Friday, June 28, 2013

MYSTICAL SOUNDS - Universal Sound Current


MYSTICAL SOUNDS.
Universal Sound Current 
by Darren Curtis of Sacred Resonance

Join for ASTRO-HARMONICS at Adelaide Planetarium, July 27


There exists in the inner and outer universes according to the mystical teachings of the west and east a universal sound current that pervades all creation.  Eastern mystics and Western priest-scientists understood the relationship of sound (nada) also as the cosmic celestial choir of the seen in the Kabbalah as the Kodoish Hymn or in Latin the Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus- (Holy, Holy, Holy) also found within the temples of the east expressed differently as the mystical sound of creation – the background vibration and first sound that pervades all creation. This is currently been found within resonating star systems emitting key frequency patterns inaudible and audible
There is to be a interplay within all universal systems a underlying sound current of fundamental frequencies, it is these sound frequencies that connect from the astrophysical i.e. star sounds to the biophysical i.e. DNA base sequences, even to ancient temples there is a series of fundamental frequency ranges that work with nature and supernature in harmonic resonance to effect living systems in a beneficial way.  This is evident in the stars:
Astrophysicist Don Kurtz says:
"The stars have sounds in them...they ring like giant bells or musical instruments… "asteroseismologists" - people who study star sounds - collect data given off by stars and convert it back into sounds. The Greek mathematician Pythagoras in the 6th Century BC. suggested the idea of 'the music of the spheres' and now we can hear it... [1]



 www.starwheels.com (c) AYA
Vibration is all around us, sound is all around us and through artists and scientists this new science is currently been evaluated taking us one step closer to understanding that we are a symphony of creation. Even now we are finding that sound waves may be a key in astrophysics especially from the Perseus region:
“The Perseus sound waves are much more than just an interesting form of blackhole acoustics. “These sound waves may be the key in figuring out how galaxy clusters, the largest structures in the Universe, grow.”[2]
We are to understand in the new physics there is another 80 octaves either side of this spectrum with which we can subconsciously connect with, even though inaudible they are a vibration of combined interpenetrating primary cosmic radiations of higher, middle and lower resonance, akin to the three gunas in Sanskrit tradition.
The universe and our bodies are vibration - everything is vibration - therefore everything emits frequency which can be seen as sound either audible or inaudible, researchers are now interested in how certain sounds can entrain the body and mind into altered sates of consciousness, through this new science we can create a positive change in the psychology & physiology for healing and consciousness raising.
Then by using some of these low frequencies i.e beat frequencies operating around the brain wave bandwidth fused with supersonics our mind can tune into different realities and experience whole multi-body shifts.
We can understand these vibrations expressed throughout all traditions in their sacred texts and practice like the  - OM in Sanskrit and AUM (or AM) or even in the Old Hebrew-Semitic language prayers like Abba or Amen. The AUM or OM even in its usage as a vibration of particular qualities reach back to ancient Egypt. In many of the names of the gods were prefaced by Amon.  Just like the Amen, meaning, "so be it", is of Hebrew origin. AUM" is the reflection of the absolute reality, it is said to be "Adi Anadi", without beginning or the end and embracing all that exists. 

Sri Yantra

The Bhagavad Gita says that Universal Energy, God, is the sound of Om. The Bible states,” In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The Nada Yogi in the Sanskrit traditions sees the whole macrocosmic and microcosmic world as made up of sound.
Quote:
"Om is the primordial throb of the universe. It is the sound form of Atma (Consciousness)." 
- Maitri Upanishad[3]
"Nadam" [Sanskrit] can be described as sound current, the stream of life and consciousness, cosmic and supracosmic rhythmical vibration. Also we have inner sounds of the unheard worlds. Sound is energy manifest, all matter is made up of energy, and thus all living things have a sound quality to them.[4]
The world’ great temples, rock arts sites and cavern systems contain key sound patterns and acoustic spectra that relate directly to the star sounds and our biology. Thus our body being also a sort of temple of sound and in geometric proportions in relationship to pi and phi can be reprogrammed by certain sound frequencies.  If we look to ancient Chinese star maps the connections of the “Music of the Spheres” will reveal how the embryo, human body and the greater parent body are connected to the greater resonating star systems. These called axiatonal lines which are described in the “Keys of Enoch ©” as unique sound acoustic frequencies that can connect with the meridian system of the human body down to the microtubule structures of the pyramidal brain cells. Thus if we are to see ourselves as a biotransducer like a crystal radio sender and receiver we can realise how sound can help us heal ourselves when we have the right frequencies and mappings. We are basically tuning forms receiving and transmitting sound and light working within a planetary and ultimately a cosmic grid system.
Sacred Resonance has been incorporating these themes and frequencies into their music check our there music at Sacred Resonance website or CDBaby http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/SacredResonance
© By Darren Curtis 2011-2013
Sacred Resonance


