{"id":582,"date":"2025-01-11T00:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T00:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/?p=582"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:37:10","slug":"background-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/2025\/01\/11\/background-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Background Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Edition Used in the Prototype:<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"4612-3517\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-XHH2n8F7xI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">Like I said in the Sound Bible, I wanted a simple melody, one that a beginner could play. But the main reason was that although I had learnt a few instruments and could play some of them, my knowledge of music theory was basically non-existent, so it would have been very difficult for me to try and write a tune out on my own.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">So I found a tune that met my expectations, <em>Hi <\/em>by TEMPOREX, and I referenced his compositional structure and wrote two beats. I wanted something like lo-fi music that kept ambient sounds or imperfect recordings in the music, so I added drone white noise to those two beats, and I recorded the sound of my computer fan, and the fire alarm going off in my room, and put them together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full has-custom-border\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1835\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250111004055-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-585\" style=\"border-width:5px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250111004055-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250111004055-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250111004055-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250111004055-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250111004055-1536x1101.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250111004055-2048x1468.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">This is the original draft, but as I was writing it I didn&#8217;t realise that the first two paragraphs were the same as <em>Hi<\/em>, probably because I was listening to it unconsciously. So I cut out the very first beats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/Ivydene-2-\u7f29\u5c0f.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-large-font-size\">\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">This is the recording of the white noise, I used my phone to record it which I guess could make the effect closer to what I want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Further Processing:<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px\">Final Edition\uff1a<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Final edition of background music further processing\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tgGYhLWBARA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">I added a right hand melody to the initial rhythm. It made the rhythm sound more like a complete tune, but I didn&#8217;t apply this to the prototype, firstly because it wasn&#8217;t complete enough and couldn&#8217;t be looped over and over again all the time, so the rhythm was more just my personal exploration of creating music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Second Edition:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Background music further processing NG (2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-EaL2fHOtM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-large-font-size\">\n<li>In the second version I explored a more satisfying right hand melody which was also the prototype for the final version, but the beat was too much faster than I expected, so this version was not edited further.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">First Edition:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Background music further processing NG (1)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f5T5jzwaYf4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">The initial version followed exactly as I had drafted it, but because I initially wrote the pitch wrong and made the main melody a soprano melody, which led to an unclear left-hand melody, I reversed the left and right-hand melody in the second version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/4612-1-724x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/4612-1-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/4612-1-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/4612-1-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/4612-1-1087x1536.png 1087w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/4612-1-1449x2048.png 1449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Reference:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Hi by TEMPOREX<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Hi\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IZmlOdZwGfw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2559\" height=\"1520\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u622a\u56fe-2025-01-11-005030.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-587\" style=\"border-width:5px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u622a\u56fe-2025-01-11-005030.png 2559w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u622a\u56fe-2025-01-11-005030-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u622a\u56fe-2025-01-11-005030-1024x608.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u622a\u56fe-2025-01-11-005030-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u622a\u56fe-2025-01-11-005030-1536x912.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u622a\u56fe-2025-01-11-005030-2048x1216.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2559px) 100vw, 2559px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The song has a simple melody, but the addition of the post-electronic soundscape gives it a very dreamy and slightly spooky feel. I was inspired to create the soundtrack after seeing it played on another video site using a musical keyboard similar to a child&#8217;s toy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bilibili.com\/video\/BV1ahpPemEfY\/?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click&amp;vd_source=1791cba061370ed686d308ab2adc6d8a\">https:\/\/www.bilibili.com\/video\/BV1ahpPemEfY\/?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click&amp;vd_source=1791cba061370ed686d308ab2adc6d8a<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">\u30bf\u30f3\u30bf\u30e9\u30b9\u306e\u30c6\u30fc\u30de \u301c\u9ec4\u91d1\u301c by DAWNTRAIL: FINAL FANTASY XIV<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Final Fantasy XIV  A Realm Reborn 2025 01 10   20 28 52 02\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R1KxvEY3Pec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-large-font-size\">\n<li>This song (start around 8 second) got me hooked when I first entered this map. Especially the intro, the lo-fi soundscape with steam-like murmurs coupled with the sounds of machinery running from the game environment gave it a steampunk and decadent feel. This is why I chose to include empty room noises in my background music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Family Tune by Rusry Lake: Roots<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Rusty Lake Family Tune\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kGEHeGwcvZA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-large-font-size\">\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">The style of this game, Rusty Lake, was something that I wanted to apply to the prototype of my game, and I tried to refer to this song at the very beginning of composing the background music, which has a more cheerful structure as waltz, but this song gives off a heavy vibe. The reason I couldn&#8217;t realise this structure is that the chords are a very important part of the song, as the left-hand melody needs to loop all the time, but I wasn&#8217;t sure I could write the chords to fit it perfectly, so I just gave up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edition Used in the Prototype: Further Processing: Final Edition\uff1a Second Edition: First Edition: Reference: Hi by TEMPOREX \u30bf\u30f3\u30bf\u30e9\u30b9\u306e\u30c6\u30fc\u30de \u301c\u9ec4\u91d1\u301c by DAWNTRAIL: FINAL FANTASY XIV Family Tune by Rusry Lake: Roots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,29,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-the-research-and-iteration-would-be-shown-here","category-sound-design-and-iteration","category-semester-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sl1c22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}