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“Season 5 Opening” (@ 0:00) — Welcome to the heart of Tampere — Café — The year 2023 — Several episodes in preparation — Following season 4 — Collections of full seasons on YouTube — Season 5 will also have other audio elements in every episode — Music — Natural sounds — Lake episodes — Outdoors — Rowboats — Sound design — Context — Anti-podcast podcast — Ginger tea — Andrew Mellor: The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music & Culture (2022) — Need for changes in my life — Immersed in the Nordic countries — Insightful and thoughtful — Another quality I appreciate — The darker sides — Honesty — In the two very first paragraphs — Finland — Journeys abroad — Iceland — Paris — London area — Sidcup — COVID epidemic — Byways of thought — The forbidding nature of Finnish forests — Not fairylands — Vast — Dangers — Profound loneliness — In the right company and places — Wild animals — Bears — Immersing oneself in water — Bathtubs — Premier Inn hotel — Best form of relaxation — Bad decision by some Finns — Born surrounded by lakes — The Land of a Thousand Lakes — Swimming — Close contact with water — Light filtering through the woods — Quote — Many awards — Overwhelmingly positive reviews — A difficulty in my life — Backlog — Writer and composer — The simplest words — My interests in things from other cultures — Gaining perspective by traveling — The Hero’s Journey — An aspect matching human psychology — Deserving of proper concentration — Made me smile — Screenplays — Dream of Snow — The game Serena (2014) — One of four writers — Poem “Oisín and Niamh” — Land of Youth & Beauty: Early Poems (2022) — Based on a Celtic legend — Myths retold and modified — My version — Clue about blue eyes — Celtic otherworld Tír na nÓg — State of being in love and loved — Book title in the game — Simo Sakari Aaltonen — Finishing the screenplay — Love the format — Films — Long-term agenda — Art & Love, Vol. 2 — 124 short chapters — Concision — Several albums of music — Bandcamp update — Passages Dark and Light (2022) — Tribute to Angelo Badalamenti — One of the greatest composers of all — Twin Peaks — Timeless music — Speaking to our hearts — The right place for the tribute — The importance of finishing the backlog — Having final cut — David Lynch — Making my books from beginning to end — Café closing — Important aspects of all books — Large fonts — Limiting your audience or not — Bye — “Season 5 Closing” (@ 30:31)

Atlantis II: “Astralia 1” (@ 0:00) — Welcome — Sky Flowers — Installation and album — Part of the main exhibition Flowers of Change — Roppenheim The Style Outlets — Village of brands — Consumerism and art — Sky Flowers: “Clouds Above” part 1 (@ 3:26) — The street — Special mental place — Senses — QR code — Sky Flowers: “Clouds Above” part 2 (@ 6:13) — Relaxed with beautiful things — Unusual — Strong reactions — Atlantis Evolution: “Memories of Atlantis (Reprise)” (@ 9:26) — Like a second exhibition — Deo Gratias: “Panthalassa” (@ 11:23) — Darkness — Gratitude for sight — Dragon Lore II: “Into the Legend” (@ 13:50) — Healthy effect — Experiences at the Isturitz caves — Music in Penumbra — The complete experience — Sky Flowers: “Pluie d’Étoiles” (@ 18:18) — Silence, negative space, pauses — “Wall of Sound” — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “Spitzberg” (@ 21:32) — Active listening — Freedom — Obscura: “Lux Perpetua part 1” (@ 24:41, feat. Alyssa Landry) — Hot in Paris — Fan — Context and information — Ambience — Music for two new games — Scenario like in The Last of Us (2013) — Sound design first — Obscura: “Libera Me” (@ 27:41) — FPS (First-Person Shooter) example — Music matching actions and feelings — Applying new knowledge — Atlantis Evolution: “Life Cycle” (@ 32:06) — New directions — Being outside — Also psychological — Reactions — Moving quote — Joy — Peaceful — Plastic pollution — Connectedness — Dragon Lore II: “The Last Valley” (@ 37:33) — Picnic — Lying down outdoors — The sky — Clouds — Childhood — Sky Flowers: “Pareidolia” (@ 42:11) — Layers of speed — Landmarks — Anchors of health — Dragon Lore II: “Troubadour Song” (@ 48:58) — Negative or positive — Being in the here and now — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “La Tisseuse de Destins” (@ 51:09, feat. Alyssa Landry) — Intense art — David Lynch — Twin Peaks season 3 — Dark relaxing — Dracula: “Gothic Love” (@ 54:29) — Dystopian and utopian — Being outside of both when doing things — Garden — Learning from nature — Atlantis Evolution: “Utopia” (@ 57:11) — Silence — Ways of understanding it — John Cage anecdote — Anechoic chamber — Pierre’s same experience — IRCAM in Paris — Birdsong — Animals in the garden — Bamboo: “Esprit de la Forêt” (@ 1:00:34) — Recording and sounds of technology — Planes and field recordings for Atlantis II in Ireland — Post-production — Atlantis II: “Highlands” (@ 1:03:34) — At the lake — Recording not simple — Water — L’Île d’Yeu — Special way of recording water — Atlantis II: “Return to Atlantis” (@ 1:08:05) — Biomimicry — Janine Benyus — Interaction of an ecosystem — Systemic — Forest — Atlantis Evolution: “The Village” part 1 (@ 1:10:55) — Instruments and associations — Accordion — Madagascar — Atlantis Evolution: “The Village” part 2 (@ 1:13:23) — Couples dance music — My parents — Resonant frequency — Composing in situ — Genii loci — Atlantis II: “Places in a Ring” (@ 1:17:16)

