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Composer , Wednesday, August 22nd 1928 – Wednesday, December 5th 2007 RIP

He said himself that his performances are public prayer “to bring celestial music to humans and human music to the celestial beings, so that Man may listen to GOD and GOD may hear His children.”

On December 31st 1997, Stockhausen designed his grave. The LIGHT Formula (the final super formula of WEDNESDAY transposed to the original pitches of the super formula) was to be shown on a circle with the last sung text in MICHAELION of WEDNESDAY from LIGHT.

WEDNESDAY from LIGHT closes with a sextet, which is sung surrounding the listeners and finally, resounding in all spaces: (Six vocalists stand surrounding the audience.)

Mankind, hear:
MICHAEL EVE are healing the World,

LUCIFER will be brought around through the music of LIGHT.
[: MI :]
(The vocalists rotate clockwise, holding the chord.)
Micha Luci Evaelferlu Micha
and all angels of Heaven praise GOD
with us, messengers from Michaelion!
Blessing brings praise.
Praise, gratitude for the miracles of the stars, planets.
All spirits turn in spirals towards the Light of the World,
eternally ascending to GOD, creating in the All.
Listen to the sound of the galaxies, magical music,
music of rotating tones, rushing noises, spectra.
[: CHA :]
(rotation)
Rejoice jubilate children,
rejoice, jubilate, rejoice jubilate,
for never has mankind known so much
about the heavenly bodies, starry firmament!
Be glad: WEDNESDAY from LIGHT in the Michaelion
engenders love hope courage
for Lucifer’s peace with GOD,
the creator of all universes, creatures.
[: EL :]
(rotation)
[: MICHAEL EVE LUCIFER :] (3x)
Music of the stars in the sky of the Almighty,
Dream of spheres in eternal galaxies,
Formulas of innumerable constellations,
Formulas for tones noises of LIGHT.
[: EVE forgive LUCIFER :]
LUCIFER, turn your spirit towards MICHAEL,
serve GOD’S law,
the fundamental of the All.
MI-HI-CHA-EL, GOD’S Son, Cosmo-Creator, Cosmic Prince:
lead us to GOD’S everlasting light.
WEDNESDAY from LIGHT is the day of consensus:
synchronous
cosmo-synchronous.
Hear, mankind: in our part
– voice of the Intuition –
it says to sing love forever
through solicitous formula music
in praise of GOD:
HU!

Licht (Light), subtitled “The Seven Days of the Week,” is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen which, in total, lasts over 29 hours.

The Licht opera project, originally titled Hikari (光 , Japanese for “light”), originated with a piece for dancers and Gagaku orchestra commissioned by the National Theater in Tokyo. Titled Jahreslauf (Course of the Years), this piece became the first act of Dienstag. Another important Japanese influence is from Noh theater, which the composer cites in connection with his conception of stage action (Stockhausen, Conen, and Hennlich 1989, 282). Though it has often been said Licht was inspired by The Urantia Book, only Donnerstag makes direct reference to it, in acts 1 and 3. The emblems of Michael and Lucifer in Licht are also derived from this book (Bandur 2004).

There are seven operas, each named for a day of the week, whose subject matter reflects attributes associated in traditional mythologies with each day. These attributes in turn rest on the seven planets of Antiquity (and their associated deities) from which the day-names are derived:
Monday = The Moon
Tuesday = Mars
Wednesday = Mercury
Thursday = Jupiter
Friday = Venus
Saturday = Saturn
Sunday = The Sun

another project that stoked me was the spherical concert hall

«Spherical Concert Hall» Osaka Spherical Concert Hall 1970
For the 1970 World Expo in Osaka in 1970, Germany built the world’s first, and so far only, spherical concert hall. It was based on artistic concepts by Karlheinz Stockhausen and an audio-technical concept from the Electronic Studio at the Technical University in Berlin. The audience sat on a sound-permeable grid just below the centre of the sphere, 50 groups of loudspeakers arranged all around reproduced, fully in three dimensions, electro-acoustic sound compositions that had been specially commissioned or adapted for this unique space. Works by composers including Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Boris Blacher were played from the multi-track tape, along with Bach and Beethoven. In the course of the 180-day exhibition, Stockhausen and a high-calibre, 19-strong ensemble gave live concerts for over a million visitors; «Spiral,» for a soloist and short-wave receiver was played over 1300 times, for example. It was possible to achieve the three-dimensional sound distribution live, using a spherical sensor built in Berlin to feed the 50 sound sources, but a ten-channel rotary mill constructed to Stockhausen’s design was deployed more frequently.
for bio and stockhausen info

