A podcast to ask questions. Maybe more of an art project than a podcast.
Ever wondered how UFOs (UAPs), mythology, esoteric traditions, and music might intersect?
Me too.
I promise no answers.
Welcome.
#UFOs #UAPs
#mysticism #esotericism
#musicology #music
I make this podcast for free and have no intention of monetizing it.
Cover art is an illustration known as the Temple of Music by M. Merian and J. de Bry from Robert Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris, metaphysica, physica, atque technica Historia.
Contact me: unknowing h e r m in a [@] gmail.com
Hermina considers memory, recollection, the memory palace, artificial intelligence, medieval mystics, and intentional creativity. Repetitio est Mater Studiorum (?) This episode includes an interview with NeuralMonk, who works with artificial intelligence.
CREDITS
From Musopen:
Uppon la mi re by Thomas Preston, played by Peter van der Zwaag (https://musopen.org/music/performer/peter-van-der-zwaag/)
From Wikimedia Commons: Chorale from Bach's Cantata 140
Bethena by Scott Joplin played by Richard Zimmerman
From Freesound:
drone_key-d.WAV by Anton (https://freesound.org/people/Anton/sounds/21922/)Drone of 12-inch C# Crystal Bowl (https://freesound.org/people/easy_thunder/sounds/264181/) by easy_thunder (https://freesound.org/people/easy_thunder/)
drone_key-d.WAV by Anton
Summer Rain by X3nus
From the Internet Archive:
3 Ghosts 1 by Nine inch nails
From Bandcamp:
Pink Marshmallow Mouth by City of the Asleep
By Hildegard von Bingen: "O" from O Virtus Sapientiae sung by me
Quotations from:
Plato's Phaedrus
Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso
Rene Descartes
Julian of Norwich
Special thanks to NeuralMonk <3
5 Oct 2023
Episode Eight: Ora et Labora
Hermina considers Plato's Cave, the steep path out of the cave, esoteric wisdom, pain, everyday work, cataclysmic possibilities, and hope.
Credits All music was either excerpted/edited from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings in the public domain, or created by me.
From IMSLP: Chopin's Etude in A minor, Opus 25 #11 played by Kimiko Ishizaka Chopin's Nocturne Opus 9 No 3 in B major played by Xuan He
Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV 596 played by Marie-Claire Alain
From Freesound.org
D phase drone.wav (https://freesound.org/people/Kyster/sounds/78100/) by user Kyster
Drone, Dishwasher, A.wav (https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/428956/) by user InspectorJ
From the Internet Archive: 34 Ghosts IV by Nine Inch Nails (Creative Commons)
Created by me: O frondens by Hildegard, sung by me
Quotations from:
Plato's Republic
The Wizard of Oz
Hafez, Sīne mālāmāl-e dard ast ("My heart is brimful of pain")
Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda
Kafka's Zürau Aphorisms
Additional heartfelt thanks to The Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast (SHWEP).
1 Aug 2023
Episode Seven: A Time to Be Alive
Hermina shares recent thoughts about the July 26th hearing, time, disclosure, fear, dread, and history. What a time.
#UFO #UAP #UFOs #UAPs #disclosure #time
CREDITS:
All music was either excerpted from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings in the public domain, or created by me.
From Freesound:
breakziq: the birth of electronic by user Qleg breakziq (https://freesound.org/people/Qleq/packs/37533/) » the birth of electronic.wav (https://freesound.org/people/Qleq/sounds/673105/#)Orchestral Cinematic Sounds (https://freesound.org/people/WAProd/packs/37397/) » WADOT_Drone_02_D.wav (https://freesound.org/people/WAProd/sounds/670524/#) by user WAProd (https://freesound.org/people/WAProd/)
dark ambient (https://freesound.org/people/X3nus/packs/26969/) » alien sky.wav (https://freesound.org/people/X3nus/sounds/476785/#) by user X3nus (https://freesound.org/people/X3nus/)
Purple Mountains.wav (https://freesound.org/people/LeadBackToSines/sounds/652032/#) by user LeadBackToSines (https://freesound.org/people/LeadBackToSines/)
Ice Cream Truck - "The Entertainer" (https://freesound.org/people/soundadvices/sounds/128573/#) by user soundadvices (https://freesound.org/people/soundadvices/)
symphony_background.wav (https://freesound.org/people/X3nus/sounds/514842/#) by user X3nus (https://freesound.org/people/X3nus/)
cello (https://freesound.org/people/xserra/packs/5049/) » cello-G2-down-bow-bridge.wav (https://freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/77758/#) by user xserra (https://freesound.org/people/xserra/)
Music Beds 1 (https://freesound.org/people/TexasMusicForge/packs/234/) » Dandelion.mp3 (https://freesound.org/people/TexasMusicForge/sounds/2684/#) by userTexasMusicForge (https://freesound.org/people/TexasMusicForge/)
From MusOpen:
Kwartet Japoński II by Maciej Zolnowski
Congaudeant Catholici from the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus for St. James (feast day July 25) sung by me
quotes:
The Kybalion “identical in nature but different in degree”
Walt Whitman “contain multitudes”
Jesus Christ “the kingdom of God is within”
Meister Eckhart “the innermost part of the soul”
Thanks to David Grusch, Ryan Graves, and David Fravor!
5 Jun 2023
Episode Six: Alive
Hermina discusses disclosure, religion, performance, symbolism, robots, and AI.
#UFO #UAP #disclosure #AI
Credits:
Quotes from Joscelyn Godwin and Albert Einstein. Also Nietzsche (briefly--"the abyss")
Additional thanks to Jocelyn Godwin whose books continue to inspire me.
All music and sounds were taken from online libraries or made by me.
