Hermina's Unknowing

Hermina's Unknowing

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Hermina's Unknowing episodes

  • Episode Nine: Memory

    Hermina considers memory, recollection, the memory palace, artificial intelligence, medieval mystics, and intentional creativity. Repetitio est Mater Studiorum (?) This episode includes an interview with NeuralMonk, who works with artificial intelligence.


    CREDITS

    From Musopen:

    Uppon la mi re by Thomas Preston, played by Peter van der Zwaag


    From Wikimedia Commons: Chorale from Bach's Cantata 140

    Bethena by Scott Joplin played by Richard Zimmerman


    From Freesound:

    drone_key-d.WAV by AntonDrone of 12-inch C# Crystal Bowl by easy_thunder

    drone_key-d.WAV by Anton

    Summer Rain by X3nus


    From the Internet Archive:

    3 Ghosts 1 by Nine inch nails


    From Bandcamp:

    Pink Marshmallow Mouth by City of the Asleep


    By Hildegard von Bingen: "O" from O Virtus Sapientiae sung by me


    Quotations from:

    Plato's Phaedrus
    Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso
    Rene Descartes
    Julian of Norwich


    Special thanks to NeuralMonk <3

    37 min
  • Episode Seven: A Time to Be Alive

    Hermina shares recent thoughts about the July 26th hearing, time, disclosure, fear, dread, and history. What a time.

    #UFO #UAP #UFOs #UAPs #disclosure #time


    CREDITS:

    All music was either excerpted from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings in the public domain, or created by me.


    From Freesound:
    breakziq: the birth of electronic by user Qleg breakziq » the birth of electronic.wavOrchestral Cinematic Sounds » WADOT_Drone_02_D.wav by user WAProd

    dark ambient » alien sky.wav by user X3nus

    Purple Mountains.wav by user LeadBackToSines

    Ice Cream Truck - "The Entertainer" by user soundadvices

    symphony_background.wav by user X3nus

    cello » cello-G2-down-bow-bridge.wav by user xserra

    Music Beds 1 » Dandelion.mp3 by userTexasMusicForge


    From MusOpen:
    Kwartet Japoński II by Maciej Zolnowski


    Congaudeant Catholici from the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus for St. James (feast day July 25) sung by me


    quotes: 
    The Kybalion “identical in nature but different in degree”
    Walt Whitman “contain multitudes”
    Jesus Christ “the kingdom of God is within”
    Meister Eckhart “the innermost part of the soul”

    Thanks to David Grusch, Ryan Graves, and David Fravor!


    19 min
  • Episode Six: Alive


    Hermina discusses disclosure, religion, performance, symbolism, robots, and AI. 

    #UFO #UAP #disclosure #AI


    Credits:


    Quotes from Joscelyn Godwin and Albert Einstein. Also Nietzsche (briefly--"the abyss")

    Additional thanks to Jocelyn Godwin whose books continue to inspire me.


    All music and sounds were taken from online libraries or made by me.


    From Freesound:

    Cascade 1 from user be-steele

    Folk tune on the lip jew's harp from user urupin 

    alien sky.wav by user X3nus


    From IMSLP: 

    Sarastro's aria In diesen heil'gen Hallen from Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sung by Kurt Böhme with the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Karl Böhm


    From Youtube: 
    Mein Freund ist mein by Johann Christoph Bach, recorded by Voices of Music (Ciaccona)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04VyEsm5QEU&ab_channel=VoicesofMusic-Topic


    Made by me: 

    clip of a piece by Perotin with added echo, sung by me

    28 min
  • Episode Five: One Year Since the UFO

    Springtime. Grace. Meditation.

    I still don't know what's going on.

    #UFO #UAP #Meditation



    Credits:
    Music was taken from royalty-free, public domain materials online.


