Category: Tonalibus

This February 2023 Tonalibus update announces the early March release of the new triple album “Tonalibus F, G, & H”, the April 23 concert “Drawing circles” near Bern, and the new sounds index. Further it touches on the expansion of the catalogue of tonalities and on updates to the glossary. Finally, it concludes with a brief note on sacred geometry and the Platonic solids.

March 2 release of the triple album “Tonalibus F, G, & H”

The new triple album “Tonalibus F, G, & H” will be released on March 2, 2023 on music platforms like Spotify, Deezer, Apple, Youtube, Amazon, and many more. It spans close to three and a half hours with twenty-five original pieces of mostly meditative music by Ulrico. Detailed info about this album, platforms used, and its pieces are in the Fidibus shop. Its first piece is “Never give up, let go completely” — a miracle of nature (below).

April 23 Tonalibus concert in Meikirch, Switzerland

“Drawing circles” is this year’s theme of the Meikirch Kulturkommission sponsoring the Tonalibus concert on Sunday, April 23 starting at 5 PM in the Aula of the Gassacker School, Grächwilstrasse 14, 3045 Meikirch. Ulrico will present a variety of meditative and healing sound improvisations, some with a blues touch, on various instruments like 8-string guitar, veena, fujara, selje flute, tenor recorder, gongs, cymbals, crotales, and piano. Images of harmony and nature will be projected and to start an introduction to the harmonic pivot. Chairs as well as yoga mats will be provided to sit or lay down.

New index of personal and cooperation sounds

A new index of Tonalibus personal and cooperation sounds now presents a corresponding overview in several ways:
1) by title, alphabetic, detailed with reference to the recording, as well as to playlist, blog post, and album placements
2) by instrument with reference to each recording
3) by year, month or season, chronologically
4) by musician cooperating with Ulrico

Expansion of the catalogue of tonalities and the glossary

The expansion of the catalogue of anchored tonalities, announced in the January 2023 Tonalibus update, is now complete in all details. Further, the Tonalibus glossary expanded to include corresponding new and several basic terms, including miracle of nature, anchor realization shift, harmonic realization shift, inversion, and mirror shift pattern.

Conclusion with sacred geometry and Platonic solids

“Sacred geometry is an instrument of dialogue between man and God, permitting us to find unity inside nature’s diversity. It provides complete understanding and experience to consciously shape our future and accelerate the ascension process. It shows us how to open our hearts and evolve in consciousness through geometric models.”

— Inscription inside a box containing small glass models of the five convex, regular polyhedra or Platonic solids, i.e. a tetrahedron, cube (hexahedron), octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron (see below). Some sources credit Pythagoras with their discovery.

This January 2023 Tonalibus update touches on an upcoming concert. It provides news on playlists and personal sound samples that lead to the release of a new triple album. Finally, it presents the miracle of nature and announces a revision and expansion of the Tonalibus catalogue of tonalities.

April 23, 2023 Tonalibus concert in Meikirch, Switzerland

“DRAWING CIRCLES”

Harmony presentation and concert with Ulrico
Improvisations and meditative sounds
Sunday, April 23, 5:00-6:30 PM
Aula of the Gassacker school
Grächwilstrasse 14, 3045 Meikirch
Bus 104 from Bern to Gassacker bus stop
Sponsored by the Kulturkommission Meikirch

Personal sounds, playlists, and a triple album

1) Tonalibus playlist F “So many colors of reality”
2) Tonalibus playlist G “Venturing far out and in”
3) Tonalibus playlist H “Roots, beginnings, and endings”
These three, including the new playlist H, are the foundation for the upcoming triple album “Tonalibus F, G, & H” that will easily exceed 25 pieces and 3½ hours of meditative music.

New sounds from the end of 2022 include:
“Embracing Ma” — Pro-Reg-Pro meditation
“Gitasa” — a family present for a present family
“Gitigota” — a first inversion pair experiment
“Never give up, let go completely” — a miracle of nature
“ॐ शान्तिः भक्ति ॐ — Ōṃ Śāntiḥ Bhakti Ōṃ” — contemplation

Playlist I “Step ahead into a new world” starts 2023 with “Pulse of an emerging blue heart” — first step into a new year (below).

A miracle of harmonic nature

The image shows two examples of the miracle of nature in action.

A miracle of harmonic nature is the tendency of regressive tonalities to convert themselves to their progressive equivalent. As such, the quart takes on the function of the fundamental. And the original fundamental turns into its fifth, the first and main harmonic in the series that is not an octave. (See harmonic series.)

January 2023 Tonalibus update of catalogued tonalities

The Tonalibus catalogue of anchored tonalities expands now to ninety distinct tonalities. Further, there is an ever growing number of derivatives that the catalogue lists in context, where relevant, but does not document in detail. Therefore, an overall revision and general refinement of the framework of the catalogue has been completed, while some new tonalities still wait to be individually documented in full detail. Below are some highlights of catalogue changes.

