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MODERN NEUROSCIENCE is affirming what vocalists & shamans have known for years: singing is healthy for you; and specific vocal styles that play on harmonic overtones stimulate the sense of well-being. Harmonic overtones are embedded within choral music performed worldwide. In this workshop: you'll hear & learn how overtone singers create the powerful healing & meditative qualities associated with chanting & overtone harmonics. |
sound resources
CHLADNI PATTERNS: specific pitches of frequency shape & create the conditions for a sonic architecture. From Orthodox bell ringing in Russia to a carillon bell tower at Edmonton's city hall and the white noise of wind & waves, persistent sound not only informs, but forms us as well. YOU CAN LISTEN to 3D sound recordings from a 5,300 year old medicine wheel here, as well as read the magazine article I wrote about this remarkable place on the Canadian prairie. WATCH and listen to a 360 video of Writing-on-Stone, a UNESCO world heritage site in southern Alberta (virtual reality (VR) headset-friendly, as well as on mobile phone, tablet & desk/laptop computers) |
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WHAT HAPPENS TO CULTURAL MEMORY when the teachers are all dead and their stories have gone missing? It's a question Don & Anne Hill have been asking since they encountered indigenous rock art pictographs in Canada, nearly fifty years ago. Sound can double as a memory system to tell us something about 'special places' from our past that endure to this day. |
sound never ages...
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EARTH has memory. And so does wind, and waves on a lake & ocean surf, the sky & beyond too — day & night — sonic illusions that are not completely understood by science & can manifest in ways that might surprise you. The land is like a musical instrument that can be played, as much as it plays upon you. There are reports that pictographs & petroglyphs (pecked out images on stone) illustrate yoga-like body postures. While imitating a held posture drawing at 'rock art' locations, some people have reported a persistent sound (similar to a ringing in the ears tinnitus), and tingle-like numinous sensations. |
analog & digital
Workshop participants enjoy 'bowling' (a large metal bowl with a resonant low-frequency is placed over your head, while eight distinctive sound sources — chimes, bells, smaller 'singing bowls' — are played by workshop participants as they slowly walk & encircle the 'bowler' in a clockwise rotation — yes, it sounds enchanting. And there are therapeutic benefits.
Here's the link to STORY TREES (opus 3) the digital equivalent of the immersive sounds of workshop bowling. Read the 'read me' to ensure your computer is compatible with the hardware recommendations. Remember to go slowly — move your head & body as if doing tai chi with Story Trees (opus 3) — linger where you look — let the sounds dance with your perceptions & sensations. Follow where your curiosity takes you — linger as long as you wish. And if you're coming back for more, be sure to clear your web-browser cache — once done, it will load a different stream of audio elements — ensuring a unique & never the same way twice immersive experience. Queries, comments? Most welcome — please use this correspondence link. |