Cosmic Dreams at Play

Cosmic Dreams at Play
Author: Dag Erik Asbjørnsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 237
Release: 1996
Genre: Electronic music
ISBN: 9781899855018

A Guide to German Progressive and Electronic Rock This definitive guide to German rock music covers the period from the 1960s to the present day and includes: An A - Z of groups, index of musicians, listing of key record labels, and a bibliography. Includes hundreds of B & W photographs and eight pages of colour plates. Stupendous.

Krautrock

Krautrock
Author: Nikolaos Kotsopoulos
Publisher: Black Dog Pub Limited
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2009
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781906155667

Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy charts the history of this influential music genre, from its roots in free jazz, psychedelia and the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, to the groundbreaking experiments of Faust, Kraftwerk and Can. The late 1960s in West Germany was a period of profound breakthroughs, upheavals and reversals. Out of this climate, a music scene exploded that would forever change the face of western rock; at times anarchic, at others mystical, magickal, or utopian, it pushed rock beyond any known limits. Illustrated with concert photos, posters, record cover art and other rare visual material, and also including essays by Michel Faber, Erik Davis, David Stubbs, Ken Hollings and testimonials from Gavin Russom (Delia and Gavin/Black Meteoric Star), Plastic Crimewave, Stephen Thrower (Coil/Cyclobe), and Ann Shenton (Add N to (X)) this is an essential compendium to a music whose spirit and ideas still vibrate through contemporary culture today.

The Cosmic Spirit

The Cosmic Spirit
Author: Roland Faber
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2021-03-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725260697

Are we more than stardust? Is the appearance of the fragile Earth in the vast universe more than an accident? Are we not children of a Spirit that pervades the dust, rejuvenates life, and embraces the ever-evolving universe? Is there a cosmic Spirit that wants us to awaken to a consciousness of universal meaning, sacred purpose, and mutual friendship with all beings? This book answers these questions with a spirituality of the numinous in our relation to the elements of the Earth in the matrix of the multiverse by taking you on a journey through nine paths and nineteen meditations of awakening. Not bound by any religion, but in deep appreciation of the religious and spiritual heritage of human encounters with the divine depth of existence in our selves and in nature, they invite you to become sojourners by engaging the most profound embodiments of the intangible Spirit by which it facilitates its own materialization in the cosmos and our spiritualization of the cosmos. Use—says this Spirit—the stardust that you are to become a spirit-faring species in an eternal journey of the cosmos to realize its ultimate motive of existence—the attraction of love!

Digital Gothic

Digital Gothic
Author: Paul Stump
Publisher: SAF Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1997
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780946719181

"Digital Gothicfocuses fascinatingly on the pre-soporific roots of the group and their place in a cool electronic lineage which traces right up to Detroit techno."-Mojo"A stimulating companion to the group's music."-The WirePaul Stump picks his way through a minefield of releases, assessing Tangerine Dream's long career with a highly critical eye, and for the very first time places their mammoth output within an ordered perspective.

Listening to the Future

Listening to the Future
Author: Bill Martin
Publisher: Open Court
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2015-12-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0812699440

In Listening to the Future, Bill Martin sets the scene for the emergence of progressive rock and examines the most important groups, from the famous to the obscure. He also surveys the pathbreaking albums and provides resources for readers to explore the music further. "Written with the insights of an academic, the authority of a musicologist, and—best of all—the passion of a true fan. Martin charts topographic oceans, courts crimson kings, does some brain salad surgery, and generally rocks out in 7/8 time." —Jim DeRogatis Sun-Times music critic

Brio

Brio
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1998
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Cosmic Son

Cosmic Son
Author: Brad Ryder
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1489718028

Years ago while in college, Gavin Walcott allowed his girlfriend to terminate a pregnancy for which he was responsible. He suppressed his dismay at the time, then had only occasional bouts of guilt for the next twenty-five years. Now, as he turns fifty years of age, a midlife crisis has Gavin mired in remorse and regret. He becomes determined to bring back the child he never knew. Such a plan would seem irrational, except he knows a friend with the capability of making it happen. When he travels to the past and succeeds in preventing the abortion, Gavin experiences a disorienting side effect, waking up to find he’s his own child. Cosmic Son tells the life and death story of how one man experiences two lives, only one of which will be allowed to continue. Trying to decide who will survive leads him to some epiphanies about how his choices have affected the people around him.

Einstein's Dreams

Einstein's Dreams
Author: Alan Lightman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2011-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307789748

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence. “A magical, metaphysical realm ... Captivating, enchanting, delightful.” —The New York Times Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar. Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.