#skyminds

[inner-islands]

Skyminds - Echoes On The Shore

Skyminds is the collaborative musical duo of Michael Henning (Selaroda, DJ Megasoup) and Sean Conrad (Channelers, Ashan), now based in Berkeley, CA and Seattle, WA respectively. Echoes On The Shore is their fourth album and follows their 2022 release Terra Preta on Not Not Fun. This is perhaps their most reflective and meditative collection to date. This album has less of the divergent eclecticism and dynamic intensity that has characterized their previous releases, instead opting to limit the range to mellower grooves and colorful atmospherics. That said, this work doesn’t skimp on the rich textures and abundant instrumentation that has been integral to their sound thus far.

As has been true from the start, improvisation is at the heart of this music, with every piece starting as a spontaneous dialogue. And those extemporaneous tendencies are an intrinsic quality to Skyminds’ work; everything is grown from those seeds. The most potent parts are stitched together with as much humanity, emotion, and imperfection intact as possible. This is followed by further improvisations and edits piled on top until completion. However, the track “Springtime,” recorded live at the incredible Vintage Synthesizer Museum (before its move down south to Los Angeles), is the first time an un-edited improvisation has made its way onto a Skyminds album. Ultimately, Echoes On The Shore is a monument to their friendship and a deeply shared musical connection spanning the last 10 years.

[seanconrad]

Skyminds Echoes On The Shore (Inner Islands, 2024) Stream / Buy

"I'm very excited to be sharing a new Skyminds album! In case you're new to Skyminds, this is my duo project with Michael Henning that we've been working on since 2014. This is our fourth album and it also marks 10 years of Skyminds as an ongoing entity. This particular album is perhaps our most gentle and reflective collection to date, as the tracks were chosen to work with the guiding ethos of Inner Islands - grounding and finding center through sound. It's available on cassette through Bandcamp and streaming on a handful of platforms."

[thegentleways]

Skyminds - Echoes On The Shore

[justadumbasskid]

Welp, I sure had some fun with this one, but I reckon it's time to call it quits on Facility 01, the all-android colony. It was nice exploring a modpack which I didn't put much thought into in the past, and there's certainly more I could do with it. Experiment with SkyMind fuckery and eventually produce my own AI persona cores, but frankly, I'm just not interested. I'm actually quite sick of robotic colonists, as strange as that sounds. Hell, half of them don't even feel emotions, and none of them have traits! There was a lot less drama in this playthrough than in past playthroughs, and I don't like that in my RimWorld games. For a nice send-off to this fully-publicized colony, here are some projects from the tail-end of the playthrough, as well as some special thanks.

A brand-new rec/dining room. Comes with the only wood flooring in the entire colony, since wood is more precious than gold in the permafrost.

The large & luxurious new temple. It never saw much action, just some role changes and one relic out of three. I'd estimate it took around...4000-9000 steel to build. ~400 plasteel, 225 gold, and 700 uranium

Special thanks to Drone ID 104. Who was planned to be the leader of Facility 01 before it was found out that drones cannot hold such roles. Regardless, they played a huge part in the colony's development, acting as the chief researcher and adventurer (the guy that always went out on missions)

Drone ID 638. Who as the right-hand to 104 was the chief surgeon and doctor of the colony. With dual scalpel arms, they installed at least 90% of all the advanced body parts seen on the colony population today.

Willow 'Progress' ID 913, for marking a turning point in the development of Facility 01 as the first Tier Three android, and sticking it out through the first lonely weeks of being the only sapient colonist among emotionless drones that regularly butchered humans without a thought.

Aria ID 677. For being such a diligent sniper when the colony needed their skill. As well as being such a good friend to Progress keeping them company while more T3s were being produced.

And finally to Merlin, the T4 Android. Simply for marking the endpoint of the colony. For being the living achievement of robotic supremacy and accomplishment. Though there were more places to go after your conception, I'm taking this as a valid colony ending anyway.

