I Scream Sunday

Summer is winding down in the northern hemisphere. The days are warm and sultry with the tiniest hint of chill in the evenings; leaves are just starting to show peeks of gold and red, and the light is cast in a particular hue. This episode walks through these last few days and nights of summer, out of dreams, through meadows, and into night.

Cousin Silas: “August Dreams” (The Silas Summer Sampler)

Bing Satellites: “Late Summer Meadows” (Twilight Sessions volume 1)

Lucette Bourdin: “August Buzz” (Nordic Waves, Vol. 3: Summer)

EugeneKha: “The Lost August” (The Lost)

Wolfgang Gsell: “August Night Walk” (Harmony)

Mika Pontecorvo: “Reliquary: late august night path through fog bound forest in central Finland” (Stone Tales)

In the second hour, the live set, called But Soft, is once again in two parts:

“Cotton Ball Clouds”

“EvenSong”

This one will be great to hear in headphones! 🎧

Yesterday’s Morning Cup of Calm was about the end of the road and what it might mean… the lessons one has learned, the memories made, the places and people one has met along the way. Today we look at the journey itself, and all it might bring us: the stars in the sky, the stops along the way, and the faith to continue, even in adversity.

Team Metlay: “The Wheel of Stars” (Beneath Stars)

EugeneKha: “Love the Sky” (POP-UP (Tape Cassette Version))

Dimitris: “The Wheel Stopped Turning” (Black Ambience)

Conni St. Pierre: “Raining Lights” (Beneath the Waves: Legends of Lost Cities)

Lutz Thuns: “The Whole City” (The Music Plants Trees)

Fiesel & Hertz: “Inlet Bay” (The Lighthouse)

ontol: “What We Believed All This Time Wasn’t Real” (photocopies)

Phillip Wilkerson: “Elements of Belief” (Familiar Voices)

Larry Gaab: “Brave Belief” (Outside Meanings)

Akikaze: “Leap of faith” (Blue Sky Events)

In the second hour, the live set will be called The Road Leads to You.

We learned that Mathias Grassow passed away this week, so today’s episode is dedicated to his memory.

“Ouverture – A turn of the century in 2 acts” ((2024) Now is all you have…..)

“Part I” (The rose mixes in spiral times)

(with Eyes Cast Down) “Golden Pavilion” ((2018-2020) In the eyes of infinite light)

“On the foggy mountain” ((2024) A whole Life – The Beauty of Simplicity)

“Thought food IV – Meditation on the turning Point of Time” ((2024) Life is all you Need)

“The anxious heart” ((2024) A whole Life – The Beauty of Simplicity)

“Act II: A piece of light for peace” ((2024) Now is all you have…..)

The mysteries of the night are many and varied. Mystical, frightening, comforting, gentle — it is a place to hide, to rest, to drift, to explore, Today we visit the night with tracks from the RadioSpiral library.

Thom Brennan: “Night Lights part 3” (Night Lights)

Sydalesis: “Night Passage” (Trivium)

Fritz Mayr: “Night Forest” (This Music Plants Trees)

David Gerard: “Nightfalls” (The Dream Chamber)

Robert Carty: “Windswept Vista” (Midnight Rainbows)

Meg Bowles: “Nightwalk Across the Isle of Dream” (The Shimmering Land)

Broekhuis, Keller & Schoenwaelder: “Mysteries of a Full Moon Night” (Berlin – Culemborg)

Wings of an Angel: “Those Spiritual Nights Out” (Lemon Stardust)

Dan Pound: “Crack Between the Worlds” (Nightwatch)

Lucette Bourdin: “Night Sun” (Stories from the City)

Cousin Silas: “The Forgotten Village (Midnight Radio vol. 1)” (Gallimaufry)

The rhythm of a heartbeat, of the days, of the tides, of the seasons — rhythms are all around us, and in us even before birth. Slow or fast, we live in beats. Today we celebrate those beats. Let’s dance!

We are inextricably woven into life around us, both in the physical world, and in our relationship with it. Today we explore this idea through music.

