What Now with Simo

A place of the imagination — Bar / café — Still under construction — My music in the background — Albums and singles — The person in charge of the music — Passages Dark and Light — Tales from the North, Book I — Early Music Archive — “Land of Youth & Beauty” — 1 January 2024 — David Lynch’s weather reports — “January one” — Being and becoming yourself — Finding your own things — Patreon plan — Seeking support — Possible future episodes to help people sleep — Sleep issues — Music intended to be calming and soothing — May not work for people with troubled, restless minds — Too easy to tune out — Occupying your attention — Season 3 of Twin Peaks — Freed from anguish for a time — An array of elements arranged in such a way that it alters your state of mind or the way you are feeling — What art can be — We may remember from childhood — Discerning — “Critical thinking” — A lot of my early music — Music system glitch — New stage a few years ago — Directness — “Turtle Morning” — American Indian ponderosa pine flute — Had with me on my travels — Start of the COVID epidemic in 2020 — Dropouts part of this piece (“Stream No. 1”) — Thump — The way I play this flute — Voice out of practice — Plans for this year — Backlog — Started putting out my own creations only in 2019 — At Dawn: Early Short Stories — Creation of more than 20 years — The most central things — Fiction, poetry, music, filmed works — Reading of Lovecraft poem “The Garden” — Early work on four games — Started focusing on my own creative works — Everything a result of long, careful work — Documenting — Preserving the magic and surprises — Responsibility of artists — Everything affects us one way or another — Fiction and nonfiction — The core things — Art & Love series — Dreams after a bad day — Dangerous state — 1) Grisly dream — Place of several rooms — Warning — Someone was going to chop up a body — Podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend — Was able to turn and move the “camera” elsewhere — 2) Bicycling around an amalgam of places where I’ve lived — Lake shores — Causeway — Bridges — Rain — 3) Meeting in a tunnel system — Brief exchange — Took off jogging down the long tunnel towards the light — Backpack — Felt light, healthy, fit — An uncommon habit developed a long time ago — Sneakers — Reflected real life — Underpass free of ice and snow — Great things about Conan O’Brien — Jim Downey — Saturday Night Live — Scene from Billy Madison (1995) — Adam Sandler — “Everyone in this room is now dumber…” — Norm Macdonald and crafting perfect writing — “Weekend Update” — Objectively good writing and editing — One word created a little vignette or story — What makes us laugh is separate from what we may “approve of” — Close to closing time — Test crowd — Figuring out the configuration of the place — A creative space — Thanks to certain special people

PART 1: SUMMER DAY: One last summer day — Boat on the shore — Did go rowing — Times I had the beach to myself — Later realised why — Water just right — Giving thanks for the beautiful day — Phone alarm — Many motivations — Boat drifting — Oh, a fish | PART 2: RAINY NIGHT: Rainy night on the balcony — Most of the lake recording unusable — Something discussed in season 1 — Artist Curt Swan — Known for his work on the superhero Superman — Feels strange to be talking about this again — A later realisation — Swan was pushed aside — Had to happen — Necessary change — Shifted position — This character — So strange I ever said it — Like another person — A personal reason — A brief good period for those comics that coincided with my teens — Intricate continuity — For the first time a sense of evolving into something more — “Mature” — Disastrous results — Wrong turn — Misguided — Not the right place for those kinds of stories — Simply had some fond memories — Sweet ideals — Being a decent, even a really good person — Intentionally misleading covers — Acknowledging my changed views — Another reason to be thinking of change — Too static — Lacking magic — Things that can make you feel good every day — An insidious way for a person’s life to become less beautiful and treasurable — Times of staleness — Even when at the same time creating meaningful things — Why I’m here — Always different levels — Not rejuvenating, revivifying — Being able to wake up refreshed and recovered — Reasons why it may not happen — Sleep deprivation and illnesses — Life becoming more narrow and restricted — Freedom and new possibilities — Change becomes more difficult, if not impossible, the longer the static circumstances continue — Consciously shaking things up — Realising the need for change — Amassing more and more — Then started getting rid of things — Oppressed by all the stuff — Not giving me anything anymore — Seller’s tables at Finncon — Long time ago — Sold most of what I had — Happier afterwards — The horror of hoarding — A psychological problem — Mental health issue — Can be extremely damaging — Becoming encased in your collection of belongings — “Will I really miss something that I’m now getting rid of?” — No — That voice should be ignored — Life became lighter — Collecting as a form of hoarding — Seeking security by owning physical things — I love having room rather than stuff — Not enough life for any human being to keep returning to thousands of things — Dust — Mould — The feeling of being normally healthy — Feeling good about being alive and able to breathe easily — Not something to take for granted — Some inner journeys are delusions — Good health is luxurious — Young people’s beliefs that they’ll always find meaning in the things they currently do — Happiness not in things themselves — No reason to keep a thing anymore — A lighter life — In the here and now — The future is not guaranteed — Wishes for insight and ability to make changes

