live on hardware, live sung, live mixing, no software, etc etc.
Under night
The moon rises
At this time
The gates shall open
Do you see?
The dreaded history
Open your mind
And let us in
Ritual
Dream
Open
Gate To Hell
Hatred
Creating
Your Fear
Dwells
Live with hardware, only software FX was Ozone
Take a moment
Grab the daylight
See the smile
Time. Dance
Stories
Keepsakes (They seek this memory)
Promise (Hold that gentle feeling)
It’s these moments that you’ll look back on
It’s these times that you’ll dream of again
The happy faces, the novel sights
Take in all the glorious times and live
When information is cheap
Disinformation is free
Don’t like it? Forget it
Love it? I now know it
You think different from me
I think different from you
Where does it say that
That everybody thinks like you?
When the voices all stop
What do you do with the time?
Sit by, and let it
See it, forget it
Not my problem, not an issue of mine
When you block out the trash
What do you think you can find?
Logic, reason
Deduction
It’s not just what you know it’s the process
Constructed in the mind
Familiar blue
Travelled, true
Stories to share
With home, with you
It’s all grown over
Left in a world of green
It all seems over
Nothing left to see
When I left a dream to drive
I knew that I’d return alive
Except that I left you behind
Earth’s covered the memories
It’s been a time away from home
Sunlight’s but a speck in me
Watch the message queue alone
There one dark road ahead of me
To the rising edge I drive
As I wish for a voice that’s live
(I should have asked for you)
It’s a faraway world I’m at
But maybe it’s for the best
There’s a wish, and a reality alive
Call me here
In the greyest night
Your smell of cheap booze hits my mind
Telling me this news
in purple neon light
Was what I doing for you all a lie
- Hear the rain pitter patter on the glass
Slip that word that I thought was in the past
Why didn’t you open up before
I would - have - fixed it for you
Too much has gone by
Though the cold rain falls
The umbrella blocks our sky
Oooooops I really ran out of time for this one, like super minutes over.
Procedure down, one more time
Results, repeat, keep your focus
One thousand failures before you now
One thousand restarts that you need now
It’s not just science that moves you
The answer’s not that far away
My future rests in this observation
Tenure track keep my frustration
Steady move on
Write it all up
Observe the records
Store it, back up
Take down all the data
Enter the automation
Cold ice under the skin
Dark eyes hold secrets within
Whispers capture the ear
Mysteries are rarely so bold
Is there a warmth in the eyes
Hidden in a blizzard to me
Her gaze a chill within my soul
And yet the aura warms me to the bone
Ice and fire begging to be mixed
Warm and cold that are asking to be kissed
The heat that radiates from me
A touch that radiates from you
Air shifts the mountains to me
Stars call out to me wanting to fly
Bring me to fly
Stars poke a speck out at me
They laugh and taunt me thoroughly
Dumping the sky
Wind stops me slow but there’s no deterrance
Cast way all doubts and whispers into the air
Bring to the end
Let me see the shooting stars
Can I really do it
Will the magic happen
Show me how it ends
Bring my story to a close
Let this stress just go
Send it to the sky to burn away
Tell me the know
How hard it is
The desert show
Wanna know how tough it is
This desert wants to know
What are gonna bring to me
The desert wants to know
Just how much you can show
There's never a moment
Where I didn't notice you
What was it that brought us near
A word, a glance, an excuse to wave
A smile, a chance, a reason to give
There's a time for time, and more.
What do you take me for
Walking me with you to your door
What do you like about me
Just me?
Not sure how things got this way
But being with you there's nothing to say
I like how things are going
So let's go beyond
I like how things got this way
Being with you there's so much to say
Let's keep going
Let's go beyond
Lost in the frigid day
My mind's a world away
Caught in my frozen body
Each step made on a rotten plank
The bridge to worlds between us
Crossing will mean I leave us
But yet I cannot seem to
stray from this mossy fogged up place
Putrid fog
hides you among me
Fogging up my mind
Hide you in this space
Putting you in place
Putrid fog
hides us inside me
How will I find
where I've left you behind
Heart of land
Forged in heat
Our love lies forever
Under the rubble
With every flame
and every burst
My rock doesn’t falter
The heat forges everlasting crystal
I keep my rock strong
I keep my core going
I hold my face stoic
I bathe in your lava
I face all your vulcan
I bind all my geodes
I forge all my steel
In your everlasting sun
What the heck did I record
The lyrics are mostly ad-libbed and the melody made up on the spot
Ahhhhh
Red bird wings
Cross the eyes
Fluttering
Specks in sky
Hard times flow
Like birds fly slow
Accelerate
Let those thoughts go
Ooooo
The river of life continues
Deep at the water’s edge
A little fish appears
Next to all the dredge
I can’t help but think of us
As little fishes we once were
In the widest rivers
Only thoughts were pure
There’s many fish in the sea
But there’s only one fish for me
In a million miles of ocean
I found you happily
There might’ve been another fish
Another pond, another sea
But we ended up together
I found you happily
Lyrics are approximate
It was your eyes
that set me burning
The sounds you made
They kept me going
The fire lit, uncontrolled all day
Needed to get away from you
Stop the flame inside
Controlled burn exposed to you
Let you sustain within my mind
I found the fire inside me
You set that fire inside me
All the air, sucked right outside
Don't let it all burn away
Keep my head in the game
I chase my dreams
I try to fly
But when I lose air
I'm drowning
The swamp traps me
They grip me near
Crocodile jaws
Clamp on my wishes
Pulling me down
I just can't do it
I don't know how I'm supposed to fly
Trapped the murky swamp land
I don't know how I can break out
When the crocodile's got you
I guess I need to shake it off
But how can I do that?
