pain discard
cycles close
heart open
be free
pay the price
in flow
sacred space
untouchable
reality now
conscience
consciousness
humility
like water
and fire
translate
what is
truth
and views
together
the whole
beneficial
upbeat
happy
love
“First Baby Angel Steps” — double-strung harp — March 2021 — 1:40 as loop
Harmonics Base and the Realization Shift is the second module of the Tonalibus five-part course seriesHarmonic and Tonality Fundamentals. It explores the patterns of prime, even, and odd harmonics in wave and circular forms. Further, it features the harmonic realization shift reconciling linear fundamentals with curved actuality. Exploring these harmonic or overtone patterns also leads to what we commonly know as the Tao or yin-yang symbol (depicted below).
1) ReachUpMix — sound sample — 0:52 loop — plays until stopped or you go to another page on this tab.2) ReachUpMix — soundscape with emphasis on the four corners of the sound temple — 8-string guitar and custom gongs — February 2021 — 4:11 — also available as loop(on a new tab), or in an expanded version under Winter 2020/2021
ReachUpMix is an exceptional tonality. It contains all four corners of the sound temple relative to its fundamental. There are but a few others that also have this anchor cross in their footprint. They are BlueMix, ReachUpMaj, and LoReachUpMix. The latter is one of three Reach tonalities, Tonalibus is currently in the process of adding to its catalogue. Though only partially anchored, these special Reach tonalities have considerable, unique harmonic qualities.
You may enjoy a sound sample loop, such as the one of the tonality of the month, as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation, for upliftment, focusing, or simply for relaxation and regeneration as soothing background sound. Further, you could hum or chant along, for example using HU or another mantra, and tune yourself to the fundamental.
Never ending fascination with daybreak and sunrise — February 2021 — Grächwil, Switzerland
Being good starts with recognizing the good in one and all, and that any one is never the only good one. That much humility is required to be spiritually positive. This includes seeing the good in others as well as in oneself, to nurture the good in all. Only second, one needs to see also the negative, as objectively as possible, in order to survive and keep it at a safe distance, out of reach both ways.
As humans, we live in duality, if not plurality. But as soul, we are beyond all that. Creativity aims to open windows and doors, vistas beyond one’s divisive limitations and allows the unlimited, divine love to flow in. Images and music, light and sound can allow for that, when carefully tuned in, as can words at times.
Tonalibus
Tonalibus is one of my, Ulrico’s, efforts to to grasp some of the good, the harmony around us and to make my findings available to others, for the possibility they may help someone in some way, as they help me. On this website there are some of my discoveries, as I go my way. You go your way. There is no one and only way. Your way is yours. My way is mine. Now, in this very moment that you read this, our ways cross each other. My aim is to make this uplifting and encouraging, to nurture the good in both of us. And I sincerely hope you too can see the good, not so much the bad in me.
We all have our shortcomings and are at times off target. Nobody is perfect as human being. As soul with love in the heart we can bridge the gap between what we see as good and bad, the illusions of the absurd, of being human. This is the miracle of divine love where beauty blossoms and joy fills the heart beyond the reach of challenges and attacks, which invariably come about and try to keep one down. This seems to be what we’re here to learn in life and love.
Working together
We exist through working together, not against each other. Life is not about survival of the fittest. It’s about survival by working together. One cannot be good and well when at the expense of others. We learn to somehow carry our own weight by working together, allowing others to do the same.
This is what I have to give right now. Please don’t condemn me for that. It’s all I have. I put my heart into this, my love, and my life. You may trample it with your feet or relish it for what it is. That’s your freedom, as it is mine to pass this on in an effort to work together and strengthen the good in all, in you and in me, in spiritual freedom.
“ReachUpMix with the Four Corners of the Sound Temple”
8-string guitar and four gongs — February 2021 — 8:23 soundscape — contains low soundsNever ending fascination with daybreak and sunrise — February 2021 — Grächwil, Switzerland
This February 2021 Tonalibus, Spiritualibus, and Fidibus update includes a brief purpose poem and references new sound samples below.
