Finished up another track off my upcoming album tentatively called ‘The Dark Roads’. The ideas are starting to come together. BTW, the final artwork on the album will be different. It’s just a placeholder I created in photoshop.

Cradle Void

In this broken pool of glass,
each piece reflecting 
different parts of your face.
I’m bewitched into the forest
I wander far away

Curled fingers embrace 
the edges lacerate
into my bloody hands

Pain triggers a memory sculpture in dust 
Just before its devil stole it away
the end of the world hovers in space
Frozen like a picture trapped in the void
Between forgotten futures and history
destroyed
a dream in the nightmare

Caught inside a paradox
Having to surrender to treason
the death of reason
Real life liquifies
into a mad dance with phantoms crossed

Mirrored infinite
Regress
Of inner observers

Finished up the second track on my, as yet untitled, album for Miasm. There’s a lot to say about this song. But I’ll just let the music speak for itself…

The Multiverse

Listen to the voices in the river
flowing back into the chaos of the ocean
sinking deeper
shores of ether
Getting darker as her blue eye view dies
like a rose in the winter,
false elixirs
dissolve slowly in the ground
Make it last
the things that pass
through time
decay is all around

I talked to saviors,
White ghosts
Calling in vain through
The colors of twilight
Ceaselessly pleading
I’m screaming now
“Don’t walk away!”

As my conscious fades

Burning down forests
I run to the ocean
Where my eyes bleed discretely
Dreaming
Another day gone.

A wordless place
Assembling
By moonlight

When I wake
All I see is the
Spirals in the depths of empty space
whose cold hands cradle consciousness (afraid)
The multiverse bubbles burst
And ebbing shores
disappear forever

I recently solidified the completeness of my new track called ‘Origin Of Nothing’ from the upcoming Miasm album. This is a new music project of mine that has been in the back of my head for a while now. Lately the idea for an album came together from somewhere out of the ether. While juggling all my other projects I really hope to give this one the time it deserves. A new track is in the works and nearing completion.. But the persistence of life is very hard to regard in a way that suits a given situation and therefore I must embrace its chaos. So I will also be working on some sound packs for Native Instruments in the coming months as well. Let’s see how well I can juggle.

Origin Of Nothing

God never made a tiny wing in his eternal life
and I can’t see its beauty through his light.

While sentience burns on the eve of chrysalis,
a thousand years is like a single day.
It’s nothing to the eons
the wing of a butterfly flutters on
with its whisper in the air,
a providence (triggering obscure influence on an
unfocused image) that resembles
infinite complexity.

Transferring energy through matter;
the many faces of “God”.

Heaven and Hell were born of nature
in this netherworld we create
with our eyes closed
From the origin of nothing -
before darkness, before everything.
But I can’t define “nothing”
so it defines me.

I just stumbled upon this review of Sonic Fictions. I’ve probably missed a few along the way. http://rekkerd.org/review-native-instruments-sonic-fiction/

Len Sasso has a review of Sonic Fiction on the Electronic Musician Podcast today. I’ve been following Len Sasso’s reviews and tutorials for years – particularly his books and tutorials on Reaktor and Metasynth. His knowledge of the more intellect and esoteric side of digital sound has, I’m sure, inspired many electronic musicians today. He has also written a nice piece of music in this podcast demonstrating the alien and erie sound of Sonic Fiction. Check it out at about 21m:43s in to this podcast: EM Podcast with Sonic Fiction

Torley is back with his extremely entertaining and informative Project Preset segment, where he goes through all the presets in a sound library and explores all the possibilities within. His demonstration of Sonic Fiction goes very deep into all the instruments and their variations. For anyone interested in what this Kore Instrument is all about I highly recommend checking it out. Torley has an acute sense of bringing out the full potential of sounds by really getting inside, feeling and reacting to the tonal depths and conceptual Sci-Fi colors, experiencing them the way they were meant to be experienced, letting the alien worlds inspire and playing the sounds while realizing the infinite dynamic ranges and possibilities. I highly recommend subscribing to Torley’s channel as there is a wealth of useful information presented in a very creative and entertaining way. Thanks again Torley for putting this together!

Time for another update and another Kore Instrument release. My new project titled Sonic Fiction was a labor of love. Immersing myself in the world of Science Fiction for inspiration, I have designed 100 instruments and 800 individual variations that might be described as alien and other-worldly. Synaesthetic soundscapes, playable and dynamic pads, strings, keys and percussion all made from acoustic sources influenced and embedded with the imagination of what lies beyond our very tiny planet. Expanding on the idea I had for my first Kore Instrument, Acoustic Refractions, this new project takes one giant leap beyond the recognizable into distant worlds of wonder. Much time was spent researching literature, films and other sources and finally to translate those ideas into playable sound. A good author will describe scenes, places and objects in a way that you can gather all your senses together to experience them. Many times when I read such books I can literally feel the sensations of, say, a cool dampness in a dark cave chiseled in the side of a mountain. And through the silence, the sound of water droplets echoing in the distance, resonating with a subtle but rising wind playing harmonically rich contralto and soprano solos through the cracks of textured rock. Through the brilliance of those artists and writers, Sonic Fiction was born. And for that I would like to thank them, particularly Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, for the sources of inspiration they provided me in this long and incredible journey of sound. These sounds take you to places that have been thought of in different ways by many different people – residing only in the mind, they are reminiscent of a dream. And like a dream there is much depth, things can be guided in a specific direction. There are controls… but you are not necessarily in control.

For more information on this Kore Instrument visit Native Instruments website: Sonic Fiction

Torley, the social media guru and virtual world expert, put together an amazing review and video where he demos many sounds of Acoustic Refractions. Please go to torley.com to check it out. Highly entertaining and very inspiring for me. Thanks again Torley! I’ve also embedded the video here: