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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

Spring air
In the morn
The shadow forms to me
A bird whispers in my ear

A feather falls right down my neck
A raindrop falls on my head
Rain clouds form

Was I supposed to sense you near?
Was I supposed to know, my dear?
How could I ever have seen this coming
Are you a bird in flight
I hope you are
As I watched you
Please watch over me

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 

Holy what's mixing



Feel the sandstorm weeping
As the last man standing
An evolution apart
There's no turning back
On the way that the monsters rebelled


And so ends the war of the bulbasaur
The dried up earth descends no more
Last of humanity conquered that day
The bulbasaurs now rule their way

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

Gentle whispers entice me near
Voice, it is familiar
I’ve known it for so long
I’ve known it for so long

Tell me stories that I hold dear
Flatter me with exotic dreams
But I turn and no one’s there
I turn and no one’s there.

Don’t tell me
That you can’t hear it too?
It’s right next to me
Why can’t you see?



The voice, it calls out to me
When I turn, no one is there
Close my eyes and listen
The familiar voice remains


A padded room awaits

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

Live hardware, single recording, no multitrack, no software editing except Ozone, etc etc.

It's a miracle what you can do if you actually turn mixer knobs

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.

Pouring rain
Like the sky has claimed its lot
Covered now
It's all wet and hot

In the deep
The muddy waters flow
My best hope
To start my life anew

I failed compo today

Single take, live with Eurorack synth, live effects, no post processing (except Ozone), music is live too, etc. etc.

I dream of trips across the sky
I think of metal birds flying by
I want to be free in the air

I want escape from all this pain
Feeling trapped but yet again
Set me free, like an airplane

I'm sorry, I can't stay anymore
It need to go, it's not you, it's me.
Please don't find me right now
I need this time to be lost, away from your eyes

I need to fly!
I need to be in the sky!
Maybe you'll look for me
But I wish you won't
Now that I know the skies I can maybe keep it free
Away from you and your watchful gaze
I want to be lost on my own.

What do I feel?

It's an odd sense of freedom

What do I know?

Six degrees plus one more

I can't see through all the noise you make
Behind the doors, the things you say are fake
In all your time, you hide behind these words
A plastered mask, where your feelings are burned

The times we had, what was the number one?
Was it with me, or was it all no fun?
Retreat again, to the virtual truths you say
Falling through, the thoughts of the day

The trash you spread, can't handle any more
The heart, the passion, the sad state of the lore
You love your lies more than you believe
You love your lies more than you love me

A vocal version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2-AAgSW8Y4 which was also in OHC143.

It’s only you and me
Us two within this great blue sea
It’s only you and me
Let’s sail away intor eternity

It’s only you and me
Us two within this great blue sea
It’s only you and me
The night is young, it lasts forever

It’s only you and me
Our time together, let it be
It’s only you and me
Together we can our love free

Hold me
Touch me
Stay with me
Carry me home

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

on an icy land
the ones were lost
never to be seen again

in a frightening world
there's a mirror of your heart
there's a baring of your soul

and on this world
we hide
behind our funny rocks
making our funny faces

the sky falls

as the world warms
we find the feelings lost
show them once again

it's a world on which they hide
a world

behind the funny rocks
we make our funny faces
show off a hidden feeling
hide the other feelings

as the sky falls
the crescents cut a swath
they show our funny feelings
etched on our funny rocks

I don't know what key this is, I sang this by ear.

Live modular Eurorack + Deluge.



help me see
In the world of the dark
shine the light
and hold it high

in fire we bond
among icy chains
as we shiver in the night
witness the coming storm

let's be free
let's find out war
away from the cold
know the truth and let it go

be a beacon in the cold

Live recording with modular and bass synth and vocal

Deep Blue Seas
The night wears young on me
Watch the view
What do you see in me?
Taste the brew
The only one right here
Everyone is in my view!

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

My audio interface crapped out, so I used a Roland VP-03 vocoder as my audio interface.

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

Recorded live (with only one small edit in post and some mastering)

Except that this did take like a few dozen takes, I eventually did record the final version live.

Composed with Modular + Minibrute 2s + VoiceLive 3 loop pedal

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?

Modular synth + bass synth + vocal pedal stuff.

Post processing was minimal (1 compressor and Ozone), but I did sing over some parts that weren't good

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.

Why has it come to this?
Why do you face this storm?
In my shadow, longing
Must I take. you down this morn.

Your ways led you down this path
Did you see how this road would end?
You quake, but you hold the line
I cannot let you keep your ways.

You trample and you take
No mercy or mistake
You say all shall be free
Free for all shall take your day.

Face your storm, freely
I am your storm, really
Find your fight, truly
Ill take you down!

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

Another song where I sang live to a Eurorack modular beat with a hardware-only setup. I have no idea what I'm doing or how to mix with an actual mixer apparently.

A journeys end
Staring from the summit
My lifes work
My guide smiles at me.

Have I peaked too soon?
Halfway to the moon?
Will I journey down
Or will I fall?

Old man, what do I do now?
Help me up
Help me down

Old man, what happens now?
You gave me a way
But now you frown.

The slow path down
My energy sapped
I stumble on my feet
My guide smiles at me.

The top is just the halfway mark
he says. You still have to go down
And from there is a new way
That is only for you.

Old man, youve shown me how
To find a way ahead
A starting crown

Old man, the journey was not the end
Your patience and your help
Were the real grace.