“Season 5 Opening” (@ 0:00) — Second episode of the day — Recorded on different dates — Closer to the mic again — Nicer listening experience — Lake episodes — Drifting ever so slowly — Without larger goals, danger of falling into triviality — Dreams, aspirations — Not selfish things — Couples bickering in grocery stores over trivial things — Triviality has taken over their lives — Many different forms — Obsessions — Hypochondria — Can be learned from others — Empathy for people with this problem — Be careful — Preoccupation with quirks — Irritability, pettiness — Policing other people’s behaviour — Bike example — Rageful people — Eliminating ways of wasting time — One way to avoid this fate — Lost human potential — Being creative — Numerous ways — My mother’s creativity — She made our whole yard bloom — Kamikaze motorboat — Album Early Music Archive — 50 early tracks — Wide variety of styles — American Indian ponderosa pine flute — My way of playing it — Lovely mellow quality — On Bandcamp, streaming, and for download — Praise for Bandcamp — Great way to support artists — Ways to help artists create more — More income from creative work equals more creative work possible — And faster — Reacting, sharing, word of mouth — Adding tracks to playlists — One thing leading to another — Chains of events — Simply doing my work and putting out information about it — Limits of what artists themselves can do — The rest depends on others — Not becoming an advertising agency — The people I hope to reach — My first single — “Land of Youth & Beauty” — “Lake Presentation” video (2022) for the book Land of Youth & Beauty: Early Poems — Vision of a book in a lake — Recap of the creation story — The vision happened again with the book with me — Sunlight shimmering — No special effects — The life of an independent creator — Thousands of small steps building towards larger goals and dreams — Albums and a single — Further along on the path — The books of short stories and poems — Cornerstones — Following natural schedules — Pierre Estève: “Time is on our side.” — Faith in time — Drifting and talking — Beach all to myself for swimming — Water the perfect temperature — PayPal donations possible via my site — Calling millionaires and billionaires — Everything helps — The bottom line of how much one can do in a lifetime — Updating my site — New functionality — Picture of all my works so far — Always up to date — More sheet music — Interpretations always different — The way lakes and seas and waves are — No indications of dynamics — Tales from the North, Book I — Same for tempi — Apology for not having yet continued the serialised discussion of Andrew Mellor’s The Northern Silence — Peter Falk’s memoirs — Reminder to myself — “Season 5 Closing” (@ 30:06)

“Season 5 Opening” (@ 0:11) — Programming of people — Behaviour patterns — Part of the control group — TV, films, games, stories in every medium — More and more inhuman — Even subhuman — Since 9/11 — Torture — Non-critical depictions — Troubling — Many went along with it — The time torture was made legal — Antarctica — Arctic polar region — No justification ever — No free advertising from me — Crept quickly also into science fiction — Past critical depictions of torture and other types of physical, emotional, mental, and psychological abuse — The belief that we can separate fiction from reality — Media literacy — Stopped following broadcast TV about 20 years ago — Stupid stories — Very easy for the writers — Sexual assaults as motivation in stories — Told from the perpetrator’s point of view — Not the victim’s — Unlike with David Lynch’s and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks — Events shown for the horrors they are — Not trivialised — What Alan Moore called “a pornography of violence” — Now common and mainstream in TV series and films — Chemical addiction to this type of content — Leading to withdrawal symptoms — Needing another “hit” — Most of these depictions don’t help people process things — The need was created — Few people born with it — Picking you up again — Friends or something else — Not what we should be doing with our lives — Sad waste of human potential and art and creativity — Long process — Is this really what we are here for? — Is this a good use of our time? — Is this the best we can do? — Is this what we are looking for? — One thing addicts can’t stand — What I am and am not in a position to do — Wouldn’t want a child to grow watching thousands of scenes of torture and rape — Exploitative — Offering nothing to victims of such experiences — Keeping wounds open — Creating and maintaining the addiction — Many forget what beautiful and worthwhile things can be done with art and creativity — People actually pay money to watch rapes and torture — Is this really human? — Can only answer for myself — Everyone free to make their own choices — Tobacco addiction — Scientific facts — Ray Bradbury — The Ray Bradbury Theater — His short stories — How is it possible we often stay away from such beautiful and healthy things? — Time forever lost — The precious gift of being alive — Freedom — “Season 5 Closing” (@ 24:32)

