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（1）What is the connection between sonic meditation and occult spirituality /spiritual regeneration?

（2）What are the similarities between sound meditation and the occult states of ASC and trance?

（3）What is the relationship between TELECOMMUNICATIONS and sonic occultism?

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ASC and trance state in occult term.

Electronic experimental music in occult field about poem reading, drone and radio noise.

An introspective experimentation of Sonic Meditation in a private Interactive Installation Space.

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Dr.John,A. and Dr.John,W., 2004, THE OCCULT NATURE OF MEDITATION, The John Ankerberg Show

https://jashow.org/articles/meditation-the-occult-nature-of-meditation/

Kerry O’Brien, 2016, Listening as Activism: The “Sonic Meditations” of Pauline Oliveros

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/listening-as-activism-the-sonic-meditations-of-pauline-oliveros

Oliveros,P., 1974, Sonic meditations, p.102.

Scienceandmediamuseum (no data), 2022, Telecommunications and the occult

https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/telecommunications-and-occult

Tarl Warwick, 2015, The Principles of Sonic Occultism, p.23.

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1. Drone music is triggered by this arduino movement sensor, which is placed in the middle of the stamen of three Mandalas, a homemade yarn woven craft. The triggered sound is played through speakers hung with yarn.

2. This is a book with text instructions on sound meditation. The audience reads poems from the book through a microphone. (This is a homemade art book in which I also use Cyanotype, special biological materials, woolen needlework, etc.)

3. After the audience reads the poems aloud, this core XY plotter (writing machine) on the table, draws Morse code based on recognising different words.

4. Two speaker cones are placed on the wall.

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Text instructions and poems put on the table

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Text instructions and poems put on the table

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1. Quickly skim the poem for words that you feel an emotional connection with and softly whisper them.

2. Repeat these words while concentrating on the sound they make and how they feel in your chest, throat, and mouth.

3. Continue focusing on your breath as you whisper these words until you gradually find a pleasing or meaningful harmony.

4. When you have eventually found your vocal harmony read the poem aloud in its entirety.

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The sound of the audience reciting poems triggers a Morse code drawing on the core XY plotter (writing machine).

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The history of telecommunication

"...Spirit messages were even conveyed in similar ways to telegraphic ones. In séances, spirits seemed to communicate with the living by spelling out coded messages through short rapping noises, similar to the rapped pulses of Morse code used in telegraphy..."

"...This story looks at how these technologies—including the electric telegraph, the telephone and wireless radio—were used to explain and explore communication with supernatural beings, the spirits of the dead and even aliens.

Electronic telecommunications were popularly associated with the occult from the start.

The laying of the earliest working overland and submarine telegraphic cables in the late 1840s and early 1850s coincided with the birth of ‘spiritualism’—a widespread belief that the living could communicate with the spirits of the dead...." (All by science and media museum)

From: https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/telecommunications-and-occult

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High-frequency sustained sounds and notes are used in sacrificial offerings for the congregation to meditate, making it a closer communal connection with God, making the congregation feel the presence of god deeply. It is an expansion and exploration of self-awareness.

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"...the research of parapsychologist Dr. Karlis Osis and others which reveals that the most central factor in meditation is an altered state of consciousness (ASC), Parapsychologist Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler, former president of the Parapsychological... ’

Almost all forms of meditation involve three similar occult phenomena: 1) the cultivation of altered states of consciousness; 2) the eventual development of psychic powers; 3) The possibility of spirit possession. We will look at each of these followingssociation, stales “Trance shows many similarities to meditation….”

Trance states and ASCs have been traditionally associated with the occult world, demonism, and other forms of spirit contact, such as shamanism, witchcraft, neo-paganism, magic ritual, Satanism, mediumism, and yogic disciplines)."

(All By Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon- <MEDITATION – THE OCCULT NATURE OF MEDITATION>)

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The purpose of pauline creation is also for altered state of consciousness. I think that both sonic meditation and the psychologists' proposal that meditation leads to an ASC whose native purpose is spiritual healing.

