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Sekai ga Mawaru (The World Turns) feat. Momone Momo and Kasane Teto
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Download courtesy of loopproject.com
For SounDevotion Competition Round 62
Lyric cowritten by Momoko Fujimoto, the donor of Momo’s voice! Her blog is http://momolabo2406.blogspot.com/
The primary inspiration for this, besides the tabla samples (a sound I’ve always liked but haven’t used in a long time,) is a sort of poem which, at first reading, I misunderstood: http://twitter.com/#!/momowa_bot/status/131959743072833536
@momowa_bot is a roleplayed account; that tweet is a child amazed as leaves change colors in autumn. After I realized what it meant, I liked it and I asked her if I can try to make it into a song. When I showed her the first draft, Momoko offered to rewrite it; this is the result. I’m greatly honored to collaborate with her.
Momone Momo and Kasane Teto are voicebank modules for the UTAU singing speech synthesizer.
Momo: http://www42.atwiki.jp/momonemomo_en
Teto: http://kasaneteto.jp/
UTAU: http://utau2008.web.fc2.com/
秋になる
紅に（黄金に）
染まる（みどり）
風に（舞い散りゆく）
不思議
きっと、世界が回る
きっと、地球が回る
季節は巡り
織り成す色彩
揺らめく心に
うつろう命よ
—
Aki ni naru,
Aka ni (kin’ni)
Somaru (midori)
Kaze ni (mai chiri yuku)
Fushigi
Kitto, sekai ga mawaru
Kitto, chikyuu ga mawaru
Kisetsu wa meguri
Ori nasu shikisai
Yurameku kokoro ni
Utsurou inochi yo
—
In autumn,
Red to (gold,)
Colored from (green,)
The wind (breaks and dances, dying,)
Mystery…
Certainly, the world turns
Certainly, the Earth turns
Seasons circulate
Weaving colors
Flickering hearts
Moving lives
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Everything Must Change (For You), So That Everything Stays the Same (For Us)
Everything Must Change at archive.org
Download entire album as a ZIP file
Sample audio:
Download Looking Forward
Download To the Last Penny
Download Funhousedub
Download Vicariously Hidden Potential
Download Underproduced and Undermarketed
Download Everything Must Change (For You), So That Everything Stays the Same (For Us)
Download Salud Presents
Download Ice Cream House
Download The Sky Is Falling
Download Looking Forward (Reprise)
Everything Must Change (For You), So That Everything Stays the Same (For Us) is a return to the RPM Challenge in 2011 (The RPM Challenge is a public dare to create a recorded album using the time only in the month of February to conceive, compose, record, produce, and master) and is named after a paraphrase used in the blog Spike Japan (http://spikejapan.wordpress.com) to describe the country’s economic structure.
As with Release Zero, the RPM Challenge was in the same month as Battle of the Bits’ Winter Chip VI and contains mastered versions of some entries there. The blend of chiptunes and samples of varying rates with RPM’s time limit causes a rough blend of sounds and styles, beginning with the eerie and soft and gradually moving towards the tongue-in-cheek only to return again.
I had originally started this project with the intent of using only the classic ST-XX sample disks (such as the overused ST-01) for Amiga Protracker for sources of sound as a tribute to the tracker and demoscene that inspires me to create; however, after four or five different attempts to go through the samples and create a piece good enough for release, I found that I was editing the samples until it didn’t matter what they were or where I was getting them from, they all started to sound too similar. Winter Chip began, so I did the same thing I did for Release Zero- I used my Winter Chip entries as tracks. It took quite a bit of polish and even some rearranging (and retracking) to get it all to blend. Perhaps it is the nature of the RPM Challenge to make records that are rough and don’t flow well, but by taking the challenge twice I’ve learned that there is a feel in working quickly that does not come out when I work slowly. I hope that this work is enjoyed all the same.
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Kyori no Yume feat. Kasane Teto and Momone Momo
Download courtesy of loopproject.com
This won SounDevotion Competition Round 60!
This is the first time I attempted to write a song in a language I don’t speak, so thanks again to a new friend on twitter that proofread and corrected what I wrote. I took some phrases that I knew from other pop music and looked up the proper usage of the phrases, and used them wrong anyway. Maybe I’ll expand my vocabulary enough to write more than one verse next time. 
Kasane Teto and Momone Momo are voicebank modules for the UTAU singing speech synthesizer.
Teto: http://kasaneteto.jp/
Momo: http://www42.atwiki.jp/momonemomo_en
UTAU: http://utau2008.web.fc2.com/
Kiken o okashite
Monogoto o toppa shitai
Ōkina risuku o torou
Yūutsuna kimochi kara hanarete
Tōku e to kōsoku o doraibu
Akuseru o fumou
Kyori no yume
Tōku hanarete
Machi wa shinai
Anata o sagasou
Koi ni ochiru koto o erabou
Tomodachi wa hinto sa
Chansu o tsukamou
Kon’ya no yume
Kyori no yume
—
危険を冒して
物事を突破したい
大きなリスクを取ろう
憂鬱な気持ちから離れて
遠くへと高速をドライブ
アクセルを踏もう
距離の夢
遠く離れて
待ちはしない
あなたを探そう
恋に落ちることを選ぼう
友達はヒントさ
チャンスをつかもう
今夜の夢
距離の夢
—
I want to be dangerous
I want to break things
I want to take a big risk
Go away from the feeling of gloom
Drive far and fast
Step on the accelerator
Distant dream
Far away
Do not wait
Over you
Choose to fall in love
Friend suggested
Grab the opportunity
Tonight’s dream
Distant dream
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SOPA & PIPA
Sites like this one cannot publicize themselves fairly under the restrictions suggested by the SOPA and PIPA bills. I’ve had a song removed under YouTube’s take-down-first guilty-until-you-swear-you’re-innocent system, and the notion that a Congressman can think that sort of arrangement is constitutionally acceptable is disturbing. I worry that this kind of protesting will continue to fall on deaf ears, but if this does reach an appropriate politician, understand that every day that a non-violent demonstration is ignored is a day closer to the day when our activists decide that we should resort to other measures.
Ask a soldier, protection of the US Constitution is worth dying for.
See you next time.
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Adeste Fideles
For SounDevotion Competition Round 63
Not intended as a religious statement as much as using a familiar melody. Debuts my present to myself (a toy stratocaster clone.)
No Estoy Seguro (I’m Not Sure)
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Download courtesy of loopproject.com
This won SounDevotion Competition Round 61!
My goal was to make a song for the “rock” genre, but then I recorded the motif and thought that it wasn’t that hard. Next I thought I could call this a Porcupine Tree pastiche, that’s almost a genre. I briefly considered making it an “instrumental” but it didn’t sound right with the drums taken out.
As for the speech synth vocal, I thought to myself that my grandmother wouldn’t like that I wrote a song in Japanese before I wrote a song in Spanish.
Thanks to nys in battleofthebits.org for help with the melody.
No estoy seguro que puedes oirme,
No sé si ves a me,
pero espero que conoces mi sentimientos y comprendes mi pensamientos.
Pienso a tí, y no estoy preocupado con las palabras ultimas te dijome.
Espero que tú puedes orgulloso de mí.
Hecho de menos a tí.
—
I’m not sure if you can hear me,
I don’t know if you’re watching me,
but I hope you know my thoughts and understand my feelings.
I think about you, and I am not bothered by the last thing you said to me.
I hope you can be proud of me.
I miss you.
Dennis Ritchie, Creator of the “C” language and co-xreator of Unix is dead at age 70…..all programmers owe him a moment of silence.
