The Land of Wind and Shade
By KDMAnderson
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Cover art by melodiousDiscord.
Released 7/30/2011.
Duration: 3:17.
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Read artist commentary.
Contributors:
- Eston Schweickart eschweic SoundCloud siasinsilence Tumblr (mixing)
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Artist commentary:
KDMAnderson: (booklet commentary)
The cool blue landscape of LOWAS, with its winding rivers of oil and bio-luminescent sky, has always been one of my favourite pieces of imagery from the Homestuck Universe. It's dreamy topography sucks me in, and before I can protest I've been seated and presented with a wine list. "Nothing but the finest fermented crude for you", they say. Well okay. It's not particularly tasty, but it's nice to look at and has a nice finish.
I compose a lot of music for solo instruments, not so much for electronics. When it struck me that I might like to make a tune in tribute of Homestuck, I immediately thuoght of the cobalt vistas of LOWAS. I was playing around with a new tuning at the time (I'm a huge fan of weird guitar stuff) and found that it had the most amazing capabilities for melody and harmony using nothing but Harmonics! Eventually I just hit the right notes at the right time and the piece practically wrote itself.
I'd like to shout out to the Music Squad for being rad bros, and a super relieved thanks to Silence for helping me mix the tune.
Tuning: C G Bb F C D
KDMAnderson: (composer, YouTube, excerpt)
I wrote this in the early half of 2010, when I was particularly into a webcomic called Homestuck. I discovered this tuning and the piece just sort of leapt out of the instrument.
It turns out that this is actually one of the harder tunes in my repertoire to play because it's waaay too easy to cack on some of those harmonics and shatter the delicacy of the thing.Hey! This piece got featured in a Homestuck fanmusic album! I think it's the only not-electronic piece on the whole record!
It's free so go pick it up RIGHT NOW!
melodiousDiscord: (booklet commentary)
There, uh, isn't that much to tell about this piece. I had originally envisioned John sitting with his legs hanging over the edge or something and I have a clearer idea now of what I could have done! But this was back at the start of the project and my art skills were rusty so yeah. Very simple piece. Just the land based off of what we see in the comic, and John.