Ambient Vibrations

Existing study results/feedback

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*** ...vocals are great: first I felt like I was on the top of a mountain inside a small church, a dark church. It was raining outside, and it feels like the singing is coming out of the altar and is bringing positive energy. But then it becomes darker and darker and it feels like it is a prophecy of some grief or a tragedy. At the end you realise that it is grief, indeed, which is a constant companion of humanity.

H.K. (lawyer)

 

 

*** I was in a huge cave carved into a rock overlooking a vast plain, there were dozens, maybe hundreds of people there. We were waiting for something, I am not sure what. Maybe for the weather to change. Maybe for an invading army. It was awful quiet. All the animals had stopped singing. It was like ten thousand years ago.

M. S. (journalist)

 

*** ...mountains in Galizien, hilly landscape, which are amplified by the echo. At sea, a sailor’s song came to my mind and I thought I heard the wind. Inhaling and exhaling with the waves I could taste the salinity of the air...

I was bedded in ochre light and the thoughts were to break out of the cycle of making money or

trading. Fo me, the thunderstorm had something like this constant rumbling of the world around me.

The thunderstorm gave me among other things the association of ‘money makes the world go round’ and how I am trapped in this hustle and bustle...the soothing rain and the singing reminiscent of flute tones, cello, with short excursion into the opera aria. Please excuse me for writing so much now, but I am deeply aware of my being a trader and I wonder about the interrelation of conscious and unconscious.

W.P. (bookstore owner)

 

*** The power of God: hope and despair, giving and taking, all is temporary and ever changing. The feeling of "I am saved, but I have to continue fighting to keep surviving. It was like I am listening to a siren singing". There was so much more than a thunderstorm and vocals, it felt full of energy and life.

Y.N. (student of Philosophy)

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*** It is an exquisite and disturbing piece of work.

It felt close to a religious experience.

Just as being close to the power of nature is.

And as with a thunderstorm, it was a relief to sense it’s passing.

H. A-W. (actress)​

 

*** “An Experiment”

He turned up the fire and started to make tea. There is a special guest coming today. He brought out the biscuit, lay the table and the tea sets. It was pouring outside and he was waiting. Then boy entered the house, his collar was damp, but rest of his clothes were well protected from the rain. He carefully pulled out something underneath his jacket. “Did you have it?” The man asked.

“Yes, I re-analyzed the data”.

“I did spectrum analysis and nothing special in the Fourier space. Except, at one point, if you do a Laplacian transform, there is a small peak you can funnel out”.

“That’s it?” The man asked.

“Yes, it was quite randomly distributed, no solution to the enchantment.”

“Have a cup of tea then.”

The boy took a sip and took a bite of the biscuit. The sharp taste of the ginger made him frown, while the man was carefully examining the data.

“Also I talked to her”.

“You did what?”

“It’s more of a singing rather than a talk. As you said, always use original and creative approach to science.”

The men shivered a bit but made no comments.

“What did you learn?”

“She told me she was sitting near the shore, singing to the sailors about the Ancient Greece. The vicissitude of Athens and the prophecy of the gold Apple. The heartbroken arrows of Artemis.” “Basically the Odyssey”

“Nothing else?”

“And one thing, don’t fall for the enchanted voice, it is what’s underneath matters.”

 

“You shouldn’t have done that. That was a huge mistake”.

“The heart wants what a heart wants”.

 

The man turned around, put the data analysis with on top of a file with a Red stamp on it “Rejected Thesis”. Titled “The genuine approach to a siren’s singing: the non-existence of enchantment”. 1952.

“Rejection reason: The student should focus fully on the scientific merit rather than non-supportive personal bias and by listening to her is a clear sign of enchantment, which makes any of the following statements invalid and unreliable”. XXX University. 

​Y. G. (scientist)

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*** 'The opening projected me to my childhood at school in Ely, and into the cathedrale. The echo of the voice and its passage through and down that huge stone building is haunting. The feeling is euphoric and spells safeness, safeness from the outside where the rain is pouring and dripping. The thunder was always frightening in those days, it was associated with God in a bizarre and contradictory way. The wrath of God. Strange that his wrath was outside and the comfort and calmness inside, yet they told us that this was the house of God.

 

As the voice and the thunderstorm continue and progress, one feels a certain agitation and warning coming from the voice, alarmed as the thunder becomes louder in its bursts.

Then it ends and one feels released. "Oh good, the storm is over and the rain has stopped. We can go outside now where everything will sparkle and smell so fresh again. The sun might burst through the clouds and we can wake up from that dream.'

S. V. (artist)

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*** I felt it was music that reached into one's very soul. Very powerful and evocative. Music that spans time and in itself is timeless. Strips away all pretensions and reaches into the core of life and living.
Many, many flashbacks - the rain taking me to windswept moors in Derbyshire, mountain tops in Galicia, pilgrims in long dark waterproof capes with flashlights on their heads, wandering around in the dark of  the early morning, whilst trying to navigate through a herd of cows on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela! 
The music then taking me to deeper spiritual places where I had felt the presence of a mystical being. Centuries old , tiny churches in Spain with an agelessness about them and a mysterious, magical presence enhanced by the atmosphere, the sense of age and agelessness. 

S. T. (fundraising specialist)