We’ve Moved

You’ve probably (not) been wondering where we’ve been for the past few months.  It may disappoint you to know that we’ve just been sitting in front of our computer screens waiting for inspiration to somehow come.  Truth be told, it’s hard to come up with both intellectually and sonically exemplary playlists on a weekly basis.

So Emma and I decided to start a-fresh.  We’ve moved to Blogger and liberated our poor souls ; no longer are we chaining ourselves to sensations of the acoustic variety, our new blog is an equal-opportunities act – all media is welcome!

http://nondisjunction.blogspot.com/

The Lonely

- woodcut from Germany, 1722

1. Full The Moon – Hans Appelqvist

2. Wolf Song – Patrick Wolf

3. The Werewolf – Micheal Hurley

4. Prelude – Patrick Wolf

Stay

- M. Alberich Mathews

“Theres no longer a shape of you, from the pictures so easily fog.

All shadowing promises, proceeding out into the dark.”

- Lyrics from “Traffic”, Decoder Ring

1. Anniversary – The Cure

2. When We Reach The Hill – The Black Heart Procession

3. The Nostalgist – Piano Magic

4. Traffic – Decoder Ring

The Wallpaper, and The Women Behind it

- Isa Marcelli

“There is one marked peculiarity about this paper, a thing nobody seems to notice but myself,and that is that it changes as the light changes.

When the sun shoots in through the east window–I always watch for that first long, straight ray–it changes so quickly that I never can quite believe it.

That is why I watch it always.

By moonlight–the moon shines in all night when there is a moon–I wouldn’t know it was the same paper.

At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candle light, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.

I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman.

By daylight she is subdued, quiet. I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still. It is so puzzling. It keeps me quiet by the hour.”

- from The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gillman.

1. Bells for Her – Tori Amos

2. Dear Darkness – PJ Harvey

3. It Hurts Me – Kate Bush

 “Won’t you do this for me?
Dearest darkness
And cover me from the sun”

Of Fair and Frail and Fluttering

- tetheredtothesun 

“Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
The sunset hangs on a cloud;
A golden storm of glittering sheaves,
Of fair and frail and fluttering leaves,
The wild wind blows in a cloud.

Hark to a voice that is calling
To my heart in the voice of the wind:
My heart is weary and sad and alone,
For its dreams like the fluttering leaves have gone,
And why should I stay behind?”

- Autumn Song, Sarojini Naidu

 

1. Olé – Manitoba/Caribou

2. Fall – Devendra Banhart

3. Climbing up that Hill – Phon°noir

4. Kids on Holiday – Animal Collective

5. Steady As She Goes – Mice Parade

6. Mother’s Daughter – Tunng

Mermers

- Sea Moon

“Consciousness may be seen as an explicate form sustained by continually converging and diverging waves unfolding from an unconscious field of psychic potential.  This is a holographic projector of endogenous sensory imagery.  The recurrent and stable pattern that unfolds during waking hours must be renewed during sleep by the enfoldment of waking experience into the seamless subtext of the unconscious.” 

1. Electric Counterpoint – Fast (Movement 1) – Steve Reich

“Cognitive science implies that dreaming is “the occurrence of inconsequential phasic events of REM sleep”.  But dreams are consequential.  They change us at the most fundamental psychophysical level.  The evanescent, prophetic and diagnostic nature of dreams has been heralded since the dawn of history.  Pre-sleep emotional states are a by-product of, and tightly linked to, mental activities normally occuring during REM sleep.  The consolidating and reinforcing, or restructuring of neural circuits storing memories is not limited nor restricted to the activities of REM sleep…Thus, consciousness journeys using dream material or symptomology can refresh or reactivate circuits and open them for self-organizing creative repatterning and restructuring.  It’s a chance at a psychological “do over.”  The old self dies; the new self is reborn.  After such a process, the psychophysical self is no longer the same.  The issues addressed are no longer suppressed but allowed to ‘matter.’”

- The Neuropsychology of CRP, Dreams, and REM: P300 Waves and PGO Spikes and their Role in Consciousness Restructuring, Iona Miller, Graywolf Swinney, and John Penkert