Music composed by Daniele Dinaro
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Venere

Dan Carillo - guitars, percussion
Jason Rigby - soprano saxophone
John Patitucci - basses

Temple Music is a composition that unfolds over a relatively long time scale.  The composed portion of the music is played up to a point of departure for collective improvisation.  After each improvisation, the written material is played again from the beginning to a further point which serves as a point of departure for the next improvisation.  Miniatures composed for bass choir separate the end of the improvised sections from the next successive thematic statement.  A reprise of the fully composed piece, in a duet setting for acoustic guitar and bass, is played as a single continuity to close the piece.

First and foremost, Temple Music is conceived as a piece of collective improvisational music and the performance is offered as an artistic expression in the purest sense of the term.  However, the title is also a reference to the meditative, contemplative, prayerful nature of the piece, and to the influences of worship practices of many cultures.  Whether one chooses to worship God, Yahweh, Allah, the Creator, the Higher Power, the Universe, Krisha, etc., or chooses to worship in a Gothic cathedral, an Eastern Orthodox church, a mosque, a Buddhist meditation center, the courtyard of a Hindu temple, a store front neighborhood church, a synagogue, a megachurch campus, or in the great expanse of nature, Temple Music will encourage a state of peace and tranquility, and open pathways for contemplative prayer and meditation. 

Recorded at Solid Sounds Studio, Cornwall NY
Recording engineers - Lucas Carillo, Dan Carillo
Mixed by Lou Holtzman at East Side Sound Studio, NYC

Temple Music

A great paradox of the Christian life is to stand at the edge of loss and to somehow gain freedom. In this episode, artist Bruce Herman shares his paradoxical story of embracing freedom amidst great loss. 

“A bunch of people have asked me over the years, what was it like to have your house hit by three bolts of lightning, burn down and destroy 25 years of your work as an artist? That must have been devastating!

My honest answer is, ‘No, it really wasn’t. It was a eucatastrophe. It’s the good chaos or the good catastrophe.’ Right after the fire. That same afternoon evening, my wife and I went dancing.”

We either believe that God is going to take care of us or we don’t. 

Bruce Herman is an artist, essayist, speaker, professor. He is the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts at Gordon College where he founded the Art Department 35 years ago. Herman’s art has been exhibited around the world. His paintings have been housed in world renown museums like the Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art and the Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts.

Visit Bruce Herman at www.bruceherman.com

Thank you to these musical artist for the use of their songs:
www.DexterBritain.com: Lifted
www.Kai-Engel.com: Cendres; Run
www.jasonharrod.com
www.brianfunck.com
Lion Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EaUy0PUBkQ

Thanks to www.freesound.org contributors:
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20 The Good Chaos: Bruce Herman on Dancing after your House Burns Down (The Art of Paradox Part 1)

The Betwixt podcast explores the liminal space where faith and culture converge. Conversations with fascinating guests coax us from ideological trenches with betwixting stories from the middle space.

20 The Good Chaos: Bruce Herman on Dancing after your House Burns Down (The Art of Paradox Part 1)

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