[1] http://www.shapesoftime.net/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=12981
[2] http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/universe/black_hole_sound.html
[3] http://www.mandalayoga.net/pretty_print.php?rub=what&p=mantra_om&lang=en
[4] http://www.crystallotus.com/YogaSutra/NadaYoga.htm

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Astro-Harmonics "Music of the Spheres"

Astro-Harmonics "Music of the Spheres"

Saturday July 27, 7:00-8:15pm

Presentation and performance at 

"The Adelaide Planetarium"  

 

 

Through a presentation and performance you will learn that like musical instruments, STARS, through their natural oscillations or vibrations, can be transformed into an audible sound waves.

Join us as we take you on a journey through immersive full dome projection of the cosmos and the musical soundscapes from deep space. Lie back in comfortable chairs and open your senses to the worlds beyond ! 
We like to thank John Stuart Reid from http://cymascope.com for his support on this project.  
Please note:  This information has been copied from Cymascope related resources so please support them.



Based on the Science of "Asteroseismology" The Science of Star Sounds !!



Background:

"Like musical instruments, STARS, through their natural oscillations or vibrations, can be transformed into an audible sound waves.   Astrophysicists detect them through the science of asteroseismology or stellar seismology and then artificially boost the sounds to bring them into human hearing range,  producing ghostly whistling, drumming, humming, or bell sounds, depending on their frequencies or speeds of vibration".

Cymatics at the Smithsonian  

http://cymascope.com/cyma_research/astrophysics.html

 "The atomic processes within the atomic furnace of stars create sounds as a result of the high-energy collisions between atomic particles. These sounds cause the starlight to vary minutely, tiny modulations that can be detected by sensitive instrumentation, then demodulated, recreating the original sounds in the laboratory. Analysis of the star sounds can help asteroseismologists gain a better understanding of the atomic processes with a given star."


Visualisation:

Here below we see the process of the CymaScope

The star sound files were fed into a CymaScope, which makes the periodicities in the star sounds visible by imprinting them on the surface of ultra pure water, transcribing the sound periodicitiesÆ’ to periodic wavelets, effectively rendering the sounds visible.


INSERT


All sounds have structure when manifest on a membrane and by making the structure visible on the surface of water the nature of the geometry can help scientists understand the processes at work within planetary and celestial bodies

Stanford University, in collaboration with the ESA and NASA, are studying the physics of the Sun both deep within its core and in its outer corona and solar wind regions,via the SOHO spacecraft data.

SOHO, which stands for "Solar and Heliospheric Observatory," was built in Europe by a team led by prime contractor Matra Marconi Space under overall management by ESA and was launched on December 2, 1995. The twelve instruments on board were provided by European and American scientists. NASA was responsible for the launch and is now responsible for mission operations. Large radio dishes around the world, which form NASA's Deep Space Network, are used for data downlink and commanding. Mission control is based at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

The Stanford web site carries the full story together with some of the sounds captured by the SOHO spacecraft: 









Music :

We will be using some of OR-ion CD and some other Star Sound Music


Using sounds and frequencies of actual space sounds and ancient chants, fused with binaural beats of sonic patterns ! This is a very deep cosmic meditation CD attuning you to the Cosmos





BOOKINGS

www.sacredresonance.com.au 






Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Concentric Rings the basis of the Sound Harmonics of Creation !



 Concentric Rings : The connections with waves, water, rock art, cymatics and sound !



