Sacred Sonics' geometric tuning systems tap into the natural geometries of nature, chemistry, acoustics, and energy. To create healing tones and music that are most compatible with the manifestation of healing and wellness. Each playable on standard equipment.
Experimenting with any of our tuning systems is as easy as loading a MTS file into your compatible keyboard or VST. Each tuning standard is designed to a twelve-tone octave and provide a wide assortment of harmonicly colorful tone palettes for composition of healing music.
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Putting History and Research to Work... In Theory
First, a word to the reader; If anyone has made it so far as to have interest in the contents of this page, the writer respectfully suggests that they first take note of the wording “Supporting Concepts” in the title above. Ultimately, when working on the fringes of knowledge and reason, there can be no such thing as ‘validation’ on a collective scale. Oftentimes, the best we can hope for are points of supporting facts and patterns of history. Currently, our world seems overly blessed with so many professional cynics and skeptics that it is sometimes necessary to point out the difference between theory and fact. We live in such contentious times, that one group’s evidence is merely fodder for another’s arrogant derision.
Thus, we merely point out those histories, concepts, and scant research, contained in the pages of this site, and the book ‘Sacred Sonics’. These are the historical points that have led to the theoretical development of Geometric Tonality and the overall concept of Sacred Sonics. The purpose of which is to be included in general composition as well as healing and wellness applications.
If the reader is not open to or accepting of the evidence presented here; first of all, we recognize your individual path and choice in the matter. And secondly, please note that the information here is not presented as complete, nor is it intended to serve as some kind of ultimate ‘proof’ of the concepts discussed on this site and in the book ‘Sacred Sonics’. However, we do assert that a pattern of evidence has been established by history that we will continue to follow to a logical conclusion. At least until some some deep-pocket benefactor comes along to fund actual research, we are merely talking about a somewhat cohesive theory. And, while it cannot be ‘proven’ beyond a doubt, well... that’s actually why we call it a ‘theory’.
To start us on our journey, our short walk through history will make a brief-but-essential stop to allow us to consider some ideas from the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Now, let us consider the civilizations of the Mesopotamian region. This region is widely considered to be the ‘cradle’ of human civilization as it displays the first known examples of civilized organization, cooperation, advanced technologies, and of course – war, thus far found. This statement must be tempered by the fact that this is the position of the mainstream of archeology and, does not yet take into account more recent findings, such as Gobekli Tepe, that provide evidence of advanced civilization stretching back far before the accepted datings of Mesopotamian culture's emergence, currently stated to be approximately 4000-5000BCE.
Mainstream narratives tell us that the magnificent city complexes in locations with names such as Uruk, Eridu, Ninevah, Ashur, Ur, and several others, sprang into existence with no evidence of the usual step-by-step developmental milestones that one would expect to be present in surrounding areas. None of the usual evidence of societal development? Just magnificently planned and constructed cities plopped down at the very beginning of our historical timeline? Yeah. Something just doesn't seem right about that idea.
To illustrate the conundrum and the anthropological assumptions of cultural development, one only needs to consider the modern gameplay of popular simulation games such as ‘Civilization’, ‘Sim Earth’, ‘Sim City’ or even ‘Minecraft’. These games, while being quite fanciful in many ways, are based upon archeological and anthropological concepts, incorporate everything we know about how human civilization develops from humble beginnings, in a step-by-step manner. Certain skills must necessarily be mastered before moving on to more complex tasks.
Are we somehow mistaken about how all this should work? This writer doesn't believe so. Most of our modern civilizations trace their step-by-step development and expansions in fairly similar ways – the evidence of which remains extant and subject to archeological reclamation even today. So, we have a fairly good idea as to how the development of a society is supposed to work. And, it's not as if we are claiming that the archeologist and antropologists have gotten everything wrong.
Yet, Mesopotamian cities do NOT seem to have gone through this process. Therefore, either we are greatly under-estimating our ancestors, or another theory is needed to account for the inexplicably-sudden appearance of full-fledged civilization – out of nowhere. Everyone KNOWS the spear came before the need for shields or armor. And, the tribal chief was top-dog before we created royalty or representative government.
But, Uruk, Ur, and Eridu, probably the first of the Mesopotamian metropolises to be constructed, display no archeological or anthropological evidence whatsoever of any of the expected incremental development of architectural techniques or cultural development stages (such as villages, small-scale agricultural developments) Just… nothing! Yet, large cities with massive step-pyramids, temples, libraries, and infrastructure that have no precedent, dot the map of the entire region. Yet, considering that the cities of Uruk or Eridu seem to defy this logic in every meaningful way, it seems to give every indication that human society learned how to engineer everything from the cart wheel up to massive pyramid temples and indoor plumbing… spontaneously.
