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This is part of a daily upload challenge I am putting myself up to for 2024. I am currently a self-taught composer of two years, starting my journey of music theory in January 2022, and I am looking to show what I've learned since then by uploading one track a day for the whole year. I originally started off pursuing this as a means to compose music for gaming projects, especially inspired off the works of indie developers such as Toby Fox or ConcernedApe, however, realistically, I am looking into pursuing it more as a hobby - perhaps looking to pursue composition in a more serious capacity in the future.

That said, I am open to critique of my work.

The DAW that I learned to compose with is LMMS, which I picked entirely because it's free. I have considered options such as FL Studio, Reaper, and GarageBand down the line, though for my purposes at the moment this works fine for what I'm doing.

My music is entirely built off soundfonts which I have shamelessly grabbed from Musical Artifacts. The primary ones I'm working with are the Pablemo 2022, Roland SC-88, and the Arachno soundfonts, which can be downloaded from their website and used in your DAW if it supports .sf2 files - to my understanding, most DAWs should support them.

A piece a few days ago (Conflated Conflict, 10/366) made me consider something. An element I took away from Chrono Trigger's World Revolution into that piece was a high register flute acting as an arpeggio during the more chaotic segments.

I wanted to incorporate that into this, so I started off with the harp to build a G Phrygian scale off of that. To incorporate more contrast, a low register piano was added to highlight the chord notes during the piece. A lot of the chord movements in the piece were focused mainly toward the minor second or the minor third.

I chose a harsh bass to play the bass as a pedal tone, and set up a drum beat to emphasize the 12/8 pattern that I wanted to stick to here.

Then, for the notes, I wanted to highlight a descending lead for the main section with a double distortion guitar for the secondary sections.

I may have been partially inspired by Nightmare King Grimm for this one as well.