@jessegyde: Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :-)

7th chords from Heptatonic scales with hemitonic sequence length below 4 played in sorted order and arpeggiated / shifted by their internal intervals.
Some root note offset and velocity movement added for interest.

Rapid Onset

This very experimental track began with the first two verses of lyrics, which were fueled by political & financial anger and anxiety. When I began producing the music, I realized I didn't want to convey anger at all, but rather a sense of undeniable dread. The dark EQing and resonant bass frequencies combined with the slow toiling along of the lazy kick drum are meant to create an atmosphere of inescapable doom. welcome to america.

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wake, rise, leave
work
home, sleep, repeat.

rent, food, car
not cheap
none to keep.

is this how it's supposed to be?
is no one looking out for me?

read, watch, hope
vote
but still no change.

stable health care
out of reach
unless you can pay.

is the best that we can do?
no help for folks like me and you?

this is the american dream.

stay home please
unless you're essential.

your wage will be the same
but now your life is the gamble.

is that too high a price to pay?
don't you want your insurance to stay?

we're all free to work and free to die
they could save us, but what's the fee to try?

is this the dream that we deserve?
or maybe we should get our turn...

this is the american dream.

american dream

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Dawn

reflection

traces of neon, etched
in electrodes invisble
carving through aural 
--landscapes,
electric spaces, reduced
to vibrations in fragrant
--atmospheres
gleaming in digital words;

binaries, dissolving 
into spectral 
----galaxies.

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	Introspectralism is a digital tone poem. It tells of the making, undoing, and resurrection of humanity and their world. Though no words exist in the album, except for the poem comprised of the album’s song titles, Ben tells the epic of a world through disembodied synthesized voices. Introspectralism is both nostalgic and futuristic, and submerges the listener into a mythical, ethereal world of inner contemplation. 

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Composition, mixing, sound design & production by Ben Vining
Mastered by Daniel Maldonado
Liner notes by Kristian Rodriguez

Cover art:
Original drawing by Cadence Stewart
Digital editing by Ben Vining

Introspectralism

Buy on Bandcamp

the last breath of a dying world.

to cleanse with electric rain

a planet to save

a land to claim

In Mourning, A Hope:

In this groove centric set, I remix some of my favorite electronic, experimental, and alternative music into four new tracks. This set is chill, features slow builds with beat drops, and does have vocals.

Track listing:

Sad Machine x Beings @ 0:33
- Sad Machine by Porter Robinson (Secret Sky live version)
- Beings by Madeon (Porter Robinson remix)
drops @ 1:16, 3:47

Hide and Seek x If I Had A Heart @ 4:47
- Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap
- If I Had A Heart by Fever Ray
drop @ 8:53

Count to Nine x Singularity @ 9:51
- Count to Nine by The Japanese House
- Singularity by Jon Hopkins
drops @ 12:06, 13:25, 15:52

Woods x Strobe x Emerald Rush @ 16:50
- Woods by Bon Iver (Ben Vining cover)
- Strobe by Deadmau5
- Woods by Bon Iver (original EP version)
- Emerald Rush by Jon Hopkins
drops @ 21:47, 24:11

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my takes on my faves

In this slowly evolving set, I remix several tracks from my discography into one cohesive piece of music. 

Tracks in this set (all tracks by Ben Vining):
- Sunrise (from "Intelligently Artificial")
- 3:45 pm on an average tuesday (from "Sonata for Synthesizers")
- Meditation (from "Intelligently Artificial")
- In Mourning, A Hope (from "Introspectralism"), feat. Kristian Rodriguez
- the last breath of a dying world. (from "Introspectralism")

ambient atmospheres

i made a free vibrato vst. (windows, vst3)

parameters:
depth, freq, stereo-width, studio (lookahead)

visualizer:
visualizes delay's readhead

design and programming by me.

here's the download link to the vst3 file and source code of NEL-19:
https://github.com/Mrugalla/NEL-19

NEL-19 (Free VST)

Hi, I'm Ben! I'm a producer, composer, DJ, and songwriter from Phoenix, AZ. I love experimenting with unconventional production techniques, and also creating my own custom digital instruments and effects. 

I believe that good music should be ear candy — it should make you want to turn it up loud and be enveloped by the sound. My music encompasses trance, ambient, and ethereal as well as experimental techno, EDM, and electroacoustic synthpop. I love exploring the intersection between a very expressive, human performance and the rigid digital roboticism of computerized effects.
 
The first instrument I built is still my personal favorite: my vocal harmonizer, Imogen. (Named after @imogenheap, the legend who inspired me to start creating my very first effects.) Imogen is a 12-voice real-time vocal harmonizer, timbre modifier, looper, and freezer.  

My favorite artists to listen to are @porter-robinson, @flume, @madeon, and @boniver.

I will always have my entire discography available right here on my SoundCloud account, because I want everyone to be able to hear my music for free -- and those that wish can click the links below and support me on Spotify, or buy my music on Apple Music or Bandcamp.

Learn more at www.benvining.com.

american dream

Ben Vining

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