The pain is real but yet it's not
Will I move on now?
Looking down
At clouds that day
Flying high I'm feeling fine
By the sunny rays
Because I'm over it
Because I'm over you
Cause I'm
over you
I see the sky
It's clearing up, the cloud's no longer here
Shadowing me
Let me free
I don't need your noise
Keeping me down, the needles like the rain
Each drop was the cold
But I'm flying now
Because I'm over you
Looking down
Because I'm over you
I see the sky
Because I'm over you
Don't need disguise
Because I'm over you
One thousand souls behind us
Each a page in a book long written
What do the words say?
All these stories are forgotten
One thousand souls no longer
An age in a time that’s past us
Each life is a day
In a time that’s left behind
Ages forgotten to the times
Imagine all the truth and lies
Crumbled to dust
Each thought was once alive
A book for every story past
A life for every soul that lived
Brought us to here
The things we hold dear
Each thought was once alive.
Sorry, I don't have lyrics because I ad-libbed them
Like a knife falls
Razer-like claws
Pierce me like saws
The force of blades all
Silent looks sharp
A wave falls apart
A touch strikes it deep
It stays there to sleep
Is there anything more you can say
When all the metal has come out
Is there anything more that you can do
The blade's been drawn and so are you
I recorded this in a DAW. Not one take.
Whatever I see
However I'm free
It's always as I want to be
The trees are weeping
As the wind is sweeping
The dust approaches separately
Rains on the streets like wine
Rinse the sweet thought of time
I see the dark
behind your eyes
Seeping out
Like red wine
I did not actually sing this all live, I did takes and stuff and wrote a song in a DAW but much good it did me right
Sorry this clipped.
Despite opening a DAW, I realized I didn't know how to use a DAW anymore and went back to hardware and live recording. Maybe I'd be able to do better if I started doing vocal takes instead of trying to ad lib an entire song in one take.
As the day comes to an end
See the leaves fly free and true
When the sun halts at the rise
Set down your work and rest your arms
Turn back to your loved ones
Delight in simple things
The company, the family
And relaxing in warm days
Take care
Take care
This day’s work is done
Take heed
Take heed
This day’s work is done
These normal times
When good plans go
Take in some time
Let your achievements roll
Performed live, one take, synths and stuff running on the looped sequencer.
On the green hills
On our violet hill
Back in the time when what we had was simple and pure
On the green hills we shared our thoughts and dreams
I thought about what could have been if I had a braver heart
I didn’t want to know the pain of us being apart
I watched the sun rise
(And then I let it set)
When you went away
A violet shade full of regret
When I think back
(about the smile on your face)
I let it get away,
I let us get away
My world is bathed in facets
Of alexandrite light.
Violet and green
My world is bathed In facets
Of alexandrite night
As the sun sets
I was the one who was truly green
Stare into the wall
Carefully where your eyes fall
Stare into your soul
What fears you most inside?
Cry alone at night
Block out the sun in day
When you see yourself
A shadow’s all that’s left
Hate all that I’ve become
But change will make it done
Start the smallest act
Find a bright shard intact
Times wastes away
Why have you woken me now?
Not here to play
I’m tired of your silly
Games dragging me down
Making me guessing all the time
As the clock strikes at the morn
I’m done today
I’ve no more time for you.
Time Wastes Away!
I can’t make time for you.
Time Wastes Away!
Can’t you see I’m done?
Time Wastes Away
I’m setting myself free.
In the secret forest
Hidden behind the tree
Dark thoughts seek salvation
They’re hiding inside me
The haunting spirits scurry
Their tiny moments, free
Rest, my heart, beats slowly
Unleash the truth, control me!
Deep thoughts rest inside my head
Lives rent free in my mind
Impulsive urges rack my heart
Causing my eyes to bleed dark
My body gives nothing a break
I want to be what you’ve become
If I can’t be what you are
Then I’ll take all of you away
I performed this live on Access Virus, TR-8s, and Vocals with Hapax sequencing. It's pretty rough, it's the first time I've actually tried using the Hapax for songwriting.
I failed compo today
What do I feel?
It's an odd sense of freedom
What do I know?
