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

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

20 musicians record themselves improvising for 7 minutes to a singing bowl; the results were then assembled into an audio collage.

Cassie Kollman- voice
Jessi Rosinski- flute 
Mia Friedman, Mimi Rabson, Matt Scutchfield- violins
Melika M. Fitzhugh, tenor recorder
Peter H. Bloom-, bass flute, bass duduk
Glenn Dickson- clarinet
Steve Norton- bass clarinet
David Harris- flugelhorn, trombone, euphonium, tuba
Brian Parent- electric guitar
Dmytro Radzetskyi- 8 string MIDI Radz-guitar
Caitlin Cawley- vibraphone
Jonah Sacks- cello
Janet Underhill- bassoon & cricket
Michael Bullock- contrabass
Jane Wang- space plate
Joe Burgio- harpy trismegistus
Walter Wright- electron eek, percussion
Michael Rosenstein- steam radiator, shovel in the rain
Peepers as themselves

curated and assembled by Matt Samolis

The Covid Bowl Virtual Ensemble Project

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/

The Covid Bowl Virtual Ensemble Project

shoebei

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