41 — AN OMPHALOS
featuring contributions by Setsuko Adachi, Midori Ioshii, Michael Kearney, and Jeremy Fernando
An Omphalos: Soundtrack
listen here: https://thesymbolicorder.bandcamp.com/track/an-omphalos-soundscape-2
“An Omphalos” is an image-sound-text collaborative The Symbolic Object project released by One Imperative. The image, a diptych by Michael Kearney, is comprised of stone, mahogany, balsa wood, washi, Japanese construction paper, charcoal, pastels, oil paint, and acrylic paint on canvas. The album image is a portion of its right panel. The original English text, meant to engage, interact, entwine with the image element, was written by Jeremy Fernando. Midori Ioshii translated/interpreted Fernando’s text into Brazilian-Portuguese. Setsuko Adachi translated/interpreted Fernando’s text into Japanese and laid out the project. The soundscape portion of the project was composed by Michael Kearney.
The soundtrack was released on June 14, 2026
credits
English voice: Jeremy Fernando
Portuguese voice: Midori Ioshii
Japanese voice (Female): Frau Ada Schwarz
Japanese voice (An Entity): Durnin Martin
Jumbled voices (Portuguese, Dutch, English, French): Midori Ioshii, Frau Ada Schwarz, and Patrick Maher
Guitars: Michael Kearney
Bass: Durnin Martin
Drums, Wood Scraper Block, and Bodhrán: Patrick Maher
Composed, Engineered, and Mixed by Michael Kearney
“An Omphalos” image by Michael Kearney
Recorded from February to May 2025 and in March 2026 at The Bunker, Tachikawa