homestuck vol. 4 credits wip

Excerpts from commentary! Still no updated wiki credits, but
this means all Vols. 1-4 are equally good to go to get those
credits.

album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml

@@ -90,10 +90,19 @@ MIDI Project Files:
   - 'Revelawesome - MrCheeze.mid'
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     <i>Malcolm Brown:</i>
+
     Another "Andrew asks for music for situation X" - In this, he wanted a dramatic reveal that was basically too epic and obviously a piss-take. The two main ones that were used for this and Hardlyquin (Both were used in the comic for more or less the same joke). The goal was to basically make something so dramatically epic and life-changing that it would just be incredibly silly. (I believe Hardlyquin ended audibly on a joke sound, while I wanted Revelawesome to be played as straight as possible).
+
     And it was.
+
     The music was based on some earlier work I did on an old Sonic Fangame (Completely forget which one - Think it was a boss theme) that I re-tuned for orchestra and gave it more of a buildup. The name was a play on Andrew's penchant for Portmentaeeu that-word-meaning-combining-two-words-together.
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+    <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (excerpt)
+
+    Another "[[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] asks for music for situation X" - In this, he wanted a dramatic reveal that was basically too epic and obviously a piss-take. [...] (I believe [[Hardlyquin]] ended audibly on a joke sound, while I wanted Revelawesome to be played as straight as possible).
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+    [...] The music was based on some earlier work I did on an old Sonic Fangame (Completely forget which one - Think it was a boss theme) that I re-tuned for orchestra and gave it more of a buildup. The name was a play on Andrew's penchant for Portmentaeeu that-word-meaning-combining-two-words-together.
+
     <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100417130001/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/revelawesome), 4/13/2010)
 
     By [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown]]
@@ -138,8 +147,13 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Harlequin
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i>
+
     When Andrew asked us to do something for a shock and surprise for the upcoming reveal of John's Dad's room, this is what I came up with. I slipped some Harlequin in there for good measure. The original version was exactly as it appears in the comic (complete with the record scratch at the end), and I lengthened it for the soundtrack since it was so very, very short. Somehow it came out creepier in that version.
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+    <i>Mark J. Hadley:</i> (excerpt)
+
+    When Andrew asked us to do something for a shock and surprise for the upcoming reveal of John's Dad's room, this is what I came up with. [...] The original version was exactly as it appears in the comic (complete with the record scratch at the end), and I lengthened it for the soundtrack since it was so very, very short. [...]
+
     <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100418215859/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hardlyquin), 4/13/2010)
 
     By [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley]]
@@ -236,9 +250,17 @@ MIDI Project Files:
   - 'Carefree Victory - Twix Stix.mid'
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Andrew Huo:</i>
+
     Carefree Victory is really Hadley's baby, and I would feel like I'm plagiarizing to really call it my own. I really just dictated his piece, called Carefree Action, put it into PXTone, added some lines, changed the tempo, and added a coda (which wasn't even used in the comic, I think?).
+
     One of the lines I added, for the intro, was roughly inspired by Cave Story music. I'm pretty Cave Story-influenced, especially with Homestuck stuff.
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+    <i>Andrew Huo:</i> (excerpt)
+
+    Carefree Victory is really Hadley's baby, and I would feel like I'm plagiarizing to really call it my own. I really just dictated his piece, called Carefree Action, put it into PXTone, added some lines, changed the tempo, and added a coda (which wasn't even used in the comic, I think?).
+
+    One of the lines I added, for the intro, was roughly inspired by Cave Story music. [...]
+
     <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100421004748/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/carefree-victory), 4/13/2010)
 
