My Imaginary Neighbor
By jegasus on August 25, 2024 7:47 pm
Well well well, look who decided to show up again. You've got some real guts showing your face around these parts, you know?
What did you say before I kicked you out? Oh yeah, I remember: "Why do you have these weird little conversational intros to almost all of your WB submissions? Is this your attempt at comedy?" Reeeeeeal guts. NOW SCRAM!
Okay, now that the weird little intro is over, I can talk about the song, hahahaha...
I worked a few extra hours earlier in the week (and last week), so I was able to get almost the whole day off this past Friday. After using some of that free time to take care of a bunch of little house chores, I cracked out an old keyboard and sat down at my desk to play around with it a little bit. I also had the M8 by my side to "transcribe" things over to it as I found fun little patterns.
I found a basic little back-and-forth arpeggio which sounded super playful and cute, so I used it as the main motif for my song. After that I started to add a few little flourishes here and there, like the high-note "finishing" piano keys. I don't know why, but I'm super proud of those even though they are super duper simple.
I knew I wanted to add a grittier growlier synth sound, so I played around with the M8's internal synths and was able to find something that matched what I was looking for.
Originally, I had also added a plucked harpsichord-sounding synth, but it had two problems: 1) the song was getting a bit crowded; and 2) I later noticed I was basically ripping off the theme song for "My Neighbor Totoro", hahahahaha...
I think the feeling of playfulness and childhood wonder still permeates through the song, so I decided to pay homage to "My Neighbor Totoro" by naming this song "My Imaginary Neighbor".
I also think this song feels a bit march-y, but not as much as many of my other songs. Not something I was trying to do - it just came out that way.
The percussion samples are from the HeXaWe Sliced Proteus kits (download link 1, download link 2, download link 3) and the Piano samples were originally created by Trash80.
As usual, the whole thing was sequenced on the M8. What you're hearing here version rendered straight off of the device.
Hope y'all have a great week!!!!
PEEEEEACE!!!!
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