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100 Top Tracks Going Into Winter 2024

Improvised multi-layer using Korg Radias and Kaossilator.  Imagine trying to balance a bunch of chairs on a frozen lake...

Stable

Improvisation multi-layer old Yamaha keyboard.

Second Soul

No whales were harmed in the creation of this song.  They are not real whale sounds, sorry.  Improvised guitar and old Yamaha keyboard through an effects pedal.  Whale sounds were keyboard in portamento through the effects pedal.

Sad Whales

Improvised song on my old Yamaha keyboard through a guitar effects pedal.  The coolest part of this song is the unintentional recorded feedback matched up with what I was playing.

Standard

Multi-layer improvised song on Korg Radias keyboard with some quality portamento.

Octal 73

Waveform artwork is a section from one of my acrylic paintings I made when I taught a paint night at my house.  I composed the basis for this song on my phone while my girl went into a haunted house and I was scared so I waited outside, hence the name of the song.  I went back over this song multiple times with Korg Radias later, and also with Kaossilator to add effects.

Haunted Wait

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

Multi-layer improvised song of me playing alto saxophone, singing with echo pedal, and playing my old Yamaha keyboard in drum mode.

Oxygen

Multi-layer improvised, me playing Korg Radias keyboard (mostly as drums), me playing Akai EWI4000s in Flute mode, and me playing alto Saxophone.

Magnesium

Improvised Korg Radias keyboard, then I went back and improvised chromatic harmonica over top of it with an echo pedal.

By A Thread

Somewhere Under The Rain Cloud

Four of Seven

I was trying to make a relaxed dissonant melancholy song, in the style of Erik Satie (think Minecraft).  This was improvised on my Korg Radias and recorded to my BOSS RC 50 Loop Pedal.

Regular Day

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/nPK8BsIxIdI?si=hM7vAvYfBhU41Ot5

I'm happy to present soon my new album "Soul Pulse". I started a new job this month, so I'm a bit slow to finish the mix. So here it is a very direct track I just did between yesterday (electronic) and today (bowls), trying to capture the essence of this album. Mainly I played with singing bowls and other meditative instruments like tongue drums, custom percussions mixed with electronic. I was inspired by this kind of electro/techno, with repetitive beats, trying to express the link between body and soul, very organic, a kind of spirituality all pumping by blood, and how everything is connected. And the power of will. It's all about being alive. This is how I would describe this bunch of tracks - and this quick track could be an introduction.

Aorta

Gadolinium is the 64th element of the periodic table.  It is normally used as a contrast agent in MRI scans, but many people develop bad symptoms after having it injected into their blood.  The positive properties are that gadolinium is magnetic when at room temperature, but loses it's magnetic properties slightly above room temperature, allowing you to create a Curie Engine with a little bit of temperature difference.

Gadolinium

V-Roar of His Ignorance

Specifically, imagine the Rock Biter in The NeverEnding Story trying to hold on to his friends as the Nothing takes them away.

"They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were."

My little sister and I often joked about getting "weak hand syndrome" (WHS) when we were oxygen-deprived from laughing too much.

Weak Hands

Nulla apparet ratio.
Si causa est, non invenimus.

Translation:
There is no apparent reason.
If there is a reason, we have not found it.

This girl tried to believe in a purpose, but she encountered too much pain and no longer believes in justice.

Non Invenimus

There is a mystical place in the ocean, and if you jump in with your eyes closed, then you become the leader of a bunch of deep sea creatures that worship you, promise.

Guider Of The Deep

I was inspired by Claude Debussy for this song.

Encouraged

🔮New album: https://ariad.bandcamp.com/album/soul-pulse 
🪬Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ewhX5jr_w 
🩸Learn more: https://ariad-music.com/musique/soul-pulse/

I am glad to finally present my new album SOUL PULSE. It contains 12 original tracks + 3 bonus. I hope you will enjoy this new musical trip. This time, I worked with singing bowls, tongue drums, custom percussions and electronics. This track is the first one, it is based on a tongue drums improvisation and then I added some electronics. Please enjoy!

Soul Pulse

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Elevation Particles

This is a remastered version of my old Magnesium song that I improvised on my EWI4000s.
https://soundcloud.com/nostrumuva/magnesium
The old song was too quiet based on standard loudness normalization of -14db.  This version has more reggae feel to it.

Polished Magnesium

Educational song about the Periodic Table Of Elements.  Starts out with some hiphop and dubstep, then transitions into progressive trance.

This is the REAL list of periodic elements, by atomic number (so it goes into the lanthanides and actinides properly).  Also has a list of the families of elements, and a summary of what the human body consists of.

P3r10d1k 37ement5

So this is an avant-garde dubstep song.  I began with TEOP1 and intentionally tried to be slightly offbeat and a bit random and to drag it out, then get it all to come together and pull out a primary melody with an electronic lead ("dimension" instrument on TEOP1) with a few piano sections ("pianistic" instrument on TEOP-1) and add in dub bass.  I went through 2 cycles of adding it to the 4-track on TEOP1, copying it out from COM to laptop, filtering in Audacity, copied it back, added more layers, then back to laptop again.  Normalized to -14dB with -1dB soft limit.  This song represents how I felt in the middle of the night at 3am while soldering random circuits for a supercapacitor experiment I was doing, and likely breathing in too much of the lead solder fumes.

Late Night Garage Experiments

Ambient soundscape of being inside of a heart.  TEOP1 keyboard with multiple really low modulated wumps, then a few lead layers mostly triplets of dissonant 2nds and 7ths, intentionally with no rhythm.  Then simple Audacity cleanup to -14dB normalization and -1dB soft limit.

Inside The Heart

I'm going to start doing some live looping performances on TEOP1 so this is a random practice session that is kind of Jam Band / Scat / Funk.  There is a 4-track on the TEOP1, so I can start out with drums or scat and then hit a key to end the loop, then just keep playing live and kind of overdub onto the other 3 tracks, and then also add in breaks by holding on one of the tracks while playing a B section.  I just live improvised the bass loop and then improvised the organ and keys as I went.  Random mood today, sorry to my dubstep and ambient fans :) This one is weird.

Bow Meow

Attentive

Some basic ambient jamming out on Tidal Cycles with simultaneous TEOP1 keyboard at the same time.  If you want to watch me code in Haskell and play the keyboard at the same time, watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g_n5ztNvvk

Multitasking

On the Outskirts

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.