Daniel Robert Lahey: “Twilight Tapestry (thing_034)” (weather or not)

SPACECRAFT: “Thread of Continuity” (Earthtime Tapestry)

anantakara, featuring Mukti: “Unweave the Stars” (The Never Dying Fire)

Spheric Lounge: “Rachel’s Spiders” (Session 40 27.12. to 30.12.2005)

Holosphere: “Weaver” (Holosphere)

George L. Smyth: “A Snowflake, A Cobweb” (Haiku Music, Vol 5)

Lily Pond Orchestra: “Weaving the Wind” (Olde Ghosts)

Robert Logan: “The Weaver” (Sculptor Galaxy)

And in the second hour, the live set is called Tapestry.

She howls, she hums, she whispers menacingly; she sings, she laughs, she quiets. The desert does what she cans to sustain life on her terms.

This episode was inspired by a call that Aural Films put out for tracks about the desert.

The desert landscape has been a popular theme in electronic music from the start with the debut of “Deserts” by Edgar Varese in 1954. The soundtrack for a movie that did not exist, was the first composition to combine electronic and orchestral music in the same piece. Ever since, electronic music artists from Brian Eno to Vangelis have been creating their own slow evolving soundtracks for these unique biomes.

In the first hour, we’ll hear tracks from the RadioSpiral library:

Jacob Newman: “Great Salt Desert” (Reflections and Diffusions0

ontol: “(Desert) Souls and Sand” (Auraline)

Alpha Wave Movement: “Desert Light” (The Regions Between)

Robert Carty: “In High Deserts” (Skyhearts)

Robert Otto: “Desert Crossing” (Into the Unknown)

Una Voce: “Gathering Desert Food” (Provenance)

The Lovely Moon: “Driving Across the Desert” (Journeys to Peach & Happiness)

In the second hour, your host will perform live as usual, but with a twist: a contribution from collaborator Al Baldwin makes this a track from The Third Course, a new collaborative project.

This weekend we celebrate the Summer Solstice! The days are long, nights are warm, wildlife is active...and so are the tourists. We'll hear from a variety of RadioSpiral artists in the first part of today's program:

Darkened Soul: "Sublime Summer" (Seasons of Dark and Light)

George L Smyth: "Summer Sleep" (Haiku Music Volume 7)

Lucette Bourdin: "Twilight" (Nordic Waves, Vol. 3: Summer)

Gypsy Witch: "Mojito" (Gypsy's Summer Brews)

Robert Scott Thompson: "Summer Twilight (Resonance)" (Alchemy)

James Shain: "Early Summer in the Temple" (The Temples that Fell)

Pallid Mask: "Midsummer" (The Wheel)

Robert Rich: "Summer Thunder" (Echo of Small Things)

In the second hour, the live set is called The Plagues of Summer.

In this edition of I Scream Sunday, we travel along possibilities elsewhere and elsewhen. We'll visit dreams and imagination, and travel across time, space, and universes, starting with the immortal track that got your host started in electronic and experimental music.

Different Skies: "Teilhard's Stepchildren" (Imaginary Spaces)

REMY: "The Perfect Dream" (The Other Side)

Numina: "Elsewhere and Here" (The Haunting Silence)

Altus: "A Different Universe" (Black Hole)

Thom Brennan: "Another Time and Space part 2" (Another Time and Space)

In the second hour, the live set is called Else, performed live by ʞu¡0ɹʞS.

We highlight women creators on this episode of I Scream Sunday. The voices are as varied as the composers themselves.

Poemme: “Clouds of Breath” (Soft Ice)

Meg Bowles: “Venus Rising” (The Shimmering Land)

Tantroniq: “neXt (Premiere Version)” (neXt)

VÆRNA: “Winter’s Flight” (Edges of Solstice)

Lucette Bourdin: “Last Small Spark” (Drum-atic Atmospheres)

As part of Sci-Fi Con in Second Life, we were challenged to create a sci-fi mashup theme around “Eragon vs. Alien”. I decided to create a live set for the second hour honoring the smart woman who survived.

Some years back, Adam Shaftoe tweeted:

Soooooo I have been writing reviews for about ten years. My wife’s review of Alien puts everything I have ever written to shame.

“Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman, and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat. Four stars.”

In the fight between Eragon and Alien, who wins? Ripley.