HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA
RareBeeph pushed me to attempt this insanely difficult strat which takes a grab off Any%. With a lot of practice, it could be viable in a run.
updated 8 years ago
Originally finished 2021 July 8
Celeste Strawberry Jam: youtube.com/watch?v=v6eyt8iQ9sQ
Sheet music PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1iUEPK0MJL9anP7smt0EwkkXVu_asdg82/view?usp=sharing
#microtonal #vgm #celeste
My 5th anniversary post: youtube.com/watch?v=Ms-GKUZnO0E
#17edo #microtonal #xenharmonic
Check out the musicians involved:
Adam Freese youtube.com/user/schrodingasdawg
Frédéric Gagné musescore.com/fredg999
HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA youtube.com/channel/UC1MiSv1tSpbG7Sjsq5Pngvg
Jama youtube.com/channel/UCrH6pMIagQ_aiczklGwoj6w
Lumi youtube.com/channel/UCPzZoMs2YRIOfgraYQutXaA
Mundoworld youtube.com/channel/UCVyEJRV91D1IQs52K93HWUw
Phlub youtube.com/channel/UC3aMsex4AetDAPayg_LMfwQ
Sevish youtube.com/c/Sevish
Userminusone youtube.com/channel/UCpl1TF4NRddp4E7IdImyXjw
Wrenharmonic youtube.com/channel/UCuwOGzKzP3hfimkGMA-BUUA
Sheet music PDFs: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Vn0B95r6Idxl4188Qz5MiH5sjNW5pug2?usp=sharing
Original track by Naoto Kubo
Video by me
0:00 Adam Freese
1:59 Frédéric Gagné
3:39 HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA
5:53 Jama
7:41 Lumi
10:36 Mundoworld
13:27 Phlub
16:44 Sevish
18:37 Userminusone
20:59 Wrenharmonic
Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=mSwLNTJjFKA
Outer Wilds footage source: youtube.com/watch?v=WX51CL4LCr8
Xenharmonic Alliance Discord: discord.com/invite/FSF5JFT
Resources used: Reaper, Surge, Kaivo
Xenharmonic Alliance Discord: discord.com/invite/FSF5JFT
Thank you for listening!
Download: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809616168331116579/970478272288808990/Xenharmonic_Alliance_Discord_-_Deleted_User.zip
Xenharmonic Alliance Discord: discord.com/invite/FSF5JFT
Drum samples from DrumGizmo used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Thanks to sintel for daxophone samples.
0:00 Slow Push Out Of Bounds
2:15 Mirage Haze
3:52 Monsters Under Your Head
6:47 Through the Ruins
10:55 Into Their Fractal
Sources:
youtube.com/watch?v=_8jrMuVcl48&t=1935s
youtube.com/watch?v=AeANW7wR_p0&t=2210
youtube.com/watch?v=eYJAnXgI0AU&t=1124s
youtube.com/watch?v=5sPcTSXsd1g&t=613s
youtube.com/watch?v=bYdAflf34zw&t=640
youtube.com/watch?v=XI7q6gA4osA
youtube.com/watch?v=iiDASk6gZ9Y&t=300
youtube.com/watch?v=Bf1W-AGlnlc
Sheet music PDFs: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N8J1Y1EA3V8JnmOeQq7Bb2bnVkEwKLnF
Original track by David Wise
Video by me, background photo by Adam Freese
0:00 Adam Freese
3:41 HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA
7:09 Ian Means
11:52 Phlubububububub
15:02 Richie (feat. Sheers)
19:13 Stephen Weigel
22:48 Vincenzo Sicurella
0:00 16Neji Sketch
1:00 Chewing Rocks on Purpose
1:54 Chlorine Man
2:49 Coffee
3:48 Deliberation
4:51 Jetlag
5:48 Lasers
6:45 qwah
7:46 Suling Call at the Gates
8:44 Vs. Though Guy
Crumbling Cave is a bonus track I made in under an hour for my submission to Ludum Dare 49: supasaga.itch.io/crumbling-cave
Bandcamp: supahstarsaga.bandcamp.com/album/one-hour-challenges-2021
Sheet music PDFs: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N8J1Y1EA3V8JnmOeQq7Bb2bnVkEwKLnF
Ongaku Concept Discord: discord.gg/zkJbzAb9M5
Xenharmonic Alliance Discord: discord.gg/FSF5JFT
Diamond-mos notation: https://en.xen.wiki/w/Diamond-mos_notation
Album art by Katt and me
Tunings:
Boat 12edo
Space 24edo
Cat 12edo
City 19edo
Apartment in the Sky 10edo
Forest 12edo
Campfire 17edo
Day Kitty Night Kitty 14edo
Moon 13edo
Crumbling Cave 17edo
Dry Trees 17edo
Stone 26edo
Image prompts:
Boat twitter.com/artemvodorez/status/1354735364817231875 by Artem Vodoriz
Space twitter.com/norma_2d/status/1352635509697355777 by Norma2D
Cat pixeljoint.com/pixelart/63168.htm by Reo
City cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/560271706455933006/805271895267213332/rooftop.png from Katana Zero
Apartment in the Sky cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/369218691818061825/825772358140297226/xe80llv21jp61.png from Loot River
Forest cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/369218691818061825/829767975656489000/il_570xN.455077493_f0oa.jpg by kawiipokemon
Campfire cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/369218691818061825/835969218452389919/maxresdefault.jpg by Tuomas Rounakari
Day Kitty Night Kitty cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/369218691818061825/884525212496982016/IMG_20200215_163952973.jpg by Katt
Moon reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/pfjdwx/underwater by Accodius_de_Van
Dry Trees upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Kuo_Hsi_001.jpg Guo Xi - Autumn in the River Valley
Stone deviantart.com/tomscholes/art/Catalyst-353004500 by TomScholes
0:00 Boat
1:10 Space
2:08 Cat
3:09 City
4:30 Apartment in the Sky
6:09 Forest
7:36 Campfire
8:55 Day Kitty Night Kitty
9:39 Moon
10:51 Crumbling Cave
11:46 Dry Trees
13:16 Stone
In diamond-mos notation, the naturals on the staff represent a specific MOS scale chosen by the composer. The diamonds mark octaves on the staff, and the boxes on barlines mark the scale steps. The notation system includes mos-specific accidentals. You can learn about how to read and write diamond-mos notation here: https://en.xen.wiki/w/Diamond-mos_notation
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Sheet music PDF: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N8J1Y1EA3V8JnmOeQq7Bb2bnVkEwKLnF
Thank you for listening!
Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1fzZ9FXfwDwt6M-PbJq0LEijiD4dOUqcR/view?usp=sharing
Xenharmonic Alliance Discord: discord.gg/VDStATp4NZ
0:00 Falling Down My Mind
3:06 Fog of Time
6:56 Liminal City Escalators
10:08 Neuron Web
13:22 Respite
Listen on bandcamp: ongakuconceptcollective.bandcamp.com/album/surround
Lyrics to "Broken Pillow"
Every morning used to be so fine and now i only have one thing on my mind, yeah.
(One thing on my mind)
Take a shower, get ready to go, turn off the radio it's time to start the show, nah.
(Something feels wrong in here)
want to get away from what's due and feel ok, again.
(I don't wanna go anymore)
Every time my alarm rings i feel a thousand bee stings.
(I want to stay in bed forever)
It is so hard to be astray.
Nothing on my mind, i feel grey.
Nothing flows in my heart but this rain,
time and time again.
It is so hard to be astray.
Nothing on my mind, i feel grey.
Nothing flows in my heart but this rain,
time and time again.
Get out of my head.
You make me lose my tempo.
Want to accelerate
I don't understand, i need to
get out of my bed.
Stand up I close my eyes instead
Under my covers
Will it be over? Why is there
Mr. sandman under my bed?
He turned my eyes red.
I am pinned down, no one around.
That's when I said:
It is so hard to be astray.
Nothing on my mind, i feel grey.
Nothing flows in my heart but this rain,
time and time again.
Tumbling, tumbling down
Tumbling, tumbling down down down
Tumbling, tumbling down
Tumbling, tumbling down down down
It is so hard to be astray.
Nothing on my mind, i feel grey.
Nothing flows in my heart but this rain,
time and time again.
Title: (0:00)
Broken Pillow: (0:08)
Mirrors: (3:43)
Shattering Mind: (7:47)
Moonlight: (11:45)
I went in a different direction with this cover, and I think it turned out pretty well. The original track is short and simple, but still quite harmonically interesting. That gave me a lot of room to expand it and add new elements.
15-TET is very different from what I'm used to. The fifths are very sharp (720 cents), but the thirds are fairly good (320 and 400 cents). Those sharp intervals have an edge that I think works really well for this piece. It's also a good contrast to the flatness of 19-TET.
