UNIVERSE OF SOUND

A NOTE FROM MICKEY HART ON THE UNIVERSE OF SOUND

We know parts of our body are vibrating pulsing, drumming a million billion strokes a second. We know we are living on a modest planet that is belting along Time's Highway at nine hundred miles a minute, which might seem like a pretty good clip except we are caught in the slipstream of a Sun that's cruising at nine thousand miles a minute, and are citizens of a galaxy going even faster than that. Yet it feels like we're standing still, doesn't it?

Rhythm is the deep waters we swim in, mostly unaware.

One of the forgotten geniuses of Western science was a Dutch mathematican named Christian Huygens, who approximately 350 years ago discovered one of the fundamental laws of this universe. Huygens noticed that when he moved two clocks close to one another, their pendulums always synchronized and moved as one. Huygens called this phenomena entrainment. The urge of anything rhythmic (and everything is) to move together, to find a harmonious relationship, to share energy, is one of the glues (maybe the glue) that holds Everything together.

Part of the great power of rhythmic entrainment is that one is typically unconscious of the rhythms one most deeply entrains to, and unaware of all those that operate beyond the limited ability of our senses voraciously scanning the rhythmscape with a variety of media to detect. But these rhythms are with us all the time in here and out there.

Modern technology allows us to capture or imagine them electric, atomic, magnetic, galactic and gives us a way to translate these vibrations into sounds which we can hear. Our radio telescopes have recorded the song of the pulsar, our mathematicians have modeled the domain of the Big Bang. The Black Hole in the center of the galaxy Perseus is singing a steady note -57 octaves below middle C. I have gathered together an unruly sonic zoo of 23 of these magnificent, even dangerous space creatures, and I will be introducing them to you, one a night, as we tour the Universe of Sound, the universe will start to sing.

-Mickey Hart

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The Realm of Uncertainty

When electromagnetic waves were first discovered, Lakhovsky was one of the first to test in which way they could also be used to treat disease. He built a very primitive emitter of electromagnetic waves, which simply generated a mixture of wavelengths, that he called a multiwave oscillator. Some of the people he placed in front of his antenna got good results from this exposure and thus there are still people building and using his original designs.

Treatment with electromagnetic waves did not however start with Lakhovsky but is as old as the sun, because the sun has been treating the planet Earth since its beginning with a multiwave mixture of electromagnetic waves that we call white light. This light serves as both food and healing agent to plants and all living creatures. In fact there are many more forms of electromagnetic radiation that are apparently essential to our good health, so-called Schumann frequencies and other frequencies that are created by electromagnetic waves being selectively reflected by the different layers of the Earth’s ionosphere.

Interestingly, the sun has its highest emission in the green range and therefore if plants would have been optimized only for what is best for them, their chlorophyll would have been designed to absorb this range more than other ranges. However, quite to the contrary, most plants refuse to take frequencies in the green range, which is why plants are green. This means that the amount of electromagnetic radiation within a given range that is good for an individual is a very individualized property and is dependent on many complex parameters, even including the environment.

What promoters of multiwave equipment often do rot realize is that today, in contrast to during the time of Lakhovsky, there is an overabundance of multiwaves in our environment, which we call electro-smog.Whichever electromagnetic frequencies our bodies really need, they have plenty to choose from. We are basically immersed in a multitude of wavelengths. There are not only the mega- and giga-hertz frequencies of mobile telephones and computers, but also the lower frequencies of long wave radio and the even longer wavelength of our AC currents, all of which have plenty of harmonic components towards the longer as well as the shorter wavelengths. We can even guess that electro-smog may also unknowingly be curative for some people, as everything that can make one ill also has the power to heal.

What we need today are not more multi-wave emitters but intelligent equipment that can probe for resonant frequencies in the client and supply only the frequencies the body really asks for. In a completely healthy person, even that would not be necessary as the body provides its own immunity on the plane of electromagnetic frequencies just as well as it does on the plane of chemicals or microbial life forms. However, many people today have a damaged immunity towards electromagnetic radiation because of over-exposure and because our electromagnetic environment is changing too rapidly for evolutionary adaptation.

Binaural Tones

Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.

The brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately, one to each of a subject's ears, using stereo headphones. A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones mixed naturally, out of the brain. The frequency of the tones must be below about 1,000 to 1,500 hertz for the beating to be heard. The difference between the two frequencies must be small (below about 30 Hz) for the effect to occur; otherwise the two tones will be heard separately and no beat will be perceived.

Interest in binaural beats can be classified into two categories. Firstly, they are of interest to neurophysiologists investigating the sense of hearing. Secondly (and more controversially), binaural beats reportedly influence the brain in more subtle ways through the entrainment of brainwaves and can be used to produce relaxation and other health benefits such as pain relief.


Mid Beta, 20 Hz Sample Wave, Active, busy or anxious thinking and active concentration, arousal, cognition

Mid Alpha, 10 Hz the Berger's Sample Wave, Relaxation (while awake), pre-sleep and pre-wake drowsiness

Low Theta, 4 Hz Sample Wave, Dreams, deep meditation, REM sleep

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