Lyrics:

Not so long ago
I was digging a hole in the ground
And I'm digging it
Since then
You would be surprised
At what flowers in the mud
As I bury my hands
In the dirt 

I would welcome you
To my little hole in the ground
Where we could watch the stars
But I don't know where I am

I dug as far as hell
And I dug a hole in the hell
To get deeper than that
Where it hurts
I know the story well
I read it in your eyes
As I was heading down
Struggling to breathe

I would welcome you
To my little hole in the ground
Where we could watch the stars
But I don't know where I am

I think I'm gonna stop
And climb up from the hole
I think I'm gonna sit
In the wind
But I'm a bit confused
Between up and down
They all seem the same
From outside

I would welcome you
To my little hole in the ground
Where we could watch the sky
But I don't know where I am

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Artwork: "Rainbow Man's Mortal Remains", rendered in Mandelbulber.

The Hole In The Ground

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"I promise I'll eat you last" he said in a drunken haze.

2024-10-10 Schiffbruchstraum

Well, this thing is a beast
And noisy as fuck
But it's not here to wet your panties
It's here to deliver hypnopunk

2024-10-12 Brodocaster

When did I meet death for the first time? Mmm, let me think about it. No. No, I can't remember.

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Hello, this is your captain speaking. There have been a few changes in our setup lately. Our friends Crave, Mavis and mini kaosspad were transferred to a different ship (which may or may not float). All the blippity-bloppity is now handled by the holy volca trinity: beats, bass, keys. Some could say it's a sad turn of events. But events were already sad before.

2024-10-23 Borj Jilij, pt. 1

Not to be haunted by ghosts, but by living flesh is the real horror.

2024-10-25 Borj Jilij, pt. 2

To the shrimp that lives in your shallows.

2024-10-28 Posillipussy

This pain you pay for, this pain comes for free.

2024-11-01 A Druggy Day Indeed

MORE POWERCHORDS LESS POETRY 🤘

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volca beats + keys, guitar, bunch of software synths.

Artwork: "Angrifoetus", rendered in Mandelbulber.

Tummalad

Decay.

Track made in Caustic, using the following SoundFont libraries:

- HQ Orchestral Soundfont Collection (jbraney97)
- Marcato Strings (E-Mu Sound Central)
- Vox & Voice (E-Mu Sound Central)

Original photo by Ferdinando Scala at Italian Wikipedia.

Tre Stanze

Oh, the abnormality.

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Made with Caustic, with additional 100% analog, actually-played-with-the-hands percussion.

Artwork: "Don Quixote Decorticated", rendered in Mandelbulber.

Abstract Tract Infection

Making music to capture something that was never there. Not in your fingers, not in the notes, not in the dancing around each other of the sounds like lovers... But you could swear it's close, something you've heard, something real, something for which your heart raced once. 

Then time goes by, the music fades, it's finally over, and you didn't capture anything. 

You were captured instead.

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100% Caustic.

Artwork: original photo by Lukas Budimaier (from Unsplash).

Greifnah

Just letting the strings breathe... and the phaser go.

I went on a bit too much, and got lost here and there. The result is longer and more boring than it should be, for which I apologize profusely.

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Guitar (Yamaha superstrat + Korg AX5G) + bass (Azalea J copy) + drums (Caustic) + final mix (Ardour).

Artwork: "Hypotesis for a Skull #12", rendered in Mandelbulb 3D.

Godvitamin ϕ

Look up and tell me it's true.

(Please.)

--

100% Caustic.
Artwork: "The Sky Is Full", rendered in Mandelbulber.

The Sky Looks Small To Those Who See Spaceships

Lyrics:

Well the earth will get tired of turning
And the sun will get tired of burning
And the moon will get tired of shining
And the tide will get tired of rising

But I'm not gonna get tired of wanting you

Well the trees will get tired of growing
And the wind will get tired of blowing
And the river will get tired of flowing
And the leaves will get tired of falling

But I'm not gonna get tired of wanting you
No I'm never gonna get tired of wanting you

Well my eyes will get tired of seeing
And my ears will get tired of hearing
And my hands will get tired of feeling
And my heart will get tired of beating

But I'm not gonna get tired of wanting you
No I'm never gonna get tired of wanting you

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Guitar, bass, voice, Tonebridge app, then computer, and Ardour.

