Messenger of Dionysos · Mused by Apollo

In ancient times, Satyr was the horned and horny messenger of Eleusinian forest god Dionysos. He mesmerized the youth of nearby villages with the musical magic of his flute and made them dance till broad daylight. In our common present, the spirit of Satyr inhabits the body of a human boy.

Searching for a new way to spread the vibe of the forest, by Dionysian decree, Satyr switched to SL and CDJ instruments, which fit the job quite nicely. Apart from those, he employs the tools Apollo chose: a blank screen and virtual ink, to jot down all he likes to think - hence this his satellite here, orbiting Earth's blogosphere!


scroll down to read his story in full

Single Vision, Plural Reality




👆💖👇


earth
a paradise,
all borders fantasy

no one alone,
all of us family

think for yourself,
question authority

keen up and delve,
act with humanity

live and let live,
sharing in empathy

single vision,
plural reality




music:  Atlantis - Paradise
(Apollo Records - 93)

inspiration: Dr. TFL

all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa

(cc) 2024, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0


Happy Maybe Day!

Robert Anton Wilson - Maybe Quotes - Optimism
👆🌀👇


Maybe Day '24: 6024 AL, July 23 - 3190 YOLD, Confusion 58 - 5784 AM, Tamuz 17 - 1403 SH, Mordad 2 - 1446 AH, Muharram 16 - 1946 AS, Sravana 1 - Fire Lord, 13.0.10.13.7, 14 Xul, 10 Chuwen (Monkey)
 

July 23 - Maybe Day 2024

happy maybe day!
excommunicate you lot
- we must shtick apart


Greetings Fellow Discordian Excommunicates, Erisian Ecstatics, H.E.A.D. Heads and other Marvellous Maybeings!

Party:cipating with Maybe Day '23 synced in perfectly with my cosmic agenda. However, this year, a plentiful of Summer buzzings impel me to keep it fnord short and sweet, with a quote and a clip .. well, "clip" ... the whole Maybe Logic documentary, rather:




And for those visitors, unfamiliar with Maybe Day: visit maybeday.net, rawilson.com, or click here to catch a glimpse of what today's festivities may or not have in store, and do not forget to click any other fnord link you may find on your path. RAW's incorrigibly optimistic quote, posted above, will become elaborated later on ..


... maybe.


From Maera and Me,
with Love and Lasagna,

Happy Birthday Monica!
#VoteLewinsky

winkblink


.: spectacles genitals brandy blunts :.


all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2024, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0


all  rights  reserved  -  all  lefts  reversed

Welcome To Our House



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Rhythm Controll
≡ featuring ≡
Chuck Roberts
My House



We may cry
we may grief
we may mourn
but
we shall not despair

We shall Jack our body
and Jack as we will

for as long
as we will Jack
so will Chuck


Enter


and
Welcome
to the House
that Chuck built

Welcome

to Our
House




in loving memory
of 
Chuck Roberts
Voice of House Music

 Long Live Jack
 Forever Love Chuck

Enter The Outer / Body

Enter The Outer/Body by Satyr Barbarossa - entry for FIBER Festival 2024

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Enter The Outer Body



“Where does my body stop and where does yours begin?” 

— Mary S. Applegate, Liquid Air (Air Liquide, 1992) 🔗



Concept ⇌ Sensation


For centuries, the Cartesian dualism - the concept of separation between mind & body, self & other - has dominated occidental models of reality. This dichotomy differs diametrically from the theory of nondualism, which implies oneness, unity of all in existence. As another concept, however, oneness sounds merely intriguing, until we experience it directly. 



According to Schopenhauer, our sense of separateness simply exists as a result of our will to objectify, an illusory effect of our perception of time, and space. It may take an ordeal, a shock, a sacrifice to cause a breakthrough of the metaphysical realisation, that self & other indeed exist as one. Our true reality lies in the ineffable connection within all of existence. 
 


The oriental model, encompassing this sensation, is called yoga, which translates as union or unifying — a dynamic process, not a static state. Advanced practising of asana - postures, poses - and deep meditation, leads to a transcendental state of awareness, named samadhi - blissful, direct experience of oneness. 

  

More than anything, Art can do this ..



In “the zone”, artists, dancers, painters meditate, following their bliss. When we feel aroused by a piece of art, music, poetry, we transcend our state of individual perceiving, expanding the physical boundaries, and move into a mutual realm of becoming — the outer body.

