mixed and mastered by Forgotten Dreams
https://soundcloud.com/forgottendreams  <3

Hajnal

Cure

I'm fighting with this track for a long time now. First drafts were created back in 2018 august. At the moment it was a post-rock / progressive rock epic that included every trick and practice i knew about music composition. Then i stopped writing music for a few years and it stayed in it's unreleased demo form for long.

Since last year i started this new electronic project, i thought some of my older, unrealised music should be repurposed to finally come to life. I pictured it will be a quite easy task.

Well, it was an extremely hard undertaking for me to strip this one to it's bare minimums and reshape it into a more ambient / chillout sounding thingy. But i learned so much about music and myself along the way...
I've written and erased melodies and chords in this track for so long that i could have written a whole album from the deleted ideas only.

The cover art is a Midjourney generated image with a strong influence from The Fountain (2006), a movie in which a man learns to let things go and embrace fate after a 500 years long journey. I think it is rather fitting. 

Thanks again for the beautiful mixing and mastering work to https://soundcloud.com/forgottendreams

Hope you will like it.

Travelers

Believe it or not, this track was born, because i started playing with Spitfire's Christmas instruments (https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/christmas if you are interested).
While i liked the sounds, i did not like the music itself, so i started switching up the instruments and adding more and more of that Argon Antlers sauce i'm working on.

Guess this year i listened to too much deep techno, because at one point it morphed into this repetition of washed and mushy melodies and textures. I tried to use the least amount of musical ideas and then stretch them for as long as possible. I really like what it became.

Even though the sound quality is not as good as before. This time my majestic friend https://soundcloud.com/forgottendreams was not available to mix and master the music. So, I had to mix it, and I gave it to the SoundCloud AI for mastering. Honestly, I don't like the way how it sounds and thought of not releasing this until I know how to handle the mix myself, but I'm postponing my career for so long that taking a pause again would be more painful than accepting some subpar qualities.

Later, I'll make a remix to do some justice for this one. Until then, hope you'll find something in it that is worth hearing.

EDIT at 23.11.12: i replaced the audio file with a new master. It is still far from perfect, but much better than before...

Vertigo

Gravity is a piece about letting go and embracing change. Musicians always tell you that their latest music is the best they have ever written, so this might be unusual to hear, but this track is simultaneously my most and least favorite piece of music i have written in recent years.

A few months ago i had some pretty traumatic experiences that made me unable to focus on any creative work. When i finally sat down to make something, i didn't wanted to write anything significant or important, i only wanted to experiment with some new sounds and ideas. This piece was almost finished in a few hours. I wanted to widen the palette of the sounds i'm using, introducing new bass instruments, a new approach to create drum tracks and also trying out a i - bVII - i - ii chord progression, which i believe is extremely rare to find.

First i was hesitant to even share this one because i feel it is very generic and predictable in many ways, yet somehow it captured perfectly my state of mind after the wounds of last year. Sometimes you just have to accept that things change around you and stop hold on to your hurt feelings, so your mind and body can be at the same place again. Far from the place that pulls you down.
I am listening to it for weeks now and somehow feel better every time. It is a very strange adventure to me, but there you go...

Gravity

Distant Lives is the result of my first experiments with frequency modulation. I finally opened Ableton Operator to see how it works, and when I heard this three-overtone saw wave modulated by a 4-bit sine, I instantly fell in love with it. I randomly played some notes on my MIDI keyboard, and this surprisingly sweet melody emerged.

It reminded me of a few images I shot last winter at the Siófok pier—a red lantern coloring the shoreline and casting new light on the dusk. Aren't we all just mesmerized by the sight of great lakes and seas? Contemplating distances and unreachable goals? Are there people standing on the other side, looking in our direction with the same curiosity as us? Is there a better life waiting for us all, or is this the better life?

This is a rare case of image and sound inspiring each other in a feedback loop. I quite like this piece, and I hope you find something in it too.

Distant Lives

Don't forget to check out the music video i made for this track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WRuWlw3qO8

I had an idea in April. I wanted to create a chord progression where some notes of the chord were only present in the background synths, and some notes were only played in my usual delayed arpeggio patterns. I had no idea how it would sound. Well, it instantly blasted me away. This time, I loved my main theme so much that every other melody and riff felt lame right next to it. I had this 30-second loop of synthwave awesomeness, and I had no idea how to continue it. So it took me a while to finish and polish it into a whole piece. Fortunately, I got some help from my friend and great, great guitar virtuoso, @jonas_tamas.

I guess sooner or later I have to create a new musical project to separate my ambient and my more aggressive ideas. We’ll see.

