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I’ve always considered the creation of this song a “classic story”. It came about in a strange, almost fateful way, and I think the final product reflects that. It was the first thing that Radiation and I worked on together, and it was through Hardchorale that our friendship started. He approached me with a MIDI file he had made, intending it to be a sort of “boss battle” arrangement of Chorale for Jaspers in the style of Harleboss. He asked if I would be interested in producing it, since at the time he was just starting out and had no means to do so. I agreed, Chorale being one of my favorite Homestuck tunes. So I produced it in a DAW to make it sound “good”, and relative to the MIDI file it sounded great, and we were both really happy with it. Radiation got Bowman to record some heavy metal meows, which he apparently almost got kicked out of his apartment for recording and claims to have video of, though I have yet to see it. Once I found out it was going to be on Vol. 5, I added a section to it (roughly the last third of the piece) and at the very end sneaked the Squiddles theme just because I could. I realize that was more of a narrative than a commentary, but it’s the history behind this piece that I find fun to talk about more than the piece itself.

6/13/2010same date as this album captured 6/18/2010 Michael Guy Bowman ✑ meows, new Homestuck album!

Harchorale was another Chorale arrangement by Alex and Toby for which I contributed more vocals. The morning after I recorded the yelping and yowling for this arrangement, I received an ultimatum from my apartment complex, saying that if they ever received another noise complaint they would evict us so hard we would probably go blind. I know Richard has footage of me recording this somewhere, so I'll surely post it when I find it.

sometime 6/13/2010 – 3/26/2011captured 3/26/2011 Michael Guy Bowman ✑ Music and Stuff

A lot of tracks on Volume 5. There's a few different "Chorale" arrangements on here, of which I participated in two - for "Happy Cat Song!" I produced and provided vocal samples, and for "Hardchorale" I brought the house down with a series of loud meows that almost got me evicted from my apartment (the video does exist, I promise).

7/20/2024with respect to this album —
about 14 years, 1 month later Michael Guy Bowman ✑ Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music, adapted to text

Hardchorale! They arranged out a heavier version of Chorale for Jaspers, and were like, "can you contribute meows to this?" and I was like, sure! I got a noise complaint from my neighbors because, I think I'd left all the windows open. I was just screaming. (laughs) Whoops on that.

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