST • /r/homestuck

So most of you already probably know that something is afoot on 6/12. Due to it being a bit of a special occasion, even as far as album releases...

We will be doing a stream to celebrate the release of the new Homestuck album on 6/12. I will be taking part, but a lot of other great HS music team members will be there as well! We will be doing live audio commentary on the album and probably answering some questions as well! Check the link for more details.

[sammneiland]

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changed my mind, posting it now.

this is my personal entry for the mspa album song contest thing.

basically a church hymnal done for the signless/sufferer/karkatcestor what have you.

perhaps not the most final version as there may be some tweaking left do for it, but good enough so that it can go to you love listener’s ears.

and it has lyrics!

Han bear ey all vor smarte

Oo en day trei striat ande glemt

Lee kell vell are vey til lit

~

Vor shlekt ah chilt meh bloo far guh

Vee har ing en sha liet ell aey deed

Lee kell vell are vey til lit

its basically my concept for a verbal troll language loosely based on nordic languages like norwegian.

original song composition, production, and performance by samm neiland

vocal credits to:

Katherine Bordonaro (tumblr user “heronhugs”)

Connor Favero (tumblr user “captainersatz”)

Lorilyn “Neoscottie” Seyler (tumblr user “kudufawks”)

Steve Johnson (tumblr user “roguecnidarian”)

Ari (tumblr user “thepageofheart”)

Andrea McNeil (tumblr user “simplesignifier”)

Pippin (tumblr user “phasmidhugs”)

and myself.

homestuck, signless/sufferer, and trolls are copyright andrew hussie

EDIT: this song made it on to the first album of the contest. go buy it now! 

http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/colours-and-mayhem-universe-a

[sammneiland]

then there was this. my entry to the homestuck music contest. where i thought rather than trying something typically homestuck, i’d try something insane instead.

it worked, so…

[ducksual]

And then I did this to it. https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/infidels

Thanks Samm!

[ducksual]

Song 7 for this years RPM. Only 1 more to go and I’ll be comfortably over the 35 minute mark.

[ducksual]

RPM Song 5 - Beacon

Pretty much the opposite of the kind of song I usually write.

[ducksual]

Finished song 4 on Friday.

Song 5 is nearly there, I think I have a chorus now.