Six degrees plus one more
A vocal version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2-AAgSW8Y4 which was also in OHC143.
Deep in the cold
Wet and old
Trapped in this prison
Drips sounding bold
I dream of a sky
I think of good-byes
Resolve like the steel pipes
that trap me inside
How long have I
been swimming in this sea
Who said that hell was fire?
They lied
I'm breaking out
Unsettled in my skin
I'm coming out
My patience wearing thin
Wash me clean
Watch me free
Leaving behind the steel pipes that trap me inside
Holding your hand
Keeping you close
Life slips slowly
From my fingers
Seeing your eyes
Longing to be
Bright and glowing
They're so weary
Watch See Think Feel
Time is waiting
Worlds in standstill
Standing with you
Step two three four
Down the long hall
Soon departing
I'll be with you
Eyes are a blur, my skin is numb.
Cries in my head, a constant hum
I'm not grounded
I keep floating
My mind keeps drifting away.
Be there, once again
Take me into your arms
Wrap me with your gaze
and bring me home
At last, I found my way
Faith for me to follow
All the things you've taught me
I keep right here
Be my anchor
Keep me here
Hold my body
Grab my soul!
<There are some words but I made them up as I went along>
Infinite bliss
The stars are your eyes
Mirrors in which
I see my soul
Infinite bliss
When you are with me
I reflect on my self
As you laugh dearly.
Hold it together
Link it together
Infinite bliss
When I am with you
Why do you keep me?
How am I worthy?
I must accept
That I can have
Infinite bliss.
Literally made up both the lyrics and vocal melody on the spot so I can't tell you what they are
Live recording with modular and bass synth and vocal
Among the green fields
Under the great trees
Together we stand
Together, you and me.
Let the birds see
Set our shouts free
The world will know
Bearing witness to you and me
From a blue sky
The lark flies,
staring above
From the trees it goes free.
In the blue sky
Be aware of us
Spread the word that
Together, you and me
Lie heavy in the room
The heat makes us drift apart
When it gets hot in here
It's when we're close together
The airy, drifting stares
Steal a glance at you, apart
It's always hot in here
For you it's all I remember
Do I wish the heat could disappear?
Yet I like it. I like it a lot.
I want that heat to be there,
Do you notice? Can you feel it?
Long ago, I knew a girl in school
She moved here from England
She lived just down the street
I walked her home each night
Through the park, stories were shared
Down the alley, feelings laid bare
Across the crescent, messages shared
But she didn't know how I felt.
I was so young, I didn't know how
I was toor strange, clinging so close
Being too weird was always my way
But being a creep drove her away.
I was a creep
I didn't know how to trest someone
With respect and care of their space
I was a creep
SPOKEN
The ages you've spoke of have come.
Why didn't we heed the words of our wiser ones?
We instead fought among ourselves for our own petty struggles
All in the name of hedonism and the "right" of freedom.
Now, as the blood red sky burns around us,
How is there anyone who can save us?
VERSE
In times of old
The computer told
The scientists
The secrets of the world
Our trust was low
Our futures bold
Now face this world
Ten-red fold.
CHORUS
The moon
Shedding blood all through the night
Spreading dread across the land
A sign of fear o'er your hand
Omen
Cast the pall into your hearts
Final days are yet to come
As they fly beneath the sun
The red shade rises.
Make your slow way up the hill, from the top down we go again.
I played the Theremin live for this one
What do you see in fires
Joined in combusting heat
A steamy conflagoration
As the fires meet the sea
In the flame, woah woah
In your flame, woah woah
In the flame, woah woah
My halo's in you
All the things
Just as I left them
Nothing's changed
My step back in time
But something's different
When I step through the portal
You've lost, I've won, it's begun.
At some time I started looking for you
When you were lost
And I was only one
Then we were two, now I'm one again
It had only just begun.
Not really a successful cover, this needed more takes, and maybe I should have changed the key.
Sleepless gliding
Over the city lights
Watch us flying
Over the streets tonight
And I say
There's a way, there's a way I know
I know that someday we will surely find it
There's a way, there's a way I know
Someday, there's a way I know it
Sunday morning
Watching the city sleep
Dreams are shining
Finally they're within reach
I tried to do an orchestral song
A distant dream, a memory
Faded in integrity.
Dwell in the power of the mind
Leaving the mysterious past behind
In paradise, the stranger
Ever lurking in the danger
As they dwell in a strange land
Fighting darkness with a light hand
Chaos. Do you feel it?
Must kill the chaos, do it.
The light I bring
Kills the chaos within
From brighter days
I saw you
in the moonlit sky
A twinkling past
Together
As the time flies by
In morning's sun
We bridged the
Passage in our way
Honesty
Passion and
Humility
The sun sets on our time
But when the night begins
We learn about each other
The dark might be unknown
But it's peaceful and serene
It leads to a new dawn
Roll the dice
Feeling lucky
Throw your chips
My heart's not lucky
Some days I just can't catch my break
There's no place for my mistake
You've got no place for me in your mind
You've got no place for me in your heart
The numbers don't favor me
The lucky one
The numbers don't favor me
I'm done
VERSE
One-two, is that a wheel for you?
