Antiquarian Adventures in Meta-Reality

As a Winter Solstice offering to our listeners we present an Ambient Soundscape! This music was used as the sonic accompaniment for the museum of Magic and Folklore- West Cornwall. It is intended to be evocation of that numinous presence which ever broods within the inner-landscapes of the far south west.. with all its harmonies, dissonances, twists and turns. It is composed of a series of recordings from between 1983 and 2021, and has also been featured in the first series of Antiquarian Adventures in meta-Reality. Steve Patterson- Analogue Synthesisers, Field recordings, Harp, Lyre, Flute and Percussion. Additional voices- Kate Berry and Amy Lyn (Tristis). Matt the Punk on Electric Violin. Additional Strings- Mark Patterson. Produced in West Cornwall 2021 Copyright Steve Patterson (of the Trenoweth Institute of Meta-Antiquarian Experimentation (TIME)

From Stonehenge festival 1984, my childhood on the North Downs, folk-customs and megaliths - A journey through the four seasons of the year through the eye of the unmanifest ever ever-present fifth season of our imagination.

Tales of Grimoires, Alchemy, books of magic and the twist and turns they take in their journey from the triangle of Arte to the printing press and beyond ...and the dead ends they sometimes encounter!

Continuing adventures in the holy land at the turn of the millennium. A journey down the dragon-line from St Michaels mount in Cornwall to the altar of Baal at Megiddo, in search of the “Watchers” and the spirit of the land.

At the beginning of the millennium I took a trip to Israel in the hope of exploring the roots of the western mysteries. This is a journey from the world of east Anglian witchcraft to the arid landscapes of the Middle East and beyond.

Steve Patterson interviews internationally renown sculptor Tim Shaw, discoursing on such matters as art, folklore, politics and the nature of the mask.

The face mask has become one of the enduring symbols of the 2020/21 Covid pandemic. Here we explore its implications, symbolism and inner mysteries.

The maritime melting pot of the west of Cornwall, Museums, cabinets of curiosity and the conjuration of THE MUSEUM OF MAGIC AND FOLKLORE – WEST CORNWALL.

Being an introduction to the folklore of Witchcraft in Cornwall, its material culture and its subsequent emergence on to the ‘cabinets of curiosity' of our minds.

Further journeys in words, music and analogue sounds in to West Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula, where the land's geological strangeness seems to have created a fertile ground for surrealism, magic, folklore and the earth mysteries.

A journey in words, music and analogue sound into the Lizard Peninsula: a geological anomaly and Britain's southern most point... it is also said to be the haunt of mermaids and the gateway to Lyonesse... Cornwall's own Atlantis!

Further rambles into the myth and the mysteries of the enigmatic pre-historic underground chambers of the south west and beyond... in word and sounds.

A ramble into the myth and the mysteries of the enigmatic pre-historic underground chambers of the south west and beyond... in word and sounds.