Sonic Worldmaking: Recent Episodes
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The world is increasingly unthinkable: planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. Inspired by Eugene Thacker’s book in the same name, Sound For The End Of The World takes off to interstellar space and faces the limits of our ability to understand the world.
Tracklist:
- Graceless Hunter by Lawrence English
- En Mesure Des Soupirs (Aaron Martin Remix) by Monolyth & Cobalt
- Slow Wake by Aaron Martin
- Atomos VIII by A Winged Victory For The Sullen
- Wall by Nils Frahm
- Mountains by Hans Zimmer
- Depression by Kreng
- Symphony Nº3 by Henryk Górecki
- Glaciation by 3ofmillions
- Feathers by Poppy Ackroyd
- Reminiscence by Ólafur Arnalds, Alice Sara Ott
- Tree by Ólafur Arnalds
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Episode 6 explores the paradoxical nature of our planetary existence: the necessity to awaken about our predicament and at the same time dream about a future worth living for our children. This Episode features dialogue from films like They Live, Surplus, Chronicle and the Matrix as well as words by writer Alain de Botton, psychonaut Terence McKenna, environmentalist Paul Hawken, druid John Michael Greer and the one and only Alan Watts. Throw off your shackles and immerse. (Image taken on Gam Island in Raja Ampat, Indonesia)
Tracklist:
- Dictaphone – Rattle
- Hauschka – Agdam
- Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Trioon I
- Clint Mansell – Are You Receiving
- Oiseaux-Tempête – La Traversee
- Max Richter – Iconography
- Mica Levi – Love
- Christoph Berg – Elegy
- Nils Frahm – Says
- Angelo Badalamenti – Diane & Camilla
- A Winged Victory For The Sullen – String Quartet No. 2 III (Live at the Ancienne Belgique)
- Sophie Hutchings & Peter Hollo – Closing In
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Episode 5 explores the human condition and limitations that make our planetary problems so difficult to grasp, featuring eye witness audio from both Hurricane Sandy and Katrina, words by writer Alan Watts, The Dalai Lama, NASA’s James Hansen, neurologist Henry Markram and Stephen Hawking. (Image credit: Flickr user voxel123)
Tracklist and sources:
- Alan Watts – A Conversation With Myself I
- Nwia – Valentin Stip
- Five Acre Ladder – Orla Wren
- Alan Watts – A Conversation With Myself II
- Explosions In A Four Chambered Heart – Moon ate the dark
- Daniel Wolpert on The Real Reason For Brains
- Stephen Hawking’s Timecapsule
- PV (Krieg & Frieden) – Apparat
- Hurricane Sandy 3 Trees Fall And Fire (youtu.be/OZlZUsqkVx8)
- Hurricane Katrina: Extreme Video (youtu.be/s76Qn7bpCsQ)
- Isaías IV – Murcof
- Henry Markram on A Brain In A Supercomputer
- Brook – Margins
- Rainlight & Daylight – Max Richter
- George Monbiot
- The Live Sessions (Excerpt, Fluid Radio) – Pascal Savy
- The Dalai Lama on Climate Change
- Excerpt from Live at Icarus FM – Nils Frahm
- James Hansen: We Had A Dream
- Kingdom – Jo Mango
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Episode 4 lays the focus on the economic side of the problem. What Zizek critiques, Tim Jackson has something like the beginning of an answer for. Alessio Rastani, the guy who shocked the (economic) world by naming the problem on BBC a couple of months ago also plays an important part. This episode also features biologist Paul Ehrlich and astrophysicist Michio Kaku as well as the usual weirdness found on Youtube. Immerse. (Image by G. Goiris)
Tracklist and sources:
- It’s Gonna Be A Long Walk – Apparat
- Tim Jackson on Novelty
- 2am – Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti
- Slavoj Zizek on Capitalism as Religion
- Submergence – Greg Haines
- Carl Sagan has bad dreams
- I Was All You Are – Birds Of Passage & I’Ve Lost
- Paul Ehrlich on Research and Change
- Ermetti – Greg Haines
- Balkop – Kreng
- Alessio Rastani: Goldman Sachs rules the world (that trader on BBC)
- Sleepwalk – Moon Ate The Dark
- Random TV reports on dead animals