• Four new heptatonalities form the new partially anchored Reach tonality sub-group Locor / Cor.
• Six new extended pentatonality additions complete the sub-groups PentaNa and new PentaBlu.
• Pentatonalities now appear grouped into basic pentatonalities and extended pentatonalities.
• Besides TetraNa, further tetratonalities show up as derivatives. They are root tonalities and new tonality relations visuals cover most all the tonalities in the catalogue, except hexatonalities.
• Hexatonalities are not further expanded on, as they can largely be seen as mere derivatives.
• The list of Na tonalities slimmed down to include only prime Na(tural harmonics) tonalities.
• The overall Tonalibus tonalities listing by lower and upper tetrachord (below) expanded to over a hundred entries as it now includes also some relevant derivatives and root tetratonalities.

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January 2023 Tonalibus update conclusion

Life is great. Happy winter time! — 🙂

This November-December 2022 Tonalibus update highlights a recent single release, as well as current plans for another album and a concert in spring. Further, it touches on new sound samples, derivative tonalities, blog post alerts, and Tonalibus’ new social media presence on Facebook.

Tonalibus audio releases

On November 28, “Phrygian HU” — a meditative blues was globally released as single on many music platforms (below).

With the relatively rapid increase of personal sound samples over recent months, the next album Tonalibus F & G may be ready for release already in early 2023.

Tonalibus releases appear globally on many music platforms, including Spotify, Deezer, YouTube Music, Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon, Tidal, KKBox, NetEase, QQ Music/Tencent, Yandex, Anghami, Boomplay, ClaroMusica, iHeartRadio, Joox, Kuack Media, MediaNet, NetEase, Qobuz, Pandora, Saavn, TikTok, Resso and Luna, Triller, Soundtrack by Twitch, etc.

In 2022, just on Spotify, some 90 people in 26 countries listened to Tonalibus releases for an average of over two hours and twenty-two streams each. That is encouraging!

April 23, 2023 Tonalibus concert in Meikirch, Switzerland

Currently a Tonalibus concert is being planned with Ulrico at 5:00 PM on April 23 in Meikirch near Bern. It will be either in the local village church or the Aula of the Gassacker school. Details will follow. You may reserve the date!

Concert sponsor:
Kulturkommission
of Meikirch, BE.

Personal sounds and playlist updates

Playlist Tonalibus G has grown to 13 pieces, with new:
“Life is great!” — a celebratory meditation — for M
“Conscious derivative” — an island memory
“Gihahatigo Bhairav” — ReachBal contemplation
“Quad Pro square anchored octa Core” — (below)
“HexaNa Gita” — harmonic six-pack
“HeptaNa Gita” — harmonics medley
(available also under sounds of Autumn-Winter 2022)

More derivative tonalities are emerging

The last Tonalibus update presented a first derivative tonality, a term now also in the Glossary:
Derivative tonality — not included in the Tonalibus catalogue; slight mutation or challengingly harmonic variety of a catalogued tonality; e.g., HexaBlueUp as slight mutation of BlueUp without 7+, or the various derivatives of Core tonalities.

Six derivative Core tonalities emerged and now complement the corresponding overview visuals (below) but will not further integrate into the Tonalibus catalogue with its 80 tonalities. Derivative Core tonalities include: HexaLocor, Locor, OctaCor, HexaCor, CorMix, and CorMaj / LoloReachLyd. One of these, OctaCor, is the tonality of the above personal sound sample and is unique in that it is the first or so far only octatonality in the Tonalibus framework, i.e. with eight pitches to the octave.

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Cor(e) tonalities and derivatives are a diverse collection of specific hepta-, hexa-, and pentatonalites, plus one octatonality, with a common core. Though only partially or progressively anchored (with the exception of fully anchored BlueMix), they are uniquely anchored in that they contain all four corners of the sound temple. Besides the fundamental or octave, these include the minor third, tritone, and major sixth. Containing all four corners of the sound temple, they tend towards dissolving tonality. Thus they can open up more freedom in experiencing sound and rather unusual harmony.

In addition to the Cor(e) tonalities presented in the Tonalibus catalogue, there are further derivative Cor(e) tonalities, as shown above. These derivatives are more challenging and delicate to use so that their harmonic qualities carry forth. And even then, they are better used but in small dosage.

Finally, the next Tonalibus update will likely touch on several currently emerging TetraNa derivatives beyond the existing TetraNa progression inversions also not further catalogued. A fundamental miracle of harmonic nature comes increasingly into focus: Regressive tonalities tend to invert themselves naturally and all by themselves to their individual progressive twin tonalities.

New subscription option for immediate blog post alerts

Below in the page footer, besides the monthly Tonalibus newsletter subscription option, it is now also possible to subscribe to immediate brief e-mail alerts whenever a new Tonalibus, Spiritualibus, or Fidibus blog post comes online.

Tonalibus social media presence on Facebook

Tonalibus now has a Facebook page as TonalibusUlrico or Ulrico Sacchet (accessible also under the main menu option “Start”) where some but not all Tonalibus, Spiritualibus, and Fidibus blog posts are shared with friends and a few also with the public.

November-December 2022 Tonalibus update conclusion

Life is great. Happy holiday season and a wonderful 2023!