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Overnight for Dreaming Avatars
A Virtual Celebration of the New Year in Second Life Across 9 Time Zones for Carole Ione’s 23rd Annual Dream Festival, 2:00 pm, Sun. Dec. 31, 2017 - 6:00 am, Mon. Jan. 1, 2018 Second Life Time (Pacific). Posted January 2, 2018.

A minute’s worth of Tunnituaruit doppelgänger commentary. (Tunnituaruit: Inuit term meaning literally "little beings who only have tattooed faces" - magical half-bird and half-human creatures whose language of communication is "katadjait," throat singing). February 12, 2018.

from Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma for Voices and Riversounds, originally commissioned by Chaplain's Drew University for performance at Baccalaureate, May, 1995; also performed at opening ceremonies of Multicultural Awareness Day, Drew University, September, 1995. The recording here is by the Drew University Chorale, directed by Jason Bishop, performed December 3, 2016 in the Concert Hall of Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. (Posted to Vimeo February 20, 2018).

Strange but true. Buddha BigEars has a different take on things. Tuesday, March 13, 2018.

Woodthrush, calling for Spring? In any case, singing along with 2500-year-old Chinese bells. March 15, 2018.

Singing Masks RayBird and Buddha BigEars meet up in dream. March 16, 2018.

Singing Mask Quartet has some fun with a simple video editing episode. Masks include Tunnituaruit, Buddha BigEars, Wood Thrush, and RayBird. March 18, 2018.

Tin Bluebird Snow Day Trilogy, March 22, 2018, Mount Tabor, New Jersey.

Greenman sounding into Spring, and for whatever we might consider Holy and beautiful. March 30, 2018.

Ganesha has his say about conditions in the world today. Perhaps not so happy, but wishing everyone peace and joy nonetheless. April 1, 2018.

Basswood Fox’s short story for today. April 5, 2018.

Fox learning his dream of an April 2nd snow is not a dream. Or is it? Anyway, he’s content with his indoor home on the stairwell wall.

Sketch -37: Fox Spirit, Giraffe, Unicorn, Frog, Bamboo, and Peacock. April 9, 2018.

Giraffes, Unicorn, Peacock, Frog, Bamboo, Flying Dreamer do a little singing. April 8, 2018.

Dream of Reality / Reality of Dream. April 10, 2018.

Dreamtime Perspectives / Spirit Protectors. April 9, 2018.

Finally getting outside as Spring slowly arrives in Northern New Jersey, Buddha BigEars and Greenman Singing Masks join the little pond in Mount Tabor, NJ, making their call for connection with the Earth. With Water is the second of a planned series of brief Singing Mask ceremonies celebrating our human connections with things of the earth with the intent of realizing a sense of the sacred in everything no matter how mundane. April 11, 2018

Personal note: There's a fine old oak tree down at the corner as we turn off Pitman Place on to Dickerson when we're leaving Mount Tabor, NJ. Liza has been drawn to it for some time for its survival rooted as it is in an oasis of soil surrounded by tarmac, and for its prolific production of acorns. This is the first of a series intended to document its progress from the end of winter into autumn. April 16, 2018

Sounding the Long Dream Winter into Spring, 2018. The full sequence of Singing Mask soundings from February through April, celebrating the Long Dream Journey in my new home with Liza in Mount Tabor, New Jersey. April 22, 2018

Further exploration of the transition from winter to spring around our house in Mount Tabor, NJ, 2018. Perhaps this can be considered a meditation on decay and regeneration, the old entropy/syntropy continuum. Here, Singing Mask Tunnituaruit* along with ancient Chinese bells, sounds in celebration and connection. April 24, 2018

*Inuit term meaning literally "little beings who only have tattooed faces" - magical half-bird and half-human creatures whose language of communication is "katadjait," throat singing.

The Starting Spring Sequence, with Singing Masks celebrating and documenting a few instances of Spring arriving in Mount Tabor, NJ, 2018. The sequence includes an oak tree, a magnolia tree, some forsythia, and a maple tree. The Singing Masks in order of appearance: Basswood Fox, Anima, Greenman, Spirit of Dreamtime. April 17, 2018

Singing Masks celebrate the journey of a magnificent Magnolia Tree in Mount Tabor, NJ, in the Spring of 2018, from buds to full flowering in less then two weeks. Dates of filming were April 18, 26, 27, 29, with Singing Masks Greenman, Wood Thrush, Earth Singer, and Inua Yua, respectively.

An excursion to White Meadow Lake on April 28, 2018, focusing on one of its little streams and contrasting forsythia along its rapid feed into the lake, and accompanied by RayBird sounding in celebration.

Chapter III in the meditative documentation of the big oak tree in Mount Tabor, NJ through the seasons from the end of winter, 2018. Here it is in first bloom of full green, with Greenman singing in celebration. May 22, 2018

Continuing the documentation of the big oak tree in Mount Tabor, NJ that’s been drawing our attention for its long survival growing from a small patch of soil surrounded by tarmac, here it is in first leafing as Spring advances. Earth Singer accompanies it this time. May 9, 2018

Coyote joins Birds with Taqua Nut music box for a little jam session out on the porch. You may be able to hear a mourning dove cooing in the distance very faintly. May 29, 2018.

Having some fun making semi-canonic chaos with Coyote and Birds with Taqua Nut music box. May 31, 2018

Third take on the Coyote/Birds/Taqua Nut collaboration. June 3, 2018

The fourth in the series documenting the oak tree in Mount Tabor, NJ, accompanied by Singing Masks. Blue Oracle, Sheeoué Windhorse, and Inua Yua join with the oak now in its full greenery. June 7, 2018

Green Man sings a little song for all the lush growth as it endures end of June, beginning of July, 2018, days of 90+ F. weather in Mount Tabor, NJ. July 1, 2018

As seen out the kitchen window and accompanied by Tunnituaruit the Singing Mask, a flurry of birds and a squirrel are busy filling up on fallen seed. July 29, 2018.