Drifting Through

Hi!
I am experimenting with shorter ambient pieces at the moment. It is kinda strange to use so few ideas and sounds in a song, but these kind of challenges are pushing you to new territories you might never see otherwise. 

Expect to see a bunch of new music in this style so i can give you a whole list of music to sleep / chill / study to. : )

Vanishing Waves

𝐻̶͎̜͔̭̺̪́𝑒̷̖͎̰̰̲̬̼͈̮̍͆͊͋̀̆́𝓎̵̧̢̥̰̘̦͍̼͖̽̋̀̽̚!̸̨̯̜̻͈͑̒̈̀̐̕̚ ̸̧̛̭͖̫̗̺͆̐̈́̓̓̀𝑀̷̨̡̻͔̦̹̺̲̄̅̄𝓎̴̛̱̣̲̟̌̾̑͛́͌͜͜ ̴̥̣̂𝓃̶̨̛̭̜̈͐̒̄̍͐𝒶̴̼̘̤̘̰̭̱͕͆͌͑𝓂̷̧̢̱̜͔̘̝͙̾̂̅̍̍̓̕̚ͅͅ𝑒̵̘̗͕̐̔̑͆̕͠ ̷̛̛͎͙̹̙͉̎͌͑͑̈́͘͠ͅ𝒾̴͎̎̑͐̓͘͘̚͝𝓈̴̧̺̘̫̥͝ ̷̡̻̰̗̭̓𝐵̷̛̪̳̤̜̂̿̒͒̚̚͝ͅͅ𝑒̶̱̤̦͈̗̣̘̟̌̽̄͊𝓃̶̞͚̇͌̄͒̇̎̑́̚͜͜𝒸̷̨̛͕͈̅̓͌͂͐͑̌̏͐𝑒̸͎̲̓̂
Hey! My name is Bence and i play guitar for 15+ years now... 
I listen and play mostly progressive rock, neofolk and jazz. 

I created this project to explore textures, soundscapes and subtle nuances that are exclusive to synth music. And also to challenge myself and become less reliant on my favourite instrument, while exploring ideas i haven't tried out before. 

Trying to find rhythmic patterns and serenity between the lines. Both in music and life...
𝘳̷̢̤̳̗̘̱̩̩͛̊̀͆̈́͗͊ͅ𝘩̶̢̣͓͇͉̑͗𝘺̸͙̔̄̐̍̐̽𝘵̸̫̮͓̏𝘩̴͍̰͙̩̉̍̓̈͗̚͝𝘮̷͖̦̗͉͕̰͑́͐̇̃͘̚͝ͅ𝘪̷͍͖̲̋͂𝘤̶̜͌̈́̓ ̵̛͓͚͖̹̱̙̠̪̌͂̇̀̅̂͑̕𝘱̸̧̡̛̤̙̖̦̉͌̍̂̓̑͜𝘢̴̲͔̪̇͂̌͠𝘵̸̨̭͉̪̯̙̤̫̰̲̀͐͠𝘵̴̢̱̰̞̦͓͈̀̎̿̍̓̄́͊́̓𝘦̸̨̥̗̣̦̙͂͒̈́͐̒͛̀̽𝘳̸̢̹̝͈̯̏̀̅𝘯̸̛̛͎̐͆͋̄̿̚𝘴̸͕̆̓͒̈ ̵̤̍̽̃̾̉̽̓͂̚𝘢̴̢̛̘̻̤̞̮̺͓͋̇̊͑̽̓͘͘̕𝘯̵̠͖͚̙̯͈̄̑̑̒̅̑͜𝘥̷̡̙̟͔̤̣͉̔̄̂̈́́̎͛̈̕ ̸̪̜̺̅̋͐͐̚𝘴̷͉͙̘̭̥̬̯̘̟̆͊𝘦̵̲͖́̈̉͠𝘳̶̧̨͒̐̆𝘦̶̢̳̮̩̗̦͉̭͉͙̄͐̎͆̀̕𝘯̶̡̼͉̦̄𝘪̸͈̹͎͔̠̯̦̗͇͙̚𝘵̶̥̲͋𝘺̶̼̰̖̮̼̮̖̟̆̅͛͆̐̽͠ ̸̧̞̮͂͌𝘣̵͖̩͕̮̭͚̍̐̓𝘦̶̛̘̲̣̭͛̂̄̄̆̚𝘵̶̨̢̛̠͈̤͌̓͗̔̈́̍͘̕𝘸̴̫̫̮͉́̊̅𝘦̴̢̝͚̔̆͆𝘦̸͕̺͗̀𝘯̶̧̣̳̙͉̃͊̏ͅ ̴̢͇͔̹̝̗̖̆͜͝ͅ𝘵̶͕̝̑͒̇͐̓͌̾̅̇̕

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