Music improvisation
A conscious process of co-creating music
- A week in Dornach, Switzerland
From the 8th to the 10th of November; Jonas Darin, Skye Chadwick, Sampsa Pirtola and Guy Collins gathered some hours in the morning to explore the art of silence, music and sound.
We all had different intentions, knowledge and experiences in the area of musical improvisation before we met. I am certain we also had different experiences and realizations within the process that we all could take with us into life after we separated!
This was my experience during the process:
The first day was challenging for me. I did not feel free playing on the guitar. Somehow I felt a limitation when moving my fingers over the strings. I had the feeling I have to hold back for something. This was very different from the experience I had when playing piano together with violin and flute earlier previous week with a different set of people. However the experience was now that I was very conscious of myself and therefore also of my “mistakes”.
The second day I could shift my focus from myself to the guitar. I could realize previously hidden abilities and functions in the guitar in which I before had not seen. I think I stepped over a threshold and found myself on the other side with a different consciousness. A special moment the second day was when we started off from different tunings on our instruments. I then felt incapable of playing from conceptual patterns from the past. The shift was obvious when we all tuned our instruments to a set D-chord. This gave me freedom to be powerful and loud.
The third day was the day I felt most free. I was no longer dwelling in thoughts and my self-awareness was less dominant. I felt the focus in the group was different. We were listening more to each other and operating beyond one self. Therefore I felt we started to sense a collective spirit, the full space in the room. It was amazing how I could hear and be much more sensitive to the sounds in the room. Sometimes everything felt like a symphony!
I learned to see me and my guitar in different ways. It felt that so much more became possible with sound. I developed a new listening that I also practiced in conversations with people. It is also sensitivity to the sounds in nature as well as the inaudible sounds with myself and plants which now can be focused on. After finishing improvising, I ended up having my mind full of experiences that was hard to define. I was glad the conversation in the end turned out to be looking at theories and possibilities with music, growth and living form. It felt that this was the unknown realm I wanted to explore. I felt this was an official initiation of starting understanding the unknown in music.
The dominant illustration on the improvisation sessions was the one showing the two polarities:
Listening - Creating
The Mission for Youth
Spiritual patterns as a guidance to not follow the spiritual patterns of creation
The current scientific opinion about growth and birth is conquering and building its very meaning without understanding the essence of it.
To start to get an understanding about creation I think the individual should consider a self recognition and honesty in one’s listening and creation. Therefore the first step in doing spiritual science is to grasp some intellectual laws that later will have to dissolve in order for the whole being to take the biggest step into the time.
The individual is constantly embodying different patterns in mind which often is sprung from the past. It is known that spiritual time is also flowing from the future to the past. A mere intellectual recognition of those spiritual laws is of no means usable and will just be a repeating pattern of holding on, to dwell on the pattern as the truth.
An example could be when human beings are putting effort into flying. Because in the memory the way of flying could for example be enacted through pointing one’s arm in the flying direction (like Superman!) and jump from the point of standing in hope that those legs will ascend from the ground. Yes it is true, I have tried it.
Another very important component in letting go of mental patterns is the one of intention. If one’s intention is pure and open to whatever higher laws has decided for one to go through, then one is ready to start walk the path of conscious creation.
Conscious creation is nothing about understanding the laws of physics, chemistry and biology to then enact and “apply” the answer in nature. Nature is changing and change is nature. How can I surf on the waves of change? How can I surrender to my own striving in order to let the universal waves penetrate my will and become manifested?
Simplicity is at the heart of understanding complexity. The empowerment of individuals is about recognizing one’s quest to the extent of being a collaborative and participatory agent in the flow of evolution. There is no spoon.
This text is not just information but a triggering post for young people to surrender to their quest of their generation. Conversations made this post possible and shared!
Diving deep into Water
I’m writing this as a part of a global blog action day 2010 in the name of water.
Water is as everyone know a foundation of the very first life on this planet. It covers the surface of our planet “Earth” with more than 70 % and it is vital for all life.