“In the Fog, Deep” (@ 0:00) — Season 4 finale — Grief — Doors closed — An Iceland Symphony — Progress in life — Age and new directions — Making music — People driven to art and people doing art as a hobby — Creating something new — David Lynch and his life’s work — Inspirations — Ideas — Never copy — Basis in reality — Possible misinterpretation of my aims — Ray Bradbury — Pierre Estève — Vangelis — Twin Peaks — The last thing anyone should expect from me — The real thing — Waste of talents — Our special things — A turning point — Receiving and creating — Journey through the history of music through its recorded forms — Late 19th century — No longer getting something from something — Repetition and repertoire — Horrifying — Beethoven — Wagner — Enough — Future generations — Bob Dylan — A supposed basic truth — Wiped out — Taboo — A dystopian vision for future children — Mozart — Schubert — Anton Bruckner — Just examples — Speaking to young hearts and souls — Endless, oppressive obligation — Limits — Fresh things — An adult mistake — 1,000 years from now — New music speaking to people now, in the future, and perhaps for all times — Outgrowing things — Superheroes — Enjoyable shared experience watching some of the films — Marvel — Specific context — Correction about Alexander Toth — DC Comics — Layouts — Educated guess about what happened — Told to tone down his creativity — Warren Publishing horror comics — Happens over and over in the world of art — Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) — Quentin Tarantino — Twin Peaks season 3 — Like fine wine — Importance of leaving things out — Uses of language — Faddish creative styles — References — Longevity — Later audiences and audiences around the world — Changing perspectives — “Weird” — Philip Glass — You can’t address the present — Here now, gone tomorrow — Sense of responsibility — Theoretical frameworks — Missing the point — Genuinely possible to do new things — Formula scenes — “All is lost” — Calculating manipulation — Mr. Lynch’s freshness — Inner lives — “Inciting incident” — “The idea tells you everything.” — Wrapping up — “Land of Youth & Beauty” (@ 35:03) — Full audio from the “Lake Presentation” video for Land of Youth & Beauty: Early Poems — Farewell for now

