Terry Riley "A Rainbow In Curved Air" ultra music only 20 min long though
Klaus Schulze "Cyborg" cold and sad but really long
M.B. "The Plain Truth" 80's italian grey psychedelic industrial, sounds bad, but you feel good afterwards.
Steve Halpern "Creativity" super cool piano with subliminal creative messages, etc.
Wendy Carlos "Celestial Seasons" pretty good, 2xlp
Steve Reich (any)
Manuel Gottsching "e2e4" proto techno, one song, 60 minutes long, amazing
Fripp and Eno "Evening Star" twighlight dreaming
Cluster and Eno (first collaboration, not After the heat) super evening music
Basic Channel (any) minimal dub techno
Gas (any) minimal long format very misty rhythmic
C.C.C.C. (any) japanese noise
i think white noise does create a meditative state. psychologists, etc think that things like fire, the stars, ocean waves, etc. put us in a peaceful state of mind because they've always been with us as a species and we use these sights and sounds as a tuning fork for our senses. i know most people think music for meditation should be quiet and unobtrusive, but i think harsh or whited out sounds can perform the same function - to stop time, and derail your habitual thought patterns. if you think about what white noise is - all frequencies - and you think about the goal of meditation - to become one with everything - it makes sense...
To: wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com
From: darkflame@hermetech.net
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:36:04 +0000
Subject: [wiardgroup] Re: food science -
i'd like to hear some mark!
i've also been inspired to try and create musick designed to induce a
meditative state, or at least be listened to whilst meditating,
however my pieces tend to be much shorter than 50 minutes. here's one
example:
http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/01TsunamiTidalWaves.mp3
unfortunately no wiard in this example :(
i feel the first track on "rainbow dome musick" is quite possibly the
most perfect piece of ambience ever created! i still can't work out
how to do those hi frequency hi pass filter arpeggio thingies
convincingly!
dug out the suzanne ciani "seven waves" cd today, but still remain
slightly unimpressed. i know she's a buchla guru, but that style of
"new age" music doesn't really do it for me. now michael stearns'
"planeatry unfolding" is really something quite special!
gregg
--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, Mark Griffiths wrote:
>
> I think Steve's music was designed for the Mind, Body and Spirit
events in London. I've been working on music for meditation or
background music for therapy sessions. The latter is quite a
challenge, ideally it should run for 50 mins, be unobtrusive without
just being annoying.
>
> Mark
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: mrboningen ..>
> To: wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 May, 2008 12:50:35 AM
> Subject: [wiardgroup] Re: food science -
>
> brian eno's ambient series 1-4 are all good for active or passive
> listening, i especially like the b-side of the laraaji one.
>
> i don't know if they were designed for it, but my two ambient
> favourites are "rainbow dome musick" by steve hillage and miquette
> giraudy, and "arbor bona arbor mala" by the shamen, both can induce a
> very nice state.
>
> gregg
>
> --- In wiardgroup@yahoogro ups.com, "Grant Richter" ; wrote:
> >
> > If you can find a recording of Suzanne Ciani's "Seven Waves" it is a
> good record for both
> > active or passive listening.
> >
> > That is not to imply that it is sleep producing, rather it produces
> a pleasant meditative
> > state. "Twilight dreaming" might be a good term.
> >
> > --- In wiardgroup@yahoogro ups.com, frank death ; wrote:
> > >
> > > I've asked Mr. A. Zimmel personally if he's aware of any
> known recordings
> > that are available to the public which are designed to be listened
> to in a waking-dream
> > state. I'd like to cast this question out to the group. For
> example, recordings
> > designed to be listened to while observing a Dream Machine. Stuff
> along those lines.
> > > I believe the musicality of coloured noise really translates
> through images conjured up
> > by the mind during that waking/dream state, eg; falling asleep to
> storms, wind or rain...
> > > Matt
> > >
> > > mrboningen wrote:
> > > > sitting here, listeing to the sound of the rain
> outside during the
> > > > current typhoon hitting yokohama, i was struck by the
similarity of
> > > > the sound of bacon frying.
> > > > the interesting thing is that the one relaxes me and puts me in a
> > > > state of deep meditation, while the other puts me on edge.
> (guess which!)
> > > > i was wondering if it might not be possible to do an fft
> analysis of
> > > > both sounds and then cross reference those with psychological
> studies
> > > > of the effects of sound on the mental state.
> > > > ;)
> > > > gregg
> > > > --- In wiardgroup@yahoogro ups.com , davevosh@ wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Ya'll can wallow in your 'systemics' and 'deconstructed cultural
> > > >> contextualizations' but I can tell you with absolute clarity
that
> > > >> there is NOTHING musical about frying bacon.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> arnold,
> > > >> i can`t speak to the prof`s beat notion myself but found i still
> > > > felt your
> > > >> sizzling properties might be of some use - in an r.v.g. "core"
> > > > where you
> > > >> might mix a sawtooth or mutant triangle wave with noise to
> modify the
> > > >> distribution, what if you used the sizzling bacon noise as a
> > > > substitute ? would you get
> > > >> a different distribution ?
> > > >> guess i need to contact chicago commodities exchange and buy
> some test
> > > >> materials... ......... ......... .... :^)
> > > >> best,
> > > >> dave
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
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> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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