Category: Descartes’s Dreams

MercyMercy

“A sickly man is no less a creature of God than a healthy one.” – René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy in Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated (trans. Cress)

LineageLineage

“Nothing is more ancient than the truth.” – René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy in Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated (trans. Cress)

Descartes’s Dreams: Sixteenth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Sixteenth Dream

Scoring Six Hits

“If I Fell” was written by Lennon and McCartney and recorded by the Beatles.

Descartes’s Dreams: Fifteenth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Fifteenth Dream

The, Uh, Target

Descartes’s Dreams: Fourteenth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Fourteenth Dream

By the Waters of Babylon

Descartes’s Dreams: Thirteenth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Thirteenth Dream

Animals

Descartes’s Dreams: Twelfth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Twelfth Dream

Fantod

Descartes’s Dreams: Eleventh DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Eleventh Dream

Noodles

Descartes’s Dreams: Tenth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Tenth Dream

The Vicissitudes of the Seasons

Descartes’s Dreams: Ninth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Ninth Dream

Descartes’s Dreams

Descartes’s Dreams: Eighth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Eighth Dream

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” – Solomon Linda wrote the original of this nearly a century ago, and George David Weiss added the English-language lyrics a generation after that.

Descartes’s Dreams: Seventh DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Seventh Dream

Music for Malaria

Descartes’s Dreams: Sixth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Sixth Dream

Nuts and Bubbles

Descartes’s Dreams: Fifth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Fifth Dream

Do-It Do-It

Descartes’s Dreams: Fourth DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Fourth Dream

Motherless Child

Descartes’s Dreams: Third DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Third Dream

A Thousand Times No

Descartes’s Dreams: Second DreamDescartes’s Dreams: Second Dream

Male Human Sexuality

Descartes’s Dreams: First DreamDescartes’s Dreams: First Dream

In the late 1990s I produced a series of experimental sound recordings in Studio C at KUNM radio in Albuquerque.  I called this series Descartes’s Dreams, from the title of the vocal portion of its longest track.

These recordings were stashed away in a plastic bag for over a dozen years before I decided to convert them to mp3 format and post them here.  They’ll appear one per day on the sidebar to the left, and also here in the new posts.

Here’s the first, “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”

Puttin’ on the Ritz