【あるせしむ ｆｔ. 初値ミク】 DANCING QUEEN

Finally, an upload! Took me long enough. It was supposed to release on Wednesday... Actually, the entire album was supposed to release on Wednesday. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties (DSL was down in our entire area) and general laziness on my part, I was unable to make the deadline. And since my other songs (including some originals and a collaboration with the wonderful Makata Ono) aren't even finished yet, I will be releasing the songs one by one.

So my first "single", I suppose you'd call it. Alcexhim featuring Hatsune Miku on vocals, performing Dancing Queen based on the A*Teens version, originally performed by ABBA.

Enjoy~! Remember, comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Link to audio file: FLAC
The audio file requires the following components:

• A media player that can play FLAC files (VLC recommended)

Link to source package: 7-Zip
The source package requires the following components:

• 7-Zip - for opening the package (free)
• LMMS - for MMPZ file (free)
• VOCALOID - for VSQ files (proprietary)

timezone differences suck.

I just realized that due to timezone differences, I only have less than a day to finish my album if I want to release it by the Wednesday deadline.

Fortunately, the first track is finished. I'm going to work on "mad world" next, since that's also semi-finished. Then I'll work on "OLD PLACES".

I'll probably finish "mad world" in time for the deadline, but the rest of the songs I really wanted to release will probably have to wait. I'm still trying to figure out the melody for "OLD PLACES".

Until then, let the music flow through you!~~

upcoming song releases (if I can make it in time...)

so, yeah... I have at least five songs in my mind that I KNOW I want to release as an EP or whatever it's called.

unfortunately none of them are finished, and most of them are covers. personally I think using cover songs (especially for a producer's first MAJOR release) is cheating...

but anyway. hopefully, if I can finish everything by Wednesday, the set list will include the following (in order of current completeness):

Album artist: ALCE//PROJECT
Album title: First Sound from the West

Title	Details
Dancing Queen	Cover. English. Reference by A*Teens. Original performance by ABBA.
mad world	Cover. English. Reference by Gary Jules. Original performance by Tears for Fears.
Melody's Story	Original. English. Arrangement, lyrics, and programming by Alcexhim.
OLD PLACES (feat. Makata Ono)	Original. Japanese. Arrangement and programming by Alcexhim. English lyrics by Makata Ono. Japanese lyrics by Alcexhim.

The album download will be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. It will be a 7-Zip archive containing the source files (including Audacity project files, LMMS project files, VSQ vocal data, and lyrics in plain text) and of course the final compiled audio file in FLAC format.

Currently I have not been actually writing down any of the music, preferring to simply record it and program it on-the-fly. When I get around to writing the music down, I will also include the Denemo sources. Denemo is a free and open-source alternative to proprietary applications like Finale NotePad, which allow you to compose sheet music on your computer.

Right now, ALCE//PROJECT is Alcexhim, several keyboards, two guitars, and a Zendrum. If you want to get involved with the Project, please send me an e-mail at alcexhim@gmail.com and let me know what kind of talent you can bring to the Project (i.e., vocals, instruments, lyrics, melodies). If you contribute, the name you choose to represent yourself by will be listed in the title of the track.

first post!

well a friend of mine introduced me to blogspot, so here I am. between this and Twitter I think it will become a great way for me to write about more public-facing stuff, such as my musical and computer interests.

speaking of music, watch for an update here next Wednesday!!!

that is all for now :)