What Now with Simo Simo Sakari Aaltonen

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)

“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