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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.

A young woman discovers a piece of porridge has stayed on her hand after washing up. During another heartless hook-up with her less-than-desired girlfriend Derek, the porridge attaches onto the other, and her body is haunted by the staining of life.

What if Jung’s collective unconscious has a biological basis and Darwin missed evolution’s communication network? The DNA Resonance Hypothesis proposes that DNA functions as more than genetic storage—acting as a quantum antenna that enables non-local information exchange between organisms. This interdisciplinary exploration bridges psychology, evolutionary biology, and quantum physics to suggest that communication, not just competition, drives evolution and collective behavior.

What if music wasn’t made, but revealed? What if the earth’s magnetic breath or the mingling of East and West across the astral plane whispered secrets only the most generous ears could hear? In this latest Acousmatic Crossings installation, Amanda Stuart and Andre Perim invite us to the kind of cocktail party where thunder becomes code, whistlers become wisdom, and the hourglass of perception flips. Presence is requested—resonance is required.

AI power is warping elite behavior: The article critiques how certain influential figures in the AI world—rationalists, longtermists, techno-optimists—are using esoteric, hyper-rational ideologies to justify risky, manipulative, or self-serving behavior.

Sirius returns with a vengeance, with a chorus of fellow outlaws bent on turning the ghost of the 1990s into an electro-psychedelic séance for today’s burned-out attention span.

A visionary encounter with death and the spirit realm, weaving Hawaiian ancestral wisdom with personal revelation about life, water, and eternity.

Forged from live electronic improvisation, this story-sonic hybrid drifts into deep space and deeper states of consciousness. As the crew enters torpor, reality warps, perception fractures, and sound becomes the medium of transmutation. This is speculative audio-fiction at the edge of signal and dream—where every frequency might just open a portal.

Beyond a mechanical pump: explore the heart’s electromagnetic field, spiral flow dynamics, and sacred role in ancient traditions. Science meets spirituality.

Three luminous poems by Burt Rashbaum explore breath, scars, and transcendence. Includes audio recordings of the poet reading his own work.

These sculptures call out the absence of stories about women’s autonomy, bodily integrity, and independence from male control while remaining connected in Divine Female-Divine Male-relationship.

A meditation on duality, movement, and perception in sound—exploring new Acousmatic works by Philippe Neau and Darius Gylys in vibrant, shifting states.

A close encounter with a black widow spider triggers a spiritual opening and a points to a possible solution to the existential problem of suffering.

Pandora’s Apocalyptarium: A Guided Tour And so it begins, the apocalyptic unraveling, Orwellian sleights of hand, the Pandora-like normalization of the surreal.  Hollywood burning as predicted in the day of the locust. Police in Howard, Colorado, …

A poetic trace of psychosis as portal—exploring the spiral architecture of reality where madness becomes a window to systems of truth beyond perception.

From Ali Balighi’s microtonal metapsychosis to Unearth Noise’s visionary Earth engines, these sonic works traverse thresholds—fractal, fluid, and imaginal. Music here is not heard but inhabited: a choreography of becoming, where meaning stirs in silence and sound reveals hidden worlds.

Power operates by simplification. Our very ability to perceive and interact with the world involves a capacity to tune out portions of it and pick out certain parts of it as relevant. In this way we are tuned into a particular frequency of reality.

Jenny Gillespie Mason’s poems traverse the thin veil between mundane medical procedures and divine revelation, finding God’s blue presence in unexpected places.

Cyberspace Paradox is an immersive sonic exploration of our evolving relationship with technology, blurring the lines between organic and synthetic sound

Imaginal Horizons in Sound: Valentin Sismann & Enrico Dorigatti Weave Acousmatic Alchemy & Symbolic Sonic Journeys.

A poem, like a language, is an approximation, only a new one, and by virtue of being new and idiosyncratic, suggests and sometimes enables whole new structures of relation, new ways of engaging, dealing with, and navigating life.

I started thinking about how I spend so much of my days treating my art like a product and my personality as a brand. The thought that my small ideas would someday become commitments never occured to me when I was younger.

A mind-bending exploration of Jacob’s Ladder, existential terror, and the liminal spaces between life and death that shape both creativity and consciousness.

Step into a sonic realm where resonance shapes reality, sculpting gleaming architectures from shadow. Sound becomes creation—walk the path.

Explore the uncanny phenomenon of The Backrooms, where liminal spaces trigger our deepest anxieties about technology, transformation, and the increasingly unfamiliar world.

The first time I slept with you / in a Colorado Commune / you showed me how I had been sneaking around / neighborhoods in broad daylight / stealing light bulbs from people’s houses.

A poetic exploration of brotherhood by the river, where wounds are unveiled, time dissolves, and ancient masculine archetypes emerge through psychedelic ritual and insight.

Echoes of Sound and Silence: Exploring Symbol, Childhood, and the Power of Active Listening Through Acousmatic Composition