Twilight Electric was a piece improvised on electric piano at, as the title suggests, around midnight and recorded in early 2021. It is by no means perfect and has had no editing, mastering, or overdubbing done to the track as recorded. However, as it has been sitting in the computer archives for almost a year at this point, I think it's a solid track to close out 2021 in reflective minimalism and even silence. As always, the keyboard playing of Peter Broderick, Nils Frahm, Ben Lukas Boysen, and even the work of Miles Davis associate Chick Chorea or Tim Buckley's guitar/keyboard partner Lee Underwood remains a heavy influence. If nothing else, improvisations like this have taught me that an electric keyboard late at night has almost limitless possibilities.

Artwork by VenatroxSound - Copyright 2021

Twilight Electric

Composed in Beepbox
Edited in Audacity
Paradox is Half Life 2 soundtrack meets Game Boy Advance meets post-classical soundscape ambience. It is the result of my realization that everyone's favorite online chiptune composition website now has extensive reverb, bit crush, delay, and distortion features. Clearly I'm no expert in music theory or composition, but I would like to think myself at least capable of developing ominously distorted drums, an inevitably crumbling atmosphere, and just a bit of melody, and that is what comprises Paradox.

Paradox

Reflection, much like Paradox, is another long-form track constructed in beepbox. However, unlike Paradox, this one is more of an experiment in melody and, for the first time, vocals(!). Thanks to Stagnation (https://soundcloud.com/ambient_music) for mixing on the final product. Thanks to all of the great singer-songwriters? I'm looking at you Steve Piccolo.

Reflection

This is my first ever track recorded on the Zoom H5 Handy Recorder with the Zoom XYH-5 Microphone attached. All of my previous recordings were made on a voice recording app on my Samsung S7. This is a definitely a step-up in production quality for me and I intend all future tracks not made digitally to be recorded using this device. I feel the Zoom has a far more fuller in-depth sound that help makes this somewhat lengthy experiment on chord progressions really come alive.

When All The Pieces Fall Into Place...

A sneak peek of the first part of my second edit in the Losthall series! More weird ambient remixes of my jam sessions!

Halls (WIP, Unfinished)

Dedicated to one of my biggest inspirations, Ben Lukas Boysen
This mix of several of his tracks and an interview conducted in 2015 is entailed here for purposes of juxtaposition. This is not meant to disrespect the artist in any way, I only want to promote his music in a new, exciting context, more specifically, how does emotionally, he produce such masterpieces?

Tracks (In order of appearance)
The Collective Podcast - Ben Lukas Boysen Episode 116
Hecq - Sknss (Vs. Snog) (From 0000, 2007)
Hecq - I Will Survive feat. Nongenetic (From Steeltounged, 2009)
Hecq - Dis (From Night Falls, 2008)
Hecq -0015 (From 0000, 2007)
Hecq - Shutter (From Avenger, 2011)
Hecq - I (From Mare Nostrum, 2015)
Hecq - Worlds End (From Chansons de geste, 2017)
Ben Lukas Boysen - Sorry (From Restive Official Soundtrack, 2013)

If anyone involved with this music with the rights to it would like me to take this down, please notify me and I will, but this is soundcloud for crying out loud, no one ever caught Boysen's fantastic mixtapes on here

I'm Pretty Sunny (Boysen's Revelation)

Lyrics
I saw the corpse on the side of the freeway
Dimly aware of its existence, the crumpled remains
Lay before the endless onslaught of salvation
Authenticity was its enemy
Truth had it stolen
And taxidermied it into piles of cash
Stretching for miles and miles
Every soul slowly sinking into its oblivion 
There was no hope for it
And so we passed it by
But let this be a warning
  
Roadkill Roadkill Who even pays their bills
Saw some van outside my window sill
Pulled up in the middle of the night
With three deer skulls glued to the seat
Nightmare rhymes you can’t beat

Art of navigation
Sonic alleviation
Bank crowd market crash
Bang, retaliation
Underground, disgusted,
Drugged up and busted
Can’t escape from what you’ve become
Ego, Megalomaniac, watch the tires crunch
Sonic alleviation
Can’t find answers I,
See animals twist and die by the bunch



Roadkill was one of my most challenging experiments. In late November of now last year, me and @Stagnation took to the streets to record an abundance of industrial noises and to build track concepts. This is the final result: a track built entirely off of edited field recordings and vocal samples created on that night. This track also acts as a grand accumulation of my influences: off-the-wall Aphex and Autechre-style IDM, Burial-esque and sometimes Nils Frahm-influenced Ambient, and, surprisingly, the brutal, destructive industrial Hip-Hop of groups such as Death Grips and clipping.  Thanks to @Stagnation for helping contribute concept ideas, recordings, and some amazing sound design for some of the beats and overall mix/master. Special thanks to Gabriel Chavaria for his amazing photography featured in the thumbnail, check out his amazing work on instagram!

Roadkill

The first in a series of upcoming ambient soundscapes built on a large catalog of field recordings from the past year. An old vinyl player, destroyed, distorted, and rebuilt into a horrible beast of invention creates an ambient soundscape through 30's big band music. An old keyboard simulates a grand orchestra, now in disarray.

Auferetur I (with Stagnation)

As Venatroxsound evolves into a duo featuring long-time collaborator Stagnation, production and workflow has also evolved. Now with FL Studio full version at our disposal, more complex, diverse, and detailed projects such as this single are expected to arise. For All Suns is the summation of all that Venatroxsound has accumulated to this point, months of work and frustration have produced this bizarre hybrid of post-rock, ambient, drone and modern classical. This track is dedicated to our experimental music discord server and their refusal of our constant use of the phrase "modern classical".

For All Suns

An old beepbox demo from a couple of months ago I thought I'd share.

Year Of COVID

Constructed entirely from found recordings of old, cheap keyboards designed as toys for children. As these keyboards glitched, cracked, and sputtered, they were recorded and then layered and looped to create something of a borderline tape-like electroacoustic nature. A zuzupet and a detuned ukulele also play a small role. While Boards of Canada reminisce about childhood nostalgia through old analog synths, we recall it from the inconsistences and chaos of everyday toys of the past. Keep in mind that I'm not being totally serious here. Enjoy.

Childhood

Now a duo with Stagnation (https://soundcloud.com/ambient_music), Venatroxsound is the project of two amateur musicians experimenting with all kinds of music ranging from techno-influenced electronica to ambient, drone, and even art pop (whatever that phrase is supposed to mean). All the art on this page is original and made by us.

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