Three-four, the hinges on the door
Five-six, are~ windows a trick?
Seven, eight, this was a mistake.
Unclear why you even care
Not sure why you all must stare
These things, they only cause division
No path to win, no satisfaction
PRE-CHORUS
Of all the things
That we fight about
This was that thing
Where answers burn out.
CHORUS
What now
Is that an open door?
What now
Spinning wheels some more
What now
Is it anticipation?
The things you list
Add to your frustration
VERSE
One-two, a gears a wheel you say?
Three-four, the hatches on the floor
Five-six, the numbers you predict
Arent even close, what a mistake.
CHORUS
What now
Is that an open door?
What now
Spinning wheels some more
What now
Is it anticipation?
The things you list
Add to your frustration
What now
Is that an open door?
What now
Spinning wheels some more
What now
Is it anticipation?
he things you list
Give in to your elation
Wandering in dark
Lost in our way
Wondring where goes
All the bright days
~
What can we do?
Where do we go
Caught in dark nothing to see
We only pray
Where shall we see?
Whats is there left?
Amidst the dark theres no such path
Cant see today.
~
But then, we see, a light
From ashes, a hope
From the horizon strikes, a ray, our fates!
~
And the light
Tt shines above the darkness
And the days of shadowed moon
The torch of hope, it shines brightly
As we witness a new noon.
All is still
it's calm now
The day a clear sky
Face your storm it said good-bye
You stood tall
On a pane of glass
The mirror's edge
At the top of the mast
What happens now?
What happens now?
Behind the long, red sky
How far will the sun-set reach
Behind every hill
Each tree, each blade of grass
Stories left untold
How far will you go?
As the arrow flies.
Ab - ove
The waves
They watch
From the tower
In sun
In rain
The lights
Show their power
I was working on this on stream. I was using a tracker for this compo for the second time, and then my cat stepped on the hardware, unplugged it from the computer, and I had last saved about half an hour ago. oooops
First time using a tracker to make a song
These magic moments
Before my eyes
Step back to see
These things time gifts to me
As each new thought comes
Adds to my memory
These are what my soul stores
Stores these things forever more
There's never any doubt of the things that I can see
My mind expands to feel the strength of our soul
As I learn, as I feel, as I think, as I breathe
These moments create me, define me
I take in what time offers to me.
When time comes gifting me
I take what I can see
When time comes gifting me
I accept what's known to be
(Cover song of Answers by Nobuo Uematsu because crystals, also this is hard to sing and I'm sorry it's also not finished I couldn't get through the song)
I close my eyes, tell us why must we suffer
Release your hands, for your will drags us under
My legs grow tired, tell us where must we wander
How can we carry on if redemption's beyond us?
To all of my children in whom Life flows abundant
To all of my children to whom Death hath passed his judgement
The soul yearns for honor, and the flesh the hereafter
Look to those who walked before to lead those who walk after
Shining is the Land's light of justice
Ever flows the Land's well of purpose
Walk free, walk free, walk free, believe...
The Land is alive, so believe...
Suffer (Feel) Promise (Think) Witness (Teach) Reason
(Hear) Follow (Feel) Wander (Think) Stumble (Teach) Listen
(Speak) Honor (Speak) Value (Tell) Whisper (Tell) Mention
(Hope) Ponder (Hope) Warrant (Wish) Cherish (Wish) Welcome
(Roam) Witness (Roam) Listen (Roam) Suffer (Roam) Sanction
(Sleep) Weather (Sleep) Wander (Sleep) Answer
Sleep on
Now open your eyes while our plight is repeated
Still deaf to our cries, lost in hope we lie defeated
Our souls have been torn, and our bodies forsaken
Bearing sins of the past, for our future is taken
War born of strife, these trials persuade us not
(Feel what? Learn what?)
Words without sound, these lies betray our thoughts
Mired by a plague of doubt, the Land, she mourns
(See what? Hear what?)
Judgement binds all we hold to a memory of scorn
Tell us why, given Life, we are meant to die, helpless in our cries?
Witness (Feel) Suffer (Think) Borrow (Teach) Reason
(Hear) Follow (Feel) Stumble (Think) Wander (Teach) Listen
(Blink) Whisper (Blink) Shoulder (Blink) Ponder (Blink) Weather
(Hear) Answer (Look) Answer (Think) Answer together
Thy Life is a riddle, to bear rapture and sorrow
To listen, to suffer, to entrust unto tomorrow
In one fleeting moment, from the Land doth life flow
Yet in one fleeting moment, for anew it doth grow
In the same fleeting moment
Thou must live
Die
And know
The sun shines on a new birth
Granting a new dawn!
A life, a new hope was born today
Let it emerge forth
Observe as life finds a way
Giving us all a new day!
