Hearts Of Space features Sensitive Chaos on first show of 2010

Hearts Of Space is considered by most electronic or space musicians as the penultimate radio show for our genre of music. Hearts Of Space is currently running on over 200 NPR affiliates and XM Satellite Radio, and features absolutely the best and most beautifully produced music from around the globe. It is hard to express the emotion and honor of being selected for inclusion on the show. While many analogies abound, suffice to say Hearts Of Space is the "big leagues" for us.

So, it was with great excitement when I discovered that the Sensitive Chaos track "Fifty Light Years From Home" from the Emerging Transparency CD was selected to be the lead off song for Hearts Of Space's first show of 2010, Program # 897 called "Perigee":

Happy New Year, Spacefans!

Here's one of life's imponderables: while our culture reaches some kind of high point during the end-of-the-year holiday celebrations, for those of us in the Northern hemisphere the natural world is at the low point, or perigee in its yearly cycle.

Beneath all the celebration, in the short, chilled days that follow the winter solstice,
 we find a quiet passage on the long journey to spring. We reflect on the year just past, 
and make plans and resolutions for the one to come. It's a period of active reflection, 
a time for looking both inward and outward…at once.

On this transmission of HEARTS of SPACE, we aim to help that reflection, with a wintry electro-ambient journey called PERIGEE. Music is by SENSITIVE CHAOS, BLUETECH, PAN ELECTRIC & ISHQ, RICHARD BONE, GLEN TARACHOW, GLEN DARCEY, BETWEEEN INTERVAL, GULAN, REMKO ARENTZ, and KLAUS SCHULZE.

SENSITIVE CHAOS
Fifty Light Years from Home <>3:09>
: EMERGING TRANSPARENCY ; Subsequent SR002-02; 2009
: Info: www.sensitivechaos.com

BLUETECH
My Dear Friend Kronos <>9:20>
: PHOENIX RISING ; Somnia 007; 2008
: Info: www.somniasound.com

PAN ELECTRIC & ISHQ
Being There (Part 1) <>12:24>
Being There (Part 2) <>13:30>
: ABOUT TIME ; AbsoluteAmbient.com AACD0004; 2008
: Info: www.absoluteambient.com

RICHARD BONE
Benevolence is Relative <>17:59>
: CONNECTION FAILED ; Quirkworks QRK0138; 2008
: Info: www.richardbone.com

GLEN TARACHOW
Ascend <>22:27>
: WATERCLOCK ; Burning Water Rebellion BWR 91007; 2003

GLEN DARCEY
The Garden <>26:29>
: AMBIATA ; Glen Darcey Music 2008
: Info: www.myspace.com/glendarcey

BETWEEN INTERVAL
Delta Capricorni <>30:54>
: THE EDGE OF A FAIRYTALE ; Spotted Peccary SPM-1604; 2009
: Info: www.spottedpeccary.com

GULAN
Sphere <>36:28>
: SPHERE ; Gulan Music 2005
: Info: www.gulan.us

REMKO ARENTZ
No Time <>45:15>
: TRANCE 2008

KLAUS SCHULZE
The Lonely Dead of Midnight <>54:17>
: CONTEMPORARY WORKS 2 ; Rainhorse/Manikin RHMR 200014; 2002

GLEN TARACHOW
Dissolve <>58:59>
: WATERCLOCK ; Burning Water Rebellion BWR 91007; 2003

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Hypnagogue Podcasts Sensitive Chaos "Fifty Light Years From Home"

The Hypnagogue Podcast featured Sensitive Chaos "Fifty Light Years From Home" from the Emerging Transparency CD on their inaugural show on June 3, 2009.

Every two weeks, 90 minutes of the best ambient and electronic music from around the world.

The first podcast features music from:

• Steve Rose
• Ministry of Inside Things
• Mingo
• Sensitive Chaos
• A.R.S.(e)
• Computerchemist
• Dolmen
• Parallel Worlds
• Numina
• Ran Kirlian
• Synthetic Dream Foundation
• Steve Roach

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WDBX 91.1 FM plays Sensitive Chaos Emerging Transparency on Music From Beyond the Lakes

WDBX 91.1 FM in Carbondale, IL, played tracks from the Sensitive Chaos Emerging Transparency CD, "Emerging Transparency" and "Fifty Light Years From Home," on the May 3, 2009 Music From Beyond the Lakes program:

Playlist
Music from Beyond the Lakes
Produced by Jerry Nelms, Namdar Mogharreban, Anil Mehta, and Brian Kearney
Sundays, 8-10 pm Central Time, USA
WDBX, 91.1 FM, Carbondale, Illinois (www.wdbx.org)

Streamed LIVE at wdbx.scientistsuperstar.com

This program featured music by Kevin Kendle; Rudy Adrian; Deuter; Michelle Ippolito; Timothy Cooper; Ludovico Einaudi; Fiona Joy Hawkins; David Mauk; Sensitive Chaos; John Foxx & Harold Budd; Lis Addison; and Chris Conway & Llewellyn.

