This "circular lambdoma" shows how musical harmonic proportions can translate
to physical dimensions and visa versa. from Barbara Hero.
Hertz frequencies chart from Barbara Hero
Cycles per second and correspondences compiled from many sources
Diagram of the acoustical design in Chichen Itza by Wayne Van Kirk
Acoustic architecture in Petra, Jordan
Robert Fludd, Elizabethan Alchemist
From the first sentence we are told that music was ordained by virtue of its implicit doctrine of
correspondences. The idea that all things are joined by an unbreakable bond (inviolato vinculo)
echoes a passage found in Plato's Timaeus:
Out of these materials (the elements), such in kind and four in number, the body of the Cosmos was harmonized by proportion and brought into existence. These conditions secured for it Amity, so that being united in identity with itself it became indissoluble by any agent other than Him who had bound it together.
The indissoluble bond, for both Fludd and Plato, was proportion. It was by proportion that like was related to like, as the Macrocosm was related to the Microcosm. Fludd illustrates this idea in his monochordum humaniae microcosmi. In this cut, man the microcosm and his various parts, anatomical, mental and spiritual, are harmonized by an unbreakable chain, i.e. the string and its various harmonious proportions.
The Mysteries of Chartres Cathedral
by Louis Charpentier
If it is to last, the Gothic monument requires perfect adjustment between weight and thrust; the weight that creates the thrust becomes itself its own negation. The activity in the stone is therefore in a state of constant tension which the art of the master builder can tune like a harp string. For a Gothic cathedral is not only a musical instrument by similitude.
Paul Devereux in Monthly Aspectarian.
"Research-wise, there have been some interesting breakthroughs with acoustical research at megalithic sites. Professor Robert G. Jahn of Princeton University, myself and other colleagues have conducted some preliminary work testing the acoustic resonances of selected chambered mounds in England and Ireland. We have obtained results in a tight band of frequencies around 110 Hz -- the baritone range of the male voice. It is almost as if we have begun to hear the old stones speak (see TLH issue 123 for details). Some exciting new developments in this field are being planned, and we are now hearing news of some bizarre acoustical effects in ancient Mayan architecture. "
Excerpt from "The Traveller's Guide to Sacred England" by John Michell from Britannia Internet Magazine
"One effect which
has been widely recorded is that the levels of ultrasound and
radiation inside the circles is significantly lower than outside; hence
the title of Don Robins's book on megalithic energies, Circles of
Silence.
Dr. Jeffrey Thompson: Bio-tuning
Corporeal Meadows, inspired by the Microtonal music and instruments of Harry Partch
Sequencia: DNA Music
Includes frequencies of Amino Acids
Science and the Arts
Susan Alexjander
PO Box 428
Aptos, Ca. 95001
Susan's e-mail
(no phone)
DNA Music
Todd Barton's music composed from the Genetic Code
Tools for Exploration. Awesome catalog of healing sounds. Tell them Aumear sent you.
Trans-Hyperborean Institute of Science
Bob Dratch's recipe for sonoluminescence
Richard Dannelley
Sedona Beyond the Vortex, pages 64 and 65
Five Systems for working with vowel sounds and the chakras
The Mystery of the Seven Vowels: In Theory and Practice, by Joscelyn Godwin, Phanes Press 1991.
Music, Mysticism and Magic by Joscelyn Godwin; a review and selected quotes. and School of Pythagoras; more musical reviews etc.
COMM 141, SPRING 2000 UNC Audio: Theory, Criticism, and Aesthetics
The Gyuto Monks harmonic overtone chanting
Sound Education
Key Distel
3 Coutts Place, Melba, ACT 2615, Australia
Ph (06) 259 1364; Fax (06) 258 5530
Two articles by Paul Devereux: Acoustic Resonances of Assorted Ancient Structures [Journal of Acoustical Soc. of Am.] and Preliminary Investigations and Cognitive Considerations of the Acoustical Resonances of Selected Archaelogical Sites [Antiquity]
Sound and Spirit Quotes and Texts
Acoustic Brain Research
640 Oceanview Dr
Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
Quartz crystal harmonica (piano)
Gerhard Finkenbeiner
33 Rumford Av
Waltham, MA 02154
Astrosonics
Michael Heleus
from Tools For Exploration
Theremin
King David�s Harp
Gandharveda
Meditative guitar with Harp Tuning
Sonopuncture
Sonic water treatment
Sound as a weapon.
Anstendig Institute
throat singers of Tuva
A device using body inductance to generate sound. Diagnostic potential?
John Wheeler
750 La Playa, Box 542
San Francisco, CA 94121
415-750-0280
POB 541
Lancaster, MA 01523
1-800-ALL-VEDA
The application of sound through the energy meridians.
911 Fulton St
San Francisco, CA 94117
415-775-3575
On the importance of analog sound and impoverishment of digital sound.
Smithsonian/ Folkways SF 40017