Pretend Life

Check out, Ducks on Quack in Space, also on Soundcloud. @user-713093027

The Bubble Treatment

northern lights

Dreams

November 25, 2025
Dedicated to Robert Knote
https://soundcloud.com/robertknote

ATONAL SIGNAL [for Robert Knote]

Earlier this year my friend Atik Yomin  (@othiqivmin) „challenged“ me to write an album consisting of tracks in odd meters only after listening to my track ‚Trickle’ which is written in 5/4.

Then in early September I got my hands on a decent trigger sequencer by Doepfer (Thanks to @synthetic-arts !) and to test it in depth together with my crazy Bigger Dumber Sequencer by Beers, I pretty much immediately started this odd times project, and three weeks later finished it. Believe me, I had a blast! 

First up, as always, is the last track I made. It comes in 8/8 – counting 123 123 12 – and in the end it comes back 'into balance', landing on a straight four on the floor rhythm.

Counterbalance

Initially, this was a road trip theme but I decided to make it a character portrait for my "Shards of Earth" project.  Kris is  a legal expert and crew member on the Vulture God, she's also something of a femme fatale.  
The acoustic guitar is a Takamine and the lead guitar is a Duesenberg Paloma.

Kris

“Crashing Into Calm” is about the journey from tension to release, showing how true serenity comes not by control but by accepting what unfolds. It embodies the idea that calm arises when we stop resisting and let things be.

released December 7, 2025
ⓒ all rights reserved

🙏🏻

Crashing Into Calm

Dream Meme

Oh listless list
Poked for plays
Success is sucked
Mathematical maze
Dreams...

So many years
All written down
The piles of paper
Ironing frown
Beams...

It's lists of light
Just pines for love
It's darkness cleared
We're facing up
Screams...

The hate can't win
So hope we spell
A hope to hone heaven
And douse water on hell
Memes...

Do it with heart
Make it kind
Play a good part
Lighten finds
Do it with care
Pure purpose
Beautiful flare
Virtuous circus

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Tempo 94 BPM
6/8
Key Cmaj7
440Hz

Instrumentation
-Ovation Acoustic and Vox live
-Piano on keys
-Airways pad on keys

Dream Meme

an owl in an oak tree
logging his hours

fucked up and blowing smoke rings
my super powers

why we tryin’
     should we try
do we care 
     we don’t care
scarifying
     scarify
love affair

you kicked out all the windows
screamed in the shower

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image by Ahmed Badawy via Unsplash

Idyll

X - aXis 016

Almost all tracks are free to download and covered by a Creative Commons license. Collaborations / Remixes are welcome so feel free to experiment - no need to get my permission first. Just send me a link to your track when you're done :)

I love listening to & creating ambient, dark ambient, avant-garde & experimental electronica (and the occasional beatscape). I have no professional aspirations  - I just really like creating music / manipulating sounds. It's my way of relaxing after a hard day at the office. All my tracks are produced using monitoring headphones (Audix A140) so I recommend that you listen to my music through headphones. My DAW of choice is FL Studio. I also use Reason every now & then. 


To the artists I follow; I do my best to try to listen to as many of your tracks as possible each night (I listen to each track all the way through - you went through the effort to create a track so you deserve to have it heard in full). If I miss a recent upload of yours, please forgive me...

Thank you for taking the time to visit my little corner of the soundcloud.

X - aXis 016

Stan Magendanz