May 3, 2009
“Wind Shrines” (produced by Jerry Nelms)

An old Chinese proverb goes something like this: “Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.” That is, a little effort can produce a lot of result. And this is especially true of wind.

At one time, of course, we humans relied on naturally produced energy from the basic elements of our planet: wind, running water, sunlight, and geothermal heating in the earth. We seem finally to be returning to that mindset. Driving up to visit our younger son at college in Wisconsin, my wife and I pass the Mendota Hills Wind Farm along Interstate 39 here in Illinois: row on row of tall, sleek turbines, shiny metallic windmills, their long blades sublimely reaching out to the sky and then pointing to the ground.

Mendota Hills is just one wind farm, as they’ve come to be called. The first of our wind turbines here in the U.S. were actually remodeled local farm windmills. It was not until after the oil shortages in the 1970s that large-scale production of wind turbines for electricity generation began. Now that we face the future threat of global warming, governments worldwide are increasingly turning to wind and sun power. Depending on the size and number of turbines in use, it’s possible for a wind farm to supply electricity for 100,000 businesses and residences. And the upper Midwest seems like a perfect location for these farms. We may recall the light caress of ocean breezes, but they are nothing like the stern, determined blasts of the midwestern plains. Just think of the winds along the slopes near Winner, South Dakota. National Public Radio just did a story on the winds in that area, which are perfect for producing electricity. As Elizabeth Shogun reported, these winds can be “bone-chilling. Even on an early spring day,” she says, “it feels like it’s in the low teens.”

The earliest windmills were built in Persia, primarily used to grind grain. In America, local windmills have been used by farmers and small co-ops for over a century to generate electricity. Today, some 55% of electricity in Europe is generated using wind energy. 3% of electricity in India comes from wind. Worldwide wind generation quadrupled between 2000 and 2006 and appears to be doubling every three years or so.

The problem, then, is not with the sustainable resources themselves. We have lots of wind and plenty of sun, running water, and geothermal heating. The problems involve producing—and improving—the technology for efficiently generating power from these sources—and, of course, improving our energy grid—that is, getting the power where it needs to go.

And there have been other criticisms of wind farms. As panoramic as a wind farm can seem to the casual passerby, for those having to live near them they can become an “eyesore.” I’d bet, though, that if we set our artists to improving the beauty of wind turbines, we could make wind farms works of art as well as of energy.

Some criticisms of wind energy production, however, are simply inaccurate. Some claim that wind energy is too expensive. In fact, most experts today indicate that the cost of large-scale wind energy production would be less than the cost of using non-renewable fossil fuels. Some argue that wind is unreliable, too variable. While it is true that we can’t control the wind and so the amount of wind generation can vary at times, the winds in those areas considered ideal for wind farms blow pretty consistently. Moreover, wind energy technology has improved tremendously over the last thirty years and is expected to continue to improve.

In his 1843 essay “Paradise (to be) Regained,” Henry David Thoreau noted that wind is “constantly exerted over the globe.” He went on, “Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant!”

In his 1860 lecture, “Discoveries and Inventions,” Abraham Lincoln added, “Of all the forces of nature, I should think the wind contains the largest amount of . . . power to move things . . . . As yet, [however,] the wind is an untamed and unharnessed force . . . .”

It’s hard to imagine us ever really “harnessing” the wind, and winds will always change, but change, of course, is always with us, no matter what we do—no matter what our source of energy—and, as poet Christina Rossetti once wrote, “Neither you nor I [have seen the wind], but when the trees bow down their heads, [we know] the wind is passing by.” Bowing to the power of the wind, we seek not to control it but to allow it to control us and in so doing, to serve our interests, as well as its own. In a sense, our human windmills—even these sleek new turbines—are but modern shrines to the uncontrollable but potentially productive force of the wind.

And so, this evening, let’s reflect on the power of the wind and our new wind energy technologies through a program of acoustic and electronic music entitled “Wind Shrines.” We begin with these warm, windswept textures by Kevin Kendle from Pure Dreaming. Later, we’ll hear two airy desert soundscapes by Rudy Adrian from Desert Realms; graceful, Asian-influenced music by Deuter from Spiritual Healing; more tranquil, Asian-flavored ambience by Michelle Ippolito from In the Clouds; the short, delicate title track to Timothy Cooper’s East Wind; a somewhat dramatic tribute to Spring by Ludovico Einaudi from his Live in Berlin collection; a short piano piece by Fiona Joy Hawkins from Blue Dream; and another airy track from Michelle Ippolito’s In the Clouds.