   

… and of all forms of Art



Music does this more than anything else, especially when we dance. Imagine a large crowd, dancing at a festival — one of our most familiar forms of coll-active meditation: rhythmic movement to a common pulse, synchronizing all postures, creating a shared state of oneness, a direct experience of the outer body.

Through art, music, dancing, we can transmit and receive this sensation. By direct experience, it propels us beyond the illusive barrier of the skin, as we extend spontaneously into the medium that embraces us. We move out of our steady state, into ecstatic trance, euphoria, rapture. As such, we expand into the outer body, the physique of life at large. 



Entering the outer body, we feel alive — quite possibly the sensation, which we continue to chase, and crave. Like a luminous shadow, it stalks us wherever we may go, waiting to tap us on both shoulders by surprise, engulfing us with goosebumps, lifting us from our ground of being, headfirst beyond our apparent borders, boundless into bliss. 



Enter the Outer/Body





writ: Satyr Barbarossa *
(cc) 2024 cc by-nc-nd 4.0



* Recently, I wrote this as my actual entry, responding to the open call to participate in the 2024 edition of FIBER Festival in Amsterdam - feeling grateful and happy to add: I made the selection!

A Scending Tea Garden

A Scending Tea Garden

👆🌟👇

earth becomes heaven
scending to the occasion
flying green white blue


𖤓

 '[~ A Scending Tea Garden ~]'
@ Hemelvaart 35 Jaar 🔗
on Ascension Day 2024
15:00 - 01:00 @ Yurt Yoga
hidden in the Bamboo Forest



15:00 Soundbath Ceremony by Anya - in the yurt
16:00 Peotic Recital by Satyr Barbarossa - in the yard
16:15 deep tribal eclectronic psychedelic ambient techno
DJ sets by Tommy, Akira, San Shine - until 01:00

&

Matcha and other Japanese tea
all day ~ by Tea The Moment
www.teathemoment.com

at Rijkshemelvaart
 

—o


    ~ scend to the occasion ~


👆👁👇


☞ No Pin, Cash Only - & - Kids Yes, Dogs No ☜
☞ Free Entrance - Donations Always Welcome ☜

Silence In The Air





closed eyes, open ears
heart of space paving the pulse
silence in the air


Rising High records logo
The Definitive Ambient Collection
Volume 2 - by Pete Namlook
(1994, Rising High Records)

Happy Bicycle Day

Happy Bicycle Day
👆💧👇

.: Happy Bicycle Day :.



Hofmann's Potion (2002)

🜄

🪄🏔 trring trrring 🚴✨

Pan-O-Ra-Magi-Ka - Satyr at the Magic Tree

[ sunset rainbow right after my set - click for full panoramic size ]

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Due to the non-stop stream of joy, love and kindness,
my return to the Amsteldamp went really smooth,
decompression completed this New Moonday,
and what better way to round things up
than with a Total Solar Eclipse
- even though far away,
it still feels as close
as Pan-O-Rama
does now
to me



reintegrating
crystals of all elements
merging into one




Vividly,
I remember ..
arriving at the Magic Tree,
on Friday, March 22, long after dark
the whole site, plants, people & particles
embracing me, whispering: Welcome Home 
a feeling of falling in love following me

everywhere

persisting
right here
and now

continuing
this ceremony

amazing
cosmic
eternal

in the very
footsteps of

Demeter & Dionysos:

Holy The Dance


✋💖🤚


with Love
and Light

forever
grateful


Satyr


𖤓


🪄🌳 .: namaskaramba :. 🙏✨

.. When Day Becomes Night ...



Rising High records logo
 when day becomes night
 father sky turns inside out
 twirls his crystal shroud


𖤓

—‘[~  Syzygy  ~]’—


the aligning of celestial bodies in a straight(-ish) line,
illustriously celebrated during an eclipse
as we line-dance along with
Sol, Luna and Gaia
all embraced
by Tengri
 
 —o—
 
Syzygy
I Am The Sky

(Rising High Records, 1994)


'Ear The Heart





blow out the candle
quiet the mind, 'ear the heart
dance the middle way


—o—

"Ambient Buddhism"
Takeo Suzuki

bandcamp
youtube

Vernal Equinocturnal ☉ Spring Equinox Reprise



recorded in cerebralation of the 2014 Vernal Northward Equinox,
reissued today to reprise the rejoicing of springtime vibrations,
in synchrony with the 2024 Equinox, of course .. of course ...

