10 episodes
Purusha - A Sonic Adventure Michael Ramus
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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When the space agency ‘Quietland’ detects a mysterious sound coming from beyond our galaxy, four trained musicians are sent in search of the source of this frequency.
What will the astronauts discover as they give up their eyes and go searching with their ears and hearts?
Purusha is a ten part radio drama written by Michael Ramus, featuring original composition by Alex and Robbie Blencowe.
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Season 1 - Episode 10 - Roots of Furthest (remastered)
Episode 10 – Roots of Furthest. Lightyears from home and abandoned by Quietland, the crew must reconcile their differences before they reach the Frequency. It’s time to go where only music can take them.
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Season 1 - Episode 9 - Digital Afterlife (remastered)
Episode 9 – Digital afterlife. Muller takes command of the Purusha into her own hands. The crew split up to search for answers. Quietland provides news from Earth and Ambedkar examines PAO’s coding. It’s time to discover what’s real and who can still be trusted.
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Season 1 - Episode 8 - The Golden Ratio (remastered)
Episode 8 – The Golden Ratio. With opinions still divided on how best to proceed, the crew start to decipher The Golden Ratio. Perhaps the composers final score is their last chance to contact the Frequency. Alone on the ship, Colebrook makes an unsettling discovery...
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Season 1 - Episode 6 - The Philharmonic (remastered)
Episode 6 – The Philharmonic. The crew tries to uncover what happened to the Philharmonic as Muller deals with a personal trauma. Colebrook undertakes a dangerous mission to learn more about the composer and soloist.
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Season 1 - Episode 7 - Binaural Ghosts (remastered)
Episode 7 – Binaural Ghosts. With Colebrook in Quarantine, the crew try to unravel what is happening to the Purusha. What is on the ship with them? What is happening to their vision? And what remains of their mission?
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Season 1 - Episode 4 - Torpor (remastered)
Episode 4 – Torpor. With Mars in the distance, the crew of the Purusha begin to bed down for the long sleep. It’s time to say their final goodbyes to Earth and record one last piece for the Frequency, as they ponder what awaits them on the other side.
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Customer Reviews
A soundtrack for space
In Contact (1997), scientist Ellie Arroway goes through a wormhole. At a loss for words to describe the wonders that she sees, she utters the line “They should have sent a poet”.
In Purusha, instead of sending a poet, the Earth sends 4 astronaut musicians to meet up with a strange source of musical sound. The journey will take 36 years in cryosleep. While they are asleep, they are to be tended to by the AI controlling the ship, called PAO.
Each of the four characters is clearly distinguished: responsible leader Muller, perennial pessimist Colebrook, brusque rationalist Ambedkar, and at-odds-with-herself Ymir. They hypothesize and argue with each other about science fiction ideas. Could the frequency be God? Does PAO have the capability for sentience or is it just very good at copying others? What did they leave behind for this journey and what will be there when they return? And when they are seized by inspiration, they compose and play music.
When the twists and turns come, it is very satisfying to realize that every surprise had been seeded early on, like watching a line of dominoes fall.
Purusha is a soundtrack for grand ideas: the loneliness of isolation, the separation from loved ones, the creative synthesis from jamming together, the wonder and fear of finding the unknown. Where words are inadequate, music is there.