Michael Eisenberg

The Cold Aesthetic and the Warm Imagination: Murmuri and the Acousmatic Pact Immerse yourself in Murmuri’s “I Like the Cold Aesthetic,” where acousmatic sound, imagination, and transformation converge in a deep listening experience.

The latest installment of the Acousmatic Crossings series in the Metapsychosis journal is a cold, ambient piece, aptly titled "I Like the Cold Aesthetic": metapsychosis.com/the-cold-aes...

I'll be doing another live diffusion/zoom event on November 1st, 2pm CST. This one will feature the music of Amanda Stuart and Ali Balighi. Both artists will be there to present their work and take any questions/comments from the attendees. Here is the sign-up page: metapsychosis.com/events/into-...

Reflections on Jean Patier’s Visitation | Metapsychosis Jean Patier’s Visitation as Arborescence weaves ambient, electroacoustic, and acousmatic sound into a contemplative journey through memory, time, and nature.

New on Acousmatic Crossings: The Sea Refuses No River — Reflections on Jean Patier’s Visitation.
Jean Patier (Arborescence) crafts nine electroacoustic pieces that move like memory through time—ambient, reflective, and quietly transformative.
metapsychosis.com/the-sea-refu...

YouTube video by Metapsychosis Acousmatic Crossings LIve Diffusion 2

The second Acousmatic Crossings live diffusion event took place a couple weeks ago. We had a great discussion with the featured artists Matt Gender and Valentin Sismann with some great and inciteful questions/comments from the audience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEX...

Trance of the Invisible Storm Wukir Suryadi’s Camouflage Trance fuses ritual polyrhythms and raw electronics into a scorching acousmatic force—part trance, part sonic inferno.

New in the Metapsychosis Journal, two very dark and very intense pieces by Wukir Suryadi. Think Hendrix meets Derek Bailey in a dark, menacing forest: metapsychosis.com/trance-of-th...

Sonic Nostalgia and the Flow of Virtualities Explore Dimitris Barnias’ acousmatic soundscapes—an immersive journey through time, imagination, and the philosophy of listening.

Dimitris Barnias' "Deliverance" blends sonic nostalgia & virtual flow via Pure Data's binary tree sequencer. A minimal masterpiece that shapes your imagination. Dive in & let it carry you at the Metapsychosis Journal: metapsychosis.com/sonic-nostal...

Into the Sonic Aether: Acousmatic Diffusion #2 Join Acousmatic Crossings Sept 20, 12pm MDT for immersive sound art with composers Valentin Sismann & Matt Gender. Free live listening via Zoom.

A quick FYI/reminder about the upcoming live Acousmatic diffusion this Saturday: metapsychosis.com/events/acous...

From IQ to AI: The Case for Multidimensional Intelligence Rethinking what it means to be intelligent: from flawed IQ tests to AI models, we explore a richer, more nuanced view of human and machine cognition.

A very good essay on finding a middle ground between AI and human intelligence: metapsychosis.com/from-iq-to-a...

Spectral Portraits in Transit A sonic pairing of density and elegance: Beaudoin’s hyper-instrument meets Mehić’s spectral clarity in this Acousmatic Crossings installment.

Latest from Acousmatic Crossings on the Metapsychosis Journal: metapsychosis.com/spectral-por...

Into the Sonic Aether: Acousmatic Diffusion #2 Join Acousmatic Crossings Sept 20, 12pm MDT for immersive sound art with composers Valentin Sismann & Matt Gender. Free live listening via Zoom.

metapsychosis.com/events/acous...

thanks Paul, which reminds me, I need to grab Moral Compost tomorrow for BC friday

Where Nothing Becomes Everything [Acousmatic Crossings] | Metapsychosis A deep-listening encounter with plastov’s Omega Amoeba and Jiajing Zhao’s Back to the Ocean—two paradoxical works where silence reveals complexity.

New in Acousmatic Crossings: Paul Lastovica’s Omega Amoeba and Jiajing Zhao’s Back to the Ocean. Two contrasting works—one slow and pressurized, the other fluid and immersive—both investigating the force of sound beyond representation. metapsychosis.com/where-nothin...

Rafael Ramirez – Forensic Acoustics 1 | Hauntology & Sound Art A haunting soundwork by Rafael Ramirez using broken vinyl, turntablism, and memory to explore loss, hauntology, and imaginal worlds of sonic mourning.

Rafael Ramírez’s Forensic Acoustics 1 turns broken vinyl into sonic mourning. A ghostly elegy made from damaged grooves and erased futures. Listen from start to finish. Presence begets presence. metapsychosis.com/the-sound-of...

#AcousmaticCrossings #Hauntology

YouTube video by Metapsychosis Acousmatic Crossings Live Diffusion No. 1 from June 4th, 2025

The first Acousmatic Crossings live diffusion is online.
Featuring Paul Dolden and Leonie Roessler, this session explores two distinct approaches to sonic space, perception, and texture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLE...
#AcousmaticCrossings #soundart #electroacoustic #acousmatic #listeningevent

The 14 Pilgrims and the Ears of an Elephant A cosmic meditation on sound, presence, and revelation—journey through acousmatic landscapes where electromagnetic waves become imaginal symphonies.

Two stunning new works in the Acousmatic Crossings series:

🌌 Amanda Stuart’s Magnetosphere lets Earth itself speak through VLF radio.

🌍 Andre Perim’s Gaia fuses global sounds into a radiant sonic ritual.

Listen + read: metapsychosis.com/the-14-pilgr...

#Acousmatic #Electroacoustic #SoundArt

I may be coming from an uninformed corner but, when you say it's not a close contest I may counter and say it's not a contest at all—given some of the embarassing outputs of Jethro Tull and Yes. I'll have to give the Heep a listen, never latched on to them in the "day"

Subtle Bodies, Subtler Sounds | Metapsychosis Forged from live electronic improvisation, this story-sonic hybrid drifts into deep space and deeper states of consciousness. As the crew enters torpor, rea ...

