rauðvik / blávik (they/þau) 💛🤍💜🖤
@raudvik.bsky.social
Cinematic ambient musician, composer, & sound designer
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.
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
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Alien: "Take me to your leader!"
Me: [eating pizza with a knife & fork]
"Bold of you to assume that I’m not the leader."
Me: [eating pizza with a knife & fork]
"Bold of you to assume that I’m not the leader."
February 15, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Alien: "Take me to your leader!"
Me: [eating pizza with a knife & fork]
"Bold of you to assume that I’m not the leader."
Me: [eating pizza with a knife & fork]
"Bold of you to assume that I’m not the leader."
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LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.
12/12
12/12
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.
12/12
12/12
A day spent on the couch with my partner and the cat walking curling with a short break in between to go for a walk.
How glad I am that over-the-top, bombastic Valentine’s Day offerings are wholly undesired in this relationship.
How glad I am that over-the-top, bombastic Valentine’s Day offerings are wholly undesired in this relationship.
February 14, 2026 at 10:21 PM
A day spent on the couch with my partner and the cat walking curling with a short break in between to go for a walk.
How glad I am that over-the-top, bombastic Valentine’s Day offerings are wholly undesired in this relationship.
How glad I am that over-the-top, bombastic Valentine’s Day offerings are wholly undesired in this relationship.
I have wanted someone to do a figure skating program to The Diva Dance from The Fifth Element for *years* now, and Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan finally gave me that in spectacular fashion.
Lovely.
Lovely.
February 14, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I have wanted someone to do a figure skating program to The Diva Dance from The Fifth Element for *years* now, and Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan finally gave me that in spectacular fashion.
Lovely.
Lovely.
You become well-acquainted with the concept of death in the attempt to fell gods
So this plumber eats mushrooms to fight evil turtles to rescue a princess.
February 14, 2026 at 3:10 AM
You become well-acquainted with the concept of death in the attempt to fell gods
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obligatory i will never vote for gavin newsom 🙂↔️
February 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
obligatory i will never vote for gavin newsom 🙂↔️
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I will fight every Gavin Newsom defender on this entire website if I have to. You people are pathetic quislings who must be shunned from society if we have any hope of surviving.
Governor Newsom proclaims Ronald Reagan Day
Governor Newsom proclaims Ronald Reagan Day | Governor of California
www.gov.ca.gov
February 13, 2026 at 10:54 PM
I will fight every Gavin Newsom defender on this entire website if I have to. You people are pathetic quislings who must be shunned from society if we have any hope of surviving.
Attacking the final section of the Path of Pain in Hollow Knight today. Wish me luck
February 13, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Attacking the final section of the Path of Pain in Hollow Knight today. Wish me luck
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Ask yourself: are those fans worth having?
“If any of you, in any way, hate homosexuals, people of a different color or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone. Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records.”
-Nirvana
“If any of you, in any way, hate homosexuals, people of a different color or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone. Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records.”
-Nirvana
Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey says bands who are afraid to speak out should look to them as proof that there’s nothing to fear.
“We’re getting trashed, trolled, losing fans, and guess what, the water’s fine. Come on in. Nothing to be scared about. No one’s stepped to me in public yet.”
“We’re getting trashed, trolled, losing fans, and guess what, the water’s fine. Come on in. Nothing to be scared about. No one’s stepped to me in public yet.”
Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey Urges More Bands to Speak Out: "Nothing To Be Scared About"
Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey is hoping more bands will join the fight against social injustice, insisting there’s “nothing to be scared about.”
consequence.net
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Ask yourself: are those fans worth having?
“If any of you, in any way, hate homosexuals, people of a different color or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone. Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records.”
-Nirvana
“If any of you, in any way, hate homosexuals, people of a different color or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone. Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records.”
-Nirvana
Recording "dýpra ofan í völundarhúsin" today, one of the few pieces I’ve ever built in Locrian.
It is menacing, dank, and dungeon-y, just what I need
It is menacing, dank, and dungeon-y, just what I need
February 13, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Recording "dýpra ofan í völundarhúsin" today, one of the few pieces I’ve ever built in Locrian.
It is menacing, dank, and dungeon-y, just what I need
It is menacing, dank, and dungeon-y, just what I need
Hanging with my reaper buddy and giving him squishes for… "luck" 😜
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Hanging with my reaper buddy and giving him squishes for… "luck" 😜
My cat will frequently get both of her front paws stuck in the curtains and if you dare try to help her, you’ll be bunny-kicked. We pretty much just have to let her figure it out to spare ourselves violence and injury
cats are apex predators of incredible grace and agility that you sometimes have to free from yowling terror when they get a claw stuck on the seam of a window curtain
February 12, 2026 at 10:32 PM
My cat will frequently get both of her front paws stuck in the curtains and if you dare try to help her, you’ll be bunny-kicked. We pretty much just have to let her figure it out to spare ourselves violence and injury
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Working on some ambient bgs... Keeping things simple.
February 12, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Working on some ambient bgs... Keeping things simple.
Mastering for "alheimurinn" version 3 has begun.
