I found out though my friend Real Faction about this competition, A.I.M, I really loved the concept of making music inspired by art and I instantly dived into the ocean of art here on Newgrounds. I stumbled upon this piece called Discordant by Elenie Chung and melodies started building in my head almost right away.

(Edit: original art is now removed from newgrounds)

So I first got the melody for the chorus in my head and then I got the idea of making the whole song repetative, soothing and relativly long to get the listener immersed into the song. When I look at this image, I see the girl is deep within her own mind. So I see the things around her, the dog, the doves and the ocean with the octorpuss outside the window, as her imagination.

So this is also the theme in the lyrics, of how nice and warming it can be to just be inside your own head for a while without sleeping. But still when these daydream like moments comes you are somewhere in betwean being awake and asleep.

I had a lot of fun making this one, i wanted to mix real guitars with synthesizers, and I used a leslie effect for the falcetto notes to give them more character and also a kind of underwater feeling.

Song made with Reason 6.5.

Lyrics:

I Look through the glass at my world.
See everything I've seen and listen to all the things that I've heard.
My sight is washed away and my head is all I know.

oooh...
My vision fades away, breath to feed my brain my mask is off.
ooooh...
When drifting through the ocean you're never lost, you're just going home.

I Look through the screen at my world.
See everything I havn't seen and listen to all the things that I havn't heard, mmh.
Well, it's kind of absurd, to be absorbed into nothing.
But I love to dissapear, to go blind and be submerged.

oooh...
Reality's unknown, my head made a scrawny clone from bits of what it's shown
oooh...
Using our own paints to fill the blank domains and think it's real
oooh...
My vision fades away, breath to feed my brain my mask is off.
oooh...
When drifting through the ocean you're never lost, you're just going home.

home, home, going home.
ocean, I'm heading home (X7)