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 orPhrygian dominanton 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 — 6:14Spring sun breaking through clouds before setting — March 2023 — Grächwil, Switzerland
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).
ReachMin — 8-string guitar — 5:05 — as loop on a separate tab(or via right-click, if available)
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.
Tetrahedron, cube (hexahedron), octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron — small glass models
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
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 theupcoming 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).
“Pulse of an emerging blue heart” — PentaMin / PentaEol (pentatonic minor) — multiple 8-string guitar — 6:13
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.
PentaNaMin (new addition to the catalogue) — sound sample, calm — 8-string guitar — 2:53
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.
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.
“Phrygian HU” — Phrygian — 8-string guitar, voice, crotales, tanpura — May 2022 — 10:20 — as loop on a separate tab
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)
“Quad Pro square anchored octa Core” — an exploratory journey — OctaCor, Core tonality derivative — 8-string guitar, gongs, harmonium — 9:08 —(loop via right-click, if available)
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.
This September-October 2022 Tonalibus update highlights the expansion of Tonalibus releases, sounds, playlists, tonalities, images, and this website. And, along with latest sound samples, this update touches on a new spontaneous cooperation project resulting in sound healing concerts.
Just released as single: “चैतन्य Chaitanya – blues” (below) — previously released on the album Tonalibus D & E.
To be released for the first time on November 28, 2022: “Phrygian HU — a meditative blues” — for now as single (then also on next year’s 2023 album Tonalibus F & G).
“An embrace of divine love — no hypocrisy” and “संप्रयाण Saṃprayāṇa — departure from past to future, let’s go!” conclude playlist Tonalibus F“So many colors of reality”, now complete with 11 pieces spanning 112 minutes. The new evolving playlist Tonalibus G “Venturing far out and in” already contains 7 pieces of new meditative music. “Holy sham — a short sound excursion far out” is first in Tonalibus G but last under Summer 2022 Sounds. Further new additions are under the new Autumn-Winter 2022, including two recent cooperation sound samples.
“First encounter of old all new” and “Gentle blue light” are live recordings from the first musical encounter between Punnu Singh Wasu and Ulrico. Within one week, this led to two good size group sound healing concerts in Kiental, Switzerland. (See separate blog post Sound healing.)
“Celebration joy — a new start” manifested to participate virtually in a most special celebration of pure love and joy. This is a meditative fourth birthday wish and welcome on this planet from one side of the world to another. (Below.)
“Celebration joy” — a new start — TetraNaMixolydian blend — 8-string guitar — 12:05
“No mistake — big sky, beach, rock, pine, broken branch” and “ॐ शान्तिः Om Shanti HU — with Elijah’s bells and cicadas” contain live flute recordings, orthodox church bells, and real cicadas from Hydra, a Greek island that is car-free. “ॐ शान्तिः Om Shanti HU” is further offered as “just chant and pluck”. And, to hear the overtones of low voices, as “plain chant only” (under Sounds and below).
“ॐ शान्तिः Om Shanti HU” — plain chant only — A# — low chanting voices in unison generating overtones — 4:43
Derivative tonalities beyond the catalogue
Derivative tonalities are slight mutations of those eighty in the Tonalibus Catalogue. An example of such surfaced in the recent sound sample “No mistake — big sky, beach, rock, pine, broken branch”. Its tonality description reads: Phrygian on A framing HexaBlueUp (BlueUp without 7+) on E. As such it introduces the new tonality HexaBlueUp as the catalogued BlueUp without its major seventh.
Tonalibus images and website updates
Sounds now presents its many sound samples in a new structure by year (and season), including also the yearly collections of Tonalibus images (previously under About).
Depending on connection limitations and such, there can at times be noticeable delays to load an image collection or a large sound sample. Thank you for your patience.
Some browsers (Firefox, MS Edge, etc.) now offer a loop option by right-clicking an audio item to set it to loop or to get a running loop to stop the next time the piece reaches its end. Sound samples offered on Tonalibus loop pages are often specially configured for looping, differing slightly from their single-play version.
The July 2022 Tonalibus update mentioned an isolated translation problem on this website. In languages other than English, some links targeting a specific place in the body of a page landed on the top of the target page instead of the desired location on that page. The developers of the used translation engine just now corrected this problem!
