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*

[mdlbear]

I don't have a dog in this fight -- the few gaming songs I do are covers. But I think it's a great idea, and when you hear of somebody doing a computer song version let me know. (All of my own songs are published under a Creative Commons license (by-sa-nc with a filk extension), so I actively encourage this kind of usage.)

With that disclaimer, I think a compilation CD would be best -- there's no point in cluttering up peoples' packets with multiple CDs with only one or two songs on them.

Another thought: if all the songs are mp3's you could do a CD-ROM with songs, lyrics, and whatever other web-based material you can get from the songwriters. It would be a fantastic promotional vehicle for everyone involved. (And I wish I had time to hack my current software into something you could use to put it together, but I'm going to be a bit busy over the next 2 1/2 weeks. <grin type="wry"/>)

[telynor.livejournal.com]

I've only ever written the one gaming song, and it's not a D&D song. Still, it's available on mp3 if you want it.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

I have a gaming song, but it's to Erica Neely's tune, so I should check with her before recording it.

[gorgeousgary]

Sounds like a cool idea! I don't have any gaming songs of my own, but I can think of one or two folks I could check with to see if they mind my recording theirs.

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

I've got "Magnus Retail" as several different scratch versions. And then I have the one on my CD.

[occams_pyramid]

Hmm. There's the very silly Mike Whitaker / Rhodri James "Monty Who ?":
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the umpteenth level Lord".

And several of Mike's songs are based on game situations.
He's fleetfootmike.

[hms42]

I don't have any songs of my own, but I can raid my conversion collection if someone wants a song of theirs that was on an out of print tape included. (or if I recorded them over the past year or so at Lunacon and Philcon.)

Harold

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

Okay.

I just received an e-mail from PFC Amberson. When in doubt, ask your customer what they want to "buy". *grin*

He's requested MP3 CDs. so everything is going over as that. which means we can pack more onto a given cd.

Send me links, folks! I'm downloading!