A collection of people, marooned on a mysterious island, gradually turn into humanoid mushroom entities.   This analog synth performance was inspired by the 1963 Japanese sci-fi horror film, Montango - Attack of the Mushroom People

Synthoid Sounds

Remastered.   
The first glimmers of light appear in the distance, finding their way through the omnipresent mist. In the background can be heard those who are drawn to the light.

Into The Light

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A Bolero inspired piece, an expression of the cosmos we have been venturing ever further into.   It is the the incubator for everything in the known known  universe, including this planet and the lifeforms on it.
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Maurice Ravel  composed his original version of "Bolero" for the famous Russian actress and dancer, Ida Rubinstein.
Ms Rubinstein was an iconic goddess of the stage, a perfect match for the spectacular composition Ravel had created for her.  Since then various iterations and versions of Bolero inspired compositions have appeared (Jeff Beck's superb rendition of a Bolero inspired creation being among the most well known in modern times).

Bolero Of The Cosmos

Remastered . . . now on Spotify
An unknown fate awaits, but is rapidly approaching. 
The clock is ticking, a sense of urgency is in the air . . .

Impatient Clock

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Sprouting forth from the remnants of a past cityscape, Urbania evolves into a different type of newly spawned technoscape, with its unique amalgam of lifeforms, synthoids, and tribal entities.

Techno Urbania

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Approaching the edge of "something", uncertain what it is or once was.  
2:55   Venturing ever further into this unknown terrain, what is encountered only becomes more mysterious, but eventually, returning back to the edge
5:25, there is much contemplation.

Akai MPK225
Korg DW-6000
Behringer Neutron
Voltage Modular
Vital

Contemplation

A brief immersion into a world which is infused with the virtual as the ubiquitous norm, where anyone can be everywhere, and nowhere at the same time.

Everywhere And Nowhere

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Barrancas, long winding canyons, corridors of stone etched deep into the planetary surface.  These about to be entered are different from all the others, in which dwells a mystery waiting to be encountered.

Behringer Neutron
Behringer K-2
Korg DW-6000
Akai MPK 225
Voltage Modular
Vital

Into The Barrancas

Remastered . . . now on Spotify
The planetary deities are taking a sojourn from the usual mythical assignments given to them, now flourishing in our solar system to their own beat.
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Korg DW-6000
mini Korg Vocorder
Behringer Neutron
Behringer Pro-1
Voltage Modular
Vital
WaveRazor

Sidereal Sojourn

Remastered
Brief sojourn into a nocturnal dreamscape . . .
   A transdimensional portal suddenly appears, beckoning.  1:42
        The journey begins, but returns to the nocturnal dreamscape once again.  5:49
             Last vestiges of the journey completely fade away, into the mist of the dreamscape.  6:40

Nocturnal Reverie

Remastered
"Here" is a relative concept.  
What appears to be "here" could actually be somewhere completely different, depending on which dimension set one might have access to.
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Akai MPK225
mini Korg vocorder
Korg DW-6000
Behringer K-2
Behringer Neutron
Voltage Modular
Vital

You Are Not Here

Remastered
Linear time, usually observed as a monodimensional, monodirectional continuum, is not necessarily confined to that manifestation, as can sometimes be experienced in our dreams. 
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Akai MPK225
Korg DW-6000
Behringer Pro-1
Behringer Neutron
Voltage Modular
Vital

Twisted Time

Burnt toast - what starts out as an expectation, becomes something else, different but still compelling . . . maybe.
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Behringer K-2
Behringer Pro-1
micro-Korg
Korg DW 6000

Burnt Toast

An unrecognized answer appears, for a question yet to be encountered . . . 
For the first 3 minutes, a mystic "something" is queried, then at 3:07, launches into its tribal roots . . . but alas, the quest reemerges at 5:20

Answer Without A Question

La Mission Mystique
Probing into an emergent world where the unlikely becomes the new norm, where the virtual and the real become inseparable.

La Mission Mystique

.Out of the ground they came, huge, hungry, carnivorous, and they are multiplying  2:15
Spawned from the nuclear waste site no one paid much attention to . . . until now  5:55
they're everywhere . . .
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Voltage Modular
Dreamsynth
 Surge XT
Waveform 11
Mooer Ocean Machine
TC Electronic Brain Waves
Earthquaker Rainbow Machine
Digitech Obscura
Donner Harmonic Square
Arturia Keylab 61
Korg DW-6000

Synthoid Sounds II

Nuclear Nematodes

Just beneath the placid surface, a swirling maelstrom of intersecting currents is forming into a formidable vortex.

Swirling Maelstrom

In 2 parts . . .  
 coming upon a lens,
 nocturnal wind in the trees
 there is the urge to look through it
 a very different world begins to appear,
 but only for a few moments, as it fades away

Voltage Modular
Dreamsynth
Mooer Ocean Machine
TC Electronic Brain Waves
Digitech Obscura
Donner Harmonic Square
Arturia Keylab 61
Korg DW-6000


Just for reference, no AI was used in the music
The "lens" in the image is an AI construct . . . 
a sort of fractal vortex appearing through a lens.
The AI did an interesting interpretation of the concept.

