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August 17, 2023October 19, 2023

August 2023 Tonalibus update

Playlist and
sounds update

Sound as mantra
(tonality in action)

Harmonics cycle
and universal harmony

Quote and photo
update conclusion

This August 2023 Tonalibus update highlights the evolution of Playlist K and July-August 2023 sounds, as well as Sound as mantra, a newly forming Fidibus offer to aid one’s creation of personal sound mantras. Further, it touches on the harmonics cycle and universal harmony, and concludes with a poetic quote and a photo.

August 2023 Tonalibus playlist and sounds update

Playlist K has now grown to 12 pieces covering 66 minutes of new recordings. New pieces include:
“Calling the divine” — hearts connect directly
“Balancing up and down” — extensive calm (below)
“Go with God” — a final blessing — in memory of Stivensky
and “Pulsating through life” — lead on! (below).
They are also available under July-August 2023 sounds.

“Pulsating through life” — lead on! — HexaMin on G# w/a touch Aeolian — 5-string guitar, lap slide guitar, bass, conch — 4:00

Sound as mantra — tonality in action

Individual sound mantras were an original Tonalibus offer that was dropped a while back. Now Sound as mantra is forming in the Fidibus shop. Its aim is to enable you to create your own personal sound mantras. Individual fundamental pitch, a first step, is now available, as well as the aide of chromatic pitches. Individual tonality selection is more complex and currently under construction to be realized and posted in stages.

“Balancing up and down” — extensive calm — LoloReachMin on D — 8-string guitar & tanpura — 3:58

Harmonics cycle and universal harmony

Images of the harmonics cycle as fusion of regularity and irregularity are now available also under concepts highlights.

Is there a universal harmony we live by and can recognize? Reflected also in tonalities? Experience in the present moment can affirm this. Can you hear the music of the spheres? There is an infinite abundance of ways of life and harmony — no one and only way! While here now, we are one and the same — as well as each one individually unique, each distinctly different from all others.

August 2023 Tonalibus update conclusion

“Sea, mountain, grass and trees,
even machine, car, gasoline, computer —
— they do not belong to people.
They are already alive. Even our body is not ours.
We are simply lives facing one another —
so we resonate, rebel, grow angry, cry, laugh,
and dance with them.”

Atsushi Takenouchi, 舞踏 Butō dancer and instructor

July 18, 2023July 18, 2023

July 2023 Tonalibus update

Recent concerts

Playlist update

Website update

This July 2023 Tonalibus update touches on two recent concert adventures and highlights the rapid emergence of Playlist K “Refreshing as a summer breeze”. Further, it announces slight changes in the website menu structure and the expansion of the main page of the Spiritualibus blog.

Two recent Tonalibus concerts in early July

On Thursday July 6, Ursula Huggenberger and Tonalibus Ulrico presented a natural sound journey in the glorious acoustics of the Fideris church, Grisons. Live recordings, photos, and a brief story of this event are available under July 2023 live sounds. Further, a three and a half minute video clip is on Instagram. (Click on the crossed out speaker icon for sound).

On Saturday July 1, the Schlimo summer fest ’23 celebrated with an open-air concert and theater on the grounds of a magnificent estate in Gurzelen near Thun. Tonalibus Ulrico provided the opening of the live program with “Sound carpets, as refreshing as a summer breeze”. (There are no recordings from this event. Click on photo to the left to enlarge.)

July 2023 Tonalibus playlists update

Playlist K “Refreshing as a summer breeze” follows Playlist J, which was announced complete in June. So far Playlist K has already grown to present eight pieces covering forty-four minutes of new improvisations, such as some from the Fideris sound journey and a few with a new lap slide guitar, including “Fused oriental occident and occidental orient” (below).

“Fused…” — ReachMin (Phrygian dominant) on G# — fretted vichitra veena, lap slide guitar, crotales, tanpura — 8:01

Tonalibus website update of July 2023

The main menu structure changed slightly in the order of its options. In the Fidibus shop, all Playlists now appear grouped with all their titles. Tonalities of the month moved under Tonalities, and Chromaticism and modulation under Concepts. Further, the main page of the Spiritualibus blog received a new look. It now includes short blog excerpts in the list of the most recent posts of all categories and of Omnibus posts.

Best wishes from the heart!
Ulrico

June 9, 2023June 12, 2023

June 2023 Tonalibus update

Single release

Playlist & Sounds

New tonality derivative

Harmonics cycle

This June 2023 Tonalibus update highlights the current release of “Once upon a time” as new single and announces the conclusion of playlist “Tonalibus J”. Further, it refers to MixoBal or HexaNaMix, a derivative tonality of unique harmonic balance, that triggered a fascinating discovery, a new view of the harmonics cycle with its inherent geometry, angles, symmetries, and axes.

Release of “Once upon a time” as single — for T

“Once upon a time” — again and still on the way (below) is available globally as of 6/11 on music platforms like Spotify, Deezer, Boomplay, YouTube Music, Apple Music, KKBox, Amazon, Tidal, NetEase, QQ Music, and many more.

Phrygian — 6-string guitar, 7-string guitar, small gong — 5:09

June 2023 Tonalibus playlist & sounds update

Playlist J “Welcome to relative freedom” is now complete with 13 pieces spanning 88 minutes, including “Back in open time and space” — at long last (below), which is one of two May recordings also available under May-June 2023 sounds.

