I Misremembered a Melody… Then It Became My Music 🎼🐈 | Solo Dev #indiegame #indiemusic

What happens when you remember a melody incorrectly, and the mistake becomes part of your own music? 🎼🔑 Today was supposed to be an extremely ordinary solo-indie-dev update: too much chicken, homemade pizza from premade dough, and preparations to test our first complete game sprite sheet. 🍕🎮 Instead, we somehow ended up excavating a musical memory from winter 2021. Around that time, I frequently heard a familiar school-bell melody at noon. My memory gradually reconstructed its own version, and I composed a little “headcanon” around what I thought I remembered. That invented melody didn’t disappear. It kept drifting, differentiating and resurfacing as material in later compositions. Only much later did I learn that the familiar melody was “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” whose melodic ancestry reaches back to the 18th-century French song “Plaisir d’amour.” Somewhere inside the same 2021 memory is another unresolved artifact: I thought I saw a cat passing by. 🐈 A caring friend told me he saw it too and seemed to know which cat I meant, but even today I don’t know whether we genuinely saw the same cat or whether he was simply reassuring me. Later, I did discover Mathew and Diana around our schoolyard, so apparently the place contained CAT lore regardless. 😂 A melody remembered. A melody misremembered. A mysterious cat. And five years later, the memory is still mutating. I call part of this compositional process my Lost Key Syndrome. 🔑 Next experiment: our first complete indie-game sprite sheet finally enters testing. 🎮 What was your first musical “headcanon”, something you misheard, misremembered or transformed into something of your own? #MusicComposition #Composer #IndieComposer #MusicTheory #IndieDev ... Gav.Khugzhem G.U.Taka | BahnMus Hub Independent music, composition, indie game development, digital art, machine learning technology, Trinity Intelligence research, CyberSoul summoner, and experimental creative projects. Official BahnMus website — research, technology, creative projects & portfolio: https://www.bahnmus.com/ MySteppe — CyberSoul culture, blogs, music, art, indie development & experiments: https://www.mysteppe.com/ 🎵 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/gav-khugzhem-taka © Gav.Khugzhem G.U.Taka and BahnMus