Yamaoka explained this unique music combination a little further citing «Theme of Laura» as an example: «The melody [isn't] the most important
thing in a piece of music...» but for The Theme of Laura [Yamaoka] «based [his] music on a sad melody with a strong beat.»
In 2003 I played a game on my PlayStation 2 that involved flying a ship over colorful bands of light representing the various
tracks in pieces of music.
Through the musical concepts of steady beat and dynamics, they connected their concrete understanding of a rainstorm to an abstract representation of
weather in a piece of music.