Dogen, "Mujō seppō" 無情説法

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/05:00/4/33011

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

Listening with headphones recommended! Recorded in 4-channel surround sound from within the circle. Video here: https://youtu.be/aLPOiKQsl40
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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.

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14-speaker live nature music sound collage meditation

Coils

12 o'clocktave

Just another day in place dawning again and again if perceived or not, recorded within some bushes beneath a tree, 11 April 2023. Den-en-chōfu, Ota City, Tokyo. 
35°35'35.5"N 139°39'48.2"E

多摩川台公園 Tamagawadai Park ✾ 5-10:30am springtime ambience

Circular linguage ആ Ezra Pound turntablism

𝌃𝌄𝌅𝌁𝌂 ° ₂₀₀₉ ᶰʸᶜ ᵖ ͥ ͣ ᶰ ͦ

May 21-22, 2023. Recorded in 4-channel surround sound near the Ventura River Preserve, Meyer Rd Trailhead. Exact coordinates: 34°27'47.9"N 119°17'20.9"W

✺ Ojai, CA trail overnight | 7:30pm-8:30am

Crémines, Switzerland creek overnight, 10:30pm-8am

Peaceful crickets, Santa Barbara backyard overnight, 11:30pm-6:30am

5 unexpected combinations for 3 pairs of wireless speakers in the dry Ojai riverbed

Translated from the Japanese in the album booklet: 
' ' Hojun Nagata, 15th chief priest of Nagakusan Jomanji Temple.
Born in Kitagata-cho, Higashiusuki-gun, Miyazaki Prefecture in 1930, Hojun Nagata lost sight in both eyes as an infant. In 1945, at the age of 13, he entered Jomanji Temple, which has a 300-year history as a temple for blind monks, where he learned sutras and the biwa from the previous chief priest, Kodama Johō. In 1955, he passed the Tokudo examination at Shobozan Jōraku-in, received the precepts, and became a monk of the Tendai sect, "Hōjun.'' Since then, he has worked by visiting each temple in the mountain villages surrounding Nobeoka City, performing blessing prayers and offering prayers to the god of fire, the god of land, and the god of water.
After the death of Chief Priest Kodama in 1981, he became the 15th chief priest and had to visit the remaining 1,000 temples by himself.

 ご祈祷 Go kitō, Prayer. 
This is the most important ritual of blessing prayers to remove impurity from the Dan family's homestead and pray for a good harvest, the safety of the family, good health, and traffic safety. 
A 1-sho mound of rice, a small bowl of water, and a small plate of salt are placed in the tokonoma alcove, and a bamboo twig is added. Nagata sits facing the tokonoma alcove, strikes the bell, massages the beads, and recites a spell. The fingers of both hands are interlaced in a complex manner to form a seal and cut with great spirit. With his right hand, he dips a bamboo twig in a small bowl of water and shakes it in all directions to purify the area. Next, he sprinkles a pinch of salt in the air and scatters a few grains of rice in all directions.
When the rosary, made up of 108 beads, clinks dryly in the hands of the chief priest, an infinite space opens up.
While chanting, "Even though I see all kinds of impurities, I see impurities in my heart...'', the chief priest purifies his own mind and body with the "Rokukon no Wai''.
Next, he purifies the surrounding area by striking the bell and performing the "Five Directions'' in the four directions and the center, and the "Sugatawari'' to purify the Three Treasures of Kojin. There, he prays for the arrival of the gods and Buddha. In order to have his prayers heard, he recites the "Buddhist theory of Great Desolation God," gives the Fukutokuen, Mandai Dharani Sutra, and chants the Heart Sutra.
This will usually take around 30 minutes. Some of these are included here. This recording was made in the main hall of Jomanji Temple, so a large mortar was used as the bell, and Nagata recited the Heart Sutra while beating a drum.
The gohei are freshly cut and offered according to the purpose of the prayer. Nagata skillfully cuts out the intricately shaped gohei with a sharp knife. This is so spectacular that it is hard to believe he is blind.' '

今を生きる琵琶盲僧の世界

Hojun Nagata | ご祈祷 Go kitō (Prayer)

34°25'20.5"N 119°18'36.7"W
Recorded with two Zoom H2ns placed 500ft apart, one tucked into white sage, the other lodged between rotten branches of a forgotten fallen tree located down another one of those nameless muddy trails behind a school leading to a creek flowing between pointless properties on a Tuesday afternoon overnight into Wednesday morning in continuous formless cycling animal plant space transitioning without thought into darkness into lightness as if never perceived in any totality from any particular vantage point chosen by chance out of curiosity to hear what happens through the metaphysical earless ears of indeterminate reception.

❖ 𝕆𝕁𝔸𝕀 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 ◈ 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟔-𝟏𝟕 ²⁰²⁴ ⬘ 𝟰𝐩𝐦-𝟗𝐚𝐦 ⬙

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

Javanese Gamelan 1-octave below

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

The Unknown Music of Birds

Geese flying overhead 2-octaves below

7am April 5, 2018, Tassajara Canyon, California

Humming hummingbirds by the bird feeder

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

April 2, 2019. Within the Serian Division of Sarawak, atop Buan Mountain, above Peraya village, situated under a small wooden shelter, rain increases into dramatic percussion against the rooftop as collective evening consciousness comes all the more into life in the dream which is nature itself. Just another Tuesday night in the jungle.

Borneo | 6:30pm - 12:30am, Mt. Buan, Sarawak jungle, heavy rain into night life

Borneo | 5:30-9am Mt. Buan, Sarawak jungle pre-dawn to morning

Oslo | New Year's Eve fireworks ambience warfare

Just another serene and humid daytime reality buzzing in April, tucked into bamboo along a path by the Sarawak river leading to the KuraKura Homestay shangri-la.

Borneo | Kampung Semadang jungle afternoon ambience

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

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