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“I have transformed myself in the Zero.” Brian George assembles quote-poems from visionary artists—de Chirico, Malevich—creating friction between their actual words. Not tribute. Possession. The daimon speaking through creative struggle itself.

A single winter scene—lake, moth, fireflies, moonlight—refracted through three emotional states: disgust, laughter, wonder. D. K. explores how perception reshapes reality through feeling in this recursive poetic experiment.

The poetry collection Scivias Choreomaniae connects us with the experience of embodied knowing through the “dancing Madness” across space and time, conversing with medieval mystics, nonhuman beings, and Georg Trakl’s expressionist schizo-mysticism.

Continuing on with Chase Griffin’s shamanic, concrete, digital, comedic, literary wanderings, the Plasmate most sacred and profane blasts at us a conversation with polymath extraordinaire Richard Polt.

A descent into the coded unknown: Morose Code fractures the audible world into uncanny aural riddles, while Hotel opens a shadowed door into a space where noise becomes dread made audible. Two works, two thresholds—each demanding you listen beyond the surface.

Born in the Soviet Union to dissident parents, Alexandra’s life and art are shaped by exile, memory, and reinvention. Her narrative paintings blend autobiography, symbolism, and art history into emotionally charged scenes of belonging, displacement, and quiet transformation.

From infinite mathematical points to AI paranoia, ‘The Singularity’ haunts our age. But what if these supposed endpoints are just clown cars packed with paradoxes? To understand our digital present, we need to track the ghosts of weird history.

An imaginal descent and a psychic transmission: Baiocchi’s Theta unravels the secret negotiations between life and entropy, while Mason’s tribute to Schaeffer reconnects acousmatic listening to its primal roots. Both works ask the listener to slow down, attune, and inhabit sound as a living terrain. The crossing, once entered, is hard to leave.

Through nigredo, albedo, and rubedo, Devon Hansen traces Scottie’s failed alchemical opus—where the death of ideal self-images becomes the necessary mortification individuation demands. The second chapter of the Vertigo series explores transformation without resolution, and why wholeness requires mourning the fantasies of perfection we can never surrender.

It’s a dangerous world to be a woman in Rebecca Baum’s The Brood—but the predators aren’t the male characters. The shocking power of this tale comes from an utter breakdown of female solidarity.

The tyrants of our time call upon us to ask “Who is like unto the Beast?” From Silicon Valley’s AI worship to ancient Rome’s imperial machine, Jonathan Cobb traces how the Antichrist is not a future threat but a present reality—the mechanization of society that promises kingdoms while demanding our souls.

Paul Turner’s Four Walks in Three Parks explores shifting sonic strata, high strangeness, and imaginal listening in this latest Acousmatic Crossings installment.

In a world obsessed with comfort, Ordeal-ology explores why we crave ordeal and apocalypse. From The Walking Dead to ancient shamanic rites, the essay asks how deliberate difficulty might restore our resilience, creativity, and meaning. Through psychology, philosophy, and myth, it calls for a new “ordealology”—a practical wisdom of constructive distress.

Enter the imaginal realm of sound with Murmuri’s “I Like the Cold Aesthetic.” A meditation in motion—where form, texture, and silence blur into transformation. Listen closely, and let the Acousmatic reveal what lies beyond the visible.

My essay is an examination of Vertigo and a personal account of the unexpected and synchronistic involvement it has had in my life, particularly with regards to my queerness as a trans person and the influence of Jungian ideas on my transition.

In Visitation, Jean Patier leads listeners through sonic ruins where memory, time, and imagination intertwine. Each piece unfolds like a meditative walk through forgotten sanctuaries, where sound becomes scripture and silence breathes. Patier’s lush electro-acoustic textures blur the boundaries between the seen and the heard, the past and the becoming. This is music as contemplation—an aural pilgrimage toward the sea of eternity.

This piece explores the metaphysical, epistemological, and biological implications of sound as a formative and ontological force. It draws on modern Cymatics, Islamic metaphysics, critical theory, and contemporary epigenetics.

This was the moment I’d been hoping for: standing at the edge where curiosity and danger meet, where every step forward carried a paradox of adventure and risk. A place called Amazonia.

Dive into the raw, gritty fusion of acousmatic mystery and trance-like intensity, where polyrhythmic percussion and searing, bone-rattling electronic tones collide in a sonic inferno. This Camouflage Trance creation strips away visual origins, unleashing a wild, immersive storm that hits with unrelenting force. Check it out and brace for the impact!

Free will or fate? This paradox shows how knowing the future reshapes choice, challenging the very idea of absolute prediction.

This is about both the worst and most meaningful day of my life, the day I began to awaken from the intrinsic hypnotic effect that ‘life’ has upon us as endless, and yes immortal beings in a very mortal world—and universe.

A non-space of entropic delights—Deliverance offers a listening experience shaped by imagination, sensation, and the apophatic limits of language. It is at once minimal and infinite, a sonic passage that belongs to no one and to each listener alone.

A surreal, comedic dialogue with Chase Griffin on improv, tone synesthesia, pratfalls, flamingos, grief, comedy as spell work, and finishing the unfinishable novel.

We’ve long tried to measure intelligence using a single number, from IQ scores to AI benchmarks. This article explains why that approach fails, and why a multidimensional view is essential for understanding both humans and machines.

Paul Beaudoin’s ein kleines klangportrait is a tightly woven sonic miniature, where the familiar sounds of piano and percussion are extended and entangled through tape to form a restless “hyper-instrument.” Faruk Mehić’s ePrelude op. 18 no. 3 offers a contrasting sense of space and pace. Flowing with a restrained elegance, the piece beckons close listening through finely shaped dynamics and spectral detail.

This Acousmatic Crossings installment brings together plastov’s Omega Amoeba and Jiajing Zhao’s Back to the Ocean—two pieces shaped by paradox. Each begins in quiet and seeming inertia yet reveals immersive sound worlds teeming with subtle morphologies. What first appears static becomes animate; what feels empty begins to overflow. The minimal becomes maximal—if you’re willing to stay with it. Headphones required. So is surrender.

Margaret Phanes’ luminous digital art offers a meditative journey into light, consciousness, and the soul’s transformative power.

Near / The drummer’s fire / Will each his song at last / Conceive in heart / And breathe white smoke / Upon his youthful days; …

A metaphysical letter from Turīya—the fourth state of consciousness—addressed to the waking self. Blending poetry and philosophy, the piece invites the reader to return to the silent, ever-present witness behind all thought, identity, and experience.

A haunting soundwork by Rafael Ramirez using broken vinyl, turntablism, and memory to explore loss, hauntology, and imaginal worlds of sonic mourning.