Hypnomancer

cinematic songwriter

As a wordsmith, my curiosity and passion for blending diverse musical genres provides an ideal way to explore songwriting as a vehicle for cinematic storytelling. I approach each song as its own world, uniquely set in time, locale, and emotional tone. These vivid narratives include a wide range of characters and accounts from the wired anxiety of an unfolding political intrigue to the fumbled lines of a chance romantic tryst, a moment of prayer, a rant, or an alien encounter on a back country road.  The creative scope of these sonic dramas has been greatly expanded by the advent of generative AI, which enables my poetic stories to quite literally drive musical expression. Generative AI sound-making tools allow for quicker production timelines, lower recording costs, and a greater choice of musical setting. More importantly, this emergent technology liberates the songwriter to imagine far beyond the confines of a singular iconic voice to become the multitude we are!

Find many more songs here, from blistering rock to adventurous forays across foreign lands and desolate sci-fi soundscapes. soundcloud.com/iotronik

  • Hypnomancer (aka David Stout) is a musical shape shifter exploring the world of hybrid sound cultures blending a wide array of genres from folk, rock, country, jazz, and global fusion to widely divergent electronic styles, abstract soundscapes, minimalism, and contemporary classical music. His compositions, songs, and scores are produced with a variety of instrumental approaches including modular synthesizers, custom soft synths, field recordings, folk instruments, generative AI, and session instrumentalists. David received his MFA in Film-Video & Music from the California Institute of the Arts followed by an active professional career as a professor and celebrated performance director leading diverse interdisciplinary production teams and teaching effective skills for collaboration across the arts. He is among a growing number of multi-disciplinary artists exploring the power and potential of new and emerging media.

    Learn more at davidstout.net

EDM, Drum and Bass, Thriller, Political Intrigue, Electronic, Storytelling, Betrayal, Spycore David Stout EDM, Drum and Bass, Thriller, Political Intrigue, Electronic, Storytelling, Betrayal, Spycore David Stout

The Lucky Ones

It all begins with an idea.

The Lucky Ones

A drum and bass ballad chronicles the confessions of a duplicitous political operative caught in the turmoil of an unfolding coup. We are not quite certain of the magnitude of their crimes or just what sides this partisan was on.

EDM, Drum and Bass, Thriller, Political Intrigue, Electronic, Storytelling, Betrayal, Spycore

  • Oh, you lucky ones, arrived today
    To play this forward, back, replay
    Our lucky ones, arrived, today
    The leaning forward guards in grey

    I have counseled and misled them
    I have cheated and I’ve lied
    Everything for love of country
    I am here and I survived

    and, those shouting ones, who ran away
    YOU play this forward, back, replay
    without the guns, or teeth to stay
    and meet the forward guards in grey

    I have courted and betrayed them
    I deleted and denied
    Everything, for myth of country
    We are here, and he survived

    Oh, you lucky ones, arrived today
    Let’s play this forward, back, replay
    To chart a path and hide the way
    for leading forward guards in grey

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