Big Bang Theory a bust – Ancient sound waves sculpted galaxy formation





From Water



To Rock Art sites around the world Australia, Utah 

and many others connected with sound.



CYMATICS 




Even in Sacred Sites from the Golan Heights to Stone Henge we have these patterns:





Also have a look at this:

Star-shaped waves spotted in shaken fluid







 Sacred Resonance CD's

Sounds from Space and Star Sound Frequencies to attune to the Music of the Spheres.








Friday, November 2, 2012

Earth Dream ADL July 2012

Review of DJ Sets 2012 !

2012 has been a wild year with major set for Earth Dream at the Coorong in July 2012 ! Rocking it out with flame synced devices and a awesome solar powered sound system that brought surround sound to a new level ! Thanks to Dylan and the Earth Dream Crew !




Monday, October 17, 2011

Evolve Love Fundraiser


DJ ZEROPOINT Chill Ambient Music !


Evolve Love Fundraiser - Art for Arts Fundraiser
[1- 8 November]
@The Reading Room, 153 Hindley Street, Adelaide

Opening Night - Thursday 3 November
6:00-8:00pm

Featuring Local Artists:

Steven Papas
Jessica McPhee

Free Entry - Music / Art / Drinks (by donation)

Come & join us for the opening night of our exhibition fundraiser for the Evolve Love art project. Enjoy freshly made affordable creations, music, wine, nibbles & Adelaide's amazing creative community that swarms around the Reading Room culture hub.

All art will be exploring the loose theme of "Evolve Love" & kept at affordable prices suiting those from the student budget onwards. Donations towards the project will also be most welcome. All money raised will go straight back into the EVOLVE LOVE project.

Drop in any time between 12-7pm to 'The Reading Room' 1-8 Nov to check out the show.

Evolve Love, by GSspirit is to be presented at Feast Festival 2011 from 12 - 27 Nov. We are creating a non-profit installation of film, dance, UV art, & sound exploring the theme of 'EVOLVE LOVE' within the GLBTQI. It is free entry throughout the festival presented for the greater Feast Festival Community.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=276150685732445

http://tix.feast.org.au/ticketing/EventDetails.aspx?EventGuid=f7b21f3b-c7a3-4405-8549-9c3c371c04ef

Produced by Darren Curtis and Bradley Pitt of GSspirit
www.gsspirit.com

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

LUMINOS - Ambisonics






LUMINOS
Sonic Star Codes
by Darren Curtis


3 Tracks

1. Uritone / 2.Orium / 3.Luminos

Using the latest in digital and analoge synthesis for live Ambisonics - 6 speaker soundfield as part of the SubLuminal Project for Star Link Mission. Also rendered into stereo format.

 Sacred Resonance for info:
www.sacredresonance.com.au

Click here for:

AMBISONICS OVERVIEW:




Here's a useful, if slightly technical, description of Ambisonics from noted audio expert and former Audio Engineering Society President, Stanley Lipshitz:


"Ambisonics goes further than stereo in that what it does (to first order) is to sample the acoustic field in such a way that the combination of the signals from all the loudspeakers in the array produces ... a reconstruction of the original acoustic wave field (both travelling and standing wave components). If a listener puts his head in the sound field, because the wavefronts are similar to the original, the perception of directionality and space should correspond to the original too. It is a "wavefront reconstruction" scheme in the small. The ear signals (crosstalk and all) will be correct if the reconstructed wavefronts are correct. This is just like natural hearing. Increasing the number of loudspeakers in Ambisonics (each fed its correctly-decoded signal) increases the accuracy of the reconstruction and the region over which it holds up. The interaural arrival-time differences also correspond to natural hearing in Ambisonics."




Ambisonics thus offers a number of major advantages over current 5.1 systems:
  • It provides full surround -- with height ("periphony") -- while requiring only four channels total - but many more can be used.
  • The surround-sound image remains largely unaffected by listener position -- no "sweet spot"
  • Images can appear anywhere, not solely in the speaker positions
  • You can place the loudspeakers in convenient positions -- not necessarily a square 
  •  
Here is a great link to a PDF http://www.ambisonic.net/pdf/ambidvd2001.pdf 

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Ancient Tunings - Restoring the Lost Harmonics!

