rauðvik / blávik (they/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.
https://youtube.com/@dani_raudvik?si=0wtmmBqb509sSKro
🚫NO AI🚫
🖤🩶🩵🤍🩵🩶🖤
🖤🩶🤍💜
Into gaming, space, synthesizers, music, languages, and C A T S!!!
Living with autoimmune hepatitis while doing the art thing.
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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
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
Something else fun I found in relation to this discussion.
Latvian has its own word for "overmorrow" - parīt. So far, fitting for the discussion.
To my surprise, Latvian goes a step further and has a unique word for "3 days from now" - aizparīt.
Latvian has its own word for "overmorrow" - parīt. So far, fitting for the discussion.
To my surprise, Latvian goes a step further and has a unique word for "3 days from now" - aizparīt.
Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Something else fun I found in relation to this discussion.
Latvian has its own word for "overmorrow" - parīt. So far, fitting for the discussion.
To my surprise, Latvian goes a step further and has a unique word for "3 days from now" - aizparīt.
Latvian has its own word for "overmorrow" - parīt. So far, fitting for the discussion.
To my surprise, Latvian goes a step further and has a unique word for "3 days from now" - aizparīt.
Learned this evening about the Bösendorfer Imperial 290…
*grabby hands*
*grabby hands*
December 31, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Learned this evening about the Bösendorfer Imperial 290…
*grabby hands*
*grabby hands*
Talking about time words in Icelandic and seeing ereyesterday got me thinking about the prefix fyrr-, which led me to…
"fyrrverandi" - meaning former (or also used as a one-word descriptor meaning an ex-partner)
The antonym is "núverandi" for "current"
"fyrrverandi" - meaning former (or also used as a one-word descriptor meaning an ex-partner)
The antonym is "núverandi" for "current"
December 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Talking about time words in Icelandic and seeing ereyesterday got me thinking about the prefix fyrr-, which led me to…
"fyrrverandi" - meaning former (or also used as a one-word descriptor meaning an ex-partner)
The antonym is "núverandi" for "current"
"fyrrverandi" - meaning former (or also used as a one-word descriptor meaning an ex-partner)
The antonym is "núverandi" for "current"
It frustrates me that Icelandic has ereyesterday - "í fyrradag" ("í gær" is yesterday), but no good one-to-one equivalent for overmorrow.
There’s either "hinn daginn" or "ekki á morgun heldur hinn"
"hinn" - conveys, when it stands apart from the noun, "the (other)"
There’s either "hinn daginn" or "ekki á morgun heldur hinn"
"hinn" - conveys, when it stands apart from the noun, "the (other)"
Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It frustrates me that Icelandic has ereyesterday - "í fyrradag" ("í gær" is yesterday), but no good one-to-one equivalent for overmorrow.
There’s either "hinn daginn" or "ekki á morgun heldur hinn"
"hinn" - conveys, when it stands apart from the noun, "the (other)"
There’s either "hinn daginn" or "ekki á morgun heldur hinn"
"hinn" - conveys, when it stands apart from the noun, "the (other)"
Learned today that I could comfortably cover Bach’s repertoire with a 61-key keyboard.
Something fun to do with the #wavestate or #opsix?
In considering the wavestate, I could theoretically build a pad layer of choir/orchestra sounds in the proper key, and play the piece over the drone.
Something fun to do with the #wavestate or #opsix?
In considering the wavestate, I could theoretically build a pad layer of choir/orchestra sounds in the proper key, and play the piece over the drone.
December 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Learned today that I could comfortably cover Bach’s repertoire with a 61-key keyboard.
Something fun to do with the #wavestate or #opsix?
In considering the wavestate, I could theoretically build a pad layer of choir/orchestra sounds in the proper key, and play the piece over the drone.
Something fun to do with the #wavestate or #opsix?
In considering the wavestate, I could theoretically build a pad layer of choir/orchestra sounds in the proper key, and play the piece over the drone.
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Stay sober!
December 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Stay sober!
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Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them.
The current climate is especially accelerating this.
Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves.
Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶
The current climate is especially accelerating this.
Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves.
Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶
September 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them.
The current climate is especially accelerating this.
Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves.
Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶
The current climate is especially accelerating this.
Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves.
Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶
I’m going to make a strange argument here, but bear with me
In light of the launch of an AI chatbot on the Mango Fiasco’s social network and it *immediately* calling out everything that walking nightmare has done… that could possibly be a boon for us anti-AI folks.
In light of the launch of an AI chatbot on the Mango Fiasco’s social network and it *immediately* calling out everything that walking nightmare has done… that could possibly be a boon for us anti-AI folks.
