Cutesy little song. First experimentation in practicing music theory.

Feeling Warm

This is the second electronic song I've ever made. I recently edited it though, because I just wasn't happy with the original. The redo session turned into more of a dynamics, mixing, and mastering project though, but I learned a lot trying to get it to work. The percussion and ear candy in this track are random objects I sampled around the house. In the redo, I added a lot of subtle tonal changes and effects that morph throughout the song, see if you can hear the subtle angels and demons hiding between the cracks. I wrote the arpeggios instead of using an automated arp system, and had a lot of fun with it towards the climax.

This track reminds me of listening to a lot of desert trance back in the 1990's and 2000's, and while listening, if you're not there already, picture yourself under the stars far away from light pollution. It is intended to invoke the feeling of looking up at the stars while the mind and body lets loose feel good chemicals intensely into your system. I decided not to finish this track until it gave me goosebumps and tingled my nerve endings.

Stars Are Brighter in the Dark

This one took a while because of a studio rebuild. The name of this song is in reference to a dream that I had, so I fittingly called it "Making Sense of a Dream." The specifics of the dream were lost to memory, but in it I somehow formulated a chord progression that felt very important at the time. In the dream I only knew the key and degree numbers, but didn't hear any actual music for it. When I woke up, I wrote it down and went to my keyboard, and was pleasantly surprised to hear how the chord progression sounded. It also seemed to be reflective of my mood at the time - I was a bit down, lonely, and in a dark place, but as things became more manageable, this song and I found a catharsis in its development. It's pretty mellow and eclectic.

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