Echoes & Fragments is the 30th song in the Free Background Music series. It is a gentle and minimalist synth-piano song (performed on a Korg M50 synthesizer and recorded using Cakewalk’s Sonar Home Studio). The name of the song is about memory. As I get older, long-term memories fragment and slip away; sometimes they resurface, bubbling up from the boundless sea of time; sometimes they simply sink and are never seen again. For many memories, I am unsure whether I am remembering the actual event or remembering a story that I once told or that someone once told me. Do I remember the house I grew up or do I simply remember its image from photographs? It seems that a lot of what I call ‘memories’ are merely faint and distant echoes.
The video features public domain footage from NASA.
Duration: 3:00
Tempo: Around 70 bpm
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As with the other songs in the Background Music series, this instrumental work can be used for free in non-commercial projects and in YouTube monetized videos (that are otherwise non-commercial in nature) as long as credit is provided (‘music by longzijun’). For more information about the terms and conditions for using the music, you can refer to the detailed Terms of Use.
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This is the video on my main channel. The photos are about something entirely different. These focus on the problem of homelessness in Hong Kong. The photos of the homes of the homeless were taken around Kowloon. Though Hong Kong is a rich city, there is a high level of income inequality. To compound the problem, even tiny apartments are expensive to rent and their is a long waiting list for public housing. Quite a few people just fall through the cracks. Some of them cannot afford to live even in tiny ‘cage homes‘) while some simply prefer the freedom of the street. The photo set is here on Google Photos: Homeless in HK
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Longzijun, this is an amazingly moving piece! It is so obvious that this music has come from a place deep within you. It actually made me cry. An absolutely lovely piece. Happy New Year to you too and I hope 2014 is filled with peace, love, and all good things that come your way.
Hugs, Lyn
Oh thanks, your comments are always warm and supportive. When writing or performing songs, I don’t express any emotions. I learned this approach from one of my music tutors, who argued that emotion exists within the music itself (melody, harmony, dynamics, articulation, tempo), so if you take care of the technical aspects, the music will express it’s own emotions. The only time I’ve worried about emotion is when I wrote a song in memory of a student of mine who passed away suddenly–I purposefully made it less ‘sad’ (for example, by writing in a major key) because the real event was sad enough already and she had been a sweet and cheerful girl, so a depressingly sad song wouldn’t have done her justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-WLlO6-8Y0
Hello, I’m wondering if you could share me the music sheet of this piece? I think it is verry beautiful and I really want to play it by meself. Thank you!