Life Changing Moments Seem Minor in Pictures

【译者注：汉化翻译可能存在谬误，英文原文在汉化文本下方】

《life changing moments seem minor in pictures》是我辞职后创作的一张专辑，当时德国军方却突然通知我：他们仍然需要我继续工作——就在我刚刚抱着“我可以独立自主”的心态开启新生活之际。

说到底，其实也就是多为国家服务了六个月而已。甚至都不是军事任务，我被允许去做社会服务。但问题在于，就在我决定“或许我可以靠自己闯一闯”的那一刻，却被强制要求去工作。直到现在，我仍会梦到那种感觉：刚以为自己自由了，却仍得被迫做事。

……感觉我好像把同一句话重复了五遍。嗯，是啊，那段时间的情绪确实很强烈，哈哈～

这张专辑收录了我为不同项目创作的诸多作品，其中大部分源自我参与TIGSource社区的时期。

《I lack an emotion》是为一位朋友的游戏所作；《I can’t afford mastering》创作于柏林独立游戏节（Berlin Indie Game Jam），那是由TIGSource社区主办的活动。

《Sometimes I make video game music》是为一场基于NES游戏卡带《Action 52》主题的游戏开发比赛（game jam）而作。虽然那场比赛因组织混乱而未能顺利进行，但我创作了大量音乐，最终都收录进了这张专辑。

专辑中还有不少我至今仍感到自豪的氛围音乐作品，包括《words you will never understand》、《I will perhaps never meet you in person》、《I don’t need to know you to be in love》、《One second》、《Please Do》以及同名曲《Life changing moments seem minor in pictures》。这些曲目都是在同一个项目“ezo”中诞生的，因此我同时为它们命名。那是我为某届Ludum Dare游戏开发比赛制作的游戏，更重要的是——这是我人生中做的第一款游戏！虽然并不出色，但确确实实是一款游戏！这些氛围曲几乎都是用Absynth合成器配合“变异”（mutate）按钮生成的，哈哈，非常适合快速原型创作！

《Long songs are for people who don’t have time to make them short》这个名字本身就够荒诞，值得一提。当时我想尝试把一大堆短曲快速拼接成一首长曲，于是就成了现在这样。谁说我就只会写氛围音乐？哼！

《if you don’t know what to do just steal the amen break》是一句我过去常信奉的玩笑式格言，当我还不知道如何让一首歌听起来更好时，就会靠它“救命”。Amen Break是一个非常著名的鼓点循环，这首曲子里也嵌入了它。如果你想了解更多关于Amen Break的背景，可以看看这个视频/音频。这首曲子结构很直接——我一定是当时找到了某个特别喜欢的单音合成器预设，于是就疯狂地用上了，哈哈。

值得一提的是，《life changing moments seem minor in pictures》也是那首后来被大家在《我的世界》中熟知的《Droopy》最初诞生的专辑。我后来把它加入《Volume Alpha》的原因，大概是当时《我的世界》的官方预告片正好使用了这首曲子。

这张专辑的风格极为多元，或许正因如此，它经受住了时间的考验？内容如此丰富，总有人能在其中找到自己喜欢的东西。

life changing moments seem minor in pictures is an album I created when I just quit my job and the German military decided they really needed me to still work, just after I went with the mindset of “I can be independent.”

I mean, ultimately it was just six months of extra work I had to do for the country. It wasn’t even military work. I was allowed to do social work instead. Still though, I was forced to do work JUST when I decided that maybe I can try things on my own. I still dream of this feeling of having to do work, even though I just decided to be free.

…feels like I just wrote the same sentence five times. Well, yeah, it was a strong emotion, haha.

This album is a collection of stuff I did for several things. Most of them originate from my time with the TIGSource community

“I lack an emotion” was made for a friend’s game, “I can’t afford mastering” was made at the Berlin Indie Game jam, which was a TIGSource community operated event.

“Sometimes I make video game music” has been made for a game jam based on the Action 52 NES catridge. The game jam itself didn’t really pan out because of bad organisation, but I created a ton of stuff which ended up on this album nonetheless.

