☆ WIP List: October 2009

After reviewing everyone's messages on my youtube account, and read pages upon pages of requests and suggestions to consider certain songs, I have decided to create a 'work in progress' list for the pieces that I'm currently working on. When I finish recording and uploading a song from this list, I shall mark it and link it to the correct video on my account.

The downside is that it's inevitable truth that I can't get to/sing everyone's requests. I receive a lot of them, at least 5 a day. I do my best to read them all, as I check my account mail every two days.

Here is the compiled list of every song that I am currently working on and its percentage to completion:

1. "Just Be Friends" Megurine Luka 99% (Completed Lyrics, need to record)
   
2. "Melody.ExE" Miku Hatsune 99% (Completed Lyrics, need to record)
   
   
3. "Melt" Miku Hatsune 60% (Incomplete Lyrics)
   
4. "Last Smile" Miku Hatsune 50% (Incomplete Lyrics)
   
5. "Linaria" Kaito 50% (Incomplete Lyrics)
6. "Meltdown" Rin Kagamine 20% (Incomplete Lyrics)
7. "Onaji Youni" Miku Hatsune/Kaito 20% (Incomplete Lyrics, Duet Mixwork)
8. "Kokoro" Rin Kagamine 60% (Completed Lyrics, Vocal Mixwork)
9. "Light Song" Miku Hatsune 15% (Incomplete Lyrics)
10. "Last Night, Good Night (Acapella)" Miku Hatsune 10% (Vocal Mixwork)
11. "Double Lariat" Megurine Luka 60% (Incomplete Lyrics)
12. "Dancing Samurai" Gakupo 10% (Incomplete Lyrics, Lyric rework for female POV)
    

☆ Just like we used to be [wip]

"Just like we used to be"
( "同じように") Onaji Youni
Vocaloid: Miku Hatsune & Kaito
Literal Translation: motokokusanagi2009

Love this, love this song. I repeat again, love this song. I requested the translation for future dubwork. Currently working out the kinks and weird grammatical errors in the direct translation. A lot of syllables, not enough English words to fill them. Here we go into more 'improvisation land' once again.

I'm interested in auditioning a male dubber for the part of Kaito in this track. Once the lyrics are finished fully, I'll be placing them in another blog post at some point in the future and will actively start taking open auditions. For now, for those interested, keep it in mind as what I'm considering is a future project. I'm asking that all that audition for this part are male only. Sorry everyone, but this duet is for male and female vocal.

What I'm looking for in particular is someone that is able to hit the higher vocal register without strain on the voice or screeching the notes. They need to be comfortable in hitting higher, falsetto ranges and able to take proper breaths between the lyrics.

I don't usually do duets as I find them difficult and there is much more to creating a duet between two people other than a simple noise reduction and slapping them into overlying tracks. I will be taking into consideration how each auditioned voice blends and matches with mine for both solo and harmony purposes.

WIP-- and will be posting more information about it when it's ready for auditioning on the Voice Acting Alliance community forums.

☆ Last Smile [wip]

"Last Smile"

Vocaloid: Miku Hatsune
Requested by: x1Bella1x

Ah! I love this! x1Bella1x suggested this song to me and I'd never heard of it until now. Needless to say it's being added to my request list. Does anyone know who the original composer was? If so, I'd love some sort of clue.

I started working on the lyrics, but they're not completely finished. I've got an oral surgery coming up, so I won't be able to sing this out for a little while. To be honest, that makes me sad. Also, wanted to say that I really appreciate motokokusanagi2009's help with some of the translation work. It, like Strobe Nights, was another one of those songs that (at its time before popularity swung it into high gear with Project Diva) was hard to find proper translations for. It was all some sort of metaphorical mess that made no sense when it was transposed from Japanese into English.

I'm still looking for the off~vocal file of this track if anyone has it. I can't seem to find it and even my followers on twitter are out on their luck. If anyone has it, I'd appreciate it!

At this time, I don't have a completion date for this one, but I'll keep up with progress reports like always.