"In 1854, German scientist Herman Helmholtz discovered combinational tones, a third tone heard whenever two musical tones of different harmonic pitches are sounded together
He pointed out that these are lost with ET due to the lack of intonation"

Even J.S. Bach had to put up with these limitations and the harmonic impurity they engender. I'm sure that he would be delighted to use electronic musical instruments if he were alive today." Wendy Carlos


New Musical Tuning Systems & Cosmic Supernature Tunings

The reason for changing the tuning from the natural scale of supernature is to connect with a new musical system that links forms like the hydrogen wave series with new forms of Superluminal Light, a new resonance is formed !

Here is some historic data by Wendy Carlos which is a good tuning overview on new forms of digital tuning and how BACH understood this coloring of harmonics. Enjoy !

HISTORIC

As in equal temperament F# becomes the same pitch as Gb. Think of a snake biting its own tail. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier was composed for this type of tuning.[1] Each key has a different sound, usually giving the keys near C major a much smoother sound, at the expense of more distant keys, like C# minor. Natural harmonic intervals don’t fit so neatly into a closed circle. If you go around using any perfectly tuned interval you will never double back, but instead follow an open helix. Think of the strands of DNA, a double helix. Many of the best sounding tuning systems are built up that way, like Meantone Temperament, which was the big favorite through Bach’s time. It does require more than twelve notes to modulate everywhere. Bach, who was also a first-rate tuner and theorist, would often reach in and retune a couple of notes to better favor a key about to be used. It’s exactly what I’ve done for this recording.


[1] Not as is commonly misunderstood, for equal temperament, which Bach understood but did not personally prefer.

So our second kind of tuning for these performances is Meantone. There are several varieties of Meantone. It’s interesting that the oldest, which had the purest harmonies,[1] isn’t the one Bach himself used and recommended.[2] He insisted that the major thirds be made “a little sharp from just.” While he was willing to compromise the purity of his triads somewhat, he wasn’t willing to sacrifice them as much as is done in equal temperament. There’s good evidence that he thought the variation of consonance from key to key in circular tunings[3] was a good thing, and exploited the differences with his famous 24 Preludes and Fugues.




[1] Which is called 1/4th comma Meantone, with pure thirds and fifths flat by 1/4th of the “comma” of 22 cents (100 cents = one semitone). Bach preferred one close to 1/5th comma, with better fifths but worse thirds.
[2] Johnny Reinhard’s thesis, Bach’s Tunings, is particularly clear and thorough about this whole subject.
[3] Well-known circular tunings were developed by Werkmeister, Kirnberger, Valotti and Young. They were not as homogeneous as the mathematically idealized version I use here, but were easier in practice to tune.



The tunings of Bach’s time, which are the predecessors to our equal tempered scale, and thus closely related to it. Many alternative scales have an ethnic quality, some are more useful for unusually big, fat harmonies based on the overtone series, while others are completely new and different, worlds waiting to be discovered 



FUTURE SCIENCE

So why not, as an experiment, investigate divisions which are not integer based, but allow fractional parts?  That will lose all octave symmetry, but if we handle the octaving later, we might be able to find some really interesting equal-step specimens.  Wendy Carlos

Thus the cosmic NADA (Sanskrit) the unversal sound current which is found now in correlation with deep space regions like Persus. Persus emits audible sonic vibrations that are part of the direct relationship between the structure of the universe through the force of "sound" waves. http://www.space.com/661-sound-waves-left-imprint-universe.html   Sound thus is equlivent is the Light operating in relative patterns and duration of pitch. 

On a higher level we can see it as 'spiritual acoustic Light'  For the mystic realised that "thought-forms" have a basic sound power.

Thus this cosmic sound can be accessed through resonance and opening up the inner harmonic codes of nature -- we then can divide the "traditional octave" in musical tuning beyond normal octave range beyond Equal Tempered tuning taking into account new future sciences like interdimensional harmonic theory.





