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rgms, or the Rube Goldberg Machine of Semiotics and Symbols, is a curated collective of artists focu https://www.r-g-m-s.com/

07/01/2024

RGMS End of Year Retrospective 2023

RGMS has long spoken of the ineffable experience that arises out of transcendent musical engagement. We’ve spoken of ways to carry that experience beyond its inception, its edges of embodiment, to connect it symbolically into our being outside of space and time. But what of the characteristics of that ineffability itself? Can it be hinted at in words? in concepts? What is to be said of the elusive phenomena that comprise such a mysterious experience? Might we give them a name to better know their features? To dialogue with the beings that inhabited that moment of great release? Those curious altered states of being…

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14/11/2023

RGMS-013: 27 Short Songs
Interview with the artist behind the album Dexter Dine

Link in bio

13/11/2023

RGMS-013: 27 Short Songs
Composed and Produced by Dexter Dine

OUT NOW
Link in bio

There’s ghosts in the machines -
or are there? How could there be?
I sighed, I wept on the shores of a thousand placeless smiles,
teeth glimmering like the cheshire’s.
Then the ghost awoke in me
and these new eyes perceived the infinite stairs on which I wound.
No longer passing through endless Kansases,
shortness of breath transformed into the one long inhale from the edge of the universe.
Angelic murmurings became a whisper and without warning spoke to me:
“Fly to the lands of abyme and find the bloom of night.
Fly to the heart of time and see the one without eyes.”
There the great cosmic body without organs, shifted its starry light to at last smile upon this great unfolding.
The wondrous ghost of life, playfully haunting it’s kin with the ancient drama of this entropic vie.

07/11/2023

RGMS-013
27 Short Songs

Coming soon this new moon:
11/13

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31/12/2022

RGMS End of Year Retrospective: 2022

Steeped in a landscape of festive imagery, wondering what lies beneath these seemingly contemporary symbols. Just a glance behind the veil and one finds an endless river of lore traversing the depths of history, winding laterally across cultures of all origins...

Read the full writeup on the website: Link in Bio

21/07/2022

As a part of music collective and record label RGMS' summer concert series Sean Kiley and Iminah Kani will perform an hour long ambient-meditative set at the Johnson Street Bridge East Plaza Victoria, BC.

Based on the unreleased RGMS album 'Garden of Noesis' this performance will include live processed electronics and improvisations with sitar, bowed guitar, singing bowls, and more.

Join us in this hour long transformative sound journey, which will focus on revitalizing the Solar Plexus as we enter the season of Leo and strive to transform ourselves into the fullest expression of our natal sun. Compositionally, this piece explores multi-melodic counterpoint and motivic dissolution, as well as extended metamorphosis and amnesiatic recapitulation.

08/06/2022

The Rube Goldberg Machine of Semiotics and Symbols Podcast presents Episode 4: Music as the Dialectical Synthesis, in a series of explorations into music and its relationship to meaning.

OUT NOW: Link in bio

Sean Kiley and Ben Kinsinger discuss music as the dialectical synthesis between the archetypal energies of Soul and Spirit in the context of transpersonal psychology. This episode is a continued exegesis into the RGMS publication ‘The Way of Apollo and Dionysus in the RGMS’.

07/03/2022

A look at some of the updates to come for RGMS releases:
Composer Sean Kiley integrates recent research publications ‘Archetypes is Music’ and ‘Ritual Engagement with Music’ to cultivate a deeper relationship with the music in our lives.
See more of Sean’s personal reflections as well as in-depth symbolic analyses on the album from The Visionary Commonwealth via the website.

06/03/2022

The Ethos of RGMS

Now on Youtube
Link in Bio

04/02/2022

MOSS Series [Complete Works] Playlist

RGMS presents a comprehensive playlist of tracks from the Meditation Objects, Supplements, and Sequences series. Witness works which lilt us into a gentle state of at onement, and others which guide us through strange lands & circular quests, yet others still which takes us to that part of ourselves we have not visited in a while.