     By [[artist:mark-j-hadley|Mark Hadley]], [[artist:andrew-huo|Andrew Huo]] and [[artist:toby-fox|[Toby Fox\]]]
@@ -347,11 +369,21 @@ Sheet Music Files:
   - 'Ballad of Awakening - EuniverseCat.pdf'
 Commentary: |-
     <i>Malcolm Brown:</i>
+
     Jade. I think, at least if not Jade then certainly something about Dreams (Which a lot of the story was turning into via the Prospit/Derse stuff). It was prevalent that a lot of Jade's character was coming from vague aloofness, yet a degree of precognition via dreaming that would prove central to the character and the concept of Sburb.
+
     Thus, it's a playful kind of dream-like melody. A little scatterbrained a quite unusual (Namely due to the time signature which is something like 6/4). I came up with the melody years ago, and it's mostly just playing about on the sharp/flat keys on a keyboard. I generally don't like incorporating it too much because the chord progression sounds a <i>bit</i> too close to Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" (Which was released way after I originally came up with the melody for BoA, but is infinitely more popular)
+
     Despite being used in 'The Flash Where Nothing Happens' and also being quite long, it's still one of my closet favourite tracks. So much so I did a remake that never made it to any album because it wasn't really anything new. In any case, it's [[track:joy-and-dreams-eternal|here]].
+
     I then took an enormous break from HS (shortly after doing a Squiddles track that I don't particularly like) and wouldn't be back 'till around about the time of AlternaBound had started being a discussed thing.
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+    <i>Malcolm Brown:</i> (excerpt)
+
+    [...] I came up with the melody years ago, and it's mostly just playing about on the sharp/flat keys on a keyboard. I generally don't like incorporating it too much because the chord progression sounds a <i>bit</i> too close to Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" (Which was released way after I originally came up with the melody for BoA, but is infinitely more popular)
+
+    Despite being used in 'The Flash Where Nothing Happens' and also being quite long, it's still one of my closet favourite tracks. So much so I did a remake that never made it to any album because it wasn't really anything new. [...]
+
     <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100421004531/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ballad-of-awakening), 4/13/2010)
 
     By [[artist:malcolm-brown|Malcolm Brown]]
@@ -454,6 +486,22 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     <img src="media/misc/sburban-jungle.jpg" width="350" height="350">
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+    <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (excerpt)
+
+    [...] I'm still indebted to [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] for making the animated sequence which the song accompanied especially iconic. [...]
+
+    <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 7/26/2017)
+
+    [...] [[artist:andrew-hussie|andrew]] told us to do loops at the beginning thinking all the flashes would be loops. [[track:sburban-jungle-brief-mix|the short version]] was written as a loop, but then the loading screen ended. i wrote out a "full" version to give it a tag and andrew loved it so much he decided to sit on it [...]
+
+    <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music](https://youtu.be/85VXWZTg-vo?t=405), adapted to text, excerpt, 7/20/2024)
+
+    So, the first major piece I worked on that ended up being used in the comic was Sburban Jungle. Andrew had wanted something that sounded like music from SimCity 4. He had linked us to this piece called Epicenter, and said, "I want something that sounds a bit like this," [...] I was like, oh yeah, I gotta sit down and *immediately* make something, 'cause like, Andrew's style of working is to pick the first good thing, really. [...] I knew that the gauntlet was thrown and that if I didn't make something, like, right away, it might not happen.
+
+    [... I] immediately got around to composing a piece that involved looping... xylophone. I think I was drawing a bit from the kinds of music I'd studied in percussion, actually. [...]
+
+    Sburban Jungle was so clearly necessary to expand upon, and I went ahead and just wrote the full thing out, [...] Finishing out Sburban Jungle and saying, like, "now *here's* something that could progress from start to finish, and stand on its own," motivated [Andrew] to later bring it back at [[flash:1149|the end of Act 3]] as this big moment.
+
     <i>Andrew Hussie:</i> ([MSPA newspost](https://wheals.github.io/newsposts/newsposts.html#9/21/09) re: [[flash:1149]], excerpt, 1/14/2010)
 
     Double P.S. - Also let's hear it for [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Bowman]] and his completely sick tune. Would you believe he produced this embellishment on Sburban Jungle in July? I've been sitting on it ever since, waiting for the right moment before unleashing it. Waiting. Brooding. Conniving.
@@ -501,7 +549,7 @@ Sampled Tracks:
 Credit Sources: |-
     <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor)
 
-    The credits for this track changed between its original release and [[track:three-in-the-morning-rj-vol-1-4|on Homestuck Vol. 1-4]].
+    The Bandcamp credits for this track changed between its original release and [[track:three-in-the-morning-rj-vol-1-4|on Homestuck Vol. 1-4]].
 
