we make stuff

[rm]

Tranformative work.
Interstitial work.
Collaborative work.

This is the stuff I live for, kids. And I love so much that I got to be a part of this one... Once upon a time, someone made a TV show. And then someone wrote some fanfiction. And then someone else made some art for that fanfiction. And then I sang.

Stuff! (with links and downloads. Sane people with download the mp3; crazy people who understand how much is lost in a conversion to .mp3 from .wav will go for the .wav).

http://concertigrossi.livejournal.com/88404.html

Comments

[concertigrossi.livejournal.com]

OMG I am right there with you. I love you, I love fandom, I love livejournal, I love everybody.

If you could just see the big damn goofy grin on my face...

(I'll change the link to point here.)

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Oh eeee.

It seems to be rare that transformative works get their own transformations (the only two instances I can think of are Copperbadge's "Trying to Communicate and its icons, or cesperanza's "Written by the Victors" and the whole Victorsverse spinoff art/music), but I go YAY every time.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Waaaaaay back I had an HP fic that someone started writing fic off of because of an OFC in it they liked.

And laurab1 does a lot of art for fic.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

This is entirely marvelous -- the story, the art, your voice. All of it. Just glorious. Thank you.

[rm.livejournal.com]

And thank you!

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

This is pretty much why I love fandom. Communication and creativity of art through a common love of, as you say, stuff.

At a certain point, when my life is less insane and I have more time to read what I want and not what I must (Is a lowly poor student alas!) I want to start writing fic again... reading what I wrote for Star Trek ten/seven/five years ago is just painful.

Still awesome though :)

[miep.livejournal.com]

yum.

and, hi, I had never heard you sing before. how wrong is that?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I don't really sing in front of people. I was told for most of my life that I was a terrible singer, then as an adult I took lessons and discovered I was a soprano with a huge belt and a really weird quality to my voice, and I'm still working on being able to do it in front of people.

[mtgat]

So. Perfect.

Thank you for recording this. I cried at the original and I'm choked up again.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of Eowyn singing at the funeral in Two Towers.

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Did you make up the music? It has a lullabyish quality to it. I wonder, do you sing mostly in chest voice / belt? Because the teeny bit of what sounds more likes head voice at the very end makes me think you should be developing both chest and head.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yup. Made up the music. I'm actually a very pretty little soprano (something I only discovered a couple of years ago when I started taking voice lessons), but am waaaaaaaay more comfortable in my chest voice

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Clearly my fandom needs more creepy random melodies.

[dedra.livejournal.com]

That was beautiful.

I just finished watching--all three seasons, this weekend (thank God for DVDs) and read Sandy "In Perpetuity" last night. Now you have taken the phrase, the touchstone and made it into something more tangible, something audible that pulls at the heartstrings and yanks at the gut and...OH.

Then I went and joined Torchwood comms, so I could read more fic. Why didn't anyone ever tell me? If I would have known about Torchwood, my username might have been jackslittleteaboy, you know?

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. For the song, for the fandom rec, for all of it. You helped my inner scifi geek find something that was missing for far too long.

*hums*

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

You know about torchwood_house, right? Good way to find the classics or at least some good stuff before wading out free-range. (I'm biased, as I'm a member and I've been recc'd and totally hope you'll read the 200,000 word epic Kali and I did).

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

This is so awesome. It sound EXACTLY like I'd imagined.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I thought it did, too.

It gave me shivers. It's a fantastic story anyway, but what a wonderful addition.

Your voice is great, rm. I can't sing a lick. :)

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Oh, my goodness, how totally wonderful and eerie!
I will return to this moment in space-time whenever Fandom seems to be made of suck, to remind me of why I think it's awesome.

I hadn't realised how many bytes were lost in conversion, until I saw the numbers. Add me to crazy list.

Thank you yet again for reminding me who Jack is. It matters.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Wordies!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, now you've made me cry.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Awesome! (heh)

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I just noticed that Jack Harkness is included in the litany. How very appropriate.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Original Jack Harkness, from episode 1.12

"In Perpetuity."

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Despite the fact that I have a completely different vision of how Jack becomes the Face of Boe, this has become one of my favorite fanfics immediately on first reading.
The Dr.Temering seems like the sort of tall tale that Jack might indulge in, if only for recreational purposes, out of nostalgia for the days of the Long and Short Cons. Something the face the Face might do one day out of nostalgia or the nostalgia for the nostalgia...just to see if he could still spin a yarn.(Much as, just a few minutes ago, groping for an analogy, I found myself wondering,for the first time in maybe forty-five years, if I still knew how to play jacks-no pun intended.)
My guess would be, because Jack cannot die, that biological evolution starts to take place within his own body, and that over millions of years he evolves into what post Cro Magnon humanity(Earthlings!) might have evolved into, had they not cross bred with other species.
But the physical transformation as a cure for immortality idea is just awesome, and sad, and brilliant.

[shadowedkit.livejournal.com]

Beautiful- I love it its eeriness, and yet it seems such a lullaby that you can not help be comforted by it- wanting to use it as a touch stone.

I love the melody you gave it, its now stuck in my head! (Thats a good thing though!)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[axeslade.livejournal.com]

Just when I think I'm over it, fandom finds another way to break my heart again. But in the best ways possible. This was...there are no worsd. Just wordless squeaking and attempts (and failures) at not crying.

Thank you.

[estoile.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is glorious, on so many levels. Thank you.

(Though I have a desperate desire to hear the full version of the chant, all thousands of names of it ...)

[dedra.livejournal.com]

Me too! I thought I was the only one!

[lone-star-woman.livejournal.com]

I found it soothing rather than eerie, but it was still lovely and better than I could have imagined it.

[silverkit.livejournal.com]

I have two thank you two times over, not only for recommending that wonderful fic, but then for recording that great last line (which made me cry)!

[madambackslash.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness.

Add me to the list of those who say it sounds just like what I heard in my head when I read _In Perpetuity_. And also to the list of those who cried listening to it sung.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

This is awesome.

*does not hide his .wav-flavored crazy*

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

It may be the most cathartic post-CoE thing I've done. Honestly, I can't believe someone didn't beat me to it.

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

That's lovely. Sounds perfect - old and from the future and a lullaby.

[wynkat1313.livejournal.com]

Oh Wow!

a. thank you for the link which allow me to read an incredible story so that I could understand what I was hearing in that beautiful chant and seeing in the gorgeous graphic. Amazing work all around.

b. um... hi... I'm here via temporal_witch and her lovely recommendations for great writers to read :) I've come to poke through your fic list! hehe. hope you dont mind?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you and welcome. All my Torchwood stuff is tagged with torchwood fic, so you should be able to find it. A lot of it is cowritten with kalichan and she hosts those on her journal because she does organization (BUT IS NOT IANTO). My solo fics are all lurking around here somewhere.