Muted Heart
Artist: Hyparpax
Genre: MINIMAL
7KEYS:
- MAIN 10

A simple minimal electronica. This was started around 30 hours before deadline, and while it is for the "artistic BMS event", the track is not particularly ambitious or avant-garde. (Although the 3/4 time may be slightly disorienting.) Rather, it is a repetitive track that focuses only on conveying a mood, and was mostly made to vent out a large amount of vague unpleasant emotions I have been dealing with lately.
I feel the worst when I have low energy and can't seem to work on anything meaningful, so creating and releasing even a simple BMS is therapeutic on that front.

An "artistic BMS" event is tricky, right? It's easy for an experimental to work to stand out when everybody is making otogecore, but when everybody is trying to make something unique, you risk being drowned out by other entries or coming off too shallow in comparison. I had the same problem making a work for Strive to Stand Out.
To be honest, I had various ideas, but not the time and energy to complete them. I've probably said it before, but I'm a little worried about worsening my image by submitting simple BMS made for the sake of participating all the time. But I think the players and event organizers will be happier if there are more entries, so I always think it's good to participate if you can.

There is only one pattern this time, and it is of the tricky type, but it plays how I want it to, so...! I may add in a more ordinary set of patterns (NORMAL, HYPER, ANOTHER) at some point, but if I do, it won't be during impression period, so don't worry about waiting on them or anything like that. Essentially what's here now is the intended experience.
(As an aside: when thinking about the pattern, I had tried including fast, high-pitched rolling hi-hats like callasoiled's TRUTH or qune's Bit by Bit, but I thought it made the track sound less brooding and more like a club track or something, so I scrapped it, even if the pattern potential suffers as a result.)

At some point while playtesting I decided having no BGA would be more satisfying than anything I had time to make. So... there is none! (Personally I like this because when combined with the difficulty level and judge ranking it makes me think of various unfriendly-seeming old BMS.)