From Freesound:
Cascade 1 from user be-steele (https://freesound.org/people/be-steele/)
Folk tune on the lip jew's harp (https://freesound.org/people/urupin/sounds/179995/#) from user urupin
alien sky.wav (https://freesound.org/people/X3nus/sounds/476785/#) by user X3nus (https://freesound.org/people/X3nus/)
From IMSLP:
Sarastro's aria In diesen heil'gen Hallen from Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sung by Kurt Böhme with the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Karl Böhm
From Youtube:
Mein Freund ist mein by Johann Christoph Bach, recorded by Voices of Music (Ciaccona)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04VyEsm5QEU&ab_channel=VoicesofMusic-Topic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04VyEsm5QEU&ab_channel=VoicesofMusic-Topic)
Made by me:
clip of a piece by Perotin with added echo, sung by me
5 Apr 2023
Episode Five: One Year Since the UFO
Springtime. Grace. Meditation.
I still don't know what's going on.
#UFO #UAP #Meditation
Credits:
Music was taken from royalty-free, public domain materials online.
From Freesound.org:
G-string drone by user Quilt
G-string_drone.wav (https://freesound.org/people/Quilt/sounds/32085/)
From MusOpen:
O Primavera, SV 68 by Claudio Monteverdi
played by Michel Rondeau
https://musopen.org/music/4318-o-primavera-gioventu-dellanno-sv-68/ (https://musopen.org/music/4318-o-primavera-gioventu-dellanno-sv-68/)
Traccia IX by
Massimiliano Pascucci (https://musopen.org/music/composer/massimiliano-pascucci/) ,
performed by Vox Àltera Ensemble
https://musopen.org/music/43822-a-te-che-per-sempre/
From Bandcamp:
Zefiro Torna by Claudio Monteverdi
Performed by Magnificat
https://magnificat.bandcamp.com/track/monteverdi-zefiro-torna
Classically Inclined
Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst
https://classically-inclined.bandcamp.com/album/the-planets-suite-op-32
https://bandcamp.com/download?id=1431362003&ts=1680630619.3960612377&tsig=730f8edc7ac54319def44750ffde5e33&type=album
also, one track was made by me, singing with electronics.
26 Jan 2023
Episode Four: Unknowing
Et in Arcadia ego. Hermina discusses the struggles of this journey and the concept of "unknowing," a term from the medieval text The Cloude of Unknowyng.
#unknowing #cloudofunknowing #growingpains #humility #etinarcadiaego #bookeofnature #beauty #truth
Credits:
From Musopen:
Omnes amici mei by Carlo Gesualdo, sung by Vox Altera ensemble
Lachrimae, or Seven Tears, 1. Lachrimae Antique by John Dowland, performed by I Solipsisti
The Bells of St. Anne de Beaupré by Alexander Russel, played by Paul Pitman
1 Dec 2022
Episode Three: Faith
Hermina discusses thoughts on darkness, faith, intention, virtues, psychedelics, prayer, and alchemy.
#collective #consciousness #UFO #UAP #alchemy #faith #prayer #mythology #virtue
Credits:
All music was either excerpted from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings in the public domain, or created by me.
From MusOpen:
O Magnum Mysterium by William Byrd, recorded by Ensemble Morales
Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, cantata for choir and orchestra by Buxthehude BuxWV 76a
From Freesound.org:
Night across the stars by user x3nus
G Drone by user Strathamer
Text sources:
Julian of Norwich, music by me
Psalm 121 and chant oral tradition, pointed by me
Text and music sources:
My faith it is an oaken staff in contrafactum by me, Tune by Amzi Chapin and text by Thomas Lynch
1 Nov 2022
Episode Two: Incantation
Hermina shares some thoughts on etymology, binauaral beats, chant, and storytelling.
#binauralbeats #chant #incantation #storytelling #meditation
Credits : Music and sounds were from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings, or made by me using compositions in the public domain, in this case by Hildegard von Bingen.
From MusOpen:
Solo e pensoso for 5 recorders – Eijkhout performed by Papalin
from me:
O virtus sapientiae by Hildegard
From freesound.org
Binaural Beats (Theta Waves 4 Hz) (https://freesound.org/people/Fabrizio84/sounds/457654/#) by Fabrizio84 (https://freesound.org/people/Fabrizio84/)
The Last Mystery.wav (https://freesound.org/people/X3nus/sounds/475587/#) by X3nus (https://freesound.org/people/X3nus/)
From Wikimedia commons:
Schola Gregoriana-Antiphona et Magnificat.ogg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schola_Gregoriana-Antiphona_et_Magnificat.ogg)
From MusOpen:
Wachet auf, Bachwerkverzeichnis 645 by JS Bach, played by Michael Schopen
I'd also like to credit both Joscelyn Godwin and Jeffrey Kripal, whose ideas have influenced my thoughts about some of the topics I discussed in this episode.
If I sounded different on this episode, I apologize but I was at the very end of recovering from a cold.
15 Oct 2022
Episode One: The UFO
Hermina tells the story of her UFO sighting.
#UFO #UFOs #UAP #UAPs #meditation
Show Notes
Hildegard von Bingen excerpts recorded and performed by me.
The following sounds came from MusOpen:
Quartet Japonski by Maciej Żołnowski (https://musopen.org/composer/maciej-zonowski/)
John Dowland's Mr. Bucton's Galliard by I Solipsisti (https://musopen.org/music/performer/i-solipsisti/)
Anonymous Medieval Dance Tunes performed by Paul Arden-Taylor (shawm, bombarde, recorder, rauschpfeife) Elizabeth Wright & Malcolm Peake
The following sounds were used from FreeSound:
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“pigeon_wings.flac " by Zabuhailo
“G-string_drone.wav” by Quilt
” by user newlocknew
“cambodian music 02” by user rucisko
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