There are also a lot of ambient works that I’m kinda proud of to this day. Those are “words you will never understand,” “I will perhaps never meet you in person,” “I don’t need to know you to be in love,” “One second,” “Please Do,” and “Life changing moments seem minor in pictures.” I named all of these at the same time because they originate from a singular project, called ezo. It was a game I created for one of the Ludum Dare game jams. But most importantly, it was the first game I ever created. Not really good, but it was a game! All of these ambient songs essentially have been created by using Absynth and the mutate button, haha. Real good for rapid prototyping!

“Long songs are for people who don’t have time to make them short” is probably worth mentioning for how silly it is. Back then I wanted to make a rapid fire of short songs put into a singular song, so this is what it ended up being. And people say I only write ambient! Pah!

“if you don’t know what to do just steal the amen break” is a silly little proverb that I used to hold dear when I didn’t know how to make a song sound good. The amen break is a very famous drum loop, which is also embedded into this song. If you would like to know more about the amen break itself, check out this video/audio. The song is pretty straightforward. I must have found some sort of monophonic synth preset that I appreciated, cuz I went wild with one, haha.

Life changing moments is also the album where Droopy, a song people know from Minecraft, originally came from. I think the reason I added it to Minecraft Alpha is because at the time, the official Minecraft trailer used this song.

The eclecticism of this album is very strong, and I think that’s why it kind of aged well, perhaps? There’s so much variety, anyone can find stuff in there.

哦是C418在2021/7/16正式发行了该珍藏了11年的专辑

简介（百度翻译）《Life Changing Moments Seem Minor in Pictures》是我刚辞职时创作的一张专辑，当时德国军方决定他们真的需要我继续工作，就在我抱着“我可以独立”的心态离开之后 我的意思是，最终我只能为国家做六个月的额外工作。这甚至不是军事工作。我被允许做社会工作。

这首歌很直白。我一定找到了某种我欣赏的单声道合成器，因为我喜欢它，哈哈。 《Life changing moments is also the album where Droopy》也是人们从Minecraft知道的歌曲Dropy最初的来源。我想我之所以把它加入Minecraft Alpha是因为当时，Minecraft的官方预告片用了这首歌。

生活瞬息万变，在相片中微不足言。 ---从童年到长大，存下很多照片。虽然拍摄时间的跨度很大，但它们摆在眼前时，几秒就能阅毕，这时，似乎时间的流逝，微不足道。 （BTW，这里不是非谓语吧，应该是主动关系，seem是情态动词，不影响主谓宾关系，所以life和change直接是主动关系才对啊...）

虽然是机翻 但是大部分人都认为C418只写环境/氛围（Ambient）真的是老误解了

《I lack an emotion》是为一个朋友的游戏而制作的，《I can’t afford mastering》是在柏林独立游戏节上制作的，这是一个TIGSource社区运营的活动。 “Sometimes I make video game music”是为一个基于动作52凯特里奇的游戏果酱制作的。

不是很好，但那是一场游戏！所有这些环境歌曲基本上都是用Absynth和mutate按钮创建的，哈哈。非常适合快速成型！ 《Long songs are for people who don’t have time to make them short”》也许值得一提，因为这是多么愚蠢。那时候我想把短歌迅速地做成单曲，结果就是这样。人们说我只写环境！呸！

由于组织不善，游戏果酱本身并没有真正成功，但我创造了大量的东西，最终还是出现在了这张专辑里。 也有很多环境工程，我到今天还有点自豪。比如《words you will never understand》，《I will perhaps never meet you in person》，《I don’t need to know you to be in love》，

这张专辑的折衷主义是非常强烈的，我想这就是为什么它有点老了，也许？种类繁多，任何人都能在里面找到东西。

尽管如此，当我决定也许我可以自己尝试的时候，我还是被迫去工作。我仍然梦想着这种不得不工作的感觉，尽管我刚刚决定要自由。 …感觉就像我把同一句话写了五遍。嗯，是的，那是一种强烈的情感，哈哈。 这张专辑是我为几件事做的事情的集合。大部分都是我在TIGSource社区的时候写的