I bet you all forgot

starry_sea was even here! Because I've been neglecting it shamefully!

Well, for 3WfDW I have finally finished a fanmix I've only been working on since I started the community: the fanmix for Diane Duane's novel The Wounded Sky.

I say "fanmix", but it's really much more a Fan Soundtrack, because as usual, I went way overboard and put in an audio track for every major event in the book. Since this is a story that's full of music beginning to end, it seemed necessary.

This is possibly the geekiest mix I have ever made. I should probably warn that as a result it contains some music that is very strange, and some music that is very Christian (although I hope not strange in an unlistenable way and not Christian in a way that would be unfamiliar to fans of the book.)

Dragline Silk: FST for The Wounded Sky

Dragline Silk: A Fanmix for The Wounded Sky

Tracklist for Dragline Silk (transcript below)

Click here to download the full Dragline Silk mix (anentropia.zip) (85 mb, should fit on one audio CD)

Liner Notes

(Artist names link, when possible, to official websites. Song titles link, when possible, to legal downloads or streams of the song.)

Meet the Enterprise
Enterprise, Starship
sung by wintercreek
words by Diane Duane
music by John Denver

And though we are strangers in your silent spaces, / While we're in your world we can learn from your night, / To be constant as stars, to reach ever outward, / Laughing and loving and *being* the light! --

The New Inversion Drive
A Glorious Dawn
Music and mix by John Boswell and Symphony of Science
Words by Carl Sagan (feat. Stephen Hawking)

A still more glorious dawn awaits / Not a sunrise, but a galaxyrise / A morning filled with 400 billion suns / The rising of the milky way

Docking at StarBase18
Spidroin: Dragline Silk
Music by the power of evolution
Made audible by Dr. Mary Anne Clark

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(AGQGGYGGLGSQG)
[SGRGGLGGQGAGAAAAAAGGAGQGGLGGQGAGQGAGAAAAAAGG]

K't'lk gives a briefing
Entropy
Sung by MC Hawking
(with assistance from Ken Lawrence)

That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y, / the reason why the suns will one day all burn out and die. / Order from disorder is a scientific rarity, / allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.

First Inversion
Shelob's Lair
Music by Howard Shore
Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra

O Elbereth Starkindler / from heaven gazing far, / to thee I cry now beneath the shadow of death. / O look towards me, Everwhite.

Enterprise destroys the Klingons / Second Inversion
Control
Music by Poe (feat. Tad Danielewski)

Come a little bit closer / Let me look at you / I gave you the benefit / Of the doubt it's true / But keep in mind my darling / Not every saint is a fool

The Wolf-Rayet Star
Why Does the Sun Really Shine?
Music by They Might Be Giants

The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma / The sun's not simply made out of gas, no, no, no

An Evening in the Captain's Cabin
Life After Death (and Taxes)
Music by Relient K

Never forget / there's life after death and taxes / and forgiveness comes / and all of the rest / is what passes away / Death and decay can't touch us now

Third Inversion
Creation Dream
Music by Bruce Cockburn

Lines of power / Bursting outward / Along the channels of your song

Anentropia
Dark Star
Music by Mike Oldfield

~~~~tubular bells~~~~~

Fourth Inversion
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Sung by Angelique Kidjo
Original by Jimi Hendrix

Well I stand up next to a mountain / Chop it down with the edge of my hand / Pick up the pieces and make an island / Might even raise a little sand

Fifth Inversion
One Voice
Music by the Wailin' Jennys

This is the sound of all of us / Singing with love and the will to trust / Leave the rest behind it will turn to dust

Uphill Going
Walk Over God's Heaven
Traditional African-American Spiritual
Performed by the Apollo Jubilee Quartette

Gonna put on our shoes / We gonna walk / We gonna talk / All over God's Heaven

Gestalt
Feelin' Good
Words by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse
Vocals by Nichelle Nichols

Birds flying high you know how I feel / Sun in the sky you know how I feel / Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel

Meeting the Great We Is
The Laws Have Changed
Music by The New Pornographers

Sing all hail, what'll be revealed today / when we peer into the great unknown

The Gift of Multiplicity
Build God, Then We'll Talk
Performed and arranged by the Vitamin String Quartet
Composed by Panic! At the Disco

Raindrops on roses and the girls in white dresses / And sleeping with the roaches and taking best guesses

Singing the Universe
When Long Before Time
Performed by the congregation of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church,
Words and Music by Peter Davison

When long before time and the worlds were begun, / When there was no earth and no sky and no sun, / And all was deep silence and night reigned supreme, / And even our Maker had only a dream—-

K't'lk's Apotheosis
Stedman Cinques
Music by mathematical permutation
Performed by the Surfleet Bells ringers

12, 12-0-9 in F

Coming Home
Woodstock
Music by Joni Mitchell

We are stardust / We are golden / And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

K's't'lk Hatches
It's Going to Take Some Time This Time
The Carpenters

So it's one more round for experience / and I'm on the road again / and it's going to take some / time this time

Proceedings of the Vulcan Science Academy
Acts of Creation
Echo's Children

We are reaching for perfection, and it's not beyond our scope: / Every act of creation is an act of hope.

Bonus Track
I keep thinking I should put David Bowie's Glass Spider on here, but I was always stymied by the fact that I can't stand that song, or, in fact, that entire album. So you can just pretend, if you want!

...if anyone wants the even more ridiculously expanded expanded liner notes, with full commentary on all the song choices, just let me know ^_^;;;

A Fanmix for "The Wounded Sky"

Dragline Silk: FST for The Wounded Sky

Liner Notes

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