"Vernal Equinocturnal" - The Dawn of Spring

a chronosomatic collage
of scaped sounds and glitched grooves
following the path of the sun, the moon and the stars
from the last night of winter into the first day of spring

style: ambidelic / chill out / glitch / tripstep
what: vernal northward equinox soundtrack
where: 52° 22′ 23″ N x 4° 53′ 32″ E
occasion: the Dawn of Spring
total run time: 02:23:53

Sunrise @ 00:46:46
Sunset @ 01:51:51

created in chaotic harmony
amidst a tumultitude of distractions
with some extra crosstempo@moss-spherics


play it above - download below

—index of parts and tracks:

- last sparks of winter -
01. Vivaldi - L'Inverno (Allegro non molded)
02. Reactive - Free Search
03. Spectrum Vision - Sympotronic
04. White Bear - Primal Stomp
05. Derango - An Oak's Tale
06. Quanta - The Passage
07. Astropilot - God's Channel

- first dawn of spring -
08. Metaphorical Cloud - Aethereal
09. Irukanji feat JazzyFlute - Out From Little Box (edit)
10. Spectrum Vision - Tunguska
11. Unstable Elements - Emotions
12. Point - Datum Heute
13. Phutureprimitive - Kinetik
14. Atman Construct - Smells and Bells

- first noon of spring -
15. Fine Cut Bodies - Amendment XVIII
16. Space Jesus - Anthony Ayahuasca
17. Vonoom - Space Baby
18. Wolfen Technologies - Senses
19. Midnight Smack - Slo
20. Super Galactic Expansive - Metacognition
21. Auma & Desiseq - Chute
22. Tumble - Neck

- first dusk of spring -
23. Atman Construct - Parallax View
24. Prisma on Ooze - Extract of a Fragment III
25. Aisaid - Protos
26. Point - Sunshine
27. Phutureprimitive - Cryogenic Dreams

- first eve of spring -
28. Circuit Bent - Flutterby
29. Mr. Bill & Freddy Todd - Bloss (rmx)
30. Electrocado vs The Mollusk - Circle Jerk
31. Electrocado - Floptapuss
32. Vivaldi - La Primavera (Allegressivimo destructo)

click here to download this mix



.: share & enjoy :.

A Drift A Way A Life To Day



🌞

basking in the sand
ocean strolls along the beach
some sunny sunday




Dot - Drifting Away
( Outlaw Records )


War No More - Rehash Zero: A Peace of the Pi




[ listen to the full speech here and there ]

AO+2024.3.14 - War No More - Rehash #0: A Peace of the Pi

The Fourteenth of April - 3.14 or rather Pi Day: Celebrating gladly and quite nerdishly so, and commemorating the birthday of Einstein - yes - today seems like a perfect day to commence the rehashing of previously blogged material published under the title of War No More.
Happily sharing a slice with Larry[1], whilst cheering one of Albert's less-scientific quotes, one concerning his sturdy stance on the topic of Peace:

"I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war, unless the people themselves refuse to go to war." - Albert Einstein, January 1931[2]

Refuse to go to war.
Nothing special, really
- merely sharing the sentiment.

In 1952, Albert Einstein received an offer to become the second president of Israel, yet respectfully declined the proposition [3], stating he liked to study the physical world, but had "neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings."[4]

When reading these and other expressions spawned by his eloquence, one may only hope today's politicians would dare to share at least a shard of such an open-minded and open-hearted attitude toward setting aside any apparent differences, embracing all similarities and achieving peace between neighbors - all neighbors, near and far, in our global village, our shared little shore under the Sun.

Browse through some more of his poems, quotes, thoughts and words, compiled by Michael Burch, at: www.thehypertexts.com/Einstein_Quotes

 
Peace to all
who may read these words,
peace to all those who may not.

Peace to all neighbors, near and far,
including those whom I forgot.


Now, .. who wants some Pi ... !?


