Numinosum Radio

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...

Ants / they can’t get / Across the wires So they follow / the wires’ / curve [for cello, small dogs, acoustic and electric guitar, drum & small dogs] 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

Murky were the eyes that fashioned the face And murky again was the face. 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 still burst is (to) that which resolves [for electric guitar in just intonation 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

Is that what we’re up to now, drawing fishes from milk? [for synth, electric guitar, the trains and demolition] #dronemusic #electroacoustic #experimentalambient #ambientmusic #experimentalmusic 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

It seems to me a reclamation of the animal, the somatic, the body and its directives. And its inherent friendliness. [for electric guitar, cello, and two small button-dogs] 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

[…] But Tobias had just confirmed for me something that I’d been casting about for, whether I realized it yet or not: that there was congruence between what I’d read in Lily’s journals and the stories carried around about in the minds and memories of those she described. Were they the same? As in, one-to-one, the ratio of fact to text? Was that even a question that could be answered? Was it one th...

A fourth belonging of the serrated eye. [for drum, electric guitar, gherms, rhizoma] 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 don’t need to be up in the air with screaming. No. [for synth, electric guitar, cello] 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 brains are breaking up there where they look. (Once again, much thanks to Brona Martin and the Sound and Image Research Centre, University of Greenwich, London, for the use of the Buchla Easel, and to Katie Chatburn for use of the Shruti Box, which fit so well together, reconfigured by heaping, and not by harms.) [for shruti box, buchla easel, electric guitar] This is a public episode. If you...