“Seijo” was released on September 25, 2026. The music video also premieres on YouTube at 8 p.m. that day.
About the music
I titled it “Seijo” (“normal”) and tried to make music with something abnormal in it.
When I started making the track, I vaguely wanted it to feel like a glitch. But when you use glitches and noise deliberately, they can feel planned and calculated. That makes the glitch seem unnatural. A glitch is more interesting when it is, in a sense, unreasonable.
Interesting as that is, it also brings stress and discomfort, so I wanted to keep some pop appeal without taking it too far.
The unnatural and unstable may actually be perfectly natural. I can be in a good mood in the morning and irritated by the afternoon. Even after days of feeling awful, something can suddenly lift my spirits.
Glitches and noise turn up in games, appliances, on the street, and while eating. They can feel like an event or make you feel terrible. In the course of a life, or an ordinary day, perhaps that is “normal.”
About the track
The main ingredient this time was the SP-404MKII sampler. A physical device is powerful when you want a sense of touch and unexpected results. Fortunately, perhaps, I am not especially skilled with a sampler, so it produced a good, uneasy kind of fluctuation.
Most of the work was done in a DAW. This time I exported something I had made, added effects with the sampler, then brought it back into the DAW to edit and arrange it. That is a lot of troublesome work for me. If I had planned it all from the start, I might have given up. It suits me better to start on an impulse and let the amount of work grow as I go.
The vocal is Chis-A, but there is not much singing. I intentionally brought her in only for the hook. There are coughs and chopped voices too, but I use those as instruments. So please enjoy the sound itself.
About the lyrics
They are very short. Words and lyrics have a powerful presence in music because they carry meaning so directly. This time I used fewer words and tried not to give the track too much meaning.
About the music video
When I used to stay up late with a late-night TV program on in the background, the broadcast would sometimes switch to a fixed camera view without my noticing. I would watch it and feel a little anxious that I should go to bed, oddly reassured that I could stay up, or sentimental because it felt strangely evocative. Sometimes I felt nothing in particular.
I also brought in the feeling of breaking news and live broadcasts. Together with the sense of an online archive, it makes for a strange atmosphere.
Those are the motifs behind this video. Beautiful things may always be easy to like, but I also enjoy textures that feel rough, careless, or improvised. I like abstraction too, so I finished it in a loose, free-form way.