 

 

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

LOOP BAR SET
'Ascension Engine'
MELBOURNE, VIC

OR-ion
~Zero point~

Live Laptop, 'Live', Iphone, Quartz Composer Real Time Visuals

LOOP BAR - Zero Point, March 2011, MELB






More images


Thursday, March 3, 2011

Ascension Engine at Loop Bar 2011 - March 26th 2011

Ascension Engine at Loop Bar 2011

ZERO POINT 
~ LIVE SET ~

Straight from the Rainbow Serpent Festival comes the Ascension Engine for an exclusive Melbourne event. Ascension Engine is an audio/visual cornucopia of meditative sound and vision from some of Australia's finest audiovisualist experimenters. 


 

With the killer sound system and massive screen at Loop, sit back and connect with the universe that these visionary artists will weave for you.

Be prepared for sacred frequencies, audio reactive mandalas for meditation, binaural beats and alchemical transformations through sound and vision.
Ascension Engine comes alive from 2pm on Saturday 26th March.

Tickets on the door are $10 full or $5 conc.

Truant
Siilt
Grist
Electronic Shaman
Zen Paradox
Abre Ojos
Zero Point (SA)

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

RA - Live at Adelaide Planetarium > Sacred Resonance Review

RA


Sacred Resonance did 5 - 60min shows over 2 days at Adelaide Planetarium - Feb. 26-27th, for Fringe 2011.

It was a sell out with some shows taking extra numbers at the door ! During this show also the new CD single OR-ion was released with a great success !

The idea of the sun 'RA' was behind our show and the connection with solar cycle 24 ! We were exploring the latest in NASA 3D imaging and animation in Full Dome with actual space sounds that sync with the animation ie solar, pulsars and earth hum as some examples.

Not only that we explored in techniques in musical composition of the 'RA' frequencies:

"In 1991, Howarth contacted Bateman and collaboration began from which eventually birthed RA Natural Frequency Music. In 2004, Alan teamed with Dr. J.J. Hurtak and the Academy of Future Science and began field research by traveling to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and making acoustical recordings to measure the resonances of 200+ Mayan temples. In 2005, they also traveled to the Kings Chamber in the Great Pyramid in Egypt."

http://www.RAmusic.com & http://www.affs.org 

This will be explored more fully in our talk on March 9th - Multimedia Presentation the Sacred Science behind the show RA - http://www.sacredresonance.com.au/

The show consisted of three section using the Adelaide Planetarium to the maximum potential in all media functions.

1. 3 Flat Screen Projectors using the latest in NASA Solar Visualisations and Animations.
2. Mirror Dome ie Full Dome Projection via (Controlled by Quartz Composer Mac)
3. Zeiss Jena ZPK1 star projector which projects an artificial night sky onto the eight-metre diameter domed ceiling to represent the night sky and can be used to show the position of constellations, stars and planets.

The Sound/Music consisted of 3 Sections:

1. Live Laptop via iphone controller (OSC touch app)  using 'Live' and just sounds from space with digital effects ie reverb, filters to emulate deep space.
2. Live Laptop with sounds from space, (pre-composed piece from the Nadaum Experiment, which used a muon detector (detects cosmic particles from space : see previous blogs) into beat states, fused with ambient beats and washy synths.
3. Toriton Plus - from Seb. http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2006/11/toriton-plus.html controlled via Max/MSP and Laptop 'Live' using lazers and water as a organic composition. (See Rainbow Serpent Blog) http://djzeropoint.blogspot.com/2011/02/rainbow-serpent-2011-ascension-engine.html  and live harmonic overtone singing.


This was one of our best shows using the latest in 'New Media' and a full Live element !

Here are some blogs/reviews about it:
http://www.talkfringe.com/?fringe_events=ra-live-at-adelaide-planetarium

More images and movie files to come.

The launch of our new project - Star Link Mission with the first project of 3luminal will be a new step for Sacred Resonance in developing a whole experience in new media ! New blog on this coming soon. http://www.starlinkmission.com

Peace ! (thanks to all my friends for support)

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Rainbow Serpent 2011 - Ascension Engine Review

ASCENSION ENGINE 2011 @ COSM DOME 

ZERO POINT (Darren Curtis) 2011 Set

Well Rainbow Serpent 2011 was crazy. Ascension Engine was stepped up to the next level by Scott Baker - visual and musical mastermind ! This year it was held in the COSM dome a 11 meter dome flanked by 4 small domes with Visual Art by some of the best Artists in the world including the Master of Spiritual Art - Alex Grey. His art flanked the celling of the COSM dome (named after Alex Grey's NYC Sacred Temple)

Friday night and Sunday Night was the 'Ascension Engine' my set came in after ABRE OJAS (Scott Baker) http://abreojos.net - such a amazing modular synth and Live Musical Synthesis of his new work 'Chakras' - check it and support his amazing work.

