Maui, Hawaii, USA Event

"When tension is introduced inside of your surface bodies, there is a real awakening that is being provoked. You’re actually being awakened out of ignorance; discovering what you are through pressure, discovering the depth of okayness that you are, in the midst of tension."

Total Runtime: Approx. 60min

298 - Classic Edition - What is Evil? And Your Indomitable Being

298 - What is Evil? And Your Indomitable Being - 1 of 1

During a severe wind storm, I revisited the yellow popular from this winter storm recording: https://soundcloud.com/acousticnature/tree-creaks-inside-an-oak

This time, I stuck a pair of EM272 microphones inside the tree cavity instead of putting my SASS in front of the opening. I mainly did this to protect the mics from the heavy rains that came during the night. 

I was really amazed at how well the tree insulated the mics from the outer world's sounds. Even the torrential downpour we received sounded like a gentle drizzle. 

When I popped the SD card into my computer the next morning, I was surprised that the popular made less noise than the previous recording, despite the increased wind speeds. 

I think this may have been due to 2 things: the warmer weather and deeper cracking along the the main trunk. I believe both these factors gave the tree more "wiggle-room" and caused less direct rubbing.

This recording is a compilation of 27 interesting clips throughout the night ranging in length from 3-111 seconds. 

Thanks for reading and listening ♫

Tree Creaks Compilation | 50mph Gusts

Burient EP

Escutcheon

We had a movie night; Koyaanisqatsi. 
Muted the original soundtrack by Philip Glass, and replaced by an improvised ambient set. 

Music by a multitude of artists including, Loscil, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, Carmen Villain, Calibre, Jake Muir, Am Shhara, Submersion, Donato Dozzy, Ancestral Voices, Homeomorphic and many more.

A Movie Inward

Cellist/composer Clarice Jensen returns with her third album, ‘Esthesis’, a deep and gorgeous new work conceptually structured around the emotional and harmonic spectrum and the phenomenon of chromesthesia – a condition whereby sound involuntarily evokes an experience of color, shape and movement. Following up her critically-acclaimed 2020 LP ‘The experience of repetition as death’ (a record almost presciently timed to arrive as Covid first hit), ‘Esthesis’ sees Jensen expanding her oeuvre, introducing a wider instrumental range, and reflecting on the effects of isolation. Recorded by Jensen in upstate NY and expertly mixed by Francesco Donadello, the record was mastered by Matthew Agoglia and is released on October 21st, ahead of a UK/EU tour supporting 130701 alumni Dustin O’Halloran.

Esthesis

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Tracklist

01. Pan•American - Alentejo
02. Fields We Found - View
03. Anthéne - The Fields
04. Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Pfad_Onset
05. James Murray - Least Resistance
06. Hideo Kobayashi - All of You
07. Grotta Veterano - Slumbers (Part 2)
08. Black Brunswicker - Dreams We Share
09. Ruhe - A Beautiful Weakness
10. Twincities - Harbor-hums
11. xu - Daydream Delusion
12. Andrew Heath & Simon McCorry - Mist

304. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Lying in fields and ditches, at the edge of old and overgrown graveyards and in lonesome places all over Ireland rest forgotten echoes of our past. Large and unwieldy stones; blocks of granite and sandstone flags which, used in former times as tests of strength, still reverberate with the memory of heroic feats.

The tradition of stone lifting, while well-attested in Scotland, Iceland and other parts of Europe, is a topic about which very little is known in Ireland. For the past year, David Keohan, multiple national European and world champion in kettlebell sport, world record holder, avid strength historian and self-described stone-lifting fanatic, has been (literally) unearthing this little-known aspect of traditional Irish physical culture. Guided by material relating to the practice of stone lifting as found in the archives of the National Folklore Collection, David has been travelling the country identifying lifting stones mentioned in manuscript sources gathered by folklore collectors, and has been talking to locals who remember the lifting of these stones in former times. It has been an honour to assist in shining further light on this topic, and I was delighted to be joined by David for this episode of Blúiríní as he discusses his adventures to date.

Join us as we attempt to set out the scope of the tradition as it existed in Ireland, drawing on NFC collection to examine the occasions on which these stones were lifted, their connection to funeral games and the dead, the role of lifting stones as rites of passage or method of settling dispute as well as their associations with hags, giants and mythical champions.

The richness of our archival collections now serve to assist in the regeneration and reanimation of this once widespread custom, and should serve as a source of inspiration and pride; linking us with the past, with our birthplaces and with those who have gone before us.