“Season 5 Opening” (@ 0:12) — Heavy heart — Talk it out — Reconsidering last episode — A little knoll — Past discarded recordings — Attempt to have a little fun — Reasoning behind the collage — “I like messes.” — Not letting myself off the hook — Moving on — Possible problem for creators — The best I can — By the time I publish a book — Able to justify everything included and excluded — We could do an experiment — Negative space — Heaviness of heart and spirit — Something very positive — Lou Doillon — French — Discovered her first as an actress in a film — Outshone everyone else — Multitalented artist — Music — Writing, playing, and singing songs — YouTube playlist — How natural she is — Things she doesn’t do — Like seeing and hearing a kindred spirit — Links between these various things — My past music — Final stages for my music album Early Music Archive — My 10th year of making music — 50 tracks on this album — Music from up until about two years ago — Newer music of a different stage — Bandcamp and CD Baby — Music can be a hyperlink — All kinds of moments — Getting fully up to date — Backlog — Reminders of things past — Someone I knew in another lifetime — Past, present, and future mix together — The books of early short stories and poems — Not an excusing label — More on art as a circle — The artist, the creation, someone who experiences the creation, and the circle returning to the artist — That final part of the circle of art — It matters — Motives that don’t apply to me — Motives that do — Meaningful to hear reactions — A common misunderstanding — Theatre example — With an audience or without? — Alan Moore / BBC Maestro videos — My past regarding him — His pieces of advice on writing — Can no longer get into his works — Because he does everything — Not leaving room for the audience or imagination — Paraphrasing — The opposite of what works for me — Too much detail already filled in — No room to imagine — The original Star Trek (1960s) gave just enough detail to spark the imagination — Kirk, Spock, McCoy — Not too much information — No longer part of my mental landscape — At that point, I’m out — Why am I even there? — Both fun parts already done — Fan fiction — I only want to know a certain amount — Portable black-and-white TV — Playing outside — Snow labyrinths — There was still room for imagination — Few props needed — The limited interest of biographical detail — Trademarked names — Simplistic motivations — Life can’t be reduced to single incidents — David Lynch proved with Twin Peaks season 3 that continuing series don’t have to end up giving too much information — Season 2 — Norma Jennings (Peggy Lipton) — The Double R diner — Ed — Shelly — Already enough — Not making it less than what it was — Knowing when to stop — The value can be in the lack of that more — Agent Cooper — Sheriff Truman — Just enough — Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me — Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (91 min.) — Deleted and extended scenes — Edited by David Lynch himself — Norma’s moment of quiet desperation — No unnecessary explaining — Drawing our own conclusions — “Season 5 Closing” (@ 44:35)

Veil of darkness — Morning row — Swimming on the beaches — Great privilege — My flashlight — Juice left — Creative activities — TV a lot — Arcane matters — Discussion — Completely against — About seven — Word-for-word perfection wandering off to one side — Come out later — Art is a circle — Talking baloney — At Dawn — Fresh inspiration — You will regret it — Properly continue — Early Music — Ten years — That Dark, Dark Night — Crystallisation — Love — An Iceland Symphony — Let them flow — All the feelings — One plus two — “In the Fog, Deep” — Eight is the number of infinity — Dissatisfied seagull — Dying to write — Be more fluid — How it made you feel — The sun has risen — Waterfall — Thunderstorm — Follow a story — Let yourself — Gentle moment — Absolute disaster — Needing to continue — Trying to backpedal but sliding forward — An oldfashioned fruit machine — This is a dance — From November 2022 to May or June 2023 — Cordial invitation — Nauseous — The full range of human emotions — Arm numb — For nothing — Bring some light and some beautiful darkness — What always is very meaningful

