Name: Science Friday Asks an Expert: Why Do We Itch? by SciFri
Duration: 17 min 22 s
Description: A professor of molecular and cellular biology explains the neuroscience behind itching and scratching.

Ancient Forests Morning Soundscape, Distant Gibbons Symphony, Belum Temenggor, Malaysia

Bird (Naviarhaiku 330)

♪ singing my late-night one-verse poem to morning birds...

This one time I opened my window to dive into the night
right into the void, to bathe in starlight
and I hoped you would follow, tell me secrets in the dark
cause I knew this moment would go and not come back
[July 2020]

This one time

The Assignment: Make music inspired by a line from A Wizard of Earthsea: “For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”

Also on album "Hearken Beach".
https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/album/hearken-beach

Originally I just wanted to make five minutes of interchanching deep pad and noisy something, with a lot of non-silent space between them. I added some ambient field recordings in these spaces, because the name of the track was intended to be 'The Impossibility of Being Silent'.

But then my mi clouds produced some sounds of it's own and I liked it. At the end I had to reintroduce silence to all parts. All in all I hope this to be considered as a tentative approach to silence, with an increase towards the end.

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More on this 451st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ursula’s Silences (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a line from A Wizard of Earthsea), at:
https://disquiet.com/0451/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0451-ursulas-silences/

Album: Hearken Beach

A Tentative Approach To Silence [disquiet0451]

A professor of molecular and cellular biology explains the neuroscience behind itching and scratching.

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I couldn’t resist recording this storm just in our backyard as it was evident when I opened the front door in the morning that this wind is going to make damage. (The picture)

Recording storms creates mostly undefined white noise that’s not very pleasant to listen. But it seems, that when the wind gets hard enough, there occurs (more or less) strange noise patterns with regular shapes that can make it sound interesting. 

In situ I could hear cars passing and chainsaws running.  I hope there’s a bit of this weird noise left in this recording, at least when listening with headphones.

And yes, when the gusts were as strongest, two trees come down. One pine on the roof of our neighbors sauna building 6.50 and an other one with the tree trunk breaking 8.28 

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, nothing done in edit, 24/48 flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

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《手懐けられない光》オーケストラのための

ライヴ・レコーディング : 2020年8月29日、"第30回　芥川也寸志サントリー作曲賞選考演奏会"、サントリーホール（大ホール）にて
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©︎（公財）サントリー芸術財団サントリーホール

Live recording : 29 (Sat) Aug, "The 30th Competition of Yasushi Akutagawa Suntory Award for Music Composition", Main hall in the Suntory Hall
Performance : Ryusuke Numajiri, New Japan Philharmonic
©︎Suntory fondaton for the ARTS, Suntory Hall

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Written for and performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble and Gelsey Bell
Recorded at Scholes Street Studio
Mix and Mastering by Murat Çolak

Text

The ocean, deep blue-green.
What we learn in the middle of the night is that the world makes us flinch. (Michel Serres, The Five Senses: Philosophy of Mingled Bodies)
Sounds an ocean, drinks it in.

Then everything became worse for the wear, damaged, used and used-up and ultimately destroyed.
More and more I made up for what was lost, I slowly improved myself, and I considered myself healed. (Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina)

I found myself trapped in a nightmare, standing alone at the sea. Everyday becoming more and more.
White and yellow and gray and horizonless. (Tove Jansson, The Summer Book)

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