Nyokeë - Reality is a Game // Official Visualizer
35With all the recent events happening in the world, I sometimes wonder what is real, and what is imagined. Some believe that we live in a simulation, but even if we don't, our minds tell us highly subjective stories about who we are, with no grounds for an objective reality. New forms of technological expression make the distinction between dream and truth yet more complex.
The rise of the Metaverse, AR and VR, and the re-emergence of retrofuturistic themes seem to indicate the rise of some kind of techno-utopia, or techno-dystopia, depending your view point. While wars, climate change and diseases wreak havoc in the real world, we escape into our minds. In the end, we have no choice but to create our own reality.
I decided to express this idea in this production and visualiser made in Blender. To me, surrealism is the most honest for of expression, precisely because it is illogical, twisted and dream-like - just like us.
I produced this song in Logic, mainly using a Mutable Instruments Shruthi synth, an OB-6 synth and a Roland JD-XA. Mixed by Electric Himalaya.
** Lyrics:
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
The angels sing
A touch of gold
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
Truth will wait
A diamond gate
Shimmering, shining, certainty is made of gold
Or so we are told
Time goes by but dice will never fold
No walls can hold
Run from safety
Be an airborne tree
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
The angels sing
A touch of gold
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
Truth will wait
A diamond gate
Safety's fleeting, reality is a game
You choose your frame
Now is small, it won't ever come again
A liquid brain
Run from safety
Be an airborne tree
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
The angels sing
A touch of gold
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
Only once in a lifetime
Truth will wait
A diamond gate
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https://www.electric-himalaya.com/
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