Long period of rains — On my rainy balcony — “Autumn Leaves” — Chet Baker’s version — English lyrics by Johnny Mercer — Forecast — A promise of sun — The rains started — Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” and “All Summer in a Day” — The 1982 TV adaptation — Days for summer dreams — Beaches overrun with blue-green algae — Dangerous — Things I’m here for — Obstacles — Rejected by Finland — Collectively and individually — Outcast — “Die already, Simo, or go away.” — Dreams and aspirations — Resentment — Unfinished thought — Another chance for Finland — Past midnight — Creating the sheet music for Tales from the North, Book I — Long process — Hoped to receive some support for this task — Sleeping in fresh air — Glass panels — Night thoughts — Earlier picnic episode — Inflatable mattress — Exhausted — Burned out — Back to more energy and joy — All the doors remain closed — Seeking support — Not healthy — About my aims — Part of the international community — Kinship — Something I’m not — Not against Finnish things — 2023 — Wish for more understanding of the world and of long-term concerns — Topical, passing — David Lynch and Ray Bradbury — Among the most socially conscious in the deepest, most lasting sense — Universal human subjects that will never go out of date — People who seek to ride passing trends — Different needs — Imaginary exercise — Do you feel a burning desire? — Time-specific struggles — The full spectrum of human emotions — Many kinds of Bradbury stories — Timeless stories — “The Night” — “The Lake” — Beginning of July — All the losses — How much life is behind and how much remains ahead — Futures — Reading people — Seeing into a person’s soul — Beneath the surface — Do I have a future? — Those very special dreams — Art & Love — Second volume close to completion — Real dream experiences — Physical and emotional effects — So many topics and several people — Their beautiful works — I wish — Burning too much — Honesty — Sharing the reality of things — Passing on some humanity and warmth — Idiots downstairs — Good night and wishes

Ray Bradbury’s writing process — Secret self — This podcast — 2020 — Spontaneity — Backlog — My wandering way — Some intentions behind my podcast — Almost an anti-podcast podcast — Special guest episodes — One-person operation — No haphazardness — Morning at the lake — Calm — Now you’re closer — Experimentation — Learning — Alan Moore — J. Michael Straczynski — Babylon 5 (1990s) — Online before most of us — Newsgroup — Demystifying the creative process — Obfuscation — Acting out of narcissism — Many different Alan Moores, then only one — Laundry to the laundrette — Occult and mystical subjects — Regular person — Personas — Not my kind of people — An outlet for thoughts and feelings — No local friends — A bug — Sometimes completely aimless — Being a human being — Free of all nonsense, façades, personas… — A record of moments both good and bad — At my best and at my worst — Ensuring this podcast will remain available after my own time — Currency vs. longevity — Glimpses of one person’s life — Breeze — Perceptions — Something I hope will change over time — Celebrities — Simple realities re: all of us — Throwing up, diarrhea, bodily functions — No one any different — A fancy — Heroic, saintly images — Cultivating a mystique — After I finish recording — Letters and conversations — Communicating verbal thoughts — Thoreau and his journal — Our time’s way of doing things — Warning about social media — More permanent, lasting form — Non-fiction book series Art & Love — Second volume nearly finished — Companion series — What Now with Simo vs. Art & Love — Recording things worth recording — Works by others — Written, polished, unlimited series — Accountable — Coming topics — Navigating in this world as an artist — Peter Falk’s memoir Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life — Delightfully constructed book — But that’s another story