We’re contemplating and, you might say, exalting the wind on our program tonight, especially its potential as an energy resource and the new technologies at work to generate that energy, the new wind turbines that go to make up our new wind farms, “Wind Shrines,” if you will, symbols of our reverence for a force always with us and always moving us Beyond the Lakes.

8:00-8:30pm
Kevin Kendle – Pure Dreaming – New World Music – 2001
“Gliders”
Rudy Adrian – Desert Realms – Lotuspike – 2008
“Desert Realms”
“Of Clouds and Mountains”

8:30-9:00pm
Deuter – Spiritual Healing – New Earth Records – 2008
“Wind in Bamboo”
Michelle Ippolito – In the Clouds – Penrose Records – 2009
“Celestial Voices”
Timothy Cooper – East Wind – New Piano Age Music – 2008
“East Wind
Ludovico Einaudi – Live in Berlin – Poderosa Music and Art/Klassik Radio
Records – 2007
“Primavera”
Fiona Joy Hawkins – Blue Dream – Little Hartley Music – 2008
“Freedom”
Michelle Ippolito – In the Clouds – Penrose Records – 2009
“Sunrising”

We’re contemplating the power of the wind on our program tonight, including its potential as an energy resource and the new technologies at work to generate that energy. We begin our second hour with music that is simultaneously breezy and pensive by David Mauk from 12 Months. We’ll continue, after this, with two tracks of enigmatic ambience turned electronica by synthesist/percussionist Jim Combs (aka Sensitive Chaos) from Emerging Transparency; and then a short windswept soundscape by John Foxx & Harold Budd from their double-CD collaboration Translucence + Drift Music. In our final half-hour, we’ll hear taught, introspective ambience from vocalist/keyboardist Lis Addison’s The Song of the Tree; a final atmospheric track from Michelle Ippolito’s In the Clouds; and airy, Celtic-influenced ambience by Chris Conway & Llewellyn from Celtic Reiki.

“Wind Shrines,” tonight on Music from Beyond the Lakes.

9:00-9:30pm
David Mauk – 12 Months – Thera Records – 2008
“June (breeze)”
Sensitive Chaos – Emerging Transparency – Subsequent Records – 2009
“Emerging Transparency”
“Fifty Years from Home”
John Foxx & Harold Budd – Translucence + Drift Music – Metamatic Records –
2003
“Weather Patterns”

9:30-10:00pm
Lis Addison – The Song of the Tree – All Aglow Music – 2008
“Indigo Dragonfly”
Michelle Ippolito – In the Clouds – Penrose Records – 2009
“Horizon”
Chris Conway & Llewellyn – Celtic Reiki – Paradise Music – 2008
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WWSP 90FM Plays Sensitive Chaos Emerging Transparency "Fifty Light Years"

WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, continued to feature the Sensitive Chaos Emerging Transparency CD on the Ambient Aether radio show, this week playing "Fifty Light Years From Home (radio edit)" on May 17, 2009.

Broadcaster:	WWSP
Show:	Ambient Aether / Space Continuum
Date:	5/17/2009
Host:	Misha
Theme:	New Age Sampler
Notes:	Episode Title: "Morning Rituals". Opening Theme / Voice-Over Theme: "Cat-Scan" by, Tangerine Dream from the "I-Box" release on: TDI Music.
5:00 AM
Oophoi - Mare Vaporum 1 (Excerpt) - Mare Vaporum [Umbra ] Artist Vidna Obmana & Bass Communion - Construct II - Continuum [Soleilmoon SOL 136 CD] 2005 Artist Steve Roach - Opening Sky - Dynamic Stillness [Projekt 228] 2009 Artist Between Interval - Eden in Shadows - The Edge of a Fairytale [Spotted Peccary Music SPM-1604] 2009 Label William Edge - Moth and the Fire Dragon - Moth and the Fire Dragon [Sounds Blue Music ] 2008 Label 917-723-1048 Artist Human Being - Human Being 1 (excerpt) - Live At The Zodiac Berlin 1968 [Nepenthe Music and Publishing ] Label
6:00 AM
V/A: - Hibernia - Echoes Of Polyhymnia [Hypnos ] UMA - Cure For Sadness - Civitas Soli [Elwood Musik ] David Mauk - September (sky) - 12 Months [Thera Records THERA 101-2364] 2008 Label Artist Sensitive Chaos - Fifty Light Years From Home (Radio Edit) - Emerging Transparency [Subsequent Records SR002-02] 2009 Erik Seifert - Distance 5 - Astronomical Unit [Spheric Music SMCD 2101] Erik Seifert - Distance 6 - Astronomical Unit [Spheric Music SMCD 2101]
6:30 AM
Andreas Akwara - Blue Velvet Part III - Blue Velvet [AA Music ] 2009 Artist David Wright - State of Peace - Dreams and Distant Moonlight [AD Music ] 2008 Label +44 (0) 1986 89 Artist

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WFIT 89.5 FM plays Sensitive Chaos "Fifty Light Years From Home"

WFIT 89.5 FM Future Echoes show, Palm Bay, FL, played "Fifty Light Years From Home" from the Sensitive Chaos Emerging Transparency CD on their May 3, 2009 show.

