"the analogy that i like: you're like a ship 🚢 out on the ocean 🌊 & your anxiety is your crewmates that are like, hey, iceberg ahead or whatever, trying to give you information. & if you choose to ignore your crewmates, they're gonna stop following orders...& they're gonna get disorderly."

new episode of brain fruit 🧠🍎 now available for streaming, my verdurous ones 💚 #mentalhealth #podcast

ever since i read her excellent book, the collected schizophrenias, i've looked up to esme weijun wang as an amazing #mentalhealth role model. here she is via bbc ideas talking about her diagnosis & how to break the stigma youtu.be/vYrkcZTFllk?...

delightfully unexpected find of the day. thank you @darkentries.bsky.social! satisfying all the broody, spookily dubby, hypnotically rhythmic cravings i wasn't even aware i had #musicsky #postpunk #experimental #industrial eric-random.bandcamp.com/album/a-boy-...

#bipolar #mentalhealth #podcast

following this & stories like it with outrage. we in the mental health community must stand in solidarity & demand the services we need & deserve www.npr.org/sections/sho...

when i was first diagnosed #bipolar i scrambled for resources, experiences, accounts - anything that would make the diagnosis explicable & understandable to me. kay redfield jamison's work, especially her book an unquiet mind, was an absolute godsend #mentalhealth youtu.be/J3yvLRQWWuc?...

who are your mental health role models? #mentalhealth #podcast

perhaps it's my early morning stumbling-into-consciousness receptivity, or the breathy vocals or the reedy clarinet washes, but this is giving me abstracted, space-expanded movietone vibes. simply lovely. #ambient #musicsky perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-p...

listen up, my verdurous ones: the new episode of my #mentalhealth #podcast is out today! it explores the topic of finding mental health role models out there in the world. it's bipolar awareness month, so check out this offering from a bonafide bipolar human! youtu.be/nOL_MpZ4j4o?...

sometimes i select a record to soundtrack my morning & it syncs so cinematically with my waking consciousness that even tho i am stationary & still i feel utterly transported, delightfully actively-inactive, receptive like an antenna #ambient #musicsky ullastraus.bandcamp.com/album/hometo...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

what fascinates me about meditation is what also draws me to ambient. each draws awareness to the elasticity of time, its contractions & dilations. time, like water, has no shape. it takes the form of the vessel you place it in #ambient #musicsky #meditation asatone.bandcamp.com/album/ariel-...

starting work on a zine project about my bipolar diagnosis experience. i want to find ways to normalize, demystify & de-mythologize the diagnosis narrative. it's kinda like a coming out story, which i guess could dovetail with how i'm starting to truly embrace my overall queerness 💚💚🧠💚💚

this classic no-wave groover from south bronx legends esg more or less sums up my feelings about the current "administration." what songs in your rotation best encapsulate how you feel? share in the comments plz! #esg #musicsky youtu.be/TfUvZLxnEvI?...

updated brain fruit podcast cover art from the incomparable jason combs. wow, do these colors really pop & the psychedelic swirls make me swoon!

had an old-fashioned case of the fidgets during this morning's meditation session. luckily, DOVS's latest drumless offering is here to help settle my monkey mind. #ambient #musicsky #meditation balmat.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...

currently being transported by yazz ahmed's entrancing, global fusion trumpeting while shopping for plane tix for an upcoming cross-country trip. def will be adding this absolute groovefest to future travel playlists #jazz #fusion #musicsky yazzahmed.bandcamp.com/album/a-para...

this is quite likely my favorite thing right now #devo #newwave #musicsky youtu.be/XTNGg0Tj5Aw?...

fellow bipolar humans, lend me your eyes & ears! are you interested in conversing about world bipolar awareness day/month? all perspectives welcome! worried about privacy? you can speak anonymously or don a nom de plume. you know you want to! #bipolar #mentalhealth #podcast

little lite train reading 💚💚🎧🎶🎤💚💚

you don't need fancy gear. you don't need technical expertise. when i started producing i didn't have mics, cool analog synths & drum machines or even a keyboard. i used free instrument vsts & recording software. don't fetishize the tools. focus on the inward need to create & just get started.

just got banned from a bipolar subreddit for reaching out for thoughts about bipolar awareness month. i was diagnosed bipolar 1 in 2012 & now self-produce a mental health podcast for which i am paid $0. how do we "raise awareness" if we can't even talk to each other? #bipolar #mentalhealth #reddit

very stoked to receive my zine from @subvert.fm if you're interested in finding viable alternatives to spotify & other awful streaming media behemoths, i suggest you explore what subvert is trying to build & become a founding member today

sunday post-meditation, pre-quaker silent meeting soundtrack. perila primes us to open up & to evacuate (as a substance from a vessel), to interrogate, to explore. listening as an end in itself👂🎧 #ambient #musicsky #meditation perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/intrin...

in this debut pilot episode of brain fruit 🧠🍎 i ponder if it's possible that mental health issues might paradoxically be a form of super power 💪 are there ways we neurodiverse people can harness our gifts to enrich the world? youtu.be/USMQ6ktcKyI?... #mentalhealth #podcastsky #podcast