Sorry for the noisy recording, the bad singing, the sometimes imprecise playing, the maybe too formulaic licks.

Artwork: original photo by Jeroen Bosch on Unsplash.

Tired

in stolen time
immobile
like a seagull
gliding
on opposing winds

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Almost offensively minimal, barely more than two notes played. Like something that defies conveyance awkwardly trying to convey itself.

Recorded in Caustic, piano and strings sounds from the HQ Orchestral Soundfont Collection.

To A Standstill

I was 12 years old when the video game Deus Ex Machina was published. I must have played it maybe a couple years later, but still as an impressionable young man :-)

It was weird and awesome, a video game that came with a "real" music soundtrack on the same audio cassette. Incredibly fascinating to me, I remember it as a mystic experience.

This is my cover of "I Am Machine", first song from the game soundtrack, written by Mel Croucher, with the original (and amazing) vocals by Donna Bailey.

I hope my version does justice to the magic that this masterpiece of computing and entertainment history represents.

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An amazing little piece of software, called Spleeter, was used to extract the vocals. The rest (beat, synths, and vocoder) was all done in Caustic. Plus a healthy dose of Korg iWaveStation for those extra-cheesy '90s sounds.

Artwork: based on original artwork from the Deus Ex Machina video game.

I Am Machine (Deus Ex Machina - Mel Croucher cover)

My entry for the Disquiet Junto Project 0463: Making the Gradient.

The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by the concept of a gradient.

I let myself be inspired by the sounds of the Prophet VS, a 1986 vector synthesis instrument, with their smooth transitioning waveforms.

Of course, I didn't actually use that, but the Arturia iProphet iPad emulation, which meanwhile is almost as vintage as the real thing.

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All sounds from iProphet app, mixed in Ardour.

Artwork: plasma clouds in color-cycling mode in Fractint.

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More on this 463rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Making the Gradient (The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by the concept of a gradient), at:

https://disquiet.com/0463/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

A Mind Forever Color-cycling [disquiet0463]

My entry for the Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast

The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.

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Base composed in Caustic, flute parts played on Artinoise re.corder (amazing little wind controller!) featuring Animoog and Photophore apps.

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More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project – IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) – at:

https://disquiet.com/0476/

The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Hypopnea [disquiet0476]

Lyrics:

One hundred arms
One hundred eyes
Ugly in the eyes of god
Undeserving of the light
I wander in the night
Searching for things to devour

I stray from the eyes of god
I stray from the eyes of god
I spit in the eye of god
I wish for death (I wish for death)
I wish for death (I wish for death)
A wishful death
A wonder in the eyes of god

The hammer of the gods
Smashing on my bones
Skin bursting from the inside
No father and no mother
Born to be negated
Born just to wish to die

I stray from the eyes of god
I stray from the eyes of god
I spit in the eye of god
I wish for death (I wish for death)
I wish for death (I wish for death)
A wishful death
A wonder in the eyes of god

You killed the traitor but betrayed yourself
You killed the traitor but betrayed yourself
You killed the traitor but betrayed yourself
You killed the traitor now mourn yourself

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What better than a little death metal ditty to brighten the spirits :-)

I know, I know, I should probably leave this to people who are good at the genre. But I kinda like the song, and enjoyed putting it together.

Rhythm section composed in Caustic + guitar + voice.

Artwork modeled in SculptGL + Blender. Eyeball model by wildartworks (Blend Swap), the rest by me.

A Wonder In The Eyes Of God

Annoyingly pretentious shmuck.



(header image rendered in POV-Ray; human figure model by Ben Houston; TRS plug model by Søren Peo Pedersen; speaker model by Laurent Glodt)

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