The Dream/ Electric Theater

Two new albums for you! I’m going to be gone for 2 weeks, and to make up for it, I’m posting two new collections! I skipped over the EP for times sake, and just posted my two albums that come after Sunset, The Dream and Electric Theater, respectively.
Click the pictures to listen! :D

The Dream
The Dream

Electric Theater
Electric Theater

Man We Was Lonely

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It’s hard to grab people’s attention. It’s even harder to get yourself to doing anything at all.

 

Uploading songs onto upload takes a long time. Making a video for each one takes even longer, then comes adding them to a playlist.
Far too much effort than I could handle, so I stopped. I have a ton of material to show you all. The last one I actually showed you was the Sunset collection, and then I think a bit of The Dream (one of my favorites because I made it personal). I’ve made a lot more songs since then. There’s been 2 collections I’ve put together so far, with a 3rd on the way.The first of those two is Twenty Eleven, a collection of songs I made during/just after The Dream, but didn’t fit anywhere particular, so I made them to be an EP sort of collection. The next took much of the first few months of 2011, from possibly February to May. This was my longest, and most mature collection, that I called Electric Theater . It is like The Dream because it has a theme to it, but it is far more subtle and abstract than The Dream was. It is around 75mins long in total, and features my longest songs, An Epic (13mins) and Requiem (16mins). It was a more stretched out recording session because of other distractions (school, track, band..etc.) but features my most complex usage of melody and structure. It isn’t my favorite, but it is my best.

The 3rd one that is on the way is a collection called Memory, which will be a combination of everything I’ve done so far. It will feature the sound mixing of The Dream, but the instrumentation of Electric Theater, and the idealism of everything else. The cover is nice too. Here are the covers [The Dream's cover is shown in the post below] :

Twenty Eleven

Electric Theater

Memory

I will give ALL of my collections from 2009-2011 a listing here once I find an internet playlist place I can use that doesn’t require video. Including these (except Memory, because I haven’t finished it yet)

You can find some of Electric Theater‘s songs on my new channel, which I linked on the picture of Electric Theater.

Coming Soon: The Dream

Soon I will be releasing a new ‘album’ called The Dream. It’s an album that I made during Christmas Break, and is derived from Dreams I’ve had and common emotions. It’s largely sound-based and is almost completely connected (tracks transition onto one another)

I know I haven’t really done anything here, but hey, this is something!

It’s probably the most complex thing I’ve done yet! lol

Another Universal Sound

About a year ago I started making a new set of songs on a new recording program that I still use today. This ‘Album’, as I call it, would be a great change for me. It may be just a list of 11 short songs that really have no value, but when I made it it set me off to a new direction and new idea of music. If I hadn’t gotten the idea to make it I would not be who I am today. This is about the time I started making the song a year ago, and to commemorate that I have made a new song that is in the Universal Sound style, with my present recording techniques. I remade another song that was one of the first songs I recorded for Universal Sound, called “Nation of War”. I never really got the song to work when I first made it a year ago, and so I redid it to see if I can do any better at it. So here’s two songs for your listening pleasure! :D

http://www.mixpod.com/standalone.php?id=75896161

Another Bit of Responsibility

I’ve gone and gotten myself another blog.

This blog shall consist of my thoughts, opinions, and views.

I realize I’ve already expressed those here, but I decided I shall keep this to music and use the other for non-music stuff.

i shall attempt to keep both active

Here is the link:

http://thisworldreview.wordpress.com

Your Worst Enemy

Alright, so before I restart this post, I would like to inform you that this was written in a much better form earlier, but for some reason I lost all the writing when I added the tags.

Fucking website and it’s damned technicalities.

 

Your mind can be your worst enemy. It’s always playing tricks on you and is the #1 reason for why most people are unhappy with their lives. The mind is either there to help you, or, in most cases, there to teach you a god damn lesson and make you suffer in the process. The mind makes you believe things, do things, and inspire things. It’s what makes you human. You think with it, and you are it. The mind of a human being is what makes everything happen that happens.My mind is no exception from this. It is a cruel, cynical, and unmerciful thing. It drives me crazy, and is always playing tricks on me. My mind is there to help my think up something horrible, dwell on that thought, and turn me into some sort of cynical bastard that can’t be bothered to live his life due to the fact he is a prisoner to his own paranoia.

The mind’s games are simple, yet clever. It simply twists your idea of something, manipulate your perception of it, and make you fall into the trap that is your own inner thoughts. One very common game that my mind plays on me is the idea that if i think up something, then that will ultimately not happen. In fact, not only will my assumption of the future not happen, but it will turn out to be some odd loophole of a turnout that will totally throw me off guard. I, like most human beings, tend to be obsessive about the future. I make assumptions and predictions about it, and then hope that these logical(or illogical) ideas turn to reality. Now, this is foolish thinking, because humans have always been bad at predicting the future, and this may well be a part of the giant game the mind is playing on us all. The game is to FORCE you, ever minute, every hour, and every second of everyday to worry and think about the future, although you only really need to think about the present (the future can damn well take care of itself for right now). This forced thinking is what gets most people, like me, into trouble. It always seems to either get me into trouble, and then get me out, or get me in trouble and keep me there.

My minds tricks are actually sort of fun to experiment with. Sometimes I will spot out an object, predict an outcome or change in the object, and then wait to see if that comes true. Most of the time (if not all the time) whatever I predicted never happens, in fact, a lot of the time NOTHING ever happens! It’s as if my mind says ”Hey, what the hell are you doing? I have better things to do than have you abusing my psychological powers.” This usually ends up with me reminding my mind that it is me, and that I can damn well do whatever the hell I want with myself and I had better stop being such a power hungry mongrel.

This usually makes me come to the conclusion that I have gone off the deep end and that I need to take a nap for a bit.

[Now, I keep blaming everything that happens on my "mind", not because I think it's a controlling force of everything, but because the mind is what your perception of reality is, and is basically you. So basically, I am saying that I'm always destroying my own life intentions.]

I guess I should be happy I keep getting these tricks played upon me. If it wasn’t for these mind games I wouldn’t have a great idea about the world, or how to understand, and I would definitely not know how to live in it in a more perfect way. Although I do yearn to be one of those cocky, ignorant, and yet happy children that post statuses on facebook that read:

“I love my life! :) I’m so happy!!”

To be able to ACTUALLY say that and believe it would be a monumental achievement for me. I would be one happy blissful, ignorant, child. I say ignorant because most of the time the statuses that follow the one aforementioned read like so:

“I can’t believe how horrible life is right now…why must I always go through this? :(

It’s an ignorant belief to believe that life shall be good, and stay good, if you never learn how to hate it and feel tortured.

Your mind’s got to throw you around like this. It’s got to knock you down a few notches somehow..whose ever heard of the cocky happy-go-lucky one being the one to get the last laugh?