I just got back from Colorado a few days ago where I attended Jonathan Goldman’s Healing Sounds Intensive. It was definitely life changing. Much of the information I already knew from reading his books and CD inserts, but I went for the experience. It was wonderful being around so many like-minded people and learning little tidbits from all of them. Also, the meditations with toning were amazing and they gave me a huge boost. I probably learned more about toning than anything else, because that’s something which is hard to understand and absorb fully when you are just reading a book. In general, I have a much clearer perspective on what I’m doing and where I’m going.
I also bought some new toys! A very low Tibetan bowl, a small crystal bowl, D n’ A# (8:13) tuning forks, lower octave D n’ A# tuning forks, C 64 and G 96 OTTO tuners and a crystal resonator tuning fork. I have big plans for all of these…
My next entry will be my theory of how the Pythagorean scale came about.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Music
I have been a composer for about eleven years and, as I said earlier, have a degree in Music Composition. It was originally through researching world music for the sake of composition that I stumbled across Sound Healing. Now, my main focus, in addition to being a Sound Healing practitioner, is to use Sacred Sound in my compositions.
This was first done accidentally when I was collaborating with a visual artist friend of mine named Joe Perna. We wanted to combine visual and sonic art by finding ways to relate the two. I had recently read a book that explained how the colors of the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, correlate to the notes: G, A, Bb, C, D, D# and E, respectively. I also came up with sound associations for certain shapes. I incorporated these ideas into a work entitled Yellow Background, Blue Spheres, Black Segments and White Circles based on a painting of Joe’s. I used Didgeridoo (home-made out of pvc pipe), my frame drum and friction mallet, a rain stick as a shaker, and two of my Tibetan bowls, which I bowed. After this was finally recorded, I noticed its meditative quality (I actually almost had an out-of-body experience and had intense visualizations while listening to it with headphones once).
I have also since incorporated the color/light correlation in my piece IndigoCrystalRainbow for the Bellingham Middle School. My most recent Sound Healing works are a CD I made using the Brain Tuners (which I give free with your first paid Sound Healing session with me) and a CD called Fibonacci Spiral Meditation which is a fifteen minute intro followed by an hour of C drone, where you can meditate, tone, do mantras, etc. (this CD costs $15). (I also have a few other CD’s from before I was into sound healing for anyone who is interested.)
This was first done accidentally when I was collaborating with a visual artist friend of mine named Joe Perna. We wanted to combine visual and sonic art by finding ways to relate the two. I had recently read a book that explained how the colors of the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, correlate to the notes: G, A, Bb, C, D, D# and E, respectively. I also came up with sound associations for certain shapes. I incorporated these ideas into a work entitled Yellow Background, Blue Spheres, Black Segments and White Circles based on a painting of Joe’s. I used Didgeridoo (home-made out of pvc pipe), my frame drum and friction mallet, a rain stick as a shaker, and two of my Tibetan bowls, which I bowed. After this was finally recorded, I noticed its meditative quality (I actually almost had an out-of-body experience and had intense visualizations while listening to it with headphones once).
I have also since incorporated the color/light correlation in my piece IndigoCrystalRainbow for the Bellingham Middle School. My most recent Sound Healing works are a CD I made using the Brain Tuners (which I give free with your first paid Sound Healing session with me) and a CD called Fibonacci Spiral Meditation which is a fifteen minute intro followed by an hour of C drone, where you can meditate, tone, do mantras, etc. (this CD costs $15). (I also have a few other CD’s from before I was into sound healing for anyone who is interested.)
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