#Regamey

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[homestuck-music-tournament]

Knives and Ivory

Album: Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead Composer: Kevin Regamey Leitmotifs: None Characters: Midnight Crew, Spades Slick

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[S] John: Play haunting piano refrain.

[tell me if the track doesn't work]

Released August 9, 2009 by Kevin Regamey and Malcolm Brown The first ~50 seconds were used for this flash. Well that was a nice interlude. Showtime is such a memorable song, it appears later in different tracks, making it John's theme. Thanks to the Unofficial Homestuck Collection, some tracks even have the artist commentary! That's great, I'll be able to comment on it. Also, piano fingers go weeee~

Kevin Regamey: To be honest, I've fallen off the MSPA train pretty hard. This has undoubtedly been the busiest year (or two) of my life, and I am only now returning to reacquaint myself with what the heck is up.

Maaan if only I got more curious, I could have discover Homestuck way earlier. That wouldn't have change the fact that it already ended (or was about to) by the time I discovered Undertale first (back in 2016). Must have been wild to have experienced MSPA during its inception and golden age. That thing huge, so I understand it can be hard to keep up especially when you get off the train a while ago.

Malcolm wrote the chiptune version of Showtime first. I heard it, dug it, and created a piano arrangement just for the hell of it. Like Malcolm has said - earlier on, we didn't necessarily know what we were writing for, so we just wrote whatever spoke to us.

Creative process can be so various and unique from one person to another. They didn't really know in which direction or for what they were writing, but they did anyway. And the chiptune version came first! Crazy.

Tell me your secret guys, please 🥺

I had posted a "Work in progress" version to the music boards, and I received some positive feedback. Positive enough for me to elaborate it into a full piece.

Fuck yeah, MSPA really did sound awesome! Too bad it closed. I mean we've got MSPFA, but I bet for veterans it doesn't feel the same. Is there a similar platform currently existing? Like you post a wip and you got feedbacks then it motivated you to post the full work? No no I'm not talking about Deviantart, been there, done that. Twice. Twitter doesn't showcase art properly, and Tumblr isn't much for like and positive feedbacks, if any feedback really ToT I have put some of my fan art here, but how to get people interacting with it? That'd always been a mystery to me.

As luck would have it, Andrew was finishing up the first playable page of Homestuck just as I posted the full version. As such, I was lucky enough to have the honour of first musical appearance in Homestuck,

Giga chad energy, what a winner!

but most of the credit should certainly go to Malcolm - for defining John musically at such an early stage of the game, and for being the sole inspiration behind this track.

Man, don't discredit yourself! You still did great, you're on the podium even if you're not first place. Yeah, having the skill and honor of defining a character theme is on a different level. But horizontally I would say. There's pride on both. If the chiptune version is well-known and catchy, the piano one is an iconic powerful track, mixing nostalgia, aimless yearning and tenderness. So much emotion that left a mark in each of us. Later to be magnified by the organ pipe version, by da man, James Roach.

Oh, side note: My midi keyboard was misbehaving when I wrote this, so every note of the piece was clicked into a sequencer. D:

I'm not familiar with such programs, but putting them one by one sounds like hell. Rip x) —>

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[S] John: Play haunting piano refrain.

(Pages including sound will be preceded by [S] in the command.)

> John: Play 52 Pick-Up.

[16strings]

Constantin  Regamey (28 January 1907, Kiev, Ukraine - 27 December 1982, Lausanne, Switzerland) -  String Quartet No. 1 (1948) performed by Meccore String Quartet

I Allegro impetuoso 00:08 II Lento molto sostenuto 10:07 III Allegramente 17:31 

Wojciech Koprowski — violin Aleksandra Bryła — violin Michał Bryła — viola Marcin Mączyński — cello 

Recorded on October 29th 2020 at the "Florianka" Auditorium of the Academy of Music in Krakow.

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Délivrance de Landau par Saint-Just, 24 décembre 1793 by Frédéric Regamey (published 1905). I thought I´d save everyone time finding Waldo. Those two gents were so happy to see Saint-just that they started making out. Thanks @frevandrest for bringing it to my attention.

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JOHN EGBERT BANGING OUT THE TUNES APRIL 21, 2009?!

After our adventures in John's bedroom and living room these past days, we now get a glimpse into his father's study. Unsurprisingly this room is also filled with harlequins, but this time the more businesslike monochrome harlequins, almost veering into mime territory. There's also a copy of 'The Serious Jester' on the desk. From this we could guess that this is where John's dad does the serious part of clowning - filing his taxes or whatever - if it weren't for the next line.

There is also a CAN OF PEANUTS on the desk. Ha ha, oh DAD. You won't be falling for THAT one again any time soon. A severe peanut allergy is a terrible affliction to cope with.

AGAIN?? Is this suggesting that John's dad, through carelessness at best, has been leaving peanuts around the house to potentially poison his son with? Can we infer that his ceaseless cake baking is a sort of Russian roulette, where most cakes are perfectly safe but there's a small chance any one could have peanuts blended in? Is the divide between John and his father that John does whimsical, ridiculous pranks while his father does 'serious' pranks that endanger people's lives? When are we going to meet this evil clown?!