- Weight Of Days – Jasper TX
- Paul Ehrlich on Toxics
- Angry German Kid
- Tim Jackson on Carbon Targets
- The Human Eye
- Audrey’s Prayers – Angelo Badalamenti And David Lynch
- Alessio Rastani is telling the truth
- Rocky Mountains – Wendy Carlos
- Rube – Olan Mill
- Climate Voices from Holland
- End Silence – Insa Donja Kai
- The Human Skin
- 183 Times – Greg Haines
- Michio Kaku on Liquid Water
- Tim Jackson on Tools for Utopia
- My World – Husky Rescue
The full video with the talks by Tim Jackson and Paul Ehrlich can be found here
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The key quote in this episode comes from Zizek when he refers to Lars von Triers film Melancholia: “If you really want to do something good for society you should go through this fundamental experience of accepting that someday everything will be finished. I think this can be a deep […] experience that strengthens ethical activity.” (Image courtesy of Flickr user raptortheangel)
Tracklist:
- Alva Noto & Sakamoto – Moon
- Slavoj Zizek on Disavowal
- Neil Postman on Cyberspace, 1995
- Bola – VM8
- Raquel is an uploaded file
- Olan Mill – Amber Balanced
- Green School Bali Kid
- Katie Sleep Talking
- Mycroft – Pyramids of Tin
- Emo girl crying over the news
- Saaad- Forget Our Depths
- Tim Jackson on the dilemma of growth
- Alex Tiuniaev – Daylight
- Aaron Martin – Sitting in a roofless room
- Bill McKibben Timecapsule
- Christoph Berg – Farewell
- Anna Rose Carter
- inbred – Charlie Chaplin Remix (Final speech in The Great Dictator)
- Nils Frahm – Familiar
- Alex Tiuniaev – I can feel again
- Slavoj Zizek – Why Be Happy When You Could Be Interesting
- Nils Frahm – More
- Slovaoj Zizek – The Optimism of Melancholia
- Sleep Party People – I’m Not Human At All
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Immerse into the second episode of Sonic Worldmaking featuring angry people, wise words and master piano pieces. (Image by Flickr user RGI)
Tracklist:
01 Slavoj Zizek on Nature as Catastrophe
02 Ulysses By Murcof
03 Carl Sagan: The Pale Blue Dot
04 The Trenches Choir By Worrytrain
05 Dell Tech Support Call
06 The Opportune Movement Iii By Kaisen
07 1950’s Housewife on LSD
08 Red Sky By Hecq
09 Television by Todd Alcott
10 It All Falls Apart By Max Richter
11 Angry BT Customer
12 Wonder By Soap&Skin
13 Hasret By Sema
14 Bill Nye on How to Talk to an Alien
15 Snippet By Nils Frahm
16 Nazim Hikmet: Yine Sana Dair
17 The Lovers Dreaming By Max Richter
18 David Suzuki on the Human Genome Project
19 Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears By A Winged Victory For The Sullen
20 Thom Hartmann: 100 Years Onwards
21 Poland By Olafur Arnalds
22 John Todd: Getting to Know a Place
23 Myth By Beach House
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Episode 01 in my upcoming series of ambient, spherimental, weird, pseudo-philosophical piano DJ sets featuring voices of Buckminster Fuller, Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Alpert and Slavoj Zizek. A calm pause and a moment of reflection about the current state of spaceship earth. Immerse late night ideally. (Image Credit: NASA)
Tracklist:
01 Forecast By D_Rradio
02 Robert F. Kennedy on GDP, March 18, 1968 at Kansas State University
03 The Opportune Moment – Movement Viii By Kaisen
04 Slavoj Zizek in Examined Life
05 Climate Voices I
06 Sweet Surrender By Esmerine
07 Buckminster Fuller on Spaceship Earth
08 Climate Voices II
09 Trains Are For Chemicals By Worrytrain
10 Submissive Hypnosis
11 Climate Voices III
12 A Dance For You By Everything Is
13 Richard Alpert on The One
14 Self By Hildur Guðnadóttir
15 Whisper
16 Sleep talking
17 Iv (Feat. Keith Kenniff) By Julien Neto
18 D MollBuy By Tosca
19 Climate Voices IV
20 Infra 4Buy By Max Richter
21 Memory By Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
22 Severn Suzuki speaking at UN Earth Summit 1992
23 Goodbye (Feat. Soap&Skin) By Apparat
24 Goodbye By Dose
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