04-02-2021, 09:34 AM
I can share a bit about days i'd rather forget. The song follows more closely with my 2015-2018 melancholic style and isn't as jazzed up as my recent sequences.
My main inspiration (in regards to the song and my most fundamental style) comes from Irisu Syndrome. Back then, I used to be a little more sentimental and I felt the entire soundtrack resonate with me in a haunting way. It still haunts me a bit today, but it's less noticeable since the game's music is very much incorporated into my style. There's also a chord progression that's loosely pulled away from this song.
I have difficulty associating music with emotional pictures, but the easiest gesture was inspired by this song at the time. There's a comment about someone contemplating suicide by the ocean and I felt that was a sort of emotion I wanted to convey with days. I'm not suicidal myself but drowning is still an interesting and beautiful thought to me.
days i'd rather forget is one of my earliest experiments with frequency chaining and I think it ended up well. The disconnected arpeggios and echoes across the sequence are straight from intuition. I think the extra notes tastefully set up the broken atmosphere I had in my head even though I had no clue what I was doing. I feel that days is one of my polished products that I've felt the most natural in making.
A lot of people also mention that it sounds similar to the Pokemon Diamond OST, however this is completely coincidental.
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