Sensitive Chaos 'Seeker After Patterns' is #79 on ZMR Top 100 Airplay for 2011

http://zonemusicreporter.com/charts/Top1002011.asp

There were over 2300 recordings reported to us over the past year and these are the top airplay titles for 2011. Congratulations to the Top 100 Artists on this achievement. (Compiled from Top 20 airplay data submitted from January to December 2011) Rank Highest Position # Months In Top Ten # Months on Chart  Recording Title Artists Label 1 1 4 7 Autumn Sky Blackmore's Night Minstrel Hall Music 2 1 3 10 Dreaming Still Kathryn Kaye  Self Released  3 1 3 7 A Time of Innocence Keith Driskill Self Released 4 2 3 8 Throughout the Autumn Light  Robert Linton October Moon Records 5 2 3 6 ...and Love Rages On AOMusic Self Released 6 1 3 4 Surrender Jeff Oster Retso Records 7 2 3 6 Resonance Takashi Suzuki Calm Records 8 1 3 3 Spectrum: An Anthology of Relaxing Instrumental Music Hennie Bekker Abbeywood Records 9 1 3 7 Timeless II Michael Dulin Equity Digital 10 2 3 6 Angels of the Sun Fred Thrane Self Released 11 1 3 4 Journey Around The Sun: A Mayan Odyssey Bill Wren & Frank Ralls Ponder Dust 12 3 4 7 Midsummer Uwe Gronau Confido 13 1 3 8 Elements Matthew Schoening Self Released 14 3 3 6 Where I Belong Sajjad Self Released 15 3 3 6 Something Getting Wrong Michael de Salem Michael de Salem Music 16 5 3 9 3rd Eye Rising Paradiso 5th Element Music 17 2 2 7 Spiritual Piano: Message Music Steven C Steven C Music 18 6 3 7 Underground Lisa Hilton Ruby Slippers Productions 19 6 2 11 Music For Commuting [Volume 1 - 6] Ken Elkinson August Son Productions 20 1 4 9 GAIA Michael Brant DeMaria Ontos Music 21 8 3 7 The Shape of Things Josh Johnston Shandon Records 22 5 2 8 A Moment Between Eternities Louis Colaiannia Self Released 23 2 5 19 Beauty and Fire Tomas Michaud Starland Music 24 6 2 6 The Language of Flowers Eric Harry Calm Records 25 7 3 5 Carried Away Janice Faber Self Released 26 3 2 2 Safely in the Arms of Love Michael Stribling Leela Music 27 2 2 3 Star Eyes John Fluker Retribution Records 28 4 2 3 Reflections Candice Night Minstral Hall Music 29 5 2 4 Crystal Keys: Songs to Awaken and Heal Lia Scallon Sounds of Sirius 30 7 2 6 Songs to the Earth Annette Cantor Source Being Productions 31 8 3 7 Piano and Light Brian Crain Self Released 32 6 3 3 Eclectic Eve Christopher Lapina Lapina Music 33 9 2 8 Subliminal Pulse Bruno Sanfilippo Lotuspike - Spotted Peccary Music 34 9 1 8 Reflections Kelly Andrews Journey Music Entertainment 35 10 1 10 Many Paths Lorrie Sarafin Lizard Dance Productions 36 7 2 6 A Thousand Years Stanton Lanier Music to Light the World 37 11 -- 7 August Amy Lauren A.L. Productions 38 6 2 3 Red Leaf, Grey Sky: Piano Improvisations Catherine Marie Charlton River Dawn Productions 39 10 1 7 Damayanti 2002 Galactic Playground Music 40 7 1 6 The Journey Greg Maroney Hen House Records 41 13 -- 6 The Mountain Lake Johan Agebjörn Lotuspike - Spotted Peccary Music 42 1 4 11 Another Place and Time... Heidi Anne Breyer Winterhall Records 43 10 1 7 Porcelain Helen Jane Long Warner Classics & Jazz (WCJ) 44 15 -- 8 Oriental Spaces Homeless Balloon 24 Chillout Music 45 2 4 14 Northern Seas Al Conti Shadowside Music Publishing 46 5 1 1 A Midnight Clear: Christmas in Mitford Bill Leslie Capitol Broadcasting Company 47 18 -- 9 Erdenklang und Sternentanz (Earthsong and Stardance) Gandalf Prudence Recordings/BSC Music 48 7 2 11 a day within days Darshan Ambient Lotuspike - Spotted Peccary Music 49 4 1 2 A Delicate Joy David Nevue Midnight Rain Productions 50 3 3 7 Forget-Me-Not, Blue Evan Wish Wish 4/4 Music 51 14 -- 6 Unconditional Marc Enfroy Self Released 52 6 1 7 Away Melancholy, Away Eric Harry Calm Records 53 11 -- 3 The Guild/ Days of Sorrow M.K.Sol Self Released 54 12 -- 4 From Out of the Vast Comes Nearness Paul Ellis Lotuspike 55 7 1 2 Still Moving Kathy Raimey Spiral Soundcase 56 10 1 3 Transitions Patrick O'Hearn Patrick O'Hearn Music 57 21 -- 10 The Best Of Douglas Blue Feather Douglas Blue Feather Spirit Hawk Records 58 13 -- 4 Metamorphoses Bob Kilgore Weaseltrap Records 59 16 -- 7 ambient.world David Arkenstone Domo Records 60 11 3 10 Sacred Love: Feel the Journey Shambhu Acoustic Shine 61t 9 4 10 The Crossing David Helping Spotted Peccary Music 61t 6 3 8 The Grace of the Green Leaf Lis Addison Self Released 63 15 -- 4 Dance Of The Shadow Planets Jon Durant Alchemy Records 64 19 -- 6 From the Dark Side of the Moon Mary Fahl Self Released 65 16 -- 5 A Dimension Reflected Time Being Lotuspike 66 20 -- 6 Collections Blow Up Hollywood Self Released 67 14 -- 4 The Road Eternal Steve Roach Projekt 68 19 -- 6 The Veil of Whispers Thierry David Real Music 69 17 -- 5 Songs From Before Fionnuala Sherry Hearts of Space 70 10 1 1 12.25 Kyle pederson Self Released 71 21 -- 8 Mystery of Light Deuter New Earth Records 72 13 -- 3 Earth Songs Douglas Blue Feather Spirit Hawk Records 73 2 3 14 Doorway to a Dream Ann Licater Cul de Sac Mystic Productions 74 16 -- 6 Journey's End Howard Ferre Ferre Studios 75 33 -- 9 Passion, Fire & Grace Gabriel Ayala Canyon Records 76 13 -- 2 Now I Sleep John Albert Thomas Self-Released 77t 13 -- 7 The Wind That Shakes the Barley Loreena McKennitt Quinlan Road Limited 77t 24 -- 1 Christmas Joy Fiona Joy Hawkins Little Hartley Music 79 25 -- 5 Seeker After Patterns Sensitive Chaos Subsequent Records 80 23 -- 6 The Desert Inbetween Steve Roach Projekt 81 23 -- 8 Fragments Amongst Myselves Amongst Projects 82 21 -- 4 Relaxing Melodies of Nature Kenio Fuke Real Music 83 19 -- 3 Silent Star Bernward Koch Real Music 84 1 3 10 Simple Beauty Bill Leslie Capitol Broadcasting Company 85 21 -- 3 BLISS Paul Avgerinos Round Sky Music 86 65 -- 1 Heavy as a Feather Kathryn Kaye Final Notes 87 19 -- 5 Ancient City Homeless Balloon 24 Chill Music 88t 19 -- 2 Island of Anywhere Mike Howe Real Music 88t 39 -- 7 Handprints of Our People Aaron White Canyon Records 88t 3 2 11 Reflections On Still Water Acoustic Ocean Acoustic Ocean Music 91t 23 -- 4 I Remember Michael: A Michael Jackson Solo Guitar Tribute Adam Rafferty Crescent Ridge Publising 91t 24 -- 4 Their Moment of Perfect Happiness cyberCHUMP Internal Combustion 93 18 -- 2 The Royal Albert Hall Concert [London, 2nd March 2010] Ludovico Einaudi Ponderosa Music & Art 94 28 -- 4 Paradise Earth Robert Carty Deepsky Music 95 8 2 10 Fly Eric Harry Calm Records 96 22 -- 4 Anyma: Volume 2 Anyma Anyma World 97 26 -- 3 Atlantis Angelis Patrick Bernard Devi Communications 98 32 -- 4 World Without Walls Ancient Future Capitol Records - EMI Records 99t 14 -- 12 Embers Helen Jane Long BLE Music Group 99t 12 -- 5 Call Of Love Peter Kater Point of Light Records