"scattered throughout harmony/balance are unexpected melodic antiphonies closely aligned with African music, interspersed between huge, spacious drones & field recordings" #ambient #musicsky ibukunsunday.bandcamp.com/album/harmon...

what is ambient music? who gets to make it? who is it for? self-described "decomposer" klein takes us on a disorienting journey thru hermetic sound worlds, exploding genres & casting doubt onto the very notion of what "ambient" even is #ambient #musicsky klein1997.bandcamp.com/album/harmat...

nexcyia on sound design: "it shapes the...vision, emotional resonance, & overall sonic identity of a track. whether it's enhancing a soundscape, creating unique textures, or building immersive atmospheres [it] is a fundamental tool for me!" #ambient #musicsky nexcyia.bandcamp.com/album/exodus

"the music of markus floats might...be described as idiosyncratic aural abstract expressionism, where melodic gestures, sequenced pulses, atonal clusters & granulated textures are arranged like shapes & strokes of timbral hue..." #ambient #musicsky markusfloats.bandcamp.com/album/third-...

"Dorothy Ashby was truly dedicated to music and culture. Her creations not only generated a deep appreciation for the harp in jazz, but her sound laid the foundation of so much music that we grew up on and listen to today." Harpist Brandee Younger on the legacy of Dorothy Ashby:

brooklyn-based bermudian artist russell e. l. butler steps out of the dj booth to offer meditations that act as an aural balm in fevered times, providing sonic succor for queer bodies navigating a harsh & so often unforgiving world #ambient #musicsky russellelbutler.bandcamp.com/album/a-tali...

Cognitive impairment and mental illness are both disabilities and deserving of tenderness, grace, accomodation, and support. So many of our #BHM greats had invisible disabilities. Below is from "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" by Prof. Therí Alyce Pickens, PhD #CiteBlackWomenSunday #Blackademics

attention lovers! 💚💘💚 taking us back to a special v-tines day edition of the podcast 🎤 where i talk to my dear friend carrie about the hazards & joys of dating while neurodiverse. this one's NSW, so be mindful how you listen 😘🎧 #podcastsky #mentalhealth #dating #podcast youtu.be/kvOSPpzXfdI?...

a must-see exhibition @hammermuseum.bsky.social that takes its title from alice coltrane's 1977 book monument eternal #alicecoltrane #artsky #musicsky www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...

respect to budd & eno, but this post is about marion brown, whose diaphanous sax elevates this classic to stratospheric heights. a departure from his avant-garde work, this recording presages collabs like those between pharoah sanders & floating points. #ambient #musicsky youtu.be/KSEpSpIrt98?...

in feb 2002, space for sound via crack magazine launched a stellar ambient mix on soundcloud curated by Black artists, featuring Black artists. the mix "highlights genres that are historically seen...as white, despite having Black origins." #ambient #musicsky #BHM soundcloud.com/crackmagazin...

space afrika's paean to uk energy sits at the intersection of multiple genres. made of what the duo deems "overlapping moments," we receive prismatic sonic images that blend abstract soundscapes, noise & even human voices. #ambient #experimental #musicsky space-afrika.bandcamp.com/album/honest...

must ambient music be soothing? must it eschew rhythmic patterns & never use percussive elements? amobi's take on eno's 1978 classic asks big questions about just what defines the genre, sonically pondering just who this music is even for #ambient #musicsky #experimental youtu.be/0AEnJ6wKr-o?...

The series transforms archival materials to visualize the interconnections of time, space, and bodies across the history of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT). The underlying datasets were composed over 3 yrs from over 30,000 documents located in archives across the U.S. #BHM #DataViz

as a bipolar person who struggles with mood dysregulation, it's hard to swallow the prevailing ableist discourse around "managing" emotions. there are techniques to mitigate extreme feelings. but humans are not emotionally monolithic #emotion #mentalhealth #moodsisorder www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...

legendary detroit techno producer claude young goes full-on interstellar atmospheric. perfect for stargazing, astronomic contemplation, stardust reveling. it beams the chillout room directly into your living room. #ambient #tecno #musicsky claudeyoungjr-celestialbodies.bandcamp.com/album/celest...

"pastoral & gestural compositional moments for voice & electronics" from one of our greatest contemporary composers & makers of cinematic sound worlds. wonderful accompaniment for the dawning of new days. #ambient #musicsky #cinematic #classical robertaikiaubreylowe.bandcamp.com/album/recess...

when it feels like the world is falling apart, ingesting itself like an insatiable ouroboros, i take comfort that records like this exist to support & to swaddle, reminding me humanity is capable of so much better & so much more. #musicsky beverlyglenn-copeland.bandcamp.com/album/keyboa...

"you could either fall asleep to it or meditate to it or whatever u want to call it...it could either help u do what you're doing or distract u, depending on how u listen to it." #ambient #experimental dedekindcut.bandcamp.com/album/uccess...

If you’ve made music by yourself, at home, with minimal equipment and resources… it’s absolutely acceptable that it sounds like it was made by yourself, at home, with minimal equipment and resources.