Logic studio 8Ive been using the new Logic Pro 8 and it is amazing, after using logic audio for so many years they have come to an amazing version.User friendly is the goal of apple’s new Logic 8 version , nice re design with amazing sound quality.it haves new instruments too and the good loop browser from ver 7 that reads rex files and midi files .Logic 8 comes with a new program main stage to create live instrument environments its amazing too.for more info go to apple site and browse the logic 8 powerful new tools.

Jan 29 2008: Albert Hofmann passed away at his home at 9am on Tuesday
Apr 29, 2008 of a heart attack at the age of 102. He will be missed.

Summary
Albert Hofmann was born in Baden, Switzerland in 1906. He graduated
from the University of Zürich with a degree in chemistry in 1929 and
went to work for Sandoz Pharmaceutical in Basel, Switzerland. With the
laboratory goal of working towards isolation of the active principles
of known medicinal plants, Hofmann worked with Mediterranean squill
(Scilla maritima) for several years, before moving on to the study of
Claviceps purpurea (ergot) and ergot alkaloids.

Over the next few years, he worked his way through the lysergic acid
derivatives, eventually synthesizing LSD-25 for the first time in
1938. After minimal testing, LSD-25 was set aside as he continued with
other derivatives. Four years later, on April 16, 1943, he
re-synthesized LSD-25 because he felt he might have missed something
the first time around. That day, he became the first human to
experience the effects of LSD after accidentally ingesting a minute
amount. Three days later, on April 19, 1943, he decided to verify his
results by intentionally ingesting 250 ug of LSD. This day has become
known as “Bicycle Day” as Hofmann experienced an incredible bicycle
ride on his way home from the lab.

In addition to his discovery of LSD, he was also the first to
synthesize psilocybin (the active constituent of ‘magic mushrooms’) in
1958. Albert Hofmann, known as the ‘father of LSD’, continued to work
at Sandoz until 1971 when he retired as Director of Research for the
Department of Natural Products. He continued to write, lecture, and
play a leading role as an elder in the psychedelic community until his
death at the age of 102.

Maria Sabina, Mazatec healer, curandera, and Shaman. A native of Huautla de Jimenez, in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, passed away in 1985 at the age of 91. She is famous for the role she played introducing the sacred mushroom ceremony velada to the world.Sabina was the first contemporary Mexican curandera, defined in New Age parlance as a native shaman, to allow Westerners to participate in the healing vigil known as the velada, where all participants partake of the psilocybe mushroom as a sacrament to open the gates of the mind. The velada is seen as a purification and as a communion with the sacred.In the 1955, the American banker and ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson visited her hometown of Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, and experienced a velada with her. He also brought spores of the fungus, which he identified as Psilocybe mexicana, to Paris. The fungus was cultivated in Europe and its active ingredient was duplicated as the chemical psilocybin in the laboratory by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1958.On June 29, 1955, R. Gordon Wasson, then a vice president of the prestigious banking firm J.P. Morgan, together with his friend, New York fashion photographer Allan Richardson, made history by becoming the first whites to participate in a velada. The nocturnal mushroom ceremony took place in the remote village of Huautla de Jimenez, in the northeast region of Oaxaca, Mexico. Under the guidance of the now famous Mazatec curandera Maria Sabina, Wasson and Richardson each consumed six pairs of the mushroom Psilocybe caerulescens var. mazatecorum. After an hour the two men began to feel the effects, which were manifest by visions of colorful geometric patterns, palaces, and architectural vistas.

Above: Life, May 13 1957.Courtesy The Stain Blue Museum Collection.Life magazine, as part of its “Great Adventures Series,” published in its May 13th 1957 issue (the one with actor Bert Lahr on the cover) an account of this event titled, “Seeking the Magic Mushroom.” This article, which inspired Dr. Timothy Leary and countless others to try the mushrooms, is considered by many to be the instrument that ushered in the “Psychedelic Revolution” of the 1960s.

