A song about being open to different perspectives. [Synth Kumite: week 3]

good stereo headphones are recommended, for a more immersive experience.

[disclaimer: may not actually help you meditate]
lyrics
Ever-focused on a goal, but never past a peak
Always sure the future's set in stone
Confidently ready for a challenge - without fear
but have you properly considered if your heart may roam

Knowledge can help, but only for so far
Too much complication leaves you blind to the stars

Electric meditation - Galactic Destination
Electric meditation - Galactic Destination

Flying off to outer space, the earth's so small from here
where should I go, will life just be the same?
The oceans, sky and land all have, a magic quality
Am I responsible enough to stay?

Electornic mass, I feel a presence flash
Sit and breathe, my astral form speeds, lightning-fast!

Electric Meditation - Galactic Destination
Electric Meditation - Galactic Destination
Electric Meditation - Galactic Destination
Electric Meditation - Galactic Destination

credits
Avi Fine [Harmonic Sonics] - all instruments, vocals, vocoders and percussion

Synths used:

Korg R3
1010 Music Nanobox Lemondrop
Aodyo Instruments Anyma Phi
Kodamo Mask1
Kodamo EssenceFM mkii
Modal Electronics Cobalt8
Modal Electronics Argon8
Clavia Nord Drum 3P / Arturia Beatstep Pro

Recording gear:

Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB Audio interface
Nady Audio MM242 4-channel stereo mixer

DAW:

Garageband 10.4.8

Art by Harmonic Sonics in Gimp 2.10

Electric Meditation - SK3

V1

Poisoning the well of decency and recreation
is easy when you throw 
all concern aside, and follow blindly ...

Can't pretend about it any longer
when it's staring back - the greedy void
addiction for the idly ...

Cho:

Those same inclinations 
follow all the way up top
But that can't last 
build up your trust, 
and crush it down

if enough will stand up, 
peacefully defiant, 
before we vanish
the bait & switch 
might fully be shut down

Can't fool me, no more

V2

All smiles and a cordial disposition 
might be red herrings sometimes
there is far more than meets the eye

What if the means from which we live our lives
is all based on a lie
then it's long past time to redefine...

Cho:

Those same complications 
follow all the way down low - but that won't last
tear down with doubt, 
to build your crown ...?

If enough can stand up, peacefully defiant
before we vanish
the bait and switch might fully be shut down

Can't fool me, no more

Bridge:

So you think you can take me down,
curtail my free speech, in the rules i'll drown -
control through fear, blackmail and lust,
with money that doesn't exist, ashes til dust...

grade-school tactics leaned upon, 
make the spectators think 
you're the savior who won
bad dreams are warnings that could come true,
if you don't protect yourself it could happen to you!

Cho 3:

Those same situations 
are to test the mettle of our spirits, fast
nobody likes being pushed around

If enough can stand up, 
peacefully defiant, 
before we vanish
the bait and switch 
might fully be closed down

Can't fool me, no more...

Avi Fine [Harmonic Sonics] - all instruments, sounds, and music.

Synths and gear used:

Kodamo Mask1
Modal Electronics Cobalt 8
Modal Electronics Argon 8
Nord Drum 3P
Oxi Instruments ONE Sequencer
Lewitt LCT240-PRO Microphone

Recorded with Behringer UMC202HD Audio Interface, into Garageband 10.4.8 [DAW] for Mac OS, using NADY MM-242 Mini 4 channel stereo mini mixer.

Art by Harmonic Sonics in Gimp 2.10.36

HS Bait & Switch [ Final Mix 3 - This One!!!]

[lyrics]:

Strange Vibe - In a thousand years ...

Harmonic Sonics - all music

Synths / Gear used:

Korg Modwave
Kodamo Mask1

Recorded into Garageband 10.4.8, through Behringer UMC202HD audio interface, through Nady MM-242 Stereo Mixer.

HS Zero Point

Ku Mi Te!
Ku Mi Te!

Time for a 
kumite

ready to modulate
never just hesitate

always make conscious space
honoring sacred place

Music to meditate
Double back in hyperspace

Harmonic Sonics - all music

Synths used:

Korg Modwave
Korg R3
Kodamo Mask1
Roland SH-4D

Audio gear used:

Behringer UMC202HD audio interface
Garageband 10.2.0 DAW on Mac OS 10.11.6 [my OS 12 laptop is ailing]
Nady MM-242 Stereo 4 channel Line Mixer

AF Dreamvisions

Tomato Ketchup [4x]
[weird noises]

Blindsided by my hunger, unfazed by your response ...
determined to acquire a special, common sauce ...
The cooking has completed [cooking has completed]
Pull my tray out with glee [smells so good, I can't believe]
Inhale the fragrant steam into my nostrils ...
a culinary guarantee

[Chorus]

Once the ketchup pours over, I'm ready
No food it touches will be left behind
Transforming what's so temporary
Into an event almost divine

