DeepWokens Best

"In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain, 
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp, 
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!"

( - William Blake, 'The Tyger')

Sin-Smelted Scoriae

"yet now!
the sun fades out as thousand-voiced
  the lamb does howl back at the wolf,
       unhinging far its maw,
            and lunging for the neck -
the blood-starved beast is eaten,
and the hunter now is prey.

the field-mouse at the falcon ruby-eyed shall leap
and tear apart with claws its feathers and its wings,

the stray gazelle, wild-eyed and fanged,
shall hunt its fear-elected king -
the dread-maned lion, - in a petty feast;

the rabbit now shall turn to beast,
blood-starved, with fire in its eyes,
it stalks the fox, in wait of time to strike."

( - Naktigonis, 'our book of modernity')
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"[...] A humming vibration is all around you, resolving into new tones as you let your perception wander over its octaves. Your eye wanders up towards the snow that covers the peak. Snowflakes float eternally in a stilled wind. Layers of packed snow perch precariously on each other, unsettled by the sound of the vibration. You are staring at the beginning of an avalanche, and you can almost imagine, almost feel all that snow collapsing down the slopes towards you.

But you are safe in a moment that's been stretched, pulled like taffy, soft and warm and enveloping your body."

( - Fallen London, 'A Dream of Stillness: Look' (Upon A Painted Sea) storylet)

INSOMNIA

"While the statue is the raw material of nightmares, there is something soothing about the idea that even a beast like this might be harnessed; that there is the chance of such an ally, for those who crack the code of offerings and prayer. Whether it is actually listening, it is impossible to tell. The thought that it even might, however, is something to hold onto in the dark."

( - Sunless Skies, 'Carillon - An Overgrown Shrine' storylet)
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"The man who is traveling and does not yet know the city awaiting him along his route wonders what the palace will be like, the barracks, the mill, the theater, the bazaar. In every city of the empire every building is different and set in a different order: but as soon as the stranger arrives at the unknown city [...], he immediately distinguishes which are the princes’ palaces, the high priests’ temples, the tavern, the prison, the slum. This – some say – confirms the hypothesis that each man bears in his mind a city made only of differences, a city without figures and without form, and the individual cities fill it up.

This is not true of Zoe. [...] The traveler roams all around and has nothing but doubts: he is unable to distinguish the features of the city, the features he keeps distinct in his mind also mingle. He infers this: if existence in all its moments is all of itself, Zoe is the place of indivisible existence. But why, then, does the city exist? What line separates the inside from the outside, the rumble of wheels from the howl of wolves?"

( - Italo Calvino, 'Invisible Cities')

Kyrie

MrBeast rap made by Freshy Kanal
Catwhisker made by Naktigonis
Remix made by Vendy#1946 on discord

Deepwoken Aelita MrBeast (MADE BY Vendy#1946 ON DISCORD NOT ME!!!!)

agamatsu deepwoken singing

skeletons!

JANUARY IS A SHIT MONTH. WOEFUL, SLUGGISH, SLOW. LIKE A LINGERING COLD, LIKE A SINKING HEADACHE.

ain't it Hard to get back into the groove of things after the holiday season? genuine mess. anyway here's Beats before i lose my mind.

experimenting with vocal chops, stratification of EQ, mixing, balancing, etc etc etc.

contains song of fathoms / oscillation band version + recording of Me Singing the lyrics + a 75bpm beat from one of the cymatics percussive sample libraries + Saucy Bass.

(yes 'song of fathoms' vocal version coming with volume 2 full release. no this is Not it, and the vocal recording sample here is an early draft)

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hail to the tide!
honoured by the sea,
journey to the fathoms in bravery.
us you will guide,
bravest of the brave,
even should the ocean become your grave!

may you return,
victory in hand -
may you once again tread on steady land.
glory you'll earn,
echo shall your name
in the books of history, crowned in fame.

onward, to the darkest chasms!
may you never falter,
and may your way be led by Song!

onward, to the deepest fathoms!
may the light protect you,
may you return triumphant, strong!

to the tide to the sea to the tide to the sea to the tide to the

"TIRIS - the bittersweet awareness that all things must end

[...] Other times, the impermanence of everything around us feels haunting. To think that a thousand-year-old cathedral won't always be there. That entire cities can be forgotten in a manner of decades, vibrant languages dwindled into obscurity, fearsome gods relinquished to old books, old books turned to dust. How casually the world discards our work, with nothing but a shrug.

[...]

The mountains too are steadily crumbling away, inch by inch, year by year, soon to be recycled back into the fiery mantle from which they came. Alas, even the world is not long for this world, soon to be swallowed up by the sun. Soon enough the stars will burn out, too, leaving little else but an echo of radiation, reverberating into a heatless void. And there will be no way to tell that time is passing at all."