Northern Exposure dream — Rich and long — Many scenarios and segments — Dreams are a gift — Places familiar from earlier dreams — Another puzzle piece — Stan Jones song “Riders in the Sky” (1948) — A seed for Ennio Morricone — Great Western music — Finding my own way — Sergio Leone asked him to write in the style of Dimitri Tiomkin’s Western soundtracks — Born in Russia, moved to the United States — “Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling” from High Noon (1952) — Later instrumental music — The two influences — Spotify playlist “What Now 1956–1959” — Performance by Nelson Riddle — Music composed by Tiomkin — Two John Wayne movies — Rio Bravo (1959) and The Alamo (1960) — Johnny Puleo & His Harmonica Gang’s “You Are Always in My Heart” — Now in the 1960s — Journey through music — So far listened to 72,268 tracks — Created 3,201 playlists — New: “What Now 1960–1964” — Name and cover art changes — Great freedom — The Scorpions: “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” — The Ventures: “Pipeline” and “Spudnik (Surf Rider)” — Firing the imagination — This freedom never existed before — How elusive it is — Only some very special artists have the key to that freedom always — David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE (2006), Mulholland Dr. (2001), and Twin Peaks season 3 — So much more to do with that freedom — Freedom and fragmentation — With regard to my own work — It comes through you — It’s somewhere out there — Flowing through what you do — Can’t be faked — You know the real thing immediately — Marketing tricks — May take a long time — Finding your way to ever more true and real things — Goes for life as well — Don’t settle if… — Feeling truly loved — “You are the one. I don’t want anyone else.”

Back at the lake — Episode of updates — Water perfect for swimming — One of my very favourite things in the world — Immersing myself in water — Lake, swimming pool, bathtub — When I start to float — Your own private world of blueness — The good type — The fresh smell of the lake — If you could bottle that… — Pierre Estève’s new album Sky Flowers — On Bandcamp — You never know what to expect — All kinds of musical realms — Musical explorer and adventurer — Flowers of Change — Fresh listening — Store selling used books and magazines — The memoirs of Peter Falk: Just One More Thing — Columbo — A book very much after my own heart — Varied and modular style — Kin to David Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish, John Cage’s Silence, and my own Art & Love series — Mostly short chapters — Great use of titles and subtitles (subheadings) — Adventurous and fun books — Small chunks — More light on negative space — Thinking and talking became a second-best choice — An illustration of negative space — Negative space defines the work — It opens and frees you up — Book designs I dislike and like — A joy or a chore — Why I do things the opposite way in my own books — My music now on numerous streaming and download sites and social media platforms (e.g. Instagram and TikTok) — Passages Dark and Light — All this is legit — The music remains completely owned by me — Will never give away the copyright to my work — Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music — More than 150 platforms — Royalties — Art full time — Living the dream — A huge plus of Bandcamp — Warm thanks to my first supporters there — Stephen, Roberta, and Michael — You made this possible — Working on new albums — Folk song “The Three Ravens” — Spotify playlist for 1956–1959 — Raveny rendition by Frances Faye — Three crows on the wooden bridge — On the cover of At Dawn: Early Short Stories — When things like this happen — Something I believe

Weather totally amyaazing — Midsummer — Drifting and talking — Quick course correction — Too close to a marker — A whole episode about negative space — Other thoughts — David Lynch film Wild at Heart (1990) — Starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern — Beautiful sequence — Gas station — Drive through a desert — Trying to get good music on the radio — 100 miles to go — Horrible stuff — Violence, death, health issues — Lula — Sailor Ripley — Powermad (band) — Letting go — From heavy metal to a classical song — Richard Strauss’s “Im Abendrot” (“At Sunset”) (1948) from Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder) — “Abendrot”: “evening red” — Different versions of the song — Rowing — Great tempo — Finnish for “world”: “maailma” — “Earth” (“maa”) + “air” (“ilma”) = “earthair” (“maailma”) — Concise way of saying “planet” — Earth surrounded by air (the atmosphere) — Negative space

A short afternoon row from beginning to end without talking, with some quieter parts when filming.