A father without a pipe is like a strapping roughneck without a toothpick. That is to say, HE IS A RATHER PISS-POOR EXCUSE FOR A ROUGHNECK IF YOU ASK ME.

This is the THIRD time an opinion like this has been voiced by the narration - first the tire swing, then the fire, and now the father, all trappings of the suburban lifestyle in which John seems to live. The narrator explicitly calls themself 'me' here too, suggesting a distinct entity instead of a disembodied narration. Are we reading this from the point of view of an entity who is keeping John homestuck, forcing him to partake in all the trappings of home life? And does this have anything to do with Sburb - as someone pointed out on Discord last night, it's only one letter away from Suburb?

I think that captchaloguing a captchalogue card should cause John to open a portal to the astral plane like with bags of holding in D&D.

But the most exciting part of this update is John playing the piano on page 77 - complete with a song playing inside the animation! The song is Showtime by Kevin Regamey and Malcolm Brown, and it's a very pleasant listen. John is a skilled piano player!! Which means that sooner than expected, I'm getting an answer to my question of 'what is John good at'. I can't believe there hasn't been a single mention of music in this comic until now, and suddenly John busts out this simple but lightweight, airy, carefree melody that he's clearly practiced loads before. What other secrets is this kid hiding from us?

The caption on this animation is even more intriguing - '(Pages including sound will be preceded by [S] in the command.)' Is music going to become a regular part of the comic? Is John playing music going to become relevant to the plot, so we'll get to hear more of his songs, or will music be worked into the story in other ways? This is treading new ground, moving Homestuck further away from a 'traditional' comic, which only makes me more curious about where it'll go next.

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SKNAIL - Ouija - Swiss producer SKNAIL is back with a revised version of his jazz combo, five years after the previous album

SKNAIL is a jazz project based in Switzerland, a pioneer in its field: the spearhead of a musical movement combining contemporary jazz and minimal electronica music called "glitch". This combo of five virtuoso musicians, all hailing from jazz, is about to release its fourth album entitled "Ouija". This new opus evolves through nine tracks, mixing acoustic purity and post-electronica vibrations. Ouija is a classic way of entering into communication with the spirit world, a communication modus according to parapsychology without particular danger. SKNAIL however here presents another way of communicating with spirits, with Swiss precision, all in finesse, associated with a lot of energy and emotions, in a clockwise direction. SKNAIL : production, electronics Amine Mraihi : acoustic and electric Oud Yannick Barman : trumpet, electronics Cyril Regamey : drums Guy-François Leuenberger : piano

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Beatdown - Showtime

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Grand jeu de l'Oracle des Regamey, G.. Dessinateur du modèle c. 1890-1900

[regallibellbright]

Sent, Prize Team Lead: *Detailing the many features of the Celeste Deluxe Edition*

Celeste Audio Director Kevin Regamey, He For Whom The Kevin Blocks Are Named: *Casually walks onstage, pulls out a marker, and signs the boxes*

Sent: And I guess it's signed by Audio Director Kevin Regamey!

Kevin Regamey: *Kisses Sent on the forehead before leaving without saying a word*

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Games I’ve played (2023)

I want to start keeping track of games I’ve played and figured I may as well make it public and share some of my thoughts at the same time. 

I’ll start with a quick rapid fire of games I’ve played this year so far. I make no promises that this will be a complete list. I’m very forgetful and may just get bored with this concept entirely.

Luigi’s Mansion 3 – I played this back when it first came out too, but decided to revisit it early this year. I’m putting it on hold though cause I realized there’s a co-op mode and want to play that with my girlfriend sometime.

Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – This game is... insanely massive. I got all the shrines and lightroots recently. After more than 130 hours, I think that’s enough for the time being. Maybe one day I’ll go back for the quests and koroks and whatnot but for now I’m kinda burnt out. Great fun though, really.

Blanc – Played this with my partner for a date night. Very cute, and a good length I thought. The mechanics are pretty bare-bones, but that’s not inherently a bad thing. My girlfriend did not like the wind mechanics though.

Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition – What can I say? I like frogs. Anyone know if the hat DLC is worth it?

Muse Dash – I really don’t play nearly enough rhythm games. It was fun. Though some of the flavor text on loading screens is really fucking bad and creepy.

Tunic – Saw this game first when the audio director Kevin Regamey broke down the secret audio codes in the game in a Twitter thread. That put it on my wishlist for me for a long time. Long enough to forget any spoilers that thread gave me, when I finally played it a few days ago. This game really just oozes passion, and I loved my first few hours with it, just discovering things and puzzling things out.

That being said I found a lot of the late-game combat and puzzles really frustrating. I can really see why people like it, but it was a bit too much for me personally. The mountain door puzzle was great though.

[homestuck-music-tournament]

Showtime (Piano Refrain)

Album: Homestuck Vol. 1 Composer: Kevin Regamey Leitmotifs: Showtime Characters: June Egbert

You may know it from:

[S] John: Play haunting piano refrain.

