Dogen, "Shinjin gakudō" 身心學道

Kepandung Sita ("The Abduction of Sita"). Performed by ensemble Sekaa Kecak Puspita Jaya, Ulapan I, Becahkiuh, Badung.

Kecak energy

Shikantaza

Folk Music Of The Western Congo

Bapindi hunting calls

Ancient water consciousness, signals, communications and activity observed from within the earth's womb below the Antarctic ice at PALAOA. Audio stream files from July 1st compiled direct from the acoustic records @ https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.844106?format=html

Underwater Antarctic Soundscape at PALAOA, July 1st

July 11-12, 2022, from a dreamy backyard next to the Ventura River Preserve Meyer Road Trailhead, in Ojai, California.

Ojai, California overnight, 830pm to 8am

1-octave below at 11'00. A chance encounter in Paso Robles, CA, during what was the 93rd Annual Pioneer Day at the Old Gas Engine Show in Pioneer Park, 8 October 2022.

Old gas engine sound field

Recorded from http://acoustics.safeproject.net/06:00/5/13474?t=0.0007

Borneo rainforest dawn | 6-7:11AM, 4°41'37.40'' N 117°34'52.23'' E

Recorded from http://acoustics.safeproject.net/05:00/4/33011

Borneo rainforest dawn | 5-7:30AM, 4°43'38.89'' N 117°36'51.59'' E

Recorded from http://acoustics.safeproject.net/06:00/3/36068?t=0.1444

Borneo rainforest dawn | 5:43-6:29AM, 4°42'40.25'' N 117°37'8.36'' E

Recorded from http://acoustics.safeproject.net/18:00/10/51395?t=0.6991

Borneo rainforest dusk | 6-7:37PM, 4°39'51.96'' N 117°32'6.48'' E

Another beautiful, nameless afternoon moment in Montaña de Oro State Park.

Short meditation from Spooner's Cove

Recorded in 4-channel surround sound beneath a tree in Tamagawadai Kōen (多摩川台公園), Den-en-chōfu, Tokyo, New Year's eve into New Year's day. Distant temple bells can be heard approximately 7hrs and 15min into the recording... Rather homesick for Japan, we have a tradition at home of playing this track in the house all day/night when the time of year comes. I felt it would be special to share it here for those who also appreciate these long, ambient recordings.

Japan, 31 December - 1 January, Tamagawadai Park overnight, 4:45pm-1:30pm

Listening with headphones recommended! Recorded in 4-channel surround sound from within the circle.
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Everything speaks. Everything is language, consciousness, shapes, conveyance, encoded reason. We are conductors of perception and play in reality, physical orchestrators of communications channeling, bridging worlds which meet through our cognizance. Improviser = composer = improviser = composer… Our practice is exploration, duration, hold, threshold, space, choice, interaction, non interaction, dynamics, energy, body. Amounts of things. Touch. There is no turning back from the experiences and exposures which evolve the love and flow and articulation of our being and awareness. We continually curate the galleries of our mind, this dream we each are in the universe. A seance of world premiere meetings. Such is meditation too. It is beyond words, and yet we know it. How far can we go? We honor life, this opportunity of existence and healing we’re given. We use it and sing it through. Our life is cosmic synchronicity made manifest.

Video

14-speaker live nature music sound collage exploration

Coils

A 3O-minute example from the acoustic records of 15 January, 2013, in the underwater/under-ice soundscape at PALAOA. None of these sounds have been treated with effects of any kind. 

Original open-source files here: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.844106

Came across this occurrence for a few days in mid-January. The sounds were pretty much continual all the time, varying in intensity and frequency. I found the same to be the case in other years as well, and also just January. I'd never heard anything quite like it except for this: https://www.youtube.com/user/VoyagerPWS/videos 

From what I gather, these are the "vocalizations" of Ross seals - the rarest of all Antarctic pinnipeds - (see the link at the bottom). Why and how they are doing this is not clear, and probably never really will be.  At most other times during the year what you predominately hear are calls of Weddell, Leopard and Crabeater seals; and occasionally high, rather distant vocalization of what are probably whales. 