Recording conditions — A topic — Filming — Bridge — Last summer — Perfect shot — Land of Youth & Beauty: Early Poems video — The vision of the book — Updated YouTube video descriptions — Illusion or mirage — What caused it? — Long winter wait — Andrew Mellor’s book The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music & Culture — Serialised discussion — First two paragraphs — Special, even sacred things — Light in Finnish forests — Immersing oneself — The time problem — Attempts to gain more for creative work — Burning the candle — Weird one — Quoting permission — The sounds of a Finnish lake — People swimming — Finnish architect Alvar Aalto — Quote from musicologist, folklorist, and educationalist Pekka Hako — Buoys — Cushioned recorder — Ambience — Jean Sibelius — Tapiola — Spirit of the forest — “Forest winds and creaking trees” — Disorienting — Structure — Only key shift — Evocation — Silence — Minor to major — Single key — Music I grew up with — Film music — Game music — Background music — The X-Files example — From suspenseful to major — The Shangri-Las: “Leader of the Pack” — A whole story in a few minutes — Amazing composer and arranger (“Shadow” Morton with two co-writers) — The tragic moment — Upward shift — Ecstatic moment of release — Discussions with Pierre Estève — Silence, pauses, negative space — “The natural state” — Rocks — Editing or not — Sleep aid — Bringing light and lightness — Intention — Gull message — Talked out — Being alive — Beauties of the lake — Back to shore

The Paul Williams lyrics — Can you guess? — Following up — Talking past things — Too noisy and windy — Not morning — Golden time for lake episodes — The wind — Human and animal activities — Bird fight — Their own business — At the lake and in the boat — Past summers — Ran the boat ashore — Weather forecast — More regular podcasting — Broadcasting — Radio shows — Always liked finding my own way — Maybe just didn’t find the right programmes — Tastes and interests — Northern Exposure — Chris Stevens (“Chris in the Morning”) — His radio show — Ideal — Terrific talk, real honesty, curiosity, great music — End of tangent — One important thing — Train wanderings, thoughtwise — Respect for living performers — Pianists — What I didn’t want to do — That should be theirs — Real performances — The sheet music — For others to take over one day — For this music to be complete — Questioning — One last thing — Adrift — Catching the thought — Fishing — Simple question — Simple answer — Not an option — All I could do — Going home — Salvage something — When it’s like the world is new and young again

Hello — Song by Paul Williams — “Nice to Be Around” — An interstitial episode — On a train — Family trip — Cup of coffee — Wooden stirrer — Second album — Tales from the North, Book I — 12 pieces — Piano duets — The nature of the album — The primary function — Introducing the pieces into the world — One rendition — For others to perform — Not mimicking actual performances — In the digital realm — In no way “definitive” versions — Liner notes — Not pre-empting — Professional performers — Virtual version of a piano from Abbey Road Studios — Spitfire Audio — Mrs Mills Piano — Bright and loud — Lacquered hammers — Lovely quality of detuning — Nice tang — Limits I set for these renderings — Soft and loud notes on this piano — Transparent results — All kinds of pianos — Tack pianos, honky-tonk style… — Overall volume — Concert grand piano — What some composers have done — Vertegrand — Upright piano — Artistic sensibilities — To demonstrate — Chopin nocturnes and preludes — Interpretations — Text notes — Bandcamp — This piano integral to the composition process of these pieces — Pro Tools — Preferred way of working now — Working directly with the final sounds — Sheet music — An Iceland Symphony — Musical notation — Notation app Notion for iOS, iPads — At a remove from what you want to hear — Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) — More flexible — Better choice — Piano roll interface — Classical music — Faster and better — Horizontal lines — Grid resolutions — Freedom to experiment and make changes — Having the music live — The upshot — Sheet music coming — Something else coming — Thousands of notes to notate — Ownership and copyright — Books — Reasons for self-publishing — Full control — David Lynch — Final cut — Absurdity — Movie example — Editing — Painting — Announcement (Jämsä) — Knowing when something is 100% how it should be — Publishers — Co-creations — Nothing wrong with it as such — Covers — Back cover descriptions — Advertising — Likeminded souls — Horrible covers — Many happier cases — Depends on the individual — Amalgamations of intentions — Pain only starting — Any artist at some point starts to know — Commercial writers — Responsibility — Not about ego — Can’t betray that inner voice — Otherwise distorted — At Dawn: Early Short Stories — Amazon — The earliest of the stories from 2001 — The searching years — My most special things — Magazine anecdote — What would happen then? — In this day and age — 1950s or 1940s — Ray Bradbury — The world has changed — Legwork — Agents — Heartbreak and pain — Tunnel — Sleep aid — Long excursions into wildly peripheral matters — A great purpose — In real life as well — Relationships — Gift of sleep — Learned from Northern Exposure — Bernard — Chris Stevens — Good advice potentially anywhere — Blessings — Office jobs — 3rd anniversary episode with Pierre Estève — YouTube — Mangling — 1st of June — Lake episodes — 10 minutes of your life you’ll never get back — The music of nature — The music of the train — See you soon