WVKR makes Sensitive Chaos 'Remembering Chestnuts, Icy Cold, and Bells' #10 for December 2011

http://secretmusicwvkr.blogspot.com/2012/01/secret-music-news-january-2012.html


WVKR "Secret Music" Top 20 Playlist
December, 2011

1. Steve Roach - Journey of One - Projekt
2. Robert Rich - Medicine Box - Soundscape Productions
3. Justin Vanderberg - Synthetic Memories - Spotted Peccary Music
4. Darshan Ambient - Dream In Blue - Lotuspike
5. Lyonel Bauchet - The Secret Society - DiN
6. Polaris and Krzysztof Horn - Collision - Ricochet Dream
7. Marconi Union - Beautifully Falling Apart - Just Music
8. Broken Harbour - Gramophone Transmissions - Self Released
9. Moo - Introversion - Self Released
10. Sensitive Chaos - Remembering Chestnuts, Icy Cold, and Bells - Subsequent Records 
11. Richard Skelton - Marking Time - Preservation 
12. Nicholas Mohanna - Reflections - Preservation 
13. Aaron Martin & Steven Wright - Light Poured Out Of Our Bones - Preservation 
14. Sam Rosenthal - The Passage - Projekt 
15. Kathy Raimey - Still Moving - Spiral Soundcase
16. Louis Landon - Peaceful Christmas - Landon Creative, Inc 
17. Kyle Pederson - 12.25 - Self Released 
18. Robert Schroeder - Cygnus-A - Spheric Music 
19. Paul Avgerinos - Bliss - Round Sky Music 
20. Jeff Talman - Nature Of The Night Sky - New Domain

Montana Public Radio KUFM Oasis plays Sensitive Chaos 'Seeker After Patterns' on New Year's Day

Montana Public Radio's Oasis for January 01, 2012
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM


Electronic and acoustic New Age music with Montana Public Radio host Joan Richarde.


Playlist:
Program Name: OASIS 
Date Of Broadcast: 01-01-2012
Host Producer: Joan Richarde

1. Thierry David - L'Invitation au Mystere - The Veil of Whispers - Real Music - 2011 - - www.realmusic.com

2. Bob Kilgore - Road to Damascus - Metamorphoses - Weaseltrap Records - 2011 - - www.weaseltrap.com

3. Bob Kilgore - Eleventh Hour - Metamorphoses - Weaseltrap Records - 2011 - - 

4. Michele de Wilton - Waltz for Gerda & Kay - Myths & Legends - Michele de Wilton - 2008 - - www.micheledewilton.com

5. John Albert Thomas - Smile Again - Now I Sleep - nilmdts - 2011 - - www.nilmdts.org

6. Robert Linton - [title cut] - Whisperings at Nightfall - October Moon Records - 2006 - - 

7. Secret Garden - Song For A New Beginning - Winter Poem - Hearts of Space Records - 2011 - - 

8. John Fluker - Star Eyes (Part 2) - Star Eyes - Retribution Records - 2011 - - www.johnfluker.com

9. John Fluker - After The Fall - Star Eyes - Retribution Records - 2011 - - 

10. Michele McLaughlin - Midwinter Memories - Christmas - Plain & Simple II - Michele McLaughlin - 2011 - - www.michelemclaughlin.com

11. Fiona Joy Hawkins - Flight of the Snowbird - Christmas Joy - Little Hartley Music - 2011 - - www.littlehartleymusic.com.au

12. [10pm ID & Playlist Break] - - - - - - 

13. Thierry David - Liquid Melody - The Veil of Whispers - Real Music - 2011 - - www.realmusic.com

14. David Arkenstone - Liquid Sky - Ambient.World - Domo - 2011 - - www.domo.com

15. Thierry David - Persuasion's Dance - The Veil of Whispers - Real Music - 2011 - - 

16. Patrick O'Hearn - Restless - Transitions - Patrick O'Hearn - 2011 - - www.patrickohearn.com

17. Sensitive Chaos - A Piece of Stars - Seeker After Patterns - Subsequent Records - 2011 - - www.sensitivechaos.com

18. Sensitive Chaos - [title cut] - Seeker After Patterns - Subsequent Records - 2011 - - 

19. Patrick O'Hearn - Patterns - Transitions - Patrick O'Hearn - 2011 - - 

20. David Arkenstone - Acquiring.Satellites - Ambient.World - Domo - 2011 - - www.davidarkenstone.com

21. David Arkenstone - Gargouille - Ambient.World - Domo - 2011 - - 



The impressionists called them tone poems. These days it’s called New Age. Montana Public Radio host Joan Richarde guides listeners with this emotional, inspirational, flowing music for Sunday night.

