Because capitalist doctrine insists that humans are inherently greedy, self-centered and competitive, its believers cannot imagine any solution to our problems that isn't driven by greed, selfishness and competition. The idea that we can transcend our propagandized conditioning, our cultural mind viruses and our egoic thought patterns enough to move from our competition-based system into a collaboration-based one looks ridiculous to them, because they believe our nature can only ever be at war. At war with each other, and at war with our ecosystem. 

To a thoroughly capitalism-indoctrinated mind, the idea that we can transcend our self-destructive, exploitative, ecocidal patterning and move into collaboration with each other and with our ecosystem to create a healthy, harmonious world looks like childish nonsense. So instead they promote the far more mature and realistic idea that our world will be saved by greedy, union-busting tech oligarchs like Elon Musk.

Reading by Tim Foley. Article with sources and hyperlinks: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/capitalism-is-a-misanthropic-dystopian

Capitalism Is A Misanthropic, Dystopian Religion

here one of 4 tracks of  my latest productions " autumn movement", released on silent season. (( thx for that))

http://shop.silentseason.com/album/martin-nonstatic-autumn-movement-ss16


Martin nonstatic "soundforest"   silent season -ss16     autumn movement

'Daydreams In Low Fidelity' is the new work from talented UK-based artist Halftribe, who brought us 'Luxia' last year. Presented in a beautiful 4-panel CDr with pictures by Brian Young.

Written and Produced by Halftribe. 
Mastering by Rob Small. 
Photography by Brian Young | www.instagram.com/losingtoday 
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Halftribe - This Is Your Light

Michael explores how mindfulness and meditation practice can heal shame and trauma and how these symptoms manifest in relationship. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Recorded on November 20 2016.

Shame, Perfectionism, and the Pre-Cognitive Dimension of Trauma

from 'Evighetsblomma': https://purl.bandcamp.com/album/evighetsblomma

'uncovered some 
glimmering remnants of a past life 
in a long forgotten part of 
my garden of sounds 
didn't want to bury them and 
forget them forever 
so dusted them off 
to let them tell their fragmented tales 
of dreams long gone 
indefinable longing 
and wonder'

Music by Ludvig Cimbrelius 

Art by Magda Kozuba ∣ www.instagram.com/magda_kozuba/

Evighetsblomma

Like it never was ('Evighetsblomma')

Ultimae is proud to announce the release of the LIGAND Remixes by Martin Nonstatic, an immersive puzzle - complex and distractive - shaped by various talented artists : Erot (Denmark), Floating Machine (Portugal), Roel Funcken (Netherlands), Scann-Tec (Russia), Miktek (Greece), AES Dana (France) and Martin himself (Austria).

The 7 tracks explore the emotive IDM and Dubby Tech fields with some incursions in cloudy Electronica. 

Every artist involved in this restructuring musical project endeavored to create brand new tracks - real tribute to the initial ones – with re-dreamt audio architectures and feelings.

Mastering by Vincent Villuis & Vladislav Isaev | Ultimae Studios
Artwork design : Arnaud Galoppe & Vincent Villuis
Photo credits : Herman IJssel

Ligand Remixes

Ligand (Roel Funcken Remix)

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MARTIN NONSTATIC | Ligand (Roel Funcken Remix)

In this weeks episode(which Chris feels is his best show yet), Chris is joined and questioned by Neil Lott, from Colorado, USA.

Many huge topics are covered. We hope you enjoy.

To feature as a guest interviewer, please email chris@awakenedintent.com

Podcast #10 - Compromising The Self, Male Ego, & Healthy Femininity

Morrow

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is pleased to welcome back Kamran Sadeghi for his first release on the label since 2008. On BETWEEN US, Sadeghi explores life in quarantine by directing his listening attention towards the element of our homes that is both sheltering us and giving us a glimpse of the outside world—the window.

BETWEEN US was created using field recordings captured with DIY contact microphones attached to the glass window of Sadeghi’s home in Brooklyn. These protective barriers in the buildings we inhabit operate as a filter from the outside elements. Sadeghi describes the impulse of "wanting to hear the sound outside as it was being transformed to what I was hearing inside." Each recording's tonal slips due to the presence of sonic artifacts such as resonance, noise, low rumble, feedback, and cyclical hum (caused, in part, by the microphones' excessive gain) suggests a gauzy, shifting passage of time at a distance.

Between Us

Kamran Sadeghi - Morning

Tones and rhythms of MERS, SARS, COVID-19 and mutations, represented in audible space. 

LYRICS: The molecular mechanics of the pandemic. Motion and Stillness. Vastness. An indefinitely small quantity, yet singular, and profound. While we cannot see the invisible, we can hear it, and internalize it, and explore its motion in the stillness of the moment. Vastness. Stillness. 

Using the vibrational information of the frequency modes the drum parts explore the overlaying frequencies of molecular protein vibration, scaled to the rhythmical level. The left and right channel, respectively, reproduce the patterns of the reference COVID-19 pathogen and the G614 mutant. 

This is a version of https://soundcloud.com/user-275864738/mers-sars-covid-19-and-covid-19-g614, but with added rhythmic elements.

BACKGROUND:

The pathogen of COVID-19 continues to impact the world, as the pandemic wreaks havoc and spreads arounds the world. As time goes on, mutations of the virus emerge, which can affect how infectious and how lethal the virus is.

And, there are also different forms of coronavirus diseases – like SARS, MERS, and now COVID-19 – all caused by viruses in the same “family”.

What is the reason why MERS is so much deadlier, but less infectious, than COVID-19, which transmits easily but has a lower lethality rate than MERS or SARS? Can we better understand how the molecular details of the viruses work, and if they may provide clues for treatments or cures?

It's in the music! In a paper published in Cell Matter, we have identified a strong direct relationship between the nature, rate and intensity of the virus spike protein vibrations and how readily the virus could penetrate the human cell, as well as an opposite relationship with the fatality rate of a given coronavirus.

The key result of our work is that both, the overall flexibility of the upward receptor-binding domain and the mobility ratio of the receptor-binding domain in different conformations, represent two significant factors that show a positive scaling with virus lethality.

The series of tones is: MERS, SARS, COVID-19, COVID-19 G614, COVID-19 G614, COVID-19, SARS, MERS, COVID-19 G614, COVID-19, COVID-19 G614, COVID-19 G614, COVID-19 G614.

Reference: Y. Hu, M.J. Buehler, Matter, 2020, 10.1016/j.matt.2020.10.032

MIT News: news.mit.edu/2020/vibrations-co…irus-proteins-1119

The Molecular Mechanics of the Pandemic: Motion and Stillness, MERS, SARS, COVID-19 and Mutations

Here's my first Tea Break session. 
Times are tough as we're trying to piece our lives together. These frames are made in an extremely spontaneous, natural and non pretentious way. This is a healthy break from my perseverance and darkness. I hope they'll do the same or so to you.

Here're some tech specs for you filthy nerds:

Piano: my beloved recently restored upright piano.
Modular: Big T Music's Monsoon, Instruo's Arbhar, Mutable Instruments' Blades.

Tea Breaks

Tea Break no. 1

Awake in the World Podcast is a library of talks on a wide-range of topics, including bringing mindfulness and meditation practice into daily life; personal and community issues regarding mental health; and social change. The podcasts were recorded at live events so you might hear coughing, airplanes, cars, sirens, laughter, and peoples’ questions—all part of the intimate experience. Michael Stone (1974-2017) was a Buddhist teacher, author, and mental health advocate. His legacy is stewarded by Carina Stone. Podcast funded by Patreon (patreon.com/michaelstone).