The Original Soundtrack for The Long Development, a mod project for The Long Dark

The Long Development Soundtrack

Shadow of the Rig

Symphony 1

Beethoven would neverrr. he's dead and i win.

Symphony 2

Piano Piece Maybe

Pois'n

There will be track art later but I feel really excited to finally get this out. i've been working on this piece on and off for 2 years and I think its the best electronic piece I've made so far. I think I'm starting to find my production style here :)

-Commentary-
This piece is a reimagining of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D as a Party song. I took inspiration from F-777, specifically the "Let's Freaking Party" album. I use three important motives from that piece and morph them into something completely different, but still reminiscent. The motives in question are the opening of the toccata, the theme of the fugue, and the top voice from the first sequence in the fugue. The year in the title is the furthest back estimate to when this piece may have been composed. the range is huge so I wasn't sure what year to pick. I decided the edges should probably be more recognizable vs leaning further into the pun with 1799.

Party like its 1705

Title Sequence Sample

This was way earlier in the year. I started getting more bold with my choices musically, hence the jarring, double-time chorus. Wrote this weird signalling nonsense cuz I spend a lot of time in my community and got tired of the internet discourse of people with no life experience wondering what gay people who don't go to clubs do. We read and play tabletop games, like any other introvert, and if we ever want to go get involved in the community we go to our local org. Pretty simple. So anyway I had spent a lot of time learning more synthesis techniques and writing more music that I could throw away or use. This one managed to become a finished song.

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Lyrics

[[Brunch party. Concert. Party at this bar. Concert. Party at this club. Concert. For real where to the quiet gays go?]]

In my house recovering from cannabis addiction
Fantasizing how we’ll be remodeling the kitchen
Switching up the business model of my life’s work
Telling people in my circle its okay to be a jerk
You go to too many parties, you’re saying yes too much
I’m being queer in suburbia so I might be out of touch
With the problems of the youths on the street today
But someone’s got to organize the pride parade

You say there’s nothing to do
You know there’s work to be done
You say you want community
But you stick with number one
Where do the quiet gays go
When they wanna have fun
I’m at the queer activity night
playing MASH with everyone

Out at the coffee shop talking about the state of the world
With my poly friend who thinks it’s weird I stick with one girl
Walking down the street to spend all of my money on books
Dressed like a time traveling punk and getting all the dirty looks
I got three queer orgs all out here want a piece of me
protesting at the tesla dealer it’s how  I'm having fun for free 
Last week I started helping with the homeless at the church
Bitch we’re the quiet gays and we’re the ones out doing all the work

I got a potluck on saturday and a movie night next week
To break up the monotony of the havoc which I wreak
On the systems you’re so conscious of when you talk online
I’m busy mobilizing anarchists I haven't got the time
When I get home I’m reading Graeber if the energy wills
Else  I'm at the furry tf2 game racking up the kills
When  I'm done with that I think I'll go and have a little snack
Then bed early, cuz tomorrow we’ll be working on a track

You say there’s nothing to do
You know there’s work to be done
You say you want community
But you stick with number one
Where do the quiet gays go
When they wanna have fun
I’m blading at the roller rink
Going in circles with everyone

I’m staying in, lock myself in the studio till  I'm ready
synthesizing freaky noises that make you unsteady
Writing music that will sit on my drive till I think it’s right
Sometimes working on this indie shit is how I like to fight
Electronic internet music it made me who I am
Freely sat at my computer with a keyboard in my hand
Can’t go out, last thursday I hurt my knee on roller blades
Hey everyone check out this cool sound I just made

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LINKS

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Gay Quietly

This is Percy Aldridge Grainger, an Australian composer, playing and singing an arrangement of "Rufford Park Poachers". This was a recording to aid the band director who premiered the work in 1939.

Percy Grainger (Harmonium) Rufford Park Poachers

This is Percy Aldridge Grainger, an Australian composer, playing and singing an arrangement of "Lord Melbourne". This was a probably a recording to aid the band director who premiered the work in 1939.

Title Sequence Sample

Krista Antenucci

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