Orchestral Song Covers

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It's Bandcamp Friday! Reminding everybody that I made an instrumental holiday music album a few years back:

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I finally, finally finished that bilingual song I wrote (I started writing it in 2020).

Lyrics:

不要劝我放弃你 终于找到你 绝不回去 每个国家 去哪儿安家*每 每 我会跟你一起住

(Translation: Don’t urge me to abandon you. I found you at last; there’s no going back Whatever country, wherever I make a home, I will live together with you.)

让我陪你 请让我陪你

(Translation: Let me accompany you Please let me accompany you)

Take me with you when you go Take me with you when you go

同心同德 皆是谊 你既信仰 我将归依 不畏生死 幕落同归 我愿与你 只求不离

(Translation: Of one heart and one mind - such is our bond I will make your beliefs my own Braving life and death, we’ll meet the end together I intend to be yours and hope we never part)

让我陪你 请让我陪你

(Translation: Let me accompany you Please let me accompany you)

言而有信 ×3

(Translation: My word is my bond ×3)

Take my hand and listen

让我陪你 请让我

(Translation: Let me accompany you Please let me)

Your native tongue will become my language We will make a home out of all this wreckage Anything we've lost our love can salvage if you Take me with you when you go

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Listening back over this, the vocals sound very harsh to me. I might try recording it again with a softer vocal affect.

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I've been working on this album on and off for several years. This is the song that's probably the 2nd closest to being finished.

I got the idea for this song back in 2017. That year, a lot of popular TV shows introduced queer women characters only to immediately kill them off, to the point that several queer publications wrote articles criticizing the tv industry for treating queer characters as disposable.

The idea came to me to write song that's from the perspective of a lesbian seeking revenge for her dead lover. A "supervillain origin story."

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I still want to re-record some of the vocals. This song is incredibly hard to sing. I'm really bad at coming up with melodies that are comfortably within my vocal range. I also want change some of the instrument samples. There's quite a lot of production work yet to do.

Anyway, I'm going to take a break from it for at least a week, and work on one of my other WIPs.

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Have you flipped the tumblr switch to not get scraped for AI-theft today?

It’s in the account settings. If in the app do the following:

1. Go to your blog (tiny human symbol)

2. Go to account settings (tiny cogwheel on the top right).

3. Scroll down to and hit Visibility (the second option from the end)

4. Activate the last oft the three switches (depending on your previous settings it may already be activated (symbol sky blue with switch to the right)

If you have several blogs you need to do it for each one.

Done.

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Important update for folks. This is what it looks like in my mobile app, fyi. That last one is the one you need to make sure is on.

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On desktop go to tumblr.com/settings/blog/blogname - you have to do this for all sideblogs as well as your main blog.

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[shesthespinstersimmer]

The truth in this is appalling.

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In case you thought I died, I haven't. I've been working on original music, though I did also record two covers recently. Editing vocals always takes twice as long as recording them.

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I hate this so much.

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Okay half a year late but I did finally record the vocals for my French "If You Seek Amy" cover.

It's going to take a while, both to edit the vocals, and to re-produce the instrumentals. I had to slow the song down. 130bpm was too fast for me to sing a song that's not in my native language without getting tongue tied (I did have native speakers double check both my translation and my pronunciation so it should sound comprehensible).

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Just one more reason to not use Spotify -_-

Link to story here

[libertineangel]

How the fuck is that even legal

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It's Britney, Bitch

Allow me to present my ode to everyone's favorite hoyden. This cover is arranged for two violins, viola, cello and double bass. It's a bit more ... florid than I originally intended, but then again, what's the point of arranging a classical song cover if you're not willing to go for baroque?

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I will be recording vocals for this cover soon-ish. I'm not using the original lyrics. Instead, in order to match the vibe of this cover, I translated/reinterpreted the lyrics into French, with some assistance from a couple native French speakers I reached out to on my language learning sideblog. Not exactly sure when I'll have time to record, but hopefully that will go up sometime this month.

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Got pronunciation confusion, pls help:

Leitmotif is said as:

leet-mo-teef

light-mot-if

leet-mot-if

light-mo-teef

other secret combo (tags)

literally who cares, it does not matter

Voting ended onAug 8, 2023

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I have a tendency to write viola-forward string arrangements because I'm a mezzo-soprano singer and my instinct always is to place the melody in my vocal range.

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I have decided instead of working on any of my works in progress I am going to make an orchestral cover of "Cut to the Feeling" by Carly Rae Jepsen, for Pride month. :)

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TIL "Predatel'stvo (Katya's Lament)" from the Goncharov (1973) musical score is the melodic inspiration behind "Toxic" by Britney Spears.

And I thought I couldn't possibly love this movie more!

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I would never have made the connection if Cybill Shepherd hadn't mentioned it in this interview I randomly found on youtube last night, but it's, like, so so obvious once you know what to listen for.

Crazy that this song wasn't even included in the initial soundtrack album. They eventually added it as a bonus track for the 25th anniversary re-release.

You can hear it in the film during the lead up to the betrayal scene.

ETA: [sheetmusic]

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By the way, if anyone's wondering why I didn't choose "Toxic" for a Britney Spears' String cover, it's because I already created this piece for tumblr's Goncharov OST over on my main blog.

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Juicy closeups of a Korg Trident // 8-voice string synthesizer (1980)

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