    From Freesound.org:

    G-string drone by user Quilt

    G-string_drone.wav


    From MusOpen:
    O Primavera, SV 68 by Claudio Monteverdi
    played by Michel Rondeau
    https://musopen.org/music/4318-o-primavera-gioventu-dellanno-sv-68/


    Traccia IX by 

    Massimiliano Pascucci ,

    performed by Vox Àltera Ensemble

    https://musopen.org/music/43822-a-te-che-per-sempre/



    From Bandcamp:


    Zefiro Torna by Claudio Monteverdi 
    Performed by Magnificat 

    https://magnificat.bandcamp.com/track/monteverdi-zefiro-torna
    Classically Inclined
    Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst

    https://classically-inclined.bandcamp.com/album/the-planets-suite-op-32

    https://bandcamp.com/download?id=1431362003&ts=1680630619.3960612377&tsig=730f8edc7ac54319def44750ffde5e33&type=album



    also, one track was made by me, singing with electronics.

    21 min
  • Episode Four: Unknowing

    Et in Arcadia ego. Hermina discusses the struggles of this journey and the concept of "unknowing," a term from the medieval text The Cloude of Unknowyng.

    #unknowing #cloudofunknowing #growingpains #humility #etinarcadiaego #bookeofnature #beauty #truth


    Credits:

    From Musopen:

    Omnes amici mei by Carlo Gesualdo, sung by Vox Altera ensemble

    Lachrimae, or Seven Tears, 1. Lachrimae Antique by John Dowland, performed by I Solipsisti

    The Bells of St. Anne de Beaupré by Alexander Russel, played by Paul Pitman

    25 min
  • Episode Three: Faith

    Hermina discusses thoughts on darkness, faith, intention, virtues, psychedelics, prayer, and alchemy.

    #collective #consciousness #UFO #UAP #alchemy #faith #prayer #mythology #virtue



    Credits:

    All music was either excerpted from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings in the public domain, or created by me.

    From MusOpen:

    O Magnum Mysterium by William Byrd, recorded by Ensemble Morales

    Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, cantata for choir and orchestra by Buxthehude BuxWV 76a

    From Freesound.org:

    Night across the stars by user x3nus

    G Drone by user Strathamer


    Text sources:
    Julian of Norwich, music by me

    Psalm 121 and chant oral tradition, pointed by me

    Text and music sources:

    My faith it is an oaken staff in contrafactum by me, Tune by Amzi Chapin and text by Thomas Lynch

    21 min
  • Episode Two: Incantation


    Hermina shares some thoughts on etymology, binauaral beats, chant, and storytelling.

    #binauralbeats #chant #incantation #storytelling #meditation



    Credits : Music and sounds were from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings, or made by me using compositions in the public domain, in this case by Hildegard von Bingen.

    From MusOpen:

    Solo e pensoso for 5 recorders – Eijkhout performed by Papalin

    from me:

    O virtus sapientiae by Hildegard

    From freesound.org

    Binaural Beats (Theta Waves 4 Hz) by  Fabrizio84

    The Last Mystery.wav by X3nus

    From Wikimedia commons:

    Schola Gregoriana-Antiphona et Magnificat.ogg

    From MusOpen:

    Wachet auf, Bachwerkverzeichnis 645 by JS Bach, played by Michael Schopen

    I'd also like to credit both Joscelyn Godwin and Jeffrey Kripal, whose ideas have influenced my thoughts about some of the topics I discussed in this episode.


    If I sounded different on this episode, I apologize but I was at the very end of recovering from a cold.

    21 min
  • Episode One: The UFO

    Hermina tells the story of her UFO sighting.


    #UFO #UFOs #UAP #UAPs #meditation




    Show Notes

    Hildegard von Bingen excerpts recorded and performed by me.


    The following sounds came from MusOpen:

    Quartet Japonski by  Maciej Żołnowski

    John Dowland's Mr. Bucton's Galliard by I Solipsisti
    Anonymous Medieval Dance Tunes performed by Paul Arden-Taylor (shawm, bombarde, recorder, rauschpfeife) Elizabeth Wright & Malcolm Peake

    The following sounds were used from FreeSound:

    "

    “pigeon_wings.flac " by Zabuhailo

    “G-string_drone.wav” by Quilt

    ” by user newlocknew

    “cambodian music 02” by user rucisko

    28 min

About Hermina's Unknowing

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A podcast to ask questions. Maybe more of an art project than a podcast.