Musical Inspiration for Tree's Early Life

Hey everyone, I just wanted to share some musical inspirations that have been influencing my ideas for the scene surrounding the final tree. I want to express musically not just it's birth, which is symbolized by the planting, but also it's future life as well.

I was really drawn to the delicate bell sounds in the intro of this Childish Gambino song, "Me and Your Mama".

If anyone was curious, this was the song that I played out loud in class that caught some people's attention

The second song that I've drawn inspiration from is "Hopeful" by Ta-ku. I love the bare piano intro that eventually introduces the dry strings. This very discreet addition of different elements to me symbolizes the stages of growth in the tree's life. 

Between the two songs I get a really strong feeling of night time from the Childish Gambino song, and early morning from the Ta-ku song. A part of me thinks this is influenced by the cover artwork for each song. This gave me an idea about expressing the passage of time and seasons with the compositions we make. I think there lies a lot of additional potential for story telling there.