An (Im)modest Proposition.

[catsittingstill]

I just found out there is a (mostly D&D) gaming convention planned in Iraq for the 9th of June, Ziggurat Con.

aylinn wants to include a copy of I Promised Eli in a packet she's sending them (they need gaming books and dice and stuff). I thought that was a very good idea. That made me think of something.

The Echo's Children CDs have a couple of D&D songs on them (and a few more songs that come from other roleplaying games). I checked with Callie, and it's okay with her, so, I was thinking I might burn a CD of gaming songs (Echo's Children, and some of my own, if I find any extras) to go into the Ziggurat Con package.

And then I thought, "maybe some of the people on my friends list might be interested." Do you have mp3(s) of gaming song(s) you wrote that you would like to send to Ziggurat Con? Are you okay with sending them out, knowing that if people like songs on the CD they'll probably be copied and passed around and I don't imagine you'll be getting royalties for them? (Quick warning--if this seems like a great idea to you and you're all enthused about getting started, please don't e-mail me any mp3s yet. I have a dialup modem and will need to make special arrangements to download anything big.)



Do you want to send them out on separate CDs--maybe one per artist--or would one compilation CD be better, or some combination of the two?

If people are in favor of a compilation CD, I'm willing to do the compiling, or to pass the responsibility on to another, either way. If I do the compiling, I will try to get the CD off to Ziggurat Con by May 9th, because it can take a while to ship things overseas and I want to be sure it gets there in time. That would mean I would need to get mp3s from people by May 4th or so, which would be about 2 1/2 weeks from today.

What do people think? If there's no interest, that's okay--I'll just send my stuff.

Comments

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

As I said in e-mail, this will be going out on the cheap side. *Grin*

Basically CD-Stomper labels on the CDs. Then the CDs go in to paper sleeve envelopes.

If it's a compilation, then it probably won't have a very fancy label.

I have no problem buying a spindle of CDs and doing this. I'd planned to do it for Cat's CD.

Fair warning - Honesty compels me to admit that any music provided to me to burn for Ziggurat will be going into my personal MP3 collection.

*sheepish grin*

[egoldberg.livejournal.com]

Although it's not strictly gaming music, you are welcome to burn a few tracks from "Divine Intervention" <http://www.filk.biz/divine.html>.

I understand through word-of-mouth that many of the songs have been used as background music for gaming (e.g. "Temper of Revenge", "Crimson and Crystal", "Survivor's Song", etc.)

In the likely event that you don't already have the CD, reply to me privately (eli at prometheus-music.com) and I would be happy to send you an MP3 download URL.

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

*blink* um, thank you?

E-mail will be sent requesting location & other restrictions.

Unlike Cat, I do have High speed.

I can pull down already mixed info & burn to CD. I do NOT have any kind of fancy music software or studio or high speed reproduction stuff. MSD is very small press and pretty much a labor of love for my husband and I. Although it has managed to provide grocery money when we both ended up unemployed. *grin*

[hms42]

I need a location to send mp3s to.... (or a download link)

Harold at panix d0t com

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

check your e-mail *VEG*

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Thanks Eli! It seems like you and aylinn have made arrangements between you, which is great! I appreciate your contributions.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

So do I take it you're volunteering to handle the compilation? I'm fine with that, just checking. If you have high-speed internet, it might be easier for people to send mp3s to you than to me.

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

okay - I've got the album eli promised - of which I can use 5 songs.

I've pinged filkertom and gotten permission to fill out with stuff from his free iTom feed. (I've pulled every tune off that he's put up.)

if people put stuff on a link for me to download, I can at least craft a play list & burn it to a cd, using windows media player or winamp. Mind you, that is the TOTAL extent of my compiling skills. *grin*

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

_I Promised Eli_ is a standard audio CD, which I assume you'll be able to rip as necessary. I've got _Under the Gripping Beast_ (which I'm sending as an mp3 CD, but if you want a standard audio CD I can do that too) and two separate songs, "Beneath Her Changing Face" and "Wanderer's Prayer" that I think would fit. I'm planning to send those two as mp3s on a separate CD.

If this doesn't work for you, let me know within a day or so--I'd like to mail the (steadily thickening) packet off by Friday at the latest. I can burn standard audio CDs of each (or an mp3 CD of _I Promised Eli_) if you prefer. Or if you really need me to, I can go on campus and hijack my husband's connection to upload mp3s if that is what will work best for you.

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

that works fine.

I was just saying that for other folks. *G*

[hms42]

I just got permission on a couple of songs from Kathy Sands.. Not gaming, but permission to pass the recordings in for this project. (Also working with Roberta Rogow on songs she has sung that I have recordings of.)

I can be reached by email at harold at panix dot com and let me know where to send the file(s) to.

So far, the songs I am going to be contributing are "Woad" (take from Kathy Sands upcoming album) and possibly a star wars based song (under copyright on the music, not submitting.) Lyrics - Anonymous (and dates back to at least 1919 or older) and tune is public domain.

Roberta has suggested a song that I don't have a recording of her singing. (At the Worldcon.) I have asked for different song since the only recordings I have are of Leslie Fish singing the song.

Harold