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Dronescape 7: Jñāna – Rigpa

Oscar van Dillen Posted on February 22, 2022 by oscarMay 20, 2022

The work Jñāna – Rigpa is exploring the boundaries of autonomous drone composition, both in the sense of its duration (it has the longest single-track duration streaming platforms allow today), as in the sense of its minimalism of musical and technical means used. While creating an atmosphere of almost trance and meditation, it also serves as a means, a tool, for deep and inner reflection. Reflection on one’s own hearing is intended explicitly here: a music that serves to listen to one’s own hearing.


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Elements 14: Silicon

Oscar van Dillen Posted on January 4, 2022 by oscarFebruary 22, 2022

Silicon is the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, after Oxygen, the latter being also abundant in the atmosphere. In the periodic table Si is placed just below C and the two elements share many characteristics. Still, Carbon is the basic element for life, and no Silicon-based …
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Elements 8: Oxygen – Ozone

Oscar van Dillen Posted on December 14, 2021 by oscarFebruary 22, 2022

Oxygen is all around us: surprisingly, it is even the most abundant element on our planet. But the free, breathable oxygen O2 found in the Earth’s atmosphere, without which human and animal life would be impossible, has not always been here; it has been freed from its stable compounds …
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Elements 6: Carbon

Oscar van Dillen Posted on December 9, 2021 by oscarFebruary 22, 2022

Carbon is above all the Element that makes life possible. As symbolized by the pencil drawing at this album’s cover, it forms chains, and as basic carbon-based chains the amino acids are found in all life forms. As are the very long chains of amino acids, such as DNA, …
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Elements 118: Oganesson

Oscar van Dillen Posted on December 9, 2021 by oscarFebruary 22, 2022

Elements 118 Oganesson is the last in the Periodic Table, completing its structure with 7 full layers of electron shells. As an element, Oganesson fits in the group of the so-called “noble gases” but is predicted to be a solid at room temperature. Predicted, because only a handful of …
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