Cityscape 08 took some time to develop. I worked with an old voice memo from 2015 for the opening midwest fingerstyle riff and then was a bit stuck. I did the cool Tame Impala fake fade out effect and decided to use that as a transition to the next segment which ended up very Tycho like. I plan to do more cityscape stuff with synth in the next volume.

Canandaigua (can-an-day-gua) is a city on finger lakes that I once went to and took these very soothing and calming photos of the boat marina. This track reminded me of water and i liked these photos so I decided to use it!

Canandaigua (Cityscapes 08)

We know that I have never been quite screwed on tightly
It does not help that you make me hate myself nightly

You make me feel badly about myself
Just when I think I have the time to heal
You make me feel badly about myself
When you tell me what we have is real

Every door I try to lock up
Seems to open on its own
So now I carry salt inside my pocket
To help ward off the ghosts

You make me feel badly about myself
though I know you’re just trying to help
 
We both knew it would never last that long, my sweet
It does not help that I made you hate yourself like me

you should not have to worry that these doors are closing
I have found that the ghosts are quite as friendly, you’ll see

You Make Me Feel Badly About Myself

Missed Frizzle (prod. Jisung Shin)

Textures Arc The Points is dedicated to my late teacher Mark Chambers, who was a great composer that often introspect about music. Thank you for introducing me to the world of “Spectra and Pixies” and the world of electronics

Textures Arc The Points was commissioned by the Debris Project; utilizing sound solely from their database.

Engulfed by the many points, as these materials conglomerate within the plane 
Matter as figurative and external

Conglomerates veil the arcs

Meandering through the flow, at times with extreme exaggeration Flow that is never the same
As flow is made up of impermanent elements

Cyclic material that occurs “once”; an ephemeral quality 
Often unfair

Endure with an inner rhythm of
Textures of a phantom-like movement
Veiled by the engulfment of the points

We endure through perception of, not form, but rather

Yielding the flow
And respond to the “through” material

Textures Arc The Points

Wu Wei is a piece of music inspired by the Daoist concept of effortless action. It was made by sending a sequence to the Behringer Neutron and Model D, while running the sounds through Echo devices feeding back into each other. There's a heavily processed field recording  of rain and thunder in the background to add texture and ambience.

Wu Wei

Produced By GC
Mixed By Jack Rudman

Lyrics:

Chorus: 
Youre still, using that manipulation
Tellin me your sorry but you know by now that it's too late and
Dont know, why the hell you tryin it cuz
Everytime I think about you my heart dies inside a bit and 
I dont, even wanna say
All the shit you've done to me to fuck up my whole day, so 
No way, we just cant be friends
Hope I never ever ever ever see your ass again
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Verse 1:
yeah, I know that chorus might seem harsh
But you've changed your whole tune since you've seen me flourish in the arts
Tryna hit my phone up with all that "I know it's been a while" shit 
How you gonna call me when your ass has been so childish?
I thought what we had was somethin that could live forever tho 
Opened up my heart and let you in like it's an envelope 
Left me so unstable like a beat without a metronome 
Now How you gonna reconcile all that through the telephone?
You know, if you had even an ounce of self reflection 
By now you'd have found out you fucked me up with no protection
And by now you'd recognize by fuckin with those other guys you've just completely jeopardized our chance at keeping that connection
But shit thats your decision I know sometimes life ain't fair
But you know that you cant blame me for just sayin I dont care
I done moved on to way bigger things now if you ain't aware
So if you dont mind it you can kindly kiss my derriere, Hah
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(Chorus) 
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Verse 2:
Now wait a second let me guess it
You've made a few mistakes but hey I guess you learned your lesson?
Think its plain to see you just like taking me for granted 
Yeah I've heard of second ones but you've tons of chances
You've done dropped the ball on me about as hard as Zion
Ain't no way in hell I'll be that shoulder you can cry on
Let bygones be bygones, nah imma keep it real
I wrote a couple rhymes to tell you xactly how I feel
The thought of you it makes sick as any fuckin pathogen
Sex with you was terrible at best it was some average shit
Wish that I could ship you off with Amazons old packagin
Girl your hearts as black as skin upon the average African 
Us departing really was a blessing in disguise 
Now if you dont mind just leave a message at the tone
hopefully at the end of this song you done realized
All I wants for you to leave my fuckin ass alone (fuckin bitch)  
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Chorus

Never Ever (prod. GC)

mistakes

[saving time,
watching the clock hands blur my point of view
clouds of cotton candy taste so sweet
when i know my tongue strikes true, oooh]

[and i wish that sunsets weren't so fast,
slipping from my fingertips
i can count the days since i broke through,
like the force of springtime's kiss, oooh]

[breathe slowly, external
catch the wind in your peacekeeper journal
let your problems go, find another way
let yourself see the light of another day]

[breathe slowly, internal
catch the wind in your peacekeeper journal
let your problems go, find another way
let yourself see the light of another day]

breathe slowly.

old lyrics new song... who still rocking.. Vivid Music

RaymoJr's Album

WishSong

So Sad

Focusing on making more authentic music for you,  I hope you enjoy it!!
(demo)
Not For profit <3

Moon-Water (prod. Cosmic Music)

David Quang-Minh Nguyen is an audio engineer, sound designer/re-recording mixer, and composer of concert music. His current interests lie in composing acousmatic works that explore multi-channel loudspeaker expansion, various types of sound spatialization, and immersive audio.

Recognized nationally and internationally, David has had his works presented at the June in Buffalo New Music Festival, where he received individual master classes with Harvey Sollberger, Martin Bresnick, Roger Reynolds, and Brian Ferneyhough. He was an active participant in the Festival DME under the direction of Åke Parmerud, Musique & Recherches Académie d'été de composition électroacoustique under the direction of Annette Vande Gorne and João Pedro Oliveira, and the Sounds Around Me Festival under Thomas Gorbach. He was also selected by Master Artist Robert Normandeau for a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

His works have been presented at more than fifty national and international events, and he is a laureate or finalist in numerous competitions.  He has been published on ABLAZE Records' Electronic Masters Vol. 7 and received an honorable mention at the XII° Destellos Electroacoustic Competition 2019 for his work Misprints.  He also placed 2nd in the XIII° Destellos competition for Adumbrations, was a finalist for the PRIX CIME 2019, and won 2nd place for the ASCAP/SEAMUS Award for his work Weight Stranding. In 2021, his SEAMUS-commissioned piece Whale Song Stranding was selected for presentation on the SEAMUS 31 CD and received the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis selection.  David was awarded the Prix CIME 2023 Residency Award for Whale Song Stranding.  His work Texture Arc the Points won 1st place in the ULJUS Međunarodno Pijanističko Takmičenje Smederevo Competition and 2nd place in the prestigious Concours Biennal de Composition Acousmatique Métamorphoses.

David Q. Nguyen holds a BM from Old Dominion University, where he studied with Andrey R. Kasparov and Mark Chambers.  He also graduated at the top of his class from The Omega Studios School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences with a focus on Audio Engineering in the Music Industry and Film/Television.  He has received his Master and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where his primary teachers are Reynold Tharp, Erik Lund, Eli Fieldsteel, Sever Tipei, and Scott A. Wyatt.