Dreams arrive as whiff, then congeal into words: rock, wave, tumbler.

There’s a thread weaving these random utterances and the feral beings populating my dreams—the savage dog-walker; the gnarled spitting of she-wolves, the wild creature at the gate.

We follow feral beasts in the yard like a map of warped coastlines and kinked highways or an echo of a candidate deemed too high-pitched in his screams. We yowl at the sky.

We land at a threshold, a kind of cartopsychosis. Eras tumble into each other. We are grief-laden upon awakening. We sing forth a dream, like a poem, revealing a hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil. The map meanders us into the present.

Cartography is like dreaming in all its projections or reparations.

The repetitions prevail—the war-makers and barbarians, the oscillation and waves.

Feral Atlas (2026)

Writing & composition — voicing, audio & field sounds: Joan Schuman
Dream-song borrowed from The Third Reich of Dreams, Charlotte Beradt’s original collection of dreamers during Nazi Germany — Emily Schuman, vocals; Evan Raines, violin

Featured online, on air, in festivals:

2026 | Electroacoustical Poetical Society (EAPS) commissioned for artist collective (broadcast theme: “Circuit”) featuring works by Ilaria Boffa (Italy), Brian K. Price (USA), Joan Schuman (USA), Tony Brewer (USA), Gregory Whitehead (USA), Marjorie Van Halteren (France) – summer 2026