David Hykes's inspiring presentation will include a concert of mystic Harmonic Chant with "sound mandala" video projections made by the human voice, followed by the sharingof the work and research of his Harmonic Presence Foundation over the last 30 years relating music, meditation, healing and well-being. Hykes will share key moments of his 35-year journey in wisdom traditions, from the Taos Pueblo to Tibetan Buddhism, in the music world from avant-garde New Yorkto sacred world music, his scientific journey from musical cosmology to the Mind and Life Institute (which brings together neuroscientists and contemplative practitioners), and his transforming encounters and collaborations with rare beings of this world, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, elders from the Taos Pueblo, the Gyuto Monks and nuns of Nagi Gompa in Nepal, and his teachers, Tibetan Buddhist masters Tsoknyi Rinpoché and Chokyi Nyima Rinpoché. The light of both science and the wisdom traditions shows how deeply contemplative awareness practice can help us transform the mind and cultivate the deepest harmonic qualities ofbeing-- joy, compassion, presence and openness.
PRESENTER: David Hykes
David Hykes, visiting from France to give concerts and teachings in New York, is a pioneering contempoary sacred music composer, singer, meditation teacher and visual artist. He leads contemplative music and meditation retreats around the world with the Harmonic Presence Foundation, exploring relationships between the mind, music, meditation and medicine. In 1975 he founded Harmonic Chant, an approach to "the music of the spheres" based on the harmonic series, found in all music and throughout the universe since the Big Bang (the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB), and the Harmonic Vision system for transforming music into visual mandalas. He was the first western musician to study and collaborate with musician-practitioners from Tibet, Tuva, and Mongolia, collaborating with the Dalai Lama, the Mind and Life Institute and the Gyuto Monks. He is a noted “sacred cinema” composer ("Travellers and Magicians”, "Baraka”, "Meetings with Remarkable Men"...) as well as for films like "Ghost," and "Dead Poets Society." Hykes’s work has been honored by UNESCO, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and NYSCA. His 12 albums include "Hearing Solar Winds," the best-selling "throat-singing" album of all time. Information: www.harmonicpresence.org.