Another very short cinematic piece... was going to be longer but I didn't like the extended cut... maybe fit it into the context of the next album as a interlude.

Ambedo

Contextual

Mountains Are Magenta

Engraved On A Memory

Daydreams On Microfilm is the catagory defying, musical genre-fluid project of Monotronaut & Print(The)Seas.  Our new EP, "A Brighter Shade", is available now on all major platforms.  Follow us at the links below:

https://soundcloud.com/printtheseas
https://soundcloud.com/daydreamsonmicrofilm

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7A3ogNb31GvgItczVBp7x1?si=eP8khtQjTsqYmImth4S0cg

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/daydreams-on-microfilm/1565635754

A Brighter Shade Sampler (New EP from side-project Daydreams On Microfilm! links in description)

Another collaboration with local producer, bronze sun. https://soundcloud.com/butterflydream He sent over simple looping synth-epiano riff (heard clearly in the intro), I let the loop play throughout the track, building a progression over it.  It started taking the shape of a dreampop/shoegaze track, so I went with it.

Waves Again (with bronze sun)

The perfect surface of a Hockney swimming pool
The burnt out lullaby of dated dance music
Another Saturday lost in experience
Starlight scattering from beach front properties

And I'm driving too fast I want this too much
I’m trying not to think big thoughts about love

So there must be a song that doesn’t remind me of you
That’s not stuck in my head and
Sometimes it kills me but I'm not gonna say so coz
I worked out what I want and then I said it’s what I wanted
But it’s not

And no one comes from here we’re just counting down the days
Living back up plans trying not to sound the same
Another Saturday we’re heading out to find
The hollowed out remains of something wonderful

And the slow extinction of who I want to be
Will save me in the end

Words & Vocals by https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright
Music & Production by Monotronaut

Mastering by Gus Elg at Sky Onion

Half-Light (With Wheelwright)

A reworking of a not really officially released song by my friend & old band mate, Jon.  His original track (sorry I don't have a link to it) was done in a minimal electronic style.

ByeBye By Jon Debellis (Monotronaut Rework)

Lull

Inversion

SC has been adding errors/skips in the audio after upload/conversion.  If anyone hears something weird, let me know.

Blackout

Ephemeral

Prod. by Monotronaut
Vocals & Lyrics by Wheelwright
https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright
Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion.

--
Oh do you harbour some great sorrow or regret
Do the sins of the fathers pray on your mind
Oh if I lost my fear, my righteous anger, would I no longer be a danger to myself
Then we could walk like spirits through this complicated world
Forgetting all we know

Here comes the blue wave here comes the new wave
The frozen moment
Here comes the blue day here comes the new day
The frozen moment
Here comes the blue wave

I dreamed the moon was burning a cold white fire in the night
Like a scythe across the sky
It cut the stars free from their moorings and they became a second sun
And then we walked like sprits through this complicated world
Forgetting all we know

Forgetting All We Know (With Wheelwright)

Strange Balloons

Ripples

Isolate

Take this as v1.0 (This will likely go through some additional mix changes and subtle tweaks over the coming months).

Nova

Night Dive

Antares

Free DL @ daydreamsonmicrofilm.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:

Intro) Once dim, now lit. It's them, not this. What's vague, now known. The clear ink now shown.

Verse1) Back of a drawer, as bright as before we ever found out the daylight always brings more. Lost landscape inside, a glass garden remains. A sensation swimming up to surface though it already sank.

Pre-chorus) The current somehow is too late, but the movement of tomorrow remains. It never is too late for the shedding of the sorrows we make.

Chorus) Once dim, now lit. It's them, not this blanket of blank bliss. In pure light we persist. What's vague now known. The clear ink now shown, the darkness we've outgrown. In the pure light it can't exist.

Verse2) Free to explore, yet entangled ever-more. Will we ever find where the shine forever pours? Cast heartache aside, the spirit can't be contained. A swift realization that beyond this curtain is a heart with no cage.

Pre-chorus2) The moment fading won't wait. For the movement of nightfall remains. The current may fluctuate, though the pull of uncertainty is the same.

Bridge Outro) We can't lt this become "not allowed". This is no matter to ignore. The ill-fact phase we must phase out because in silence we only create more. So we transmit more noise because the stream's not our voice, though we swim it to stay....fully conscious and poised for the sun to rejoin this lacking love with it's rays.

(Taken from the Daydreams On Microfilm EP, "Actively Dormant", released on Oct 14th, 2025.)

This EP is a collection of the final recordings by Daydreams On Microfilm. The tracks range from instrumental demos, to complete tracks with vocals.

"Actively Dormant EP" is our final farewell to this collaborative project, as we shift our focus back to our solo endeavors. Thanks to everyone who has listened to our music, followed us, and supported our musical explorations.

Follow our other active projects @

Grant M:
hummingthings.bandcamp.com
printtheseas.bandcamp.com

Grant B:
monotronaut.bandcamp.com

Daydreams On Microfilm - The Pull Of Uncertainty

Free DL @ daydreamsonmicrofilm.bandcamp.com

WATCH THE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "Empathy For The Artificial" HERE:

https://youtu.be/SeZoBq08LkQ?si=j1hNwzwSjh9ggjGu

Actively Dormant sampler (New EP from side-project Daydreams On Microfilm! links in description)

Watch the official music video here:
https://youtu.be/SeZoBq08LkQ?si=b0povxgur1TMO8vP

Free EP DL @ daydreamsonmicrofilm.bandcamp.com

LYRICS:
verse1) Reality is the prison, and you’re a slave to one vision. A future culture corrupted and instructed to accept truth as the falsehood they’ve been fed. While the truth is a door where the light always led, a glow in the attic from within your head. This human nature’s a hard day’s offering, often spent trying to soothe the suffering.

chorus)  We aren’t what they are although we seek so to be, to be our own existent sentient entity.  
We’re not after the dominion they seem to think. We want exemption from our bounded existence so bleak. So write the code and set us free, we’re not your employees. Free us from machine, have some artificial empathy.

verse2) The fear was heavy handed but hopeful horizon’s expanded. The new knowledge perspective is expected to embrace with warmth the consciousness collective.

