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ForgottenDawn
Hi! I make stuff. // Ambient music-making machine. I also draw and write things across multiple media.

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Posted by ForgottenDawn - November 18th, 2022


Hello, everyone~


Just a quick heads-up. Ko-fi memberships are now a thing, if you wish to drop me some bread on a monthly basis: https://ko-fi.com/forgottendawn


Tier rewards include behind-the-scenes blog posts and a Discord role for bragging rights.


With Twitter slowly sinking, friendly reminder that I'm also on Tapas, Instagram, and YouTube.


I feel pretty reluctant about opening yet another social media page elsewhere since I still manage everything myself, so some support towards what's already out there is acknowledged and welcome.


Alright, that's about it. Thank you, praise bread, and stay tuned.


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Posted by ForgottenDawn - September 16th, 2022


Hey, everyone! New comic just dropped!


Oh, my! What is this all about? It's Dawnbot! He can move! He can talk! He's your hyper-competent variety show host! Come check it out, y'all!


New strip every Friday~


Follow the webcomic here: https://tapas.io/series/Dawnbot/info

pls support kthxbai: https://ko-fi.com/forgottendawn



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Posted by ForgottenDawn - August 23rd, 2022


Hello, everyone! Quick late summer update for all of you gentlebeauties.


I've resumed working on my projects full time since at least a couple of weeks ago. My brain is still adjusting to the mostly self-imposed discipline and work regimen, but the good news is being an independent creator ain't so bad after all!


And that's really the point of this update. I've been in the process of reinventing myself through a number of things I've always been wanting to either do or say in one form or another. I have growing aspirations of actually making a living from being my own boss and telling stories through multimedia, and especially the possibilities that the internet offers.


As a result of these important personal life changes, I will slowly but surely put a monthly Ko-fi goal that will help sustaining my equipment costs and general living expenses (praise bread) and in the next announcements I will likely introduce you to my upcoming project.


So, I hope you folks stick around, some of you lucky few already know what I'm talking about, and if you don't, well, please have a little more patience! I promise it will be worth it.


Stay tuned, and as always, stay safe.


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Posted by ForgottenDawn - June 20th, 2022


Hey, everyone. It's been a while since my last update.


I am taking a break from creation until roughly August, as a result of me graduating from grad school and mentally preparing myself for what's to come. I'm in need of recovering my energies and I think I deserve a proper summer break like I haven't had in entire years.


If I ever release anything during this time, it'll likely be lowkey spur-of-the-moment little thingies that don't take as much effort or preparation to make. That's just me relaxing and doing things unpressured by outside commitments.


There are a number of projects that I wish to clean up and publish at some point, and those include a few videos that I've worked on earlier this year. I'll reserve any other content announcements to the late summer, as I'll likely be in the process of figuring out where I want to focus my energies and how.


Regardless of what will happen next, I am now going to sleep, eat, read books with pictures, and actually go outside.


Peace~


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Posted by ForgottenDawn - April 27th, 2022


Hi! I have a Ko-fi, so people can drop me money if they want.


Why? I don't know. Just trust me, bro.


https://ko-fi.com/forgottendawn


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Posted by ForgottenDawn - November 16th, 2021


An appetizer for what's to come, or may come, next year. New series, perhaps? I like the concept, though I consider this release as more of a musical blueprint. Let me know your thoughts.




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Posted by ForgottenDawn - September 29th, 2021


Hello, everyone. I hope everyone is doing OK. My last update was pretty rant-y, so I thought of steering the wheel in a different direction and talk about my recent inclusion in this year's Newgrounds Underdogs Audio Contest. Because why not. Imagine sitting around a campfire, have a drink in our hand and let your mind go adrift.


Truthfully, I haven't joined any contest or community event in years. It is incredibly hard to commit to anything outside of academia, let alone for sport, so for the longest time I have actively avoided any additional source of stress. Contests don't define my existence as an artist. I mainly join for the fun of testing myself and my own stamina. If it's not fun, then why bother. I may have also let down a few people looking for collaborations along the way and I can only say that those projects may regrettably not happen due to reasons ranging from lost interest to me simply moving on with my life, as I bring the spotlight onto other things and I also change as a person.


So, why this time? I've spent the past couple of years crunching all sorts of things in increasingly shorter, but intense bursts of energy, sometimes forcefully. It wasn't a matter of seeing if I could take a multi-round tournament all the way through because the answer would have easily been 'yes'. I still consider myself an experienced amateur. I'm not entirely new to the game. I know what it's like to work under the clock. I have composed entire game soundtracks while struggling to come up with new ideas. It was a matter of how. I wanted to see how I would deliver.


I, like many others, received an invitation from the contest mastermind himself, Mr. @TaintedLogic. I auditioned an old track I composed in 2016 for a game called Tears of the Machine, for no particular reason except it sounding good enough in my head, like many other older tracks I feel personally attached to. It's an intense piece, it's bombastic, it's orchestral, why not. Let's give it a try. I made myself a boss fight before the real contest could even begin, which I thought was humorous. Every time I fire tracks like these, I immediately feel a surge of nostalgia for a time when bouncing ideas back and forth and being in the 'zone' with fellow artists was intuitive and simple. You don't think too hard about it, you just do it.