See the link in bio to access the playlist.
Also, you can now download all the Gifts from the Composers for MOSS Vol. II via the link in bio.
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24/01/2022

Ben Kinsinger // MEET THE COLLECTIVE

There is a realm beyond the knowledge of man:
Beneath the darkness, under endless sea.
Where undulating currents carry 'cross
Toward other unknowns Bahamut the fish.
Upon behemoth's back abides a bull:
Four thousand eyes and ears and mouths and tongues
Four thousand feet weather the weight above:
A rugged crag of ruby to hold up
An Angel, Atlas, Shu, Atlantis' King
Who bears the fathoms over what's beneath

When heaven fell to sink Atlantean shores,
Their wisdoms scattered - winds wrapped up in sails,
The Babeling remnant's memories turned to dreams,
Which buried 'neath Bahamut's scaly mass,
Became a song, sought after by the bards,
Who, though they'll never know the fish in full,
Traverse its shadow, blind in every sense
To glimpse in madness fraction of the form
That bears what bears the bearer of our World

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Ben Kinsinger was born and raised in a Norman Rockwell painting.

When Ben was crowned King of the Chicago River, Bobby was at the coronation. Bobby approached Ben with a single question.

"Is there music in the water?"

Ben answered

"Yes. And sometimes human s**t."
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Join us today for a live interview with Ben as we discuss his latest track 'MOSS #20: Streaming from a Hollow Top' on our latest release MOSS Vol.II – album out now
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23/01/2022

Natalie Dzbik // MEET THE COLLECTIVE

Natalie Dzbik is a Polish-Canadian violinist, violist and composer for concerts and films. She creates and performs music in a variety of genres, from synth-wave to classical to jazz, and is strongly influenced by Polish folk music. She currently lives in Vancouver, BC, where she performs, writes music, and teaches violin and piano.⁠
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Join us today for a live interview with Natalie as we discuss her latest track 'MOSS #19: In the Backwoods on a Cool Summer Day' on our latest release MOSS Vol.II – album out now
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22/01/2022

Sampson Hollander // MEET THE COLLECTIVE⁠
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Sampson is an experimental music and film maker residing in the mythical Brothers Wash n’ Dry residence of New York. His work often includes the use of field recordings, which depict the sentimental sweetness of life, as well as lush guitar arrangements for melodious Orpheic musings.
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Join us today for a live interview with Sampson as we discuss his latest track 'MOSS #18: Dying Fly' on our upcoming release MOSS Vol.II – album out now
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21/01/2022

James Layton // MEET THE COLLECTIVE⁠
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'James Layton is a composer, musician and visual artist based in London, UK. His work often explores non-climactic forms, which slowly unfold and focus on the juxtaposition of progression and stasis. His use of patterns, permutations and repetition aims to draw listeners into the music, while exploring ideas of time and memory. This work is often informed by his interest in visual art, particularly the works of Agnes Martin, Sol Lewitt and Bridget Riley. Among his acoustic writing, he also works with lo-fi electronics in the form of cassette tapes, guitar effects pedals, audio and video tape, creating long-form compositions and installations, often with a combination of acoustic and electronic elements.'⁠
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Join us today for a live interview with James as we discuss his latest track 'MOSS #17: are we on other, less concrete shores?' on our latest release MOSS Vol.II – album out now
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Associated works on RGMS include – ⁠
these memories are not my own, they're borrowed from my past [RGMS-008]⁠
MOSS #8: jean, you forgot to pay the electric bill! [RGMS-004]⁠
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21/01/2022

MOSS #16: A Mercurial Liminality // MOSS VOL.II [RGMS-012]⁠
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Free download and gift from the composer⁠.
Link in Bio⁠
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Created by Sean Kiley⁠

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20/01/2022

Sean Kiley // MEET THE COLLECTIVE⁠
⁠.. Since then, Sean has clumsily began to attempt to decipher the outlandish inscriptions as recorded by Bobby. He has hastily begun to learn many instruments such as guitar, saxophone, piano, drums, etc. so as to not arouse suspicion for his stolen insights, and intends to parade around the ideas imparted to Bobby Goldberg as if they were his own until fate catches up with him. The rgms is the first full fledged confused attempt by Sean to put some of these elysian musings into practice. Previously, he has worked on encoding mysterious messages into notated music at various universities, capturing and analyzing the music of many peers to gain insight into the supposed divine spark of music, and wildly improvising, hoping to accidentally stumble upon the deeper meaning within Bobby's manuscripts.
Only time will tell.
~ Excerpt from Bio
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Join us today for a live interview with Sean as we discuss his latest track 'MOSS #16: A Mercurial Liminality' on our release MOSS Vol.II – album out now
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Associated works on RGMS include – ⁠
Sine Wave EXP No. 1 [RGMS-011]⁠
Scylla / Charybdis [RGMS-007]⁠
Morning Bells [RGMS-006]⁠
MOSS #1: on the invisible lips of the dark [RGMS-004]⁠
John Cage's Lecture on Nothing [RGMS-001]⁠
Undercover Coroner [RGMS-000]⁠
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19/01/2022