- sources & references

[1] Any way you slice it, pi's transcendental
www.sfgate.com/Any-way-you-slice-it

[2] As elaborated in part 1 of War No More (2014):
satyrsatellites.blogspot.com/war-no-more

[3] Israel: Einstein Declines (1952)
time.com/article/0,9171,817454,00

[4] Political Views of Albert Einstein:
en.wikipedia.org/Political_views_of_Albert_Einstein

[&] time.com/4228178/albert-einstein-birthday
[&] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein#Personal_life
[&] en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein_and_politics




War No More

One of our favorite pastimes.
One of our futile pastimes.
All war equals Us vs Us.

More War No More to follow
for as long as we choose
to divide, oppose and prod
one and other like cattle



.: peace or perish :.

writ: satyr barbarossa
(cc) 2014-2024 cc by-nc-nd 4.0

Tea - The Story Of A Leaf - Episode 3



🌞💚

Dear Frez, Luvz & Famz,
Honourable Teaheads
,

Tad past Two on Tuesday ..
... Time for Tea  🍵✨

 No gongfucha today; travelling a step eastward
to Japan to enjoy ceremonial grade matcha
from Tea The Moment while watching:

Tea - The Story of a Leaf - Episode 3

This episode touches on the current society,
culture and history of Japan, in the light of
various tea-related traditions & ceremonies.

click here for Episode 1
click here for Episode 2

Kanpai to all other teaheads out there!

🙏🍃

.:  d[_] * cheers * [_]b  :.

Pass The Oldschool Goosebumps



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Luv, could you please pass
the oldschool goosebumps?


Thanks.

🙏


Aphex Twin - .215061
(Analogue Bubblebath 3)

Descending Cloud Nine - Into 303

Moebius - Voyage d'Hèrmes

👆🌞👇

descending cloud nine
lovingly sighing deeply
my, natural high



Landed safely but still feeling blissed after an amazing 303 Weekend - playing my first (non-psy) gig since returning from the Forest of Eleusis, with a 6.5+ hour storytelling set.

Conjoining this bliss with gratitude, I wholeheartedly extend my thanks to Akira & Francis at Tea The Moment for making this happen, and to everyone else for your support - love to see you dance!

—artwork:
"Voyage d'Hermès"
by Jean "Moebius" Giraud


🌞🙏💖


.: love shine dance :.

Breathe In The Breezing



👆 🌞 👇


ascend from winter
new shoots root high in the sky
gently in the breeze


Hiver - Zefiro


🎐

Tea - The Story Of A Leaf - Episode 2



🌞💚

Good Afternoon Dear Teaheadz!

Time for a short intermezzo
between music & more music ..

… meaning, yes: time for Tea 🍵✨

Having a delicious green tea,
Monkey Picked from Mei Leaf,
with a Sunday Teatime Treat:

Tea - The Story of a Leaf - Episode 2

🍃

.:  d[_] * cheers * [_]b  :.

Rockit Don't Stop It!



👆⚡👇

drrop it don't stop it
pop-n-lock it i clock it
rrrockit don't shoock it


Attenuating all that Jazz, fading in to a newborn realm called Electro, navigating spacetime on a funkturistic spaceship baptized

Rockit

Apart from bridging the gap between the stars, this spaceship managed to (re)unite generations of black musicians, merging funk, jazz & hip hop. On top of that, before reaching the masses, it taught a whole new generation of white girls & boys - myself included - how to become b-boys & fly girls.

Once again: music connecting cultures.

With the video raising quite as many brows as the amount of ears zapped by the music, even MTV could not resist .. to get down

... and thus became written: history.

—'[~ Rockit ~]'

composed by Mr Fusion himself: Herbie Hancock
produced by Bill Laswell & Michael Beinhorn

—featuring
Grand Mixer D.ST on turntables
Daniel Ponce on batá drums
Oberheim DMX on drums

—additional turntables
Grandmaster Caz
Boo-Ski, Mr. C

—video by
Godley & Creme

🕳
👽 🙏 🤖

.: ahhh - this stuff is really fresh :.

Blue Turning To Green



💚

Lifting the mood from blue to green, yet sticking with Miles, all jazz would turn to jive without mentioning Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and last but never skipping the least of a single beat:
Tony Williams ..

... Miles Davis' legendary Second Great Quintet
 
Live in Europe, 1967.

🎵

.: scat scat zippity pah :.

For JBK - Feeling Kind Of Blue

JBK by Sebastiaan Westerweel

🍂

feeling kind of blue
chasing autumn leaves in spring
turning blue to green


🍃



💙

for JB, my father - an avid jazz cat
who would’ve turned 80 this week

___________

photo snapped by
sebastiaan westerweel



.: always here, in a silent way :.