The ASC effect produced by meditation is an occult phenomenon. Sound meditation is a specific and inwardly exploratory form of meditation. The listening and creative experience of sound meditation is a dialogue with the spirit and consciousness of the self, similar to the occult practice of invocation, which I consider to be a dialogue with the soul of the self.

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"Whether one is a short- or long- term practitioner, meditation is designed to change one’s view of “self” and the world by altering one’s consciousness.

They conclude, “Effective meditation induces radical changes in a meditator’s way of experiencing [reality]."

Oliveros recalled, “I began to retreat. I didn’t want to play concerts. I began to turn inward.” She found this private music-making to be soothing, both mentally and physically, a respite from the traumatic news of the world. What remains of those experiments in self-care is a small collection of text-based scores called “Sonic Meditations.” When she published them, in 1971, she shared her goals, which included “expanded consciousness”..."

(By Kerry O’Brien)

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I suffered a severe psychasthenia in China about two years ago in the past, and it was at that time that I started listening to a lot of drone and ambient music. I found this private music creation to be mentally and physically soothing, a respite from the traumatic news of the world. The music I create drone rescues me from a state of spiritual decline. It's a spiritual practice, and while listening to and creating music, it's as if my body and personality are visions. In sonic meditation, we are escaping from reality and creating a new world of our own imagination, transcending the original state of mind to discover my "true" inner nature, which is considered to be the essence of oneness with God or ultimate reality.

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In my work I combine some occult elements,such as Mandalas patterns, Morse code, binaural beat and drone of sound meditations. New Age meditation is properly classified as an occult practice. New Age meditation is properly classified as an occult practice because it induces ASC that support occult philosophies and goals.

My understanding of sound meditation is also based on its alteration of consciousness, that is, how it produces ASC phenomena similar to rituals in the occult. My work incorporates specific sounds from nature, human body movements, and textual instructions that are personal to me.

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This is a work which try to record the process of sonic meditation of mine. I'll try to create a similar sound illusion effect as the binaural beat by using those sound elements. 

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This is a work which try to record the process of sonic meditation of mine. I'll try to create a similar sound illusion effect as the binaural beat by using those sound elements. 

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I'll try to create a similar sound illusion effect as the binaural beat. For example, radio noise, and drone sound after adding some acoustic changes will produce a similar effect to a binaural beat through the left and right channel speakers.

Binaural beats are sounds with slightly different frequencies that when combined create new frequencies that are almost inaudible. Although binaural beats are technically an auditory illusion, I think binaural beats can help us with sound meditation. Some people try to use binaural beats to open or activate the "third eye". People use the "third eye" for spiritual visions and out-of-body experiences, while some Buddhists believe that one can have visions beyond the material realm.

During sound meditation, the healing effect of auditory illusions that can be felt by the binaural senses is akin to the spiritual guidance given by occult divination.

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Book design art with text instructions and poems

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Book design art with text instructions and poems

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Interactive arduino installtion for movement triggered sound work.

Three movement sensors are placed in the centre of each mandala.

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This piece of work was created on Ableton Live 10.

This is a piece of electronic music created with morse code sampling, radio noise and human breathing voice, which are recording of people's poem readingh. I'll try to create a similar sound illusion effect as the binaural beat use these sound elements.

Radio noise and morse code is an idealistic form of dialogue with the spirit in the occult field. The continuous Morse code formed by the sound of people reading poems aloud forms a kind of duet with the drone and radio noise in the field of telecommunications.

In terms of musicality, the GRM plug-in's shuffling, filter, phaser, grain delay, flanger, and other acoustic changes help create rich musical layers and contrast in frequency and sound. The operator was used to adjust and refine the sound envelope, adding structural contrasts and differences.

