Christopher Scott Mills

chris h lynn Chris H. Lynn is a filmmaker and sound artist from Maryland. His sound works have been published on Impulsive Habitat, Verz Imprint, Green Field Recordings, Kandala Records, Plus Timbre and Echomusic...

Bandcamp Friday-Have a look and listen chrishlynn.bandcamp.com/music

I first found Bringhurst through "The Elements of Typographic Style", which is great, and subtly dips into the cosmic here and there. Those bits led me to his other work. Just reading "The Solid Form of Language" now!

Music from Eternal Return One, by Polylith 3 track album

On this fine Bandcamp Friday, consider an unhurried hour of warmly strange ambient music:

#bandcampFriday #ambientMusic #ambient

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Very few real books are made for amusement or money. They’re made as containers or incubation chambers for things that we inherit from the past, reconceive in the present, and hope to pass along to present and future generations.

-Robert Bringhurst

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… books, I think, are things that humans make, or try to make, as persistently as birds make nests …

-Robert Bringhurst

Best of luck!

With solstice comes Pitcher’s thistle in bloom. The arrival I most anticipate, a sweet friend faithful on the dunes amid long and sometimes grueling days of fieldwork.

Fantastic news! I’m looking forward to listening along.

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A single rose stem with fresh crimson petals laying in the sand. A set of coyote tracks approaches from the right, pauses and passes.

The same single rose stem, now partially covered in sand. The petals are duller and beginning to dry. Rain has erased any footprints.

Sunday to Friday

#walking

Music from Eternal Return One, by Polylith 3 track album

For your consideration on this Bandcamp Friday: Music from Eternal Return One, just released in April. Warm, meditative ambient music toward memorious futures.

#bandcampFriday #ambientMusic

Who — ?
I see.

An old boathouse painted white with cedar shingles for a roof, converted into simple living quarters. A bay window looking out on the water (out of frame) stands in place of the big door they would wheel boats through. Blue sky, morning sunlight.

Day four of work at the old lifesaving station on North Manitou Island, where flickers and starlings, juncos, mergansers, killdeer, gulls, eagles, snow buntings and sparrows outnumber me ten-thousand to one. It’s good this way for a week here and there.

Listen again: Beyond Encounters / 14th April 2025

Playing tracks by Hiram, Polylith, Awaya and Hiroko Komiya Chris H. Lynn.

@chrishlynn.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/beyo...

Music from Eternal Return One, by Polylith 3 track album

'Music from Eternal Return One' has been out for a week, and I'm happy to hear this strange but warm album has landed on a few stereos.

Apt sounds for full-moon strolls, fitting accompaniment to the nightly frog chorus, good music for contemplation in the lamplight, etc.

#ambientMusic #bandcamp

Tune into a new Beyond Encounters on
@campradio.bsky.social

on Monday 04/14/25. Time: 12pm EST 18h00 CET ! Featuring tracks from @matthewhiram.bsky.social , @cscottmills.com , and Awaya ! Excerpts from Frequency live in Athens and much more!

Polylith 073: Slow transits The tail of winter hasn't slipped out of sight just yet here on the peninsula, but signs of spring flourish everywhere beside it.

To accompany the music, a fresh installment of my monthly letter as well — in which we delve into the process of making the album. Aleatory, imaginal lines, wandering, play.

#towardThePolylith #aleatoricMusic #ambientMusic #generativeMusic #poetry

Music from Eternal Return One, by Polylith 3 track album

Album release!

On this crisp spring morning, I offer "Music from Eternal Return One", a threefold piece of warm ambient music for slow transits and phasing tides.

Listen over on Bandcamp:
polylith.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

#ambientMusic

Polylith Words and sounds in the world of generation. Land, myth and the imagination. Find occasional audio projects here, and everything else on my website:

A note to say:

I’ll be releasing a new album this coming Friday over on Bandcamp. “Music from Eternal Return One” is an hourlong ambient ramble. Can’t wait to share it!

polylith.bandcamp.com/music

#ambientMusic

Listening to a podcast episode about Proclus’ noetic triads while I mud and tape drywall. Tension of opposites.

A photo of a circle of wet black ink spread on a frosted glass slab. A clear glass muller sits at the center.

A photo of a small bottle of black ink labeled "BC02:01 VINE" sitting among ink-stained art supplies on a desk. Next to the bottle is a scrap of smooth paper with black brushstrokes.

Further experiments in ink — today a black with cool undertones made from carbonized wild grapevines.

#ink #pigment

Is the village where you caught the thermal there at the center bottom with the irregular cluster of squiggles? Fun to try to visualize the flight in 3D from this line.

Thank you on both counts! 💚

Uplift! Something to seek in as many small ways as possible at the moment. Sounds like you found some! 🪶

Polylith 072: Small graces Winter has turned here on the peninsula. As I write, snowmelt drips from the eaves under a blue sky and the impressive drifts that line paths and driveways s...

The February installment of Polylith arrives on a big south wind.

This letter is a particularly personal one, about my work and the US federal hiring freeze, about morale and resistance, healing work and creativity amid collapse.

cscottmills.com/polylith/072/

#towardThePolylith

FLORENT TONIELLO: Now, about the target audience: who would you say you want to touch? PIERRE JORIS: Listen, a target is something you shoot at. I don't shoot at anybody, so in that sense I don't have a target audience. I mean, of course, I'd love everybody to read me, but I'm a realist. 246, or at best 863 people, roughly, on average, something of that order for a book of poems? Maybe a few more at some point. But the important thing is for the work to be there & available. If it is needed, it will be picked up. I have that kind of confidence that people, young people — & I've seen that during the years I was teaching — are looking for things & will find what they need (& for me teaching is exactly that: not imparting knowledge you have & they don't, but laying out techniques enabling both the students & you to find out things you didn't know but need to know or didn't even know you needed).

RIP Pierre Joris 💜

Polylith 071: Figure of seven At shore, ice is piled into miniature escarpments continually battered and built by waves. They barrel in from deep water but use most of their energy liftin...

On this clear St Brigid's day — at the outset of this Year of the Wood Snake — the January installment of Polylith arrives.

Consider the number seven as a mythological entity.

#towardThePolylith #lunarNewYear #calypso #newMoon #imbolc #stBrigid

Polylith 070: Resonance When Odysseus, after twenty years away at war and at sea, finally returned to Ithaca, he did not immediately recognize his home. Athena had cloaked the islan...

The solstice passes and another installment of Polylith arrives. Pull a seat up to the hearth and pour a cup of tea.

This month we consider a resonant corollary to last month's 'thereness'.

#towardThePolylith #odysseus #athena #poetry