Tea - The Story Of A Leaf - Episode 1



🌐

Tea - The Story of a Leaf - Episode 1

Dear Frez, Luvz & Famz,
Honourable Teaheads,
 
Join me for an occidental cuppa,
a simple gongfu cha session
or a true ceremony
as we travel ..

around the World in a Tea Daze

... with a sumptuous slice of
 Sunday Pastime Entertainment:

Tea - The Story of a Leaf - Episode 1

🍃



🌐

.:  d[_] * cheers * [_]b  :.

绿木龙 - Green Wood Dragon Tales

绿木龙 - Year of the Green Wood Dragon

GONG XI FA CAI! KUNG HEI FAT CHOY!

🌐

绿木龙 - Green Wood Dragon

MMXXIV

Year of the Green Wood Dragon

HAPPY NEW YEAR! HONG BAO NA LAI?

🌐




KoxBox - Doktor Mesmer
"Dragon Tales" (1997)
[ full album ]

🌐

.. and speaking of mesmerising ...




🌐


.: mu shin sen shi sou :.

Love Within Love


🌐

Ernest Holmes

(21 January 1887 - 7 April 1960)
 
👆❤👇

moment by moment
embracing with compassion
letting go with love


🌐

Peace - A Real Thing



🌐

"Right now, we gotta get
peace back in the world.
Peace is a real thing."

David Lynch
(20 January 1946)


🌐

.: pace et luce :.

Spectacles Genitals Brandy Blunts





Spectacles Genitals Brandy Blunts


Robert Anton Wilson
(18 January 1932 - 11 January 2007)

if you can read this
you are a pope
or a mome



take your pick
and do give
both pics
& links
a click



wait for it .. wait for it ...


.: amor et hilaritas :.

Open Your Eyes!

Open Your Eyes!

 Go to the meadows,
 go to the garden,
 go to the woods.

 Open your eyes!


👁

Dr. Albert Hofmann
(11 January 1906 - 29 April 2008)

Love - Unconditional Love



🌐

patience understanding love
most of all we need love




love

unconditional

love




Infected Mushroom - "The Shen"
w/ words ov love by Ambrosia

🌐

.: amor et hilaritas :.

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Member of the NEW TRAJECTORIES WEBRING

freakuently unanswered questions


? what is Satyr

! in ancient times, Satyr roamed the Eleusinian forests as the horned and horny messenger of Dionysos - the god of ritual intoxication - who dispatched him to mesmerize the youth of nearby villages with the musical magic of his flute, and made them dance till broad daylight.

? where is Satyr

! in our recent past, Satyr reincarnated in the concrete jungle of Amsterdam as a DJ. At age ten, he recorded his first mix, displaying his love for early hip hop and electro, and soon his tapes were in high demand. After the Second Summer Of Love, he got turned on by new dimensions of synthetic sound and ventured into the realms of ambient, acid-house, techno and trance music, never looking back ever since.

? does he still play flute

! the Panflute has become an artefact in captivity, held safe and sound in the archeological archive of the Vatican. Yet, since them high-n-mighty early 1990s, Satyr became increasingly skilled as a player of the SL & CDJ instruments, spinning various styles of musica eclectronica, embracing a wide range of the bpm spectrum with remarkable sparkle.

Notoriously difficult to pigeonhole yet sharply focused on and specialized in ambient, chillout, psytrance & deep atmospheric techno; entertaining events for 5 to 50.000 people, by serving his spicy melange of clean cuts and dirty grooves, mixing it down and grinding it up from raw to smooth.

A few memorable events ecstasized by Satyr:
Amsterdam Dance Event (NL), Atmosphere (Berlin), Ballonnenfeest (NL), Burning Man (USA), Club A (Sao Paulo), Dance Valley (NL), Love & Magic (Oslo), Metsafestiwaal (Finland), Pan-O-Rama Festival (La Gomera), The Pi Club (Berlin), Q-Base (Germany), Senseblender Festival (Belgium), Universo Paralello (Bahia / Brazil), VooV Experience (Germany), and many more in Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, USA & all over The Netherlands.*

* a detailed gigographic list might appear later



unless mentioned otherwise:
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa,
(cc) 2007 - 2024, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

all rights reserved,
all wrongs forgiven