Morphine

Participation mystique refers to the innate human connection to symbolic and imaginative experiences. This symbolic realm exists before or alongside our ability to think analytically or rationally. The idea is strongly linked to projection, as these symbolic or mythic elements naturally extend themselves into the world around us—into people, places, and things, just like how we unconsciously assign color to what we see.

Participation mystique is not just a psychological concept, but an aesthetic principle – a lens through which we perceive art as more than just something we observe; it becomes something inhabited.

In artistic terms, participation mystique can be thought of as a dissolving boundary between the self and the image. In this perspective, any manifestation of art can be perceived not just as an external object, but as an extension of the viewer’s unconscious. Colors, shapes, and atmosphere resonate with inner archetypes – mythical, primordial, emotional – before the mind can name them. This is why abstract compositions can seem hauntingly familiar, or why certain symbols – like a spiral, a doorway, or a shady forest – draw out something ancient, deep, and unconscious from us.

Produced and mixed by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev
Cover picture and design by Dionis Afonichev

Participation Mystique

Distant Shores (Brannan Lane Remix)

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers and tape

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found sounds
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/779920/

Grout water

7-19-25 (someday everyone will always have been against this)

We've had better times, and look forward to new ones... and my best times so far have been with my wife, Melissa, to whom this piece is dedicated with love.

Better Times (for Melissa)

junebug casserole

I've always preferred All or Nothing.  The shades of gray in between seem to lack contrast and clarity.
This song is dedicated to all of the beautiful nuances of life that fill that void, because that's how life is.

By request this song is a bit longer than my usual so I hope you enjoy the full story.  Much love, U.F. 🙏

Bandcamp

all or nothing

Gangsta beat (96 BPM)

(dispersed signal) versions fragment the original material through granular time-warping, scattering its rhythmic core into drifting pulses and textured echoes. Like a fading transmission from deep space, these pieces unravel slowly, leaving behind only traces of their origin.

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🎧 Music for:
sleep · deep focus · meditation · inner drift · slow time · space dreaming

📎 Tags:
#ambient #drone #granular #spacemusic #sleepmusic #darkambient #soundscape

Equinox (dispersed signal)

'The Stars and I' album now on Bandcamp.

About 10 years ago, I had an experimental side project called "The Stars and I". It was a way for me to experiment with my own vocals, guitar and other sounds I recorded.

Written, performed and produced by Wildsilences.

The Stars and I

Blue September (Ambient Version)

process

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