Name: Chromium Catalyst by NOSTRUMUVA in Collaborations
Duration: 5 min 51 s
Description: Brendan Dempsey on bass, NOSTRUMUVA on TE OP-1 Field keyboard. Psychedelic Rock.

Collaborations

Collaboration project between Bismuth Sky and NOSTRUMUVA.  If you put a neodymium magnet between two bismuth ingots and then put another large magnet above that, you can get the small magnet to float because bismuth is diamagnetic.  Bismuth Sky provided the bass track and I improvised Akai EWI4000s over top of that and ran it through audacity to provide more of a drone ethereal sound.

Diamagnetic

Apologize to Flying Kiwis... the vox was way too quiet.
But at the time, I had no time.

LYRICS:
In the dim haze of an evening's sigh,
Embers low, dancing in the quiet sky...
Whispers in the cooling night, weary minds, soft and light,
It too unwinds, blurred in gray.
Wistful dream slips away.
Shadows grow, entwine their grace, soft and slow,
Lasting trace...
Quiet rage, trembling spark, within its cage, staining the dark.
Fragile cup, a bitter tongue, anger wells up, quietly sung.
Unshed cries, tightening grip, a disguise, every sip.
Fans the flame, 'neath the calm, whispering a name, balm embalm...
In this ritual, the fury brews.
Cigarette ash falls like silent snow.
And the tea, once sweet, now bitterly stews, in the heat of an anger that refuses to go.

Cigarette and Chamomile

Cigarette And Chamomile

Brendan Dempsey on bass, NOSTRUMUVA on TE OP-1 Keyboard.

Never Bare Your Soul To Fools

Brendan Dempsey on bass, NOSTRUMUVA on TE OP-1 Field keyboard. Psychedelic Rock.

Chromium Catalyst

Multi-artist project of April 2025.

LYRICS AND ANNOTATIONS:

(Morse code for "we are just like you we promise. settle in.")
(birds)
Bones chilled in the old ghost forest,
Where the tide came in took the land away.
Hollow trees, still standing.
Knee deep in swamp water is where I stay (is where I stay).

Living lives of quiet desperation.
The haters, they just follow the herd,
Wearing masks of false inspiration,
Their festering wounds left undisturbed (undisturbed).

Running towards the pain,
The wicked voice of their disdain,
On that edge - the tired eyes reflect:
It’s only the first time we fear what’s next.

For those who live in risk,
In a society whose promises won’t stick,
Is this the end of the line?
Have we used up what’s left of our time?

In the old ghost forest, I stand tall
Like a stubborn oak tree that refuses to fall.
Empty cans and bottles lie nearby,
Artifacts from a past that will not die.

In the old ghost forest, I kneel to pray,
Confess my sins, wash them away.
In the old ghost forest, I scream aloud,
"Lord, gimme the strength to stand proud!"

(birds)
Our future's found: four circles deep.
Come slosh around; more misery, reaped.

What’s woes occurred: cursed, fate foreseen.
What does the word "worst" even mean?

A fitting gloom: stark, rank and sour.
A fetid tomb: dark, dank and dour.

We should have known how ends begin.
This is our home now; settle in.

Settle in.

(city street chatter)
We should have known how ends begin.
This is our home now; settle in!

Settle in!

We are just like you.
We promise, we promise.
Settle in…
We promise, we promise.
Settle in…

Black tar rains from a sky long dead,
We chew on rust, drink molten lead.
No dawn breaks through this crawling haze,
Just grinding teeth and static praise.
This is the hymn of bone and sin—
The sludge within did settle in.

Our tongues are ash, our limbs decay,
We march in place, still rot away.
This is the hymn of bone and sin—
The sludge within did settle in.

This is the hymn of bone and sin—
The sludge within did settle in.
(ocean sounds)

Settle In

Collaboration between Keys from Neptune and NOSTRUMUVA.
Keys from Neptune wrote the main piano. NOSTRUMUVA added some more piano layers (TEOP1), Akai EWI4000s (electronic woodwind), cricket sound effects from a white water rafting trip.

Le Verrier is known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.

Crickets Of Verrier

FLag system

O-Streptomycin

R-Noël d'automne

T-Carousing in The Cloister

dopo la pioggia

Punk Days “create” ↔ “recreate”

"What Remains Unspoken" is a melancholic, cinematic piece inspired by Thomas Newman and James Newton Howard. 

The piece will be available on all major streaming services from September 19.

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/1sVtFKWKwYSsa7nb9ZgpPt

Instrument libraries:
Piano: Pianoteq 8 Hamburg Steinway
Solo Cor Anglais: Berlin Woodwinds
Strings: Spitfire BBCSO Core, Cinematic Studio Solo Strings
Woodwinds: Spitfire BBCSO Core
Brass: Spitfire BBCSO Core, Spitfire Symphony Orchestra (Solo Trumpet)

What Remains Unspoken

thank you for this collab https://soundcloud.com/ipg1
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/no-basic-style-vocals-94-bpm
https://soundcloud.com/30gradx/colours-love-2

With IPG1 - No Basic Style  (Colours Love Mix)

Produced & mastered by BotNikStudio2, Bottna, Sweden.

HOT AIR BALLOON UNDER A COLD MOON

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First Incarnation - The Modern Soma of Humanity // Gold Light

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One might argue that Ritalin serves a similar societal role to Soma in Huxley’s "Brave New World," offering chemical management of mood, behavior, and productivity, though it is self-administered rather than mandated by the state. Ritalin is prescribed to enhance focus and calm, but its use (and misuse) can also produce euphoria, dependence, and withdrawal symptoms, echoing some psychological mechanisms attributed to Soma’s fictional role. However, Ritalin is a real stimulant with known physical and mental risks, while Soma is a literary creation imagined as uniformly pleasurable and socially pacifying—making their “purpose” comparable mainly in philosophical critique, not medical reality.

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lyrics written and narration provided by fictionalive

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music is the song 'gold light' written, produced and provided by, courtesy of mobygratis.com and its crew, licensed

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vocal production, arrangement, final mix and drop by fictionalive

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artwork illustration by and courtesy of peter uertz, düsseldorf / germany

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fusion of it all - 
fictionalive with with popoems series and the hyper media reports

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dropped
wednesday, october 8th, 2025
4 pm central european time
tea time, right

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First Incarnation - The Modern Soma of Humanity // Gold Light

For reasons unknown but time will tell...
Multi-instrumentalist, all types of music, all types of methods.
Occasional collaborations with other artists.
Sometimes I post the sheet music if it's piano.
Lately, my favorite instrument is a TE OP-1 Field keyboard.

Chromium Catalyst

NOSTRUMUVA

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