Concentrating on the human relationship with this blue element, I think it is vital that we understand how water in the world functions in a similar way with the blood in our bodies. That fact also embodies topics as water management, water purification and water distribution.
Talking from a swedish point of view, we have, accordingly to ourselves the best drinking water in the world. That statement has been questioned lately when scientists found out that we actually can track medicinal chemicals and that also possible could contain illnesses and viruses.
Talking about the Baltic Sea – maybe the most critical environmental challenge ever hitting Scandinavia in history. That issue has overfishery, overnourishment (leak of nutrients) from agriculture and pollution from water purification stations aswell as small households.
I think the very core essence of those results makes us obligated to look at the very relationship among individuals as such but also to water.
Water operates at a very complex level if we would have the approach to find out valuables and patterns that is within a “cause and effect” field. For example, the overfishery of cod has accelerated hugely the last 20 years in the Baltic Sea. One could not understand why the cod had decreased by so much without looking at the ecosystem in the Baltic Sea as a context. The number of cod is decreasing due to a higher and more developed technologies in catching it aswell as a high amount of money put into that business. When the cod then is spawning, scientists can see that the herring easily can hunt down the cod eggs because of the very imbalance in the generations of cod, e.g. the older cod has been catched by fisherman.
The other dimension of the Baltic Sea is not fishery but the approach of identifying the very problem. The main opinion among swedish scientists and governmental is that nitrogen and phosphor is the main threat to the Baltic Sea that causes algae to blossom in the summer, causing illnesses for humans but also a lack of oxygen in the bottom of the sea. (When the algae die and cover the sea bottom that creates a layer of isolation that keep the sun from reaching the bottom nutrients.)
This is where I enter the picture. The conventional method of cleaning water in Sweden is famous and efficient in terms of reducing nitrogen and phosphor from the sewage before it goes out in the sea. In my opinion, that water is maybe clean but not very healthy in terms of supporting the realm of higher life in the Baltic Sea, the fishes.
The method being used here in Ytterjärna, Sweden is letting the sewage water go through biological ponds to only play with the possibility of using natural cleaning and build up. The process should ideally start with letting the most organic nitrogen and phosphor be absorbed by weeds and other plants by the shore to decrease the overflow of bacteria in which weeds gently accept. This system is build up by seven ponds, each one unique from one another, that creates a formative dynamics in the balance of reducing nutrients but also increasing the quality and potential of the water!
The first ponds are used to cut and breakdown superfluous of nutrients through the organic weeds. The life in the ponds develop and reaches a higher form of life in the evolutionary chain. It start with small micro organisms and continues to algae, small water animals, a developed fauna around the pond and envision the highest potential of life.
My research applies to find out how small changes in the algae life and in the valuables in density, temperature, salt content, phosphatic, nitrogen and other biogenic percentages is changing due to different plantations of vegetation along the shore but also how the human hands and care can change that very quality of water that will support higher life.
The approach is now not only to look at a single problem as nitrogen and phosphor but rather looking at how humans can understand the water cycle and work with an evolutionary development of life species to in the end highlight the fish as the king of water.
Marriage: Art and Science
Art and the connection to Science
The time is now new to the fact that art provides mankind with a whole new understanding of nature in which current mainstream science can’t get.The opportunity is to understand while create, a new way of discovering phenomena while playing with the matter. The information that we can understand the whole through studying the parts has a truth in it. I think the part has a minor whole in it. But can we really understand how that part works and operates without seeing the relationships with its surrounding. Because there is the macro in which we can see the smaller parts that might not be visible to the human eye if we only study the smallest part and its laws on a micro level.
However creating in art can mean a lot of things. I see a new way of creating that our time starts to grasp. It is not about to write a poem through studying the fire neither build an installation while ordering the mind. I feel that the opportunity is to really tune into the tree and to let the tree tell us how to go about our creation. This is the first step to not operate through our main mindset that is often stuck in old patterns.