Recent weeks brought some challenges. For example, Tonalibus experienced and fended off many thousands of hacker attacks from all around the globe. Still, the refinement of this website continues steadily. Also, references to spiritual teachings have been removed based on a specific request.
A first person completed his personal tonalities’ evaluations and work on his fundamental pitch. Based on that, some improvisations came about for that person to listen to and use as he sees fit. This is the service the Fidibus shop offers as individual sound mantra. Besides a simple exercise to find one’s fundamental pitch, this includes a systematic, efficiently focused approach to determine what tonalities resonate most personally. This requires considerable effort by the individual. Then, in the end, we use the results of those efforts musically to create one or more improvisations in the individual’s harmonic context. The word mantra may well invoke a somewhat spiritual connotation. After all, Tonalibus considers harmony and sound as sacred qualities, akin to divine love.
My fundamental aim
My fundamental aimConsistently was and is to beInclusive and not exclusiveAbsolute dogma is contraryTo spiritual freedomUnfoldment and loveTo divine spirit and harmonyIf ever a leader, then to thatHere and now presentInner and outer, bothShedding all holds for goodGrateful for the loveI wish us God speed!
New sound samples now on Tonalibus
Tonality samples
“BlueMix Syntropy”— multiple 8-string guitar — January 2021 — 5:54 — also available as loop“MinReach with Guggisberg Melody” — calm sound sample expanded — double 8-string guitar, bass, and crotales — January 2021 — 9:24 — also available as loopDorian — expanded, meditative/contemplative sound sample — raised 8-string guitar — February 2021 — 2:34 — available also as loopPentaMin / PentaEol — expanded sound sample — 8-string guitar — February 2021 — 2:15 — available also as loop
Cooperation samples
“Blue Wrap Rap” — voice by Christina Braun — bass by Ulrico — February 2021 — 2:50 — PentamMin / PentaEol“Reach and Mix, Carried by the Wind” — voice by Christina Braun — 8-string guitar by Ulrico — February 2021 — 6:30 — ReachMix“Stroll along Soul’s River Bank” — voice by Christina Braun — cymbals, bowls, crotales, and gongs by Ulrico — February 2021 — 8:53 — soundscape
An introspective sample
“Sooner Rather than Later” — double tenor recorder, Nepali and Tibetan (tingsha) cymbal pairs, and voice — January 2021 — 6:13 — soundscape — also available as loop
It’s been a long haul! — Thank you for everything.
It works and it does not, all at once! So which is it, when it’s both, for and against? Well, how about being neither for nor against — neutral, detached, and free.
It’s necessary to pick a pitch to play. In music or anything whatsoever. Pick a color to paint, to make the first stroke. Take a stance in anything to work with it, whatever it is. Then every following move will be in relation to that first; and each next one to all previous ones. Still, every stroke or move also has the quality of being the first, the freedom to be itself. Or potentially the last one, the concluding point in a cycle of some sorts — big or small, it matters naught. More tuned in at some points, less at others. But always something. A pitch, color, stroke, move, or maybe even the absence of one. The absence of action may show as much or more at times, if placed carefully with patience and heart. Or it can also show a lack of heart; though there is some heart in everything, or it would not exist.
Which of the two are we focusing on?
It works and it does not. Which of the two are we focusing on? One way it will work, the other not. Because we make it so! Also this, however, is not absolute but relative. This follows the law of love and personal space in our dual world. Spiritual freedom allows each their space. As much as one can give others their space, as much one can relish his or her own space. The manifestation of love is in the overlap of space between beings. How much do we have in common? How much overlap do we share? And how much is kept separate?
Again, which of the two are we focusing on? One way can make it work, the other not. By itself it could go either way. Then we make it work — or not. It works and does not, all at the same time. We make it one or the other through our own doing, our attitudes, and our consciousness. Finally, one may just leave it for what it is, neither working, nor not. Being detached and giving each and all their space allows for humbly and effectively claiming and relishing one’s own as soul in spiritual freedom.
