Do you dare Confront it For what it is Divine ‘nd spirit Light and sound Eternal harmony Anchored in love Nature and life Reality as it is No matter how One may color Anyone’s view Limit in dogma Or give freedom And space to be Present all here The moment now Not contradicting The source of it all Not what one says Nor writes in books But what one does That tells the story Of all that is real As God realizes Itself so clearly De-personified At long last now As soul is free.
“ॐ शान्तिः Om Shanti HU” — just chant and pluck
PentaProLa or PentaIon (pentatonic major) on A# — 8-string guitar, low chanting voices in unison generating overtones — 4:43 — as loop on a separate tab(or via right-click, if available)
Do you dare look with the eye of the tiger — without negation
It is possible to enter the kingdom of heaven through the teachings of spirit. The path lies with the divine, and all who come to it can have liberation from worldly affairs. When soul does this and follows the path of spirit with love, it is possible for it to enter the ocean of love and mercy and become a co-worker with God.
A spiritual student respects all religions, as such exist in this physical world.
— Inspired by The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One & Two, Paul Twitchell
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!
Sound healing Spirit, the divine De-personified free Beyond limitations Looking within Listening without Enjoying the ride Yea, life is great! A dream of love Can come true It always does When nurtured With attention And loving care Sent on its way Always forward And never back In time ‘nd space No matter what This is God’s gift Present here now To be embraced And passed on One way or other Your way and mine With room for us all To give and receive The grateful heart Lights up its world
“First encounter of old all new”
ReachBal — harmonium and voice by Punnu Singh Wasu, 8-string guitar by Ulrico — October 2022 — 8:57 live
“Gentle blue light”
MinReach, Aeolian/HexaMin — mandolin by Punnu Singh Wasu, 8-string guitar by Ulrico — October 2022 — 8:49 live
“Sound Healing is a profound and powerful experience of sound and vibration, which combines live music, pure natural sound, ancient mantras, and soulful vocals. For thousands of years, sound has been utilized in various cultures as a tool for the body, mind, and soul of a person to trigger harmony and healing. “You can lie comfortably on mats on the floor or sit on a chair/meditation cushion while slowing down your breathing. By doing this, you prepare yourself to get in a meditative state of stillness and become the receiver of sounds. You receive powerful mantras, sound medicine melodies, and other songs accompanied by sacred instruments in order to move in a place of complete relaxation and peace. “The benefits of sound healing are, among others, stress reduction, deep relaxation, improved sleep, better concentration, and a stronger immune system. Sound healing beneficially affects all cells in your body.” — Announcement of an evening with Punnu Singh Wasu and Ulrico on October 15 at the Kientalerhof, Switzerland — Catherine Göldlin
ॐ शान्तिः Om Shanti Shanti Om शान्तिः ॐ Peace and gratitude No war in one’s heart And freedom’s earned Nature teaches harmony Always will restore it indeed Individually and collectively Gradually and step by step Blossoms into the present With the warmth of a sun In the drumming of rain Cherished and nurtured Or scorched and drowned When rebuilding balance Sacrificed by humanity Or humanity sacrificed By one’s very own doing Earned collectively in time While polluting our space Better clean up our act Environment and all Images and thoughts Plan and act on all planes Inner and outer hand in hand A lone voice becomes chorus Surging like waves of love Om Shanti — Shanti Om
ॐ शान्तिः Om Shanti HU — with Elijah’s bells and cicadas
PentaProLa or PentaIon (pentatonic major) on A# — low chanting voices in unison generating overtones, 8-string guitar, tenor recorder, orthodox church bells, natural cicadas — September 2022 — 4:43 — as loop on a separate tab(or via right-click browser option, where available)
From the great stone face
“‘And why?’ asked Ernest. He pointed to the volume. ‘Are not those thoughts divine?’ ‘They have a strain of the Divinity,’ replied the poet. ‘You can hear in them the far-off echo of a heavenly song. But my life, dear Ernest, has not corresponded with my thought. I have had grand dreams, but they have been only dreams, because I have lived — and that, too, by my own choice — among poor and mean realities. Sometimes even — shall I dare to say it? — I lack faith in the grandeur, the beauty, and the goodness, which my own works are said to have made more evident in nature and in human life. Why, then, pure seeker of the good and true, shouldst thou hope to find me, in yonder image of the divine?’
“Ernest began to speak, giving to the people of what was in his heart and mind. His words had power, because they accorded with his thoughts; and his thoughts had reality and depth, because they harmonized with the life which he had always lived. It was not mere breath that this preacher uttered; they were the words of life, because a life of good deeds and holy love was melted into them. Pearls, pure and rich, had been dissolved into this precious draught.”
— The Great Stone Face, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850 — from Hawthorne’s Short Stories, p. 309-310, published 1946 — personally recommended by the late Marjorie Klemp
Edgy boulders broken and ground into small colorful rounds
Colorful round pebbles in a gentle surf at sunset — September 2022 — Bisti beach, Ύδρα / Hydra, Greece
“Tagicrosago” — W. A. Mathieu’s dark horse — PhrygDorian — extended sound sample, calm — 8-string guitar, crotales, singing saw, gong, tanpura — March 2022 — 5:45 — as loop on a separate tabPhrygDorian — sound sample, calm — 8-string guitar and tanpura — March 2022 — 2:45 — as loop on a separate tabPhrygDorian — short sound sample — 8-string guitar — June 2020 — 1:01 — as loop on a separate tab
W. A. Mathieu in “Harmonic Experience” refers to this intriguing tonality as “Dark Horse” or Mixolydian/Phrygian. He also expresses affinity for its “slightly off-putting mystery.”
The octave of a clustered or melodic tonality includes five whole steps and two half steps (or semitones). This is the same as for diatonic tonalities. However in a clustered tonality, either one single or a group of four consecutive whole steps, one and four alternating, separate the two half steps from each other. While in the far more commonly used diatonic tonalities, there are two and three, not one and four consecutive whole steps.
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.
Visiting toad before going back to its pond — August 2022 — Grächwil, Switzerland
