Wide-ranging talks on all things relating to spirituality, meditation, yoga, current affairs and philosophy - all with a practical aim of encouraging and helping those engaged in self-exploration and creative living.
In this podcast I elucidate devotional music which a great sufi called "Nothing other than the portrait of our beloved". It covers modal music and raga, the role of culture in our experience of music, and improvisation as an expression and communication of immediate emotions, particularly of love. [Free. 29 minutes.]
This piece of music was put together by digitally transforming an extract from the live dance music played by the Beard Brothers Dance Band at the IYN Festival in June this year. The result was then used as an accompaniment to a guitar improvisation. [Patons only. 7 mintes 34 seconds.]
Myxolydian yet again but with an occasional flattened third. [Patrons only. 7 minutes.]
Some more music for Patrons. This has something to do with birdsong. [Patrons only. 5 minutes.]
Another version of because - a dance study. [11 minutes.]
A fragment taken from a duet with me on guitar and David on mandolin which has been electronically reconstructed. [6 minutes.]
This is a study towards some dance music I am working up with my friend, David Morrin. [11 minutes.]
