Natural Subsonic
Posted by admin under Sonic ThoughtsDo natural sub-sonics exist? YES, they do…
One of the most eerie things i have ever experienced was in India In 2000….
After a morning of circumambulating the Mahabhodi Stup, Bihar/Inida, i felt the strong urge to chant in this place, this was a month before i was full initiated into the practice. Anyway, there were two meditators with me who were equally drawn to and fascinated by a particular Stupa (a monument representing the Buddha’s physical form) This was a Heruka Stupa and i was told that it was a Shiva Supa before that and nobody really knows it’s true age! Serious, it was not much bigger then a granny flat behind your average size Villa, but it was almost solid and the entrance was a small arch. We had to crawl into it on all fours and the energy in that monument was overpowering… A vortex. The walls must have been 1.5 meters thick and in the middle it had a small iron fence, where one would visualise the deity.
After a short of meditation, my mouth opened and i chanted in Tantric deep voice…
The Air in the Stupa was electric as i started chanting. The more i chanted the longer and deeper my voice sounded, the longer the chants became, until i was fully entranced; and then it happened:
The Stupa started to vibrate, resonate an octave below my chant, which is pitched an octave below normal vocal range with overtones dancing on top of the sound!!
It was like sitting inside a bell and the sound in my ears started to clip in the subsonic register like a train engine at close proximity, my chest was throbbing from the resonance and the two meditators looked at me perplexed until they seemed to grasp what was happening…
What did happen?
i never told anyone till now…
What happened was a natural subsonic that i generated with my own, human voice with the Stupa as a resonator. i found out later that i chanted a B fundamental with up to four overtones (probably one of the most powerful chants i ever recorded, and you could hear the sub and the overtones on the Mini disk recording i took… i was blown away. The Stupa seemed to vibrate up and hold it’s resonance as long as i made it “sing” with my long chants, similar to a spinning top when you whip it to keep it spinning.
On a scientific level, the deep-voice chant starts at Zero Herz and is rich in Theta waves, so far so that it can realign molecular structures in it’s vicinity and cause brainwave entrainment, which is exactly what happened to us meditators, all vibrating at a fine tuned pitch.
Then, of course in good karmic fashion and because the Indian Power grid in Bihar is shoddy at the best of times, the power supply of my recorder was fried, the disk was scrambled and i walked away from Boddghaya with Zero recordings…
On my album Singularity is a chant similar to this one the title track itself - Singularity