Innocence, splitting free from the darkness
And gifting it to the world!
Nurture the ones that come before
Support those past the morn
Their radiant journeys
Wave as we welcome them
Wave when they sail away
As the waters flow
Leaving but shards behind
Steal the light from your sunrr
Determination brings us home again
Shine bright, let your heart rise again
As the warmth rises up to you once more
All those days before
Set you for today
Struggles that faced the morn
Your mind shall know the way
Feel the strength, that's born
As you live each day
A journey's grace adorned
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There was a time when I thought that art was "art". That it was meant to be expressed and shared.
I didn't realize that the world... was so depraved.
I wanted it to be a dance song!
I was going to create a rock song
I had dreams of creating a rap song
I didn't realise that it would all fall away.
Now there's a creepy theme
And all I can do is whisper strange things into your ear
All these things that I held dear
In some abstract, ambient wind
When I was a young boy, I did not fear the dark
I wrote all of my songs, subjected you to my innocence
With each Two Hour span, you could see more of the truth
The hidden secrets, the little tricks
Copy-paste, repeated harmonices, presets, samples
A place without a plan
The themes that Antik exposes us to
He says he can count, but what does he do?
He ignores the past, covers up the present
Two Hour Track Sunday isn't so pleasant
The skills I learn, what are they for?
If numbers aren't correctly stored
The lies, the tricks, the secrets of sound
The songs, played once, and never again found.
Dreaded times, drifting sands
Clocks in shadow, twisting hands
Turn back the tide, turn the time
To younger days.
Flowing river, down one way
It hurts now. Not back in the day
History repeats, secrets of man
Drifting moments, automatic
Those younger years
My more confusing time
But discovery reigns
In my simulated hope
The feelings, so strong
Only for first time
Or so I thought
In my simulated hope
SORRY I had huge technical issues with this one so levels and quality is TOTALLY OFF. I also started 45 minutes late.
Trouble's in your face
Permission denied
The paperwork's in place
As our work collides
Should have been hawk-eyed
The words within
Revealed to you the truth
But corporate always wins!
Didn't you take the time
To smell the roses
Don't you read the lines?
Affecting your ways
Protect ourselves,
That's what we do
But why do you not read?
It protects you too.
In union, our hopes and dreams collide
In parting, our legend's paths break free.
Our wishes, round and round they make
Drifting aimless, in the heat of the sun they bake.
Our minds, crossing worlds apart
Emotions, fully intertwined,
Joined, as dreams were ought to be
Together, as two worlds collide.
You wanted more than I could give
My light, my heat, my energy
All of my thoughts went to you
I thought together we were strong
Inspiration from you and power for me
But instead you stole me
Wrapped in a sphere of steel
Clouded eyes keeps us apart
Old memories, revived
Wounds may heal
But not when the knife comes out again
And cuts me deep
Time stands still, blue skies above
Hands gripping the rocky maze
I'm always following behind
In the shadow, cleaning up your mistakes
Swallowing the dust asider
When I fall down
Reach out
Cry your name
When I lose it
Refuse it
Need your strength
Why do you always reach for me?
Why don't you just set me free?
The hidden layers
The secret minds
Behind the faces
But all I see are the lies
Warm, wide eyes
Behind those masks
Guess the lies, the common thread
Rendered eyes
Plastic faces
False smiles leading me on
When in a past
all of the pretty faces
Let through no part of a truth
Within me all I see is anger
All through my past
I couldn't trust the pretty faces
Too close to the sun and I got burned
Too far away, so now I freeze.
These old artifacts, they represent knowledge?
Yes. Knowledge.
They said that knowledge was power, those who wrote these.
Then what are these, black... things?
The Motorola 68030. Now, that's where true power lies.
It was said that one child... one of the monkey machine... learned his great powers on this... machine.
But now you see what's happened, when one such as him wields great power...
Pages turned the tide once upon a time
But knowledge came at a larger costr
The data stored in metal within
Paper once stored most precious thoughts
But silicon brought to life within
Eternal noise for all to hear again!
The rumbles brought upon the world
Cannot escape the traps of time
A book never could reveal
The darkness of these voices of mine
All frequencies are the same
Spectral lights my electric mind
Pink noise and power is the way
Leaning to love this sound of mine
The others await
They seek the pieces of you
Take that side of you
Away
Each reflection
Each shard
Holds the secret
The power between worlds
Bit by bit
My is mind pulled apart
The sequences fade
From my shattered dream
Piece by piece
What I used to know grows dim
Crystalline memories
Tarnished and lost
One by one
Reaching within
Trying to keep unity
Hope drifts afar
Piece by piece
A neuron at a time
The last feelings in myself
My existence goes away
Fractions
Each reflection, each shard
Losing myself now
Pieces
Each part, each bit
Losing myself now
Lost in a crystalline dream
Fog Drowning All In Mist
Covered in Miasma
Darkness rest
Haze leaving but no trace
Veils across our souls
It's our mask anew
At which time again
Can we see the light
Through each other's stars
Through each other's eyes
Is it time
To understand our light
That each one holds?
