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Here we have a mix where the listener is taken on a journey within. S/he will be seated, attempting to still the mind of all the chitter (yes chitter, not chatter although its the same thing), a pun on the Hindu 'chitta' or mind stuff.
To reach the still, quiet place, the sitter has to still the mind and concentrate on a seed thought if practising meditation-with-seed or concentrate on no-thing if practising meditation-without-seed. Reaching the quiet, contemplative frame of mind is hard, especially if starting for the first time or early in your practises.
You may think that, because your mind appears quiet that you are there, but chitta rears its unwanted head and you lose the calm you thought you had. Persisence pays off and, later, you reach that contemplative plateau where your intuition can impress your now stilled mind with ideas that can then be registered, eventually, by your brain.
Sometimes, mostly as you begin these practises, you find your calm disturbed again and again, and climaxing in incessant thoughts, nothing to do with the seed thought or the meditation-without-seed, and then, slowly, you are able to still this chitta until it is no longer a problem and you reap the benefits of the practise.
The mix is in four stages, the meditaiton begins, the calmness is disturbed many times (when you least expect it), the chitta reaches epic proportions just when you thought you had it under control, you finally reach that quiet moment of Bliss.
I am always interested in your thoughts about my music.
Here we have a mix where the listener is taken on a journey within. S/he will be seated, attempting to still the mind of all the chitter (yes chitter, not chatter although its the same thing), a pun on the Hindu 'chitta' or mind stuff.
To reach the still, quiet place, the sitter has to still the mind and concentrate on a seed thought if practising meditation-with-seed or concentrate on no-thing if practising meditation-without-seed. Reaching the quiet, contemplative frame of mind is hard, especially if starting for the first time or early in your practises.
You may think that, because your mind appears quiet that you are there, but chitta rears its unwanted head and you lose the calm you thought you had. Persisence pays off and, later, you reach that contemplative plateau where your intuition can impress your now stilled mind with ideas that can then be registered, eventually, by your brain.
Sometimes, mostly as you begin these practises, you find your calm disturbed again and again, and climaxing in incessant thoughts, nothing to do with the seed thought or the meditation-without-seed, and then, slowly, you are able to still this chitta until it is no longer a problem and you reap the benefits of the practise.
The mix is in four stages, the meditaiton begins, the calmness is disturbed many times (when you least expect it), the chitta reaches epic proportions just when you thought you had it under control, you finally reach that quiet moment of Bliss.
I am always interested in your thoughts about my music.
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ic42
There are many ways to approach this idea, and I think you have chosen a very satisfying path here. The "disturbance from focus" could have been musical dissonance, but you chose amplitude instead, which is much less annoying and allows the thoughts to settle and re-focus faster, a very good thing. The choices of synth voices are pleasant, again, a difficult thing to achieve for a 10 minute ambient piece where there is little variation in timbre. The choice of occasional slow tremolo seems to imply an attempt to achieve balance despite a mental wobble away from centre. Many ingenious devices are used in your music, all combining to work the magic you set out to portray. Kudos on such great work. A piece worthy of many listens.
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Drakonis