A thematic exploration of the quest for a fabulous city of celestial beings which is a perennial mirage, lost somewhere in a foreboding, icy, landscape.

Artwork by Tassos Kyriakopoulos https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3dKOrJ

Quest for the White City for String Orchestra

Unbenannt 21

Recorded live on iPad Air 2 with various apps

Mood Exhibit - Carnival

From the Blink Twice album : Newer Unknown Breeds
released in 1998
https://www.discogs.com/release/342058-Blink-Twice-Newer-Unknown-Breeds

Newer Unknown Breeds

Blink Twice - Waking The Moon

Link to visuals

https://pixabay.com/illustrations/ai-generated-cyborg-samurai-7939396/

RiZLiX - Shamisen Spirit

Angelika ist meine Schwester, und es handelt sich um einen Drohnenflug. Dabei entstand ein kurzes Video, das den Ort zeigt, an dem sie lebt und arbeitet, und zu dem ich eine kurze Musik geschrieben habe, für ihre Webseite www.human-unfoldment.de .
Wir alle haben schon erstaunt unsere Fähigkeit zu Fliegen zur Kenntnis genommen - in unseren Träumen, von Zeit zu Zeit. Das tun wir dann mit der größten Selbstverständlichkeit, Leichtigkeit und Gelassenheit. Und wir haben den Wunsch, das unser Leben so wäre.
We all have the ability to fly - in our dreams, from time to time. It happens to be very simple, we do it relaxed and withour any effort. And we wish our lives would be like that.
This piece grew out of a little music I wrote for a video for the website of my sister, which is about yoga and personality building. The video shows a drone flight over the place, where she lives and works - a lake, trees, houses, nice weather.

Angelika fliegt

My second track for this week´s disquiet junto, playing bass on a great vocal track by xiiixxi
https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/disquiet-junto-the-loneliest-number-disquiet0591

Euclidean Chromatica

Wilfried Hanrath & xiiixxi - Euclidean Chromatica (disquiet0592)

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my BandCamp PWWO #08 album)

Over the past few years, I’ve discovered several unique and delightful souls in our community; and the song I get to share today is my first collaboration with one of my favorite Soundcloud troubadours, Tanisha Jackland (Lady of Fire Poetry - https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire, https://ladyoffirepoetry.bandcamp.com/).

I messaged her a few months ago, hoping for a little inspirational pointer to one of her favorite open collab offerings. And to my great surprise and excitement, she offered to create something entirely new for the project. In addition, she introduced me to her muse for this particular piece, Emily Levine. Needless to say, Emily will be the subject for this write-up (so thanks, Tanisha… for that introduction; and for getting to create this song with you. I had a lot of fun with this one). :)

So who was Emily Levine? Emily started her career in 1977 as a stand-up comedian. But the world wasn’t ready to take female comedians seriously, so in 1980 she became a television writer and producer. Over the next decade, she worked on intelligent sitcoms, including ‘Designing Women’ and ‘Love and War’; and comedy pilots for CBS, NBC, ABC and HBO.

Despite an admirable career as a Screenwriter, Emily’s largest transformation came in the form of a tumor found on her pituitary gland. 

Before the diagnosis, she began experiencing a wide array of symptoms like extreme fatigue, brain fog, osteoarthritis, carpel tunnel, acromegaly (where your extremities grow abnormally large) and a lack of interest in the activities she enjoyed. 

Eventually, the tumor was discovered and successfully removed. But during her illness and recovery she began to explore more modern, scientific ideologies. This is where she had some of her greatest life epiphanies; my personal favorite being the realization that we need to evolve our thinking from Newton’s Universe to the Universe of Relativity, Chaos Theory and Quantum Physics. 

Here’s her basic formula. The Newtonian Universe is one of ‘either/or’; either this is true or that is true, but both can’t be true. If I’m right, you must be wrong. It’s very linear, black and white thinking; and it’s the hurdle that the human race can’t seem to get past.

But if you give Quantum Physics a spin, the formula becomes ‘and-and-and’ (notice the dashes rather than slashes). For example, light can be a wave and a particle, depending on how you look at it. I can be right, and you can be right, depending on how we look at it. That single idea transforms very rigid, absolute thinking (off/on, right/wrong) into something far my dynamic and probability based. It gives the human race the breathing room we need to help us solve our current polarizations; a beautiful opportunity for transforming the old paradigm into something that helps us evolve our thinking and move forward as a species.

So if you like your plate of perspective served with a side of humor, we highly recommend Emily’s amazing film ‘Emily @ The Edge of Chaos’ and her heartwarming TED talks ‘How I Made Friends With Reality (https://www.ted.com/talks/emily_levine_how_i_made_friends_with_reality). In the meantime, Tanisha and I hope you enjoyed our first collaboration ‘Moonbeings’. :)

Spoken Word:
Moonbeings
We are not an absolute 
one day to be fodder
 for the Earth 
She will consume us 
after we have had enough
 for we are cyclical beings 
waning always waning
 fading into frequencies
 of rearranging patterns

I'd like to think 
we have an eternity
 to come back again 
if necessary
 to try on new flesh
 to eat again
 at the bounty of Earth

Free DL on SC :)

Moonbeings (for Emily Levine) | Lady of Fire Poetry & GrevusAnjl

The monument of Alexander the Great in Skopje, Macedonia, is a colossal 24 meter tall statue with a large fountain and dozens of water jets. Here is a 10-minute excerpt of the very, very long song of the waters of the fountain…
Le monument d'Alexandre le Grand à Skopje, en Macédoine, est une statue colossale de 24 mètres de haut avec une grande fontaine et des dizaines de jets d'eau. Voici un extrait de 10 minutes du très, très long chant des eaux de la fontaine...

Alexander the Great fountain, Skopje

The Alexander the Great fountain in Skopje, Macedonia

Chapter 155 of 266
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