Good morning from the lake — Back to rowing — Future presentations of my books — At Dawn: Early Short Stories — Land of Youth & Beauty: Early Poems — Hardcover and ebook — Low profile for the moment — The Land of Youth and Beauty — Feeling truly loved — Then you feel young and beautiful — Chronological age — Chris Stevens in Northern Exposure — A kind of companion book — Title, cover design, nature — No assembly line — So many things — Screenplays and stage plays — Poems from a time of searching — From my heart, soul, and secret self — The most special things — Many styles and topics — Now a very clear sense of direction — Markers to my future — The commentary section of At Dawn — Dates and comments — Classical poems — Sonnets — Other rhyming styles — Different rhyme schemes — “Oisín and Niamh” — From the game Serena (2014) — Free verse — Stream of consciousness — Spare poems — Happy, unhappy, absurd, funny… — No dates — Pedantry and lyricism rarely go together — Earliest poem from the year 2000 — Magazine of the Department of English — Only hardcovers and ebooks in the future — The beauty of the hardcovers — “These are now the final versions of these books.” — Royalties about the same — No gouging — Every piece of art is a result of the artist’s whole life — Not only the mechanical action — Avoiding getting killed for thousands of days and night — Great relief — Weight off my shoulders — A local lake monster — Finishing things — Need to update website — Readings and other types of events — Videos — A right time for everything — Forgot to bring a hat — Sun beating down on my head — Looking forward to working on future creations — Backlog project — Many things to do and feel — Great feeling — Bare stage or fresh page — Visual art — Early music — Transcripts — Long intervals between episodes — David Lee Homb — Pierre Estève — Some future episodes — More room to breathe — Episodes on a more regular basis — Need to prioritise — Future presentations — Dedicated episodes — Spontaneity — Thank you for joining me on my little rowboat — Beautiful morning — Take care

Good spot for a picnic — Green grass — Forgot the pillow — Shade — Sandwich — S.Pellegrino sparkling natural mineral water — Shoes — Rainbow-coloured blanket — Helmet — Why haven’t I done this before? — I don’t believe in beating yourself up — Easygoing — A long time ago — Academia — Dry place — Parties and picnics — May Day — That part of the day — In warmth with a breeze — Basic things most important — Fresh air — The smell of grass — Colours — Tastes — Smells — A touch — Senses — Art & Love, Vol. 1 — Next part — Chapter on sensuality — Not hedonism — Indulgence leads to unhappiness — Distorted looking glass versions — What I see right now — Sunglasses — Bottle — Black bag — Shoulder bag from London — Zoom recorder — Lime-coloured helmet — Adjusting mechanism — Cars — Buildings — Hotel — Red brick factory — Caterpillar beer festival tent — Lakeside — Future topics — At Dawn: Early Short Stories — Passages Dark and Light — Ambushed — Amusement park — Creepy Carnival — Everything has its own time — Pushing, imposing, forcing — No — Eating the sandwich — Your battery — Eating outside — Perfect picnic moment — Very early summer — Buzz — “It was a picnic kind of a day…” — Mouthful — Taking photos — Thanks for joining me — Moving on — Sun — Find myself a city bike — Packing up — Paper Tiger — You’re on my leather gloves now — For protection — Crumbs for birds — Down the hill, past the dandelions — Take care

“Season 4 Theme — 2nd Anniversary Opening Version” (@ 0:00) — Two years from recording the first episode at Hótel Vellir in Iceland — My mother’s passing — My parents — “2nd Anniversary Lyre” (@ 1:52) — New leather couch from Denmark — “Passages Dark and Light — Part 1” (@ 2:40) — Note regarding earlier symphony discussion — At Dawn: Early Short Stories for a later episode — The three first Psycho films — Anthony Perkins — Lasting use of language — David Lynch and Ray Bradbury — Henry Purcell: “What Power Art Thou” from his opera King Arthur (1691) — David Lynch swearing — The music of Ron Jones — Sleeve notes from Film Score Monthly — What Star Trek was originally meant to be — Once upon a time — A person like a dragon — Philip K. Dick quote from his novel VALIS (1981) — Ideas — Intuition — Everything connects — Authentic and right — Don’t fake it until you make it or you may break it — Negative space — A novel can be any length — Freshness from leaving out all the extraneous things — The Hours (2002) — The Elephant Man (1980) — Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) — INLAND EMPIRE (2006) — Healing devastation — Best possible advice for dealing with trauma — Readings of Ray Bradbury — “The April Witch” (1952) — How can we forget beauty? — Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) — The suburb scenes — Roy Neary played by Richard Dreyfuss — Metaphor for creativity — Artists can eat their cake and have it too — Northern Exposure did that often and well — John Williams quoting from “When You Wish Upon a Star” from Pinocchio (1940) — Happy ending? I think not — Immature vs. mature — Field of Dreams (1989) — Dignity — Actors with dignity often get exploited for undeserving stories — Bryan Cranston — Jonathan Banks — The emotional toll this takes on the makers and viewers — I must speak my own convictions — Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones as examples of immature storytelling — Modularity as a creative principle — Quote about good teachers — Paul Chadwick’s Concrete — Melissa Strangehands — Art commenting on art — Drawing from life itself — Art in your favourite TV series — A rock garden — Fragmentation — More on art in story worlds — Do comedians exist? — Moments that would shatter the psychotic intensity of many series — “C’mon, man. Don’t be stupid.” — Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Seinfeld — Dreams of Norm Macdonald, Philip Glass, and David Lynch — All the things stories are — One thing, two things, three… — A series for the young at heart — Dear listener of the future — Drink cans — H. P. Lovecraft poem: “The Garden” — “Lovecraft’s Garden” (@ 42:41) — “Passages Dark and Light — Part 2” (@ 43:49) — Fake drinking in films and TV series — Imagine a world without potatoes — I had a dream of you today — About half done with the remaining notes — Cheering anecdote — All the music has been composed and performed by me — The future of my music — A video can give the best possible sense of how a book looks and feels — Good wishes to good people — Much love — “Season 4 Theme — 2nd Anniversary Closing Version” (@ 53:20)

