Numinosum Radio

More than other. More if than other. More than if other. More than if. More if, Other. (Thanks to Brona Martin and the Sound and Image Research Centre, University of Greenwich, London, for the use of their Buchla Easel, and to Katie Chatburn for use of her Shruti Box. Thanks to CAMP for use of the drum kit, and for hosting us for a wonderful two weeks. And many thanks also to the source of the voi...

I didn’t belong and I knew it, and as I naturally and inevitably separated myself from the crowd on the sidewalk, my sight was limited by the atmospheric haze, which obscured much of the terrain – the buildings, the bridges, the traffic – making it appear as something very different from what it had been: from crowded urban center to deserted shore in an instant. I knew it to be an illusion, but i...

I approach the island with its marshland grasses and reeds, standing at the prow of a slow-moving canoe in the sun. Though it is only a narrow waterway that separates this island from the mainland, still, it is an island, distinct. People don’t live here. Animals do, but not people, yet I’ll be staying for a while. It is the island both of healing and of wounds, because the two are the same in thi...

In the dream of my childhood street, I think there were no shadows, and that strikes me as wrong, off, as odd. Maybe it’s the point. But my childhood seems to me as if it were only shadows, at least as I remember it. Not literally, of course, but… What is this neon-bright and ultra-high sunlight at noon? These flowers all explosions of color? Reds, yellows… [for piano, electric & acoustic guitar,...

Why are persons? [Person; field of proximal resonance.] [for sine wave oscillator, cello, dvina, stereo field, tape] 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 wondering about the teleology of scorpions, and why they’re so good at dying. I mean, they really are good at it. And then getting reborn… [for electric guitar, cello, & sine wave oscillator] 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

_______ raccoon got under the _____. __ pulled off the panel to the ____, having moved _____ the bricks holding it __ place. [for 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

Bear has no insides. [for electric and acoustic guitar, synth, speck, speckle, the witnessing of it] 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

Washed clean, like nothing. I feel like nothing. That’s just fine. [for guitar, synth, and stillness within movement] 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

With the urgency of birds. [for guitar, ears, hair, and flight] 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 feels cruel. 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 no, I don’t want to go anywhere or talk to anyone. {for acoustic and electric guitar, noise floor, stereo fields, synthismickens, blaubait] 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 know. When you’re an alien. When you see with your eyes closed. [for field recording, narrative voice, 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

Moments. And other moments. It becomes difficult to speak. [For guitar, synth, formant oscillator, Caribbean cruise, killers on the Caribbean cruise, and column] 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

Some, in stickhouse, the. [for guitar, clatter, glass shard, synth, & suchness] 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 am / they are / the killers of form. [for gilding, glitter, for synth, forms, acoustic guitar, and forms] 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

Halfway held, and then halfway made something of. [for acoustic guitar, synth, boiling or steaming] 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

Among the other things I’d neglected to learn, or learn proper, was the use of the dead-body voice. This will not be my mistake going forward. [for acoustic/electric guitar, synth, speck, speak, and moments] 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 pale ones. I think you know just how pale they can be.” “Very pale.” “Very pale, yes.” [for electric guitar, synth, plinth, pale, somber & soak] 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

if only in the fact [for voice, 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

You are in your dead-body phase while you’re undergoing. Things. And I should be here in the way of the line-splitters. And I think that I am. [for electric & acoustic 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

I will be fine, it will be fine, we’ll deal with it. [for cello, dvina, electric and acoustic 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

The featherless hatchling of some baby bird was crawling under the skin of my right arm. I could see the bulge of its beak as it crept steadily toward the elbow joint. Somehow, I simply knew that it was a just-hatched – or really never -hatched – baby bird, and could envision the rest of it, though it was only the beak that was visible, bulging up through the skin. It frightened me; I couldn’t sto...

The ground floor room is someplace where I’m not supposed to go. Inside, it is a mystery to me, but my father seems to know it. He, at least, knows what it contains. And though I’m not to go there myself, he promises that one day we can take a “vacation” there, and he will show it to me. I imagine it as some very nice place, full of interesting things to do and friendly people. Alternately, he lea...

The only thing he knew for sure was that none of it was his idea. [for electric guitar, field recording, 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