David's Instagram: 
https://www.instagram.com/irish_move_athlete/?hl=en

David's YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@davidindianakeohans3566

Two highly recommended and very beautiful Rogue Fitness documentaries were mentioned at the outset of the episode. They are available here:

Stoneland (Scottish stone lifting tradition): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQlNwxn5oo&ab_channel=RogueFitness

Fullsterkur (Icelandic stone lifting tradition): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Tcsg2Yac8&ab_channel=RogueFitness

Website here dedicated to the memory of Scotsman Peter Martin (mentioned in this episode). Peter held a special affection for the Gaels, and his research into Gaelic strength culture and traditional stone lifting was without equal: https://www.oldmanofthestones.com/

Blúiríní Béaloidis 38: Stones Of Strength In Irish Tradition (with David Keohan)

Album samplers of our releases in 2023 from Fields We Found, ghost and tape, Federico Durand, Stefano Guzzetti, Stijn Hüwels and Wil Bolton.

homen149 Fields We Found - Trust (album sampler)

Passive Aggressive

Beluga’s Song

Floex - Blow Up (Classic touch remix)

The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporating strategies of musique concréte threaded with veiled currents of melody and hypnosis. Recent recordings for Vienna Press, Longform Editions and Aught Void have demonstrated different depths of process and finesse but her latest, Collagen, captures perhaps the most complete and complex manifestation of her craft to date.

Drawing on a disciplined palette of peach wood combs, contact microphones, piano, strings, and feedback, the album moves in low, looming arcs, ascending to strange purgatories of opaque atmosphere. Lerkenfeldt cites a core aspiration to “elevate the everyday,” transforming common objects into otherworldly sound sources, which colors Collagen with a beguiling tactility, like vibrations traced in sand. The tracks shift in frequency and feeling, alternately heady and bodily, acoustic and synthetic, isolated states of static, light, and undertow skirting the outer rings of ambient, noise, and modern composition.

Although each piece exists in its own rare air the composite panorama they present is striking in its sweep and subtlety. Lerkenfeldt's muse seems one of evasion as much as evocation, navigating negative spaces for their subliminal whispers of dread or beauty. It's an aesthetic both ascetic and exploratory, minimalist mirages of resonance, texture, and gravity skewed through the pensive glow of room tone.

But Lerkenfeldt is too versatile an artist for purist restraint, which Collagen demonstrates dramatically in its closing cut, “Champagne Smoke.” A quivering bowed eulogy ebbs under a flickering film of distortion, slowly swelling in sorrow until suddenly the screech goes silent, revealing a murmuring phantom haze hidden beneath the strings, like a specter lost in an abandoned house.

14 Gestures associated with this album will be performed in experimental film and online viewing room of graphic notation at 14gestures.com from 29th July to 29th October, 2020.

Collagen releases on Shelter Press in LP / DL format on August 21, 2020. LP mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at D+M, designed by Bartolomé Sanson with art by Lisa Lerkenfeldt, housed in reverse-board inner and outersleeve, including a 16 pages limited edition score book.
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releases August 21, 2020

All music by Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Mastering by Kassian Troyer at D&M
Design by Bartolome Sanson
Scores by Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Collagen

LISA LERKENFELDT 'Collagen' (SP120)

An innovative voice for spiritual evolution who teaches the essential and transformative nature of “core-splitting honesty,” John de Ruiter is a Canadian philosopher, author and speaker. 

John awakened to foundational levels of existence as a teenager. Since then, histeaching has been informed by that direct knowing, a source of inspiration that he brings to his dialogues. 

Meetings with John are defined by silence, connection through eye-contact and dialogue. They are an opportunity to come to rest while actively realizing deeper levels of being human, knowing what we really are, and allowing that greater reality to change our lives.

John has been sharing his wisdom from his home base in Edmonton, Alberta for nearly three decades. He established the College of Integrated Philosophy there in 2006. During the Covid pandemic, John hosts weekly Interactive Live Streams and multi-day online “Intensives.” 

These weekly live streams present the chance to ask John any questions you might have. While the heart of John’s teaching is about consciousness and profound awakening, meetings with him also provide the opportunity to talk about practical topics like mental health, parenting and relationships. 

“My sole purpose is to be, in life, what we are after we’ve died. Through openness and softness of heart and core-splitting honesty at any personal cost, I live as that while actualizing the same in others I meet. I am available as a resource for anyone who recognizes and values this way of being.” -John de Ruiter

John de Ruiter's teachings are not a substitute for medical or psychological professionals. 
– John de Ruiter

John speaks about consciousness, about the world, and profound awakening. His meetings also explore practical topics such as relationship, parenting and emotion. However, the heart of every teaching and meeting is the fundamental presence of knowing.

John de Ruiter's teachings are not a substitute for medical or psychological professionals. The meaning in John's words and presence is for each person to know and act on according to his or her own discernment.

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