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11/12/2003
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Life, Beauty, Stillness Flow In Music Of Ancient Flute
Author: Lloyd Dykk Source: The Vancouver Su
Title: LIFE, BEAUTY, STILLNESS FLOW IN MUSIC OF ANCIENT FLUTE
One of the most haunting, plaintively expressive voices in the instrumental family is the shakuhachi of Japan, an ancient flute with origins in Zen. From Friday through Sunday a festival is being devoted to it, the first such festival in Vancouver and, say the organizers, in Canada.
The shakuhachi is a vertically-played flute, usually made of bamboo, its sound produced by blowing across a diagonal cut in the top end. The four holes in the front and one in the back are tuned to the pentatonic scale, though the flute isn't limited to that mode, special fingerings (half-holing), adjustments of the mouthpiece and head movements making possible the chromatic scale, and more, of the West. Shakuhachi playing is very physical, the bobbings and weavings of the head and torso making possible the great expressive range of the instrument.
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| Spontaneous Transformation | Nov 12th. at 11:36:26 am EST |
by Mike Welch (Sarasota, Florida, USA) - wc_xemail
...of consciousness. That's what music has always been and remains today. I know of no quicker and more thorough magick. It involves me so completely that it remains unrivaled in its ability to persuade me.
Have you not heard the tales of these musical notes altering the course of hardened hearts and diminished souls? My personal search has shown me that history is full of instances where the performance of music has changed the course of events for individuals and collectives--more so than almost any other manipulated event. Honestly, doesn't it do the same for you? And why shouldn't it? After all, it's born from our mimic of the sounds of Nature around us. It's as life-giving and life-sustaining as the heartbeat we've all felt in the womb. As reflected in another recent Wren's Nest article... Find More info -- HERE
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