We want to share!
Deep Water has us in dark
Forest husks drain us dry
Suppressive mists cloud our fear
The moonlight's madness isn't real
Deep Water drowned us in black
Lifeless branches bleed our limbs
Mystic fog smother our frame
The moonlight's rising, noir and grim
Take me there
City that never sleeps
Wake me up
New York
If I can make it there
Can I make it anywhere?
New York New York
The skies are on fire in the end
Stars dance in flames above our home
As flashes dive through the smoky fear
The ice cream's the only thing left here
How do you find the time
For all that you are
How do you find the time
To be who you want to be?
When the winds are passing so fast
I can't keep up with myself
How do you find the time
I want to be more. like you.
I see everything I want to be
All the things you are to me
The skills you have, the stuff you've made
I want it too don't you know it's true?
What've you have done I like it too
Because I wish I was more like you
Unveil the mask show me the truth
Show me what it's like to be you
Saw you once over the airways
You were my dream
I wanted your life
I wanted you
Saw your life over the airways
Knew what I wanted to be
Could I dream?
Dream like you?
Behind the glass
Intensive reality awaits
Reflections of truth
Spotlights shine, revealing
Lights shift
Mind twisting what's seen
Kinetic thoughts
Breaking boundaries
Attractive thoughts
Bringing everyone near
Infinite minds colliding
Geometric worlds
Drawing everything near
Warped together in the same universe
Bringing your world together
Into your reality
The lyrics aren't actually what's in the recording and that kind of messed me up. I also can't sing that high without more practice
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When theres no warmth left in the air
The icy blades piercing my soul
Alone
out in the wilderness
Our kindling is running low
My mind races out of control
Wanderers
Into the frigid air
But sparks, light
A glimmer of hope
I dream of the warmth of you by my side
Just when cold came
And embraced me
You brought to me a brand new dawn!
Do you fear the fog at night?
Do you jump at the setting sun?
Watch, for me, in the shadows!
Do you sense my icy breath?
Do you hear my cries for you?
Listen for them, I am calling
Coming with you, whereever you go
A quaint revenge for what you did to me
Haunting you, forever ago
Don't you understand what we were?
As you walk down these roads
Shrouded in mist
I'll be there with you
I'm watching your moves
As you forget the paths you took
Covered in fog
You'll remember how it was
When I lit your way
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There's a bunch of bad distortion that I couldn't fix :(
Fading from the earth
Dry world under sun
Descending to a dark
Where no life roams
Let flow, the water
Elements feed once again
Populate deserts with green
Dewdrops birthing signs of hope
The massive union
Of life begins
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Fly by rocky worlds are lit
Spectrometer is my only sight
Return the data bit by bit
Antenna orientation
Fleeting thoughts appear so randomly
Push me away from them I'm free
Lingering lost passions, lost loves
Tell myself I won't be missed
The days the years zoom by
As black as the darkened sky
My dreams like magnetic disk
Stored in perpetuity
Watch another set of rings fly by
Scanned once again against the sky
My mind wandering so free
But I wonder if I'm free
Away, away
I thought I'd rather be alone
Away, away
Savor radio kiss from you
Away, away
Remind me why I'm far from home
Away, away
Don't neglect my memory
My mission's ecstacy
As a young poor boy
Was no room to hide
Shared a room with three brothers
Who saw my every move
Couldn't think in silence
Couldn't muse in pereace
My fears, my thoughts, my love, desires
All on full display
Looking for a place to hide
Finding a place for my mind to reside
Dilapidated, distraught
My mind remains an open book
Is it too much for privacy?
There's no home left for me.
I would have liked for this to be kind of like, a Disney song or something but I didn't really have the harmony down so this kind of failed and a bunch of the notes are wrong anyway all over the place, and then I found out that I had also overwritten a bunch of my comps by accident when I was fixing some parts of the arrangement, so I had to try to re-record a verse when time was basically already over but then the voice was out of tune and I tried to also adjust the strings as well and I didn't listen to it so this is just a mess all around and I'm sorry about this one. The drums also don't really fit either and the bass was off so I deleted it. Ooops.
Looking for a world
Beyond that I can see
Searching for a way
To be what I can be
Find my way to fly
Escape this closed-up room
Live the dream I try
And make the world my sky!
