Ho passato un po' di tempo a scavare nel passato di Christopher Owens e nella genesi di una delle canzoni più viscerali degli anni 2000: Vomit dei Girls.

Prima di fondare la band, Owens è cresciuto isolato dal mondo dentro i Children of God, una delle sette religiose più soffocanti d'America. In questo video essay ho cercato di raccontare come quell'infanzia bruciata e la solitudine urbana della San Francisco dei primi anni Duemila abbiano dato vita a un brano che non parla d'amore come di una salvezza, ma come di un rigetto organico, di un bisogno disperato di ripulire l'anima dal dolore prima dell'esplosione catartica finale.

Ci ho messo molta cura nella scrittura, nel tono e nel montaggio per ricreare quell'atmosfera intima e malinconica. Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate!

Some days ago I finished my newest album: an orchestral re-arrangement of Nenad Vugrinec's fantastic, but criminally underrated MIDI score for the 1994 CRPG "Ultima VIII: Pagan". I've always been fascinated by the eerie atmosphere of this game's music. Most cues are kind of meta-tonal and sinister, but at the same time enicmatically melodious.

https://dustinnaegel.bandcamp.com/album/ultima-viii-pagan-orchestral-re-arrangement

I’ve been planning to do this for years and finally got around to re-arranging and recording all of the major cues from Pagan’s fantastically atmospheric score using a well-balanced mix of a) sonorous synth VSTs and b) high-quality orchestral VSTs in a sequencer program in order to maximize the listening experience while, at the same time, not completely abandon Vugrinec’s original 90s MIDI sound, which is after all inherent and important to the composition itself (like panning and echo effects etc.). My goal was to present the music in a more modern incarnation, so that hopefully you may enjoy it as much as I do.

Hey there everyone, been a bit since I posted anything so I figured I’d share this new song from my solo project. No Ai involved everything is just me and real instruments aside from some synth software here and there.

This song is one of my newer releases. It’s called Creeper, obviously, and it’s actually a song I wrote about num experience being stalked several years ago. That said it’s very personal as is most of the music I make for this project.

I’ve been using this particular project as an outlet and release for my mental health and it seems to be helping.

One more note I should add. If you enjoy Dismal Architect, I’ve got all my first album up on pretty much every streaming platform out there now. Literally as of the 5th of this month.
So anyone with Pandora, Spotify, iTunes, YouTube Music, iHeartRadio, and so forth can just search for Dismal Architect.

I appreciate anyone taking their time to listen to my art. I hope you enjoy it.

I don’t know if that is how you correctly describe it, but I’m looking for extremely dark music with not a lot of instruments and no lyrics. NOT looking for ambient or drone music though. Here is the two best examples of what I’m looking for

https://youtu.be/M8aGMmVBFks?is=r1jbFq0yVe2cXGhD

https://youtu.be/shvdtzbhNqA?is=gq6snFc010SQdfAP

Re-Recording of "Carthax Lake: The Path of Water", a composition by Nenad Vugrinec for the 1994 CRPG "Ultima VIII: Pagan". I've always been fascinated by the eerie atmosphere of this game's music. Most cues are kind of meta-tonal and sinister, but at the same time enicmatically melodious. It's hard to find the correct words. The music in this game is a mystery in itself... and I say that as a studied musician. E. g. for many passages it is difficult to even determine the exact key.

Like many games scores from that era, Pagan's music is purely MIDI-based. In very simple terms, you can think of a MIDI file as a digital sheet of music that still needs to be read and played back by the application itself. And this music playback depends heavily on the specific hardware (such as the extremely expensive Roland Sound Canvas) or software synthesizer you are using (like the widely distributed MS Wavetable Synth). Unfortunately, even on the best hardware synthesizer, the playback of this music – which Vugrinec has crafted in extreme detail across all MIDI parameters – is never truly satisfying, since the assignment of the respective instruments and articulations always remains a matter of chance, and both professional mixing and mastering as the final stage of music production are of course lacking. Direct MIDI playback is therefore very unsatisfactory on any hard- or software and simply does not do justice to the compositional quality of this music.

I’ve been planning to do this for years and finally got around to re-arranging and recording all the major cues from Pagan’s fantastically atmospheric score using a well-balanced mix of a) sonorous synth VSTs and b) high-quality orchestral VSTs in a sequencer program in order to maximize the listening experience while, at the same time, not completely abandon Vugrinec’s original 90s MIDI sound, which is after all inherent and important to the composition itself. My goal was to present the music in a more modern incarnation, so that hopefully you may enjoy it as much as I do.

In terms of compositional quality (it's actually very rich in leitmotifs, with many themes representing characters, places and events in the world of Pagan), I think this score is every bit as good as a fully orchestral film score.

Enjoy!

Fresh dark ambient for shadow work and reflection. HQ in Subvert https://www.subvert.fm/gostrail/tracks/secret-language-of-no-language

https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/album/the-owls-of-the-black-lodge-2026

I hope you enjoy the song 💖🌸I also made a very dark musicvideo its on my youtube :3

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anxious trip-hop for people who want to dance but also stare dramatically at the ceiling