Kyoka Suigetsu is a Japanese four-character idiom that is like a flower reflected in a mirror or a moon shining on the surface of the water. I imagined the situation with a rabbit and a red panda.

鏡花水月

fall
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er5x9AeelBc

falling leaf

音楽ゲーム、Deemo2に提供しました！

Blessing【DEEMO II】

華奢な邂逅

憩いのひと時

Rationality

i should've stopped holding things back when there's no guarantee if there's ever a good time to ever show things to the world

things change so quickly, and you may never know where you'll be in a year or two, let alone how the world will be in less than that

..

..

this is a song i made last year, probably one of the only ones I made that is of full-length, and I felt like that was a testament of how life has been these past few years - and perhaps life had finally caught up to me, or I have lost my love for music or both.

i wish i didn't hold back so many of my releases over the years because of short-sighted, ambitious endeavors because i feel like i probably would have improved as an artist way more if i did - a streamline of ideas is way better than the unfulfilled promises, 6 unfinished albums, and friendships lost over the last 10 years.

looking back now, I'm just left frustrated about what could have been - and the lasting impression that this shit isn't worth it anymore. The times caught up to me. All of my internet music heroes are all but gone. The internet music listening scene is no longer how it once was.

I know how brash and embarrassing it is to dump personal garbage onto a piece like this, but I always felt like it was strangely appropriate to the art - I always saw 'keyseeker' as a project, a journal of sorts told by woven stories. I felt like if there was a way to solidify the context in which we create as something we can look back on, we can understand and appreciate things more without falling knee-deep into the cynicism of how the modern audience digests art: there's only 3 ways we take in art these days: masterpiece, mid, trash. And that's the worst way to ever see the world.

I do appreciate y'all for sticking around. It's unfortunate that I still feel so burnt out these days about music and the surrounding community at large - so much so that I hardly listen to much newer music at all.

that being said, I do find this a bit of a cop out for announcing a "new song" when this song was finished for over a year and I just felt like it wasn't good enough. I'll dig up some more older songs and maybe finish some newer ones for a final demo compilation later this year. this will be my last music for a long while. I had so many ideas and stories to share through my music but I personally can't take the pain of lost opportunities, unfinished projects, skill issues, software limitations, and FOMO anymore. i'll be focusing on other things in life after this.

thank you for 10 years of keyseeker. I don't know how else to say this but I really did appreciate everything from everyone. from every message or comment, to every shared experience in between.

I'm sure I lost so many people along the way. But for those unfamiliar, we will end it the same way we started - by quitting when it felt like things had just begun.

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maybe someday, we will take our place again.
but it's time to take the long path back home.

- keyseeker

alchemist's preparation

clock

Purchase: https://sculptured.bandcamp.com/album/our-intelligence-3
Album XFD: https://soundcloud.com/sculptured_jp/our-intelligence-3-xfd

sculpturedは、2024年10月27日(日)に東京流通センターで開催されるM3-2024秋に出展し、新譜「our intelligence 3」をお届けいたします。

スペース：第二展示場2F ケ-06ab
サークル：sculptured (@sculptured_jp)

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falling leaf

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