Nomads (Song for Earth Day 2016) - Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality2024-03-28T10:25:14Zhttps://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/nomads-song-for-earth-day-2016?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A65846&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThat sounds like a beautiful…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-07-02:5301756:Comment:658462016-07-02T00:00:48.589ZBalderhttps://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>That sounds like a beautiful practice, David. Reminds me of the Indonesian practice of treating music as a sonic yantra ... a sacred pattern which is enacted, and in which one is immersed, in and out of the depths of silent attention.</p>
<p>On a personal (promotional!) note, I have compiled the recent "Seaquence"-based songs I've created over the past year into an EP, which I have available on Bandcamp (and maybe on Amazon soon):…</p>
<p></p>
<p>That sounds like a beautiful practice, David. Reminds me of the Indonesian practice of treating music as a sonic yantra ... a sacred pattern which is enacted, and in which one is immersed, in and out of the depths of silent attention.</p>
<p>On a personal (promotional!) note, I have compiled the recent "Seaquence"-based songs I've created over the past year into an EP, which I have available on Bandcamp (and maybe on Amazon soon):</p>
<p><a href="https://bluesuling.bandcamp.com/album/seaquences-ep" target="_blank">Seaquences EP</a></p> Jean Gebser emphasises that i…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-06-20:5301756:Comment:660382016-06-20T20:42:24.202ZDavidM58https://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/DavidM58
<p>Jean Gebser emphasises that in the mythic consciousness structure, there was a strong polarity between listening and sounding. There was a need to go inward for reflection in silence before bringing forth a saying or a sounding that was worth something, and not mere babble. </p>
<p>I participate in a sacred sound circle that meets a couple of times a month to improvise music with a sacred intention. There is no talking between the tunes that we generate, but an invitation to meditate for…</p>
<p>Jean Gebser emphasises that in the mythic consciousness structure, there was a strong polarity between listening and sounding. There was a need to go inward for reflection in silence before bringing forth a saying or a sounding that was worth something, and not mere babble. </p>
<p>I participate in a sacred sound circle that meets a couple of times a month to improvise music with a sacred intention. There is no talking between the tunes that we generate, but an invitation to meditate for several minutes between tunes. The whole experience is a meditation, some of it in sound, and some in silence. It's difficult to get people to fully participate in the silence - I can sense that it is uncomfortable for some, or they come out of it and start the next piece more quickly than I would like. I find it to be quite an amazing experience to go directly from enthusiastic music making directly into absolute (well, relative) silence, when the music vibration is still in there in the quietness. </p>
<p>I imagine doing a concert in this format, where the listening audience is invited to meditate in this way.</p> Nice - I like that. Years ag…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-06-20:5301756:Comment:660372016-06-20T17:43:33.859ZBalderhttps://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Nice - I like that. Years ago, one of my favorite spiritual teachers was Jean Klein, a musicologist and advaita teacher who emphasized silence and listening a great deal in his teachings.</p>
<p>Nice - I like that. Years ago, one of my favorite spiritual teachers was Jean Klein, a musicologist and advaita teacher who emphasized silence and listening a great deal in his teachings.</p> I was very fortunate to have…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-06-20:5301756:Comment:659412016-06-20T17:29:35.704ZDavidM58https://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/DavidM58
<p>I was very fortunate to have a music professor who was a deep thinker, and who provided a definition of music I've always liked. </p>
<p>"Music is sound <em>and silence</em> organized in time and space as a manifestation of human's creative urge."</p>
<p>- Americole Biasini</p>
<p>Emphasis mine.</p>
<p>I was very fortunate to have a music professor who was a deep thinker, and who provided a definition of music I've always liked. </p>
<p>"Music is sound <em>and silence</em> organized in time and space as a manifestation of human's creative urge."</p>
<p>- Americole Biasini</p>
<p>Emphasis mine.</p> Bruce, that is a lively show…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-06-20:5301756:Comment:658262016-06-20T13:36:16.111ZAmbo Sunohttps://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/AmboSuno
Bruce, that is a lively show of sun and light animating nature's basic elements. I like the flute that comes foreground here and there and especially at the end.<br></br>
<br></br>
My suggested possibility of somehow conveying silence was a bit ambitious. Though I had a very few fleeting thoughts and images about that, evoked by Sun Kim's presentation, no obvious or solid ideas came to me, either :) Sometimes, I guess, when we ambitiously try to represent or point to things that have ephemeral aspects…
Bruce, that is a lively show of sun and light animating nature's basic elements. I like the flute that comes foreground here and there and especially at the end.<br/>
<br/>
My suggested possibility of somehow conveying silence was a bit ambitious. Though I had a very few fleeting thoughts and images about that, evoked by Sun Kim's presentation, no obvious or solid ideas came to me, either :) Sometimes, I guess, when we ambitiously try to represent or point to things that have ephemeral aspects or that we grok through abstraction, we can have fun, AND there could be a high dorkiness factor. Huh, What'dIsay? Or not.<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<cite>Balder said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/nomads-song-for-earth-day-2016?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A65825&xg_source=activity#5301756Comment65825"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Thank you, Ambo -- very interesting, indeed. With some of my more contemplative compositions, especially, that is something I'd like to explore ... though I must say I am short on the artistic skill needed to do that really well. But I hope I can grow into it.</p>
<p>Here is a new composition I made this Father's Day weekend -- in a similar style to other recent ones, with an electronic emphasis ... and a busy, bubbling, not very silent melody and rhythm, as you'll see. :-)</p>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote> Thank you, Ambo -- very inter…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-06-20:5301756:Comment:658252016-06-20T03:25:35.710ZBalderhttps://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Thank you, Ambo -- very interesting, indeed. With some of my more contemplative compositions, especially, that is something I'd like to explore ... though I must say I am short on the artistic skill needed to do that really well. But I hope I can grow into it.</p>
<p>Here is a new composition I made this Father's Day weekend -- in a similar style to other recent ones, with an electronic emphasis ... and a busy, bubbling, not very silent melody and rhythm, as you'll see. …</p>
<p>Thank you, Ambo -- very interesting, indeed. With some of my more contemplative compositions, especially, that is something I'd like to explore ... though I must say I am short on the artistic skill needed to do that really well. But I hope I can grow into it.</p>
<p>Here is a new composition I made this Father's Day weekend -- in a similar style to other recent ones, with an electronic emphasis ... and a busy, bubbling, not very silent melody and rhythm, as you'll see. :-)</p>
<p></p>
<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ak_N78Ng2AE?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
</p> Balder, here's another TED th…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-06-15:5301756:Comment:659392016-06-15T17:34:42.988ZAmbo Sunohttps://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/AmboSuno
<p>Balder, here's another TED that I think you might enjoy and be inspired by.</p>
<p class="talk-description" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"Artist and TED Fellow Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she was taught to believe that sound wasn't a part of her life, that it was a hearing person's thing. Through her art, she discovered similarities between American Sign Language and music, and she realized that sound doesn't have to be known solely through the ears — it can be felt, seen and experienced…</p>
<p>Balder, here's another TED that I think you might enjoy and be inspired by.</p>
<p class="talk-description" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"Artist and TED Fellow Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she was taught to believe that sound wasn't a part of her life, that it was a hearing person's thing. Through her art, she discovered similarities between American Sign Language and music, and she realized that sound doesn't have to be known solely through the ears — it can be felt, seen and experienced as an idea. In this endearing talk, she invites us to open our eyes and ears and participate in the rich treasure of visual language."</p>
<p class="talk-description" lang="en" xml:lang="en">As a sweet and poignant presentation, it can stand alone; it also might awaken possibilities for bringing an expression pointing to "silence", and to permutations of "music". I feel presumptuous as I imagine you doing a show that finds additional creative ways to suggest silence, quiet, and different forms of 'hearing' and 'seeing.'</p>
<p class="talk-description" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/christine_sun_kim_the_enchanting_music_of_sign_language" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/christine_sun_kim_the_enchanting_music_of_sign_language</a></p>
<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Balder said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/nomads-song-for-earth-day-2016?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A65937&xg_source=activity#5301756Comment65738"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Here's a new song I wrote this week (maybe the last in the short series of songs I've been doing with a faster beat and the "seaquence" synthesizer used for the repetitive backbone melodies). "White Peony" is a reference to the Chinese goddess, Bai Mudan.</p>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote> Hi, David - thanks. And, int…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-06-13:5301756:Comment:659372016-06-13T17:10:02.424ZBalderhttps://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p><br/>Hi, David - thanks. And, interesting...I hadn't noticed the red markings. I just went back and watched and think the red coloration is a natural part of the environment, maybe intensified in the treatment of the photos as they are developed, but I wasn't thinking they are deliberate markings. But who knows? </p>
<p><br/>Hi, David - thanks. And, interesting...I hadn't noticed the red markings. I just went back and watched and think the red coloration is a natural part of the environment, maybe intensified in the treatment of the photos as they are developed, but I wasn't thinking they are deliberate markings. But who knows? </p> Thanks for sharing, Balder. …tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-06-12:5301756:Comment:660322016-06-12T23:53:55.887ZDavidM58https://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/DavidM58
<p>Thanks for sharing, Balder. I especially like "Nomads," which I just now discovered here. Are the various markings of red on the topographical maps indicative of being susceptible to climate change effects or some such?</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing, Balder. I especially like "Nomads," which I just now discovered here. Are the various markings of red on the topographical maps indicative of being susceptible to climate change effects or some such?</p> The images are really strikin…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-06-12:5301756:Comment:657472016-06-12T21:20:58.528ZBalderhttps://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>The images are really striking, aren't they? Most taken by satellites. And Asian-Celtic? I can live with that. The flutes are supposed to have a middle-eastern flavor (if you listened to the song, Nomads, rather than White Peony). The song following it, White Peony, is much more strongly "East Asian" -- with Chinese flute and samples of Chinese strings. Looking forward to checking out the video....</p>
<p>The images are really striking, aren't they? Most taken by satellites. And Asian-Celtic? I can live with that. The flutes are supposed to have a middle-eastern flavor (if you listened to the song, Nomads, rather than White Peony). The song following it, White Peony, is much more strongly "East Asian" -- with Chinese flute and samples of Chinese strings. Looking forward to checking out the video....</p>