Category: 2020 fidal

New Tonalibus, Spiritualibus, and Fidibus developments —

This December 2020 Tonalibus update highlights: The new glossary, winter sounds, the first few revamped tonality pages with additional sound samples, renewed Spiritualibus blog pages and post formats, Fidibus shop updates on individual sound mantra steps, mini-concert sessions, and Tonalibus exploration courses; and finally, the general Tonalibus image collection.

Tonalibus updates

Under About you now find a Glossary with short definitions in an alphabetic listing of basic and unique terms and names used by Tonalibus – for each languages of the site, in English, German, French, and Italian.

New under Sounds is the page Winter 2020/2021 with a growing collection of new personal sound samples that explore diverse possibilities and reflect the character of the time.

First examples of renewed individual tonality pages include Reachmix, Bluemix, and Hexablue. Each features a new calm, more contemlative or meditative sound sample to complement the other more rhythmic sound sample. These samples are also available as loop on adjunct pages, Reachmix sound loops, Bluemix sound loops, and Hexablue sound loops.    

Spiritualibus blog updates

The Spiritualibus blog page was revamped for clarity and to accommodate the growing number of posts. The category Omnibus marks relevant highlight posts. New secondary post pages offer listings of recent posts and separately of Tonalibus posts, Spiritualibus posts, and Fidibus posts. A mono- and quadri-lingual Spoken Word experiment you find in the poetic post “Dear God”.   

Fidibus shop updates

Tools for preparing an individual sound mantra (ISM) emerged in three steps and pages on the Tonalibus site. Individuals requesting an ISM will sequentially receive the required passwords to work these steps. Step-1 includes some basic questions to qualify a request for an ISM. Step-2 provides an exercise to find one’s own fundamental sound and a few initial sets of tonalities to individually evaluate. Based on Step-2 results, individuals receive specific directions, which of the comprehensive tonality groups offered or specific tonalities in Step-3 to focus on and to evaluate.  

At this time of the global pandemic, open Tonalibus mini-concert sessions continue albeit with very small attendances of friends. Going forward we plan such sessions on various days of the week.

The start of the current three-session Tonalibus exploration course had to be postponed by roughly a month due to the current Coronavirus pandemic.

Tonalibus general images collection

You find this collection of general Tonalibus photos and key images under About.

Via this December 2020 Tonalibus update I wish you happy Holidays and a wonderful New Year! — Ulrico

Tonalibus in English, German, French, and Italian —

The Tonalibus website is now available also in French and Italian, besides German and the original English. It appears by default in the language of your system settings or your geographic region. You can manually set the language on the bottom left of the screen by selecting the small American, Swiss, French or Italian flag.

It took a lot of fine-tuning to have these languages reasonably well aligned. Actually it was surprising how inconsistent and often inaccurate automatic translation engines still are. One of the supposedly best of them provided the initial translations of the Tonalibus website and continues to dynamically translate elements on this site. Therefore, the previous warning remains in full force: When in doubt about a statement on this website, please refer to the original English version.

Individual sound mantras, exploration courses, and mini-concert sessions

We have formalized the first several steps of individual sound mantra creation. These steps are now available on password-protected Tonalibus website pages to those requesting a sound mantra.

A custom-tailored Tonalibus exploration course series is starting. Its language is Swiss-German. The first of the three-sessions presents a condensed introduction to some key Tonalibus concepts. The second session focuses on determining the personal, fundamental sound and individual tonalities. And the third session is dedicated to practical work with tonality applications and improvisations.

After a short break, due to the current pandemic, open mini-concert sessions resume in December with only half of the few seats in the studio available. Mini-concert session program samples are now accessible on the Tonalibus website in PDF format.

Fidibus shop offerings of Tonalibus continue to develop as they come into more practical use.

An encouraging note received just now, Nov. 19, 2020

Good Morning Uli 
I thought you might like to know that I am enjoying your creation this 
morning. I am currently listening to PentaProLa / Pentaion. Thanks for creating this... 
very nice to listen to while I work. 
Warm Regards
[a friend in California - Pentaion sound sample page]

Tonalibus insights keep evolving — a glimpse ahead…

Update — November 19, 2020

The Tonalibus website is now available also in French and Italian, besides German and the original English. By default this site appears in the language of your system settings or geographic region. You can manually set the language with the rightmost main menu option on top of every screen by selecting the small American, Swiss, French or Italian flag.

It took a lot of fine-tuning to have these languages reasonably well aligned. Actually it was surprising how inconsistent and often inaccurate automatic translation engines still are. One of the supposedly best of them provided the initial translations of the Tonalibus website and continues to dynamically translate elements on this site. Therefore, the below warning remains in full force:

When in doubt about a statement on this website, please refer to the original English version.

Caution with languages!

Languages are a challenge. Each is its own, alive, and keeps evolving with use.

We can see communication as an approximation, a more or less imperfect attempt to point out something, the best we can. Words serve as pointers to images, to form stories. To what extent another can grasp an image or story being passed on, depends to a large extent on the language used, one’s choice of words. Poor language may pass on inaccurate images and meanings, and as such distort a story.

This compounds the challenge of translations. After we transpose an image or story from one language to another, will it still be the same? Chances are more than big, that this will not entirely be so. But for one who lives within another language, even a limited translation is far better than none.

Automatic system-generated translations have improved a lot over recent years and continue to do so. Using them, we tend to loose subtleties. Some things may even become more or less distorted. Nevertheless, such translations accomplish a lot and help in passing on images and stories, with more or less accuracy, especially when one is warned and aware of this.

Thus, be warned: Caution with languages! To some extent, the Tonalibus website uses system-generated, automatic translations to offer itself also in languages other than its original English. Therefore, as possible or when in doubt about a statement in another language on this website, please refer to the English version.

Initially, Tonalibus offers only German (in Swiss style) as language other than English. French and Italian may follow. Further, if there is demand for it, other languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Japanese, or Chinese, etc. could be enabled on the Tonalibus website — though with considerable distortions and inaccuracies in their expressions, unless first verified in detail.