{"id":25802,"date":"2015-01-29T10:46:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25802"},"modified":"2015-01-29T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T15:49:03","slug":"project-button-masher-sarif-gift-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25802","title":{"rendered":"Project Button Masher: Sarif Gift Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, my goal here is to use this project to push me into doing something new. So this time around I&#8217;m going to tackle the Deus Ex: Human Revolution soundtrack. I didn&#8217;t really fall in love with this soundtrack when I played the game. I didn&#8217;t even really notice it<span class='snote' title='1'>Aside from the callbacks to the original Deus Ex.<\/span>, but now that I&#8217;ve taken the time to listen to it properly, I have to admit it&#8217;s really amazing:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tyG6YMLEWus\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tyG6YMLEWus'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: This is a stupid idea. I&#8217;m not remotely skilled enough to take on something like this. And even if I had the skill, I don&#8217;t have the equipment<span class='snote' title='2'>Equipment needed: An orchestra. And singers. And someone who can conduct them.<\/span>. Here is what I think is distinctive here:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Orchestral instrumentation. Unlike the Half-Life<span class='snote' title='3'>Half-Life 2, really.<\/span> track from <a href=\"?p=25675\" title=\"Project Button Masher: Reroute Kanal\">a few weeks ago<\/a>, this stuff isn&#8217;t filtered, distorted, bit-crushed, or synthesized. Bring a real orchestra or GTFO.<\/li>\n<li>Vocals. I can&#8217;t tell what they&#8217;re saying, but gosh those singers sound amazing.\n<li>It mixes some electronic pulsing with the above, to give a nice contrast. It&#8217;s a blend of new and old, much like the style of the game, which mixed renaissance fashion with cyber augmentation.\n<li>Is awesome.\n<\/ol>\n<p>I did what I could. Here is what I came up with:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/188420111&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it sounds particularly like the Human Revolution soundtrack. Normally I really dig the synth orchestra and synth voices that I have to work with, but this time I have to say the synth stuff sounds really cheesy and canned when comparing them directly with the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>But I like it anyway. It&#8217;s certainly not something I would have come up with just working on my own.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the track map:<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/track_map_sarif_gift_card.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='track_map_sarif_gift_card.jpg' title='track_map_sarif_gift_card.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>What I learned:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even sure what I learned. I guess I&#8217;m breaking out of the super-structured grids I&#8217;ve been clinging to. In the past I usually pick a chord progression and repeat it until the song is over. But this is less about following a pattern and more about hitting all the moods I wanted. I think I have a better feel for building to a crescendo and then bringing it back down. Previously I just did this by making the drums fast and then eliminating them. This track goes through a lot of changes in tone, instrumentation, and tempo, which isn&#8217;t something I&#8217;ve messed with before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, my goal here is to use this project to push me into doing something new. So this time around I&#8217;m going to tackle the Deus Ex: Human Revolution soundtrack. I didn&#8217;t really fall in love with this soundtrack when I played the game. I didn&#8217;t even really notice itAside from the callbacks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}