Music Development Project!

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Music Development Project!

Postby Ainyi on February 9th, 2014, 12:21 am

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Hello everyone! I'm Ainyi, and I adore Mizahar, and music. However, there is not a ton of music lore established in the world. Sure, individual cities have some user-submitted song lyrics if you dig enough, but if you look at our main lore list, music lacks a tab of it's own.

So, I'm proposing something, that would require the assistance of lyricists, composers, musicians, and singers alike! I would like to help create an OOC group on Mizahar that would:

-Take song requests for lore. Have a god you want to worship with a psalm? A faction who wants an anthem? I would like this group to be a known resource for those people.
-Have some dedicated lyricists that write either requests submitted or whatever songs suit their fancy
-Have some musicians and singers with recording instruments that would enjoy coming up with melodies and arrangements for those lovely lyrics
-Someone with the ability to add a section to the lore as a musical database, categorized by subject matter
-Someone to either admin a sound cloud or a youtube so that we can provide links in the lore pages to the audio of songs written.

It'd be great to add some beautiful music to the list of other awesome things happening on this site. I'd love to hear other people's ideas on this as well!

Name Ideas!: Because what cool group doesn't have a cool name? I was thinking something like the Disciples of Rhaus, since he's the god of song and storytelling.

A basic sheet to follow for all interested, so we know what we can all do:

PC Name: Yes!
Want to write lyrics?: Yes!
Can you sing?: Not Really.
Can you read sheet music?: No
Can you play instruments?: No
Can you compose?: No
Do you want to do administrative stuff?: Yes
What's your desired commitment level?: Medium to Heavy for now. When I go abroad, I think I will have to drop to Medium commitment at most, but I'll still try to write songs for people.

Thoughts?
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Postby Stefan on February 9th, 2014, 12:38 am

Alright, let's do it! I like the name of Disciples of Rhaus, but I must mention that in the lore, these disciples are called the Resonance.

PC Name: Stefan Teagan
Want to write lyrics?: Of course!
Can you sing?: Actually, yes, but my pronuntiation is horrible.
Can you read sheet music?: Tragically, no.
Can you play instruments?: Drums, and I'm learning to play mandolin.
Can you compose?: Barely; the ideas are in my head, and I don't know how to write them down.
Do you want to do administrative stuff?: I could try, but I'm not really good at it.
What's your desired commitment level?: Medium, because of real life and stuff.
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Postby Vanari on February 9th, 2014, 4:21 am

Sweetness, thanks for organizing this thread! This is awesome, let's see what we can create together :D

PC Name: Vanari, or just Ari
Want to write lyrics?: Sure, though I'm mostly only experienced with ridiculous ditties and long winded ballads. I like doing music for children, or songs that make fun of other people. :D Wrennie the Pooh, Wrennie the Pooh...
Can you sing?: Yup, I'm okay with most genres, and even some languages other than English.
Can you read sheet music?: Yes
Can you play instruments?: Yes. In order of skill level/experience they are: piano, viola/violin, melodica, guitar, er hu, chinese flute, tablah, oud. I can also make myself sound like a human trumpet or chipmunk but I don't know if that counts haha.
Can you compose?: Yes though I absolutely dread writing sheet music. I'm lazy and prefer to just fiddle around and rely on my memory if it's any good
Do you want to do administrative stuff?: I could, though I am a bit buried under threads with other alts at the moment
What's your desired commitment level?: Medium, with light to heavy once in a while. Depends on what time allows for during the course of a day or weekend.
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Postby Crypt on February 9th, 2014, 8:58 am

PC Name: Crypt
Want to write lyrics?: Yes!
Can you sing?: Not really. I have approximately the vocal range of a typical bass (E2~D4) but I'm not very good at it.
Can you read sheet music?: Yes!
Can you play instruments?: Yes! The piano, one year's experience on the Zhongruan, a bit of the erhu (Just started learning), the harmonica, a little of the ocarina. I can whistle, if that counts.
Can you compose?: Yes. But usually for classical music.
Do you want to do administrative stuff?: Why not?
What's your desired commitment level?: Medium for now. It'll drop to Low after the middle of May and shoot back up in early December for personal reasons.

Also, I do not have a proper microphone, so I will be restricted to text.
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Postby Ainyi on February 9th, 2014, 7:31 pm

Oh yeah. I forgot to ask if people have recording equipment. That's an important one. And skypes, so our lyricists can at least give an idea of the melody they were thinking of to the composers/musicians/singers.
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Postby Vanari on February 9th, 2014, 10:34 pm

I've got skype and access to professional recording equipment. I probably won't have time to skype other than on weekends though >_<
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Postby Stefan on February 9th, 2014, 10:51 pm

I don't actually have Skype, and my only recording equipment is my phone...
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Postby Vanari on February 9th, 2014, 11:58 pm

Haha, well perhaps then we can just resort to sending clips and files to each other? A tad slower and less interactive but it should work.
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Postby Stefan on February 10th, 2014, 12:03 am

Maybe. I actually recorded me singing a song that Ainiyi wrote.
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Postby Ainyi on February 10th, 2014, 12:18 am

Indeed. The recording was pretty fuzzy, though. Is there no microphone built into your computer? That's generally gotten me pretty clear recordings.
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