Spread my wings
Into a world that's free
Take fight in ways That I've never thought I'd take
Upon the winds of mystery
In the air
In a world where I am free
Beyond my cage Where I'd never thought I'd be
Release me on rthe winds of mystery
World Falling Apart
World Falling
World Falling Apart
The World
Sun is coming down
Now it's time to
Compo
Everyone come in
Get your music on
Make your notes with me
Let's throw all our sounds together
Use that MIDI pack
Mash that that copy-paste
Find that weird preset
You know, that one you found for free
It's time to
One Hour Compo
Where the sounds are in tune buy lyrics aren't
The beats are groovin but the bass is hot
It's time to
One Hour Compo
Play with us get good at song
Use those VSTs with the money that's goner
Laying out the candles
Send a breathy prayer
Look upon the lost ones
I feel them in the air
Clutch the ward close
Send forth the blessed wave
To cast aside the evils
And find the one I save
Armed with desperation
Wield a blade of light
Looking out for you
I stand my ground and fight
Trapped against the mirror
Against a sickly gaze
The truth that it shows me
It's too much for me to brave
Fallingr
Falling
I'm falling into the depths of Hell for you
Facing
Facing
I'm facing the skeletons in my closet
Criss-cross above the trees
Below is everything that I can see
Critters, birds, and rustling leaves
Nothing escapes my gaze
But when you cross below
I steal a sordid glance
The one place I cannot see
Is within your heart
Outside looking in
Mind secured as the padlocked wall
First time on the fringe
Shake the door, nothing at all
Our ears closed within
Our hearts locked like iron gates
Second time on the hill
No way to grip your attention
Open my eyes
Light the way through the windows of my soul
Open my eyes
See through the opaque gaze
Open my eyes
Light the way through the windows of my soul
Open my eyes
See through the opaque gaze
I'm learning a new DAW, so the quality here is a little... well, different.
Complex lyrics
17 minutes 37 seconds from first opening the DAW to render of final MP3
So a little longer than usual.
Done in Bitwig 8-track 4.0
In flourescent waves
The corals emit the last light
Reflected across glass caverns
Last sight of the deep
Darkness surrounds
Anglers blink their single lone light
Cascades into the dead reaches
Lost sight in the deep
Come crashing down
The horrors wait for me
No more control!
Forever lost in submarine depths
Its all crashing down
Theres no escape for you
Give me control,
Ill rule it all in submarine depths
Cribbed from some great piano players - will my livestream of this session get silenced?
The glow blossoms with dignity
Paint with intensity
As the ray shoots across time
Speak with me in your chromaticism
Come through the gates and bring the luminosity
The bloom flies with warmth
Its incandescence fills you with passion
The afterglow is the future
The glow floods you with sagacity
As it brings talent and effervescence
It cries with exaltation
Come back with it with enthusiasm
gimme pizza
I spent 18 minutes on this in Studio One default sounds, which kind of aren't that great
As usual I didn't listen to this in advance
When the sun falls beneath the horizon
Pedal pedal carry the flame
Wield the last light of the world
Wardens of light behond
Wheels of hope light up the way
The steel cavalry approaches
Bring the new fish of the day
Against the falling sun
Time allowance was about 13 minutes.
I did this on the Deluge from an empty project and recorded it direct in using Audacity. I created the parts and then did a single-take live performance.
I have a meeting so I might not be able to attend listening party today.
In the night among the stars
Caught out in the snowflakes alone
Yet youre as cozy as a clam
Hidden in your warm little space
Enjoying the cool kiss of mist
With a lovely glass of wine
Would you like some company?
Lets breathe in the cold air tonight
Created in 15 minutes in Studio One Prime (the free version that doesn't allow VSTs or have a limiter) which includes starting the program and looking at the theme, but not writing the description.
Including problems with setup, not hearing sounds, and random errors too.
Live stream of this compo here https://www.twitch.tv/videos/992381846
Do you need to imagine what's been done to it?
Down come flames
Encompassing heat
Stench beyond reckoning
Dreams dissolving throughout
Clarion calls
Bringing to the end
Dreadful thoughts
Falling to ashes
Burn it all down
The cloth is bathed in sin
Let it come down
The doom cant escape from within
This took about 12 minutes. It's played live, but I think I did like 6-7 takes.
Performed on Linnstrument in Studio One free version (my trial ran out)
Take me on journey
Come dance with me
Dance with me
Come to me my pretties and
Dance with me, oh yeah
Where did you go
Im listening
For you
Its empty in here
Im waiting
For you
Im not perfect
Im not even good
But I thought you were
The one for me
I made mistakes
Passed judgement
In fear
Now theres nothing
Nothing for you
Nothing for me
I think this one took closer to 20 minutes. It would have been 15, but I had to record another take after the first one was flubbed.
I created this from a blank project on the Deluge.
Seeking ancients
Treasured time
Sands so far
Riding the heat wave
Finding ways
A grain in the line
Emerging truths
Riding the heat wave
Cooling nights
Searching stars
Sea of sand
Riding through the waves
Running sands
Under dark
Shifting ground
Dunes await
This is unfortunately kind of boring, but I did it live in a single take using an Octatrack, then I put some gain on it and added a limiter. I probably spent more time trying to figure out how to record audio on Windows than I did on the actual performance.
I used samples from this song from OHC if you might remember it. http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/OHC643
If the world is a black hole maybe
I did this song in about 11 minutes in PreSonus Studio One 5. My timer says 12:40, but I am pretty sure I spent a full minute and a half re-tagging my song and locating it on my filesystem since I've never rendered audio from Studio One before.
