Michael Eisenberg

Between the Stations: Excavating the Invisible Hertzian Mayhem: Shortwave Sound Art & Heterodyne Music. Revealing the previously occulted | Duncan Laurie

New Acousmatic Crossings in The Metapsychosis Journal: Between the Stations: Excavating the Invisible. Duncan Laurie’s shortwave experiments turn signals between stations into immersive sound. metapsychosis.com/between-the-...

Where Observation Collapses Acousmatic Crossings presents immersive sound art by Rumore and DJ Renigade, blending field recordings, industrial spaces, and deep acousmatic drones.

Acousmatic Crossings: Where Observation Collapses is live. Rumore’s field recordings and DJ Renigade’s deep drone work transform everyday sound into immersive interior space. A focused listen for anyone drawn to experimental ambient and acousmatic music. metapsychosis.com/where-observ...

Sound as Passage, Passage as Sound An Acousmatic Crossings installment exploring Illusion of Safety’s Lost and Profound: cinema for the ears, liminal sound, imaginal ascent, and transformation.

The Acousmatic Crossings series returns with a work by Dan Burke's Illusion of Safety. "Lost and Profound" is part of a larger work called "Non-Interference". The lengthy edit we are presenting is an acousmatic journey into and through a sonic adventure in listening metapsychosis.com/sound-as-pas...

Maison ONA | Complete Acousmatic Works (2/2) Discover Complete Acousmatic Works (2/2)

Set for release on January 31st. I am BEYOND excited to hear this!!! maison-ona.com/catalog-R245...

Untethered Sounds A winter playlist of the Acousmatic

A Winter playlist for Acousmatic music on the Weirdosphere substack. The Weirdosphere is part of the Weird Studies podcast. If you are a podcast listener, and your tastes are geared more to the esoteric, I honestly can't think of a better place to be. open.substack.com/pub/weirdosp...

Trickster Signals and Dark Rooms: Two Paths Through Acousmatic Night Exploring Scant Intone’s psychoacoustic Morose Code and Tenebrae Annex’s dark, immersive “Hotel”—a journey through glitch, mystery, and imaginal sound worlds.

The final Acousmatic Crossings installment for 2025, two dark winter pieces for all initiates standing at the edge of the abyss: metapsychosis.com/trickster-si...

Micro-Events, Macro-Ghosts: Theta and the Schaeffer Transmission A deep dive into Daria Baiocchi’s “Theta” and Wayne Mason’s sonic homage to Schaeffer—imaginal journeys, negentropy, and acousmatic exploration.

Acousmatic Crossings returns with two new works
Daria Baiocchi’s Theta explores negentropy—its micro moves had me imagining a conscious node riding the CNS at relativistic parity
Plus a tiny Schaeffer homage by Wayne Mason- a crack in reality that opens the imaginal
metapsychosis.com/micro-events...

Acousmatic Crossings on the Rejected Religion podcast Join my Rejected Religion podcast interview exploring acousmatic music, its history, and a curated list of essential recordings to ignite your own listening journey.

Back in May I did a 52 minute interview on the Rejected Religion podcast. In the show notes, there is also a short list of essential listenings if anyone is inclined to dive a little deeper into the Acousmatic space. You can access the pod and the curated list here: metapsychosis.com/acousmatic-c...

it's certainly compelling

The Totem that Listens Back Paul Turner’s Four Walks in Three Parks explores shifting sonic strata, high strangeness, and imaginal listening in this latest Acousmatic Crossings installment.

Take an extremely weird sound walk with Paul Turner, this week in Acousmatic Crossings published on the Metapsychosis Journal: metapsychosis.com/the-totem-th...

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...

Acousmatic Crossings LIve Diffusion 2 YouTube video by Metapsychosis

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

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

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...