Peering Through The Lens

Enter the labyrinth, 1:32, navigating its mystery, 2:30, for a portal at the other end . . .
but it keeps changing, morphing into something else, 3:24.
Various portals beckon, 4:22, eventually the portal of departure comes into view 6:23, but remnants of the previous encounters are still present.

Morph Matrix

the Beacon
Before the earliest memories, created by whom or why no one knows
Casting its beam, silently it waits . . . for something
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SoundPaint
Surge_XT
DreamSynth
Donner - Harmonic Square
MOOER - Ocean Machine
EarthQuaker - Rainbow Machine
DigiTech - Obscura Altered Delay

The Beacon

Patiently it waits for its next moment of  cosmic gluttony, a rogue black hole with a voracious appetite, gorging on anything that wanders into its lair.
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Korg Wavestate
Surge XT
Voltage Modular
TC Electronic - Brainwave
DigiTech - Obscura
Mooer - Ocean Machine

Black Hole Beckoning

A panorama of thoughts, a thread appears out of the neural tapestry, beckoning for attention . . . 0:38
through layers of the inner terrain 2:00
but eventually, segues back into the outer world 7:26

Thought Memes

Apparent time is only what it appears to be at the moment.
A very short intro leads into a seemingly stable timeline, but contortions of time are hiding just below that surface veneer  . . .

Hidden Time

Beckoning, spongy little morsels, these are no ordinary marshmallows   0:12
Only moments after ingesting, something strange begins to happen   0:40
They're alive, glowing, growing, mutating, tentacles reaching out   5:25
 . . . the journey begins, out into a very different parallel world  6:13

Mystic Marshmallows

Marked by an encountered crystal spire, at the crossroads of paths leading into an unfamiliar terrain, the only common feature of either is equally unknown uncertainty . . .

At The Crossroads

Marked by an encountered crystal spire, at the crossroads of intersecting paths leading into an unfamiliar terrain, the only common feature of either is equally unknown uncertainty . . .

In the beginning . . . in three parts . . .
On a random world, pools of primordial sludge percolate, frothing 
oceans undulate, twisting under tidal influences but then  0:42    
the beginning edge of history on this world is ignited  1:28
. . . . . . . . . . . . . and another epoch soon follows   5:46

In The Beginning

A quiet evening, a light breeze . . . 
the wind picks up, a brilliant glow appears,  1:15
astonishingly beautiful beyond words, shimmering,  2:25
evolving into its own unique form, mysterious, unseen before  3:23
but then, it fades away, the darkness returns  7:07

Strange Encounter

Patiently it waits for its next moment of  cosmic gluttony, a rogue black hole with a voracious appetite, gorges on anything that wanders into its lair.

No one will notice, at least not now, 
innocuously blending in with the background, 
its origins are not from here, but this will become its home 
soon enough . . .  

Many of my tracks correlate with a story, or vignettes from within a story.

Sentient Seaweed

Spectacular for many, terrifying for some 
 1:54  frenzied palatable anticipation 
4:44  its occasion arrives . . .
etched into memory

Eclipse

Eclipse X Mm

Venturing into unknown terrain is always an adventure . . .
this track expresses that trek into the "obscura unknown".
Very early experimental production, a work in progress at the time.
Most of my material correlates with a story (or chapters in a story).

Obscura Unknown Terrain

"Strange" is a relative concept . . .
even if not at first glance, there can still be beauty within, on a world yet to be experienced.
Many of my tracks correlate with a story (or chapters in a story)

Corroded machine ruins, 
their purpose long since forgotten,  
something woke them up, not the machines, 
but the hungry things that suddenly grew out of them...

Awakening

Patiently it waits for its next visitor . . .


Korg Wavestate
Dreamsynth
Surge XT

La Noir Portail

The spawning of newly evolved hybrid entities, sending out probes, investigating encountered, unknown terrain . . .

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Stepping through the void, into uncharted territory in a perpetual state of flux, various beings are there, not quite visible yet, but their presence can be heard, and felt.

Stepping Through The Void

Synthoid Sounds, an ever evolving compilation of tracks spawned from the synth lab incubator . . . 
emergent soundscapes, beats and rhythms, motifs and melodies, manifest from this uncharted terrain of synthoid encountered experiences.  

Much of this has been for sci-fi & technosynth related podcasts and content, various published media.
The range also encompasses Techbeat, Liquid, Ambient, Indie Dance, Atmospheric . . .
Some of these tracks describe a story or scenario, a series of vignettes rendered into an expressive form.  
In days of yore, a vinyl album had been produced and distributed

Formerly from a scientific / tech development background, in academia and private sectors.

For many years, I spent endless hours designing and building my own synth engines (formerly an engineer with one of the Lucas Films spinoffs).  Now I spend endless hours creating presets, soundscapes and compositions in my ever evolving synth lab, spawning tracks from the incubator . . . and mystifying the neighbors in the pre-dawn hours.
https://www.synthoidsounds.com/

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