Oct 2024: This compilation is out now on hand signed and numbered limited CD(300), including some special remixes and four previously unreleased tracks from the Chi Archives. Find out more here: https://chifactory.bandcamp.com/album/seven-years-at-the-chi-factory


A 70 minutes compilation by Son Of Chi, taken from Astral Industries Releases 2016-2023. All tracks recorded and produced at the Chi Factory Studios, Rotterdam.

AI-05 * Chi Factory - The Bamboo Recordings (2016)
AI-07 * Chi Factory - The Kallikatsou Recordings (2017)
AI-09 * Chi Factory - Red Lantern At The Kallikatsou (2017)
AI-12 * Chi Factory - The Mantra Recordings (2019)
AI-15 * J.Derwort - Bamboo Music (2019)
AI-18 * Son Of Chi - Travel In Peace (2020)
AI-25 * Son Of Chi & Radboud Mens - Transition Recordings (2021)
AI-29 * Son Of Chi & Clara Brea - The Wetland Remixes (2022)
AI-32 * Son Of Chi & Arthur Flink - The Fifth World Recordings (2022)

Order all vinyl releases at:
www.astralindustries.bandcamp.com

Contact the Chi Factory/Son Of Chi:
https://www.instagram.com/hanyo_sonofchi/

Seven Years @ The Chi Factory

A song written with an AI synthetic vocalist - she searches for her memories and imagines a future where these memories will live again. "Beyond the Size of Me" continues Hypnomancer's exploration of hybrid musical forms utilizing the multi-dimensional nature of AI to expand beyond a single musical persona. This track merges electronics, field recording and generative AI (vocals and beat making).

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Beyond the Size of Me

all the seasons lost 
deer people calling all
toward the shining peak
we see, we see, I see
beyond the size of me
our destiny – unsealed

light was stolen

Sweet smoke leans in
Leans in to our eyes
Sweet tears 
Are the tears of our fathers
All those fathers
Who climbed this way,
Way, way back
climbed this way before us

way, way, way back
before the sun
that bore us, before the moon
illumined
she wept
into this song

their sweet smoke sways and circles
my ember heart.
Our trilling  tears are iridescent
When remembered
Lives recalled

When remembered
Lives recalled
all the seasons lost 
toward the shining peak
we see, we see, I see
beyond the size of me
our destiny – unsealed

be yours, doesn’t  fall

we see, I see

beyond
beyond the size of me
our destiny

Hypnomancer (David Stout) copyright 2024

Beyond The Size Of Me

aqui te pillo

39 - These Little Singularities

You have stumbled into a back alley beat-poet avant-jazz club in Tangier - everyone is playin' their own thing and the place is off the chain. Loose and tight all at once. For adventurous listeners.

Hypnomancer (aka David Stout) 2024

Bristle

The way a mountain stream flows - a music that ripples and eddies in an unending fluid stasis. A fusion of African+European+Asian influences realized with soft synths, DSP and gen AI.

Hypnomancer 2024

Serpentine Garden

New mixtape: 

Instant looping and sampling of tracks I listen to and tracks I recorded. Also a preview of some new Son Of Chi recordings coming up. 

Sketches for the Son Of Chi live set at Nano Amsterdam co-hosted by Minimal Collective: Sat December 21st 2024. Inspiration for a live impro, also feat. Arthur Flink (trumpet).

Edited samples and loops taken from Son Of Chi recordings and recordings by:

Zelienople, Opiate, Duffy x Uhlmann, Radboud Mens, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Clara Brea, Jim Tetlow, Hector Zazou, Collocutor, Shards, Friedman & Liebezeit, Deru, Civilistjävel, Omar Ka & The Sonic Nomads.

Vocal samples by: 
Sun Ra, Bukovski, Kain The Poet, Samsara, Stalker, Sappho, Krishnamurti, Robert Lax, Delia Derbyshire, A Hopi Elder. 

Fieldrecordings by: 
Koos van der Vaart, Clara Brea, Son Of Chi & Felix Blum

Not to be released. All for inspiration. Please check out the artist pages of all the original composers.

Nano Mash Up

Caught in an endless rush hour, our heroine spits venom on the monotony and greed fueled culture. Putting pedal to the metal, she speeds through the halting traffic leaving the city behind.

