This composition was actually finished on 2023-12-09 by me, but I only just recently created a Newgrounds account in the past few days and so am sharing it today as my first audio submission!

This is/was the first new music composition I've made since roughly ~10 years ago. Incidentally, 10 years ago was also approximately when I graduated college! Thus, this music holds special significance for me as the beginnings of me recently endeavoring to break a decade-long period of terrible creative stagnation and anxiety (due largely to being partially traumatized by my circumstances ~9-10 years ago working as a programmer in the AAA game industry).

I'm still trying to work through such creative stagnation in many respects and to create and publish more projects, but this particular piece embodied a partial breakthough for me in the past year.

Although the sampled and articulated instrument you hear in the composition is a yanquin (an Chinese hammered string instrument, like a dulcimer), the scale in use in the piece is actually entirely 100% the Japanese Insen scale (a scale actually intended for the Japanese koto instrument). Thus, the piece is actually culturally a Chinese-Japanese hybrid acoustic piece. (I myself am neither Chinese nor Japanese -- not that it matters.)

Every single note you hear in the piece is from the Japanese Insen scale, so this is a (aurally speaking) real/authentic Insen piece. All of it was composed digitally in FL Studio version 20 though, using a Native Instrument Kontact 7 set of sampled sounds and articulations.

There is no fussing about with special effects in this piece at all. It is a bare melody of just one instrument with no fiddling with parameters and only minimal changes to note velocities.

It is intended to sound fresh and wild in timbre, in an old school kind of sense.

I tend to compose relatively experimental pieces.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!

Feel free to contact me if you want to use it in a project.

I am undecided on what its ultimate license will be, hence it will be proprietary for now.

Regardless of that, feel free to download it (if the site or API lets you) and use it personally or in as a music game input (e.g. perhaps usable in Geometry Dash?).

The full song can also be downloaded as an MP3 from my personal (static HTML and CSS only, no JavaScript) website which you can find on my Newgrounds profile links list.

Thanks for your time and for reading. (I am "famously" irredeemably verbose... heh)