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July 4, 2022July 16, 2022

Sensitive — more or less

Sensitive — more or less
To ever blowing oneself up
Or even putting others down
Which does show weakness
And then as strength clearly
Where one’s consciousness
Still remains very human
And asks to be polished
With silent compassion
For oneself and all others
Recognize and step through
The gate of spiritual freedom
To simply relish the moment
Of the divine realizing itself
Without coloring or claim
To be any better or worse
But just be, simply being
What it is, you and we are
Unfolding in consciousness
In light and sound — and love.

“New moon rising” — a sensitive welcome

ReachNaBal — 8-string guitar — July 2022 — 4:52 — as loop on a separate tab

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.

Sensitive -- more or less — Sensitive, more or less — Marco helps experiment with the above sound sample, while shy Polo still keeps a safe distance — July 2022 — Shoreview, MN

June 26, 2022November 2, 2025

Tonality of the month: PentaCor

PentaCor — extra sound sample, calm — 8-string guitar — June 2022 — 3:18 — as loop on a separate tab

The tonality of the month of July 2022 is PentaCor, a Core tonality and extra pentatonality.

Core tonalities are a diverse collection of specific hepta-, hexa-, and pentatonalites with a common core. Though only partially or progressively anchored (with the exception of fully anchored BlueMix), they are most uniquely anchored in that they contain all four corners of the sound temple. Besides the fundamental or octave, these are the minor third, tritone, and major sixth. As a result of containing all four corners of the sound temple, they tend towards dissolving tonality. Thus they can open up more freedom in experiencing sound.

The addition of the quint to the four corners of the sound temple produces the pentatonality PentaCor. The quint strengthens its fundamental and anchors it in a more common sense of harmony and tonality.

The above PentaCor sound sample provides the foundation of the following personal sound sample “Let’s listen” for meditation. It modulates from PentaCor via HexaCorMix (by adding the minor seventh) to LoReachUpMix (that includes also the minor second).

“Let’s listen” — a personal meditation — from PentaCor via HexaCorMix to LoReachUpMix and back — double 8-string guitar and gongs — June 2022 — 13:21 — as loop on a separate tab — also available with voice as “Let’s talk” — a personal manifesto

Tonality of the month: PentaCor — as above so below — May 2022 — Etang de la Gruère, Switzerland

June 23, 2022July 4, 2022

Let’s talk

Let’s talk
About what
We agree
And don’t
Know well
Each other
And learn
Who we are
Maintaining
Loving trust
I am not ready
To abandon
But to cherish
The difference
For whatever
It may be
In harmony
In its own way
Distinct as is
From any other
However fake
It’s the reality
That is mine
As is yours
For yourself
And certainly
Not for me
Just to be
Left but not alone.

“Let’s talk” — a personal manifesto

Based on the four corners of the sound temple, from PentaCor via HexaCorMix to LoReachUpMix and back — double 8-string guitar, voice, and gongs — June 2022 — 13:21 — as loop on a separate tab — plus also available without voice as “Let’s listen” — a personal meditation

June 13, 2022March 22, 2023

June 2022 Tonalibus update

This June 2022 Tonalibus update confirms the global release of the new album “Tonalibus D & E”. Further it touches on Tonalibus playlists and the main menu option Sounds. And it presents a few inspiring quotes on harmony and a concluding image.

New album “Tonalibus D & E”

This new album is now globally available on music platforms like Spotify, Deezer, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Amazon, etc. These and further platforms are listed on the page Tonalibus D & E — Album. There are also detailes about its twenty-seven uplifting tracks. Below as sample is “चैतन्य Chaitanya — blues”.

“चैतन्य Chaitanya — blues” — G# Mixolydian with D# TetraNa / A# Norcor inversion — fretted vichitra veena and double 3/4 violin — January 2022 — 9:47 — as loop on a separate tab

Tonalibus playlists and Sounds update

Playlists are now primarily under Sounds. The playlist “Tonalibus F” already features four new recordings, including “Phrygian HU” — a meditative blues (below). All playlist tracks are also available under Sounds by season. Recently Summer 2022 came about, since Spring 2022 is complete.

“Phrygian HU” — Phrygian — multiple 8-string guitar, voice, crotales, tampura — 10:20 — as loop on a separate tab

One, two, three… in harmony and music

“Lao-Tzu, around 600 B.C.E., wrote, ‘One has produced Two, Two has produced Three.’ A commentator explains, ‘These words mean that One has been divided into Yin, the female principle, and Yang, the male principle. These two have joined, and out of their junction has come a third, Harmony. The spirit of Harmony, as it condenses, produces all beings.'”

“Indeed, Pythagoras, who lived in Greece around the same time that Lao-Tzu lived in China, thought that tripling was the only acceptable harmonic principle; consequently, the harmonic system generated by compounding fifths and reducing octaves is called Pythagorean.”

“G lives between C and D … It is a light that goes on inside.”

— Harmonic Experience, W. A. Mathieu, pp. 34-36

June 2022 Tonalibus update image

June 12, 2022June 14, 2022

Our lights are on

Our lights are on
Yours and mine
We light up
Each other
Either pull up
Or push down
Never tell one
Their light is out
However it is on
Becoming bright
And ever shining
With divine love
There’s no room
For put-downs
Of any others
Nor of oneself
But upliftment
Of you and me
And all souls
On their way
Through life
Learning
To shine
Like a sun
First moon
At times full
Before fading
Then growing
Again an’ again
As cycles churn
We better pull up
Our lights are on
All together
We light up
Each other
The sun.

“Four by four” — corners of the sound temple

Four gongs — June 2022 — 14:09 — as loop on a separate tab

Past lights shining on from 1609

Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly,
Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: “Thou single wilt prove none.”

— Sonnet 8, Fair Youth sequence, William Shakespeare, 1609 Quarto

First light of a rising sun on early morning dew

Our lights are on — Dandelion spreading its seed — May 2022 — photo by Karin Gsöllpiontner