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A song about unprocessed feelings.

This song is a submission to the BMS 衆議院選 event.

This is the first song in which I compose the lyrics on my own.

I also made the music video by myself, using THREE.js to generate the visualization based on MIDI data. Source code is available.

Submission text

Hello!
This is flicknote.
There were times when I feel something, but I don’t know what to do about it.
I made some music instead.

I put in several key modulations in the song to give it a bit of chaotic feeling.
I also added a vocal track to help better convey the message in this song.

For the vocals, I asked MindaRyn to help sing the vocals.
I made some parts of the vocals very low-pitched to give the feeling of self-reflection.
With the lowest note below the contralto range, I was a bit worried if she could sing it or not.
It turns out that she could sing it well. I was very impressed.
She also sang in another song of mine, “Everyday evermore”.
Please check out her channel for more of her vocal performances.

Before I finish producing this song, I got affected by RSI (反復運動過多損傷).
It caused pain in my hands.
Because of that, I could not create all the note charts for this song.
I asked Dolphin to help me design the note charts.
He helped create the NORMAL (4), HYPER (9) and ANOTHER (12) charts.
I made few minor adjustments afterwards.
I also created a PIANO (11) chart which only contains the piano notes.
With RSI, creating BMS is very exhausting.
I hope I will get well soon.

For the BGA, the visualization was generated procedurally using JavaScript code to process data from MIDI file.
I experimented by assigning a different color to each pitch class.
This allows you to also “see” the music in addition to hearing it.

I hope that you will enjoy this song!
flicknote
https://flicknote.spacet.me/
@bemusegame

Lyrics

[Intro]
Every time that I see you…
Every time that I see you…

[Pre-chorus]
I don’t know what to say…
I don’t know what to think…
What made me feel this way?
What is going on??
My mind?!?
Oh..!!?

[Chorus]
Every time that I see you
Cannot process that feeling
Do not know what to do
Four-hundred-twenty-two…

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