The song was born in 2014 in La Serena, Chile, as the first musical project Sery ever created—a way to process what couldn't be expressed with words. For four years, the project was abandoned and revisited multiple times.
"The day it happened I was left speechless and weeks went by asking myself if it was real and at 14 years old I didn't know what was happening."
"For years I thought it needed a voice, but I finally understood that silence also tells the story."
"I felt life was slipping away, so I decided it was time to begin my artistic career."
"I didn't know anything about music theory at that time, what came out was just the pure emotions of a 14-year-old trying to understand the incomprehensible."
12.02 marks a defining moment in Sery's artistic career, a single that took nearly a decade to see the light. Started in 2014 as the artist's first musical project, but not completed until 2018, this track represents a profound emotional journey through grief, loss, and the search for identity. Remastered and accompanied by an experimental video in 2023, 12.02 is more than a song: it's a sonic and visual testimony of how we process the incomprehensible when we're left speechless.
"The day it happened I was left speechless and weeks went by asking myself if it was real and at 14 years old I didn't know what was happening."
For years, I thought this song needed a voice, lyrics to explain everything. But silence also speaks. 12.02 was born from the darkest moment of my adolescence: my father's death. I created it when I was 14 years old without knowing anything about music theory, only knowing I needed to express something I couldn't put into words.
I abandoned and resumed the project constantly for four years. In 2023, I felt life was slipping away and it was time to formally begin my artistic career. This instrumental piece became my third official release, but in the chronology of my life and my art, it represents the origin of everything.
12.02 isn't just a date: it's the breaking point in the life of a 14-year-old who lost their father.
The song was born in 2014 in La Serena, Chile, as the first musical project Sery ever created—a way to process what couldn't be expressed with words. For four years, the project was abandoned and revisited multiple times. The artist felt it needed to have a voice, lyrics to explain everything, but something never fit.
It wasn't until 2018, while living in Rancagua, that the track was finally considered finished, remaining instrumental. And it wasn't until 2023 that it finally saw the light as Sery's third official single, remastered and accompanied by an experimental video created with AI assistance.
The music video visually reflects the grieving process: the artist appears in AI-distorted versions of themselves, symbolizing the loss of consciousness and reality. Scenes show the journey to the father's house, reviewing photographs, visiting the cemetery. In a meta-narrative detail, the cover art from Sery's first two singles appears attached to photos in the video, acknowledging that while 12.02 was the third official release, chronologically it represents the first chapter of the story.
The visual climax rewinds beyond the beginning, showing the artist in their old room looking at photos with increasingly distorted shots. At the end, they appear doubled, symbolizing the fragmentation of identity and the effects of trauma on an adolescent's mental health facing an incomprehensible loss.
Currently based in Montreal, Canada, Sery looks back at this foundational work that began in Chile—a piece that has traveled with them across continents and years, finally finding its voice through silence.
Created without direct influences. 12.02 emerged purely from intuition and emotion rather than musical reference points. As a 14-year-old with no knowledge of music theory, Sery created something entirely from instinct, not knowing what could come from the process—making this track a raw, unfiltered expression of grief.
Canción instrumental <3
Instrumental Song <3
Anna Arcos (camerawoman)
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