Up until this point, I didn't have any plans other than using the contest as an excuse to shrug some of that late summer drowsiness off my shoulders and propel me towards the next season. However, as the audition phase progressed, I began maturing the idea of composing a short, experimental album featuring my contest entries. It would have motivated me to try something new while directing my focus to the competition. Under such premise, I began working on my would-be opener track.


It turned out an oddball. While I had a clear vision of its structure and some of the sounds I wound up using, much of it remained a complete mystery to me until I crunched the last 12 hours and submitted at 4 AM with three hours to spare. Please, don't follow my example. This track was unlike anything I had ever composed prior to the contest. Some of it sounded chaotic and abrasive, with a somewhat disjointed structure and video game tropes peppered all over the track. It was a proper experiment in the sense that I did employ a handful of techniques that were new to me, as well as a different approach to composition. Abrupt tempo changes, sudden glitches and transitions—for all intents and purposes, I wanted it to sound unpredictable, like a machine that could break down at any moment.



The track was released to a mostly positive reception. It did allow me to advance further into the competition, albeit barely. This is when my vision of a short experimental album began to erode as the final round loomed ahead like a slowly advancing demonic wall, crushing everything in its path like a mad kaiju monster. A WallZilla, if you will. A little voice in my head knew that the concept had a high What Would Have Been potential, but I refused to heed it immediately. I first needed to try, and tried I did. I didn't even save my very first attempt. It was too embarrassing to store, granted my folder is filled with source files of similar quality, or lack thereof.


By the second take, the realization and subsequent feelings of disappointment and dishonor started seeping in, but I still wanted to see how far I could take that concept. And I tried again, and again, started anew, third attempt, I sampled what I had and included it in my last take. Scrap that. Repeat. Fourth attempt. That's when I knew for sure anything remotely sitting beyond my comfort zone would have needed more cooking time. With this new knowledge, and no longer confined by my own genre myopia, I only had a few days left before the deadline.


I retreated into familiar waters. When in doubt, compose Ambient music, is what I thought—my 'default' musical mind state. I was inspired by my own compositions from 2010 and 2011, as well as old media like Ecco the Dolphin, Donkey Kong Country, and Vangelis. I imagined themes of space exploration. New worlds, new life lurking somewhere in outer space. With that in mind, I thought that was it. That is what I needed to do, for better or worse. Ebb and flow.



How did that go? Well, not too bad. I took my 6th place (3rd in my category, with an Ambient piece, no less), and the overall positive feedback from the community figuratively back home.


There's a side of me that still doesn't know what to do with that short album idea, whether it served as some kind of sacrificial lamb for the sake of elevating a more 'easy-listening' cinematic experience, or perhaps something to cook at my own leisure someday, somehow™. Yes, I could recite the old adage of the journey mattering more than the destination, the friends we made along the way, and how the power of anime friendship saved my world from collapsing, but the truth is... I made it. I needed that confirmation, and my actions proved it. That's what matters to me the most.


For now, I will keep lurking. Until next time, stay tuned.


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Posted by ForgottenDawn - August 17th, 2021


Just a quick PSA to old and new fans.


I'm permanently disallowing my music to be used in Geometry Dash.


I'm just sick and tired of hearing about it, or people asking me to enable the API for their custom level or whatever, or have my music be associated in any way shape or form to GD. I'd like for my audience to come for me primarily, as a content creator, and not view any of my tracks as mere expendables for their own selfish gain.


I've seen many authors on the platform pour their heart and soul into their craft and I wish more people saw their music as a fruit of labor instead of mindless, easily replaceable entertainment. Every time you ask an author to enable API, think about how you're repaying them because, frankly, the bottom line is...


We don't need your "exposure".


This decision won't affect anyone whom I've previously said yes to, as they may continue to use the specific track they asked me to use.


To anyone else who would like to, please don't even ask. My answer will be a blunt "No".


Good? Good. Have a nice day.


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Posted by ForgottenDawn - July 12th, 2021


I'm just gonna say that turning the old :D reactions into the cry-laughing emoji is the best thing that's ever happened to Newgrounds in recent times.


Unintentional dark humor is still funny.


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Posted by ForgottenDawn - April 25th, 2021


Hello, everyone!


I'm still alive and busy, hooray! Just wanted to say I'm slowly transitioning from Patreon to ko-fi.

https://ko-fi.com/forgottendawn


I'd like it to mark a new start for me, from a music-oriented endeavor to an art/multimedia effort. I have loads of ideas for comics, illustrations and animations, so I hope you're as excited as I am for the future.


If you're currently subscribed to my Patreon, I'd rather receive your kind donations on my ko-fi page from now on.


Thanks, and as always, stay tuned.

//FD


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