15 factors into 3 and 5, so there are two symmetries available. The 5-symmetry gives you the equipentatonic scale, which is a very nice sound. You also get the ten-tone Blackwood scale (2121212121), which has five major chords and five minor chords. I didn't use these scales much structurally, but they're scattered around the new melodic material.
The 3-symmetry let me do a major third cycle in the later part of the piece. The chords are Am - C7 - Fm - Ab7/G#7 - C#m - E7, similar to the Coltrane changes with minor chords in place of maj7 chords. I had some fun writing a quick solo over the progression.
These symmetries are another contrast with 19-TET, which has no symmetries. I enjoyed working in 15, so I may look into other similar tunings in the future.
Sheet music PDF: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N8J1Y1EA3V8JnmOeQq7Bb2bnVkEwKLnF
The Phosphor recreation I used: reddit.com/r/oneshot/comments/a47t8y/phosphor_recreation
This cover is in 69-cent non-octave tuning. Though I thought of this tuning system as a joke, there are plenty of cool things about it. The fifth is okay at 690 cents, and the major and minor tenths are very nice. There are also two interesting tritones at 552 cents (close to 11:8) and 621 cents (close to 10:7). However, the thirds are very far from 5-limit just thirds. The 3:1 is very far off, which let me do something cool. At bar 79, the b9 of the first V chord becomes the 5th of the second V chord a step higher. It's a really interesting sound which may be usable in other tunings.
The melody of the original track leans heavily on the b3, so I put the tonic (the only one I have) in the bass and the b3 in the melody at a minor 10th from that. The melody mostly came through intact, though I had to change some of the notes to avoid detuned octaves. It helped that the whole step in this tuning is quite good at 207 cents. Since a whole step is three small steps in this tuning, I was able to use some of the voice leading I know from 19-TET.
The countermelody I came up with is just the bassline shifted over an 8th note, with the notes changed to fit the harmony. It was harder to find the right notes than I thought it would be, since notes get "taken" by the other parts without octave equivalence.
Sheet music PDF: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N8J1Y1EA3V8JnmOeQq7Bb2bnVkEwKLnF
Thanks to KnightOfGames for the drum stem.
This speedrun is uniquely difficult because large time losses can appear anywhere in the run. Dying loses so much time that it's not so much a speedrun as it is a low deaths run. The longest screens take 90 seconds to beat.
I wrote this track entirely in the 14141413 octatonic scale, similar to the half-whole diminished scale in 12-TET. This 19-TET scale is neither symmetrical nor an MOS, but it is made by stacking minor thirds above the root. If you stack one fewer minor third, you get the MOS 1414144.
The 4-out-of-19 intervals, semifourths, are enharmonic to augmented seconds in 19-TET. These big gaps remind you of scales such as harmonic minor, but they're in a context where you would expect smaller steps. I like the feel this brings to the scale. The scale's asymmetry is also interesting, which I play with by moving the ostinato around by minor thirds.
Sheet music PDF: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N8J1Y1EA3V8JnmOeQq7Bb2bnVkEwKLnF
The piece starts in Bb with 12-TET-like harmony. I slowly introduce more xenharmonic elements, culminating in an Enneatonic scale modulation from Bb to G#. After spending a minute in G# Enneatonic, I use a minor third cycle drift to modulate back to Bb.
I didn't specifically intend for this piece to be a collection of ideas from Exploring 19-TET, but since those were the devices I knew about and was thinking about, it kind of turned out that way. You should be able to spot a lot of the things I talked about it those videos.
Thank you for watching.
MP3: drive.google.com/open?id=1smq8PP7l1sy-pFBaUZK2VvWiwu5hAvN9
FLAC: drive.google.com/open?id=1w56vmUbBWJj_uetcMF3ExiPOLePxOU3S
PDF: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N8J1Y1EA3V8JnmOeQq7Bb2bnVkEwKLnF
Download this mod: gamebanana.com/skins/166689
Grabs:
19:06
20:00
47:17
51:26
55:13
While I didn't attempt it here, the first grab can be skipped by a real-time player. twitter.com/RBeeph/status/1020442792454057984
Update: I've done it myself. youtube.com/watch?v=smUBhLPGxX4
Thanks to EuniverseCat for helping me learn these strategies. youtube.com/channel/UCYyRhwAELWfeCp7nMyOBC6w
I did not use assist mode or edit the video.