MixoBal / HexaNaMix (derivative) — lap slide guitar and tanpura — 6:28

MixoBal or HexaNaMix, a new derivative tonality

A few details on MixoBal or HexaNaMix, a Mixolydian derivative, are in the posting tonality of the month of June 2023. While listed as derivative in the overview chart of tonalities by lower and upper Tetrachord and as Na tonality, as derivative it is not detailed in the Tonalibus catalogue of tonalities. But it led to the following depiction of the harmonics cycle.

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May 6, 2023May 8, 2023

May 2023 Tonalibus update

April concert recordings

Upcoming single release

Playlist update

This May 2023 Tonalibus update presents some live recordings from the April Tonalibus concert “Drawing circles, waves and spirals”. Further, this update announces the release of a new single “Once upon a time” in June. And it highlights playlist “Tonalibus J”, which has grown at so far unprecedented speed to over ten pieces already.

Live recordings from the April Tonalibus concert near Bern

Below you find four live recordings from the Tonalibus concert entitled “Drawing circles, waves and spirals” on April 23. The Meikirch cultural commission had sponsored and publicized it. This led to a pretty full hall of participants that included also a number of friends and family traveling some distance to attend.

1) “Ophiuchus alive” — living serpent bearer — ReachMix — fretted vichitra veena, tanpura, large gong — 5:18 recorded live

2) “Living drops of glacial melt water” — Mixolydian — fujara and a touch of medium gong — 3:09 recorded live

3) “Living echoes in relative silence” — IonAeolian / ClusterBal (melodic minor / Aelian dominant) — 8-string guitar, singing saw, voice, large gong — 10:33 recorded live

4) “Living sound travel far out” — Core tonal [C#-D-E-F/[F#]-G-G#]-[A#-C-C#] — nepali cymbals, sound bowls, crotales, gongs — 6:48 recorded live

Release of “Once upon a time” as single in June — for T

On June 11, “Once upon a time” — again and still on the way (below) will be globally released on many music platforms. This recent studio recording uses an old theme newly revived for the above mentioned Tonalibus concert.

Phrygian — 6-string guitar, 7-string guitar, small gong — 5:09

May 2023 Tonalibus playlist update

Playlist J started at the very end of March. By now it already grew to eleven recordings, including the ones above and “Spring sunbeam chirping” (below), a revival of the selje flute used in the above mentioned Tonalibus concert.

TetraNa+ (natural harmonics) — selje flute, medium gong — 3:50

Ruminating peacefully on the other side of concert

Ruminating cows across the street from the concert venue — April 2023 — Meikirch, Switzerland

April 5, 2023April 5, 2023

March-April 2023 Tonalibus update

April 23 concert reminder

New albums

Playlist updates

This March-April 2023 Tonalibus update highlights the upcoming concert on April 23 “Drawing circles, waves and spirals” near Bern and the March release of the albums “Tonalibus F, G, & H” and “Klanggeschichte: Nabelschnur”. Further, it announces the completion of playlist “Tonalibus I” and the start of “Tonalibus J” offering their most recent two audio recordings.

April 23 Tonalibus concert in Meikirch, Switzerland

Concert on Sunday, April 23 starting at 5 PM in the Aula of the Gassacker School, Grächwilstr. 14, Meikirch. Ulrico will present a variety of meditative and healing sound improvisations, some with a blues touch, on various instruments.

March release of two albums

“Tonalibus F, G, & H” was released on March 2 on many music platforms. E.g. Spotify, Deezer, Boomplay, YouTube Music, Apple Music / iTunes, KKbox, Amazon, Tidal, NetEase, QQ Music, and many more. It spans three and a half hours with twenty-five pieces of original, mostly meditative music by Ulrico. Detailed info about this triple album, the music platforms used, and its pieces you find in the Fidibus shop under “Tonalibus F, G, & H“.

“Story and sound: Nabelschnur (umbilical cord)” was released on March 23. This “Klanggeschichte” is about connection, growth, and detachment. Written and presented in German by Philine Harte, along with sound by Ulrico, it spans ten chapters over sixty-three minutes of inspiring words and soothing sound. It is available in the Fidibus shop under “Story: Nabelschnur“. And also on Spotify, YouTube, Apple / iTunes, and Amazon.

“Umbilical” — sounds in silence — ReachMin or Phrygian dominant on 136 Hz — multiple 8-string guitar — 10:05 — derived from the sound recordings for “Klanggeschichte”, the “Story: Nabelschnur” about the development of the umbilical cord

March-April 2023 Tonalibus playlist update

Playlist Tonalibus I entitled “Step ahead into a new world” is now complete. It includes twelve pieces from January through March 2023 spanning ninety minutes of improvisations by Ulrico. One each is with Christina Braun, voice or violin, Philine Harte, voice, and Karin Gsöllpointner, voice.
Playlist Tonalibus J entitled “Welcome to relative freedom” starts with the improvised composition “Echoes of growing silence” — celebrating a new birth (below).

“Echoes of growing silence” — IonAeolian or ClusterBal (melodic major) — 8-string guitar w/sustained echo, bass — 6:14