Iminah Kani // MEET THE COLLECTIVE⁠
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Performer, composer Iminah Kani from Saltspring Island uses guitar as a vehicle to express her unique sonic language. As a student of flamenco guitar she blends this tradition with folk-noir, and psych-rock through layered guitar and experimental soundscapes. Her compositions and songwriting are seamlessly built around her flamenco style performance experience. Iminah is also an active improviser on electric guitar, clarinet and percussion as well as an avid student of music theory. As a teacher, she coaches students in a wide-variety of guitar styles. Iminah Kani has been actively performing shows throughout B.C. and Alberta, including Edmonton, Calgary,Tofino, Kelowna, Nelson, Lasqueti Island, Saltspring Island, Texada Island, Victoria and Vancouver.⁠
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Join us today for a live interview with Iminah as we discuss her latest track 'MOSS #14: A Blue Fire' on our upcoming release MOSS Vol.II – album out January 17⁠
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Associated works on RGMS include – ⁠
⁠MOSS #3: Sein Blick [RGMS-004]⁠
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19/01/2022

MOSS #15: Ousers // MOSS VOL.II [RGMS-012]⁠
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Free early-premiere download and gift from the composer⁠. Link in Bio⁠
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Created by Dexter Dine⁠

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18/01/2022

Dexter Dine // MEET THE COLLECTIVE⁠
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Dexter Dine is a musician and composer who works primarily with the guitar and Max/MSP to make music inspired by the parapolitical and psychedelic. He performs solo and is in a band that is trying to come up with a name.⁠
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Join us today for a live interview with Dexter as we discuss his latest track 'MOSS #15: Ousers' on our upcoming release MOSS Vol.II – album out January 17⁠
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17/01/2022

OUT NOW // MOSS VOL.II [RGMS-012]⁠
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Available from our Bandcamp and all major streaming platforms. Link in Bio.⁠

Meditation Objects, Supplements, and Sequences (MOSS) is an ongoing series, which aims at exploring the breadth of meditative experiences possible within sonic environments. Here, with Volume II rgms strives towards developing a cohesive whole, in lieu of the individual ca. 10-12 minute experiences produced for Volume I.

MOSS Vol II Methodology
A Sonic Journey from:
Human Sounds - anything man-made (machinery, bodily, cars, tools, breath, speaking (non-communicative), etc.)

To Non-Human Sounds - anything in nature, which takes place without the influence of humans (ocean, river, birds, wind, trees, etc.)

The Journey from Human Sounds to Non-Human Sounds takes place over the course of the whole album.

In conjunction with the overall structure of the album, the tracks themselves have their own internal structural development, which consists of a movement from Large to Small or Small to Large sounds.
The field recordings made use of in each composition ideally transition from Larger, more collective sounds, to Smaller more individual/atomized sounds, or vice versa.

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16/01/2022

Noha Rosa // MEET THE COLLECTIVE⁠
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Sound artist and composer based in Montreal

⁠Join us today for a live interview with Noah as we discuss his latest track 'MOSS #13: The Anchor Dragged Across the Sand' on our upcoming release MOSS Vol.II – album out January 17

⁠Associated works on RGMS -⁠
Solétudes [RGMS-010]⁠
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15/01/2022

MOSS #12: A Cloudless Rain // MOSS VOL.II [RGMS-012]⁠
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Free early-premiere download and gift from the composer⁠. Link in Bio⁠
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Created by Davis Connors⁠
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15/01/2022