( - John Koenig, 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows')
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"adomania
(n.) the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all of those years with fanciful names are bursting from their hypothetical cages into an arena of the present, furiously bucking your grip while you slip around in your saddle, with one hand reaching for the reins, the other waving up high like a schoolkid who finally knows the answer to the question."

( - John Koenig, 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows')
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Buy the Deepwoken: Original Soundtrack (Vol. I) CD here (campaign running until 13th May)!:
https://virtuallynothing.bandcamp.com...
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My thanks to Hautdesert for helping with the visual composition of this visualiser.

Background visualiser art by guest artist Nyme/Nymea:
• https://twitter.com/spoiledskin
• beefcage on Discord

11:59

" 'Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave
Need no such aids as Superstition lends,
To steel their hearts against the dread of Death.' "

[...]

"But 'twas a transient calm. A storm was near,
An unsuspected storm. His hour was come.
The impious challenger of power divine
Was now to learn that Heaven, though slow to wrath,
Is never with impunity defied."

( - William Cowper, "The Task", Book VI, 'The Winter Walk At Noon')
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Buy the Deepwoken: Original Soundtrack (Vol. I) CD here (campaign running until 13th May)!:
https://virtuallynothing.bandcamp.com...
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My thanks to Hautdesert for helping with the visual composition of this visualiser.

Background visualiser art by guest artist Nyme/Nymea:
• https://twitter.com/spoiledskin
• beefcage on Discord
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ELEISON

"Thus it is said that the greatest harm that can befall the army [...] [stems from] hesitation, while the disasters that strike the Three Armies are born in doubt."

( - Wu-tzu, "Wuzi", Chapter 3, 'Controlling The Army')
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Background visualiser art by guest artist Nyme/Nymea:
• https://x.com/spoiledskin
• beefcage on Discord

The Better Part Of Valour

"‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few."

( - Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'The Masque Of Anarchy')
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Background visualiser art by guest artist Nyme/Nymea:
• https://x.com/spoiledskin
• beefcage on Discord

Chainbreaker

recording test with my new AKG P120 mic, w/the Hakan P110 Pop Killer filter! really excited abt my new audio recording set up!

if this sounds familiar, that's because i did something very similar before, except with a phone mic and worse vocal technique! see here:
https://soundcloud.com/naktigonis/loch-lomond

this is that vintage Gonis though. no pitch correction, just freeballin that shit. all vocals single take, with minor timing adjustments. the bass is underlaid with a neat little trick, where you take one of your low vocal recordings, clone it, then using the stretch pro mode you set the pitch to -1200, but keep the formants at +0. gives it a bit of Mass™

generally speaking, quite happy with myself for having cobbled together a respectable home recording set up for around £350. goodbye phone recording, hello studio mic!

well okay, maybe that's a bit unfair. i can always use a phone as a second mic for extra sauce. i notice the AKG P120 doesn't really do *that* well capturing my accordion? it does pretty well with my guitar, though, so maybe expect more of that. B)

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anyway, for the curious, here's the setup (prices accurate as of time of writing. not sponsored lmao):
-- Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 [3rd Gen] mic preamp (£80 on gear4music)
-- AKG P120 large condenser mic (£92 on andertons)
-- AKG SH 100 shock mount (60 quid sharp on musicstore)
-- Boom Mic Stand (generic brand is fine - i got a König & Meyer 25400) (~£20 on musicstore.com)
-- XLR Cable (neutrik connectors are best, but any brand goes. i got SubZero 3m XLR Cables) (£15 on gear4music)
-- Hakan P110 pop filter w/gooseneck mount (this thing is crazy bang for your buck!) (£54 on andertons)

Loch Lomond (Recording Test)

"When I was young, I was told by my father -
My child, you're destined to live off the sea.
Will you fish on the ocean, like all of your forefathers?
Or will you join the Authority Navy?"

( - An excerpt from 'The Ensign's Ballad', a Central Authority folk song, as recorded in Vincent Zeneke's monograph cycle 'Songs of the Sea')
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Background visualiser art by Hautdesert:
• https://bsky.app/profile/hautdesert.bsky.social
• https://twitter.com/Hautedeserte
• hautdesert on Discord
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Wardens Of The Valiant Dead

deyr fé,
deyja frændr,
deyr sjálfr it sama;
en orðstírr
deyr aldregi
hveim er sér góðan getr.

deyr fé,
deyja frændr,
deyr sjálfr it sama;
ek veit einn
at aldri deyr:
dómr um dauðan hvern.

( - 'Hávamál', stanzas 76-77)
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the second gift.
of slender shape and features dim, time's shadow slinks and creeps along.
as sunken-shaded brings it gifts,
it tells us, 'there is more to come.'

Deepwoken Aelita MrBeast (MADE BY Vendy#1946 ON DISCORD NOT ME!!!!)

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