Kava Infused — live at a kava bar in Hilo.
Composed in real time. No pre-production, just listening and responding.
While everything moves toward more content, this moves into deep listening, layered time, and the unknown.
markusmars.substack.com/kava-infused
#psychedelicsymphony #deeplistening
The choice of saving the planet.
It may begin more quietly than we think.
In listening.
Listening to sound.
Listening to what is here.
Listening until the sense of separation softens.
From there, something shifts — felt, embodied, alive.
markusmars.substack.com/p/the-choice...
A few years ago, I deepened my practice in Mahayana Buddhism and received the name Myō-on. My relationship with Buddhism is like my relationship with life itself — it’s complicated. I wrote this poem during precepts training.
markusmars.substack.com/p/significance
#poetry #spiritualpractice
Here's the post about the story behind my very first live album:
markusmars.substack.com/p/perfect-ha...
Thanks for reading, sharing, and listening.
I was just confirmed human by the non-human platform Meta.
Apparently, humans become increasingly unable to detect non-human AI behavior, while non-human AI becomes increasingly able to detect human behavior.
Fascinating.
Here's the video to my latest album, Pele's Fire – A Volcanic Symphony for Peace. Filmed by Tim Freeman, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i Hilo. What an adventure, composing live on the edge of a volcano 🌋 #volcano #eruption #kilauea #ambient #electricviolin #peace
As an electric violinist, I’ve always been chasing the perfect sound. I never liked the super compressed flat/sterile “electric violin” sound, but I enjoy the benefits of not running into feedback issues on large/loud stages. I’m currently reworking my pedalboard. Check out my Substack!
substack.com/@markusmarsm... #goodvibes #livemusic
Check out the Clarity Project in Honolulu. Talk today at Yoga under the Palms. #psychedelic #therapy #mentalhealthawareness
My new album, Pele's Fire — A Volcanic Symphony for Peace, is out now — available on my website, preorder on Bandcamp, next week on Substack, and soon on all major streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify.
markusmars.com
markusmars.bandcamp.com
markusmarsmusic.substack.com
Yours truly,
Cat
Humanity - a synonym for a steep learning curve?
Nice to find some fellow musicians here! Aloha and thanks for your art 🌅
Love your podcast. Thank you! It’s a fascinating experience between “oh so deep 😌” and “oh so cheesy 🤦” And: it’s interesting to observe which one of the two I’m experiencing depending on my inner and outer status quo 😄
You deleted nature? 🤯😱
My work is inspired by Steve Reich, Brian Eno, and Philip Glass, to name only three of the many great minimal composers. I just found out Brian Eno will drop his new album the same day my new ambient work will be released. What a very cool coincidence 🌋
New album out soon.
Your attention is being wandered. Is it still “your” attention? Bing it back…bring it back…bring it back.
Plumeria makes campus time a better time. 🌸
Or go vegan and leave wildlife alone.
To J or not to J, that is D question. Working on new DJ live sets.
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Listening to the volcano. New ambient track coming soon 🌋
What’s the threshold? Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Jewish space laser conspiracy?
😂
No mud, no lotus.
The United States is walking a dangerous path that has been paved over decades by right-wing diligence and liberal me-first ignorance.
“…and then accused of being the bad guy.”
Independence of the Mind. #ambient #soundhealing #mentalhealth #livelooping #electricviolin