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Processing 4 for programming code (self-learning)

Arduino IDE for programming code (self-learning)

P5.js web Editor for programming system (self-learning)

Writing machine (Core XY plotter) made by myself with Blender 3d

Cyanotype making process learning from youtube

Mandalas yarn knitting learning from youtube

Ableton live 10 / GRM tools etc

(Morse code, radio noise and drone sampling composition)

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Alva Noto - HYbr:ID Ectopia Field 1

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let all the poisons that lurk in the mud seep out

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let all the poisons that lurk in the mud seep out

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For the past six years, Toronto-based composer Nick Storring has been generating a unique body of deeply personal work, painstakingly created by layering his own performances on a wide assortment of acoustic and electromechanical instruments. My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell-a heartfelt, albeit oblique, homage to Roberta Flack-is his frst vinyl release and sees his overdub-rich music taking a lush and nocturnal turn. Many of the compositions foreground his primary instrument, the cello, making the connection between his unique approach and orchestral music all the more explicit. While the record is haunted by wistful, introverted romanticism, its repeated hurtlings into psychedelic texture, bent pop-derived shapes, and gestures harvested from the musique concrète lineage, ensure that its trajectory remains a disorienting one.

This is Storring's sixth solo full-length after acclaimed releases on Entr'acte, Notice Recordings, Scissor Tail Editions, Never Anything, and his 2014 Orange Milk tape Endless Conjecture. Winner of the 2011 Toronto Emerging Composer Award and the 2008 Jeux De Temps competition for electroacoustic music, his work has been commissioned by leading artists, ensembles, and presenters including Eve Egoyan, Arraymusic, and Montréal's AKOUSMA Festival. A regular collaborator with renowned Canadian choreographers such as Deepti Gupta, Yvonne Ng, and Marie-Josée Chartier, he has also been featured by the Esprit Orchestra, Quatuor Bozzini, Vancouver New Music, Sophia Subayya-Vastek, Harvestworks, and Oxford UK's Audiograft Festival. In 2011 his music travelled alongside "ambient gaming environment" Tentacles when it was mounted in MoMA's Talk To Me exhibit.

Composed, performed, recorded, and mixed in various makeshift home studios by Nick Storring from 2014-18 using exclusively acoustic and electromechanical instruments and very little electronic processing.

Mastered by Sandro Perri

This album pays homage to the music of Roberta Flack. Its titles derive from song lyrics from her repertoire, but any musical resemblances are purely coincidental.

The process behind this work was made possible with a Music Creation grant from the Toronto Arts Council.

Art and layout by Seth Graham

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My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell, by Nick Storring

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My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell by Nick Storring, released 27 March 2020 1. Tides That Defeat Identity 2. Pretending You And I 3. Tonight There Will Be No Distance Between Us 4. What A Made-Up Mind Can Do 5. Now Neither One Of Us Is Breaking 6.

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Speech-controlled Morse code generated in a programming system in real time. (Test version)

When the microphone captures the reader's voice in real time, Core XY Plotter analyses the different volume, phase data of the reader's voice, so as to draw the corresponding colourful morse code patterns according to the computer programming.

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Arduino Movenment sensors and speaker test

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Interactive programming code I made for microphone voice and writing machines with graphic score which combime with morse code.

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Mandalas, meaning "circles" in Sanskrit, are sacred symbols that people use for meditation, prayer, and healing. In Buddhist traditions, mandalas are meditative objects that aid in the spiritual development of the individual. The images depict the universe and the symbols represent one's spiritual journey, the cycle of birth-life-death and the interconnectedness of all living things. Mandalas also represent microcosms of the universe, or symbols of the subconscious mind and spirit.

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In my work, the sound and graphic score of the Morse code changes uniquely depending on what and how each reader says.

This is a space for the reader to shape a private, interactive audio-visual experience. Through the use of Morse code sounds and abstract colorful printing , the reader/audience is able to connect with the conscious superego in a meditative process.

This is a special sound imagery in an idealistic form.

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Overall installation look i designed at Dilston Grove

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These aura cicles was formed by a number of audience members who came together after doing a sound meditation (Reciting and breathing). This is a special GRAPHIC SCORE that belongs to the crowd.

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Another interactive system for capturing audio-based meditative practices has I

developed it with Processing, interactive software that records individuals' voice and

breathing patterns. The programming I designed in the Processing software was able to detect people's breathing rate, speaking volume and speed, and then gradually draw a colourful aura circle from a blank space. This circle has been named the "aura circle" due to the colours used in the design that emulate common aura reading representations utilised in meditation practices.