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

[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