Cards & Liner notes
About Game Pop 2 (Click here and can see liner notes.)
Dazzling City
This tune is the beginning of the "Game Pop 2" and I find it has a similar feature to "Game Nostalgia", the first track of the "Game Pop".
"Game Nostalgia" was made with only 4 tones, and "Dazzling City" was made with only a 4-bar basic phrase. I considered how I let these simple materials live.
Although in the same gorgeous night city, views would be changed by locations or neon signs turning - that's what I wanted to express.
So I varied repeats of the same phrase with the arrangement.
Exotic Remains
Let's imagine ancient civilization; there would be ancient buildings, a strong wind blowing, a bright sun glaring, and so on.
I tried to consider these elements while composing this tune.
About the melody, I wasn't conscious of a specific ethnic scale, but I chose the one that I felt exotic and bright.
I think it was a good idea that I took a sinthesizer's tone that would remind us of a sandstorm in the chord part.
Green Field
I was drawing in my heart a wonderful green scene that has a comfortable breeze, sunlight and the sound of a stream while making this tune.
The style of my works often uses modulation, so there tend to be many sharp(♯) and flat(♭), but this tune begins in rare C major without sharp or flat.
But, the modulation appears a little in this tune as well, so if there were a contest for 'Who's the least user of modulation?',
I would be prohibited to participate in it, I think. (It's funny, isn't it?)
Unidentified Planet
To express a strange sense, I aimed to make composition hard to know what comes next, so this tune has longer phrases than other tunes.
I think I could comparatively write it without suffering, but I was confused about the title; I couldn't think of anything cool.
The person who saved me from this pinch was my mother. She suggested the title, thanks mom!
Twilight Flight
I've really wanted to express 'Twilight Flight', and this tune was born.
What does the word 'Twilight' remind of you?
For me, this word is beautiful and a little sad, it was so charming, so I tried various ways to make the melody like that.
In many cases of my tunes, I put weight on the melody, and luckily I found the synthesizer tone (especially the beginning and the end) fitted well to the image of the melody.
The encounter with tones like that always gives me a special delight and I really appreciate the sound designer who created the synth tone!