“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)

Sky Flowers: “Murmuration” pt. 1 (@ 0:00) — Intro — Sky Flowers: “Murmuration” pt. 2 (@ 0:39) — Locations — Megaliths of Carnac in Brittany — Shapes — Sourcier — Pythagore / Pythagoras — Special properties — “Gymnopédie Baaka” pt. 1 (@ 2:34) — “Sunriders” — High place — Echo — Rhythm — “Afterlife” (@ 4:28) — Fresh air — Temperature — Senses — Creating outside — Atlantis II: “The Sunken Isle” (@ 7:01, feat. Alyssa Landry) — Houses — 20th floor — Sunrises, epic storms — Black Moon Chronicles: “Incantation” (@ 10:18) — Theory — “Fairy Tales” (@ 12:06) — Adventure games on an island — L’Île-d’Yeu — Patricia Ruscito, programmer Pierre Gaudillère — Children of 8–18 — Weather — One rule — “Calm Morning” (@ 15:22) — Cameras — Drawings — Schools — Learning by themselves — Surprises — Pedagogically interesting — “Opera Baaka” (@ 19:05) — Adults — Director — Space — Computer voice — Homer Simpson — Perceptions — Dracula: “Harmonic Flow” (@ 22:01) — Learning from each other — Fresh ideas — “Curu” (@ 24:29) — Teacher of English — Research — “Good News from the Multiverse” (@ 27:00) — Communities — Northern Exposure — Deo Gratias: “Gaia” (@ 28:31, feat. Alyssa) — Adolescents — Porn magazine — Justified — Nazi captain — Sweets and a plushie — Pixel art — Teacher of Spanish — Objected at first — The girls helped — Atlantis II: “Knees Up” (@ 33:11) — Le Dossier de la Torpille (The Torpedo File) — U-boats — Coordinates, longitude, latitude — Motivation — Atlantis II: “Fintan’s Tree” (@ 36:51) — Stones — “Toyos” (@ 39:13) — Earlier days — National Education — Atlantis Evolution: “Limules célestes” (@ 41:32) — Sound patrimony — Isturitz — Stalactica — Bone flutes — Spaces — 10,000 to 50,000 years ago — Resonance — Conchs, whistles, rhombes (rhombuses / bullroarers) — Outside — “Forest Spirit” (@ 45:28) — Nature — Greek theatres — Acoustics — Colosseum — Black Moon Chronicles: “Destiny” (@ 49:11, feat. Alyssa) — Applying results — “Honey Joy” (@ 51:25) — CD-Rom extras — Bios of Pierre and of Stéphane Picq — Boring lessons — “Itamaracá” (@ 53:00) — Piano and flute — “Journey to My Roots” (@ 55:34) — Horizontal and vertical culture — Dracula: “Elfin Song” pt. 1 (@ 58:06, feat. Alyssa) — Insights — Notebook — Sharing — Dracula: “Elfin Song” pt. 2 (@ 1:00:45) — Games — “Pacha Mama” (@ 1:02:37) — David Lynch — Musical storytelling — Leonardo da Vinci — Biomimicry — Twin Peaks — Connected — Atlantis II: “Stars” (@ 1:07:15) — Rare artists — “Ombres du Soir” (@ 1:09:26) — Credits — Inspiration — Interviews vs. discussions — Wandering — “Gymnopédie Baaka” pt. 2 (@ 1:14:47) — Studios — Architecture, woodworking — Always more — Atlantis II: “Illumination” (@ 1:18:58)

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