Darkened Soul: “Sublime Summer” (Seasons of Dark and Light)George L Smyth: “Summer Sleep” (Haiku Music Volume 7)Lucette Bourdin: “Twilight” (Nordic Waves, Vol. 3: Summer)Gypsy Witch: “Mojito” (Gypsy’s Summer Brews)Robert Scott Thompson: “Summer Twilight (Resonance)” (Alchemy)James Shain: “Early Summer in the Temple” (The Temples that Fell)Pallid Mask: “Midsummer” (The Wheel)Robert Rich: “Summer Thunder” (Echo of Small Things)

In the second hour, the live set is called The Plagues of Summer.

• Poemme: “Clouds of Breath” (Soft Ice)
• Meg Bowles: “Venus Rising” (The Shimmering Land)
• Tantroniq: “neXt (Premiere Version)” (neXt)
• VÆRNA: “Winter’s Flight” (Edges of Solstice)
• Lucette Bourdin: “Last Small Spark” (Drum-atic Atmospheres)

As part of Sci-Fi Con in Second Life, we were challenged to create a sci-fi mashup theme around “Eragon vs. Alien”. I decided to create a live set for the second hour honoring the smart woman who survived.

Soooooo I have been writing reviews for about ten years. My wife’s review of Alien puts everything I have ever written to shame.“Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman, and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat. Four stars.”

In the fight between Eragon and Alien, who wins? Ripley.

• Bing Satellites: “Flying Dream” (Twilight Sessions volume 11)
• Christopher Short – Guitartronic: “Flying Leisurely in the Sunshine” (Winter Soundscapes 2014)
• Cousin Silas: “I Often Dream of Flying” (The Silas Sampler 2 – The Twang Projects)
• Meg Bowles: “Nocturnal Flight” (A Quiet Light)
• Saul Stokes: “Nesser’s Night Flight Home” (Objects and Phenomena)
• Hope Street House: “Flight and Formation” (Collected Singles)
• Dan Pound: “Night Flight” (In a Hummingbird’s Dream)

The live set in the second hour is called Dream Flight.

• Phillip Wilkerson: “Endlessly Spiraling” (The Stars and Afterward)
• jarguna: “Spirals of Rosemary” (A Peaceful Granular Day)
• Robert Carty: “Spiral Vibrations” (Microspirals)
• mindSpiral: “Ecliptic” (The 1 is Silent)
• Mr. Spiral: “Cold Blue Night 1 – Prelude in Fugue (Machine)” (Edges of Solstice)

The live set in the second hour is called Spiral of Fifths and plays on the musical concept of the circle of fifths.

• Robert Carty: “Heart Waves” (The Mystic Choice)
• Dan Pound: “Heart’s Core” (Heart’s Core)
• Lingua Lustra: “How Deep is the Heart” (Ice Age)
• Jarguna and Friends: “The Heart of the Earth” (Trapped Vol. 1)
• Chris Russell: “From the Heart” (Aralu)
• Swartz et: “The Abundance of the Heart” (Desert Meditations)
• Alpha Wave Movement: “Gaia’s Heartbeat” (Concept of Motion)

In the second hour, the live set is called Songs of the Heart:

• Heartbeat
• Heartwarming
• Heartsick
• Heartened
• Heartbreak
• Raging Heart

The Full Moon in April is named the Pink Moon for the flowers that bloom in spring. It is also called the Breaking Ice Moon, Budding Moon, Awakening Moon, Egg Moon, and Paschal Moon. This episode of I Scream Sunday honors them all. Greet the moon as the harbinger of hope and growth.

• Tantroniq: “By the Light of the Moon” (Music from Inside Time)
• usr/sbin: “Moonrise Across the High Plains” (Wolf Moon Rising)
• Gregg Plummer: “Luna” (Luna)
• Alpha Wave Movement: “Luna Lamentabilis” (Echoes in the Vacuum)
• MindPhaser: “Valle de la Luna” (Singles)

The live set in the second hour is called The Chalice of the Moon.

