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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

August 15, 2023November 1, 2023

Dear, oh dear

Dear, oh dear
Why did you do
What you did
After all you are
Just who you are
You made yourself
Were made as such
Soul with a body
A vehicle to travel
From here to there
Now there to here
The present moment
There’s no leaving
It happens by itself
All is left behind
Embrace the now
For whatever it is
Let go and let be
For it is either way
One stage to another
Lives all incarnated
Why then excarnate
When cycles churn
And spirals overlap
In harmonic pivots
Hold it all together
In a divine embrace
Left to arrive again.

“Go with God” — a final blessing — in memory of Stivensky

LoloReachMin derivative w/7+ on D, octatonality — 5-string guitar, selje flute, tingsha cymbals, tanpura — 7:23

Ocean of Music and Dance

“Gold remains gold, regardless of the degree of its purity, and fire also remains fire, no matter what it burns. Sparks and flames are also essentially identical with it. In this sense, also a human being essentially forms a unity with the divine.”

— संगीतरत्नाकर Saṃgītaratnākara (Sangita Ratnakara), by Śārṅgadeva

Hear it, see it, feel it, and pass it on — oh dear

Water plants rising their leaves to the surface and flowers above — June 2023 — Kiental, Switzerland

August 14, 2023August 14, 2023

Tonality of the month: LoloReachMin

LoloReachMin on D — “Balancing up and down” — extensive calm — 8-string guitar and tanpura — August 2023 — 3:58 — as loop on a separate tab

The Tonality of the month for August/September 2023 is LoloReachMin — a fully anchored Reach heptatonality. The Tonalibus name of this tonality indicates that the lower tetrachord contains the lowest possible or Lolo version of Reach. And further, that the upper tetrachord is PhrygAeolian.

LoloReachMin features an intriguing and challenging mixture of flavorful elements, intervals, and pitches. First, there is the bluesy initial or lowest possible Reach step (augmented second). Then, the minor and major thirds are both present. As such, this tonality unifies most distinct characteristics of both, minor and major, in the lower tetrachord. However the upper tetrachord being PhrygAeolian has a distinct minor flavor. It can take some time to tune into this tonality to use it harmoniously and approach more challenging pitches form favorable directions. The above sound sample builds up gently. It adds more challenging pitches gradually, thus aiming to help western ears to slowly adjust to the fascinating combination of elements in this tonality.

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.

Tonality of the month: LoloReachMin — summary visualization of pitches, intervals, and a harmonic axe

August 13, 2023August 13, 2023

What can we do

What can we do
When the very best
Mixes with the worst
And claims are made
That it is the only best
Confirming the worst?
Indeed, this is human
Though all are divine
Souls, sparks of God
But still also human
Not just wanting to be
But better, even best
Tipping over to worst
As the cycles close
And spirals overlap
Disclosing what is
Unified in harmony
Merging opposites
To be sorted out
Once and for all
Like in a garden
Many things grow
And some do not
Whatever reason
Known or ignored
But visible to all
And best left alone
In the harmony of nature
The light and sound
And love divine.

“As God Realizes the Moment” — in memory of Billy

8-string guitar, multiple fujara, tenor recorder, and voice — May 2020 — 2:26 — as loop on a separate tab

“Iz Hie”

Si mir üs scho mau begägnet
Hei mir zäme tanzt im Räge
Si mitenang im Mondliecht gsässe
Si mir zäme scho mau gstorbe
U wider inenang gebore
U heis bis hüt nur vergässe
Si mir uf dr Ärde gläge
Hei üs d Frage gsteut vom Läbe
Üs der wiit Himmu u dr glich Atem teilt
Hei mir üs scho mau verwundet
Üs verlore, wider gfunde
Üs verletzt u wider gheilt
Wüu i luege di a
Zum erschte Mau
U aues isch da
Hei mir üse Wäg scho gha
Oder faht är a
Es isch egau
. . .

“Now Here”

Have we already met before
Did we dance together in the rain
Sit with each other in the moonlight
Did we already die together once
And were born again in each other
And only forgot about it till now
Did we lie down on this Earth
Ask us the questions of life
Share the wide sky and same breath
Have we already hurt one another
Lost and again found each other
Wounded and healed again
Because I look at you
For the first time
And everything is here
Did we already have our path
Or is it just beginning
It matters not
. . .

— “Itz Hie” (Bernese-German), Alva Lün / Andrea Pfeifer — on Spotify and other platforms

What can we do — beyond letting go

July 27, 2023July 27, 2023

Why an intermediary

Why an intermediary
When direct can be?
Do you dare step up
Or keep hiding more
In safe appearance
Where no safety is
Except divine love
Detaching freedom
Contrary to contortion
All too common still
Known as religion
Slapping the hand
Or more if allowed.
How can it ever be
In the name of love
The divine or spirit
Focused on just one
Instead of every soul?
God sparks everyone
Always opening up
In consciousness
To embrace and be
Ever in God’s love
However tough
It can indeed be
Direct and free
A realization
On one’s own feet.

“Calling the divine” — hearts connect directly

TetraNa, LoloReachMin on D — 5-string guitar, selje flute, voice — 6:42

誠 MAKOTO — JUSEN BU GYŌ — NICHI NICHI KORE KONICHI

WAHRHAFTIGKEIT

“Wahrhaftigkeit ist Himmelsweg
ihn zu verwirklichen ist Menschenweg”

ALLEN WESEN NICHTS BÖSES TUN
ALLE GUTEN TATEN
VON HERZEN TUN

TAG, TAG — DAS IST GUTER TAG

“Jeder Tag — ein guter Tag”
“Gott lebt da”

TRUTHFULNESS

“Truthfulness is heaven’s way
to realize it is human’s way”

DO NO HARM TO ALL BEINGS
ALL GOOD DEEDS
DO FROM THE HEART

DAY, DAY — THIS IS GOOD DAY

“Every day — a good day”
“God lives here”

— 墨跡 Bokuseki / Tuschspuren, Tetsuo Roshi Nagaya Kiichi, pp. 68, 104, & 124, original in German

Why an intermediary? — Summer sunset reflections behind a willow tree — July 2023 — Ipsach, Switzerland