A downloadable soundtrack

Soundcloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/gnlwnd1/sets/colors-of-recollection

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh9w5LQad1A&list=PLkAXv9MTPryf-3Idm9PyuREnOS2Sy4On9&index=2

This Soundtrack was made for OST Comp Jam #7

---Story---

The Color of Recollection follows Kiiro, who’s depression manifests and traps her in an imaginary world of an aquarium. Initially, the world is completely blue. She must find and collect goldfish scattered around the aquarium. Each goldfish collected triggers a memory sequence of happy recollections, and gradually introduces new colors into the aquarium.

---Description of Tracks---

1. Title

The menu music for the game, orchestrated sparsely with a piano playing over cricket chirps and tambourines. I wanted this piece to balance happy and sad vibes, so I borrowed notes from outside the main key to create unexpected points of dark and lightness.

2. The Aquarium

The light reflects off the water and casts everything in blue. The stone floor is cool to the touch and rings out as Kiiro navigates through winding corridors flanked by glass walls. Schools of fish swim past, indifferent to her existence. To evoke the feeling of being adrift, I used a fluctuating tempo and a rapid rippling piano + harp accompaniment. The theme is supposed to feel somber and slightly eerie.

3. A Glimpse of Wonder

Every time Kiiro catches a goldfish she witnesses a fond moment from her past and brings back color to the aquarium. I opted for a lighthearted waltz to convey the cheerful and child-like quality of her recollections.

4. Drowning...Don’t Close Your Eyes

As Kiiro nears the last goldfish the glass walls shatter around her and she is plunged into the water. With only the light of the goldfish to guide her, she chases it deeper into the depths. The panic of drowning is accentuated by rapid string and woodwind parts, and a distorted synth leading the melody. However, the music subsides into lighter sections with the harp and celeste as the world goes dark leaving only her and the goldfish. Near the end of the segment, a defiant brass line breaks through as Kiiro triumphs.

5. Summer Night Festival

Upon catching the last goldfish, Kiiro is transported back to a festival she went to as a child. The night was cool after a sweltering summer day. Hidden crickets sang from bushes and moths danced in the air. Fireworks lit up the darkening blue sky in bursts of yellow. The presence of the aquarium fades in the morning sun.

6. Distant Recollections

A piece to match the rolling credits … There are periods of time when you feel lost and adrift in the blue. But you hold in yourself the goldfish in the water, the sun in the sky, the fireworks in the night.

---Theme---

The game can fit both the image and text theme, although the image was the main inspiration. The setting of the game is a reflection on Kiiro’s emotional state, giving a perspective of “her world.” The contrast between the blue and yellow in the painting was very important to me and created the bases for the emotion/color thematic of the game ("kiiro" means "yellow" in japanese). I imagine the girl to be a young version of Kiiro in her clothes for the festival as she leads the ghost (present Kiiro) towards the yellow foreground. To fit the festival vibes in my track, I made the crickets and tambourine a recurring sound in tracks where Kiiro is remembering.

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