Broadcaster:	WFIT
Show:	Future Echoes
Date:	5/3/2009
Host:	Eric
Notes:	Background: "Future Echoes" airs weekly on Sundays (9 PM-midnight, EDT) on WFIT, 89.5FM and audio-streams on the Internet through our homepage at www.wfit.org. We are a community supported, NPR affiliated real brick and mortar station, serving the east-central FL coast (and cyberspace). "Future Echoes" plays primarily electro/acoustic instrumental music, from ambient to the upbeat. Vocals are considered, especially if the voice is used as an instrument. Only new or re-released music is programmed, with selected CDs featured. I'm always on the lookout (or is it listen?) for new music to share with my listeners. I can be emailed at fechoman@aol.com Submissions can be snailmailed to me at: WFIT, Attn: Eric Blankman, 698 Nash St. NE, Palm Bay, FL 32907 USA
9:00 PM
V/A: Scythelence - Transparent Eyelids - Odyssey of Rapture vol. 1 [Mythical Records MYTH 0007] 2009 Dolom Zero - Photosynthesis - The Wilting Dream [Winethirty Music ] 2009 Label 978-658-3319 Artist Mariah Parker - Milo's Moment - Sangria [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2017] 2009 Vadim Brunell - Night Samba - Always in My Heart [Vadim Records ] 2008 310.801.4212
9:30 PM
Fiona Joy Hawkins - The Void - Blue Dream [Little Hartley Music FJH004] 2009 Fiona Joy Hawkins - Turquoise Interlude - Blue Dream [Little Hartley Music FJH004] 2009 Fiona Joy Hawkins - Voice of Angels - Blue Dream [Little Hartley Music FJH004] 2009 Cadence Spalding - Share Your Life [remix] - Save The World [Sound Manipulations SM CAD01] 2009 Anne Trenning - When You Say Nothing at All - Watching For Rain [Shadetree Records 26392] 2009 Artist Kevin Kern - Caring Friend - Endless Blue Sky [Real Music RM2637] 2009 Label 415-331-8273 Artist
10:00 PM
The Beyman Bros - Tulong - Memories of Summer as a Child [Dharma Moon DHM0147] 2008 Vicki Logan - To the Places in My Soul - The Journey to the Places in My Soul [Carvic Inc. CI-0031] 2006 Label 651.583.0811 Artist Tingstad & Rumbel Nancy Rumbel - Medicine Tree - Leap of Faith [Cheshire Records CT101] 2009 Artist Tony Sandate - The Shade of the Sycamore - The Shade of the Sycamore [Weaving Libra Records WLR 2224] 2009 Label 310-541-6424 Artist The Beyman Bros - Triad - Memories of Summer as a Child [Dharma Moon DHM0147] 2008 Neil Jacobs - Dead to Me - 12-String Guitar [Adena Productions ] 2009
10:30 PM
Sensitive Chaos - Fifty Light Years From Home - Emerging Transparency [Subsequent Records SR002-02] 2009 Psicodreamics - La Rosa De Los Vientos - Fantasynth [Witches on the Radiowaves ] 2009 Label Artist AOMusic - Yeiha - Twirl [AO Music AOM0906] 2009 Label Artist
11:00 PM
David Mauk - May (sunrise) - 12 Months [Thera Records THERA 101-2364] 2008 Label Artist Brian Crain - Wind - Piano Opus [Crain Records ] 2009 888.292.7426 Artist Whitetree (Ludovico Einaudi/Robert & Ronald Lippock) - the room - Cloudland [Ponderosa Music & Art cd 062] 2009 Reneé Michele - My Prayer - Honor and Grace [Noteworthy Therapeutics 1000-2] 2008
11:30 PM
Whitetree (Ludovico Einaudi/Robert & Ronald Lippock) - slow ocean - Cloudland [Ponderosa Music & Art cd 062] 2009 Liquid Mind - Mountain Lullaby - Liquid Mind IX: Lullaby [Real Music RM6436] 2009 Label 415-331-8273 Artist Erik Berglund - Angel Healing - Angel Healing [Oreade Music ORM 65402] 2008 Label Artist

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