Northern Lights, Op. 2 No. 1 for Lap Steel Guitar: “A Beginning Is a Difficult Place to End” (@ 0:00) © 2022 Simo Sakari Aaltonen. All rights reserved.

“Notes to Self” (@ 0:25) — Backlog — Some individual points — Line by Rod Serling — “What are you, some kind of sadist?” — Nicholas Meyer on specificity and universality — The very picture of a violinist — Sir Yehudi Menuhin — Poster in a café — Tastes in music — Plastic people — A really bad idea — Symphonies were originally not expected to be heard by any single person more than once — What types of music and what pieces of music you can listen to over and over again — Expectations of Beethoven, Mozart, and others — Very different now — Expected relistenings — Theme music for this podcast — Most advertising jingles annoy on purpose — Angelo Badalamenti’s theme for Inside the Actors Studio — Twin Peaks theme by him and David Lynch — Highly relistenable — Sometimes you hit those times in life where the heaviness of what you need to experience is overwhelming — You can’t express love generically — Devalues expressions of love — The companion playlists: “What Now with Simo 1952–1955” and “What Now with Simo 1956–1959” — No longer tweeting about new additions — On Spotify — Sharing beautiful creations with others

Year 2022 — On a train — Warmth — Finland has two great festivals of light and warmth — Midsummer and Christmas — Human warmth is a miracle — The most difficult thing to get across in art — Harder than comedy — Everything needs to be just right — Sense of balance and lightness — The Finnish Christmas song “Varpunen jouluaamuna” (“Sparrow on Christmas Morning”) — Prose translation in the season 4 book — Upcoming books and updates — The season 3 book will be special — Now all episodes play on all devices — A lot of catching up — Several books in the first half of 2022 — Collection of short stories — Hardcovers — Excellent printing — A tremendous change — Avenues of expression — Before the Internet and social media — We used to live in a world of far more limited freedom — Trilingual (Finnish, Swedish, English) announcement (Orivesi) — Algorithms — Editorial process — Nobody was in control of their own words — People have largely forgotten this — The bad old days — Everything was controlled by gatekeepers — The freedom of expression we now have — Struggle of thousands of years — Any threat to this needs to be fought — Always have final cut (David Lynch) — The rest of my backlog — After that, whole new fresh projects — Creations from times of searching — Different and distinct — These times — Blind faith in life working out — Even when it makes no sense to believe that — Light on the horizon

Finnish Christmas song: “Varpunen jouluaamuna” (“Sparrow on Christmas Morning”)

