Violet Mariner (original) Violet Mariner (original)

By Willow Ascenzo wellmanicuredmusic Bandcamp wellmanicuredman SoundCloud YouTube YouTube mousegard Tumblr wellmanicuredmusic Tumblr wmm_ebooks Twitter qubeley Patreon ← Teal Hunter (original) Previous track by this artist → Dance of Viridian and Violet Next track by this artist.
Released 1/5/2013.
Duration: 2:45.

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Also released on coloUrs and mayhem: Universe Aas Violet Mariner about 9 months, 3 days earlier.

Tracks that Violet Mariner (original) references:

Showtime (Piano Refrain) by Kevin Regamey

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Artist commentary for Violet Mariner (original):

The following commentary is properly placed on this track's main release, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A, where it's named Violet Mariner.

7/2/2012with respect to this album —
about 3 months later Willow Ascenzo ✑ Tumblr

Let's talk about Violet Mariner.

I tend to listen to the kind of music I like to compose and compose the kind of music I like to listen to. Before I started composing this song I listened to a shit-ton of battle music from Koh Otani's Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack, and it shows. Oh, boy, does it show, especially from 0:49 onward with the rhythm and percussion of the piece.

Violet Mariner was the first song I started working on for the Homestuck music contest that eventually became the coloUrs and mayhem dual album. It's a song about Dualscar—but it wasn't always a song about Dualscar. No, it started out as a song about John. This explains the harp/piano section, which plays with the opening melody to Showtime, vaguely darting near it without ever actually producing the exact notes from Malcolm Brown's original song. I intended it to be more of a hint of John's original strife theme than a direct reference. In hindsight, keeping the references to existing Homestuck leitmotifs subtle was a smart idea. If I'd been more overt in my references and just made it a straight-up Doctor remix or an explicit arrangement of Showtime, it would have been really hard to reallocate it to a different character. And I'm happy that Violet Mariner is a Dualscar song. Dualscar needs more songs. And also it gave Radiation an excuse to almost name it "Violet Seaman". And besides, it means I still technically haven't used the original title, Heirstrike, yet.

Stay tuned for Teal Hunter commentary on Wednesday!

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Violet Mariner (original) Violet Mariner (original)

Violet Mariner (original) Violet Mariner (original)