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The first half of the album mainly focuses on [[Yin]] and [[Yang]] and the war of the dragons, while the latter half performs a timeskip to the main events of the RU, hundreds of years in the future: first to focus on [[Kari]], [[Sketch]], and the [[Messengers (species)|messengers]], then even further in time to House Abaddon, where the AU mostly takes place. A bonus, final track on the album wraps up the story from the first half.
The first half of the album mainly focuses on [[Yin]] and [[Yang]] and the war of the dragons, while the latter half performs a timeskip to the main events of the RU, hundreds of years in the future: first to focus on [[Kari]], [[Sketch]], and the [[Messengers (species)|messengers]], then even further in time to House Abaddon, where the AU mostly takes place. A bonus, final track on the album wraps up the story from the first half.


As the focus of the project shifted to the story, rather than the music itself, initial base compositions of the tracks were not composed by hand, but rather generated using the AI tool AIVA, then manually re-arranged note-by-note and re-performed on a MIDI keyboard by [[NeonWabbit|Darien Brice Dickinson]] using the Native Instruments Kontakt 7 instrument library, and original human-written lyrics and narration were then added and performed to most songs to decrease the amount of AI involvement in the final project, make it "less offensive to human ears", and have it so that anything inspired by the AI-generated output didn't just "sound like a keysmash".
Early temp tracks to serve as inspiration were composed by the AI tool AIVA using different generation profiles, then original human-composed tracks with the purpose of sounding similar to these temp tracks, and using the same instruments as them, were manually arranged note-by-note and performed on a MIDI keyboard by [[NeonWabbit|Darien Brice Dickinson]] using Native Instruments instrument libraries and software, with additional human-written lyrics and narration added and performed to most songs, further changing the way they sound to accomodate the recorded vocals, in an attempt to "reduce the supposed amount of AI involvement in the final tracks to zero".


The album is to be made available for free, as it is fanart centred around characters not owned by NeonWabbit, it includes works generated by AI, and was only made to test the current process of recording, mastering, and releasing an entire album.
The album is to be made available for free, as it is fanart centred around characters not owned by NeonWabbit, and it was only made as another test of the current process of recording, mastering, and releasing an entire album.


== Background ==
== Background ==
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== Track listing ==
== Track listing ==


Base tracks composed by AIVA (generation profiles listed as genres below); additional composition and arrangement by [[NeonWabbit|Darien Brice Dickinson]].
All tracks composed and arranged by [[NeonWabbit|Darien Brice Dickinson]].


Original lyrics and narration written and performed by Darien Brice Dickinson.
Original lyrics and narration written and performed by Darien Brice Dickinson.