Below the Surface

dispatches from the deep

Have you ever discovered a musician who simply... delights you?

I was wrapping up a course in Cosmogenetic Experience with Dr. Brian Swimme and others at the Deeptime Network, a community exploring the story of the universe as a living, evolving whole. Ezekiel Fugate began our Zoom session with a song, as he often did.

I later looked up the artist: Cosmo Sheldrake, a UK-based composer and field recordist who makes music with the living world: birds, whales, fish, frogs, fungi.

[Play this video and song before reading on.]

The colorful images of fish swimming to the beat almost make them feel human, characters with personalities, lives, and interior worlds.