[S] YOU THERE. BOY. (Flash Broken)

[casualclassical]

Themes used:

"SBURBan Jungle" by Michael Guy Bowman

"Showtime" by Kevin Regamey

"Crustacean" by Toby "Radiation" Fox

"i guess" by James Roach

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Homestuck, page 253

[S] YOU THERE. BOY.

Songs used: Showtime (Piano Refrain) by Kevin Regamey and Malcolm Brown, Harlequin by Mark Hadley Author commentary: this was a walkaround Flash page. You could move John around with the keyboard, click on things and choose commands. All options are shown in the book sequentially, thus making it a pointedly NON-interactive experience. But this really just means you don't have to click on stuff to read hidden words. They're visible already. When you look at it this way, interactive stuff isn't that amazing. Outcomes are hiding, and you have to go to the bother of unhiding them, which is kind of a chore. Life is interactive, which is among the reasons it's such a huge pain in the ass.

You would think that by designating an author-created reader/player to submit commands, the game would start moving along more smoothly. But, no.

This now somewhat resembles an old Nintendo Power strategy guide, with screenshots of the game and illustrations of the consequences of player actions. If this Flash game ever stumps you online, like you find yourself getting lost in the house, just take a peek in this book for some HOT TIPS, and you will be well on your way to becoming a Power Player. B)

11: Also, who wants to take a piss with that weird clown watching? I doubt John's cool with that.

15: John, please. The plot of Little Monsters is not foreshadowing the existence of mischievous imps in your house. It is CLEARLY foreshadowing the existence of an alien race called trolls about 2000 pages later. Get with the program!

16: Critical point #1: WV, the one typing the commands, knows who John Cusack is, which is weird even for Homestuck. (SEE: UNIVERSAL CONSTANT.)

20: Critical point #2: Dave is referring to the fact that the Ghostbusters are always getting drenched in a particularly mucilaginous brand of spooky slime in that movie, carrying sexual overtones which I think we're in agreement would be a shame and completely unnecessary to bring attention to under basically any circumstance.

22: Spoiler: John never does use the towel to clean up the oil in his room. I admit fully, I let that plot point get away from me.

28: "God dammit John, that isn't Michael Cera." Really long term spoiler: In an alternate universe, it literally is Michael Cera.

29: The way the gameplay worked out, most of the time the sprite would follow John so closely they would just overlap. That is one clingy clownsprite.

35: Yes, the cruxtruder is why he is housetrapped, and not the fact that his house is now confined to a small plateau towering over an abyss. Also, he can STILL go out through the back door! Homestuck is frequently host to some of the least literally homestuck children in the history of fiction.

38: "John: Exchange shitty figurines for palm of pennies and kick in the nuts. Transaction favors you overwhelmingly."

40: Hey, whoa, whoa… that last line about elderly wisdom. Foreshadowing anyone???

43: That case full of games: same one used by Death in Problem Sleuth. Wait! Did I make a note about that in the last book? Behold the inevitability of my befuddlement on such matters. I promise, you haven't seen the last of it. Probably half these notes will be me inadvertently repeating book one trivia.

47: Heh heh, John sure does irrationally hate Betty Crocker, the harmless baked goods corporation, doesn't he? Surely this is just a silly running gag and won't come back to haunt us in any significant way. Right? I mean… it just can't… could it? That would be blowing a gag way too far out of propo-oh fuck Crocker's gonna be last boss, isn't she.

51: In retrospect, it's pretty remarkable to examine the breadth of WV's basic understanding of things. He seems to know what a washer and dryer look like, and what they're for. And can give quality advice on when it is or isn't practical to launder your garments.

60: "Although, he doesn't know what a swing set is. Or damaged power lines. Or an electric meter. Or handcuffs. Or a kitchen." Maybe I spoke too soon.

64: "AUTHOR'S NOTE: RE: Cirque du Soleil. Best joke in Homestuck. You may now stop reading, and close the book."

65: Follow-up on the peanut allergy issue: I'm pleased to report it does in fact prove to be relevant later.

66: I like to picture dad first hanging that dumbass clown photo straight, looking at it for a while with a vaguely dissatisfied expression, and then tilting it.

76: In these early pages, particularly with the lonely and disquieting ambiance of the walkaround page, there was something that felt deeply troubling about all this strange harlequin shit. Ultimately, the edge was taken off somewhat when it turned out all clownish roads led to a stoned alien juggalo.

One thing the book doesn't do (or even the site most of the time) is convey how quickly all this stuff was made. This entire walkaround game was made in less than 24 hours, all drawn and written by me, and programmed by Gankro. When you have to write a large amount of text for many different user choices, you start to get very quippy and punchy to just get it all done. But then, that's sort of a stupid way to qualify these pages, since that is how literally every page in Homestuck was written, ever. And also all of these notes.

[daily-homestuck-song]

Today's Homestuck song is Knives and Ivory!

By Kevin Regamey, from Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead.