Cosmosis Quests - Stories of Soil and Stone (2025)
This Quest will take you outdoors, where you will listen to the stories of soil and stone, and root into a deep sense of belonging in and to the earth.
Cosmosis Quests - Stories of Soil and Stone is an animistic creation story of our earth. Whilst wandering outdoors, you'll listen to ancient memories of the earth: traces of the beginning of time seem to remain for all of eternity, but everything also seems to be changing continuously. How can those two opposing truths co-exist?
Embark on this Quest when you feel alienated from the world: when you need a reminder that everything, including you, is made from ancient and animate space-dust. With just a little bit of magic, it's possible to hear the stories beneath your feet, and to share yours with it.
Let me take you to the earliest memory of the cosmos. Or to be precise, just a few moments before.
About Cosmosis Quests:
Cosmosis Quests is a growing collection of immersive audio quests designed to re-enchant everyday surroundings through a patchwork of stories, soundscapes, rituals, and magic.
Each Quest is an audio-guided ritual designed to be experienced at a specific place and time via a phone app: exercises to dissolve the sense that we exist outside of nature, tend to our imagination, and reintroduce meaningful ritual into daily life.
The digital layer that the app adds is subtle: sound overlays your actual surroundings, and the story takes you on a journey through your physical environment. The screen mostly stays in your pocket while your attention goes outward.
Credits:
Paul Staring - Creator, writer & voice-actor (wizard)
Oskar Koli - Coding
Nicholas Thayer - Sound design
Thomas Eekhof - Graphic design
V. Birchwood - Script editing
Yvet Youssef - Script editing & voice actor (soil)
John Cavanagh - Voice actor (stone)
Jeremy Paillotin - Illustrations
Puck van Dijk - Coaching
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