If you invite children to design and build the playground with you they are more likely to use it. Apply this to nature; if you invite the tree and the material around your spot where you want to build, the environment is more likely to answer in a positive and harmonious way. To add to this, to be even more living up to the consciousness of co-creation; invite the people with similar intention to work together with you. This is cooperation across borders in its fullest potential when you start to realize the power of diversity. To do this I experience I have to work intuitively and to very much go the path of trial and error. This is a new way of understanding how the matter in nature behaves through using hands. Operating that way, I think scientists can fusion with art.
So the question then comes: what can art get from science?
I see the motivation in me is that discovering new phenomena and laws in science is my driving power. There is a divine purpose in working towards a goal that is logically something I can achieve. Art gives me the opportunity to face the reality of that dream. Even more, I see that art should expand its field of rational reasoning to be more connected to the physical world and get ground to also be practical useful. It is not for nothing that we create and we need to be aware of what may happen if we are not careful and rational in our minds.
Finally I want to encourage the bridge to the concept of conscious co-creation. There might be different interpretation of that concept but what I just experienced last days working with the material in nature, doing art, is that this is the initiation of conscious co-creation. Why?
Because I feel I take the higher purpose in consideration through thinking logically about my dream and going into practice. Co-Creation is simply creating at the same level as nature, that is nothing else that realizing that the environment around us is within us, we are the outer so as the inner, e.g. we are nature both inside and outside. We are not longer participants but co-workers in the natural world. We can’t fully understand the whole but we can work consciously towards true harmony and connectivity in human creation. This is just the beginning and the intention is set.
Action of Sharing
The question of sharing ought to be put to attention today and exactly at this time.
I am an observer an a young reporter that are following the representers at the World Youth Congress in Istanbul, Turkey.
The importance of the youth platform representingyouth.com is once again confirmed and celebrated. I was once a young reporter during Rework, a conference in Leksand, Sweden. Now I am eagerly following the 3 reporters Curro Martino, Jonas Ericsson and Nathan Heller who is all reporting live from the World Youth Congress in Istanbul.
It just struck me how important it is to share things. We can share in so many different ways. Sharing is a form of expressing one self. Today it is almost an art not to be influenced by the expressing voices of the social field in todays ever developing globalized world.
How pictures can awake feelings and actions in human beings is now justified by human experience.
The picture below is an illustration by Curro Martino that symbolizes human action.
As Curro himself says; [I] tried to find the “gestures” in the thoughts through drawing and movement.[]
This gesture had influenced in in my unconscious to take action myself. I am now consciously exploring the action of sharing.
To be involved in the ever accelerating current of sharing is crucial as the world arrives to the peak of a conscious creation that taps of the evolution of human consciousness…
Until Next Time!
Real Change
Real change
Tell me if you are perfect
Tell me if you are true to me
Everyone wants to change the world
Everyone is sustainable?
Where is the feeling of comfort?
Who are our minds?
Come back when you have a working model
Stop reloading the sorrow of broken concepts
Stop talking about change when you remain the same
Where is the fear
Why do we keep walking without destination?
Why can’t we stop and sit down?
Why do we forget the time between sunset and sunrise?
Why are we looking for an answer…
Do I include myself in “we”?
Where are my angel…
Eurythmical communication
A Midsummer Eve experience
I was taking the bike to Saltå where the beautiful river flows around the source of production of organic gods. I was coming from a conversation about our internship in Brazil. I wanted to go and meet the water and the cows where I know them. I was passing the fields, checking out the new signs that fellow participants in Sense Festival just created. I only paid attention to the first one because then I was admiring the landscape and the animals in it. So the signs did not have very much impact on my experience that night.
I was eager to explore a way of communicating with animals and nature. There is something that I can discover within me that is keeping me from understand the outer world. Yes, I tried to work and create movements and frequencies from within myself to the outer.
My experience was strong. I had just read that the eurhythmic L is the quality of water while the eurhythmic B is the quality of earth. I know that cows like to drink water and that they often symbolize the element earth because of their grandly and stable connection with mother earth at the same time contributing to soil fertility (biodynamic humus prep.)
