Lots of songs

[bnewman]

I'm back from OVFF, where I had an awesome time about which maybe more later. I have no "new" songs (begun and finished at-con), but I finished a lot of almost-written material. Lyrics now, MP3s later this week when I have more throat and sleep added and linked in my next entry.

"Castle in the Sky" is based on the Miyazaki film of the same name, set to the haunting main title theme by Joe Hisaishi.

"Many Pikmin" is based on the adorable GameCube game Pikmin, in which you play a stranded astronaut who must repair his crashed ship with the help of hordes of cute animate radish-like organisms. A principal theme of the game is that pikmin must work in large teams to accomplish anything, so when I decided to write a song for the game, Leslie Fish's "Toast for Unsung Heroes" (which uses the union anthem "Step by Step" as its chorus) immediately came to mind. However, the cheerful, playful cuteness of Pikmin demanded a major key, so I put it in a major key... and it worked.

"Red Wings" is another video game song, covering (and using the music from) the opening sequence of Final Fantasy IV. This really wants to be recorded with a male chorus (hey, scifantasy, metaplasmus, I'm looking at you) and a lot of tympani.

"Starseed (Dust on the Wind)" was written and declared complete at Conterpoint. Although it wasn't my intention, and I wasn't working from it, it ended up going to the tune of the A-part of "Tanglewood Tree" by Dave Carter. Last night, after hearing an awesome rendition of TT performed by cadhla, tfabris and friends, I decided to try reworking "Starseed" so that it was actually a filk of "Tanglewood Tree", instead of just happening to have the same melody. This is the result — in my opinion, it's a vast improvement, and this is now the canonical version of "Starseed". edit: Added Tracy's duet part to the last verse.

"Snow Crashin'" is a wassailing song about Snow Crash. It was begun at OMGWTF:15am a few Philcons ago, and I don't properly remember whether it was ccommack's fault or mine. (It may also be partially ladymondegreen's and batyatoon's fault.)

Enjoy!

Comments

[irilyth]

I can't tell from reading -- does Starseed have the duet at the end of Tanglewood Tree? That's my favorite part of the song, but it seems like it must be really hard to write that sort of thing.

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't, because yes, it is really hard to write that sort of thing (although see "Orodruin" for a counterexample).

I may fill it in later... okay, actually, I filled it in now. There's something amusing about a filk of TT that explains how to build a railgun (now in rather more detail).

[batyatoon]

*reads new version of Starseed*

oooo. *shinyeyes* I am so learning that part.

[batshua]

Hooray! I can't wait.