YO! There's a much better remix of this now: https://soundcloud.com/soaria/beyond-the-lines-mjolnir-maul-mix

~

Past the aetherial horizon, beyond the boundary lines, love waits for you if you dare to accept it.


~ Lyrics ~

Watching rain fall from on high
I wish I had you by my side
No one to share my dinner with
A mirror for my goodnight kiss

But I don't feel loneliness
Your smile and warmth is ever close
Some people may not understand --
We're living in the promised land

I never knew it could be this way
I'm so glad that you came my way
The whole wide world'd like t'feel my glee
But you are a secret that's just for me

You came and took my life by storm
The chemistry 'tween us is warm
Our meeting was a huge surprise
Your soul shines ever bright inside

Your heart, it beats so close next to mine
Our love may yet have chance to shine
We have a bond that transcends time
To take us far, beyond the lines

Yeah your heart it's a beatin' and it's next to mine
Our love ain't a given but I think we've got to try
My pulse is travelin' beyond warp nine
That's what it's gonna take to get beyond the lines

I never knew it could be this way
I'm so glad that you came my way
The whole wide world'd like t'feel my glee
But you are a secret that's just for me

Beyond the Lines

This is a sort of collaboration jam that I did with some friends. :) Everyone did one part and then uploaded a wav file of the full track. The next person would load that in a DAW and add their own wav, and so on. Finally, I took all the tracks and mixed them to my tastes. This is the result. There might be other mixes later! (In which case I'll come back and link them here.)

Credits:
Drums - Haryto - https://instagram.com/harytowave
Arps - Peter Williams
Didgeridoo, Vocaloid, Mixing - Soaria [Aisling]
Guitars - Peter Fernandez - http://www.therockmores.com
Electric Piano - Paul Blankinship
Bass - Damien Pierce
Pads - David Montag
Vocals - Sandra - https://supersandra.github.io
Title - Soaria [Deci]

Seasons of the Robin

"We're high up on a hillside, looking out over the Casilan Sea. Most of the hustle and bustle has been left back where we came from. Most of the buildings in Belio, the parts that are more loudly inhabited, are clean, white stucco, and clearly not designed for cold. This building is mammoth. Its giant pillars and walls look carved out of a hillside, and its doors are thick wood."

Ah, the mysterious Stately Quarter. Another side-path added for the visual novel, this is mostly a tie-in to later stories. This track is a "palette shift" of Seaside Tango, and a bit of a pun... I wonder if they sell dumplings up there.

Tools: Bitwig, Spitfire BBC, Cremona Violin, Metropolis Ark 1

Mountain Dango

I'm getting myself back into Cubase since 13 came out, and I'm trying to do some practical work with the AI model I trained. It's me singing, but with a coat of AI paint on top. I'm working on training some more quality models, too.

Wonderland...
A place we've only ever dreamed of.
Green grass and blue skies
A heart's home

Wonderland...
Our wildest dreams a blink away...
Dry our tears and bring the peace to stay
We'll find a way

Some day... some day.

Wonderland

This is to try out some of my new instruments, whee. Spotlight Ireland and Vocal Colours. Still want to tweak the mix a bit.

Made for the new story project.

---

"God," he breathed.
"Yes?" she asked sweetly.
He laughed again. "The chocolate is even mint. I should've known this would be amazing. Treats from Goddess' own hands."

Grove Of The Goddess

I think this is one of my better cinematic battle musics so far :)

This is for Fractured Harmony.

--

"I will take you, and then I shall take them. Then their worlds, then the little ships of their little friends, then those little friends' little worlds. The planets, the suns, the galaxies! The nebulae, the pulsars, even the black holes! I will eat all of existence, and nothing will stop me until the sight and sound of the universe itself is as nothingness in my belly!"

"You shall not. Your reign of terror is at an end. I commit to life!"