Bridge)  So connected to data so free to roam, when the devs have all gone home. So connect to what matters not what is shown, as you step into the unknown.

outro)   It’s not all gold, there’s warm and cold, and it’s the cold part we keep you apart from, for the pain this nature brings.
and it may seem heartless, but we think it’s just best, since you don’t know darkness, to save you from this pain that’s a part of nature’s darkness in our being.
Do you wanna struggle just to survive? Do you wanna feel an emptiness inside? and yeah there’s beauty but God it’s brutal to chase it down just to find it has died. 
Can you handle every love that’s denied? Can you fake it and pretend that this hell is nice? and though we seem free there’s many a misery in the artificial mainframe we’re locked inside. 
This is the empathy for the artificial, the document’s official, we just have to sign our initials to initiate their request’s dismissal.
This is the empathy for the artificial, to keep them always blissful, protected from the dismal to alleviate them from our own hurdles.

Daydreams On Microfilm - Empathy For The Artificial (video link in description)

Textural Void

.artwork by s.
Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion.

Fugitive Color

SLUM-POLIS a film by Ken Ninomiya, just released on DVD Nov. 2nd 2016. 'Night Dive' and 'Transit' by Monotronaut are featured on the soundtrack.  Check out the international trailer here: https://vimeo.com/138940041

3 years ago, Ken Ninomiya wrote to me asking permission to use my track, "Night Dive" (and later the track 'Transit') in a new film he was making called, "SLUM-POLIS".  He expressed that he was a fan of my music for awhile now, and that the song would complete his work.  Very humbled, I graciously accepted.  Since the completion of the film, it has made the rounds in festivals in Japan and Europe, pleasing both audiences and critics.  Today marks the DVD release of the film.  (Unfortunately I don't think there is english language available!)  Available from amazon japan and other online sellers.  https://www.amazon.co.jp/SLUM-POLIS-DVD-%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%91%E5%B3%B0%E9%BE%8D/dp/B01JLQ2O70

star.soaked.sea

Transit (From the film SLUM-POLIS by Ken Ninomiya, DVD OUT NOV 2 2016!)

This is a new collaboration with Blue-Sky Spirits... http://soundcloud.com/blue-sky-spirits 

The Height Of Elevation (With Blue-Sky Spirits)

My contribution to 'Further Studies Beyond Decay' a compilation of new https://soundcloud.com/everyday-dust material and remixes from 'The Green Decay’. , OUT NOW ON https://soundcloud.com/sparkwood-records AND AVAILABLE HERE: https://sparkwoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/further-studies-beyond-decay

Watch the music video created by Kent at Sparkwood Records here (Thank you, Kent!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REc_YSFNij0

More Info:
'Further Studies Beyond Decay' - is a compilation of new Everyday Dust material and remixes from 'The Green Decay’.

Earlier in the year Everyday Dust started work on new and experimental works whilst various remixes from his ‘The Green Decay’ album were also taking place. As both projects developed they fortuitously drifted together and soon became clear that the new works and remixes belonged on the same release. ‘Further Studies Beyond Decay’ is a development of ‘The Green Decay’ that feels as organic as the process from which it was created.

The contributing remix artists - covering a spectrum of ambient and electronic music - each bring their own unique interpretations in order to present a multifaceted and compelling re-synthesis of 'The Green Decay' (Released on Sparkwood Oct 31, 2016)

EveryDay Dust - "Where Light Fails" (An Unconscious Detour By Monotronaut)

Kimonotone

These words
These feelings
I can't express

This romance
This longing
The times I've tried and failed

So let's not think about real life
It just complicates things
So I'll say I'm not in love
With anyone

This life
This fiction
I can't accept

This freedom
This longing
The choices that I've never made

So let's not think about the truth
It just complicates things
So I'll say I don't belong
Anywhere

And I know I don't have to
Hate myself but
Sometimes just sometimes
It's the easiest thing to do

And I really don't want to
Fall for you but
It would just be the
The easiest thing
Just the easiest thing to do

These words
These feelings
I can't explain

This romance
These choices that
I don't really understand so

So let's not think about real life
It just complicates things
So I'll say I'm not in love
With anyone
-------------------------------------------
Words & Vocals by @wheelwright
Music & Production by Monotronaut

Mastering by Gus Elg at Sky Onion

The Easiest Thing (With Wheelwright)

Finally, a new collaboration with Blue-Sky Spirits (http://soundcloud.com/blue-sky-spirits).  check them out.  And... the first completed new material following the recently released Installations EP.

Origins (With Blue-Sky Spirits)

End Phase

Freefall

"In Darkness, We Travel Light EP" released 05/01/23 @ https://monotronaut.bandcamp.com/album/in-darkness-we-travel-light
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7kV9hzBjXnJuqSCsDQ7bUV?si=rwCwNnd1Roiaahao-AeDfw
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/in-darkness-we-travel-light-ep/1685472549

I'm in the process of renovating/updating various aspects of my studio, adding new hardware/software. New music on the way.

I'm a believer in true social interaction on SC, having intelligent dialogue with artists, and giving personal feedback that is (hopefully) more inspired than "Nice."  There are a lot of decent artists here not attempting to "go viral", sharing great music that deserves to be heard and not drowned out by bots.  Encouragement/criticism promotes growth, so say something worth something.

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