A collection of creature-ajacent songs.
Glint: soundcloud - released 8/20/24 Creature: soundcloud - released 8/21/24credits:
Macronutrients helped me out with the cover out for our track, tweaking the colours + compositon and made the render since my laptop couldn't handle it with its integrated intel iris graphics. + of course a collaborator on the third track. Also, omatsu rendered the cover for the fourth track for me since again, i couldn't do that on my laptop's integrated graphics
writing all this 8/19/2024 12:41 AM, which may be somewhat important context. --
There's a track that I planned for this EP that probably will never be finished due to the project file refusing to open for some unknown reason.
I'm very very proud of if tho, and still want people to hear it. At this point in my life i feel like it's probably my favourite thing
i've made in terms of writing, arrangement, and overall composition. Here's the unfinished version (private link):
also, to elaborate more on the furry thing: Yes, I am a furry. This is an EP inspired by somewhat furry-like concepts that I relate to personally. It's difficult to explain because it's all very abstract, but the best way i can describe it at this early stage in my life is the experience of being in some form of agreement or resonance with the creature that's inside of me. Keep in mind, I am eighteen years old as I am writing this and my self image and general sense of self isn't too well defined yet. So all of this is mainly a rough approximation of something that will most likely become much more coherent as I continue to learn more about myself as an individual.
There's another much more personal inspiration for a few of these tracks (especially Creature and Glint) that I won't go into as much detail about because it has to do with my connection to another individual. But this connection had a significant emotional impact on me. When I started many of these tracks I was 17 and and experiencing emotions that were very new and beautiful and difficult. There's more to it than that, of course. My main point in saying this is that unlike a lot of my previous work, this music is inspired by some more significant emotions. Not to say my earlier music isn't emotional; just that my own personal emotions and experiences played a larger role in the creation of this than they have in the past.
It's interesting to think about how i will devolop as an individual in the coming years. I leave for my first semister of college in a few days from now, which will undoubtedly change me. I'm excited and aprehensive, which i imagine are emotions universally experienced by people who share my current status. I wonder if I'm going to be reading back on this and reflecting on my then naivety. There's a lot of things about myself that I don't yet understand, and I'm hopeful that I will come to understand these things better in the future. I'm sure college will present me with many opportunities to do so.
Anyways, that's enough rambling from me. I should get to sleep, my eyes are very tired and my ankles hurt from sitting on my feet for too long. I really really hope that I manage to finish more of the tracks planned for this project in the future; I personally think that they are very cool. Have a great rest of your day :)
update: writing this on 10/1/24, deep hollow is released in a few hours so i'm changing around this page to include it. Last night i got holes in the sky working on my laptop which i'm excited about; i'm expecting to finish it pretty soon. I'm trying to mix it in my school's studios which is difficult cause I made all of it on my headphones ; sorting out the relationships between the low mids and subs is going to be really frusturating, i think. idk, i'm still a very beginner at mixing on actual speakers instead of on headphones, so this track isn't going to be mixed super well (at least hopefully in comparison to future tracks after i've improved a bit). Idk; i should get back to work i have homework to do. mrrow
update: writing this on 11/18/24, currently in a seminar that i am not paying attention to. just posted holes in the sky; finalized the name to be 'Cloudburst' since it feels a bit more accurate to how the track feels. like a cloudburst is a really strong and sudden downpour of rain, which is some nice symbolism. often times in literature rain represents change. the washing away of the old so that the new can take its place (or something like that). it feels fitting given the contexts in which i wrote the track. it's not mixed perfectly to my liking but i literally have to run this project file in a virtual machine for it to even open (and it only opens like 30% of the time ontop of that) so i think tha the pain of trying to get a mix i'm satisfied with was outweighed by the satisfaction of just calling it finished.