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
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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
Never
It all begins with an idea.
Never
Pensive cinematic trip hop fuels this interior dialogue of betrayal and abandonment. Is this a rumor of an illicit affair, a clandestine meeting, an incidence of espionage, or an invention of her panicking imagination?
Soundtrack, Betrayal, Romantic, Relationships, Psycho-Drama, Strings, Distress, Cinematic, Atmospheric
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is that you?
I know we said, let’s take this somewhere else, instead,
is that you?
I thought I heard but can’t remember,
maybe missing, maybe later
is that you?I know we said, let’s take this somewhere else, instead,
is that you?
I thought I heard but can’t remember,
maybe missing, maybe later
is that you?ta ta ta ta ta ta
talk to me, say you never
ta ta ta ta ta ta
talk to me, say we never, never …is that you?
where is the key, I left another in my sweater,
is that you?
I thought I knew your name, I called
you didn’t, ever answer
is that you?I know we said, let’s make this one time even better,
is that you?
I heard this sound but that’s real long that I can’t remember,
is that you?
maybe lost it, losing us together
is that you?ta ta ta ta ta ta
talk to me, say you never
ta ta ta ta ta ta
talk to me, say we never, never …