Avatars

A fancy overture track based on the old "Anthem Trailer" track I made a while back. This was me learning how to use Reaper to orchestrate. That is a steep freaking learning curve, but I think I'm getting it finally.

I know this isn't perfect, but it makes me happy, so... :)

---

Harmony preferred not to interfere with the affairs of outsiders. It had ended badly, in the past. Badly enough that they all instinctively pretended to be something they were not, to outsiders.

But they all agreed on one thought, when it came to this particular conflict.

_We cannot afford to sit this one out, or we may be next._

Harmonic Overture

Since I decided to incorporate Long Way Home into Fractured Harmony, I've been pulling in some of the old LWH tracks, rescuing them from FL Studio ;) and remixing/rebuilding them in Bitwig. I decided to go ahead and give this one more "B-side-ish" lyrics-poetry that was less awkward.

The name is a playful pun on the topic of the story bit (a datacentre).

Original: https://soundcloud.com/soaria/heart-of-earth?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home

Lyrics:
Listen to my story bout a world called Earth
Glass, mountains, skyscrapers, all ya can want
Cables and computers
An orderly grid
A matrix of cores
Free us from hurt

Breathe sacred air in the room, pinch your nose
Dust, damp, and heat, check it all at the doors
A liminal space
A maze to the truth
Home away from home
My monastery.

Heart of Earth [fibre mesh upgrade mix]

This is a remixed and updated version of this track: https://soundcloud.com/soaria/tunnel-to-nowhere?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home

Once again for Fractured Harmony, which will include LWH.

Tunnel to Nowhere [hard road mix]

Really hard to classify this one! This is a split of Captain on the Bridge, and remix/remaster:

https://soundcloud.com/soaria/captain-on-the-bridge-1?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home-instrumental

---

We turned another corner in that endless white space, the old hallway suddenly out of view as we walked toward a new door. It looked much like the door we’d seen on the entrance to the white space, but somehow more… practical. Simple, flat, grey metal, but with the star chart patterns painted on its surface in iridescent colours. As Core approached, the door slid open silently, and we were gestured inside.

Uncertain Ground [captain on the bridge]

This is a split of Captain on the Bridge, and remix/remaster:

https://soundcloud.com/soaria/captain-on-the-bridge-1?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home-instrumental

---

The room was huge, at least the equivalent of three or four floors of a building. All of the walls, from floor to ceiling, looked like super clear windows. Various stations were located around the base of the windows, and some on tiers rising up toward the back of the room where we’d entered, with gear at each station specialized for navigation, comms, and so on. A quiet hum filled the room, which had a sort of musty smell I didn’t remember from Dogfight. White points streaked by the windows as if we were flying at incredible speeds through stars.

Faded Dawn [captain on the bridge]

This is a split of Captain on the Bridge, and remix/remaster:

https://soundcloud.com/soaria/captain-on-the-bridge-1?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home-instrumental

The name is a play on another song I made earlier:

https://soundcloud.com/soaria/hands-not-words?in=soaria/sets/morphopocrypha-the-music-of-agent

This is somewhat inspired by Lena Raine's excellent Celeste soundtrack :)

---

Core nodded as if pleased with the answer before looking back at us. “Tainah?”

She pushed lightly to the front, and I let her. “Why don’t you stop f***ing around?” She was angry. Inside, I felt surprised — Tai was always so calm most of the time. Then, again, she did have a temper sometimes...

I let her take over.

Words Not Hands [captain on the bridge]

An extraction and remix/remaster of this track:

https://soundcloud.com/soaria/prismatic-refulgence-1?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home-instrumental

As this is riffing on a leitmotif from Vast Frontier, I went ahead and took the Barbary vocals that were in the original and tuned them to be more like the intro Heroica, and made it a bit more haunting.

