the song: https://tinyurl.com/yrg4lvun

It's fairly simple, so it won't be long before it's no longer a WIP

Took quite a bit of inspiration from traditional Slavic, Baltic, and Ojibwe music since they are big influences on how I develop this culture! The inspiration of some of the instruments are the Erhu and Mbira (the Shona language is also a big influence), but a lot of the concepts in that regard are inspired by music by the artist corruworks. Also the first kjabata is 4/4 bc this is my first time working with the "kjabata" concept

I need to make some more volume automation to the mefnjyvjörta and to the click in the mefnjyvroska. I probably also haven't synthesized the bass part of the mefnjyvroska very well, so I need to merge that with the percussive part. I'll also add some of mefnjybljenátasaf to the second kjabata for more variation. I also obviously need add some of afnjyfiyarzef when all the other elements work together better. Btw I might mess with tuning a bit too- I haven't done enough regarding that even though it's extremely important in the development of music in any given culture.

Btw I'm LITERALLY the only one who knows any of Afnjyvjörtamászef (the weird language thingy with the weird words I keep using) bc I'm the one who's making it, so here's a little dictionary so you can understand all the weird stuff:

Before you begin looking through these, keep in mind that as I have seen in a previous "post", Afnjyvjörtamás has grammatical gender, though instead of being with masculine and feminine gender, it is determined by whether the concept is physical (mostly anything you can touch in the physical world) or abstract (thoughts, feelings, pretty much anything you can't touch). This can be abbreviated to P/A. Also, adjectives in this language are usually postnominal, meaning they come after their associated noun. Lastly, note that Afnjyvjörtamás is of the "if a word doesnt exist just smoosh some other words together to make a compound word" type.

By the way, I tried to make everything as comprehensive as possible! If you're curious about anything, I'm happy to answer. This project is very important to me.

> Y- :: A prefix used to mark the genitive case, or in compound words to connect concepts. When placed after the vowel "a" in a compound word, instead of saying "ay", you just say "e". (The genitive case is used to denote that a noun is from something or "of" something, and in this language is merged with the possessive case, which is used to denote ownership.)

> Vjörtamás :: One of the first proper settlements in the world this takes place on. A super important part of Yvjörtamás culture is a flame at the center of the settlement that must always stay alive because fire is seen as a sort of window to "the protectors" (the people that "the creator" supposedly put in place to watch over the world when they left it behind to create other worlds) so that they can always be protected from danger. There's a lot of interesting stuff behind all that, but I digress.

> Vjörta :: Fire. (Due to the sacred nature of fire in Yvjörtamás culture, it is considered A rather than P.)

> -más :: A suffix added to signify that the thing it is attached to is a location. It is seen as a grammatical concept instead of a noun. To say "place", you would have to say "Memás

> Ma :: Physical concept; physical thing. (P, obviously lol)

> Afnj :: To speak, to make a sound, speech, sound, or song. (Noun form is A)

> Mefnj :: Musical instrument. You can think of this as mayafnj to make it easier to understand. Since the vowel after the "ay"→"e" shift is also "a", it is also merged into the single "e".

> Fiya :: Blow, wind. (P)

> Vroska :: Subterranean; deep.

> Bljenáta :: Small. Often used figuratively in the same way it is in many languages on Earth.

> Kjabata :: Emotion; groove; feel; a section of a piece of traditional Yvjörtamás music. Each kjabata within a song will often have a very different feeling and time signature (or at least the abstract equivalent of time a signature), though an underlying "heartbeat" is always used throughout the song.

> Afnjyfiyar :: Any background ambience. Important in Yvjörtamás for holding all of the elements together.

Btw you'll have to infer the specific instruments because of the description character limit and GP's strange censorship. In the picture, the green thing, magenta thing, and the violin bow-type are the mefnjyvjörta, and the block with things on it is the mefnjyvroska. They're the only two instruments played for this song as of now (yes it's just two) so they're all really matters lol

Happy pixelling :P

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