Category: 2024 tonal

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Blessing of Om for all beings – the single

Tonalibus single release — “Blessing of Om for all beings”

Blessing of Om for all beings – the single

“A blessing of Om / Aum ॐ” — with love for all sentient beings — chant on C# — 5:22 — appears globally as new Tonalibus single on December 25, 2024.

On: Amazon, Anghami, Apple Music, MediaNet, Boomplay, Deezer, Instagram/Facebook, Adaptr, Flo, YouTube Music, iHeartRadio, Claro Música, iTunes, Joox, Kuack Media, NetEase, Qobuz, Pandora, Saavn, Spotify, Tencent, Tidal and TikTok & other ByteDance stores.

chanting bass voices — approaching, tuning, and settling on C#

Om as sacred sound, syllable, mantra, or invocation, represents the essence of consciousness or of the cosmic world. As sonic representation of the divine, it is a basic tool for meditation in the yogic path to liberation. As sacred spiritual incantation you often find it before and during the recitation of spiritual texts, during puja and private prayers. It is part of the iconography in ancient and medieval era manuscripts, temples, monasteries, and spiritual retreats in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. As sacred syllable, practitioners of spiritual paths may chant it independently, before a recitation, or during meditation.

May we all be well and happy — into 2025!

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Tonality of the moment: LocorReach

The tonality of the moment for winter 2024/25 is LocorReach.

LocorReach — extensive sound sample, calm — 8-string guitar — 7:24
“Wake to a new dream” — LocorReach meditation — 8-string guitar and tanpura — february 2023 — 15:44

The tonality of the moment is LocorReach, a Locor / Cor Reach heptatonality. The name LocorReach indicates that this tonality contains the lower Core pitches and in the upper tetrachord a regular Reach-step. Its step pattern is as follows: Ascending from the fundamental (tonic or Do), a Reach step leads to a half plus a whole step. Then follow two consecutive half steps and another Reach step. Finally a half step leads up to the octave. LocorReach is, as other partially anchored Reach heptatonalities of the subgroup Locor / Cor, characterized by containing the minor and major third, plus also the tritone.

Tonality of the moment: LocorReach

You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or HU, or another mantra syllable that suits you.

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Oct-Nov 2024 Tonalibus update

Playlists & sounds
Upcoming single
Tonalibus outlook
Dumbledore

This Oct-Nov 2024 Tonalibus update highlights news from playlists and sounds, plus the coming January 30, 2025 release of the new single Perfect imperfection — one step closer. Then it touches on the current Tonalibus outlook, including a scant review and look ahead. Finally, this update closes with a few Dumbledore quotes.

Oct-Nov 2024 Tonalibus playlists, sounds, and single update

Oct-Nov 2024 Tonalibus update

Playlist Q “Coming home to oneself” has by now grown to 5 pieces and 47½ minutes of music including the following new Sept-Oct 2024 Sounds:
— “Rinpoche déjà-vu chant” — for recognition and deliverance
— “Thö-gäl” — instantaneous arrival
— “ༀ་ཨཱཿ་ཧཱུྃ – Ōṃ āḥ hūṃ” — dissolving search and soft landing
— “Humble bumble dumble” — homecoming blues

The playlists Very & most popular pieces were updated.

New Tonalibus single to be released January 30, 2025: “Perfect imperfection” — one step closer

IonAeolian / ClusterBal (melodic major) with a touch of Ionian on E (164.3 Hz) — 8-string guitar, small gong, tanpura — 12:01

Tonalibus outlook — a scant review and look ahead

Oct-Nov 2024 Tonalibus update

Since 2020, Tonality of the Month announcements and Tonalibus Updates appeared mostly monthly, plus Spiritualibus blog posts more or less weekly. All this came in four languages: English, German, French, and Italian. From now on these will appear more sporadically, allowing for increased time away from computers.

Tonalibus listeners on Spotify increased remarkably during the last half year, from 1 to 3 per day and often none, exceptionally up to 5, before May 2024, to continually over 20 by July, then over 50 by September, and over 70 in October, very often clearly over 100, peaking at 137 different listeners all over the planet on October 13.

Closing Dumbledore quotes

Oct-Nov 2024 Tonalibus update

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”

“The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“Realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign . . . to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

— Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone, J. K. Rowling, pp. 214, 298, & 299

(The above portrait photo is by Karin Gsöllpointner, the photo of a live conch held by Ulrico is by Laurie Sacchet.)

May we all be well and prosper!

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Tonality of the month: PentaBluMix

The tonality of the month of November 2024 is PentaBluMix.

PentaBluMix on C# — extra sound sample, calm — 8 string guitar — January 2023 — 3:44 — as loop on a separate tab

The tonality of this month is PentaBluMix, an extended pentatonality. The name PentaBluMix indicates that this is a pentatonality consisting of PentaBlu lower pitches along with a DorMixolydian upper tetrachord. Its step pattern is as follows: Ascending from the fundamental (tonic or Do), a regular Reach step leads to an augmented Reach step. Then follows a whole step and a half step. Finally a whole step leads up to the octave. PentaBluMix is equivalent to HexaBluMix without quart, HexaCorMix without tritone, or to PhrygDorian, LoReachUpMix / LoCorMix, Dorian, ReachUpMix, or BlueMix without second and quart or tritone. And it is closely related to PentaNaMix, PentaBluMin, and PentaBluMaj.

Tonality of the month: PentaBluMix

You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or HU, or another mantra syllable that suits you.

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Tonalibus L, M & N – release & sampler

May sound and silence calm and uplift your heart and spirit!

Here you find a sampler playlist of the new album release “Tonalibus L, M & N“. This album appears globally on many music platforms on Saturday, October 5, 2024 — including Spotify, Boomplay, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon, and many more.

This triple album features recordings from Tonalibus playlists:
Opening of white light — “Tonalibus N”
Make peace with freedom — “Tonalibus M”
Among suns, moons, & stars — “Tonalibus L”
and “Tonalibus Cooperation B”

Tonalibus L, M & N album — release sampler — 10 pieces, 78½ minutes

The album “Tonalibus L, M & N” offers 27 meditative improvisations by Ulrico in 3½ hours of uplifting music, at times with a touch of blues. Six of these are recordings of spontaneous cooperation with friends. Two feature Punnu Wasu (voice and mandolin), three Christina Braun (voice and violin), and one Karin Gsöllpointner (voice). This album’s recordings are from September 2023 through February 2024. More detailed information you find under Tonalibus L, M & N — Album in the Fidibus shop, including for each track the musical instruments used, the specific tonality or tonalities, and the fundamental tuning, as well as playlist and blog post references as applicable.

Tonalibus L, M & N – release & sampler
Album cover — Opening of white light — Make peace with freedom — Among suns, moons, & stars