Huautla de Jimenez, This remote village is nestled in the Sierra Madre Oriental

Huautla de Jimenez would later become inundated with hippies hoping to “trip” with Maria Sabina. John Lennon, Peter Townshend, Mick Jagger, and Bob Dylan are some of the celebrities who traveled to Huautla, seeking the spiritual guidance of Maria Sabina. Although the Life article made Maria famous, it also brought her great suffering. Sadly, her home would later be burned and she was banished to the outskirts of town as punishment for divulging the Indians’ age-old secret about their use of teonanacatl, or “God’s Flesh.” She never regretted having met Wasson, however, and felt that it was destiny.She passed away on November 22nd 1985, and is now a legend in Mexico.

Below: Mazatec dolls acquired in Huautla de Jimenez.The Mazatecs are world renowned for their brightly colored, hand-woven fabrics.Courtesy The Stain Blue Museum Collection.

Required Reading

Wasson, R.G. “Seeking the magic mushroom.” Life 42(19): 100 (1957).Wasson, R.G. “The hallucinogenic fungi of Mexico: An inquiry into the origins of the religious idea among primitive peoples.” Botanical Museum Leaflets Harvard University 19(7): 137-162 (1961).Wasson, R.G. “The hallucinogenic mushrooms of Mexico and psilocybin: A bibliography.” Botanical Museum Leaflets Harvard University 20(2): 25-73 (1962).Wasson, R.G. et al. Maria Sabina and Her Mazatec Mushroom Velada. Ethnomycological Studies No. 3. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York (1974).

The SoundBite micro is like magick it runs “Red Sounds” inside an audio/MIDI synchronization system, it links via midi clock as audio>master >MIDI slave. I hook it up to Logic and Live and get the signal from a drummer our a dj as audio input on the soundBitegiving me a tight sync .
Using the audio loop mode Features four separate loop grids (assignable to ¼, ½, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 & 32 beat loops.

I just got Operator Ableton Live software synthesizer for my birthday and since Live 4i have been checking it out and finally i have it and i am using it with live 6 . There are two macro controls called “Time” and “Tone” that can be used to modify the characteristics of the sound, they do complex operations through a single action. The most essential parameters of Operator’s synthesis engine are individually represented on the front panel there are not 7 layers of screens our tabs its all right there ready to be controlled. Operator’s voice architecture consists of four oscillators and a resonant multi mode filter each of Operator’s oscillators can also generate “virtual analog” synthesis waveforms such as saw, square, triangle and noise, Each oscillator can either deliver audio signals to the output or modulate other oscillators.

This auto biography book from movie Director and jack of tracendental artistic trades Alejandro Jodorowsky master of puppets, theatrical mime , wizard ,dream traveler tarot and creator of psicomagia therapeutic art, poetry, magic, wisdom, shamanism and psychology; the merge of all together .A journey from his childhood to present times .. I imagine him telling me his complete story of his life with the same paste and narration from the holly mountain its been a crazy life the one that hodorowsky have hadthanks for the inspiration.his other books are amazing too with his illustrations and all.

I just recently got the Duende from SSL (solid state Logic ) from oxford UK.
Its a DSP Box Based on SSL’s C-Series consoles, complete channel and dynamics processing with the legendary extra mega super tight Stereo Bus Compressor and DrumStrip for drums attack release aural enhancer.
I had to get an extra firewire 800 card since the front and back firewire ports are shared by the same buss and i already have my audio card on that buss on the G5 ,now from that new firewire out i have hooked EL DUENDE.
with 32 channels to insert from the magic box logic, live, PT, Cubase, AU, VST whareva yooo!! , its the coolest thing to mix with i have to thank SSL team for this amazing peace of gear and the way it sounds.

I worked recently with the new MIDAS XL8 in mexico OMG the sound quality on this console is really insane.
i worked with los amigos invisibles at the vive latino festival in DF mexico HUGE event thousands of people mabe 60 k.
The company OSESA (like the clear channel/One nation but from mexico) got 2 of them one near the other , the first one does the main FOH and another one right near does the next bands set up , gets saved on the usb key and then gets loaded in to the main console at bands change over .
The faders and Knobs are so smooth and real knob feeling non of that sticky shit like playing with little cars pushing the faders around with 2 fingers …
the screens are perfect 5 of them so smooth and with a linux system that reboots in 8 seconds plus 2 people could work on it if they will like too nice 3 areas for working FX EQS and Dynamics very cool and funky colors over all the buttons faders and groups its like Japanese funky style 3 types of compression and gates .