I was experimenting with the movement of L and saw that the cows close to me became a bit scared while the cows more far away, around 5 meters, came closer. I kept doing the movement in big circles and the cows stood eagerly watching. I wanted to give them the balance so I did the B movement symbolizing earth. I heard some cows singing. The cows on the other side of the field answered and the choir begun. I was not only a observer, I felt involved in the field.
I went further to the river. I saw the fast moving water crashing toward stones and turning in all directions. I heard the sound and closed my eyes with the intention to let the feeling of water emerge into a geometrical form in my mind. I got the morning star.
For me it is obvious that I have to change the very way my whole being think, feels and act in order to change the outer. There is not a set path in how we can do it. There is not either enough knowledge in the world. There is just a field of trial and error which I dream of to be part of, to live in equilibrium with all beings. I also dream of eternal love among all beings.
Love to the world
Reflection on the first day of Sense Festival
At last, it has started and what a start! I am totally on fire after a day of craft work, swimming in the lake, good friends and really high quality on conversations. The power that the universe manifests is clear now. People will similar intention is being drawn together miracoulously!
I have experienced that several times during the last year. It has a power to make me drawn away into dreaming. Thanks god we are all different. That is one of my main insights today; we are part of nature and contributing to diversity. It simply comes down to myself. Imagining myself standing there with the spade in my hand and thinking about all the information I have absorved. There is a clear distinct between information and experiences. I want to experience and make mistakes.
Nature is driven by trial and error. It is not a concept, it is a natural law.
When I was asked what my challenge was, I stopped for a moment and stepped into an unknown realm; my answer came intuitively: “To accept failure”.
Experimenting in being co-creators with universe – from ourselves to the world.
Musical water interpretation
I got inspired to write a musical art piece about water. Here it is what i produced during 30 minutes with a crappy mic and windows movie maker!
Understanding across generations
Is it truly about youths or just making money?
Yesterday at the second day at Rework I experienced something within myself that represented an extreme point of change. It was my opinion and standpoint in a certain question that had to be let go off.
Background:
The question was revolving a project working with providing water cleaning units through solar power. The name of the unit is Solvatten in Swedish and means “Sunwater”. The concept was to pour the water into a square hard plastic bag, open it up and expose it to the sun. The suns x-rays is then breaking the membrane on the DNA of pathogenic bacteria which is considered unhealthy. The cleaning unite has a thin plastic that maximizes the heat so the water can heat up to 70 degrees Celsius. I was sitting in a room with approximately 20 people in the age around 40. They were very experienced entrepreneurs and had worked within business for many years.
The clash:
The woman Petra Wadström was the smart innovator for this project. She said that the first challenge for her now was to assure the quality of the solution, constantly keep it high.
As the theme of this Conference is Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Youth I expected to become crazy inspired by this project in which I was very interested in before the conference. I expected a breaking innovation that urged the movement of the water into its natural dynamics and in that sense could clean the water through using solar energy for creating the movement. But no, the idea was not sustainable at all in my perception. The product produced in Sweden and possible China was then being transported to rural areas in Africa. The product had just its duration of 5 years and then one had to throw it away. Imagine the poor areas in Africa that are using the water unit for longer than five years and start to become sick by it. Realize that the dry and degraded ecosystem stays the same and the dirty water is still floating in the sea.
My reloaded perception:
I thought of course that this project was ridiculous in terms of sustainability and started to lift forward the question of where is this sustainable – both environmental and in terms of the effect in the rural areas and how can this serve the power of young people and their creativity. I couldn’t find anything that spoke for these points. I could just be amazed by the power of entrepreneurship that totally shifted people’s way of perceiving when they saw that you can earn big money on it. People in the room started to brainstorm about different business models and distribution strategies for the product. However, I became very frustrated and posed my opinion clearly for the people in the room. I experienced a conflict that were going on. MY perception versus someone’s else.
Now after this conscious experience I start to really understand that two fully free people never end up arguing in conflict and anger.
It is only when you can let go of your point of view and listening in to what the other have to say when we can start creating common ground on which we will grasp a universal understanding.
Read more about diversity in Brenno’s amazing blog post here
written by…
Jonas Darin
jonis123@hotmail.com
jonasdarin.wordpress.com
