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I So Believe In Love
Listening to Music by Sean - January 03, 2022 22:00 - 4 minutesI So Believe In Love is a song about big, simple, love. What gives you confidence? What makes you feel strong? My best answer is loving someone who loves you back. In the song I So Believe in Love, I explore the unblushing joy one feels at love's first arrival and the strength of heart one...
I Dream Concentric
Listening to Music by Sean - April 25, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutesI dream concentric is a song about awakenings. Have you ever dreamt you were dreaming and woke only to find you where still asleep? Some thinkers suggest our experience of life and the world is merely a construct aggregated from our senses: A dream created for survival through prediction. I ...
God Beware
Listening to Music by Sean - April 14, 2021 19:00 - 4 minutesGod Beware is a song about not letting go. Would you resurrect a departed love, performing spells of reanimation while pulling sinews and bone from covering clay? If you could, what consequence would such a dark act also deliver? It's true some partings seem impossible to reconcile, but conti...
Always Darkest
Listening to Music by Sean - February 10, 2021 19:00 - 5 minutesAlways Darkest is a song about the endurance of hope. Many would lessen hope to childish and rosy magical thinking that view the world as it is not. Yet, hope allows us the vision to conceive things as they could be. Hope assumes a future making space for possibilities. It is brave to hope o...
She Said Yes
Listening to Music by Sean - December 17, 2020 23:00 - 3 minutesShe Said Yes is a song about Love's arch. Does love at first sight exist? Do we ever really really know anyone? Imagine if at a glance we understood what an entire life with that person would be. Would we choose better? Or, is the best of love what happens once plans fail. If you'd like ...
Roll Big
Listening to Music by Sean - December 09, 2020 19:00 - 5 minutesRoll Big is a song about those times when you just got to dance. We've felt it, the irresistible desire to dance. There are times when the body follows its own kinetic potential, submitting to a rhythm's unremitting mandate. At a more basic part of us resides a language of movement which resi...
Let the Wolf
Listening to Music by Sean - November 17, 2020 18:00 - 4 minutesLet the Wolf is a song about finding courage after disappointment. Sometimes simply our breath is the best and most comforting companion when we are defeated. Because breathing is both conscious and unconscious, it can bridge between a specific disappointment and greater potential possibiliti...
Untethered
Listening to Music by Sean - September 25, 2020 19:00 - 4 minutesUntethered is an instrumental song suggesting the trust needed in letting go. Imagine spacewalking miles over the rotating earth and needing to untether yourself to float into the arms of safety. Or consider swinging on a trapeze five stories high in the air, only to let go, trusting the net ...
Abeyance
Listening to Music by Sean - September 17, 2020 05:00 - 4 minutesAbeyance is a song about returning what's past. Do the dead speak to us? Can they hear our whispered incantations. In the song Abeyance, I invite the hollowed stillness that thins what separates our time from all time so that what's past can be present, what's forgotten remembered, and what's...
I Don't Know My Name
Listening to Music by Sean - September 10, 2020 00:00 - 4 minutesI don't Know My Name is a song about what happens after the end of the world. Is there life after ruin? Can one return from disaster? It's been said despair is the last refuge for those whose world has been dashed. It is despair that provides a moment of frozen numbness to choose between cont...
Into Light
Listening to Music by Sean - September 01, 2020 16:00 - 4 minutesInto Light is a song about the third option. If, as the many-worlds theory may suggest, every choice creates a new universe, then there is always another option. Ancient Irish lore celebrates the Tuatha De Danann people who avoided a hopeless battle by simply disappearing into light right befo...
Stain
Listening to Music by Sean - August 25, 2020 15:00 - 4 minutesStain is a song about un-acknowledge culpability. How do you right a wrong? How do you heal the transgressed? Some injustices violate so profoundly they can stain the heart of a generation erasing all optimism. Observers of atrocity reconciliation claim only a truthful acknowledgment of th...
Anatomical
Listening to Music by Sean - August 19, 2020 05:00 - 4 minutesAnatomical is a song about brevity. What is the half-life of a moment? How many moments span a life? The average human lives roughly 30,000 days. 30,000 days to grow, learn, work, live, love, and give. Currently, I have just over 10,000 days left. This feels abundant. So many moments, cups ...
80s Leather Pants
Listening to Music by Sean - August 12, 2020 06:00 - 4 minutes80s Leather Pants is a song about possessing a Talisman. Do you possess an object that makes you feel young or powerful? Do you believe luck can be gifted? In myth, a Talisman is a magical device such as a ring endowed with mystic energy to bless a life. At the beginning of an adventure, the...
Underground
Listening to Music by Sean - August 05, 2020 06:00 - 4 minutesUnderground is a song about depth. Myth paints the deep underground as a place of divine insight and spiritual transformation. Only in the starless black of the underworld do our heroes find truth's light. Such brave voyages can also occur in our everyday lives through the emotional labor of ...
Cross the Horizon
Listening to Music by Sean - July 29, 2020 00:00 - 6 minutesCross the Horizon is a song about choice. Do we have free will? Maybe less than we like: Try deciding what your next thought will be. Do we have choice? Maybe more than we believe. Some choices are like event horizons, once taken all other options collapse, leaving only one inexorable pat...
Hold Me
Listening to Music by Sean - July 22, 2020 05:00 - 4 minutesHold Me is about reckless appeal. And your listening to Music by Sean. They say fear is an aphrodisiac, that we are most alive when dying, most attracted while trusting someone untrue. Near drowning victims speak of a clarity and stillness appearing just after the struggle just as inequitable...
I'm Falling
Listening to Music by Sean - July 14, 2020 20:00 - 4 minutesI'm Falling is a love note to the song Space Oddity. Can you grow up loving a song? Can life have a soundtrack? Much of my childhood accompanied Bowie's song Space Oddity. I believed in a world of space flight and science fiction whose evolved astronauts had the freedom to not be precisely d...
Machine of Change
Listening to Music by Sean - July 07, 2020 20:00 - 3 minutesMachine of Change is a song about remaking the world. How do you change the world? How do you change your mind? In the song Machine of Change, I work though how such remaking starts with just a single spark of vulnerability invited not through force but by loving kindness. Believing in som...
Little Light
Listening to Music by Sean - July 03, 2020 22:00 - 5 minutesLittle Light is a song about the light we sometimes see. Have you ever closed your eyes and seen a light? Not the subtle shimmering we all notice behind our eyelids, but a moment of pronounced light? Have you ever met someone new and had the sudden recognition that you two will be great frie...
Shine
Listening to Music by Sean - June 23, 2020 20:00 - 5 minutesShine is a song about transformation. I am inspired by the brave ones who live an authentic life out-loud. I am so heartened by those who are dealt a difficult path yet find their way. In the song Shine, I consider discontinuity and transformation through percussion loops and tape-based ec...
Green Flash at Sunset
Listening to Music by Sean - June 16, 2020 20:00 - 4 minutesGreen Flash at Sunset, a song about doing nothing. Who would you be if you had nothing to do? No problems to solve, questions to answer, or worries to resolve? Who would you be if the voice in your head continually telling the story of what is good or bad grew comfortably still. Who would w...
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