Listening to this is like recalibrating my ears...I love, love, love it!

5 Preludes on grief, reflections of "the new," questioning, resolve and a return to loss.
written for Thomas Stumpf and in memory of Hassan Sayadi.
Performed by Stumpf in the Distler Performance Hall of Tufts Univ.
4/4/22
©2021  Michael McLaughlin  Strizimusic BMI

The Melancholy Preludes

Parallax Reisen, citrinitas

Used the source audio + electric bass (base and harmonics), drums+programming+synth pad+bells

Friday March 1st during the morning in Paris.

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

the unbearable loss of a train passing - disquiet0635

Quartet Improv session recorded around a central Blumlein pair of mics at Church of the Advent Library on July 24, 2015.
Dei Xhrist, voice
Matt Samolis, flute
Thadd Comstock, guitar
Ryan McGuire, bass  

Overwater

This is a cantata for solo soprano and cimbalom based on the Gnostic Gospel of Mary.

Mary Magdalen

Mindfulness: Connection or Disconnection?

At the UMASS Center for Mindfulness "First Do No Harm" workshop in April 2017, Dr. Britton shares "deviations from the dominant narrative" that shaped her approach to research, and inspired the "Varieties of Contemplative Experience" research study

Deviations from the dominant narrative

In her book, For the Love of Men, award-wining journalist Liz Plank offers a witty, insightful, and deeply researched guide for what we can all do about toxic masculinity.

In this episode, Liz is joined by therapist and Bay Area men’s group leader Sarwang Parikh for a conversation about the future of gender roles and how finding a new way forward for men has the possibility to change the world.

This episode contains explicit language.

Liz Plank: A New Vision For Mindful Masculinity

One of the best Thanams I have heard on the Veena. Fantastic use of all strings to produce a harmonic sound pattern, that captivates the imagination of the listener. 

Thanam Veena Rasikapriya

Dr. Britton describes signs of meditation-induced dissociation and how to tell the difference between dissociation and meditative calm

Signs of dissociation

commissioned by Michael Norsworthy, this performance is by Rane Moore and Donald Berman.

Nebraska Impromptu

Meditative and contemporary sound study, based in Barre, MA, USA

https://mattsamolis.wordpress.com/

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