Pythagorean Harp & Harmonium Improvisations

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This music belongs to the tradition of objective
art which includes music, art, and architecture.
Objective art is invocational of higher dimensions
and has the inherent ability to inspire awe at the
vision of the Void. When experienced in the form
of music it can have a variety of effects.
Objective music opens one to other spaces and
takes one there. It can stir, rouse, and enliven,
or make one perfectly still and centered. Sooner
or later it will take you to a space your deepest
self knows as home and in that sense it is
profoundly shamanic.
Since objective art portrays reality at its most
sublime, the highest level of existence there is,
it is not necessarily comforting to experience.
In fact, quite the contrary, it is often very
discomforting, and can make one squirm - rather
intensely. The expanded dimensional vision can
give way to anxiety and foreboding, depending on
who we are and where we are, which is another way
of defining our own relation to the void.
The more fear we experience in general, the more
we refuse to confront our own mortality and
immortality, the more threatening and
confrontative objective art will probably be. At
its most extreme, it can be so overwhelming to the
senses that it will occasion fainting. The human
nervous system has imperfect buffers to shield it
from the radiations of higher spaces and so is
often short-circuited.
The tradition of objective art includes the
pyramids of Egypt, the cathedrals of Europe, and
some Medieval music. In the Middle Ages,
objective music incorporated the harmony of the
instruments, the harmony of the soul through
singing, and the harmony of the spheres, elements
and seasons. Otherwise known as musica
instrumental, musica humana, and musica
mundana, these three realms together
contributed to allowing for higher dimensional
perceptions, including auditory experiences.
Statues in medieval churches, for example, were
clearly heard crying out by the average
churchgoer of the time. The ability to move
interdimensionally that was common to people in
the Middle Ages is more or less absent in people
of the 20th century who have very little knowledge
of higher dimensions. As our senses atrophy and
we become deaf to macrodimensional sounds, so too
we define our insensitivity to other auditory and
visual experiences.
What is it about Gothic cathedrals that continues
to inspire awe in humans hundreds of years after
their creation? Much more profound and powerful
than their beauty is the notion of sacred geometry
and proportion that defines their structure and
resonates according to the same laws that govern
the octave. Sacred proportion is at the heart of
the Pythagorean teaching and descending cosmic
scales. Objective spaces act as elevators and
transport us to other dimensions with more
substance than this one; they raise our vibration
level. The experience of "going to a higher
space" is easily verified in the great cathedrals
of Europe. The lighting effects and moods are
also clear attention triggers placed in precise
positions in order to produce the proper mood in
the observer. The architecture is so powerful and
so precise that one can literally feel one's head
being stretched and expanded upwards.
As you listen to Pythagorean Harp &
Harmonium, remember that the sounds you
hear are staircases of octaves meandering their
way back to central do. The descent is the
way back. As below, so above.
Songs include:
- 1. Improvisations I:
- January 1, 1974 at New House in Crestline, California
- 2. Improvisations II:
- May 17, 1972 at RCA Studios, California
All music © 1972 - '74 E.J. Gold (BMI)
Published by Union Label Music
Produced by Richie Schmidt
Recorded at Crestline, California and RCA Studios, Hollywood, California
Engineered by Pat Iaeracci
Remastered by Jimmi Accardi
Mastered for CD by Oz Fritz
Cover photo by Ken Paulsen
© 1998 Cloister Recordings. All rights reserved.
CD-M112
$16.97
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