by atmara | Jan 26, 2015 | Art, Choral Music, Mandala Coloring, Mandalas, Music, Video
Most of you don’t know this about me but earlier in my life I worked as a choral conductor. While illness has kept me from singing or conducting for many years, I still love choral music and thought from time to time I would share a piece with you along with a mandala.
Today I have a mandala to color from http://mandalasparapintar.blogspot.com. Below is a small version of the mandala:
Download a larger version to color at: http://mandalasparapintar.blogspot.com/2010/11/mandala-chino-iii.html
And while you are coloring why not listen to this exquisite music, There Will Be Rest by Frank Ticheli.
According to Youtube this is: “Frank Ticheli conducting his own work There Will Be Rest with the Georgia State University Singers; November 8, 2011, Rialto Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA”
Enjoy!
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by atmara | Jun 19, 2014 | Creativity, Music, TED Talks, Video
According to ted.com: “Sampling isn’t about “hijacking nostalgia wholesale,” says Mark Ronson. It’s about inserting yourself into the narrative of a song while also pushing that story forward. In this mind-blowingly original talk, watch the DJ scramble 15 TED Talks into an audio-visual omelette, and trace the evolution of “La Di Da Di,” Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick’s 1984 hit that has been reimagined for every generation since.”
“Mark Ronson’s unusual path into the music world has led to an eclectic and multifaceted resume. Ronson began his career DJing hip New York City nightclubs in the heady 1990s. Since then, he’s scored his own hits with the help of Ghostface Killah and Amy Winehouse via his own first two albums Here Comes The Fuzz and Version, winning the Brit Award for best British male sole artist in 2008.”
Enjoy!
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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by atmara | Jun 16, 2014 | Art, Creativity, Mandala Monday, Mandalas, Music
Last Thursday’s TED Talk introduced the concept of cymatics (TED Talk Thursday – Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics). Today I’ve picked out an example of a ancient chant being sung by Deva Premal which has been captured by the science of cymatics. I’m always so intrigued to see sound creating mandalas.
Enjoy!
According to Deva Premal’s Youtube Channel: From the album The Essence by Deva Premal, details here:http://bit.ly/1mjrgHq. The Gayatri Mantra is said to be the oldest and most powerful of mantras, purifying the person chanting it as well as the listener. Now the science of Cymatics reveals the beautiful, transformational patterns that these ancient sounds create when passed through water. As cymatologist Evan Grant notes, “Sound does have form and we have seen that it can affect matter and cause form within matter.”
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