A shimmering evening fantasia of insect song and the singing of Bayaka men sitting in a circle illuminated only by firelight and stars.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Late Afternoon To Dusk In An African Rainforest (binaural/headphones)

Computer scientist Bernard Chazelle has an original take on what music works in us — especially the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Just as mathematicians talk about discovering rather than inventing great equations, so, he says, Bach set out to “discover” the musical rules behind the universe. After hearing this conversation, you may never listen to any piece of music — whether Bach or Jay-Z — in quite the same way again.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/bernard-chazelle-discovering-the-cosmology-of-bach/7026

Bernard Chazelle — Discovering the Cosmology of Bach

'Imaginational Anthem vol. 7' Available February 17, 2015

'Trees Return to Soil' by Simon Scott

Velvet Piano, Introduction

From the album Modern Country, out now on Merge Records.

Modern Country

William Tyler "Gone Clear"

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/19/esperanza-spalding-william-blake-the-fly/

CONTEXT / POEM TEXT

Esperanza Spalding performs "The Fly" by William Blake

Tokyo’s flau record label cerebrate their 10-year anniversary with the 'Waltz Compilation'. The album was also called "A dance to draw circle" in Japan, with each artist producing an interpretation of the meaning of the waltz. 

Artists included span the globe from Europe, South America, Australia and Japan: Danny Norbury, Kanazu Tomoyuki, Ensemble 0, Fábio Caramuru, Otto A. Totland, Rayons, Sophie Hutchings, Frédéric D. Oberland, HAU (Henning Schmiedt + aus), Takeo Toyama and MayMay.

Pre-order:

www.flau.bandcamp.com/album/circles
www.flau.jp/releases/circles/

Circles

Grannys Waltz

Otto A. Totland - Grannys Waltz

Artist: Nick Zammuto
Title: Tonight We'll Go For A Ride
Album: We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Release Date: November 9, 2018 Digital / February 8, 2019 Physical

Pre-Order: www.temporaryresidence.com/products/trr308

We The Animals is the award-winning new film from Jeremiah Zagar (In A Dream). Based on the best-selling novel by Justin Torres, We The Animals is Zagar’s first narrative feature. It reunites Zagar with Nick Zammuto, the renowned composer and co-founder of beloved collage-pop pioneers, the Books. Inspired by the film’s setting in rural upstate New York – and influenced by the early ambient electronic music that galvanized the Books two decades ago – Zammuto pairs that earthen, wooded isolation with dynamic pulses of customized electronics and sparse, crystalline layers of melodic soft synths. The juxtaposition is arresting, and gives the soundtrack a unique heft befitting of its subject matter – and betraying of its minimal instrumentation. Beautifully edited and sequenced to act as both a companion to the film and a standalone album, We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is as subtle as it is startling, and succeeds in making even the heaviest emotions feel momentarily weightless.

We The Animals: An Official Motion Picture Soundtrack

Nick Zammuto - Tonight We'll Go For A Ride

From Nat Bartsch Trio's 2008 self-titled release

I Think I Always Knew... - Nat Bartsch Trio

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Bernard Chazelle — Discovering the Cosmology of Bach

On Being Studios