     <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100421004813/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/three-in-the-morning-rjs-i-can-barely-sleep-in-this-casino-remix), 4/13/2010)
 
@@ -694,7 +742,33 @@ Commentary: |-
 Credit Sources: |-
     <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor)
 
-    The credits for this track changed between its original release and [[track:doctor-vol-1-4|on Homestuck Vol. 1-4]].
+    The Bandcamp credits for this track changed between its original release and [[track:doctor-vol-1-4|on Homestuck Vol. 1-4]].
+
+    <i>Clark Powell:</i> (excerpt)
+
+    Doctor was originally by [[artist:buzinkai|Buzinkai]] and then a now non-active member [[artist:michael-vallejo|Michael Vallejo]] added a few bits of percussion to it. I then put together a larger mix of the tune with shinier production and a glockenspiel tag, and this was the version [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] used in the end.
+
+    <i>Buzinkai:</i> (excerpt)
+
+    [...] The only thing I can really remember was that Super Smash Bros Brawl came out right before I finished it. [[track:doctor-original-loop|The original loop]] [...] was directly inspired by music from Cave Story, and I was trying to at the time musically embody how I felt at the time, I think. [...] I will say that I cannot truly believe how many people have remixed it.
+
+    <i>Buzinkai:</i> ([r/Homestuck AMA](https://old.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/1afvkb/hi_im_george_buzinkai_writer_of_the_doctor_and/), excerpts, 3/17/2013)
+
+    Hi, I'm George Buzinkai, writer of The Doctor and other such songs. AMA? [...]
+
+    Actually, for a little while, after I submitted it, I was unaware of where Doctor was going to go. It was one of those moments where I went, "Whoa, someone remixed my song?" And then things got crazy. I get the feeling when you hear yourself played back on audio sometimes when I hear the remixes. [...]
+
+    I listen to Tchaikovsky and Nobuo Uematsu, I attempt to push emotion through the music to the listener. When I find things which I feel the composer was trying to push into me, I get overwhelmed. [...]
+
+    I wrote Doctor at an interesting time. One where I wanted to convey my emotions through music. I was inspired by [[Moonsong]] from Cave Story, and I still use PXTone, which is a music software developed by Pixel.
+
+    The Doctor was my name, a reference to Doctor Who, and The Doctor from cave story. [...]
+
+    I originally meant the song to encompass my own emotions at the time, according to [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew Hussie]], it "sat on his desktop for a while" before he decided where to place it. [...]
+
+    <i>Clark Powell:</i> ([Tumblr](https://plazmataz.tumblr.com/post/669762656269484032/the-song-doctor-was-a-collaboration-piece-between), excerpt, 12/5/2021)
+
+    the song Doctor was a collaboration piece between me and Buzinkai. They made the super lush chiptune that’s the backbone of the song, and I arranged it with other instruments to try and really bring it to life. As one of the first songs either of us finished for the comic in those early days, we were both so proud of it ☺️
 
     <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100421004540/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/doctor), 4/13/2010)
 
@@ -751,6 +825,10 @@ Commentary: |-
     <i>Buzinkai:</i>
     The inspiration for this was from a not-very-well-known indie game called Tower of Heaven, which has phenomenal music. Believe it or not, the arpeggios were written first, and the main melody was written last. I tend to write songs backwards sometimes.
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+    <i>Buzinkai:</i> (excerpt)
+
+    The inspiration for this was from a not-very-well-known indie game called Tower of Heaven, which has phenomenal music. [...] I tend to write songs backwards sometimes.
+
     <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20100421004753/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/endless-climb), 4/13/2010)
 
     By [[artist:buzinkai|[Buzinkai\]]]
@@ -883,7 +961,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 Credit Sources: |-
     <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor)
 
-    The credits for this track changed between its original release and [[track:black-vol-1-4|on Homestuck Vol. 1-4]].
+    The Bandcamp credits for this track changed between its original release and [[track:black-vol-1-4|on Homestuck Vol. 1-4]].
 
     The Bandcamp credit to [[artist:eddie-morton|Eddie Morton]] is a joke. The sampled track, [[track:im-a-member-of-the-midnight-crew]], was performed by Eddie Morton in 1909.