And that's it, that's the end of Facility 01

[theam-cjsw]

The AM: July 22, 2024

Another scorching week here in Calgary—hopefully it cools off in time for Folk Fest, but for now here's a mix of chill tunes, tropical sounds, and CFMF selections to see you through the last week of the heatwave.

Listen via CJSW, or use the embeds below.

Hour One:

Agua Escondida Skyminds • Echoes on the Shore

Introduction Markus Floats • Fourth Album

Roundabout Hiro Ama • Music for Peace and Harmony

Big Foot Melinda Sullivan, Larry Goldings • Big Foot

State 20 Ben Lukas Boysen • State 20 (20 Years Systematic)

The Informant Proxima Psychoacoustics • Rituals Beyond the Heliosphere

Grape Look The Octopus Project • Butterfly in the Sky

The Sum of All Where's the Other • Single

Soft Tide Castle If • Exotic Sounds (Imaginary Soundtrack)

Rude Dream Lilacs & Champagne • Fantasy World

Search Bar Hi Hat SML • Small Medium Large

Prickly Pears Monster Rally • Single

Hour Two:

Cielo Falso Titanic • Vidrio

Cougar Darts LT Leif • Single

La foire aux lumières Bernardino Femminielli • Op​é​ra Bouffe

I Don't Know Beastie Boys • Hello Nasty

Meu Segredo Helio Matheus • Helio Matheus

Mais Kriola Helio Matheus • Helio Matheus

ABRA Polyphonic Exophilia • ABRACADABRA

Bitter Streets SAULT • Nine

The Snail The Holydrug Couple • Bolero Tampoco

La Perigrina Robin Guthrie • Atlas EP

Hour Three:

Walk Along Y La Bamba • Lucha

Nak Deranine Etran De L'Aïr • Agadez

omnichord jam Luna Li • jams 2

Polymorphe Laurence-Anne • Single

Knives Cowboy Junkies • Such Ferocious Beauty

Street Meet Ghost Woman • Anne If

Under the Waves Astral Swans • Split

Already Over The Soundcarriers • Through Other Reflections

Yeslek wasmarkhere • Maya

Circles Rubber Oh, featuring Rozi Plain • Soil

dream day Jasper Byrne + Sonic • Mirrors

Passes Me By Blume • Echoes at Night

[rizkubo]

Taal。プログレ。

[inner--islands]

Skyminds "Echoes On The Shore" Cassette / Digital II093 (2024) Bandcamp / Stream

[worlditinsights]

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[edmfusions23]

SKYMIND from EDM Experimental Fusions on Vimeo.

[skyminds]

Installation de PHP 8.2 sur le serveur

Aujourd’hui, on installe PHP 8.2 sur le serveur vu que SkyMinds est compatible avec selon notre testeur de compatibilité PHP. La dernière version stable installée sur le serveur est PHP8 donc on récupère la liste des extensions PHP installées avec PHP 8: dpkg -l | grep php8.0 | grep ii | awk '{print…

[gloriousspaceridersworld]

Listen/purchase: Skyminds by Skyminds

[crystalau-em]

Emotional Experience: Skymind, Skymind, Taal

This is gonna be the first in a ~very~ occasional series of detailed descriptions of my thoughts and emotional states as I listen to a piece of music. They will be written in the form of a brief description of the song, a YouTube link to it, followed by timestamp comments under a cut to be read as the song is listened to, followed by any other commentary I feel like adding.

This time I will be breaking down my experience of the song Skymind, from the album Skymind, by the French Progressive Rock band Taal. Listen and follow along if you enjoy apocalyptic instrumentals and ominous chants!

https://youtu.be/LIEGKrrBjmc

0:05 - Nice, slow ominous intro…

0:11 - Oh! Intro ~montage~, that’s cool.

0:14 - Circus?