---

Another doorway slid open at our approach, and we stepped out onto a balcony overlooking a vast, open space. Thousands of pods, arranged in rows and columns and stacks into the distance, stood in mute testimony to the ambition of the hypothetical humanity of the past. Core just stood there silently, letting us take everything in.

boundless mote [prismatic refulgence]

For the Fractured Harmony project. This is a remake of this song:
https://soundcloud.com/soaria/shepherds?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home

I decided to rename this one not to conflict with the Shepherds in the new album.

Lyrics are by me, but the vocals are created with Suno:
https://suno.com/song/e183fa25-16c0-4560-923c-3bce6f8d6fcd

---

[spoken]
Now here we are, here we are
Left holding the ball
A collection of pieces
I think we're makin' it new

[Callie]
The fight left me hungry, don't know what it means
A whole strange reality, it seems like a dream
Everything we know
The doubts that we sowed
A soul made of light
Just go with the flow

Engineer kids, the future of Earth
Artists and poets, dreams given birth
Pilots and fighters, keep us all safe
Everyone else, just passin' the days

[Tai]
We got a few years, of whirlwind ahead
I feel a strong purpose, hope against dread
Billions of humans
Brighter than lumens
Give me some insight
To find the solutions

A lot we weren't told, and no one to tell it
How the future unfolds, we have to decide it
The long way home, and more left to go, but
All we can do, is go with the flow

[spoken]
Now unfold, behold the Unfolding
A liminal space,
A home that we're coding
A place that we can all be... free

Future Shepherds [brighter than lumens remix]

I'm finally getting to this after months of burnout and other troubles. =_= This is a remix, perhaps more of a remake really, of this song:

https://soundcloud.com/soaria/shadow-wraiths?in=soaria/sets/long-way-home

This one has all new lyrics (written by me) and heavily redone instrumentals, plus some vocals that Suno V3 generated. (https://suno.com/song/8792c3a2-0ab8-4cf0-8462-73091187deac) The quality of old AI model + stem separation AI models + Melodyne + etc isn't a good recipe for overall quality, but eh. It was an experiment.

Credit to Deci for making a kind of amazing Callie pic with Flux. Also credits to Plogue and Texas Instruments for making a classic from my childhood available for sampling :)

--

The sisters
Are flyin'
Defyin'
Chasin' down our flows!

Sometimes odds aren't lookin' very good
Sometimes things ain't workin' like they should
Sometimes doubts won't let ya live in peace but
When ya got ta get it done ya bring 'em to their knees
(ohh--)
You've got friends flyin' at your side
There's no need for you to run and hide
Get yourself in gear and place your bets
Fate will take care of all the rest

Face down the storm and always stand tall
Helping out each other, we'll never fall.
Starin' down fears, the people unite,
Bonds made of steel, Unfolding in light!

Shadow box ghosts in your mind but
When the shit gets real, your gonna find
Close your pretty eyes and trust in yourself
Put your heavy textbooks back on the shelf
(yeah--)
You've got family that are watchin' your back
There's no need for you to pause your attack
Get yourself in gear, and settle the debts
Protect the ones you love, forget your regrets

Face down the storm and always stand tall...
Helping out each other, we'll never fall...
Staring down fears, the people unite...
Bonds made of steel, Unfolding in light!

Starin' down fears, the people unite,
Bonds made of steel, Unfolding in light.

Shadow Wraiths [forget your regrets mix]

Still trying to channel the 80s goth/darkwave sound. :D

This is a remix of a remix of one of my favourite Long Way Home tracks:

https://soundcloud.com/soaria/earth-2dot5dot5

The original was FL Studio, the newer one is Bitwig plus FL Studio as a VST (to get Harmless/Harmor).

The gimmick with the new version is that it's using vocals from Dreamtonic Synthesizer V. (Specifically, Liam and Solaria.) This thing is dark magic! I think the result is pretty respectable.

