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composalvation[At 1 am on Christmas Day, a post appears on Starnet.]
when the wish maker challenged me, they wanted me to write a song that could give more people hope than they could with their wish-granting
this is the song i've been working on since then. but i didn't do it alone - mafuyu wrote the lyrics, and helped a lot with the arrangement
... i don't know if they might consider that cheating, but i don't care
i couldn't have done all of this without her
[For, uh. Multiple reasons.]
i'm posting this now, in hopes that it can spread through the whole city by the new year
i hope everyone enjoys it
[Attached to the post is a downloadable music file, > 明日への光 ("Light Toward Tomorrow").
Hope is not something Kanade is good at fostering. She has her own hopes in her desire to save others, she tries to encourage others as best she can, but hope... it's a tough thing to work into music which so often sinks into the darkest depths of her heart. Music that draws on the hurt, the loneliness, the raw emotions that drag people down and away from the light.
... But she wants to draw people into that light. For years now, her goal has been to save others with her music. And now she's been presented with that challenge; for the past weeks she's done almost nothing but work. Through stress and self-neglect and eventual sickness, she pushed through to create this song.
The song starts off simple. A soft, lonely piano solo, the notes swaying to and fro like a gentle ocean current. But then they take on a more ominous sound, lower and darker until it's a rapid, discordant tempo, accompanied by lyrics that cry of loss, of hurt and pain and a desire for everything to stop. The song cuts off abruptly, silence hanging heavy in the air, until a new sound steps in; a violin, echoing and likewise just as lonely. The solo is somber, heavy in a way that's both similar and different from the previous verse. The lyrics here tell of a soul adrift, feeling neither weighed down by grief nor buoyed by happiness. Simply existing in a sea of emptiness, neither content nor sad.
It's then that the piano starts again, and the two melodies seem to dance around each other as the song kicks into a stronger tempo. Not quite in sync, but complimentary, swirling side by side in a slowly uplifting tone, growing and growing like warmth blooming in one's chest. It's a feeling of finding someone and being found in return. The lyrics sing of hurts not healed, but simply soothed. Not quite completely happy, but not sad, either. It goes on until the melodies are in perfect harmony, and then the song slowly tapers back into that soft and gentle beat, calm once more. It's not a story with an unambiguous happy end, exactly, but the final notes of the melodies remain in perfect union, and the words speak of the light seen moving forward.
It's a beautiful song. Heavy, but every note drips with the emotion Kanade worked so hard to express. And... well. Because of all that hard work, responses to any comments left here will come late. She promised Mafuyu she'd rest, after all.]
[OOC: just a note that at first, replies will only be coming from Mafuyu! Kanade replies will come a bit later.]
when the wish maker challenged me, they wanted me to write a song that could give more people hope than they could with their wish-granting
this is the song i've been working on since then. but i didn't do it alone - mafuyu wrote the lyrics, and helped a lot with the arrangement
... i don't know if they might consider that cheating, but i don't care
i couldn't have done all of this without her
[For, uh. Multiple reasons.]
i'm posting this now, in hopes that it can spread through the whole city by the new year
i hope everyone enjoys it
[Attached to the post is a downloadable music file, > 明日への光 ("Light Toward Tomorrow").
Hope is not something Kanade is good at fostering. She has her own hopes in her desire to save others, she tries to encourage others as best she can, but hope... it's a tough thing to work into music which so often sinks into the darkest depths of her heart. Music that draws on the hurt, the loneliness, the raw emotions that drag people down and away from the light.
... But she wants to draw people into that light. For years now, her goal has been to save others with her music. And now she's been presented with that challenge; for the past weeks she's done almost nothing but work. Through stress and self-neglect and eventual sickness, she pushed through to create this song.
The song starts off simple. A soft, lonely piano solo, the notes swaying to and fro like a gentle ocean current. But then they take on a more ominous sound, lower and darker until it's a rapid, discordant tempo, accompanied by lyrics that cry of loss, of hurt and pain and a desire for everything to stop. The song cuts off abruptly, silence hanging heavy in the air, until a new sound steps in; a violin, echoing and likewise just as lonely. The solo is somber, heavy in a way that's both similar and different from the previous verse. The lyrics here tell of a soul adrift, feeling neither weighed down by grief nor buoyed by happiness. Simply existing in a sea of emptiness, neither content nor sad.
It's then that the piano starts again, and the two melodies seem to dance around each other as the song kicks into a stronger tempo. Not quite in sync, but complimentary, swirling side by side in a slowly uplifting tone, growing and growing like warmth blooming in one's chest. It's a feeling of finding someone and being found in return. The lyrics sing of hurts not healed, but simply soothed. Not quite completely happy, but not sad, either. It goes on until the melodies are in perfect harmony, and then the song slowly tapers back into that soft and gentle beat, calm once more. It's not a story with an unambiguous happy end, exactly, but the final notes of the melodies remain in perfect union, and the words speak of the light seen moving forward.
It's a beautiful song. Heavy, but every note drips with the emotion Kanade worked so hard to express. And... well. Because of all that hard work, responses to any comments left here will come late. She promised Mafuyu she'd rest, after all.]
[OOC: just a note that at first, replies will only be coming from Mafuyu! Kanade replies will come a bit later.]
