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[Bethurum] Autumn Re-orchestrated (Feat. Michele Khazak)

Of Night - Extended Rework

I'm in the dark.
I'm in denial.
I'm in the wrong.
I've been down in the deepest depths since you've been gone.

Together we're rebels.
Alone I'm a criminal.
No better than the common thief. 
No better than who I was before...I met you.
You-You-You.

Call me mad, call me weak and I hit the floor.
Lift me up, send me flying cause you called me yours
Don't need to take a breath or breathe what a waste of time.
It was just the smoke in your eyes clouding up my mind.

Don't leave me.
Don't leave me down here.
I need you - want you more than I want air.


Depths (feat. Nouela)

Nobody - Light Remix - (feat. Nouela)

Chopped up psuedo-dubstep version of "Curls" from Bethurum's new double disc release "Dossier"

Original track available on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=319157509&s=143441 

[Bethurum] Dossier : Curls Remixed

From Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Sound_.E2.86.92_color_synesthesia

"Sound → color synesthesia
Cytowic calls sound → color synesthesia "something like fireworks": voice, music, and assorted environmental sounds such as clattering dishes or dog barks trigger color and simple shapes that arise, move around, and then fade when the sound stimulus ends.[3] For some, the stimulus type is limited (e.g., music only, or even just a specific musical key); for others, a wide variety of sounds triggers synesthesia.
Sound often changes the perceived hue, brightness, scintillation, and directional movement. Some individuals see music on a "screen" in front of their face. Deni Simon, for whom music produces waving lines "like oscilloscope configurations—lines moving in color, often metallic with height, width and, most importantly, depth. My favorite music has lines that extend horizontally beyond the 'screen' area."[3]
Though individuals hardly ever agree on what color a given sound is (composers Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov famously disagreed on the colors of music keys), synesthetes show the same trends as non-synesthetes do. For example, both groups say that louder tones are brighter than dull, soft tones, where as higher tones are smaller and lighter than low ones. Low tones are both larger and darker than high ones."

[Bethurum] Dossier : Synesthesia

One of the most favored tracks on the album.



Try and catch the something that just slipped away.

[Bethurum] Dossier : Running

Vocals by Maggie Godwin of Chassis
www.soundcloud.com/chassis

Lyrics:
Did you mean to leave me lonely?
The night is darkest before dawn.
Weakly greet me and besiege me.
What’s good is good the second time around.

Before I say these words to you...
Open your eyes. 
Open your ears.
I love(d) you.
Don’t hate me.
I’m sorry.
But it's not here and we weren’t there.


[Bethurum] Dossier : After Dawn (feat. Chassis)

At age five, one minute of piano earned Benjamin Bethurum one minute of video gaming – and so was honed his button-pushing dexterity. Spared from a coding vocation by his second album (Versa Vice), which caught Microsoft’s attention, Bethurum began his career as a sound designer and spent three years creating audio strategies (and beeps, blips and clicks) for the The Man. Today he lends his two ears and ten digits to the international mobile-hardware company HTC (creators of the Google phone). Senior Sound Designer by day (depending on the time zone), he scores marketing campaigns, creates sonic brands and makes ringtones that chime on millions of devices worldwide. Enjoy them in symphony the next time you leave a show or land at an airport. Nights find him in a home-studio – surrounded by vintage James Bond vinyl, Vonnegut novels and an antique radio – creating soundscapes for full-size speakers. A private background in music theory, and the left-brain of an engineer let Bethurum compose, manipulate and master organic elements that he stacks into songs like card castles of sound. Counterbalancing cinematic swells and endearing melodies with gritty beats and obese bass lines, Bethurum’s music is a portal to the peaks and valleys of his inspiration: love, youth, mortality and momentum. As compelled to create as most of us are to eat, his exponential output is squared by his most recent release, Dancing With Your Ghost. Benjamin is now the creative director of Gogoro - A startup which we revolutionize the way cities use energy.