Episode #130: Electrifying The Thirteenth Hour Theme
https://archive.org/download/Podcast130_201802/Podcast%20130.mp3
This week, we’re making an electric guitar fill for future soundtracks to the Thirteenth Hour books using a part of the theme music. It runs about 30 seconds long and is intended to accentuate parts of the story where a little theme music is appropriate (future Kindle editions of the sequels will hopefully have external links to the soundtrack on Bandcamp or Youtube. Here’s some of the gear used this episode:
Coming soon, I’ll be posting about a little side work-in-progress. Remember when I talked in the past about Hero Forge, the site that allows you to create 3d printed miniatures of characters of your own creation for tabletop games? I’ve had an inkling to try casting little resin miniatures along the lines of those little pink M.U.S.C.L.E. (keshi) toys from the 80s. The first step is creating a sculpt, so here’s a wireframe skeleton of Logan on Lightning. Stay tuned!
Speaking of toys, check out the Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/mom_gave_them_away/ for some great 1980s movie and toy nostalgia. Haven’t seen some of those toys in years. I mostly never knew what many of them were called or had just vague memories of them from commercials or just bits and pieces from various yard sales. So it’s been cool finding out more about these artifacts from a few decades past.
Speaking of which, if you’re into new music that sounds like it could have been from an 80s movie soundtrack, check out the Spotify link in the bio of https://www.instagram.com/ironskullet_synthwave/ – there are thousands of songs there, and the list keeps growing.
Lastly, speaking of synths and pixels, this podcast now has a new logo for 2018. I figured that since fantasy, scifi, and electronic music collide so frequently here, why not showcase these things with background art for Long Ago Not So Far Away, and the pixelart dragon I made for that vaporware Thirteenth Hour game I worked on decades ago when I probably should have been studying for math tests or something 🙂
Title image courtesy of http://www.orangecoast.com/life-style/better-together-best-group-activities-saturday/
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Between Two Worlds, the synth EP follow up to Long Ago Not So Far Away is now out for streaming on Bandcamp.
The bonus track, called “Flight of the Cloudrider” has a 80s movie mashup music video (see if you can identify all the movies!) which is available on youtube. This app was largely created with the iphone app Auxy.
Stay tuned. Follow along on Spotify! There is also a growing extended Thirteenth Hour playlist on Spotify with a growing number of retro 80s songs.
As always, thanks for listening!
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