Lorem Ipsum
Posted by virt on April 23rd, 2009 filed in Demoscene, Music, Music Release, Original (Full Production) SongsI wrote this as my entry for Blockparty 2009’s Music competition, in which it won first place. It’s supposed to be a “placeholder” theme song for a futuristic anime series with a sort of apocalyptic vibe. This is my first released song using Yamaha’s VOCALOID2 software, and also my first “singing choir” using Quantum Leap Symphonic Choirs, which I bought in 2006 but still hadn’t really explored. It’s incredible, as you can hear. The lyrics are also available. For anyone who doesn’t know what “Lorem Ipsum” means, read this for an explanation!
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April 23rd, 2009 at 8:31 pm
[...] out I won first place in both Music compos (Regular Music: Lorem Ipsum and Oldschool Music: Micro Media Broth), which shocked me because the competition consisted of [...]
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Nice work. Dig the Vocaloid stuff. Wouldn’t mind hearing more of it.
April 24th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Haha excellent tune! After all the endless sea of bandwagon crap that she’s been spewing out lately, it’s about time someone with REAL skill made Hatsune Miku interesting to listen to again.
April 24th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Good stuff, Jake! Congrats on your first place win.
April 24th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
And today I actually thought of the combination virt + Hatsune. Strange coincidence, but I can live with it if it sounds like this!
April 27th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Great guitar solo! <3
April 29th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Wow! This use of Vocaloid is superb! You don’t happen to have some “tutorial vsq’s” to share with those of us that can’t seem to get past the uncanny valley in V2?
April 29th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
That pretty much blew me away. Something about Vocaloid stuff is quite haunting, and very interesting to hear it in this kind of song.
May 9th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Damn virt, this is exquisite. For years I have been walking around cursing the world for the lack of new, good music and then suddenly I just stumble in on your website to find a dozen of breath taking pieces.
This one was the one which impressed me the most. I must have listened to it at least 20 times by now and I’m not planning to stop. Your melodies are always original and never similar to anything that I have ever heard. I love the chord progression, especially at around 52 seconds, but overall the arrangement and structure of the song just amazes me. Great work and thank you for bringing this to my speakers.
By the way, we have spoken before, long ago on IRC. I think I used the nickname WhiteEdge, brother of another guy you know unless he’s lying about it. Pleasure to hear your music again.
May 14th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Oh, man, once I read the lyrics I started laughing. Beautiful! ♥
May 15th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Awesome as always, melodic and original. Dude i’m amazed by your polyvalence. Nice work!
May 24th, 2009 at 3:52 am
mate, this is full of awesome :o
June 5th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I just finished listening to this and all I have to say is: WOW!
Seriously, dude, I’m not surprised this won at all. Even given the bias I have, I haven’t (and don’t think I can) listened to any of the other entries. But, that aside, I have to say that this would have most likely been my favorite, hands down.
Keep doin’ what you do best man, it’s awesome. ^_^
(and yes, I do realize that I’m posting a little more than a month since the last post, but I don’t care. It’s that awesome!)
June 10th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
THIS IS GOLD. i cannot stop listening to this, over and over, im usually not the one for this kind of “choir” type epic rock, but you HAVE TO DO MORE OF THIS!!! its so epic, i cannot begin to explain
let’s just say i get goosebumps everytime i hear it : P great stuff man, and keep up the great chiptunes also!!
June 15th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Fantastic! Probably my new fav original from ya :) Music, production, QLSO and Hatsune and INSANE LYRICAL CONCEPT: everything rules! I love it, I love you ;)
June 30th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Game over! You just won the internets.
August 5th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Damn, just amazing realy im just getting started with vocaloid2 but hearing your music here does inspire me to get cooking with it for real!
August 6th, 2009 at 12:05 am
did you play the guitar on this, or was that MIDI as well
August 15th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Absolutely beautiful
I really want to get into scoring video game music. I started out playing bass and picked up guitar. A friend at berklee showed me your stuff man it’s amazing.
Got any tips for anyone starting out!? I’ve got so much to learn about composing…I guess I could transcribe your stuff to learn…Man such beautiful melodies in this song! It’s brilliant!
Oh I picked up EWQL Silk and SD2, trying to get used to using them through Logic 8 :/
September 1st, 2009 at 10:25 am
hahaha you’re just too good its incredible xD
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 am
No words can describe how awesome this song is. I haven’t been able to stop listening to it, ever since my brother showed me it.
Keep up the awesome work, Virt.
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December 11th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Well done, you’ve made my day!
Incredible sound, very unique. In short, I love it.
February 4th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
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