In Sympathy : Music for CymaPhone
Wellbeing through Sound
‘In Sympathy’ explores the phenomenon of Sympathetic Resonance generated by playing
a saxophone into a grand piano tuned to śrutis and positioned on its side.
Sympathetic Resonance occurs when a note is played next to a passive string tuned to the same note.
Śrutis are microtones used in healing tones in Nāda Yoga and the rāgas in Indian Classical Music.
The investigation was carried out as a practice-based PhD, resulting in a portfolio of
compositions on researched mystical sound knowledge.
The process of the research led to the creation of a new electro acoustic instrument:
An augmented piano that I have called the CymaPhone.
The innovative results of the PhD bring wider benefits through live immersive presentations of the CymaPhone, and in the applied use of the compositions, to assist well-being.
Śruti, Sound Healing and Rāga
Śruti
The CymaPhone is tuned to a 22 note
octave based on the vedic 22 Śruti research from the Saṃgītaratnākara of Śārṅgadeva. I have devised a unique development of the 22 śrutis by calculating a solution that fits in 12 notes and 12 modes.
Śruti comes from the basis of OM and the vedic chanting from Samaveda, the sense of tuning came later on, most of the compositions from the Samaveda came from the heart.
Sound Healing
“As we learn more about our body-mind, healing compositions will be composed to strengthen our altered vibratory patterns and bring them back to balance”
Dr Louis Savary
“The stillness and peace are represented in the sounds that ring on for so long and their subtle resonances”
Frank Perry
Rāga
“Rāga means attaching the notes to the bhava of a rāga...
Total absorption into the rāga with a meditative attitude. Soaking yourself into the ocean of a rāga, you go deeper and get attached to it. Some play with the notes, which is not a rāga, other people play with the grammar and shruti of a rāga, which is the rāga,.”
Pandit K.Sridhar
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