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)...

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:...

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 – Me...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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 He...

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...

On this episode of I Scream Sunday, we explore the underworld, darkness, hell (and they're not always the same), and more. Reese Burgan: "The Fury of Hell" (Eighth Day) Thaneco: "Underworld" (Journey to Ithaca, Vol. 1) Syndromeda: "Too Hot in Hell" (Last Days on Earth) John DuVal: "Hell's Canyon" (Hell's Canyon Suite) Spheric Lounge: "Hades" (Session 60 19.08.2006) Medicine Man: "Into Darkness" (T...

Today we fly! This episode is designed in hopes of inspiring dreams of flying. Bing Satellites: "Flying Dream" (Twilight Sessions volume 11) Christopher Short - Guitartronic: "Flying Leisurely in the Sunshine" (Winter Soundscapes 2014) Cousin Silas: "I Often Dream of Flying" (The Silas Sampler 2 - The Twang Projects) Meg Bowles: "Nocturnal Flight" (A Quiet Light) Saul Stokes: "Nesser's Night Fligh...

Given that this station is called RadioSpiral, and is run by Mr. Spiral himself, this episode pays homage to the spiral, with tracks that include "Spiral" in the name, or by acts that include it. Phillip Wilkerson: "Endlessly Spiraling" (The Stars and Afterward) jarguna: "Spirals of Rosemary" (A Peaceful Granular Day) Robert Carty: "Spiral Vibrations" (Microspirals) mindSpiral: "Ecliptic" (The 1 i...

Finding the balance between head and heart can sometimes be a challenge -- in either direction. But on this episode of I Scream Sunday, we focus on the heart and all it has to say. Robert Carty: "Heart Waves" (The Mystic Choice) Dan Pound: "Heart's Core" (Heart's Core) Lingua Lustra: "How Deep is the Heart" (Ice Age) Jarguna and Friends: "The Heart of the Earth" (Trapped Vol. 1) Chris Russell: "Fr...

The April Pink Moon happens this weekend. The Full Moon in April is named the Pink Moon for the flowers that bloom in spring. It is also called the Breaking Ice Moon, Budding Moon, Awakening Moon, Egg Moon, and Paschal Moon. This episode of I Scream Sunday honors them all. Greet the moon as the harbinger of hope and growth. Tantroniq: "By the Light of the Moon" (Music from Inside Time) usr/sbin: "...

This time of year, the weather is wildly unpredictable: there can be snow or sun, cold or heat, or anything in between. Today we’ll explore many forms of spring and new growth. I’ll take a break from playing live today. Conni St. Pierre: “Snow on Lilacs” (Flower Spirits) Mäläskä: “Dialogue Between Birches & Oaks” (First Day of Spring) Arcticology: “Deep Spring” (Deep Spring) Cousin Silas & Walter...

“Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.” - Hildegard von Bingen Music can help us achieve a kind of stillness that's elusive in the modern world. Out of the silence comes inspiration, motivation, wonder, awe. We'll hear music that's all...

Days and nights are in balance for a moment, and the season tips toward spring and new growth. After a difficult winter, the change is welcome. Time for spring cleaning! We’ll hear from a variety of artists today who honor the Spring Equinox in different ways. Shane Morris: “Equinox” (Equinox) Kuutana: “Equinox” (Waking Sun) Lucette Bourdin: “Crossing the Equinox” (Nordic Waves, Vol. 2: Spring) Co...

Last week’s show about water inspired me to put together one about the Ocean. It is the subject of poetry, prayer, and music, and our artists have often taken the subject and run with it. We’ll hear tracks from Lexicon of Sound, Re-Think, Dave Riddell, Sheleah Nahshon, Gregg Plummer, Max Corbacho, Robert Rich & Markus Reuter, and Daniel Robert Lahey, plus as usual a live set in the second hour. le...

The water has many voices: gentle, turbulent, deep, shallow, restorative, destructive... On this edition of I Scream Sunday, we explore some of those voices with music of Altus, Christopher Short, Janne Hanhisuanto, Robert Rich, Dan Pound, grum~pe, M.NOMIZED, Audraulic, and John Vorus. In the second hour there will be a live set exploring the sounds and voices of water. Altus: "Overture for Water"...

Step into the light on this week’s I Scream Sunday episode, with music of Phillip Wilkerson, Jaime Munárriz, Thom Brennan, Robert Carty, and then a live set in the second hour: Phillip Wilkerson: “The Light Becomes You” (Highlands) Jaime Munárriz: “Fragile Filaments of Light” (Gardens in Candy Land — a tribute to the late Candy Lozier) Thom Brennan: “Cavelight” (Shimmer) Robert Carty: “Darkness to...

We learned this week that the excellent composer Tantroniq (Tanya Thielke) passed away earlier in the month, succumbing to cancer (🤬 cancer!). So instead of playing live, we’ll listen to a sampling of tracks from her canon. You can find her works on Bandcamp (https://tantroniq.bandcamp.com/). Mantra Machine “Proclaimer’s Dream“ “A Brief History of Our Future” “Nothing Is Wrong (Just Dance)” Music...

Whispers, murmurs, silent expressions of emotion, even our inner voice: we communicate quietly as often — perhaps more often — than we do out loud. On this edition of I Scream Sunday, we listen for those voices. Phillip Wilkerson: “While Silence Sings” (Complex Silence 23) Meg Bowles: “A Quiet Light” (A Quiet Light) Karl Fury: “quiet and chaos” (quiet and chaos) Thom Brennan: “The Dark Quiet” (Sec...

The wind carries stories of life, of our home on this earth, and of our own joys and sorrows. It whispers, it sings, it roars, it rages. This episode of I Scream Sunday finds us standing in the winds and experiencing their infinite variety. (Sorry about the weird reverb during the intro!) Dan Pound: "A Different Wind" (Change of Weather) Juta Takahashi: “Fair Wind” (Angel) Anantakara: “Intuition’s...

This weekend is Imbolc. Even though winter is still in full voice, we celebrate the very first hints of spring — maybe crocuses are starting to poke their little heads up; maybe we’ll see animals preparing nests for new births. So we continue our theme of voices in the natural world this week with an episode focusing on the critters around us: horses, dogs, cats, elephants, sea horses, insects, an...