[Tomato Ketchup [2x]]

Evolution of flavor, easier ways to consume
Time to go on gustatory adventures, so I will catch up to you ...
Good food's not just subjective, We need our senses, too - 
No tomato tunnel vision trains my taste buds, 
But sometimes I'll need cayenne kicks, that's true

Once the ketchup pours over, I'm ready [I'm ready for you!]
No food it touches will be left behind [I don't, don't want no other food!]
Transforming what's so temporary [temporary]
Into an event almost divine

Consumed, after consuming ... before sleep overcomes ....
so many complex combinations created ... but, in moments, get ate up

Energy - from ancient history - 
Tomatoes - tangy, sweet, and pure ...
The journey of the apple of paradise, or poison ....
For uninspired food, it is the cure ... hahaha

Once the ketchup pours over, I'm ready
No food it touches will be left behind
Transforming what's so temporary
Into an event almost divine

Harmonic Sonics - all music

Synths used: Roland SH-4D [main synth], Arturia Minifreak, Xfer Serum
Recorded into Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 into Mackie CX3 monitors. 
Microphone: Lewitt LCT-240 Pro

HS The Many Moods Of Ketchup

Melodic Dubstep - 80% of sounds recorded, are my own made sounds, and 20% [the rest] were a combo of a free color-bass sound pack, and modwave, argon 8M, and mask1 factory presets.

This song was Inspired by a few of my favorite EDM songs, and from pushing myself to crazy synth noodling and DAW diving in a time crunch : D

lyrics

V1:

Irrational thoughts, persistent
hangin' round as if they left, I'd miss them
Feel stuck in a world, so different
Transplant shock, unprepared, resistant

Adjust to familiar places,
Introduce myself to brand new faces,
It's happened before, It'll happen again...

Chorus:

Maybe I was fearing change,
but now, everything feels the same
First slowly, then suddenly,
An epiphany, it speaks to me ...

Drop 1:

Can you feel it? [Funky]
It's coming into view ...
Visions manifesting with these grooves [Funky]

Bridge:

Unsure of the future, yet knowing what has passed,
searching for some meaning that I hope is gonna last
Ready, time to get things going, nothing left here now -
Moments can be massive, when your heart's expansive

V2:

Keep listening for cosmic signs,
to my question, why stay such a short time,
This physical life, not just mine,
seems so much smaller when you step foot outside

Maybe its our over-charged minds,
full of expectation, fear and in binds,
The answers are inside, they have always been there...

[Chorus]:

Drop 2:

Realization dawning like a spark ...
Think to where I'm floating in the dark ...

V3-mini:

Epiphany came to me last night -
against myself, putting up a fight!
Live on the fly, 'cause we're weightless now,
Keep goin', doesn't matter anyhow ...

[Chorus]:

Harmonic Sonics [Avi Fine] - All music.

Three of the wavetables heard, are from Au5/DAW Nation's free Rainbow Resonance sound pack - processed in Serum, sent to and recorded on modwave.

Synths used:

Hardware: Korg Modwave, Kodamo Mask 1, Modal Argon 8M, Korg R3, Nord Drum 3P / Oxi ONE.

Software [VSTs]: Cherry Audio PS3300, Xfer Serum, Pile Driver

Recording Gear:

Lewitt LCT240-pro microphone
Behringer Uphoria UMC-202HD Audio Interface
NADY MM-242 4-channel stereo line mixer

Epiphany

a song. A synth song.

Mostly Cobalt 8, with a few Serum tracks re-synthesized from my Cobalt 8. Drums from Pile Driver. Vocal formant / transformer from GarageBand.

lyrics

- So much easier to generate trash than gold -

- so much harder to create a world, than break it down -
credits

released February 28, 2025

Harmonic Sonics - all music.

Gear used: Modal Cobalt8, Xfer Serum, Pile Driver [drums], Line 6 Helix LT / Fender Strat American '96

HS Beyond the Pale!!.

An ambient journey into sonic realms

Nearly all sounds are originally created, on the Korg Wavestate, the Kodamo Mask1, and the Korg Modwave. [drum tracks are presets].
credits

Harmonic Sonics - all music

Synths used:

Korg Wavestate
Kodamo Mask1
Korg Modwave

HS Mystic Plane

Don't quit! This song is about not giving up, not losing hope.

**___**___**___**____**___**____**____***_____***_____***____***____***

*sounds made, were mostly on the Kodamo Mask1 and Nord Drum 3P (sequenced on the Oxi ONE).

... I threw in a little Argon 8, Modwave [pads in the intro, 1st drop sounds], and EssenceFM. Drums @ the chorus, are from the Mask1.

lyrics:

V1:

The cards they always seem so stacked,
against the players in the game
the house, it rarely ever loses - loses
But intuition deep within
guides through the chaos in the frame
real motivation, no excuses, excuses
[nothing but excuses]

Chorus:

I can't deny it,
no way to fight by waiting for a door
if there's a flicker, then light it -
persistence, unchaining from the score

V2:

A feat of focused strategy
once thought as insurmountable
in time, eventually realized, transcended -
what happens subsequently, is,
entirely a different tale
determined by the path intended, respected
[by the path, respected]

[chorus]

I can't deny it,
no way to fight by waiting for a [at the] door
if there's a flicker, then light it -
persistence, unchaining from the score

[bridge]

Never give up,
Never give up ....

