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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

In this episode, Mark Levene, Emeritus Fellow in History at the University of Southampton, talks to Raul Cârstocea, Lecturer in European History at Maynooth University and Honorary Fellow at the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Leicester, about historical ethnic and religious diversity in Central and Eastern Europe and the challenges the region and its people have faced throughout the 20th century. Key to this was the ethnic violence that accompanied the collapse of the European empires from 1917 to 1923 and the atrocities of the Second World War, as well as the ongoing climate crisis as experienced by the region’s minority groups.

Rescue!History: http://www.rescue-history.org.uk/

"Eastern Europe's Minorities in a Century of Change", a podcast series on the history of minorities and minority experiences in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe prepared by the BASEES Study Group for Minority History to mark the Institute for Historical Research’s centenary. The co-conveners of the Study Group are Olena Palko (Birkbeck) and Samuel Foster (University of East Anglia)

Episode 5. Mark Levene: Minority crises in ‘the Rimlands’

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“Tenderness” is the first collaborative album between Japanese musician Yumi Iwaki and Brazilian Carlos Ferreira using unreleased sketches, improvisations, and samples, “Tenderness” is a mosaic of painted sounds that does not end in itself, inviting the listener to inhabit its center.

Porto Alegre based experimental guitarist Carlos Ferreira and Tokyo-based synthesizer hypnotist Yumi Iwaki are presenting "Tenderness" , their first ever collaborative album through Modern Obscure Music. Carlos and Yumi have created this powerful ambient odyssey at the distance. Despite some connections between Yumi's family roots with the Brazilian musical scene, both artists feel a strong attraction about their cultural differences, through Literature, films, scents, colors, and nature… Carlos feels “there are infinite cultural differences between Japan and Brazil, and this can be explained by historical and even geographical factors, but people come together through very strong elements that are able to transcend these differences. Diversity must also unite us.”. Yumi explains that when she met Carlos on Instagram, she was instantly captivated by “his quiet, deep and fantastic view of the world, the feelings we shared seemed to take shape naturally, but it was Carlos' great talent to complete the production...  more
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released September 2, 2022

Yumi Iwaki: modular & analog synthesizers, op-1, piano, voice, FX pedals, looper, field recordings, sampling.
Carlos Ferreira: electric guitar, bowed guitar, FX pedals, digital synthesizers, looper, field recordings, sampling.

Written & produced by Yumi Iwaki & Carlos Ferreira
Mixed & mastered by Carlos Ferreira

Wabi-sabi

Hanging Gardens

+1 work among the countless INSOMNIAs that already exist. 
therefore, traditionally. I tell the story of creation
I couldn't sleep. In the night silence, there was an annoying buzzing sound. Sufficiently irritated, I snapped the protective valve in my ear that shuts off my (by then, it should be noted, quite exhausted) brain from the outside environment, and a silent annoying sound began to leak out of my ear. Its pressure increased and sometimes decreased to drops. In a word, various things spread from there for 20 minutes  

And so? I invite you to a 20-minute sound journey through sleepless tangled neural labyrinths 

Music for sound and movement performance INSOMNIA (Lithuania/Ukraine)
Idea: Goda Giedraitytė and Donatas Bielkauskas
Choreographed & performed by: Mariya Salo (UA) and Petras Lisauskas 
Sound: Yana Shliabanska (UA) and Donatas Bielkauskas
Lights: Stasys Jamantas and Donatas Bielkauskas
Produced by: Association “Fish Eye”
Producer: Goda Giedraitytė
Supported by: Lithuanian Culture Council
Partners: Viktor Ruban / Ruban Production ITP (UA)
Сover photo: Oleksii Korotych

INSOMNIA

Hiss VI

5 Chords, a Name & a Rhythm

I played these chords, oooh, reminds me of something, Toto? Which song?? Pamela? 
I didn't check, just recorded the name Pamela, what a nice name! I don't even know a Pamela, this will be my Pamela.

A few days later I decided to listen to Toto. I spent the whole evening listening to Toto, I can recommend it, it was a lovely evening! But I didn't hear my chord progression. A little despair clouded my mood.

The day after I was told by the man who says "Pamela" in this track, it was a riff from "All night long", you know, Lionel Ritchie. Ah, well. I like that song. Nothing like Toto at all. 

Weird trip, this track.

Pamela

https://piotrdabrowski.bandcamp.com/album/wysz-o-z-boru

PL:

Wiersz Bolesława Leśmiana, który stanowił inspirację dla tego wydawnictwa towarzyszył mi przez kilka miesięcy stając się punktem wyjścia dla stworzenia muzyki mogącej stanowić soundtrack dla podróży przez bór, który opuszcza dziwaczne zwierzę powołane do życia przez poetę, jak również dźwiękową interpretację uczuć znajomych współczesnemu człowiekowi: chaosu, bezradności, prób zrozumienia otaczającej rzeczywistości - niezwykle złożonej i dynamicznie się zmieniającej - i odnalezienia się w niej na wielu płaszczyznach.

Od strony muzycznej wszystkie utwory powstały na drodze eksperymentu i improwizacji z użyciem cyfrowego, analogowego i akustycznego instrumentarium.

EN:

The poem by Bolesław Leśmian, which inspired this album, accompanied me for several months, becoming the starting point for creating music that could become a soundtrack for traveling through the forest, which is being left behind by the bizarre animal brought to life by the poet, as well as a sound interpretation of the feelings familiar to modern people: chaos , helplessness, attempts of understanding the surrounding reality - extremely complex and dynamically changing - and finding our place in it in many aspects.

On the strictly musical side, all tracks were created through experimentation and improvisation using digital, analog and acoustic instruments.

Episode 5. Mark Levene: Minority crises in ‘the Rimlands’

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