Sudden Music

Included with the book of the same name. The hard cover book is 5.5" by 8.5" and 218 pages. There is also an edition of the CD by itself. Monks of the Serlo Gompa Monastery, Jumbesi, Nepal, recorded November 1982. Track 2 recorded live at the Von Krahl Theare Bar, in Tallinn, Estonia, January 2001. Text adapted from a tale by Reb Nachman of Bratslav. Track 3 text adapted from "The Blue Cliff Record", a twelfth-century collection of Zen koans. Track 4 ambient sounds of Helsinki recorded in December 2000. Cuckoo and fly recorded in Endla Raba, Estonia, July 2000. Track 5 sounds of night insects and the midnight train recorded in the Cold Spring woods, August 2000. Track 6 recorded live at the National Aviary, Pittsburgh, March 2001. Track 7 text adapted from E. O. Wilson, "Biophilia". Track 8 text adapted from the Upanishads, and more. Background loop recorded in Bangalore, October, 1998. Track 9 sounds of crows and other creatures recorded in Hall Quarry, Maine, August 1999. Track 11 text adapted from Michael Kneissle, "Research into Changes in Brain Formation," Newsletter of the Waldorf Steiner Kindergarten in Great Britain (Spring/Summer 1999). All pieces recorded at Storm King Sound, Cold Spring, N.Y., unless otherwise noted.