Wish more people would get it !! Such an Open-Mindedness like no other.

Cosmic Nirvana

Black Holes and beyond - the latest in the Symphony of Science series.  Download link at http://melodysheep.bandcamp.com

Monsters Of The Cosmos // Symphony of Science

One of 6 instrumental tracks I wrote during my final year at Juilliard, this is a jazzy tune recorded at the Juilliard Studio.

Tommy Gardner, tenor sax
Ola Gjeilo, piano
Ryland Kelly, bass
Tomoya Aomori, drums
Claudia Schaer, violin
Katherine Bormann, violin
Gareth Zehngut, viola
Andrew Ford, cello

The D Minor Sessions

Digitonal - Beautiful Broken | Release date: 4th May 2015
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/beautifulbroken
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The length of time that Beautiful Broken has taken has been its saving grace,” says Digitonal’s Andy Dobson. “I don’t feel any pressure to align myself to the zeitgeist any more and that’s very liberating. I have made mistakes in the past where I would contrive certain things to fit in with a cer-tain scene, but I feel happy with the new album, because it’s me through and through.”

Beautiful Broken is Digitonal’s fifth album since he first started recording and playing live under that name in 1997, and the first all-new release since 2008’s Save Your Light For Darker Days. Since then Dobson has released the retrospective, Be Still My Bleeping Heart, written and scrapped an entire album, and for Beautiful Broken has composed new material and finished off some incomplete compositions.

The typical Digitonal process sees the pieces transformed from largely improvised works-in-progress played live to more structured studio creations. This can take some time. ’We Three’ dates back to a live prototype from 2004.

With long-time collaborator, violinist Samy Bishai currently working on a number of other musical projects and less Digitonal live work in recent years, the compositions have taken longer to evolve, and so Beautiful Broken has become essentially a Dobson solo venture.

Dobson is a classically trained clarinettist and former chorister, and the clean lines of minimalism and Early Music in particular have informed his role as an Electronica producer. Following a concert at the Union Chapel, London, in 2014, Dobson was most excited about a particular section in which the musicians played acoustically and so he decided to try to recreate that feel.

Beautiful Broken evokes the subtlety and self-contained intimacy of chamber music, but as befits his recent reconnection with Ambient, these elements move slowly through a cool electronic space. But what defines Ambient for him is the literal meaning of the word more than a particular musical genre, specifically the expanse of sound that he experienced singing in a choir in a candlelit Durham Cathedral.

This combination of sonic influences make Beautiful Broken Digitonal’s most original album to date. Although it’s not a radical departure, Dobson has realigned his approach. He admits that he has also gone back to minimalism in a big way and ‘Eighteen’ is a buoyant mesh of clarinet, tuned percussion and drum patterns, and an overt homage to Steve Reich’s epochal minimalist work, Music For Eighteen Musicians.

Apart from Bishai’s violin and Dobson’s own clarinet and keyboards, the instrumentalists on Beauti-ful Broken are Kat Avery (harp), and Georgina Hall and Ivan Hussey (cello). In line with the prevail-ing chamber mood, Dobson has guarded against over orchestrating, with the emphasis more on pared down written parts: the composition ‘Luna’, for example, is completely scored. Similarly, breakbeats have largely been replaced by more intricate microbeats.

There’s a melancholy, a bitter-sweetness to Digitonal’s music, and whichever way Dobson’s par-ticular balance of acoustic and electronic sounds tips in the future, he is currently searching for the kind of emotional narrative and sense of connection that one gets from songs. He certainly goes a long way towards achieving that on the affecting compositions on Beautiful Broken.

“I’ve always wanted to make music that’s emotive for me and the audience,” he explains. “I think it’s quite difficult with electronic music, to get the right blend. But that’s what I’m always working towards.”


Beautiful Broken

Luna

Digitonal - Luna

Funeral Canticle - John Tavener (Tribute)

From Lineal To Cyclical Thinking is my second 'solo-piano' album.

Beyond The Light Cone

First  issued  over  25  years  ago,  and  now  remastered  from  original tapes. The vinyl edition comes with six high-quality lithograph  art  prints representing  each  of  the  birds  on  the  album by UK  illustrator Hannah Alice. Fully interactive: the cover image is interchangeable with any of the prints, while the deluxe ‘bookback’ CD comes with 20 page book. Out 5th February 2016.

Bert Jansch - Kingfisher

Jason Silva - Who Are We?

Carl Sagan - To The Sky

This is the most astounding fact by Neil Degrasse Tyson. I didn't want to add too much because it is already incredible without any remixing done. I just wanted to see how this would sound, and it is pretty relaxing.

The Most Astounding Fact (Nichrome Power Remix) - Neil Degrasse Tyson

I'm so excited to offer you this  40 minute running meditation! Get ready to tap into your inner strength and show up like you never have before. I will guide you through breathing exercises, visualizations and mantras that inspire you and guide you on your run. High five + namaste!

Playlist for this meditation: https://open.spotify.com/user/1237201033/playlist/51scwn7rI4zm6r0bplbrIl?si=_24sTIYiS5KRIFyHGEhIvA

RunYoga: Running Meditation (for 40 min run)

These Dharma talks range in length from 40 to 60 minutes. They explore the depths of mindfulness, meditation, relationships and the significance of the spiritual in daily life. The teachings examine ethics and wisdom for application to personal, social and global issues.

Dharma Enquiry consists of a one to one dialogue on a variety of themes with a participant on a retreat. These dialogues last from 10 to 30 minutes.

A former Buddhist monk in Thailand and India, Christopher Titmuss is a senior Buddhist teacher in the West. Poet and social critic, he is the author of numerous books. He lives in Totnes, Devon, England.

Krishnamurti

Background: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/08/carl-sagan-message-to-mars/

Carl Sagan's message for Mars

HOW BEAUTY CAN HEAL US

'Pale Blue Dot' - Carl Sagan

I did this in one take, recording on Audacity. My intention was to just record it and play with it to see what I could change, I ended up just making a few mistakes and I didn't know what to do to fix them.

I should really go to a recording studio and hire people that know what they are doing.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Classical Guitar

Curious being searching for answers while lost in the universe.

Jason Silva - Who Are We?

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