The global release date for the new triple album “Tonalibus F, G, & H” is March 2, 2023. On that day, it appears on Spotify, YouTube Music, Deezer, Apple Music / iTunes, Amazon, and on many more music platforms around the world. This album features twenty-five spontaneous improvisations by Ulrico on various instruments, a few with voice. These pieces span three and a half hours of uplifting healing music. They have a more or less meditative character and at times a touch of blues. Detailed information about this new album you find under “Tonalibus F, G, & H — Album” in the Fidibus shop.
ReachMix — meditative sound sample — 136 Hz 8-string guitar, tanpura — Feb. 2023 — 4:19 — as loop on a separate tabReachMix — meditative sound sample — 136 Hz 8-string guitar, big gong, tingsha cymbals, tanpura — Feb. 2023 — 4:19
The tonality of the month of March 2023 is ReachMix, a fully anchored Reach or harmonic tonality. Its name indicates that there is a regular Reach step or augmented second framed by half tone steps in the lower tetrachord. And the upper one is DorMixolydian, as in Dorian and Mixolydian. Basically, this tonaliy is Mixolydian with a minor instead of a major second, which gives it a slight Phrygian touch that can contrast beautifully with its otherwise predominant Mixolydian character.
Tuning for this ReachMix sample, the tonality of the month
Instead of standard A 440 Hz tuning, Tonalibus is usually tuning relative to A 438.2 Hz or C# 138 Hz. This is based on personal calculations and deductions made by Ulrico in his youth. However, the above ReachMix sound sample is relative to A 432 Hz or C# 136.1 Hz. Some associate the latter with the Earth or the heart chakra. Others call it the Om frequency. There are claims that this frequency was used throughout the ages, without evidence. Apparently musicologist Alexander John Ellis measured and documented ancient pipe organs and tuning forks. He found only one reference to 432 Hz (Verdi). Before standardization, the pitch A fluctuated heavily between 400 and 460 Hz.
Sound as mantra — a worthwhile notion
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 HU or Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or another mantra syllable that suits you.
Roots and crowns, up and down, heaven to earth to heaven — February 2023 — San Carlo di Negrentino, Ticino
A new together now You have it, I have it No more division I have it, you don’t Or you have it, I don’t But unity of we have it More or less who cares So there is life for all And love — the divine Consciousness of soul With spiritual freedom Every hook of dogma Detached and let go Not ex- but inclusive Unfolds step by step In this school of life Discover ever more Relishing, nurturing The light and sound We see and hear The harmony in all Beyond every strife Of opposites distinct That do complement Each other’s existence Rising above duality Solid peace of heart In the name of spirit The present moment Always here and now!
“Wake to a new dream” — LocorReach meditation
LocorReach — 8-string guitar and tanpura — 15:44 — as loop on a separate tab
ϕ The golden mean or ratio
Can symbolic, scientific, and mathematical relations between the material world and the spiritual universe explain the existence of the divine? An irrational number that regulates the molecular form of matter, the golden ratio or golden mean is a fundamental part of many religions and believes.
We apply the rules of the golden ratio in architecture. We do it rationally and consciously. But how aware are we that harmony also in music is — or has been — governed by the same proportional rule, the golden mean? And how much of the golden ratio is present in our body parts, in nature, in the molecular forms?
Music and harmony means not only beauty but interaction with the universe. The golden mean is a common language between humans and God. Geometry, mathematics, and music are not just science or art, but tools for understanding and regulating the cosmos and the world around us.
Just as a watchmaker synchronizes the mechanics of a clock, we can harmonize ourselves using song or chant based on the golden mean, capable of generating a wave of harmony that changes negative, divisive flows into divine essence. Vibrations of sound are able to adjust our movement in the universe from chaotic principles, to invite and follow the rules of harmony — of divine love.
— Free after Il romanico e il significato del canto nel medioeve (The Romanesque and the importance of chant in the Middle Ages) by Eloisa Vacchini
Ever new sunset miracles for all together now
Spectacular sunset colors last but a brief moment — February 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
One more step Toward freedom No more break After a full life Or most of it Can change Not too late Ever another And another Step ahead In the divine This moment New all over Standing tall On the past Look ahead To a future Right now Eye to eye Facing self One another Together ever Never alone Still oneself Pay a price Earn it all Freedom And love We have.
One more step, and one more, and another… — just one!
Just wait till you see the splendor you’ll be dragged into once you surrender your life, once you allow God’s breath to animate your flesh! But don’t let my metaphors alarm you. The love of God never killed anybody. On the contrary, it rescues us from all the killing in this world. It never takes life, but gives and gives of its greater life, and its generosity is so vast, so unfathomable, that it can bestow the whole kingdom of Solomon on a single ant.
— from The Divan-i-Shams-i-Tabrizi, Jalaluddin Rumi, translation: B. J. Hays
Stars, lights, and patterns consistently point a heart’s way forward
Lights at a church ceiling, or is it the sky, or heaven? — January 2023 — Heiliggeistkirche, Bern, Switzerland
