I have this ocarina that a friend hand-made for me, and I thought it would be cool to include it in a song somehow. It's not in key—she had enough trouble just getting it to make sound—so I stuck to one fingering, cranked up the reverb to make it spacier, corrected the pitch with REAPER, and there I had my Morse code "hi".

To fill in the rest, I played around with C chords in the vibraphone voice of my PX-5S keyboard and added some drums via my Roland TD-4KP electronic drum kit.

I'm quite new to both composing and recording, so this took a disproportionate amount of effort for the amateurish result, but it got me started creating at last, and I learned a ton and quite enjoyed myself. Thanks for listening!

The artwork I made using GIMP with the help of this tutorial:
http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/starfield-tutorial

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