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Hemophiliac

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  1. Weird i was getting some strange server message tonight:

    "WorldGaurd: No defined regions here!"

    This was after i combined a chest into a large chest and tried to open it shortly after...no idea what caused this.

    EDIT: I discovered that i can open the chest as long as I don't have string in my hand when attempting to open the chest. ROFL.

  2. logged on in the first time since last fall, surprised to still see my stuff there :)

    edit: also to find that the game is still heavily bugged and crashes more often then it used to...ROFL.

  3. Yes, and he is well known for a reason. I also don't think composing is comparable now to then. How many composers here actually write whole pieces of music with notation by hand?

    ...I write with notation. Also what's different about writing music now in concept that's different now then it was then? aside from technology (computers)...you're still sitting at an instrument and crafting or improvising a piece.

  4. The melody is reminiscent of a few of the themes from The Incredibles.

    Man you gotta spice up those chords, they're mostly plain vanilla stuffs.

    Rhythms are pretty straight, but sometimes that's way jazz is. (i hate it when people assume that all jazz is swung or dotted rhythms).

    A couple interesting ideas, but could be much more colorful imo.

  5. https://sites.google.com/site/hemophiliac/thatplaceweknewpiano.mp3?attredirects=0

    ^mp3 of piano reduction

    https://sites.google.com/site/hemophiliac/ThatPlaceWeKnew2.pdf?attredirects=0

    ^sheet music

    This is going to eventually be read through in about a month. The mp3 is piano because clearly this has yet to be sung and recorded.

    Things to note:

    -I wrote the poetry

    -The fermatas and breath marks will allow for more time in between notes so there will be more breaks/pauses in there.

    -I consider this finished, aside from possible dynamics tweaks that I may make after hearing it live.

    I'm open to any comments. :)

  6. Yeah, this is definitely the case. I think he may have also redid the lyrics with another choir? (The Soweto Gospel Choir was credited in Calling All Dawns, but not in Civ4). The song was really revamped since (I'd say) he repurposed it for use in an overall album rather than for the opening of Civ4. Which incidentally is why Christopher Tin is pretty awesome--he knows how to fit the song to the medium he's using to convey something.

    But anyway! This is great news. I can't remember the last time I actually cared about a Grammy win. KF

    Yes, all of the songs were recorded anew for this album.

  7. I'm actually pretty certain that the arrangement of Baba Yetu on Calling All Dawns is different then the track found in Civilization. Calling All Dawns is a song cycle and has something of a common motif/theme in a few of the tracks...this appears for the first time in Baba Yetu. So it's kinda a new track because of it.

    Not to mention that Calling All Dawns came out this last year.

    If you like this kind of choral music you should get this album, it's fantastic. I gotta thank BardicKnowledge for getting for me :)

    Huge congratulations to Christopher Tin!

  8. my initial thought is that there needs to be an increase in the overall volume of the project.

    the arrangement is fantastic, you've got your own spin on the melody in there as well as enough of the original to pass by here...

    the delay usage seems weird to me. i feel this way because if it's a "live" solo piano mix there isn't going to be that kind of delay. i know there was some used in the original song, but it just feels weird to have that many echoes when it's supposed to be a live track. maybe take it down to just one or two softer echoes. i can see one or two being actually playable in there.

    i'm not sure how i like the unresolved ending.

    also because this song doesn't go very much into the low end of things, maybe bring this out to have a stronger effect (especially at the end).

    these are pretty nitpicky comments to be honest, the main thing you need to address is volume.

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