Elise Hua

The theme extends from heartbeat to explore life and death. The heart is coincidentally the organ that symbolizes life.

The theme of this whole album is very introverted. Imaging yourself as a fetus, can you hear the outside world from the mother's belly? Theoretically, the hearing ability of a fetus has not fully developed, and there should be nothing heard while surrounded by liquid and the mother's organs and skin. Maybe there are some muffled noises like hiding underwater listening to the outside world.

There is a background noise like the sound of water throughout this whole track. In addition to creating an underwater atmosphere, on the other hand, the idea comes from the impression of accompanying my mother to the obstetric examination when I was a child. The sound I heard during the examination of the fetus was very similar to the sound of breathing, but the fetus should not be able to breathe. I don't know what that sound was. I have never been pregnant and I have no idea. Don't ask me. Anyway it is only based on that impression in 1996.

If reincarnation does exist, I always have an image in my mind: there is an ocean, and the sun sets in the distance and then sinks into the water.
We make a coffin for the deceased, as if building a boat for him, so that he can float to the west towards the sunset. If he follows the sunset, will he return to life with the sun from the east the next morning?

Near the end of this track, the low-pass filter of the guitar is slowly pushed away. The sound becomes clear, and there is a "brushing~" effect, which sounds much like coming out of water that symbolizes birth. This track ends with a blowing sound.

I heard the Norwegian black metal musician, Varg Vikernes, said that the birthday cake symbolizes the placenta. The candle on the cake, traditionally in a red spiral shape, symbolizes the umbilical cord. When a baby is born, it is necessary to make it cry, because the first breath represents the birth of a new life. That is why the candle has to be blown out on birthdays. When the candle is blown out, it means cutting the umbilical cord. You are reborn.

However, many film and television works use a blown-out candle to represent death. So, is it birth or death at the end of this track? I do not know either.


從心跳延伸出來的主題，探討生命與死亡，正因為心臟也是象徵生命的器官。

專輯主題是很內向性的，如果換個角度想像自己是胎兒，在母體裡能聽到外界的聲音嗎？照理說聽力還沒發育完全，周圍被液體包裹著，隔著母親的器官與皮膚，應該什麼也聽不到，也許就像躲在水底下聽外界的聲音，一些悶悶的雜音。

貫穿全曲有個像水聲的底噪，除了營造水下的氛圍，另一方面是來自小時候陪母親去產檢的印象，檢查胎兒時聽到的聲音，很像呼吸聲，但是胎兒應該不會呼吸才對，我不知道那是什麼聲音，我沒懷孕過我也不知道不要問我，總之就是憑那個印象，那是1996年的事。

如果輪迴轉世是真的，我腦海裡總有個意象：有大海，夕陽會在遠處那裡落下，沈入水中。
我們為死者做一個棺材，好像為他打造一艘小船，讓他可以順利地往西方漂向夕陽，跟隨著太陽落下的話，他明天是不是也會和太陽一起從東方重生呢？

接近尾聲時慢慢將吉他的低通濾波器推開，聲音變得清晰，還會有「刷～」的效果，很像從水中出來，象徵出生，最後以一個吹氣聲結束。

我聽挪威黑金屬音樂人 Varg Vikernes 說的，生日蛋糕象徵胎盤，蛋糕上的蠟燭，正統是一根紅色螺旋狀的那種，象徵臍帶。嬰兒出生時都要讓他哭，因為那第一口呼吸，代表新生命的誕生，所以生日時要吹蠟燭，蠟燭吹熄的同時也代表剪斷臍帶，恭喜你又重生了。

可是許多影視作品會用吹熄的蠟燭來代表死亡，所以音樂到最後是出生還是死亡？我也不知道。