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Shane Cartledge @WritersBlock

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The Colour of Music

Posted by WritersBlock - February 2nd, 2008


I thought that I needed to write this out, to get some sort of official plan out there. Basically, "The Colour of Music" is an album type thing I'm working on, that I'm going to upload to newgrounds and bandamp.
I'm going to release the songs as I complete them, although I'm not completing them in the proper album order.
As it stands currently, here is the track listing:
1) Introduction
2) Fantasia No. 1
3) Winter Division
4) Man In the Smoking Mirror
5) Type O-Negative
6) Interlude
7) Oriental Sunrise
8) Last Days of Summer
9) A Faun's Dream
10) The River
11) Twilight
12) Aurora Australis
13) Aurora Borealis

The songs will vary in the electronica genres, but a couple of songs are classical. I need to find a voice actor/singer for three songs, Introduction, Type O-Negative and Twilight. Introduction only requires some spoken word, and I will add a little bit of instrumental to that. A similar thing, spoken word, for Type O-Negative, but the emphasis is more on the music. But Twilight just requires one sample of middle-C sung as "La", and I'll create a song around a manipulation of that sample.
The first two songs, the last two songs and "Interlude", are just filler songs, introducing the album, closing the album and having a break in the middle of the album. The main songs will have thick technical aspects and a well thought out construction. Each of the main songs are loosely named around colours, but the titles themselves are representative of the music. In order, skipping the fillers, the colours are: White, grey, black, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.

I've spent a fair while plotting this out, and the first song released, "Man In the Smoking Mirror" has been received quite well. It's my most popular song, in terms of most votes, highest score and most reviews. It's number 8 in the DnB section, and in the top 1000, on a score of 4.51 from 51 votes, so I hope that if it keeps this up, I hope I might be rewarded with it featuring on the top 30 for a week (fingers crossed). I just hope the others are received with this much enthusiasm. My demo of Fantasia No. 1 also had a good response, despite being far from finished.

Thanks for all the support, I feel like I'm achieving something, here on Newgrounds.

UPDATE
I've finished composing "Last Days of Summer" I scratched it over and over again, and I ended up writing it in 2 days! So I'm stoked, but now I'm going to go through it and add effects and mastering and get the mix spot on, and add a couple of extra ambient things here and there, right now it has no polish, but it's sounding mighty fine. I've got a basic synth harmony, a sidechained saw bass, basic techno drums and a chinese flute lead, and the piano comes in every now and then. The mood is kind of uplifting with a bit of nostalgia. I think you'll like it. But you have to wait until the end of the month to hear it, haha! I'm really happy that I finished it this early, I'll have more time to do some other songs. I was a little worried that I'd get stuck in a rut, and I'd miss the deadline, but it was pretty cruisey. I had a few days where I only spent 20 minutes/half an hour with fruity loops, and the rest was just chilling, so that when I had something, I was able to cruise through with it.

Cheers.

WB


Comments

damn you smelly main

Heh, what's MY alt? I have one, but can you find it?

....call me when you get around to classical metal

Heh, the closest thing I'll get to metal will probably be industrial.