After listening to this for a while, feeling it permeate completely through the brainwaves, from the back of my being it's like a memory starts to come forward, as if coming back from a dream... a dream within a dream... The essence of what these sounds are, whatever they are, have something to do with the roots of our existence. All of this in fact. Everything we're hearing. Life on earth wouldn't exist if it weren't for the ocean and what's in it. What's first is on the bottom. The habitats at the deepest part of this planet occur within the sea. What came first? What has continued until today since the beginning? That is cosmic, and for us here, sprouted of earth, everything has evolved from the waters. Our most ancient ancestry. Before life took flight in the sky, it took flight in the water. We all want to fly. We all want to sing, to call, to cry... The universe sings through us, and we are called to live, cried to life. 

http://epic.awi.de/18506/1/Kin2008b.pdf 
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Underwater Antarctic Soundscape at PALAOA | ROSS SEALS

Philips PH-7501|02 - Nov-Dec. 1970 - Fukui Prefecture of Sotoshu Daihonzan Eiheiji [Soto zen monks of Eiheiji Temple]. 

"Zen: Shikantaza - Sotoshu Daihonzan Eiheiji" | Soto zen Eiheiji Temple atmospheres

Philips PH-7513|14 - 1971 - Rinzai temples Shofuku-ji in Hyogo; Daitoku-ji, Shokoku-ji and Myoshin-ji in Kyoto. 

"Zen: Shoukokyattei - Inner Gates" | Rinzai zen temple atmospheres

Frogs, owl, first birds... Recorded direct from live stream: http://mp3s.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/OTANOMO_CyberForest.mp3
June 11, 2016.

Shiga Park, Nagano, Japan | 3am to dawn meditation

Compiled with recordings from the Macaulay Library.

Amazing Weddell seal sounds below the Antarctic ice

More nighttime coyote emotions

The Unknown Music of Birds

Sound realities below the Antarctic ice on October 31st.   
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.844106?format=html

Underwater Antarctic Soundscape at PALAOA - October

Geese flying overhead 2-octaves below

1) 00:00:00 - 2) 00:03:39 - 3) 00:11:41 - 4) 00:16:08 - 5) 00:23:30 - 6) 00:30:49 - 7) 00:34:30 - 8) 00:38:13 - 9) 00:41:55 - 10) 00:45:25 - 11) 00:54:45 - 12) 00:59:28 - 13) 01:07:08 - 14) 01:18:44 - 15) 01:27:55 - 16) 01:31:50 - 17) 01:42:35 - 18) 01:47:13 - 19) 01:51:28 - 20) 01:55:29 - 21) 02:06:46 - 22) 02:12:44 - 23) 02:23:27 - 24) 02:27:05 - 25) 02:35:03

Mechanical music 2-octaves below

Every January I come back to these incredible sounds. I've compiled them here from the PALAOA acoustic records at: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.844106?format=html

PALAOA(PerenniAL Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean)is located at Atka Bay, eastern Weddell Sea. Ross seal sightings are scarce around Atka Bay, but their distinct siren-like calls dominate the underwater soundscape from December - February. 

More about the Ross seal underwater calls - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ffj_CNxeu5ShjgLig7hyqtyTOx3fjOw4

Underwater Antarctic Soundscape at PALAOA ~ January 16 ~ The Ross seal

South of Kuching, hidden in the rainforest hills of Borneo Highland, Padawan, by Sarawak river, close to the mountains bordering Indonesia. April 2019

Borneo | Kampung Semadang jungle overnight

Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. April 2019, KuraKura Homestay.

Borneo | Kampung Semadang rainforest dawn

"If one sings to a cow, she will give down her milk more easily, so milking songs are common in farming communities. The Tigre-speaking chief of Afta village in Zula district on the Red Sea was milking a stubborn cow. He reviles her for holding back, encourages her later and finally, when the steady stream of milk is coming, he praises her, saying that she can feed all the members of his household with this fine yield." - [Music of Eritrea: Ethiopia Vol. 3 – Tangent Records]

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