Harmonic Sonics - most sounds were self made. All music by me.

Synths used:

Korg Modwave
Kodamo Essence FM
Kodamo Mask1
Modal Argon 8M
Nord Drum 3P / Oxi ONE
IceGear Nambu [resynthesized my pad sound via serum, for modwave]

Audio Gear used:

Behringer UMC202HD Audio Interface
Lewitt LCT240 Pro Microphone
Mackie CR-3X Stereo Monitors

DAW used:

Garageband 10.2.0 on Mac OS X 10.11.6

Cheesy Art by Harmonic Sonics using Gimp 2.10.36


Persistance

What you hear is 95% Nord Wave 2. The vocoder parts are on my Korg R3, and there's vocals also.

I came up with this, after having an immersive dream - the kind where you feel like your dream life is so surreally different, than when awake - as if possibly containing echoes from a past life. So I made a song from it.

Lyrics:

V1

Too often rich history falls apart, with poor memory
When a past existence is viewed in the present as imaginary

Ramblings from an unstable mind
Grasping at straws, hoping to find
Semblance of fragments recalled
Although a new programs installed

Chorus

Let me take you back
Long before any soul attacks
I'm not just bags of chemicals inside a matrix
I'm much more than that
I'm from another world
I'm from another time
So what to do, back in the mix?
The moving clock behind me ticks ...
Within (re)flickering flashes, how
Don't forget to live now -

V2

Circumstances fuzzy, still, but I remember what I will
a dreamscape of a humid coast, with foliage and fresh air, but mostly ...

Looking down, my appearance changed
Body is different, feeling strange
Betrayed by a stealthy hive -
My head is wounded, but I survived!

Bridge

Right now!!!

You think it's a typical take
Suddenly, no way out,
you're trapped like a steak
Sensations so real
The pain it got in your head
Now there's nowhere to run
Cause you're memory's dead

Got to build back up
everything that was lost
Kill the noises with silence
but the quiet has costs
If everything falls apart
Hope within will transform
Till then, I'm a watcher
I'm the eye in the storm ...

- credits - 

Harmonic Sonics - all music, vocals, artwork

Synths used:

Nord Wave 2 with Yorick Tech Low Frequency Expander Module
Korg R3

Other gear used:

Lewitt LCT240 Pro microphone
Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD Audio Interface
Mackie CT-3X Stereo Monitors
Nady Audio MM-242 4 Channel Stereo Mini Mixer

Art created in Gimp 2.10



HS Another World

This song's a sequel to G.A.S. Blues, but uses a turn-of-phrase, intended to emphasize a certain kind of attractive trait - in this case, though, the irreplaceable sound of a deep synth bass.

lyrics

V1

... Yeah, its all about priorities ....

lookin at a - fine, shine,
glass of wine -
'cross a long spread table,
hav'n times - divine,

Its an long told story,
not for the glory
just a little bit naughty
no need to be haughty

Some say, to be wise -
you've got to play nice,
and there ain't no foolin',
with a roll of the dice,

you know, complicated,
is over-rated,
I'm captivated -
and you're motivated ...

Don't think it needs to
be repeated,
when the evening's through, I'm gonna
feel depleted,

e- lec - tri - ci- ty,
between you and me,
its almost hard to believe,
that's why you're

Chorus:

Thicc, with Extra C's
fittingly, it's undeniably
a wonder to behold,
I cannot withhold
my rising curiosity

yeah, thicc, with Extra C's
at a loss of use, my vocabulary
from the sight and sound,
my senses are surrounded by
gra ti tude for the ex traor di nary

Not gonna ever shill it out -
don't wanna lose my sight, for clout -
if you wanna play it hard and loud,
or a quiet sound, there's so much to be found -

V2

What, did you think
I indicated booty?
In a way, yes, but regarding
sonic beauty

Workin hard nearly every day
week, month, and year
for'n extension of my yearning to
express sincerely

how I feel,
most nothing can compare
can 't you see, its almost
too much to bear

Maybe I'm more than a little bit
out to lunch
since I seem so excited for a
chance to touch

a brand new toy with
buttons, knobs, and keys -
no bugs, they're memories,
with switches, screens, and plugs

call it tunnel vision,
I enjoy precision
but it don't mean that
I won't also share my vision, You're

Harmonic Sonics - all music, vocals

Synths used: Kodamo Essence FM mkii, Kodamo Mask1, Korg Modwave, Clavia Nord Drum 3P, Oxi Instruments ONE Sequencer


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