0:18 - Market? Wish I could understand the snippets of French. Also, would the real song please stand up? I love being teased, but I think a whole song of this would get tiring after a couple minutes. :/

0:21 - Punk rebelliousness? Oh wait! The way these snippets have similar tones, tempos, and melodies despite radically different stylings is amazing! A smorgasbord of ominous apprehension.

0:28 - Wait, this is different.

0:35 - Holy shit! I’ve never mistaken a cello for an airplane before!

0:45 - Okay, we’re in the *song* part of the song now. Some beats have been laid. Cello is mournful. The light background of radio feedback squeaks and hisses are giving me a strong WWII era vibe rn, but there’s this one instrument making a pew noise that makes me think it’s more futuristic than that.

0:58 - Oh I ~adore~ the dissonance with which the second cello enters! Such a regretfully ominous slow burn they’ve got going!

1:12 - Tapping the cymbals to anticipate the revelation...A wild electric guitar appears! Something screams far above.

1:17 - YES! Good riff. The screaming was a missile launcher, the riffs the aftermath.

1: 24 - The missile lands with a low rumble in the distance and the battle is on. The cellos buzz with dread.

1:54 - The snare taps and short electric guitar bursts make me feel like I’m observing this battle from afar. War is on this mind in the sky. Each squeal of the guitar portends an escalation.

1:58 - The low rumbling of destruction. Are those flutes in the background taking up the melody?

2:18 - Tempo increasing. This is making me *really, really* anxious!

2:25 - The subtle shrieking as a bomb falls within the cacophony. Shit’s about to go down.

2:37 - Everything is destruction.

2:48 - Now the explosions give way to whispered words, a summoning chant, faint and faltering.

3:02 - The chanting is rhythmic, increasing in intensity. I ~really~ wish I could make out these words. What existential terror are we summoning! What are its attributes?!?

3:16 - Skymind...an autonomous drone? A spy plane? A satellite?

3:26 - The reveal feels anticlimactic. Really frustrated I couldn’t make out the words.

3:34 - I feel like the strings have been cut, the power cut off to something in motion.

3:43 - What do you portend, mischievous piano?

4:07 - OH! The skymind is put in a box, works its way out and to the internet and begins rebuilding itself.

4:24 - The chant is more patient, less under duress. Melodious flutes, with the cello returning ominously to the background. SOOOOO deliciously subtle! The skymind bides its time and I have goosebumps.

4:30 - The electric guitar returns, rumbling with power. I am shaking with anxiety now.

4:41 - “...wings, night, glide…” is all I’ve made out. More evidence the skymind is an AI war drone.

4:48 - That riff felt like the roar of rocket engines in a liftoff. The chant is a countdown to destruction. I am afraid.

5:04 - I just heard the words head and kill. The emotionless nature of the chant makes me think these are the processes the drone is going through in a loop. Endless, remorseless. Maybe the transition before was a shutdown, refueling, update, and change of target.

5:28 - HERE IT COMES!

5:4o - The riff leading up to and between the 2 chants of Skymind is a strafing run of destruction, it is such a satisfying relief from that buildup and am really disturbed.

5:52 - The keyboard plays an update to the next target? Is this a robot orgasm? Job well done?

5:58 - Oh, that transition was abrupt and unexpected! I feel like I am being taunted for feeling satisfaction at the climax, the folly of humanity, and now everything is chaos.

6:18 - Cities fall. Hope is lost.

6:37 - Rally to the flute! There may be hope yet!

6:43 - The strings hum of resistance being plotted amidst the chaotic destruction.

7:00 - The strings turn ominous again! Where is this going?

7:14 - I am so anxious. I feel like everyone is fleeing.

7:19 - And the drums signal the last of humanity is being gunned down.

7:21 - The riffs of POWER assured, return. All is lost.

7:28 - THAT SQUEAL JUST RAN UP AND DOWN MY SPINE! HOly fuck!

7:33 - WOW the resonant chords on those guitars are freaking me out. So much power and confidence!

