Here’s Appearances, my second submission for the #Express_Yourself contest!
Edit: Again, I've really bothered myself by trying to put meaning to something which was really just meant to sound cool. I've left the description this time, but I feel like an English teacher again, trying to put meaning to something which was really just for fun, so other people could have fun, too.
So, I wrote out the essay of a description for my first submission. I realized afterward that it sounds really pretentious, so I’m probably going to change it. I won’t do that again this time (at least I’ll try to).
This one kind of started off like the first. I was putting notes on a page (piano roll) that sounded good, then I tried, like, psychoanalyzing it afterward to try to figure out what it said. It’s the start of a Sonata Allegro, which introduces two contrasting themes, then plays around with them for a while before playing them again so you remember where it came from. It’s sort of a large meta ABA form, except the different parts are made of several smaller song forms, so it ends up being much longer than something like my other piece ended up. I hit my 1-minute mark pretty quickly – it was just enough time for a (truly) barebones exposition – so that’s all I’m going to get to submit for now. I want to expand it into a real piece, but once the competition is over, I’ll see about sharing it.
Appearances is about how people often don’t show you (or, rather, how I don’t show others) what’s really happening. What other people see is the A section: bright, happy, rather surface-level, but what I’m feeling behind that is much more turbulent like the B section. The B section is the ‘under the surface’ that you don’t see in the A section.
I suppose it’s a lot like my other submission in this regard, but it reflects a different sort of ‘keeping it in.’ I keep a lot of stuff in; it isn’t really good for me, but now I’m starting to try to find a way of expressing it.
So, I’ve written another page, I guess, but I hope this one doesn’t seem so pretentious. This one, at least the description I made up for it is a bit more personal than the other one.
I didn’t really expect to do more than one piece for this contest. I really put a lot into that first one, and this one still has a lot in it (a lot of potential especially for the Sonata Allegro form), but it’s a little more thrown together than the first. I’m going to try to work on a third, one which is completely chiptune. It’ll be like a continuum. There’s the one that’s completely chiptune, the one that’s chiptune and electronic, and this one, which is completely electronic, all using the same sort of style and language. They’ll all sort of go together in aesthetic, if not in theme; I’m not sure what the chiptune is going to be, yet. Like the others, I’m going to put stuff down that sounds cool and figure out what it says after! (lol)
-Ri
Edit: Again, I've really bothered myself by trying to put meaning to something which was really just meant to sound cool. I've left the description this time, but I feel like an English teacher again, trying to put meaning to something which was really just for fun, so other people could have fun, too.
So, I wrote out the essay of a description for my first submission. I realized afterward that it sounds really pretentious, so I’m probably going to change it. I won’t do that again this time (at least I’ll try to).
This one kind of started off like the first. I was putting notes on a page (piano roll) that sounded good, then I tried, like, psychoanalyzing it afterward to try to figure out what it said. It’s the start of a Sonata Allegro, which introduces two contrasting themes, then plays around with them for a while before playing them again so you remember where it came from. It’s sort of a large meta ABA form, except the different parts are made of several smaller song forms, so it ends up being much longer than something like my other piece ended up. I hit my 1-minute mark pretty quickly – it was just enough time for a (truly) barebones exposition – so that’s all I’m going to get to submit for now. I want to expand it into a real piece, but once the competition is over, I’ll see about sharing it.
Appearances is about how people often don’t show you (or, rather, how I don’t show others) what’s really happening. What other people see is the A section: bright, happy, rather surface-level, but what I’m feeling behind that is much more turbulent like the B section. The B section is the ‘under the surface’ that you don’t see in the A section.
I suppose it’s a lot like my other submission in this regard, but it reflects a different sort of ‘keeping it in.’ I keep a lot of stuff in; it isn’t really good for me, but now I’m starting to try to find a way of expressing it.
So, I’ve written another page, I guess, but I hope this one doesn’t seem so pretentious. This one, at least the description I made up for it is a bit more personal than the other one.
I didn’t really expect to do more than one piece for this contest. I really put a lot into that first one, and this one still has a lot in it (a lot of potential especially for the Sonata Allegro form), but it’s a little more thrown together than the first. I’m going to try to work on a third, one which is completely chiptune. It’ll be like a continuum. There’s the one that’s completely chiptune, the one that’s chiptune and electronic, and this one, which is completely electronic, all using the same sort of style and language. They’ll all sort of go together in aesthetic, if not in theme; I’m not sure what the chiptune is going to be, yet. Like the others, I’m going to put stuff down that sounds cool and figure out what it says after! (lol)
-Ri
Category Music / Other Music
Species Unspecified / Any
Gender Any
Size 120 x 120px
This so excellently captures the vibe of Pokemon music, and I love it to death. Well done!
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