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Eidolon what are you doing… Wait, already asked that.
So that WIP became this. I wanted to make a strife for a fan character idea I’ve had for a while. Most of his story and such would be session dependent, but gist was:
He’s known as “the visitor.” This is because he is technically not one of the Heroes the game selects but entered the session nonetheless, as “someone (one of the players) left the door open.” His first appearance is in the midst of the game, after all players are successfully in. From there, he tries to work independent of the actual session, though interacts over its course with the real players and their resources. Finding information on the early game from observation and short encounters, he proceeds to create items using “borrowed” supplies and sets off on his own kind of side-journey, affected by the destruction of everything he once knew, and fixated on his own survival and the creation of somewhere he can live as he did before.
Two major items he alchemizes are part of his strife gear. Piece one is an incredibly lightweight two-handed axe. In combat, he uses it less as a weapon and more as a tool for building up momentum throughout the fight. His movements are very quick and flowing, but he’s also lightweight and can be tripped up early on. Piece number two is a mask (made through shenanigans) equipped with a transportalizer on the inside and paradox duplication tech that allows him to create multiple copies on a whim. With this technology, he tosses a plethora of these into the air. Attached is a mouthpiece that when bit acts as the pad of a transportalizer set for the copies of itself. This allows him to rapidly switch between masks, before they hit the ground, in a flashstep-type manner. Building momentum and teleporting between masks at increasing speeds, his actions push toward creating an “execution” scenario, where he surrounds and distracts/dismays the target with the flashstep-type after-images of himself as he approaches from behind, brandishing his true weapon built into the haft of the axe.
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Eidolon what are you doing
this isn’t a good direction at all
lexxerduglas:
To: Momcat
From: Lexxcat
Oh my god oh my god how did I miss this aaaaa
Run home is pretty great, why didn't you use it for HS?
Anonymous
I think I made it around when I made Infinity Mechanism and wanted to try to incorporate something similar to the guitar effects on I Want You from the panty and stocking ost into something. By the time I decided to make it public, however, I felt like it didn’t fit to my current level of production and hadn’t been pulled out for anything related to homestuck, so I released it. This was also around the time that I realized that I could/was-comfortable-enough-to list homestuck pieces I wanted considered for a volume when a volume thread would show up. Even then, though, it would have needed a lot of work to get it to volume quality, I feel.
There’s some parts of the piece I really like that I want to try writing again into a new piece now that I’m re-listening.
Is there a list I can find somewhere where I can look at all the songs you've ever made?
Jit made a list of each musician’s contribution, actually, http://stonefyr.webs.com/comprehensivelist.html
It looks up to date on released materials (although the last mspa official volume was 7 months or something ago). There’s also The Earthen Scar (which I feel like I push everywhere) on my bandcamp (eidolonorpheus.bandcamp.com) as well as two commission pieces.
souncloud.com/eidolonorpheus has recently released stuff, mainly mspa things from sometimes over a year ago that were never picked up
and tindeck.com/users/EidolonOrpheus has my oldest music on the internet.
I apologize for everything being so spread out.
(posted for future reference too, possibly)
Yeah, sorry for being unclear, I'm not a musician. Malcolm Brown is a good example of someone who really does different stuff all the time.
Anonymous
Yeah, I get what you’re thinking. This is all just from what I’ve observed, and if Malcolm sees this, he can elaborate or chime in.
Malcolm tends to write with many genres and is pretty versatile with that. He seems very capable of taking a character or situation they’re in and writing in the genre that comes to mind as fitting it. With him, the genres almost act like different tones and emotions and fit with each character, kind of like classifications, and each character has a genre of music and instruments relating to them. I did something similar with Chaotic Strength when I was asked to try to do something for Equius in an Alterniabound flash by Toby.
However, I’ve been more focused on I guess pushing my writing into something away from the general genres people relate to certain emotions or characters. I feel like what I’m after is trying to push my writing away from comparisons to and the connotations of genres and other musicians/bands (I hope, probably unrealistically). I am also not too fond of trying to write in a certain genre most of the time, since I often fear it’ll come off as almost gimmicky if I haven’t done extensive work in it or am not really familiar with it.
I am influenced by other people’s music and will look at what they did on a compositional level and try to incorporate interesting concepts into my own work, but I dunno. I’m not sure if I am making sense or just writing semi-coherent thoughts. The question is making me think a lot, though, trying to figure out how I feel about my music and how others perceive it. I might try to elaborate more or better another time if this doesn’t feel right.
Have you thought of doing something with samples you've never used before? Because most of your songs sound really alike, and that's alright but usually the music team varies their style a lot.
Anonymous
I have definitely thought of expanding what I use for sounds, and the Garritan I have, which was used mostly on orchestral stuff, definitely has limitations that hamper what I can do with the textures of my music. I’ve tried to branch out in the composition and tone of the pieces more than the overall sound because of what I have, but I am still deciding where to go next with programs and sample sets. Logic Pro went down in price recently (i think) so I’ve been looking at that, a logical step up from Garageband, which I’ve been using a lot recently for synths and their customization.
Or are you talking about the style as in genre or tone of the piece? The second comment you made points kind of toward that. This makes me wonder which music team members I am being compared to and what body of my work is used. Is it just my MSPA stuff compared to a single or multiple separate bodies of other MSPA composer’s works, my solo work compared to MSPA works or works pulled by specific composers out of MSPA music, or is it all of my compositions vs. a general view of the MSPA albums? I generally think my music goes along a spectrum of soundtrack electronic, orchestral, and ambient (sometimes metal) with varying degrees of influence from each, and if I make a couple pieces within the same week, they end up with a much more similar sound in terms of genre, and I guess as a loose term, style than those months apart. These are the genres I’m most comfortable with/enjoy the most, so I tend to stick to them, though I am open to trying something different if I have the resources (which goes back to programs and sample sets and instruments). As for tone, I don’t really know what to say other than I hope my music evokes the right emotions. Usually, if I am writing for something I have in mind, I try to convey its feel through the composition as best as I can. But I feel like tone doesn’t have much to do with what you meant, and I’m going on a tangent or something.
I don’t really know what is wanted with the variation mentioned in here, really. I feel like I don’t have a clear definition of what style means in this usage.
Thoughts???
(had to rush writing it, forgive any errors in writing or connections)
Anonymous
Good to hear. Thank you, anon.
are you going to the beatles: the lost concert" movie when it comes out next month?
Anonymous
I am not too into the Beatles. I dunno. Seems out of nowhere. What’s your game.