Performed live on Eurorack modular and voice AT THE SAME TIME with no software except for Ozone to bump levels up at the end I hope this doesnt really suck

Drowning

Flooding my mind
It never stops

When you leave my spirit
Im drowning inside.
When you leave me behind
It floods my mind

I never realized until this day
That I could miss those I had never met before.
I never understood
The power of these unseen bonds

Flood, my mind
It never fades

There is a part of you
That lives inside
A part I never understood
Let me see it again.



Drowning in you
Feeling like its just begun
Drowning in you
These times are not undone

Drowning in me
My feelings spilling over the rim
Drowning in me
Im never done.

Flood, my mind
Dwell in the moisture

Flood, my mind
I need the deep

Flood, my mind
I missed you

Flood, my mind
Its so clear

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.

This is probably the most emo song I've ever done. I'm actually doing fine though

I got a computer but didn't test properly before doing compo and ran into a bunch of problems so things didn't work as expected and I ended up deleting everything and rewriting around 40 minutes in.


Parched
The boring eyes suck me dry
Vampire of thoughts
Thief of tears

Please, pass the salt, they say at ease
But saltiness remains
My seat at the table, ever too short
My tension grows

What is it that they want from me?
Why dont they ever feel my pain?
Is it them, or is it me?
Flawed, a child, as I can be.

Time, the moments that they stole from me
and gaze at me with sympathy
I do not understand their stares
I feel so lonely

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

note to self to create a template and not start from scratch

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

<hr>

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

===

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

--

1. Recorded live with my Eurorack modular run through a reverb pedal
2. A bunch of takes singing on top of it run through a vocal pedal

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

Riding high
In the sky
with my happy heart shaped
Chocolate drop

See the world
Sweet and pure
Covered in the rain of
Chocolate gold

Happy heart shape chocolate drop
Together, well sail on islands hop
Happy heart shape chocolate drop
Around the world, well never stop


This song is inspired by my FF XIV mount

As the moon floods the
Shadows dark
Bathe in blood
Swaddle in a cloak of red

When the howl lights
Obscure glow
Writhe in love
Enigma of mine

When the moon aligns
The aurora shall fade
Covering in darkness
Flooding you with fate

When the moon aligns
The glow will disappear
Covering in darkness
Leaving us in nothingness


first rough take

By the time I got to this it was masked behind a copyright claim for YouTube

Cribbed from some great piano players - will my livestream of this session get silenced?

This is a little bit of an absurd callout to when streamers play classical music legally on their streams, and then suddenly Twitch will mute the video and slap DMCA violation because their performance is too similar to some classical professional performer's recording owned by a record company.

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

My timer reads 19 minutes, which is TWICE AS LONG as other entries.

Done in 19 minutes in Studio One 5.

Verse
Pushed out of my own life
Cant see the ground below my eyes
Hidden by the shadowed tower
I look up yet see nothing in the sky

When will I see that its on me?
I dream but I dont act like Im free
When will I learn that its not you
I just need to shake the silence

CHORUS
Crowds, they move all around me
Reach on out, blend right in
Pretend to fight, cast it aside
Welcome yourself back to the world

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.

Here's our collab room. https://wesequence.live/gDzDTHeUV

Rocky waves in the mountains

Okay 11 minutes into FL Studio and:

1. I learned how to change the default kick drum
2. I learned how to make the pattern length longer for drums
3. I managed to lose the track browser somehow and didn't know where to find it
4. I tried using the browser and looked for violin, but the sound was really crappy. I adjusted it (It seemed like some kind of FM Synth rather than an actual violin) but it still sounds pretty bad
5. It's still a mystery to me how/where things are routed to the mixer. I think I found out how to set tracks, but I for example had a synth playing the melody a second time and I had NO idea how to bump the volume on it
6. I learned how to select MIDI notes with a selector. Unfortunately, I tried putting in too many notes (7th chords are too intense for an 11 minute compo) and I think I have the wrong chords as a result.

Second time I've opened FL Studio. I wrote this in 9 minutes. What did I learn?

• I learned how to reliably open the Piano Roll
• I learned where the Insert FX are

What I still don't know:

• Where the EQ is
• How to make the mixer effects not appear super far away
• How to make the fonts larger since they're microscopic
• How to create a pattern and have it actually stick to an instrument (it was playing a kick instead of an actual note)

A people one with the ice and snow celebrate the life that begins with each season.

I wrote this song in about 5 minutes in FL Studio's trial version. I have never used FL Studio before.

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.

WARNING: BAD PLAYING

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.

I started with an empty project (no template!) and ended up creating most of the synths and FX chains from scratch. Except for the lead, that was a preset.

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

Swords in stones and rain on tomes

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

What do tanuki do?

The ducks they come for you
The sky is full
Of their reign
Of the pain
Disaster from above

When nature strikes again
The ducks will lead
They receive
The power of bird flu


What have we done
Why cant we think
Why do we fail
Cant you rise up?

The birds will have the day today
But rise up
Rise up against their ways

The birds will have the way today
But rise up
Fight the wingspans way

Mood: askdlfjasdkfjk;lai23oio

Unabashedly digital

Fly one and then to another.

Emotional tones: Cute, happy, bright. A little groovy. Crunchy.

Exactly what the title says

Listening to all

A kotatsu is a Japanese table with a heater underneath it. Cats love it.

The ancient watcher withholds his wrath for how long?

The sounds of the night that are not so alone.

Did not do
Held myself back too much
Attached to a dream
Dreams were way out of touch

My heart was there
My brain was a crutch
Flying too high
I was way out of touch


All I feel are my cold feet
All I know are my cold feet

Thought I was prepared
Not prepared enough
Skills shines through but mind bleeds true
I was way out of touch

Hint: adding lyrics 10m before compo end is not a great idea