I wish I could set a melody as a blog post title. Maybe I’ll figure it out someday. It’s only on my mind because I found myself captivated by a song’s opening notes the second I sat down to type out this paragraph. Countless times I’ve had my attention firmly seized by the same short few seconds at the start of different songs, and it wasn’t until recently I realised it was because of how much sheer personality can be concentrated into things like production/arrangement. I mean it wasn’t something I was entirely conscious of for a long while, but it’s like the presence of a friend: you’ll always recognise it when you notice it and remember when you first heeded it, and the same applies to music since both evoke the same emotional responses in me.

An Extension of Musty: From Myself to Those I Hold Dear