• Conni St. Pierre: “Snow on Lilacs” (Flower Spirits)
• Mäläskä: “Dialogue Between Birches & Oaks” (First Day of Spring)
• Arcticology: “Deep Spring” (Deep Spring)
• Cousin Silas & Walter Fini: “Run Towards Spring” (Cousin Silas & Walter Fini)
• poemme: “melting streams” (Blooming Spring)
• Charles Denler: “The Spring” (One Drop Became an Ocean)
• Fringo Chills: “Welcome Springtime” (…cooled)
• Lucette Bourdin: “New Growth” (Under Currents)
• usr/sbin: “Serene the Spring Air” (Lenten Moon)
• Shane Morris: “April Pink Moon” (The Full Moon Series)
• EugeneKha: “Return to Green” (Green Quest)
• Jack Hertz: “Moss” (Green Mist)
• Natural Life Essence: “Sun Energy (seeds growing)” (Seeds and spores)
• Phillip Wilkerson: “And Lilac Too” (Swiftly the Sun)

– Hildegard von Bingen

Music can help us achieve a kind of stillness that’s elusive in the modern world. Out of the silence comes inspiration, motivation, wonder, awe. We’ll hear music that’s all about quiet and silence on this week’s episode of I Scream Sunday.

• Juta Takahashi: “Silence” (Silence)
• Lomita: “Place of Silence” (This Music Plants Trees 2)
• Phillip Wilkerson: “Unfolding Quietly” (Complex Silence 23)
• Divided by Two: “The Silence Beyond” (Electromagnetism)

In the second hour, the live set is called The Shores of Silence. The poetry used includes the one from Hildegard, above, and from a modern writer, Matty Kahler:

Through epochs carved in stone and ash, they rise—Cities crowned in glory, empires kissed by fleeting skies.Hope, the ember that outlives ruin’s bitter breath,Guides trembling hands to build once more from death.Lost and longing, they weave order from the void,Dreaming peace from fractured dreams destroyed.Yet order’s gilded mask conceals chaos in its veins,And from each conquest, discord breaks its chains.A few, clear-eyed, glimpse the cycle’s cruel art,But wisdom, weightless, bears no shield nor dart.They watch, helpless as waves crush castles of sand,While humanity clutches dreams it cannot understand.The struggle ends not with conquest, nor fleeting might,But when truth’s vast shadow meets love’s quiet light—

Only then, when veils are cast aside,Will the weary find peace where wisdom and wonder abide.

– Matty Kahler, March 2025

We’ll hear from a variety of artists today who honor the Spring Equinox in different ways.

• Shane Morris: “Equinox” (Equinox)
• Kuutana: “Equinox” (Waking Sun)
• Lucette Bourdin: “Crossing the Equinox” (Nordic Waves, Vol. 2: Spring)
• Conni St. Pierre: “Trillium (Wake Robin)” (Flower Spirits)
• Mäläskä: “Song for the World” (First Day of Spring)
• Spheric Lounge: “Before Spring” (Session 87 01.03.2008)
• Jack Hertz & Wolfgang Gsell: “Spring Thaw” (Sleeping Trees on Earth)

In the second hour, the live set is simply called Equinox.

• lexicon of sound: “the endless ocean” (the lighthouse)
• Re-Think: “Ocean of Dreams” (Cloaked in Thunder)
• Dave Riddell: “Ocean Light” (This Music Plants Trees)
• Sheleah Nahshon: “Joyful Ocean” (SANCTUARY)
• Gregg Plummer: “Ocean Abyss” (Invisible Bird)
• Max Corbacho: “Shoreless Ocean” (The Ocean Inside)
• Robert Rich & Markus Reuter: “These Storms Cast Shadows on the Ocean” (Lift a Feather to the Flood)
• Daniel Robert Lahey: “ocean deep ocean (thing_075)” (once upon a thing)

In the second hour, the live set will be called Thunder and Waves.