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Comment by Dawid Dahl on August 22, 2011 at 1:40pm

Wow, fantastic.

Comment by Balder on August 15, 2011 at 9:52am

Hi, David,

I'm glad you've enjoyed this video; I did as well, and also found myself relating it to our TSK practice.  Like you, I actually sometimes have felt a "lag" between the movement in the video, and the visual unfolding in my mind's eye as I listen to the music.  The music and imagery in the film complement each other well, but my synaesthetic sensibility seems to (want to) call forward something more complex and dynamic than what is frequently achieved on the screen.

I loved your second description of the "visual music" of the storm outside your window (or beyond your porch).  Such moments of aesthetic rapture and participation have stuck with me, when I have been graced by them.  I may have mentioned to you before an experience of this in Bali: after sitting in, and contemplating the remarkable architecture of, a Zen-style tea house for several hours, emerging into the tropical forest outside to find every sound, every color, every movement of leaf or flower or grass stalk, every sway and sensation of my body, to be "of a piece" -- an exquisite, multi-form dance, stunningly complex and "coordinated."  The impossible richness of the ordinary.

Best wishes,

B.

Comment by Davidu on August 14, 2011 at 1:12pm

Hi Bruce,

It's all experience isn't it, listening and watching the video while at the same moment being aware of what's happening internally.  Meditating on the video seems to have put me in a TSK frame of mind.

 

For instance right now, for me, the symphony is the cacophony of drops hitting the roof and the leaves outside.  It's as if a cloth of wet clouds were squeezed, and everything below is being drenched with gusto.  Drops are pinging, wind is shaking the wet leaves magnifying the loud drops, I'm surrounded by the sound of millions of dripping drops, and the sight of wet, glistening, green leaves waving.  The sound and movement rising and falling in intensity as the clouds and winds decide, and internally there's a felt response, a sense of appreciation, thankful for the display, a sense of wonder at the full spectrum of my involvement with it.  I'm struck by the visual harmonics of the moment.

Best,

David

Comment by Davidu on August 13, 2011 at 11:51am

Hi Brother Bruce,

I have returned to this video several times to sit with it and just allow it to play with me, so to speak.

So often I will relate sound to what I'm seeing at a given moment.  A visual of a landscape might open to allow for the fullness of the experience to include sounds all around.  Their merging sense fields, along with the other senses of touch, smell, and even taste, seem to converge.  But this video focuses on the two fields of sound and sight, and one can seem to merge with the other with a certain intensity, something like the intensity a sweet taste expands right along with space of the field in which it arises, as if a depth of field is moving.

 

In the video, harmonics become visual in a different way than my mind visualizes them, more precise patterns, or perhaps more orderly patterns over time, though my internal visualizations can also be incredibly complex, and they change faster and more radically than the mathematical framework of the algorithms allow.  Nevertheless, the video is fascinating to meditate with.  It reminds me a little of the babbling brook mediation and the TSK focus on sound and breath.

 

Thanks for posting this.

David