7:38 - More rat-tat-tat-tat, rat-tat-tat-tat, shots fired.

7:44 - Oh, that squeal feels so good!

7:47 - And again! Do I hear the sound of an organ in those chords? Neat!

7:58 - Definitely an organ. Lots of dread.

8:26 - Okay, I get the reign of terror is endless. We can move on.

8:38 - Oh, thank goodness! Something new. A little keyboard in the background.

8:50 - I’m hearing radio static again. We must be nearing the end.

8:57 - was that an ambulance siren?

9:07 - That prismatic keyboard chaos is almost ~exactly~ what plays during most of the establishing shots of the deathist dystopia in the movie Logan’s Run. That is so delightfully appropriate for this new world order under the Skymind!

9:20 - I am 80% percent certain that is the exact same sound as in Logan’s Run. I. AM. LOVING. THIS.

9:46 - and now the universe is tiled in computronium and the last radio signals of resistance give way to static.

Deliciously horrifying!

[seanconrad]

Poster for Skyminds show at The Backroom in Berkeley, CA.

[thegentleways]

[askthelama]

Lama Surya das- Awakening Now - Ep 94 “Sky Mind”

Lama Surya Das explores the natural great perfection of sky mind, or panoramic awareness, and talks about the difference between the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions.

“In Dzogchen, we don’t focus and cultivate concentration as much as awareness and openness.” – Lama Surya Das

https://beherenownetwork.com/lama-surya-das-awakening-now-ep-94-sky-mind/

[theam-cjsw]

The AM: June 10, 2024

New episode: A throwback to the Hidden Cameras' "gay church folk music", plus new and classic sounds ranging from ambient to poetry-infused folk, Slumberland Records jangle-pop, and the moody electronics of Suuns and Sleepkit. Enjoy another episode of The AM here on CJSW.

Track list and streaming links are below, or you can listen at cjsw.com.

Hour One:

Wasser Skyminds • Echoes On The Shore

Morning Doves Nick Schofield • Ambient Ensemble

Stream Jane Penny • Surfacing

Labradorite The Golden Age of Wrestling, featuring Future Star • Scorpion Deathlock

The Seasons Reverse - live Gastr Del Sol • We Have Dozens of Titles

Cedars Ivan the Tolerable • Time Is A Grave

Never Going to End SHOLTO • Single

Regretful Echoes Roman Angelos • Single

Left at the Table Patrick Holland • Left at the Table

Numbers & Letters Cylindricon • Zettasecond

10 Year Warranty Time Wharp • Single

Hour Two:

leave the room and face the waves Thanya Iyer • rest

Here Comes Ezra Jeff Parker • The New Breed

Falling Through the Rising Sun Daisy Rickman • Howl

How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music (a response to Ryokan Taigu) Luka Kuplowsky • How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music

Sticks Flaer • Burrow

Céilî - Edit Mermaid Chunky • C​é​ilí

Breathe On It The Hidden Cameras • The Smell of Our Own

Boys of Melody The Hidden Cameras • The Smell of Our Own

Seeing Other People Belle and Sebastian • If You're Feeling Sinister

Each Day Lau Ro • Cabana

Hello Eyes Eric Chenaux Trio • Delights Of My Life

Hour Three:

L.O.N.E. Parsnip • Behold

Dawn Hush Lullaby Lightheaded • Combustible Gems

Laugh Birdie • Some Dusty

Embers Motorists • Touched by the Stuff

Energy Bar Heaven For Real • Energy Bar

Mouse Bennett Mitchell • Mouse

Cool Breeze Blow Psychic Temple • Doggie Paddlin' Thru The Cosmic Consciousness

We Dance Hochzeitskapelle • We Dance EP

Hidden Sun Dreamwave • Dreamwave And The Mindcave

Happier Holy Wave, featuring Estrella del Sol • Five of Cups

The Breaks SUUNS • The Breaks

Oxygen on the Autobahn Sleepkit • Single