Here is the latest in the Acousmatic Crossings series. A 37 minute piece by the Vermont based synth duo "Infinite Is" metapsychosis.com/subtle-bodie...

Patreon T3 Free Content Michael Eisenberg from Metapsychosis Journal: Acousmatic Music & the Mundus Imaginalis | Rejected Religion Get more from Rejected Religion on Patreon

I did this thing a few weeks ago, here's the free shortened version of it. To hear the entire 52 min version you would need to subscribe to the Rejected Religion podcast: www.patreon.com/posts/patreo...

The Shape of Flux | Metapsychosis A meditation on duality, movement, and perception in sound—exploring new Acousmatic works by Philippe Neau and Darius Gylys in vibrant, shifting states.

A meditation on duality, movement, and perception in sound—exploring new Acousmatic works by Philippe Neau and Darius Gylys in vibrant, shifting states. This is the latest installment in the Metapsychosis Journal series on Acousmatic music metapsychosis.com/the-shape-of...

Into the Sonic Aether: Our First Live Acousmatic Journey Awaits on June 4th | Metapsychosis Dear Metapsychonauts, The veil between the audible and the imaginal grows thin. On June 4th, 2025 at 1pm MDT, Acousmatic Crossings will bridg ...

Hey all, this is happening today—last chance to register: metapsychosis.com/into-the-son...

Acousmatic Crossings Live Event—Diffusion and Discussion | Metapsychosis On June 4th, we gather—not just to listen, but to cross over. Acousmatic Crossings presents a live diffusion with Paul Dolden & Leonie Roessler. Sounds ...

My penultimate announcement for this event which is coming up this Wednesday. I'll be there—will you? metapsychosis.com/acousmatic-c...

In the Liminal Circuit: Explorations in Sonic Metapsychosis From Ali Balighi’s microtonal metapsychosis to Unearth Noise’s visionary Earth engines, these sonic works traverse thresholds—fractal, fluid, and imaginal. ...

Latest in the Acousmatic Crossings series—Ali Balighi with a highly charged electro mind bender and Unearth Noise with a more Earthly organic offering–but from which earth? metapsychosis.com/in-the-limin...

Acousmatic Crossings Live Event—Diffusion and Discussion | Metapsychosis On June 4th, we gather—not just to listen, but to cross over. Acousmatic Crossings presents a live diffusion with Paul Dolden & Leonie Roessler. Sounds ...

A reminder about our live Acousmatic Music diffusion and discussion: metapsychosis.com/acousmatic-c...

Resonant Horizons: Sound, Symbol, and the Imaginal Journey | Metapsychosis Imaginal Horizons in Sound: Valentin Sismann & Enrico Dorigatti Weave Acousmatic Alchemy & Symbolic Sonic Journeys.

Latest in the Acousmatic Crossings series in the Metapsychosis Journal. Two pieces, each in high contrast to the other but share the same quality of inciting the imaginal in strange and wonderful ways: metapsychosis.com/resonant-hor...

Acousmatic Crossings Live Event—Diffusion and Discussion | Metapsychosis On June 4th, we gather—not just to listen, but to cross over. Acousmatic Crossings presents a live diffusion with Paul Dolden & Leonie Roessler. Sounds ...

Metapsychosis Journal is doing a live diffusion and discussion on Acousmatic Music. Announcement and sign-up here: metapsychosis.com/acousmatic-c...

Mystic Cartography: Mapping the Sonic Unseen | Metapsychosis Step into a sonic realm where resonance shapes reality, sculpting gleaming architectures from shadow. Sound becomes creation—walk the path.

The latest installment for the Acousmatic Crossings series I'm curating in the Metapsychosis Journal. A piece my mc. gender: metapsychosis.com/mystic-carto...

Sounds and Silences | Metapsychosis Echoes of Sound and Silence: Exploring Symbol, Childhood, and the Power of Active Listening Through Acousmatic Composition

Here is the latest sound installment of the series I'm curating on Acousmatic music on the Metapsychosis Journal These two pieces seem especially relevant today as they point to a sonic statement of childhood innocence fraught with danger in our current times metapsychosis.com/sounds-and-s...

A Sonic Deluge of Transformation—Paul Dolden | Metapsychosis Paul Dolden’s Beyond the Walls of Jericho: A Sonic Incantation, Shattering Boundaries and Collapsing Walls in a Cataclysm of Sound

A few months ago Metapsychosis journal started a call for submissions for Acousmatic music and asked me curate. The first published piece dropped today. We plan on publishing 1 or two pieces on a bi-weekly basis. Here's the first one: metapsychosis.com/a-sonic-delu...

Acousmatic Music as a Divine Map | Metapsychosis A mystical exploration of music's ability to access the 'Earth of Light' through Acousmatic sound, connecting the soul's yearning with its divine origin beyond time.

in Metapsychosis Journal, thoughts on how Acousmatic music,listened to with a high level of engagement acts as a facilitator to access the imaginal. I lean on Corbins view of the mundus imaginalis. The essay uses an album by Beatriz Ferreyra as a model metapsychosis.com/acousmatic-m...

empreintes DIGITALes Label Overview The empreintes DIGITALes label was founded in 1989 and is based out of Montreal, Canada. Its focus is acousmatic, electroacoustic, and musique concrete. With nearly 200 releases in its catalog, the…

The Avant Music News site was kind enough to collate all my write ups on releases on the empreintes DIGITALes label. Some of these date back several years. I haven't written to much about them lately but I should really get back to doing that! avantmusicnews.com/empreintes-d...