Remembering 2011, Three Albums, and Friends

Here I type on New Year's high atop Common Sound Studio in Decatur, GA, reflecting on the Sensitive Chaos year that has past and planning for the year to come.

It has been a very good year for Sensitive Chaos; two commercial releases on the Subsequent Records label ('Seeker After Patterns' and 'Remembering Chestnuts, Icy Cold, and Bells') and one on the Ping Things Netlabel ('Meditation Modulation Manipulation'). Radio airplay on all three and lovely people adding them to their music collections. Of the songs on these releases, five have become part of the Top 10 Sensitive Chaos songs receiving airplay (#3-"Seeker After Patterns", #5-"Ceiliúradh Mhór", #7-"L'Ascension", #8-"Remembering Chestnuts, Icy Cold, and Bells", and #9-"A Piece of Stars"), and four are in the Top 10 best selling Sensitive Chaos songs on iTunes (#3-"Ceiliúradh Mhór", #7-"Seeker After Patterns (Radio Edit 1)", #8-"Sensitive Chaos", and #9-"L'Ascension").

As an independent artist operating my own label and publishing company, success is without question a direct result of working with incredible people in this industry and participating at a personal level with as many as possible. We thrive with our friends and I will remember 2011 as a high point for friendships and connections, the true measure of success.

A huge thank you to all my collaborators this past year: Brian Good for his perennial good taste and musicality, Otso Pakarinen for always contributing the perfectly unexpected, John McNicholas for taking a simple suggestion and making it ginormous, Tim Walters for letting me mine that old diamond, Tony Gerber for his incredible integration of spirit and electronics, Paul Vnuk, Jr. for making percussion sound like an epic soundtrack, Christian Birk for supplying synthetic icing on the cake, and Demi Pietchell for lending her rotoscope visuals and enthusiasm.

A huge debt of gratitude and thanks to all those who have included Sensitive Chaos in their radio playlists. The radio seque has got to be one of the most powerful music inventions ever, and to hear you practice it with such artistry week after week is a revelation! Inclusion in the community you cultivate is a blessing. Also, much of what I released this year were live recordings, and it is truly a thrill to hear live recordings played along side studio pieces. A highlight of 2011 has been in listening in to your live streams or podcasts and experiencing the joy of live radio with real DJs and real personality in the mix.

So, in no particular order, thanks for all the support this year to John Diliberto at Echoes, Rusty Hodge at SOMA FM, Stephen Hill at HOS, David Herpich at StillStream, Misha, Mason, John, DJ Siene and Laura at WWSP, Donna Jo Thornton at KSBR, Renée Blanche at KCUR, Eric Blankman at WFIT, Mary Bartlein at WMSE, Bill Fox at WDIY and WMUH, Justin Vanderberg, Jerry Kenney, and Juliet Fromholt at WYSO, Francisco M. López Herrero at Radio Despi La Otra Orilla, Scott Raymond at WVKR, Jukka Mikkola at YLE, Mike Honeycutt at WEVL, Andy B at KUAC, Michael Brown at WPNE, Michael Hunter at WPRB, John Shanahan at Hypnagogue, Sal Espana at KCBX and KCPR, Jamey Osborne at KTEP, Uncle Chris Trochez at WTUL, Rev. Dr. Rick at Astreaux World, Dave Butler at KRSC, Lisa Uber at WRSU, Monessa Guilfoil at WUTC, Terry James Hawke at HFM, Terry Glasenapp at KDNK, Steve Sheppard at One World Radio, John Iverson at CKUW, Joan Richarde at Montana Public Radio, and Jeff Clark at WMLB. And to Daryl Portier at Zone Music Reporter for being a nexus for alot of that information and a place for us to promote our music.

And many thanks to those who wrote about Sensitive Chaos this year: Bill Binkelman at Zone Music Reporter, Albert Pollard at Aural Innovations, Sylvain Lupari at Synth&Sequences & Guts of Darkness, John Shanahan at Hypnagogue, Kim Ware at Pretty New Songs, and Jeff Clark at Stomp and Stammer.

To all the artists I've been fortunate enough to share a playlist or a chart or a stage over the past year, thank you for your music, inspiration, camaraderie, and excellence. The lessons you teach are profound. Special thanks to my bandmates Kim and John in The Good Graces and those in my Happenstance band 'Bacon' for letting me do totally different music this year. Playing out with y'all has been a blast!

And to my wife Deirdre and daughter Leana for continuing to tolerate all of the above;^) 2011 was a chance to try new things and complete a few projects that had been in flight for literally years. 2012 will be a time of rebuilding, starting some new projects from scratch, attempting new collaborations, methods, instruments, and ideas.

