Splendor Solis ("The Splendour of the Sun") is a version of the illuminated alchemical text attributed to Salomon Trismosin. This version dates from around 1582.

The earliest version, written in Central German, is dated 1532–1535 and is part of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin collection at the State Museums in Berlin. It is illuminated on vellum, with decorative borders like a book of hours, meticulously painted and highlighted with gold. The later copies in London, Kassel, Paris and Nuremberg are equally fine. Twenty versions exist worldwide.

The original of Splendor Solis, which contained seven chapters, appeared in Augsburg. In miniatures the works of Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein and Lucas Cranach were used. The author of the manuscript was considered to be the legendary Salomon Trismosin, allegedly the teacher of Paracelsus, though the name is believed to be a pseudonym. The work consists of a sequence of 22 elaborate images, set in ornamental borders and niches. The symbolic process shows the classical alchemical death and rebirth of the king, and incorporates a series of seven flasks, each associated with one of the then-known planets. Within the flasks a process is shown involving the transformation of bird and animal symbols into the Queen and King, the white and the red tincture. Although the style of the Splendor Solis illuminations suggest an earlier date, they are clearly of the 16th century.

Splendor Solis

Bande sonore composée dans le cadre de l'exposition "Traversées", du photographe Éric Bourret, avec la contribution de Nuria Prats Fons, au Musée de Millau et des Grands Causses, du 18 juin au 31 décembre 2022.
https://eric-bourret.com/
http://www.museedemillau.fr/
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Grands Causses - Musée de Millau et des Grands Causses

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For the full-length version: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20220702-still-night-in-a-pine-forest-winter-full-version

2022.07.02 Still Night In A Pine Forest. Winter. (Abridged Version)

my son and i hiked in the forest to get to these two beautiful natural landscapes of water. These are located in Hastings Highlands Barry's Bay Ontario Canada...close to our cabin on Lake Kamaniskeg. The views of these two water masses are impactful and always leave me breathless. 
Photo by Matthew Janik from last Fall 2021..Music file is low grade mp3 as opposed to my usual aif files, as i'm uploading from cabin-:)

Eternal Project- Big Point Pond To Biernacki Lake-Rough Cut

The European fire-bellied toad is, in fact, a frog. (No fire, either.) However, this is more than compensated by its satisfyingly fun-to-say Latin name: Bombina bombina. They also produce antimicrobial peptides in their skin secretions – the even more fun-to-say ‘bombinins’. 

Native to eastern mainland Europe – recorded here in the protected land of Poland’s Barycz Valley Landscape Park – they use their internal vocal sacs to produce their “whoop” call: the mournful, slow-motion honk immortalized here. Imagine the sound that clowns might make when they cry and you won’t be far off.

Bombina bombina mysterious call

Canis lupaster (=Canis anthus) Loup doré africain. African wolf or golden wolf
Enregistré au Maroc à Cala iris le 23 mars 2023 à 23h59.
Enregistrement avec couple de MKH 8040 en ORTF et Mixpre 3.
Photo : cc by sa 3 Cécile Bloch

Canis lupaster - Loup doré africain - African wolf

30 May 2023

To get good recordings of birds you have to come close. On way of achieving this is to work with concealed microphones. It’s not easy to predict where the target bird/s will be, and I regularly fail in my attempts, but occasionally I succeed. I scouted a semi-open sandy area – a former tree seed orchard –  where I had encountered lekking Black Grouse last year, and hid a small stereo lavalier microphone overnight in the crown of an isolated small pine tree. One by one the Black Grouse males arrived in the late evening hours and immediately began displaying around the small pine tree.  

Umeå commune, Västerbotten County (63.39 N, 19.54 E)

Primo-EM172s

01_01.05

In the middle of the Black Grouse lekk

My grandmother passed away recently. She collected ornamental apples, some of which I received when she moved into her retirement home and needed to downsize her collection (ie. the ones that made sounds). These were mainly bells with the largest one being the exception as a music box. I originally planned on composing a piece of music using all of these apples but - after recording the music box to start with - felt like I couldn't really add anything meaningful; there's an obvious poetry in the form of this recording.

How do you like them apples?

Rest in peace, Gibby x

Gibby

Någonting, allting

Extracts from the album 'Repetition of the same dream' (Another Timbre, 2020), featuring 5 pieces collaboratively created during C-19 lockdown in Basel, Switzerland, by composer-instrumentalist Clara de Asís and flautist Mara Winter. 

Released in August 2020 on Another Timbre, who commissioned the music as one of their 'quaratine commissions'.

http://anothertimbre.com/claramara.html

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/repetition-of-the-same-dream

Gibby

Mola Recordings

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