December 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I’m going to make a strange argument here, but bear with me
In light of the launch of an AI chatbot on the Mango Fiasco’s social network and it *immediately* calling out everything that walking nightmare has done… that could possibly be a boon for us anti-AI folks.
In light of the launch of an AI chatbot on the Mango Fiasco’s social network and it *immediately* calling out everything that walking nightmare has done… that could possibly be a boon for us anti-AI folks.
Finally sitting down to listen to this now that the Christmas insanity has passed.
So glad to have my hands on this, and I highly recommend you go check this out.
…and I think there may be some wipEout in my future 🙂
So glad to have my hands on this, and I highly recommend you go check this out.
…and I think there may be some wipEout in my future 🙂
December 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Finally sitting down to listen to this now that the Christmas insanity has passed.
So glad to have my hands on this, and I highly recommend you go check this out.
…and I think there may be some wipEout in my future 🙂
So glad to have my hands on this, and I highly recommend you go check this out.
…and I think there may be some wipEout in my future 🙂
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i wanna hang out with them.... i want them to think i am cool....
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
i wanna hang out with them.... i want them to think i am cool....
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*ARTIST REVEAL* 33 and 34!
KIFFIE & BLÁVIK !!
We are very happy to announce that @raudvik.bsky.social and I, Kiffie, are on The Weapon and The Shield, a #protest compilation featuring 37 artists raising money to help defend human rights for all...
KIFFIE & BLÁVIK !!
We are very happy to announce that @raudvik.bsky.social and I, Kiffie, are on The Weapon and The Shield, a #protest compilation featuring 37 artists raising money to help defend human rights for all...
December 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
*ARTIST REVEAL* 33 and 34!
KIFFIE & BLÁVIK !!
We are very happy to announce that @raudvik.bsky.social and I, Kiffie, are on The Weapon and The Shield, a #protest compilation featuring 37 artists raising money to help defend human rights for all...
KIFFIE & BLÁVIK !!
We are very happy to announce that @raudvik.bsky.social and I, Kiffie, are on The Weapon and The Shield, a #protest compilation featuring 37 artists raising money to help defend human rights for all...
Soooo the previous 4 posts give you a preview of what’s coming in the next album.
It is a heavy, oppressive (at times) bit of #drone work and the underlying theme for me is the question of mortality, how a person might go about extending their own, and whether that is a futile endeavor.
It is a heavy, oppressive (at times) bit of #drone work and the underlying theme for me is the question of mortality, how a person might go about extending their own, and whether that is a futile endeavor.
December 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Soooo the previous 4 posts give you a preview of what’s coming in the next album.
It is a heavy, oppressive (at times) bit of #drone work and the underlying theme for me is the question of mortality, how a person might go about extending their own, and whether that is a futile endeavor.
It is a heavy, oppressive (at times) bit of #drone work and the underlying theme for me is the question of mortality, how a person might go about extending their own, and whether that is a futile endeavor.
You feel unfamiliar eyes on you, but only for fleeting moments. The gaps between those moments have been growing ever longer, and you feel that some part of you knows that eventually those moments will cease to be.
Is that when you will truly cease to exist?
#ambient #darkambient #music #wavestate
Is that when you will truly cease to exist?
#ambient #darkambient #music #wavestate
December 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
You feel unfamiliar eyes on you, but only for fleeting moments. The gaps between those moments have been growing ever longer, and you feel that some part of you knows that eventually those moments will cease to be.
Is that when you will truly cease to exist?
#ambient #darkambient #music #wavestate
Is that when you will truly cease to exist?
#ambient #darkambient #music #wavestate
Æons pass, everyone you knew and loved is gone, along with the memory of you, while you remain in a deep freeze.
The you who existed passes into obsolescence, though your corporeal form stubbornly persists.
#ambient #darkambient #deepambient #music #wavestate
The you who existed passes into obsolescence, though your corporeal form stubbornly persists.
#ambient #darkambient #deepambient #music #wavestate
December 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Æons pass, everyone you knew and loved is gone, along with the memory of you, while you remain in a deep freeze.
The you who existed passes into obsolescence, though your corporeal form stubbornly persists.
#ambient #darkambient #deepambient #music #wavestate
The you who existed passes into obsolescence, though your corporeal form stubbornly persists.
#ambient #darkambient #deepambient #music #wavestate
The moment in the opening track of "lághitafræðilegir draumar" in which the pedal bass makes its entrance and begins bellowing at you
#ambient #darkambient #music #musicsky #wavestate #deepambient
#ambient #darkambient #music #musicsky #wavestate #deepambient
December 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The moment in the opening track of "lághitafræðilegir draumar" in which the pedal bass makes its entrance and begins bellowing at you
#ambient #darkambient #music #musicsky #wavestate #deepambient
#ambient #darkambient #music #musicsky #wavestate #deepambient
Oof that little gremlin who periodically likes to tell me a combination of horrible things is quite loud tonight.