“Winter Is Here” (@ 0:27) — My tribute joke to Norm Macdonald — A reason why many old poems no longer play — First world problems — Hundreds of poetry readings from 1923 to the 1950s — Listening to some during morning exercise (5 to 6 a.m.) — Wordsworth, John Donne — Donne’s “The Sun Rising” (1633) — Raging at the sun — Determines the comings and goings of lovers — Casts an imperious eye — How privileged? — A natural phenomenon an adult should be able to accept — Painstakingly, by hand, maybe with a quill and ink — “Saucy pedantic wretch” — Spinning creative wheels — Picture the scene — Waking up — How dare the sun shine when it pleases? — Guy ranting at the window — Undercutting everything I just said — Ponderous readings and readers — One early 20th century style of reading poetry — Quivery voice — This type of tone — “Wherefore must this orb of yellow” — Where did this style come from? — A product of a particular section of civilisation — Johan Huizinga — Play can very well include seriousness, whereas seriousness excludes play — Now there are all kinds of approaches — A short, immature vignette — Lost or not? — Right person or not? — Not difficult to tell — Do you end up letting go of your greatest aspirations? — Does your world get ever narrower? — Kick down the fence — Find life again — “Some thoughts from the Twilight Zone.” — The Twilight Zone largely grew out of the creations of Ray Bradbury — Discussed often in Blu-ray commentaries — Rod Serling — The Ray Bradbury Theater — Glad things worked out the way they did — The world is richer for it — Stephen Sondheim — An episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm — Officer Krupke — Krup you

So many of our problems come from misuse of language — “What is the meaning of life?” — Not possible without language — Like the memory of a wind that came and went — Questions of self-worth — At some point in the past — Need to be responsible with language — Any idea can potentially live forever — Self-defeating and other-defeating ideas — Ruthless — Mosquitoes — Getting rid of deeply seated thoughts — “A high standard” — Nonsense thinking about perfection — Emotional self-abuse — Physical effects — No difference — Another basic flaw — “Failure” and “success” can only apply to a process that has come to a conclusion — Aiming at the Moon — All part of the journey there — The only real failures — Our ways of abusing language are multiplying — An imaginative exercise — If you want to suffer more — Come up with new levels of gradation re: failure — A destructive type of thinking — Better ways — Pierre Estève: “Time is on our side.”

An illustration — Something I and Pierre talked about — Silence, negative space, and room — Tight vs. looser editing — Exact same background music (“Fresh Start”) — Postponing some topics — Great losses recently — An uncle, a friend, Dean Stockwell — The passing of Norm Macdonald — He was the first outside my personal circle to have an impact on this podcast — Early in season 1 — Norm’s encouraging tweet — Messaging — Sent him my books — The prospect of doing a podcast with him — Amazing amount of appearances on podcasts etc. — Kept his cancer secret — He’s hugely important — Free — A good soul — Feeling of freedom and space — Two different energies people can create — Dave Chappelle — His last Netflix special — Thoughts get stirred around — Not telling others what to think — Narrow path of only currently approved thoughts and opinions — Religious — Authentically what he was — His way of being — Relaxed — No rush — Pauses — Natural pacing — Unlike many other performers — Breathing naturally — Same kind of calm as with David Lynch — Patron saint of this podcast

“Season 4 Theme” (@ 0:00) — Welcome — “Fresh Start” (@ 0:33) — New cover art and theme tune — Looking back on season 3 — Discussions with David Lee Homb and Pierre Estève — Great feedback — All music in my own episodes is by me — No ready-made elements — Hardcover books — An Iceland Symphony — Short episodes — Introductory episode — Original idea and secret hope — Chris Stevens in Northern Exposure — Pierre’s music — His and David’s generosity — David’s first book of poetry Awake, I Dream — Future plans — Next steps with An Iceland Symphony — Book of short stories later this year — Catching up with transcriptions — Season 3 book of transcripts — Including full transcripts of the discussions with David and Pierre — A million other things — Welcome aboard — Good wishes

Atlantis II: “Rainbow Bridge” (@ 0:00) — Cahors — Avignon — Nature and wild places — Dragon Lore II: “Sanctuary” (@ 2:02) — Listening — Sound is a miracle — Field recordings — Studies — Learning — Your own voice — Confidence — The best way to learn — Pleasure in the doing — Teachers — David Lynch — Rules vs. principles — John Cage: Silence (1961) — Freedom — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “Spitzberg” (@ 12:20) — The way Mr. Lynch learned screenwriting — Restrictive rules — Surprises — Changes in mood — Season 3 of Twin Peaks — Current reading and films — Many interests — Edward Bernays — Rules of propaganda — Short film Propaganda — Noam Chomsky — Poetry — Technical things — Janine Benyus and biomimicry — Ken Loach — Lars von Trier — Also some Hollywood movies — Dracula: “Flying Over the Mountains” (@ 20:50) — Koyaanisqatsi (1982) — Baraka (1992) — Story told without words — Director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass — Collaborations — Not an effort but a joy — Stéphane Picq — Early computer music — Cryo’s Dune (1992) — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “Crystal Winds” (@ 27:30) — Instrument collection — Ireland, Turkey, Indonesia… — Male and female voices — Atlantis II: “The River” (@ 30:44) — Studies in singing, conducting, composing, and more — Alyssa Landry and Gaëlle Zydian — The end of Atlantis II — Two flutes — Atlantis II: “Child” (@ 34:12) — Invisible links that music can reveal — Utopias and new worlds — Architecture — A full ecosystem — The flying ships — Great musical challenge — Pythagore / Pythagoras — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “Awakening” (@ 39:19) — Atlantis II: “Tepec” (@ 41:41) — Caves in Southern France — Stalactica — Isturitz and Oxocelhaya — Prehistoric — Concretions — MADe In series — Bamboo — Metal — Stone — Lithophones — Senses — Bamboo: “Flowering Mystery” (@ 47:39) — Longevity — Tuned stalactites — Perfect fifth — Cave paintings — Elegance — Essence — Engravings — Animating images — The impulse to do art — Bows — Communing — Spirits — Atlantis Evolution: “Worlds Beyond” (@ 55:19) — Relief paintings — Places chosen by sound — Echolocation — Resonance — Iégor Reznikoff — Reverberation — Fundamental — Resonant frequency — Atlantis Evolution: “Ancient Shells” (@ 1:03:05) — The spirit — World music — Earlier attitudes to music — Béla Bartók — Debussy and the Javanese gamelan at the World Fair in Paris — Tchaikovsky, the celeste, and “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” — Obscura: “Temptacium” (@ 1:09:57) — Will our music last? — Political problem — Atlantis II: “Highlands” (@ 1:12:26) — Gregorian chant — Songs like “Greensleeves” or “Scarborough Fair” — Cultural links — Prejudices — Clarity and elegance — Language that lasts — Negative space — Ray Bradbury: “The Lake” — Simplicity vs. complexity — Obscura: “Lux Perpetua part 2” (@ 1:18:13) — Silence and space — Atlantis II: “The Tower in the Well” (@ 1:20:26) — What does or can art do? — Art is both given and received — Positive and negative impact — Atlantis Evolution: “Memories of Atlantis” (@ 1:23:06) — New approach — When are you happiest? — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “La Lune” (@ 1:25:51)

Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “Sunriders” special remix (@ 0:00) — Introduction — Welcome — Composer and artist — Sound experimentation — Recording company Shooting Star — Non-profit organisation Art Science 21 — Crossroads of art, science, and sustainability — Bandcamp page — Website — Something special coming — Vangelis — Music and friendship — Closer relationship — YouTube — Huge instrument collection — Flowers of Change — A special project — Collaborative — Forests of flowers — From recycled plastic bottles — Interactive — Light and sound — Like a video game — Evolving — Augmented reality — Grenoble, France — Flowers of Change, Flowers of the Anthropocene — Changes — Transhumanism — Science, nature, and biomimicry — Immersive experiences — Mix of music and sound effects — Generative music — More composed parts — The forest in Atlantis 4 and the Flowers of Change forest — Atlantis Evolution: “Quiet Stream” (@ 12:50) — Sound design — All part of the same thing — Tuning sound effects — Ron Jones and his music for Star Trek: The Next Generation — Atlantis Evolution soundtrack — Ambient sounds and music — Field recordings — Canarias (Canary Islands) — One of the possible locations for Atlantis — Greece — Atlantis Evolution: “Pillars of Heracles” (@ 19:03) — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “Muria” (@ 20:51, featuring Alyssa Landry) — The water considered as an instrument — The rhythm of the waves — Catching the essence — Opera — Everything counts — Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone — Once Upon a Time in the West — Fitting scene to music — With the music removed — Only the meaningful sounds — Freedom from realism — Field of Dreams example — When you’re an artist — Atlantis II: “Rhea’s Garden” (@ 27:05)