I look forward to sharing the results! Happy New Year!

-Jim


I finish this note with a few remembrances of making the Sensitive Chaos albums of 2011: 


Meditation Modulation Manipulation


I started the year with 'Meditation Modulation Manipulation', a live recording with studio treatments including multiple layers of time-stretched digital mangling and some reversed tracks in Digital Performer, plus a few layers of drones from my 1976 Yamaha CS-50 analog synth. A different approach to start the year and a bit of an aural palette cleansing between the previous CD 'Emerging Transparency' and the next planned CD 'Seeker After Patterns'. The cover photo was shot on Christmas Eve 2010 at our local Trappist Monastery. Many thanks to Rik MacLean at Ping Things for suggesting this release. Rik's been an early and consistent supporter of my music going back to the first TouchXtone releases in 2003. I figure I just tickled the experimental release bug on this one, so will have to include a more thorough experimental release in 2012.


You can download 'Meditation Modulation Manipulation' for free here: http://pingthings.blogspot.com/2011/01/download-meditation-modulation.html 


Seeker After Patterns


'Seeker After Patterns' was in the middle of studio production when 'Meditation…' was conceived and released. This was a very fluid album in terms of what songs were in consideration, but the two anchor songs turned out to be the bookends of the main program material, namely the title track and "Simon Stilites Dreams of Rain (Chaotic Remix)". The former had been initially composed for a live EyeDrum performance in April 2009, then rearranged and recorded over the next year, with Brian Good's wonderful soprano sax parts added in August 2010, and the latter was originally composed and tracked in March 2005 with Tim Walters as an offshoot of our first collaboration (Phosphene Grid) at the Different Skies Festival in 2004, then remixed with additional tracks by Otso Pakarinen (keys and sfx), John McNicholas (electric guitars), and Brian Good (Electronic Wind Instrument) in April/May 2011. 


Five other tracks on 'Seeker' were pulled from the archives. "Sensitive Chaos" was actually recorded on my Teac TASCAM 22-4 4-track reel-to-reel machine back in the mid-80s using a Roland TR-606 drum machine, a Takamine 12-string guitar, a vintage Vox Phantom IV bass guitar, and a Roland RE-201 Space Echo. Half speed recording was a hallmark of my work at that time, as I had no sequencers and let's just say my rhythmic timing needed all the help it could get at the time. So, drum track was recorded first at full speed (15ips) and then the other tracks were done at half speed (7.5ips). The final recording was mixed at full speed. I love the sparkly overtones the 12-string puts off at double speed. 


"Warm Glow of the Atomic Fire" was originally a drone bed I pulled together in Reason for a much more complex planetarium piece I had worked up in TouchXtone in 2005 or so, and I thought deserved to be heard in its original simplicity. Very pure sounds and ambient construction.


"L'Ascension", "Thoughts of Home in a Sand Storm", and "Psychic Twins of Gemini" were all edited from live improvised performances recorded at separate shows around Atlanta in 2007, 2009, and 2010.


The last song to be chosen, "A Piece of Stars" was literally a last minute addition, pulled in as mastering for the album was completing. This was an edit of another live recording of a totally improvised performance I had done with Christian Birk, Tony Gerber, and Paul Vnuk, Jr. done at the 4th Annual City Skies Festival on April 30, 2011. The entire performance was magical, but this section contained a typical Sensitive Chaos sequence that I felt worked beautifully with the rest of the 'Seekers After Patterns' material. A quick edit and master, and the album was done and off to the plant to be pressed up. The album features incredible cover visuals by filmmaker and artist Demi Pietchell that were selected early on in the production process and inspired me throughout the making of the album. 


See more info on this album here: http://sensitivechaos.com/seekerafterpatte.html


Remembering Chestnuts, Icy Cold, and Bells


I've been wanting to assemble a holiday themed album since my first 'Leak' CD was released in 2006 at holiday time and "Nightshift at the Baby Mecha Nursery' seemed like it wanted to be a holiday song. But I always remembered too late in the season and always resolved to start early enough the next year. 2011 was finally that year.


The tracks on the album were selected from all the recordings I've done around holiday time over the past five years. Two shows ended up supplying the tracks for this album (there are more in the archive for future holiday CDs), one recorded on December 6, 2008 and one on December 5, 2009.


I've already written about the inspiration of the music and you can read that and find links to the music here: http://sensitivechaos.com/rememberingchest.html