Cards & Liner notes
About Game Pop 2 (Click here and can see liner notes.)
Big Bang
At first, I tried to make this tune as a sequel of the "Space Shooter", which is a kind of space series, and I didn't think of Big Bang as a theme.
I don't remember clearly, but I suppose I thought of a situation like an emergency of a spaceship which seems to appear in movies.
While I write my tunes, I usually arrange a repeat part at the beginning, and then do everything.
When I finished to arrange the repeat part, I felt this tune expresses something grand rather than panic,
so in the end of finishing the arrangement, I was conscious of the Big Bang as the theme and tried to express a scene in which many objects run into space and unknown feelings.
Solitary Galaxy
I firstly got a keyword, 'The Galaxy is alone', when I combined the expression that also appeared on "Traveling Starry Sky" with a certain melody.
I thought of the Galaxy's loneliness that watches numberless of birth and death and that must exist eternally, so this tune has a little sad emotion.
Since I wanted to express the immensity of the universe, I made efforts to use reverb more effectively in the recording, but I feel there's still space to improve that more. So I'll study harder and want to do better!
The reason why the ending repeats and fades out is the metaphor that the Galaxy continues permanently.
Mysterious Fractions
The "fraction" of the title means the time of music, like three-quarter time (3/4) or six-eighth time (6/8).
While I originally thought I could write a kind of strange tune, I got an idea of the drum's phrase at about 0 minute and 59 seconds of this tune.
The phrase appears in five-quarter time, and I thought, "It may be interesting if five time suddenly appears after appearing three time repeatedly." , so I tried to write a tune in which various time appear.
To vitalize only a one bar-phrase, I struggled to write the rest of 47 bars of the tune, but I feel that we could do our best when we get a bright idea.
I presume this strange tune might be not a taste of some of you, but I want to try variously in making my tunes from now as well, I think.
Space Dance
I comparatively like rhythm play, so I shifted the position of snare shots in this tune and fortunately the melody suited it.
I first thought of the theme 'Space Rock', so I selected electric guitar sounds.
But I felt the rhythm above made a light feeling as if we had floated in space, so I tried to make a 'Dance' atmosphere rather than rock.
There are a lot of space-like tones in the synthesizer, so I enjoyed choosing which tones I should use. I hope you will also enjoy various space sounds!
Walk In The Sky(Rocket Belt's Dream)
Do you know "rocket belt"?
I knew it from a video game and I was so interested in it. (Though I suppose I'm scared to try it in reality..)
There are some things that emphasize the funny side of rocket belts on the Internet, but the video game I played was so beautiful and a Smithsonian's article about it inspired me, so I tried to write this tune cool and moving.
And in terms of the arrangement, in the video game, synthesizer's tones like human voices and bouncy rhythms were used effectively, so I also took them in this tune as a homage.
Enjoy imaginary walking in the sky freely!