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

Trip-Hop, IDM, Ambient, Singer-Songwriter, Avantgarde, Experimental, Glitch-Hop, Future Bass, Folktronica, Cloud-Trap, Pop David Stout Trip-Hop, IDM, Ambient, Singer-Songwriter, Avantgarde, Experimental, Glitch-Hop, Future Bass, Folktronica, Cloud-Trap, Pop David Stout

Beyond the Size of Me

It all begins with an idea.

Beyond the Size of Me

Set within a fusion of contemporary electronic styles, a nomadic cyborg woman searches through her synthetic memories to discover herself as an indigenous girl looking toward a resplendent future. A time where her ancestor’s world will be gloriously revived to thrive again.

Trip-Hop, IDM, Ambient, Singer-Songwriter, Avantgarde, Experimental, Glitch-Hop, Future Bass, Folktronica, Cloud-Trap, Pop

  • all the seasons lost
    deer people calling all
    toward the shining peak
    we see, we see, I see
    beyond the size of me
    our destiny – unsealed

    light was stolen

    Sweet smoke leans in
    Leans in to our eyes
    Sweet tears
    Are the tears of our fathers
    All those fathers
    Who climbed this way,
    Way, way back
    climbed this way before us

    way, way, way back
    before the sun
    that bore us, before the moon
    illumined
    she wept
    into this song

    their sweet smoke sways and circles
    my ember heart.
    Our trilling tears are iridescent
    When remembered
    Lives recalled

    When remembered
    Lives recalled
    all the seasons lost
    toward the shining peak
    we see, we see, I see
    beyond the size of me
    our destiny – unsealed

    be yours, doesn’t fall

    we see, I see

    beyond
    beyond the size of me
    our destiny

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Soundtrack, Reel, Folk, Tarot, Electronic, Folktronica, Celtic, Classical, Fiddle, Mystical, Period-Drama David Stout Soundtrack, Reel, Folk, Tarot, Electronic, Folktronica, Celtic, Classical, Fiddle, Mystical, Period-Drama David Stout

Lover’s Reel

It all begins with an idea.

Lover’s Reel

Blending Celtic folk with contemporary pop production, this light and festive celebration is based on drawing archetypal cards from the Tarot. In turn, the priestess, the child, the sun, the wheel, and the lovers all make an appearance in this dancing lover’s reel.

Soundtrack, Reel, Folk, Tarot, Electronic, Folktronica, Celtic, Classical, Fiddle, Mystical, Period-Drama

  • burst through the door
    all welcome smiles
    across the floor
    and in the aisles
    the circle spinning
    on the dial

    and wrap your arms
    around another
    meet his eyes now
    greet another
    the circle spinning
    on the dial

    Here comes the priestess on her drum
    Here comes the child
    Here comes the Sun
    Here comes the one who spins the wheel
    Here comes the dancing lover's reel

    now watch them soar
    all blissful smiles
    rise off the floor
    leap from the aisles
    the circle spinning
    on the dial

    and wrap your arms
    around another
    meet her eyes now
    be the other
    the circle spinning
    on the dial

    Here comes the priestess on her drum
    Here comes the child
    Here comes the Sun
    Here comes the one who spins the wheel
    Here comes the dancing lover's reel

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