Music

In the dark halls of an old fortress under Irejn, a troubled soul searches for the answer to immortality.

The Irel, an imperfect race, have always searched for ways to sustain their transient bodies. Isevr searches for the answers to resurrection and immortality.

Orilfen, the Goddess of Life, has taken notice and sent forth a team of her servants to put an end to his infernal machinations.

This is my first major music production.

It is not technically the first work I've produced, but is the first work I've produced that isn't a terrible shitpost.

Originally, it was intended to be background music for Eseria, but I think it might be too loud for that. Instead, it tells part of Isevr's story.

In retrospect (I'm writing this months after making it), I'm not super happy with it but it is better than what I used to do.

Maybe it's not so intense for other listeners, but I still get chills listening to this. Perhaps it's from the information I have, haha.

I feel like my most intense failure was the voice selection for the lead. It has a different timbre on one of the main tones used and it sounds very strange, and is difficult to ignore.

Additionally, I did not use any percussion at all in the entire piece. At this time, I still had not learned how to use percussion and even now kind of don't know what kit to use, haha.

Nevertheless, I hope you can enjoy it as well.

A daeva lie on the infirmary bed, weeping quietly in pain. Her parents look on in horror as their daughter languishes.

The prognosis is not good.

Chaos Rot. A vicious disease that destroys both body and soul, able to kill even immortal beings.

On her deathday, a miracle - Orilfen herself, in the flesh, arrives to give Nataza an offer.

Become her servant and be reborn, or let the disease run its course.

This is my second music production.

This song follows Eseria, and her rebirth.

Originally, I had intended to use percussion more, but I forgot, haha

This song I think is technically better than Into the Depths, but it is far from perfect.

Nevertheless, I hope you can enjoy it as well.

There isn't any.

This is my third music production.

Ah, a look behind the scenes. My songs usually have very stupid names that get changed before release.

This song was originally going to be Alare's theme, but I think it might be a bit too energetic for a researcher.

The biggest achievement I made with this song was FINALLY using a drum kit. I think the percussion is fine, if maybe a bit too repetitive.

Come to think of it, this is the first song I produced that does not use motifs at all. Maybe that's why it feels like such an outlier.

Nevertheless, I hope you can enjoy it as well.

There isn't any.

This is my fourth music production.

This one is me trying out some of Azali's techniques.

I actually look up to Azali quite a bit, since they're a very great piano producer and I am down bad for piano.

The first song I listened to of theirs was Mechanical God, which is still one of my favorite tracks. It's also the reason I want to look into making break.

One of the major things I was trying was having notes build up on a grand chord, and then stopping the sustain all at once. It sounds so majestic.

I also had a section where I switched to a more staccato method but I honestly feel like it kind of fell flat.

Nevertheless, I hope you can enjoy it as well.

An elven woman returns home to find that her family has been slaughtered by Human insurgence.

Disoriented, reeling, and with her entire world crashing down, she takes off into the dark, rainy night.

As she runs, she prays for deliverance.

As if to answer, on the ground in front of her appears a small, glowing, silver stopwatch.

A thing of legend - the only method of time travel in the universe.

The ability to go back in time, just one day.

If only it were real.

The voice in the watch laughed.

This is my fifth music production.

MAKE A VIDEO, I SAID. IT'LL BE FUN, I SAID.

This project was a disaster.

I decided to make a video in Blender. Biggest mistake of my music career (so far).

Actually making the scene and animations was fun, but the render was so awful I wanted to throw my computer into a blender (not software).

The render took 8 days with 3 computers rendering.

Now, in fairness to Blender, I was rendering at 2160p60 at 32-bit floating point color, which is extremely excessive.

The things that slowed it down were primarily Blender's poor PNG encoding speed (it is absolutely atrocious, taking seconds to encode a 4K image), Cycles's general slowness (although this is fair considering its workload), and the admin of having 3 different computers render.

And then, the worst thing.

The seconds on the stopwatch face were misaligned.

So I had to render the entire thing again.

Ironic that a song about time would end up having its project run far behind schedule, haha.

This project at its height used 12 TB of storage. After significant amounts of paring down the data, I was able to get it down to 3.5 TB.

Anyway about the song!!

I actually quite like this song. I would probably give it an 8 on 10. The song itself was so quick to make compared to the video, haha.

I finally used the drum kits sensibly! I hope it sounded good.

Doing the choppy effect near the beginning of the song was a great idea because it made the reveal way cooler.

About the video editing

I used KDenLive to edit this song (as I do with all my videos since for some reason DaVinci doesn't like me), and had originally intended to use a lot more effects.

Unfortunately, KDenLive doesn't actually ship with a lot of distort effects, and the effects they give aren't really that good.

I guess that's what I get for using free software and expecting a lot, haha.

I used Vegas Pro previously, but since it can't open or encode AV1 video, it's not really suitable anymore.

I never really looked into its effects anyway.

This is the second song you've seen Idenic text in, but the first that's actually in the Idenic font.

(The first time was in Into the Depths.)

I had to actually write text and then translate it into Idenic.

It was fun to translate it but I'm a little worried as the language develops it'll become incorrect haha

Nevertheless, I hope you can enjoy it as well.