Davis Connors // MEET THE COLLECTIVE⁠
⁠..Thus, Tony was sent back to scour through time for the stolen manuscripts. In the era before the Great Phoenix, ca. 2017, he encountered the master soundscapist Davis Connors. Having suspected an acquaintance of Davis, named Sean, to be in power of some mighty aesthetic force outside of time, Tony implicated himself as a mentor/daimon to Davis so as to catch a glimpse of the wild horses that so seemed to steer the chariot of rgms. Tony bequeathed to Davis the sacred rhythms on taut animal hides and the technomancy of aural replication, all of which Sean recognized as necessary elements for the kairosis of the manuscripts lifted from Bobby and forged a partnership with Davis. Patiently, Tony observes as the rgms unfolds and the coroner gathers his army.
(excerpt from Bio)

Join us today for a live interview with Davis as we discuss his latest track 'MOSS #12: A Cloudless Rain' on our upcoming release MOSS Vol.II – album out January 17⁠
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⁠Associated works on RGMS -⁠
Sine Wave EXP No. 1 [RGMS-011]⁠
Scylla / Charybdis [RGMS-007]⁠
MOSS #4: Loading Dock [RGMS-004]⁠
Undercover Coroner [RGMS-000]⁠
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15/01/2022

MOSS #11: Säännös // MOSS VOL.II [RGMS-012]⁠
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Free early-premiere download and gift from the composer⁠. Link in Bio⁠
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Created by Timo Pehkonen⁠

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14/01/2022

Timo Pehkonen // MEET THE COLLECTIVE⁠
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'Timo Pehkonen’s current style is explorative of pure sounds formed out of multilayered compositional techniques derived from a wide range of ideas. Some of these ideas include: -the abandonment of emotion during the genesis of any given work and welcoming emotion with open arms upon its completion -twelve tone equal temperament superimposed on the harmonic series -time as a calculation amidst time as an experience -minimalizing orchestration down to only sine waves and white noise -embracing “unwanted” sounds -creating musical blueprints The human response to the inner workings of our natural and unnatural surroundings is a key aspect in Pehkonen's works. The attention to detail in his compositional process is meticulously executed while the music itself finds a way to loosen it's hinges, giving the listener an opportunity to experience deep reflection.'⁠
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Join us today for a live interview with Timo as we discuss his latest track 'MOSS #11: Säännös' on our upcoming release MOSS Vol.II – album out January 17⁠
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Associated works on RGMS include – ⁠
Music for Sine Waves II [RGMS-009]⁠
Scylla / Charybdis [RGMS-007]⁠
MOSS #5: Field Propulsion [RGMS-004]⁠
Music for Sine Waves I [RGMS-002]⁠
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13/01/2022

Chris Chraca // MEET THE COLLECTIVE⁠⁠
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‘Wannabe musician, lackluster composer, and maker of sounds Chris Chraca reaches for the limits of what music is. Using recorded sounds, electronics, and digital signal processing he creates compositions and sound installation that explore one’s perception of listening. Focusing on even the most subtle details to find beauty in simplicity.’⁠
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Join us today for a live interview with Chris as we discuss his latest track 'MOSS #10: Morning Walk' on our upcoming release MOSS Vol.II – album out January 17th 🌕⁠
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Associated works on RGMS -⁠
Early Studies in Sound [RGMS-005]⁠
Moss #6: Sounds of the Worker Drone [RGMS-004]⁠
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12/01/2022

Aaron Stearns // Meet the collective⁠
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'And so it began even before they started. Born just out of a small town, northwest of Bakarak, Rayon confirmed into isolation. Pandemics aside, mental isometrics amidst isolation hasn’t really been anything new for Rayon. “It’s all a matter of mind over matter when nothing’s really the matter...” declares Rayon in, As a Matter of Fact, fictional publication of this narrative. “I never really had fun doing anything. That’s why and when I became a writer.” Now, listen, it’s easy to harp on the heart strings of Bobby, after all, he’s the reason they're here in the first place, but by gone it, sometimes tough love is a necessity. When Rayon shook Bobby’s hand, he felt as though a g*dly bolt connected all the synapses of his “brain” while completely wiping out his memories, his passions, his entire world. This was a turning point for Rayon. This was a point at which to turn. But, obnoxiously, which way? All in all, Rayon enjoys most auditory moments. He’s confided into phonetic confines which many would find many cons in; but rest easy, he does. Come nightfall, he’s back in front of his many rectangles, deciding which one may resonate most appropriately depending on how bright the sun was that day.⁠'⁠
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Join us today for a live interview with Aaron as we discuss his latest track ‘MOSS #9: Subversion of Feedback’ on our upcoming release MOSS Vol.II – album out January 17th 🌕⁠
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Associated works on RGMS -⁠
MOSS #7: Slidetracked [RGMS-004]⁠
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11/01/2022