High engineering, organized agriculture, animal husbandry, legal systems, systems of time, and advanced mathematical concepts do not simply emerge without significant precedent, a LOT of effort, and leaving behind some kind of evidence. One would think that; At least a reasonable amount of trial and error would be required before huge, well-planned cities with amenities, once thought to be present only in modern infrastructure, just pop up at the presumptive ‘Year One’ of human history. It’s not reasonable given what we know and experience, as members, of the human species.
How does anyone propose THAT is possible?
The short answer to this burning question is, of course that; It’s just not possible at all. Everyone knows that humans must learn to crawl before they walk, and must master walking before learning to run or climb. Yet, these civilizations are the metaphorical equivalent of a toddler winning a marathon or climbing the Matterhorn. The necessary developmental stages and the expected remnants of trial-and-error are just not in evidence anywhere in the Mesopotamian valley civilizations. They simply sprang up, fully-developed out of the ground of the ‘fertile crescent’ like spring wheat. (Oh yeah! They actually invented wheat while they were busy doing all this other stuff.)
The more reasonable explanation for all of this is that these civilizations were most certainly NOT the beginnings of human society. But, were instead the restart of human civilization after some great calamity befell a much more advanced pre-existing culture. A society whose revenant quite logically, retained some of their advanced knowledge through the calamitous times and, who used that hard-won experience to re-build society with the skills, materials, and people they had at the time.
They already understood the basics of city-building and cooperative community planning because, they had already done the work in building and maintaining civilization. Therefore, there was no need for them to go through the beginning stages of trial and error all over again. They had preserved significant knowledge from the previous iteration of civilization. So, they knew how to do it right from the beginning.
The best evidence for all this, in the writer’s opinion, is the very stark and somewhat surprising existence of VERY advanced mathematics and a rich, fully developed cosmology in Mesopotamian civilizations. Their cosmological knowledge extended to celestial and solar bodies that ‘modern’ humans didn’t even know about until the 18th and 19th centuries. They even knew about Pluto, which wasn't (discovered until the 20th century) And, thus we bind their story to our modern re-discoveries.
Even if one were to believe that a huge, fully-equipped city could be built by primitive peoples with only stone tools, it beggars belief to think that it could be done without some pretty advanced mathematical knowledge and organizational skills.
So, are we to now believe that hunter-gatherer species suddenly and spontaneously developed an understanding of the deeper mysteries of geometry, engineering, architecture, cosmology, and large-scale contracting as they were simultaneously struggling to exist in caves and mud-huts and avoiding the apex predators of the time?
Preposterous!
But what we take away from this somewhat compelling controversy is this: The inventions of Mesopotamian culture form the basis of ALL modern civilization… even now! Just for a bit of final perspective, here is a short, incomplete list of the innovations first observed in early Mesopotamian culture that have been continuously used and developed through the Akkadian period and second Babylonian era... up to the present time:
And, our personal favorites...
All things considered, this is a fairly impressive resume' for a toddler. Don’t you think?
Among the multitude of useful innovations that Mesopotamian civilization left to us, it is the mathematical disciplines that have, arguably yielded the most long lived benefits. After all, our current mathematical systems are built entirely upon the legacy of the mathematical and geometric systems first observed in that fertile crescent region.
Their higher math always utilized a base12 foundation. And, whether or not you realize it, your entire life is full of the relics of the Mesopotamian’s base12 fixation.
A few quick examples will illustrate this point quite clearly.
First, look at a clock’s face. We number our days based upon twelve hours of day and twelve hours of night. The sum of the hours in that day are twenty-four, obviously equal to 2 x 12.
“But, wait!”, you might say. “There are sixty minutes in an hour… and sixty seconds in each minute. What do you have to say about that?”
As always, the answer is in the math. The sixty minutes in an hour, are simply five cycles of twelve minutes each. Likewise, each day contains 1,440 minutes - 720 minutes before noon and 720 minutes between noon and midnight. Each of these numbers preserves the base12 foundation of time.
We are taught to think in terms of fifteen-minute divisions (quarters) of the hour. However, the Mesopotamian standard divided the hour into slightly smaller segments of twelve minutes each.
To drive the point home, the 1,440 hours in a day is equal to 86,400 seconds. 43,200 seconds before noon and 43,200 seconds between noon and midnight.
This value of 43,200 is very important as it is the heartbeat of each and every day. Our collective concept of time quite literally, resonates at a frequency of 1.0Hz. This frequency is considered by many esotericists as being the carrier frequency of the universe - upon which all other resonances are built. Additionally, we consider it no coincidence that a healthy, human heart-rate is considered to be sixty beats per minute.
Our daytime hours as well as our nighttime hours, resonate with a frequency of 432Hz as reflected in this 43,200 value, which represents an inaudible, ‘cosmic’ harmonic tone about ten octaves above 432Hz. In Sacred Sonics, we present a case for using 432Hz (instead of the modern standard of 440Hz) as the foundational frequency used in calculating each of our custom tuning systems. To learn more about the multitude of reasons why 432Hz is a far better match for tonal systems, please consider grabbing a copy of ‘Sacred Sonics’ at many convenient, online booksellers. In it, there is an entire chapter dedicated to the objective, mathematical rationale for utilizing a 432Hz foundation in music tuning systems.
