David Hykes's inspiring "evening" of our states of mind will include a presentation of his "music of the spheres," Harmonic Chant, with live video mandala projections made by the voice. The main part of the evening will be actual practice of some of the different dimensions of theHarmonic Presence work of the past 40 years, including deep awareness work with the voice, sound, breath, listening, sensation and vibration, as a path to well-being and creative and spiritual inspiration. The work links music, healing sounds, and contemplative awareness practices.
Along the way David will share some key insights from his journey into wisdom traditions, music and science, evoking Taos Pueblo, Tibetan Buddhism, sacred world music, cosmology, and the Mind and Life Institute (which brings together neuroscientists and contemplative practitioners). There'll be some rare glimpses of transforming encounters with remarkable people like His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Native American elders, the Gyuto Monks and nuns of Nagi Gompa in Nepal, and his Tibetan Buddhist teachers, filmmaker Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. Science, spirituality and the arts all show how contemplative awareness practicehelptransform the mind and the cultivation of our the deepest harmonic qualities ofbeing-- joy, compassion, tolerance, presence and openness.
PRESENTER: David Hykes
David Hykes, visiting from France to give concerts and teachings at Brown University and in New York, is a pioneering sacred world music composer, singer, meditation teacher and visual artist. He leads contemplative music and meditation retreats around the world, 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.