Today’s weapon of choice is "you don’t exist"
Today’s weapon of choice is "you don’t exist"
December 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Oof that little gremlin who periodically likes to tell me a combination of horrible things is quite loud tonight.
Today’s weapon of choice is "you don’t exist"
Today’s weapon of choice is "you don’t exist"
raudvik.bandcamp.com/album/erfi-a...
Recapping 2025
An all- #FM album which blends those icy sounds FM is known for with a warmth that it generally isn’t.
This is a highly-charged album for me which almost didn’t get made solely due to the final track’s difficulty and the fact I still had severe
Recapping 2025
An all- #FM album which blends those icy sounds FM is known for with a warmth that it generally isn’t.
This is a highly-charged album for me which almost didn’t get made solely due to the final track’s difficulty and the fact I still had severe
erfiðar kveðjustundir, by rauðvik
3 track album
raudvik.bandcamp.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
raudvik.bandcamp.com/album/erfi-a...
Recapping 2025
An all- #FM album which blends those icy sounds FM is known for with a warmth that it generally isn’t.
This is a highly-charged album for me which almost didn’t get made solely due to the final track’s difficulty and the fact I still had severe
Recapping 2025
An all- #FM album which blends those icy sounds FM is known for with a warmth that it generally isn’t.
This is a highly-charged album for me which almost didn’t get made solely due to the final track’s difficulty and the fact I still had severe
blavik.bandcamp.com/album/upprun...
Recapping 2025
My most complex patch to date, and will likely hold that title for a very long time, if not permanently.
Listening to this piece to put my PreSonus monitors through their paces, and dammit it sounds great.
Proud of myself for this one.
Recapping 2025
My most complex patch to date, and will likely hold that title for a very long time, if not permanently.
Listening to this piece to put my PreSonus monitors through their paces, and dammit it sounds great.
Proud of myself for this one.
Upprunamúrinn, by blávik
1 track album
blavik.bandcamp.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
blavik.bandcamp.com/album/upprun...
Recapping 2025
My most complex patch to date, and will likely hold that title for a very long time, if not permanently.
Listening to this piece to put my PreSonus monitors through their paces, and dammit it sounds great.
Proud of myself for this one.
Recapping 2025
My most complex patch to date, and will likely hold that title for a very long time, if not permanently.
Listening to this piece to put my PreSonus monitors through their paces, and dammit it sounds great.
Proud of myself for this one.
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Not just the rich and that's also something to sit with.
COVID really opened my eyes.
We had two paths ahead of us, and as soon as we took a single step towards THINKING about an equitable world, the rich put their full force into stopping it.
They loath humanity.
We had two paths ahead of us, and as soon as we took a single step towards THINKING about an equitable world, the rich put their full force into stopping it.
They loath humanity.
December 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Not just the rich and that's also something to sit with.
Recapping 2025 a little… "aschenwelt" is just an amazing song, and I’m beyond proud to say it came out of me - astounded as well that this is my work and not someone else’s whose talent exceeds my own.
raudvik.bandcamp.com/album/aschen...
raudvik.bandcamp.com/album/aschen...
aschenwelt [single], by rauðvik
1 track album
raudvik.bandcamp.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Recapping 2025 a little… "aschenwelt" is just an amazing song, and I’m beyond proud to say it came out of me - astounded as well that this is my work and not someone else’s whose talent exceeds my own.
raudvik.bandcamp.com/album/aschen...
raudvik.bandcamp.com/album/aschen...
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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
What dreams remain in a deep freeze? How many æons of history have you missed while sleeping? Do you ever wonder if anyone has come to look in on you, or have you been forgotten by the world?
December 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
What dreams remain in a deep freeze? How many æons of history have you missed while sleeping? Do you ever wonder if anyone has come to look in on you, or have you been forgotten by the world?
I’ll be burying myself in my work for the foreseeable future. I experienced something last night that is haunting me deeply, and nothing else is helping me to shake it
December 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I’ll be burying myself in my work for the foreseeable future. I experienced something last night that is haunting me deeply, and nothing else is helping me to shake it
December 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Might I also recommend a hardware synthesizer or two
If you want to reject the touchscreen lifestyle and embrace manually fiddling about with stuff, I highly recommend learning how to play bass.
It is has got all the knobs you could want, it has got wiggly finger to string interface, it is the answer to your touchscreen ennui.
It is has got all the knobs you could want, it has got wiggly finger to string interface, it is the answer to your touchscreen ennui.
December 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Might I also recommend a hardware synthesizer or two