And, it all goes back to the beginnings of our current iteration of human civilization - born on the banks of the Tygris and Euphrates rivers.
Next on our Mesopotamian short list, is every third-grader’s nightmare; geometry. Yes, my friend; ADVANCED Geometry was around LONG before Euclid, Pythagorus. and Plato. This is not to deny that these great minds from history deserve our undying gratitude for recovering this information from the rubbish heap of history and eternal warfare, which seems to set humankind further back with each monotonous iteration.
Yes, it seems the Mesopotamians actually invented and perfected geometry several thousand years before young Plato soiled his first diaper (or whatever they called them back then). How would we think that massive structures, many of which still stand today, could possibly be constructed without a deep understanding of geometry as well as the applicable physics involved? Do we somehow believe that they just ‘eyeballed’ the measurements?
As any geometry student can tell you, everything starts with the circle, especially it’s divisions that we call ‘degrees’. In the only universal radian system that humankind has ever used, there are exactly 360 major divisions of the circle, giving us 360º or a full-round to play with when designing any construct we can dream of.
This number 360, takes us right back to the base12 mathematical system upon which the ancients based literally everything they did. 360º in a circle gives us thirty divisions of twelve degrees. While very interesting, this is correlative information only. The writer is not interested in reproducing Euclid’s ‘The Elements’. However, it is important to note that, in Mesopotamia, anything that was important, relevant, or a positive element of society, was always based upon cycles of twelve.
This foundation in base12, is the main rationale why ‘Sacred Sonics’ has preserved the twelve-tone octave in all of our tonal systems. And, we are very fortunate that the powers-that-be did not change this one thing, when they altered so many other aspects of our modern musical systems. Because we can still use many existing instrument layouts in ‘Sacred Sonics’, rather than having to reinvent the whole world of music.
There is scant evidence, either confirmatory or to the contrary. But, it is believed by many that the music of the period was based upon a twelve-tone octave – however, using very different divisions of the octave than are commonly used today. Strangely, the recovered texts relating to music and musical notation do not appear to have lucid translations available. Nor do the cuneiform tablets generally appear on public display. (Except the cuneiform tablets containing something called the ‘Hurrian collection’, which appears to be public in the form of photographs only.)
However, what we do have clearly indicates that music was just as big a part of their culture as it is to any other. They had instruments in every category seen in modern music. And, they had an elaborate system of musical notation that, unfortunately remains a mystery. Many scholars theorize that although an octave was based upon twelve tones, most music utilized a pentatonic scale of some variety. This is fine as far as theories go. But, the writer sees that as worthless information, as modern music also utilizes primarily pentatonic scales… of which there are over thirty varieties.
Because of the repeated bastardization of music and the foundational standards over the millennia, there is no agreement on what the actual tones within Mesopotamian music might have sounded like. Our suggestion is to look deeply at the foundational system for every other system in their civilization, which ALWAYS used the same basis… That basis is the number twelve and the geometry that was entwined within every other relevant aspect of their society.
Thus, we arrive at the rationale for the second, third, and fourth major contributions of ancient history to our Sacred Sonics systems. First, the 360º geometric foundation. Second, the 432Hz foundational tone. And third, the twelve-tone octave. All interpolated from the ancient Mesopotamian cultures.
In ‘Sacred Sonics’, we painstakingly detail how these, and other ancient traditions have integrated into our library of alternative tonal systems.
There is SO much more to see and discuss. Pick up your copy of ‘Sacred Sonics’ today, at popular Paperback and eBook sellers to learn the rest of the story.
Honoring Nature and History To Affect Healing and Wellness
Geometric sound is not a unique concept within the musical realm. From the very beginning, great minds such as Pythagorus, Philalaos and many others have advocated for sounds that complement nature and the human-compatible frequencies
The nature of each tone in our geometric tonal systems can be reverse engineered using simple mathematics and geometry that have existed from time immemorial. One can trace the tone back to its roots in Pythagorean, Platonic, and Euclidean disciplines.
Depending on your choice of tuning system, the practitioner will immediately notice differing but naturally harmonic tonal balance allowing for an extremely wide range of tonal palettes and emotional colors to work from.
Technology is a musician's friend - to a certain limit. The wide range of tools available in the modern market are still capable of working outside the confines of standardized tuning. Geometric tuning systems are designed for this world.
The world of Sacred Sonics is for everyone. The systems are flexible enough to allow modification into non-geometric and microtonal tuning systems. It's all about nature and choice. Now, we can actually have BOTH.
The long story of Sacred sonics, geometric tuning, as well as the full library of tuning tables are fully documented in the book, 'Sacred Sonics' - available in paperback or ebook formats at the more popular book outlets.