Rocky waves in the mountains
Okay 11 minutes into FL Studio and:
Second time I've opened FL Studio. I wrote this in 9 minutes. What did I learn?
What I still don't know:
A people one with the ice and snow celebrate the life that begins with each season.
Your hero has come home to see their savannah home on fire, set by the empire of war. At this moment your hero realizes their true path.
The heart of Hell beats as fire.
Minimalism
The kittens are lost in the rocket again but this time, they're prepared.
I wanted to create light uplifting trance with a simple chord progression and melody, but I failed.
My cat jumped in the Christmas tree earlier this month and toppled it over.
It was an avant-garde attempt at a remix of Carol of the Bells but I didn't really get the notes or the sounds quite correct
I was going to use chipping at late time but then people might think that there'd be chiptunes
Ugh I soooo wanted to make this chord progression and melody go somewhere, but then I wasted my time designing sounds.
The cold world revolves past the shadow cast on it for so long and once again visits the sun.
Talons
The shadows flicker on the wall and shine their eyes at you.
This must be the most copy-paste cliche amateur hack song ever.
Also I started like 20 minutes late because I decided to update my computer right before Compo
Answers remain unclear and all things remain uncertain.
Lyla dear cat.
The way the spirits play is not something that we wish to say.
Behind the opaque there are things that are unseen until you let the obvious fade away. Face your opacity and see through it!
It's a little too crowded during peak fall season sometimes
Sorry I can't keep pitch
Did you feel the freeze of my love
Sliding off your skin
The dark over you rains again
Washing off the emptiness
Have you seen the sweetness in the ponds
Shining on your lids
Working with the sand grain by grain
All it leaves are scratches within
Decoding the messages and communicating back between unknown of the unknown.
Will anyone remember the days past, prior to shattered worlds and divided realms?
One ant, one leaf, and the entire world.
Rising
Live performance on Eurorack modular synthesizer. I had to do a few takes to get one that I liked.
Aye aye, hitting some chop.
It's our world, our land, our place to be, from above, from afar, from sea to sea.
Watch the radiance fly by
See a dream and let it come near
Grab a trace of light to share
Spread the joy to your friends in this world
There for the birth of new life
Yum yum yum, I mean the cookies.
Have you ever felt like you once did something great and then could never do great things that'll match that one accomplishment?
Sorry, the vocals needed some work and I didn't have time to adjust.
Also I am super late.
My bed its so soft
I never want to go outside
Here is where I hide
Let me get my beauty rest
I summon all of my energy
My audience they await me
Lights, camera, action,r game
Thank you, leave a donation on your way
I say one, vultures descend upon me
I do another thing. Trrolls come at me
I hold my shield, The arrow bounce off
But it only takes one word to strike true
Taking me out.r
Its me versus a thousand you
My life on display
All I wanted was to share
But now your barbs have trapped here here
Its me versus ten thousand you
Watching my mistakes
It started as fun to be with you all
But now your attention hurts. I want peace. Set me free.
Should've known better than to try to sing before coming up with a melody
Hear these walls
What do they say?
Scenes of shock, scenes of sadness
Blocking the waves from curious ears
If walls had ears
What would they hear?
If written down
What hurt would be known?
Look at these walls
What have they seen?
Tears of hurt, eyes of sorrow
Blocking the light from wondering eyes
If walls had eyes
What would they see?
If written down
What hurt would be known?
Why did I not notice you?
But instead I listened idly by
My regret is that I did not help you
I just closed my eyes.
The promise of baked cookies and candies drag you through to another world.
Caught in the winds! Go faster than you've ever gone.
This song is a HOT MESS of all kinds of stuff.
It features: tempo changes, a key change, minor key stuff, major key stuff, AND a time signature change and like what the hell is even going on here
These roots have so much to share.
The city beneath the waves shine in unique ways.
There's like 3 songs in one here and no transitions because I can't figure out what the hell to do during a compo
Unfortunately for Newton, there are some smarts you can't get from a book. CRINGE WARNING
This was an experiment. Then I got hard crashes, had to erase a few of my synths, and didn't get time to redo parts that were out of tune.
Geometric shapes
The wireframes remain
Theres nothing here
theres nothing left
Stripped away to the core
Colors drained away
See nothing, hear nothing
Except the essence of their rays
Skeletons
Wireframes
Lines
Dots
Whats inside the textures?
What do you hide behind your mask?
Do you wish for us to know?
The truth buried inside your soul?
Whats under the skin?
What do you put within?
Is it a memory you fear?
Or a precious thought that you hold dear?
I AM SO HAPPY to have been part of Compo for over 500 or so times and to be here for 600.
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH. You mean so much to me, this community and this opportunity to do this every week has made me so happy overall with music and my life.
Thank you all but especially Rama and starla for keeping this together for over 12 years. <3 <3 <3