HERE IS THE DOME WE PERFORMED IN - COSM DOME!







2:30am Monday morning was ZERO POINT (Darren Curtis) 

PART 1: Musical Aspect

First was the use of Seb's Toriton-Plus: (Lazer Controlled Water Device)




So the lazer light was effected by the water and I used the power of breath to control different elements in Ableton Live, by effecting the wave ripples in the water which in turn modulated the lazer light. Thus this device was mapped to MAX/MSP:

Here is some pics of the MAX/MSP patch so basically I add set different mapping to trigger a whole array of samples in a organic way in 'Live' - most of this of this Seb's programming by the way (thanks) - but I do understand how it maps lol. and the bottom section is my own coding for triggering samples




I use frequencies attuned the science of RA see http://ramusic.com/ which is placing A @ 424 Hz

I also used binaural beats based on 2hz to 8hz - attuned to harmonics of 424 Hz 

I also did live Harmonic Toning. 

The adaption of the Live piece will be released on the upcoming CD 'RA' 



Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Ascension Engine - Rainbow Serpent 2011


RAINBOW SERPENT - Ascension Engine Bio 2011

Zero Point aka Darren Curtis - Australian musician & artist that weaves eastern and western influences to reveal the mystical soundscapes of supernature. via Live Laptop, controllers and mapping.

Through years of research his speciality of music works on the unique frequencies of supernature, through research found in many of ancient structures like the great pyramid in Egypt & Mayan pyramids. Through mapping new music patterns and chord structures a whole new electronic synthesis is created that is in harmony with the body.


He travels around Australia doing live music and visuals performing at festivals i.e. Rainbow Serpent 2010/2011, Reconnect 2010.

His wider style draws from the GOA Ambient, Chill, Techno, Electronica & New Age fusing these elements into new style of Electronic  Future Chill .

Co-director of Sacred Resonance  - Darren Curtis & Bradley Pitt are visual and sonic immersion experts with full dome projections, animation, and installations.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Playing two sets at RECONNECT FESTIVAL


RECONNECT FESTIVAL 2010 DEC 10TH - DEC 12TH!!


You get to choose the shapes and colours as you go...
Reconnect with music.
Reconnect rhythm and movement.
Reconnect with the earth.
Reconnect with one another.
Reconnect

3 day camping music and arts festival Dec 10th 11th 12th

Location 'By Jingoes' Goondoloo Road, Bowhill, South Australia


First round tickets $45 plus booking fee. >>>

HTTP://WWW.VENUETIX.COM.AU/ Select all events and search for Reconnect.

$60 at the gate.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Sample Music - Electronic Future Chill

Nadaum - taken from one of my best selling CD's NADAUM

NADAUM - Sonic DNA

Nadaum (section) by ultima_sonic

Electronic Future Chill - Demo

Using Albeton Live and lots of controllers this is done Live! (sounds much better as well live)

Electronic Future Chill Demo by ultima_sonic

LIVE SONIC-SPACE

Just using actual real sounds from space and muon detector [for comsic rays] we performed this live! With Iphone controller in Adelaide Planetarium and Rainbow Serpent 2010.

Sonic Space - (Beat Section) by ultima_sonic

Friday, August 27, 2010

Image by AYA www.starwheels.com


DJ Zero Point (AKA Darren Curtis ) Is 'Electronic Future Chill' > Ambient, GOA, Experimental, New Age, mystical beats.

On his journey he experienced mystical sounds of the 'Music of the Spheres'. The experience of nature and supernature came through in sonic & visual form and he attunes his music to the harmonic resonance of supernature, thus opening one into altered states of consciousness.

Also an expert with partner Bradley Pitt in sonic and visual immersion with full dome projections, animation, and collages he takes one into Higher Resonance.