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Music and Colo(u)rs and Mayhem
Apr. 6th, 2012 11:09 pmListen up, everyone, because I'm only gonna say this once: if you ever get the chance to go on a tour of a radio station, for the love of God, DO IT. I won a tour of the Minnesota Public Radio studios that took place this past Tuesday, and it. was. awesome. Partly in the "this is how your sausage is made" way, and partly because it was basically Oprah's Favorite Things; they just kept giving us stuff. First they had coffee and bagels out when we showed up. Then at one point our guide told us that the studio receives four mail crates of sample CDs every week, indicated a pile of said crates behind her, then reached in and started pulling out handfuls of CDs to distribute to everyone. Then a bit later she brought us to a bookcase of nonfiction ARCs that the news station had been given to review and told us to go ahead and pick out a couple. At the end, there was a basket of pamphlets and window stickers. I went back to work afterwards and listened to all my new promo CDs - nine of them, four singles and five full albums - and they were all pretty decent. I didn't discover a new favorite artist or anything, but I quite liked some of them. It was almost enough to make me less impatient for the new Homestuck album.
Almost.
Luckily, the album came out that day. The download page was all, "Please don't lick your screen." Bullshit, Radiation! Don't tell me what to do. Anyway, I have some thoughts on it.
( some thoughts )
So hey, that reminds me, I developed some new headcanon while reading about fraymotifs in this impossibly amazing fic: if you assume that fraymotifs have a musical component (perhaps by augmenting the attack with a rhythm and melody - timed hits and increasing tempos and that kind of thing, and increasing skill with the fraymotif represented by musical variations), then maybe those musical components are songs we already know...like, say, character themes. In fact, maybe all the character themes form the musical component of different fraymotifs. And not just individual character themes: for example, Keepers could be the fraymotif for Eridan + Feferi, and so on.
What I'm saying is that I think the trolls' Black King battle literally sounded like Rex Duodecim Angelus.
Almost.
Luckily, the album came out that day. The download page was all, "Please don't lick your screen." Bullshit, Radiation! Don't tell me what to do. Anyway, I have some thoughts on it.
( some thoughts )
So hey, that reminds me, I developed some new headcanon while reading about fraymotifs in this impossibly amazing fic: if you assume that fraymotifs have a musical component (perhaps by augmenting the attack with a rhythm and melody - timed hits and increasing tempos and that kind of thing, and increasing skill with the fraymotif represented by musical variations), then maybe those musical components are songs we already know...like, say, character themes. In fact, maybe all the character themes form the musical component of different fraymotifs. And not just individual character themes: for example, Keepers could be the fraymotif for Eridan + Feferi, and so on.
What I'm saying is that I think the trolls' Black King battle literally sounded like Rex Duodecim Angelus.
