{"id":4763,"date":"2013-09-28T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T19:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2017-09-13T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:18:51","slug":"tsk-ex-24-a-marriage-of-sound-and-breath-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=4763","title":{"rendered":"TSK Ex. 24 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Marriage of Sound and Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flowing Mountain Stream Morning Meditative Relaxation Video - Live Unedited Nature Sounds (no music)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OpO9xVvMcyU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is part of what I posted before from some years ago\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I used a sound machine set for the sound of a babbling brook, which repeated like a tape loop.  Both \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>babbling<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the repetition of the sounds had significance.  At first the sounds seemed irregular, but within repetition of the sequence there was a noticeable underlying rhythm, the way drums or baritone voices would anchor smaller patterns of sound.  As this rhythm continued, there was a tendency for me to recognize or organize my recognition of the sounds into regular repeating tones, and irregular ones, even though in the context of the larger loop all the sounds repeated.  As I noticed this, I seemed to get caught in a kind of groove, almost hypnotic, as the repetitive rhythm reminded me of some kind of tribal chanting.  When I joined breath and sound together, focus naturally went to the throat area.  Within the patterns of the watery, babbling sounds of the brook there were the sounds of voices, almost guttural, gurgling and preverbal, as if prior to meaning.  As one sound pattern became dominant in awareness I would focus on a different pattern, as the one I had been focused on seemed to fade further in the background.  There were dozens of such patterns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I also noticed that while the overall pattern of sounds occupied my attention, the focal setting could be modulated to <em>zero-in<\/em> on component patterns, intermediate ones, or the overall pattern.  It reminded me of previous Time exercises when dominant forms in the moment (like these rhythms) were picked up on, and after a while less dominant patterns were discernible, not only within, but along with the overall display of sound.  It was very much a flow of Time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s continuous display of form.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today I used a 2 \u00c2\u00bd minute recording in a repetitive loop of a babbling brook, a much longer loop than the 8 to 10 second one described above.  Repetition was not as immediately noticeable, although there were similarities in the repetitiveness of some of the tonal qualities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Initially the sound was progressing from the point from which I started, to a point I presupposed it was moving toward; the point that I knew it would loop and start over or that I would turn it off, in other words, I knew the sound had &#8216;<em>direction<\/em>&#8216;.  After a while I gave up this sense of direction, which opened perspective, and seemed to allow more space.  More space seemed to permit awareness of more levels of tones.  Tones were edgeless objects in that they blended together as intensity waned, then a shifting of perspective revealed patterns of objects, then another shift revealed patterns of patterns, then, sound was felt in the throat, like water touching.  And sound was seen like color on a blank or empty canvas. This exercise opened my sense of time and allowed me to demonstrate to myself how to modulate my habitual and limiting focal settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of what I posted before from some years ago\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I used a sound machine set for the sound of a babbling brook, which repeated like a tape loop. Both \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbabbling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the repetition of the sounds had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=4763\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,117,69],"tags":[81,117,69],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-senses","category-time","tag-awareness","tag-senses","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}