Ambientstudy6.wmv

This study has both live chanting (reprocessed by Audacity software where my voice is repitched and respatialized into a choir of 5) and live drumming on a steel meditation tongue drum called a HAPI drum (thank you SR for gifting this to me for my birthday). It is a D minor pentatonic instrument playing a DnA beat. The two sounds were then mixed and looped together to form the entire 10 minute composition. The statue is of Mandarava, the main Tantric lover of Padmasambhava, incarnation of Pandarvasini (Queen of Fire), and manifestation of the bija mantra (seed syllable) "hreeh" (for transmuting sadness into compassion). I got the statue as a "second" in town and it is on my "dakini altar" right now. The visual effects are from Mplayer with a simple video camera pointed toward the LCD screen, with the statue placed on top of a wood platform, and with a fiber optic art with rotating lights behind her. I then used a rotating hue effect from windows movie maker.

What I like about the HAPI drum is that there is a subtle metal reverberation that sounds a little like a gentle rain (maybe gently tapping on a 3rd world tin roof). The recording was done with the Linux Sound Recorder software within the Linux Mint OS 9 environment through a Logitech Webcam condenser mike with a noise cancelling feature. I do like the Logitech company for its support of Linux OS systems. Its products have very consistently worked on the Linux platform. Although made for VOIP, I find that the noise cancellation helps a lot, because it filters out some noise from a less than ideal recording situation.

Mandarava has two mantras:

Om Namo Mahadakini Mandarava Ayushe Hung Niri Tsa Hreeh

Om Namo Mahadakini Mandarava Hreeh.

Both of these are nontraditional and rebuilt from a formula. The first has extra syllables traditionally associated with her from a mantra where her syllables and Padmasambhava (from Om Ah Hung Vajra Guru Padme Siddhi Hung) are conjoined in yabyum (Vajra Guru Padme Siddhi Hung Ayushe Hung Niri Tsa).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• meditation
• ambient
• mellow trance
• experimental
• hapi drum
• hang drum
• steel tongue drum
• steel drum

[EsuDalyvis]

Sounds sacred