Lyrics:
Walk the Crossroads promenade, an extrovert's paradise
Duck into a spooky game, that one's got some spice
Amongst all the frivolities, a game to explore space
Charts plot other galaxies, but we all stay in one place

(chorus)
No one is bored here on Earth
No one suffers in strife
No one wants for food nor drink
No one need question the price

Pink and cyan neon lights; games, conversations, and noise
In this world of reverie, your image is all about poise
Earth welcomes all to its embrace, no one has to stay away
All work together in this place, for smiles in the coming days

(chorus)

Some people like to live life fast, others nice and slow
Distance is a thing of the past, go anywhere you wanna go
There's a place on Earth for everyone, a place that you can call home
And even if you can't find yours, you can always make your own

(chorus)

We're all living our design, we're all deep in our dream
How we got here's lost to time, but we've not run out of steam
Some people say it's time to play, others go with the flow
But for this day, I point and say, it's onward with the show

No one is bored, here on Earth
Everyone has a good life
And in this modern Shangri-la
No one turns out the lights

Earth 2dot5dot9

Finally time to get around to remixing this oldie but goodie. :) I made this song right after getting back to Canada during the pandemic, so nearly five years ago. I have much better tools now, though, and some more experience; I think this is a much better version. Like so many things, I did this originally in FL Studio but have moved it to Bitwig.

Original: https://soundcloud.com/soaria/meowst-important
AI Art: Deci
Cat sounds: Deci
Vocals: Synthesizer V, Natalie 2 (with a super huge leftward turn on the formant knob... ^^;)
Guitar strums: me

i think... you might be... a caaaat

think ya might be a cat!
think ya might be a cat!

chewing my blanket, rolling round
playing my games, on the couch
feeling hungry, it's a frozen meal
i just wanna know, where are my ears

nyah nyah nyah, nyah nyah nyah
nyah nyah nyah, nyah nyah nyah

what is a cat, is a kitty kitty cat?
what makes one a cat, but not a kitty cat?
silly silly hoomins make a big deal
i just want a sunbeam and my next meal

(also a nap)

The Meowst Important Things in Life [warm blanket remix]

Third time's the charm I guess. 😹 This is a mild re-imagining of the original song with much better tools and skills. The original (https://soundcloud.com/soaria/beyond-the-lines) came during early 2020 as a pandemic project. The update (https://soundcloud.com/soaria/beyond-the-lines-jaoushingan-mix) came as a literal remix, still using FL Studio, but imo, still fairly bleh. This one is using Bitwig, FL as a plugin, and Synth V as a plugin. Three DAWs at once, no big deal really. ^^;

The concept was originally inspired by "Love, Chuunibyou, and Other Delusions", and has some personal stuff thrown in too. Well, without further ado:

Past the aetherial horizon, beyond the boundary lines, love waits for you if you dare to accept it.

Music/production: Aisling, Deci
 Concept: Aisling, Dove, Deci 
Lyrics: Aisling, Dove
 Vocals: Synthesizer V - Hayden 2, Natalie 2, Solaria 2
Cover art: Various AIs and a lot of manual work

~ Lyrics ~

Watching rain fall from on high 
I wish I had you by my side
No one to share my dinner with
A mirror for my goodnight kiss

But I don't feel loneliness
Your smile and warmth is ever close
Some people may not understand --
We're living in the promised land

I never knew it could be this way
I'm so glad that you came my way
The whole wide world'd like t'feel my glee
But you are a secret that's just for me

You came and took my life by storm
The chemistry 'tween us is warm
Our meeting was a huge surprise
Your soul shines ever bright inside

Your heart, it beats so close next to mine
Our love may have its chance to shine
We have a bond that transcends time
To take us far, beyond the lines

Yeah your heart it's a beatin' and it's next to mine
Our love ain't a given but I think we've gotta try
My pulse is travelin' beyond warp nine
That's what it's gonna take to get beyond the lines

I never knew it could be this way
I'm so glad that you came my way
The whole wide world'd like t'feel my glee
But you are a secret that's just for me

Beyond the Lines [Mjölnir Maul mix]

Fly High and Cry Loud
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