Come on, who is into Trance and has not watched “Dune” many time s over, except for the young-lings, lol?
Mentat Piter De Vries holding the flask up and citing the Mantra:
” It is by will alone i set my mind in motion,
it is by the juice of sapho that thoughts require speed,
the lips require stains,
the stains become a warning!
It is by will alone i set my mind in motion.”
Download the track here…
Do 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
Lotus Beat two is mostly dark psy trance, with breaks, techno, drum and bass configurations and an often times surreal presentation of the thematics, a bit like Dali or Escher on acid, if they had electric toys like we have now. A befriended DJ got me to slow some of this shit down so it is more danceable, and then i made it sound very haus-techno, with claps and hard kicks; But mostly you can feel the Bardo, all pieces have a distinct drive and vibe, travelling with panoramas to match their velocity. I played this stuff to a producer and he said that some of lotus beat II sounds ”harsh, impatient, driven, relentless and machine like”, and i replied: “You got it man!”
The Bardo beings perception is seven times more powerful then a human’s, imagine your senses that sharp! A lot of the samples come from a trancer friend, who biffed playing and gave me whole collection, awesome dude! Just going through the third pass of editing and fleshing out the drum texture smore, had a few funny accidents with PS 3 drum synth and guitar midi, which made for some interesting loops. i have chanted on a couple of tracks and there is a really cool loop of Tibetan monks i recored at Sera Je during my last meditation retreat, plus and that is going to be a big chnage; i sing in German again, mostly becasue the language allows for some expressiions that English is too contextual for and becasue that is the way the lyrics cmae out of the vortex.
Just being able to freely compose again after years of self imposed restriciton is very refreshing. So there is a definate avant-garde element in lotus beat II, which makes the music surprising and unpredicatble, just like a good power switch.
i am thinking i should start uploading and make it all available, but am too wooried still about the mastering quality.
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