A science of sacred sound

11/21/2015

What makes a sound sacred? We all know the power of sound & music - and how it plays such a massive effect and role on our emotions and everyday lives. But what is it exactly that makes sound or music feel or sound pure and sacred?
Since beginning my studies of yoga and eastern philosophy; combined with the practice and strict discipline of Indian classical music I began naturally to combine the training and focus of both practices into one...... This incidentally led me into what is known as NadaYoga. A combination of music and sacred mantras; but anyone can chant mantras or play music; so to create sacred music there must be something more to it!?
This year I asked my students China this question; while sharing for the past months my methods of NadaYoga. Most could not answer; and I did not feel fully satisfied with those who could answer.....
It is something of a philosophical question; but I believe there is a science behind the act, just as their are systematic and scientific tools and principles for meditation; or how spirituality is something quite different from religion. I have my own answers which I am happy to discuss; but I want to hear other opinions too.
So I am opening the channel to a wider community to hear the thoughts and sounds of those who also feel the intrigue and mystery behind the purity of sound.

8 Comments

Rose Rath

11/24/2015 12:57:38 pm

when you play pray music with your heart and not your ego a sacred sound viberation is formed.☆★☆★☆★→★→★☆★

DrLoopang Loïc

11/24/2015 12:58:58 pm

What makes a sound sacred,,, Hard to tell according to me, as the answer might be in the Music itself, in its practice/way to play AND the listening of it.

For a music to be sacred, there must be more to it,,
Or less,,?

Freqnomad

11/25/2015 05:24:17 am

What makes music sacred is the silence that separates vibration from stillness.

Shivv

11/24/2015 01:04:16 pm

playful and prayful?

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11/25/2015 01:45:37 pm

Great - my first form of blogs ! Thanks for taking the time to share ~
A great book by an incredible musician I highly recommend for both spiritual and music seekers is called the music lesson by Victor Wooten; http://themusiclesson.com
and he goes very deeply into some beautifully articulated ideas and spiritual notions of music being like a living entity itself - and we 'the musicians' are simply the vessels (this is also a strong theme and belief in Hindu classical and Indian devotional music - in which they use music as more of an offering - & not to just to the audience but to their beliefs of divinity).
Silence and the emptiness between sound - or the space is also a great intrinsic part of all sound and could even be attributed to the root sound of sound itself. For without the silence and space to separate sound - and allow the notes of a melody or tone to feel, shape and breathe ~ music cannot exist as anything but incessant noise!

Hamish Doncaster

12/5/2015 05:59:42 pm

When a seamless vibrational transfer of sound occurs from an instrument to the air, through the physical cells and into the soul

Samadhi

7/27/2016 07:34:15 pm

Sacred music is one that speaks truth. Whatever the truth, it is a music filled with compassion, it is a free-flowing expression of our existential reality. It is a prayer and an acknowledgement of what is here, now.

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12/22/2022 04:30:52 pm

Great blog you have hhere

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