supermassive 17 (awake 4)
produced 2021.06.29–30

Lanthorn's city debut coincides with Uchuu Umareru's funeral procession.  mourning the loss of innocence; the grief of change.  but simultaneous acknowledgment of a future.

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as is evidenced across pretty much every stem in this folder, this was originally going to be a much more upbeat track (hence "downer").  i think those versions are really interesting but for one reason or another i decided that the deliverance necessitated a counterbalance of grief?  i don't even think jest got out of the house at all in the "real world"—u. was not a real person either—in the iterations of the story dating from around the time this change got made, so i don't know, but i'm ultimately glad it was.  there IS an "upper" version, let me find it...ah, here: it's 17 v1.2.wav, in the builds\draft 0 folder.
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◼ No131d(MusicForSkyscrapers).mp3
some of that architectural fascination from 16 prolongs into 17; #131 in particular was written during a time when i was particularly obsessed with arcologies like Tssui's Ultima Tower, but was primarily inspired by the Millennium Tower proposal for Tokyo Bay by Norman Foster, 1989.