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rauðvik / blávik (they/them/þau)
@raudvik.bsky.social
Cinematic ambient musician, composer, & sound designer
https://youtube.com/@dani_raudvik?si=0wtmmBqb509sSKro
🚫NO AI🚫
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Into gaming, space, synthesizers, music, languages, and C A T S!!!
Living with autoimmune hepatitis while doing the art thing.
Pinned
Wanted to have a quick talk about my handle and artist name, rauðvik.
If you have a passing knowledge of Icelandic/Nordic languages, you‘ll see the root, "rauð-" in there, meaning "red."
"-vik" derived from the verb, "að víkja", one meaning of which is "to deviate from." /1
Three words…

Buy. Physical. Media.
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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You don;t have to support this shit. If you spend the $15 every month that this costs on thrift store DVDs, your quality of entertainment will probably improve AND you can take a month or two off here and there and still have something to watch.
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Going back and listening to "MDCX" again just for fun while I meditate on my new patch to see if my brain comes up with any tweaks it needs.

What a goddamn album "MDCX" is!

"Kallistó" is obviously the standout with the bassoon involved, but "Evrópa" is a close second. Excellent pedal bass
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Coming up to the finish line on this new #wavestate patch.

Explored a horrible dungeon in Elden Ring this morning to get me in the right frame of mind. It absolutely worked.

The Shaded Castle is terrible, but thanks for the inspiration, FromSoft
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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sure sex is great but have you ever supported your artist friends during the holidays by buying their lovely work?
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If you fuck with Eyjólfur, fifteenth of his name, you’d best come correct
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Progress on new #wavestate thing

I could leave it where it is and be happy, but I’ll work in the rest of the planned sounds tomorrow.

A minor… and it has a very dungeon atmosphere about it.

I’ve been playing non-stop Elden Ring though, so no surprise.
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
The little pocket of aurora I could see tonight. Even with light pollution, I could see this without the aid of a camera
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
There is a patch of purple cloud overhead at the moment. Lots of light pollution and cloud but the aurora still made its appearance
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Go home, Idol, you’re drunk
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Tomorrow’s the day. I can think of no better gift than people picking up and listening to some of my #music on #Bandcamp
raudvik.bandcamp.com

So hey, my birthday is coming up next week. I tend to be very low-key and quiet about it.

If you’d like to help me celebrate a year around our star, go listen to some of my #music. Follow me on #Bandcamp if you don’t already, and maybe buy yourself a thing or two.
rauðvik
rauðvik is a project born out of a fascination for astronomy, electronic music, deep ambient soundscapes, and classical musical training. The idea behind most work is to build a musical framework on a...
raudvik.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Tomorrow’s the day. I can think of no better gift than people picking up and listening to some of my #music on #Bandcamp
raudvik.bandcamp.com

So hey, my birthday is coming up next week. I tend to be very low-key and quiet about it.

If you’d like to help me celebrate a year around our star, go listen to some of my #music. Follow me on #Bandcamp if you don’t already, and maybe buy yourself a thing or two.
rauðvik
rauðvik is a project born out of a fascination for astronomy, electronic music, deep ambient soundscapes, and classical musical training. The idea behind most work is to build a musical framework on a...
raudvik.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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raudvik.bandcamp.com

So hey, my birthday is coming up next week. I tend to be very low-key and quiet about it.

If you’d like to help me celebrate a year around our star, go listen to some of my #music. Follow me on #Bandcamp if you don’t already, and maybe buy yourself a thing or two.
rauðvik
rauðvik is a project born out of a fascination for astronomy, electronic music, deep ambient soundscapes, and classical musical training. The idea behind most work is to build a musical framework on a...
raudvik.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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My brain is finally working well enough again that I can start in on new things. Hello again, old friend. I haven’t forgotten you

#synthsky #wavestate #ambient #sounddesign #korg
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
youtu.be/xV9gFey9vs0?...

Did this last night and I didn’t want this fight to end. Kudos to FromSoft for this music. Holy shit… so good
Elden Ring OST 47 Regal Ancestor Spirit
YouTube video by Adam Smith
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My brain is finally working well enough again that I can start in on new things. Hello again, old friend. I haven’t forgotten you

#synthsky #wavestate #ambient #sounddesign #korg
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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If yall don’t do nothing else, I want you to let those AI videos go. Please. People are still being funny and cute in real life. Please join the rest of us back in reality.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For the first time since getting the PS5 (fairly soon after it came out, so a number of years back) I had to clean out the fans.

It sounds much happier now and hooray I took apart a piece of electronics and didn’t break it (which I was super-afraid of).
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This probably reads as dinosaur talk to the converts, but, as I've said elsewhere about all these kinds of things, playing an instrument in a group is, at minimum, fun. Fussing with prompts at a black box that would happily burn Jupiter for a country song is, at maximum, sad.
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Just finished listening to November’s album as background for doing some exploring in Elden Ring.

It’s excellent work and you should get it.

raudvik.bandcamp.com/album/h-m

#ambient #ambientmusic #synthsky #music
húm, by rauðvik
4 track album
raudvik.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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GenAI disclaimer: the artists we stole music from in order to create this program spent 10-20 years studying and perfecting their craft before earning an average of $35 per hour as working musicians. Thank you for helping us to pillage this entire industry of creatives.
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Remembered this sound tonight.

Ought to record this one soon for blávik

#darkambient #music #wavestate #synthsky
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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There is no such thing as ethical generated AI.
There is no such thing as AI 'art.'
AI generated media is theft.
Enthusiasm for AI is weird and stupid and yes you should feel bad if you've used it for anything.
Give up on it, move on and do something worth time and effort.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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TRUTH
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM