supermassive 18 (awake 5)
produced 2021.07.17–20

i'll let you take a guess what this song represents.  After, Jest ultimately winds up at the location of the Red Sea, which exist[s/ed] but is now abandoned and decrepit.

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joy of the nomad i think definitely has one of the most concrete compositional histories on the album because i wrote the entire midi skeleton in 1 day and produced it on another.  you get to see how it evolved; that's pretty cool.  a fair amount of scraps here, all of which i abandoned in favor of that approach.  used to have its track index swapped with 12.  my favorite on the album?  it's in really close competition with 19.  i think the cd version of 19 with the remix edges it out just a little bit.  speaking of 19, the two comprise the third suite!

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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.