Lyrics by Hypnomancer (aka David Stout) 2025

Shake off this slumber wump
Hey-ya sleep walkers, Y’all 
Leaving the city behind
Almost there
Almost ...

Zero to one sixty five,
My hair is a traffic snarl,

We movin’
Movin’
Further, further with this, 
a wicked pill

Movin’
Further, further - take this wicked pill
See my white knuckled teddy bear
Bread winners
All lined up

Leavin’ 
Leavin’ 
No -
Leavin’ 
Leavin’ 
No -
Leavin’ 
Leavin’ 
Leavin’ ...

Leavin'

loss and losing, grief and reconciliation
Lyrics by Hypnomancer (aka David Stout) copyright - 2025)

Disappearing

and you stayed 
somewhere, I left then
on a road
disappearing
and uneven

and you cried
all the tears, in heaven
down your face
disappearing
and uneven

what were we
then, if not uncertain
in a world
disappearing
and uneven

and we cried
all the tears, in heaven
our fallen grace
disappearing
and uneven




Disappearing

This is one of my songs which was recorded on Nick Barbachano's second album 'Familia'.

Plantas Sagradas - Familia

Angling Alone in Snow is inspired by both Ma Yuan(c.1160-65 -1225) ’s painting Angler on a Wintry Lake and Liu Zongyuan (773-819)’s poem River Snow.  A characteristic feature of many paintings from Ma is the so-called "one-corner" composition, in which the actual subjects of the painting are pushed to a corner or a side, leaving the other part of the painting more or less empty. In Liu’s poem, the poet used only twenty words to paint a quiet and cold picture: on the river with heavy snow, a small boat, an old fisherman, fishing alone in the cold river. Literally, it is a landscape poem. Between the lines, he borrowed the poem from the fishermen who lived in the mountains and rivers to imply his own arrogant emotions, and expressed political depression and loneliness. 

The beginning of Angling Alone is Snow combines water and wood door sounds these real nature sounds and Guzheng with electronics these instrumental and electronic sounds to create a thin and sparse texture, depicting a fishing reel in Ma’s artwork. In the meanwhile, the opening also reflects the loneliness emotion. The vitality and reality combination composition has been run through the entire work. Besides the loneliness, the music also expresses the poet’s other emotions: depression, righteous indignation, nostalgia and peacefulness. 

Guzheng is a Chinese pluck string instrument with a more than 2,500-year history. The instrument used in this work in the modern Guzheng, which has 21 strings. The guzheng is ancestral to several other Asian zithers such as the Japanese koto, the Korean gayageum, Mongolian yatga, and the Vietnamese đàn tranh. 

Duration: 10 minutes

Angling Along In Snow (2018)for Guzheng and Computer

Selected music & sound-art works by *Hypnomancer, (David Stout) - sonic artist, composer and songwriter. Hypnomancer is a musical shape shifter exploring the world of hybrid sound cultures blending a wide array of genres including ambient, noise, world fusion, alt-country, acid jazz, folktronica, underground hip-hop, IDM, Dub, experimental electronics, minimalism and other contemporary classical musics. His compositions, songs, and film scores are produced with a variety of instrumental approaches including, modular synthesizers, field recordings, folk instruments, generative AI and virtuosic guest instrumentalists.

Early Work:
His earlier works explored the fusion of electronic image synthesis, visual art, music and theatre. During this creative period Stout composed many scores for dance, theatre and film. Some of these works are presented here - see:  Red Sea Mix, Tracks to the Lair, Hermes' Devotion, Trio with Blade and Siege of Heaven.

David's more recent work includes live visual-music performance, generative animation, interactive video installations and music projects combining acoustic instruments with atmospheric electronics, noise and audio-visual transcoding techniques - see: NADA, Particle Chamber Variation, Reentry and Copter.

He is also a founding member of the group, MaDula Hara with healer-singer, Malia Luna. The duo, inspired by global shamanic traditions, is devoted to exploring the healing potential of sound through music, ceremony and ritual performance.

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* Hypnomancy is a powerful method of divination that occurs during sleep. The Hypnomancer can navigate non-ordinary states of consciousness while dreaming to gain knowledge and affect positive outcomes in the linear waking world.