I am much happier with the palette. Layer B’s deep sub-bass through a flanger is much tamer but still eerie enough and you can hear its undulations without it being overwhelming. It’ll be a treat for folks with subwoofers.
I am much happier with the palette. Layer B’s deep sub-bass through a flanger is much tamer but still eerie enough and you can hear its undulations without it being overwhelming. It’ll be a treat for folks with subwoofers.
February 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Mastering for "alheimurinn" version 3 has begun.
I am much happier with the palette. Layer B’s deep sub-bass through a flanger is much tamer but still eerie enough and you can hear its undulations without it being overwhelming. It’ll be a treat for folks with subwoofers.
I am much happier with the palette. Layer B’s deep sub-bass through a flanger is much tamer but still eerie enough and you can hear its undulations without it being overwhelming. It’ll be a treat for folks with subwoofers.
Finally got this film on blu-ray
February 12, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Finally got this film on blu-ray
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They used to be on House Hunters like “I sell sand on the beach and I have a budget of about $800k” 😭
February 12, 2026 at 5:11 PM
They used to be on House Hunters like “I sell sand on the beach and I have a budget of about $800k” 😭
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Bad news for pedophiles: The Dow is now under 50k.
February 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Bad news for pedophiles: The Dow is now under 50k.
youtu.be/0PbH-gnnaTI?...
Fuck Spotify, obvi, and fuck the union-busting asshats at Distrokid too.
This is ridiculous
Fuck Spotify, obvi, and fuck the union-busting asshats at Distrokid too.
This is ridiculous
How Distrokid and Spotify killed my music
YouTube video by Martin Stürtzer
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
youtu.be/0PbH-gnnaTI?...
Fuck Spotify, obvi, and fuck the union-busting asshats at Distrokid too.
This is ridiculous
Fuck Spotify, obvi, and fuck the union-busting asshats at Distrokid too.
This is ridiculous
"alheimurinn" the 3rd is done and that felt like it could be the one.
Was still half in a dream during the process, and that may have helped a bit
Was still half in a dream during the process, and that may have helped a bit
February 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
"alheimurinn" the 3rd is done and that felt like it could be the one.
Was still half in a dream during the process, and that may have helped a bit
Was still half in a dream during the process, and that may have helped a bit
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Citizen Kane but like 1000 times as rich and instead of a sled they are obsessed with murdering everybody and ruining society because somebody laughed at them on the Internet once
February 12, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Citizen Kane but like 1000 times as rich and instead of a sled they are obsessed with murdering everybody and ruining society because somebody laughed at them on the Internet once
"alheimurinn" is getting a 3rd take. Had a moment in the 2nd minute that gave me pause.
Was it clipping or just the nature of resonance through a flanger?
Unclear.
Did I like it?
No.
Back at it tomorrow. Took some oomph out of the layer and I’ll look at the flanger parameters before recording.
Was it clipping or just the nature of resonance through a flanger?
Unclear.
Did I like it?
No.
Back at it tomorrow. Took some oomph out of the layer and I’ll look at the flanger parameters before recording.
February 12, 2026 at 4:51 AM
"alheimurinn" is getting a 3rd take. Had a moment in the 2nd minute that gave me pause.
Was it clipping or just the nature of resonance through a flanger?
Unclear.
Did I like it?
No.
Back at it tomorrow. Took some oomph out of the layer and I’ll look at the flanger parameters before recording.
Was it clipping or just the nature of resonance through a flanger?
Unclear.
Did I like it?
No.
Back at it tomorrow. Took some oomph out of the layer and I’ll look at the flanger parameters before recording.
How to spot a fascist.
"I want to have a reasonable discussion about AI."
"I want to have a reasonable discussion about AI."
February 12, 2026 at 3:42 AM
How to spot a fascist.
"I want to have a reasonable discussion about AI."
"I want to have a reasonable discussion about AI."
You know what? I’m about to wrap things up in the studio space and start to unwind. While I do that, I wondered if we could do like a music-related AMA sort of thing.
Questions about the process, coming up with ideas, etc.
Have questions? Ask away and let’s have a little fun.
Questions about the process, coming up with ideas, etc.
Have questions? Ask away and let’s have a little fun.
February 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
You know what? I’m about to wrap things up in the studio space and start to unwind. While I do that, I wondered if we could do like a music-related AMA sort of thing.
Questions about the process, coming up with ideas, etc.
Have questions? Ask away and let’s have a little fun.
Questions about the process, coming up with ideas, etc.
Have questions? Ask away and let’s have a little fun.
Re-recording "alheimurinn" and going a little easier on the resonance mods this time and with the wavestate’s master volume just a touch lower.
So far, I like it better subjectively (it’s much creepier), and hopefully we’ll avoid clipping this time.
So far, I like it better subjectively (it’s much creepier), and hopefully we’ll avoid clipping this time.
February 12, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Re-recording "alheimurinn" and going a little easier on the resonance mods this time and with the wavestate’s master volume just a touch lower.
So far, I like it better subjectively (it’s much creepier), and hopefully we’ll avoid clipping this time.
So far, I like it better subjectively (it’s much creepier), and hopefully we’ll avoid clipping this time.