PRE-SAVE + PRE-ORDER // MOSS VOL.II [RGMS-012]⁠
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New release out Jan 17⁠
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Available for pre-save on Spotify/pre-order from our Bandcamp⁠, links in bio⁠.
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⁠Somewhere in between background noise and a symphony, in between the ocean and your open vein… an object, or new furniture of sorts – a supplement, which opens the room for the breeze to come in – a sequence, guiding you through new land. Straddling the four cardinal directions, earthly meditations, to dive deep into the waters of the unconscious, in search of the eternal flame, glowing like a scarlet lotus on the ocean’s floor, oh to breathe in the depths through consummated eucharist in harmony with the logos. Moss, the great mother, welcomes us unto it to soothe our wounds, then gently guide us back towards the path. Here we are, taking a moment to lay in its bed, amidst a journey which fractures into ten thousand directions, spiraling always towards the mandate of the heart. ⁠
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Meditation Objects, Supplements, and Sequences or MOSS, is a curated collaborative album from members of rgms consisting of tracks designed for meditation. This album was inspired in response to the seemingly rather monotonous tone of most meditation music found online today. Here, the aim is to explore a wide variety of states of being possible within the meditative posture. Herein, we have tracks, which lilt us in a gentle state of at onement, others which guide us through strange lands and circular quests, yet others still which take us to that part of ourselves we have not visited in a while, and while our initial urge may be to resist, the vibrations coax us to stay and have a look around for a little while, until we might find this once unfavorable place not at all too unbecoming.⁠⁠
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RGMS-013 27 Short Songs Coming soon this new moon: 11/13 Composed and produced by @dexterdine #ambientmusic #experimentalmusic #soundscape #meditationmusic #noisemusic #dronemusic #minimalmusic #musicambient #darkambientmusic

MOSS #17: are we on other, less concrete shores? // MOSS VOL.II [RGMS-012]⁠ ⁠ 'Somewhere ⁠ Beyond the horizon⁠ Two small wings ⁠ Gently open.'⁠ ⁠ Free download and gift from the composer⁠. Link in Bio⁠ ⁠ Created by James Layton @jamesmlayton #ambientmusic #musicambient #darkambientmusic #ambienttones #lofiambient #tapeloops #minimalmusic #musicimprov #experimentalmusic #avantgardemusic #noisemusic #meditationmusic #dronemusic #fieldrecording #soundscapes #soundscape #musiccomposer #musiccomposition #unconsciousmind #greekmythology #depthpsychology #meditation #metaphysicalhealing #philosophy #soundhealing #musictherapy #tapeloop #granularsynthesis

RGMS-009: Music for Sine Waves II By Timo Pehkonen OUT NOW (Link in Bio) @timopehkonen An Anahata Nad, heard but never struck Aloft this dance of air, fire, water, earth - in placelessness beyond all birth Unraveling the labyrinth in mirrored waves Reflects upon itself, uroboric yet heaven bent Still, un-shimmering elixir Holding fast to fleeting moments The sine o’ the times beckons us: Fly #ambientmusic #musicambient #darkambientmusic #ambienttones #lofiambient #tapeloops #minimalmusic #musicimprov #experimentalmusic #avantgardemusic #noisemusic #meditationmusic #dronemusic #fieldrecording #soundscapes #soundscape #musiccomposer #musiccomposition #unconsciousmind #greekmythology #depthpsychology #divination #meditation #spiritualawakening #philosophy #carljung #metaphysics #soundhealing #musictherapy #musictheory

Promo 2: Music for Sine Waves II [RGMS-009] Pre-order on bandcamp now available Link in Bio Releases April 16th, 2021 @timopehkonen #ambientmusic #musicambient #darkambientmusic #ambienttones #lofiambient #tapeloops #minimalmusic #musicimprov #experimentalmusic #avantgardemusic #noisemusic #meditationmusic #dronemusic #fieldrecording #soundscapes #soundscape #musiccomposer #musiccomposition #unconsciousmind #greekmythology #depthpsychology #divination #meditation #spiritualawakening #philosophy #carljung #metaphysics #soundhealing #musictherapy #musictheory

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