Numinosum Radio

Infrabegotten (excerpt) A low-frequency ebb. Some would call it. These oscillations of the soul. Renalto in the springtime of. He, what, kind of lost his bearings somewhere in all that. All that. Whatever that. Was. “What were we talking about?” Trying to bring himself back into some kind of focus. He’d not touched the tea she’d bought him, generous gal, which at some point had grown cold. And tho...

The cow stepped one hoof closer, as if drawn to him by the gravity of an inner recognition. [for stress, distress, the unruffled, the hellish, and guitar/drum] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

A taxonomy of liminal species. [for shrutibox, electric guitar, and ghost] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

You can just lean into all that stuff you don’t remember so well you’re not even sure you were there at the time. [for electric guitar, shrutibox, legs, legs a’gamish] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

We’re not sure what to do about them. They are very small. [for cello, electric guitar, synth] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

Numinosum Radio episode 185: makemake My heart is metal now. It used to be stone. [for aether, dvina, electric guitar, synth] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

There is hope among the men who feed the rabbit. [for synth, guitar, drums, and deep dog buzz] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

And Herschel had gotten his cow from somewhere; he sure didn’t want to talk about that . Under the evident circumstances, she couldn’t blame him. Some people just weren’t made for the abyss. [for synth, smeck, droldrubbery, dreers & elkelectrik gertar] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

For new, small people who clutch at animals. [for synth, electric guitar, and drum] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

Also… also: the qualities of light. Light as the fundamental stuff. Particle or wave, etc. [for dvina, y, and drum] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

Wait until the hard one learns about the whole of it. [for lyra, dvina, and drum] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

They want to eat one of the small ones. But I told them yesterday that’s not a thing we do here. [for shruti, cello, synth, electric guitar, aethers] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

The integration of the mouse. The integration of the dog. There are no mosquitoes here. [for electric guitar, synth, blips, goth] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

The sounds the ghosts made while I was trying to sleep in the bathroom were not the sounds of voices. It was more like the flapping of wings, the beating of birds’ wings against the sides of my head. [for electric guitar, synth] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

You’d think it should be easy. Maybe it actually is. [for synth, sines, dvina, drum] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

Remember that you are a _____. You are a _____. a. (horse) b. (catapult) c. (ex-cop) [for shruti, cello, electric guitar] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

Numinosum Radio episode 174: transitional environments Within something like one year I’ll have seen a ghost of you now. [for acoustic/electric guitar, synth and field recording] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

I could bring such loneliness close, very close, so that he might know it, and through it’s ministration, to the depth of his actual being, just in case he had forgotten, or never recognized it. [for synth & electric guitar] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

Observe it from a distance and see that it perhaps was necessary. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

Who are the Big Hat Doctor People? Ask them that when you talk to them next. [for acoustic/electric guitar, nettles & synth] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

: I should set this in the present tense : One theorem : I meet or am going to meet another man. This is a man who is trustworthy. We pass each other, walking in our separate directions, acknowledge each other with a nod and a slight smile. We could be the same man. He is wearing a suit, and in that he is different from me (in that I’ve worn a suit, for real, once in my life – and that seems a mis...

The moment at which all lights pass through all other lights. [for hm-hm-hmmmm] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.com

I’d been let off a bus at a stop near a small town late at night. It was dark, and there were really no sources of light to be found on this two-lane road that led towards the town itself. My goal was in town, a place to which I had some old connection, and where now I had some kind of personal business that needed to be dealt with. The bus had let me off well outside the town proper, and I had ma...

Numinosum Radio episode 167: sleep progressions Near the bathrooms I found a large cockroach hanging out. Just sitting there in the path. Sitting? Standing? Just there in the path. “Hey, buddy,” I said, “what’re you doing?” No response. I considered nudging it with my shoe to see if it was alive, but figured that would just be rude, so didn’t. [for electric guitar, electric guitar, electric guitar...

This was not simply frustrating – it was exhausting. It was utterly dispiriting. It seemed that any direction I tried to move in was blocked, inexplicably. What’s more, there seemed to be a definite reason why it was blocked, but I was going to be the last to know what that reason was. [for electric guitar, synth, and fishwalk] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...