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YuleTunes minichallenge - let's get carolling!
Hi there! Are you the sort of Yuletide-r that enjoys ballads, songs, ditties, tunes, and/or filks of any type? That's where this challenge comes in. This is for you. This is a Yuletide minichallenge for people who want to write and receive music-y related content of any sort.
This could be filk, pastiches of already-existing songs, lyrics set to instrumental tunes from the source canon (or otherwise), a score or visual representation of a composition, completely original songs (whether that ends up being just lyrics written on their own, or an audio recording of an original song), or any sort of original composition. The sky’s the limit, just as long as it’s music-related.
EDIT: yhlee in the comments has compiled an excellent list of composition resources for people who may be new to it!
This could be filk, pastiches of already-existing songs, lyrics set to instrumental tunes from the source canon (or otherwise), a score or visual representation of a composition, completely original songs (whether that ends up being just lyrics written on their own, or an audio recording of an original song), or any sort of original composition. The sky’s the limit, just as long as it’s music-related.
To get involved, just leave a comment below with the following –
AO3 Name:
Letter Link:
Fandoms you’re interested in receiving YuleTunes for:
Prompts!: (and if there’s any specific sort of YuleTunes gift that you don’t want, mention it here)
...And add ‘YuleTunes’ to the tags if/when you post, so we can all find it. Happy filking.
EDIT: yhlee in the comments has compiled an excellent list of composition resources for people who may be new to it!
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Letter Link: https://lurking-latinist.dreamwidth.org/18150.html
Fandoms you’re interested in receiving YuleTunes for: Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully
Prompts!: For WtOVPIC, I suggested more of Lucy’s protest songs (as in “Questioning Loyalties”).
I would be happy to receive gifts in music format in any of my other fandoms (Game of Rassilon, Thieves and TARDISes, Doctor Who: Unbound: Doctor of War, The Prisoner [1969]), if you’re inspired, but I don’t have specific prompts.
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Letter Link: https://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/4380721.html
Fandoms you’re interested in receiving YuleTunes for:
Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber
Fallen London
Fighting Fantasy
For a Change (Interactive Fiction)
Galatea - Emily Short
SoftBank’s Next 30-Year Vision
Prompts!: (and if there’s any specific sort of YuleTunes gift that you don’t want, mention it here)
- Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber
I'd love any sort of music/song or fragment inspired by this, or that reimagines it - what would "Adagio for Strings" sound like in subtractive synthesis, or arranged for xylophones and sped up to allegro con fuoco? Go wild.
- Fallen London
- Fighting Fantasy
- For a Change (Interactive Fiction)
- Galatea - Emily Short
These are all games or game-adjacent - perhaps a "game soundtrack" (anything from a five-second GAME OVER/YOU HAVE DIED sting to a piece inspired by a game event) or a filk/song lyrics.
- SoftBank’s Next 30-Year Vision
Okay, I am open to anything here but I think filk lyrics/a filk song of the SoftBank Future could be SUPER DUPER HILARIOUS. :D :D :D A chiptunes/vocaloid/speech synthesis approach could be especially funny.
DNWs: I find it hard to listen to noise/glitch and shouting/screaming types of music/songs, and I struggle with atonal/twelve-tone row music - they're completely valid musical forms/techniques, but they're not for me, sorry!
NOTE #1: I love music and composing, and I promise I will love anything besides the DNWs that you're moved to do! Please don't worry about skill level or fancy sound libraries or software or fancy instruments or whatever (although those things can be fun too). I spent a terrifying amount of time in General MIDI and will happily listen to General MIDI. I think the jaw harp and the harmonica and ukulele are great instruments. (And if you can actually sing, you're way ahead of me. :p) Aleatory or procedurally generated music, sure! Whatever you want to try, go for it!
I read Western music notation (but not shapenotes or guitar/other tablature, sorry!); I can read soprano, alto, and bass clefs, and movable C more generally if I really have to; I'm comfortable with the most common transposing orchestral instruments.
NOTE #2 for people who want to try computer music and aren't sure where to start:
- For iPad/Mac users, Garageband is a pretty good starting place. Have some fun with loops!
Record notes with the keyboard or draw them into the piano roll!
- Alternately, if you read music and want to score traditionally (cf. engraving) and have an iPad or Android device, Notion Mobile is free (paid upgrades to e.g. handwriting recognition, extra sounds/instruments). You can export the sheet music (e.g. as a PDF) or the music (e.g. as mp3).
- Here's a roundup of some free web-based DAWs (DAW = digital audio workstation).
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In general, if you have a DAW with VST support, Googling something like "free synth VST" or "free [insert instrument here] VST" will usually find you stuff. There are some very capable free synths out there if you like to do electronica!
Okay, shutting up now. :)
ETA: MIDI computer music (what I do) has a LOT of weird terminology and technical stuff. If you're making music for someone who is not me, please feel free to ping me (deuceofgearsart at gmail dot com) and I will be happy to help troubleshoot or walk you through some of this stuff, schedule permitting. :) Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with straight-up audio (the kind of stuff you would do with an audio interface and mics and recording live sound) so I can't help there.
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Letter Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRC0fWuyuGzSnztv-QMsXS00pspUkd9aDTon5IsW00bXb5G8Yv-_TNRVBFX-FiqU5EWRZ1YPvHuc5nM/pub
Fandoms you’re interested in receiving YuleTunes for: The Game of Rassilon (Podcast), Murder! at the Circus: The Ballad of Amber de Lune - UWA Pantomime Society, What Did Veronica Dream Of (Video Game)
Prompts:
- Game of Rassilon - I've heard a lot of very good fansongs for characters in other roleplaying podcasts, and I think I'd really love it if some of the characters from this one got songs of their own. I wish I had more to say on the matter.
- Murder! at the Circus really lends itself to more canon-typical Panic! At The Disco filks and covers, because... well, it is a musical pantomime. I'd love to see more in that vein.
- There's definitely some sort of creepy and surreal song to be made out the events in What Did Veronica Dream Of. I've always loved the lightly ominous sound design of this game, maybe something expanding on or playing with that?
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(Anonymous) 2022-10-28 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)Letter Link: https://trisshawkeye.tumblr.com/post/697952407797235712/yuletide-2022
Fandoms: High Noon Over Camelot, Ya Boy Kongming!
Prompts: HNOC is an album of filk already - if you want to write more filk in the same setting (a la Pellinore and the Beast from Tales To Be Told), I would love that!
For YBK! there's scope for writing more Eiko songs (or Azalea songs, or further Three Kingdoms-themed rap battles?) Or set Kongming up against an entirely different music genre!
Musical content more than welcome for the other fandoms - I don't have any specific prompts though.
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Letter Link: https://tagset2022.firebaseapp.com/#/user/htbthomas
Fandoms you’re interested in receiving YuleTunes for: Abbott Elementary, Ghosts (US TV), Resident Alien
Prompts!:
**Abbott Elementary:
-Janine directs a teacher choir at the holiday concert.
-Jacob creates a corny parody that he asks Janine's help with; Gregory reacts
**Ghosts (US TV)
-Alberta sings for Pete/the group, his reaction gives away his feelings
-Pete can actually sing! Alberta overhears him practicing something for her.
**Resident Alien
-What would an alien lullaby sound like?