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re_alignment_ooc2012-07-05 03:09 pm
winged_knight) wrote in re_alignment_ooc2012-07-05 03:09 pm
Ideas Welcome: Cybertronian Cultural Arts!
Soooooo of course this is Wing's fault. We are not shocked are we?
Since this topic is mostly going to be head canon, I thought we could get some idea sharing happening on what Cybertronian cultural arts might include.
There could be a wide range of things and not everything needs to apply universally. Some things could be region specific, limited to certain universes, or just something your character made up. This would explain why different characters may have never heard or seen certain things, allowing us as players to pick and choose. Likely the more popular ideas would be the most widespread arts/activities.
I thought it'd be cool to form a melting pot of ideas that players could then pull from in the game. I would love to see any and all suggestions! Let's Collaborate!
I also welcome any and all notable references to these things in canon so that we can use that as a basis. I'll try and gather them all together.
Cultural arts generally include: song, music, dance, theater, architecture, visual arts and literature, etc.
Since this topic is mostly going to be head canon, I thought we could get some idea sharing happening on what Cybertronian cultural arts might include.
There could be a wide range of things and not everything needs to apply universally. Some things could be region specific, limited to certain universes, or just something your character made up. This would explain why different characters may have never heard or seen certain things, allowing us as players to pick and choose. Likely the more popular ideas would be the most widespread arts/activities.
I thought it'd be cool to form a melting pot of ideas that players could then pull from in the game. I would love to see any and all suggestions! Let's Collaborate!
I also welcome any and all notable references to these things in canon so that we can use that as a basis. I'll try and gather them all together.
Cultural arts generally include: song, music, dance, theater, architecture, visual arts and literature, etc.
Adding my ideas in a separate post...
I like the idea of vocal harmonics being a big thing and lyrical singing being less common than it is here on Earth. The type of singing humans do Cybertronians might not very well suited for? They could still have choir and opera, but it'd sound different.
Dancing could go a whole lot of places. I think canon examples are all Earth parodies though? I don't know. I can see there being really structured forms of dance, with choreographed shows. But do they go clubbing too?
Narrative dance? A la~ Cirque Du soleil? But less schwoopy and swishy I imagine? With transformations!
Music in general has a huge range of potential. Mostly I see some Cybertronians having a fascination with human orchestral music because there's a certain tonal quality to a woodwind or woodbodied string instrument that they just can't reproduce electronically.
I personally have headcanon that Wing does aerial katas to music, which is rather like figure skating for fliers and differentiated from stunt flying because there's heavy choreography and musical cues.
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I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THE OTHERS but I have strong headcanon that this guy, if nothing else, very much appreciates movement choreographed to a beat - aka, dancing. Other things, too, like katas and scripted combat, to a degree.
Re: Adding my ideas in a separate post...
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I'm sorry. I had to. It's musical bliss, a harmonic kiss.
Personally, in my headcanon, Cybertron definitely had brass, string, and percussive instruments, as well as probably a separate chiptune section of instruments mimicking early vocalisers. Their version of classical or folk music might resemble kraftwerk. Also the music would definitely differ by region, probably depending on what local instruments were easiest to produce.
It'd be remiss to ignore the use of cybertronian animal parts in the creation of instruments : shells, muscle cords, prepared animal vocalisers, even resonant spines. the animal vocalisers is especially intriguing to me because they wouldn't rot after death like organic organs, so you could preserve one to play as an instrument, possibly augmenting it with carapace for resonance.