![]() ![]() ![]() They have a collection of 20 marimbas and there’s a monastery marimba band… Part of the reason we wanted to go there is because they have a strong musical influence. Davis is training in somatic therapy.įrom their temporary home in Portland, the duo spoke to Tricycle about the creative process and Zen philosophy behind two of their tracks: “not one not two” and “silent illuminating.” This interview has been edited for length and clarity.ĭD: This one was created during the creative practice period of about two months at Great Vow Monastery. In addition to their creative work, Whiteley, who goes by S, is studying for a doctorate in musical composition from the University of California, San Diego. “Whatever the layperson might assume that electronic music grounded in Zen practices ought to sound like, this 28-minute album frequently upends expectations it is as playful as it is reverent, and the heady results push at the limits of what ‘meditative’ music can be,” wrote one reviewer. Soundness of Mind is blissfully free of such cliches. When you Google “Zen music,” you get a lot of waterfalls, wind chimes, and sleep-inducing synths. Their supply of cassette tapes has sold out and critics from discerning mainstream music sites have praised Liila’s larkish vibe. ![]() The album has been a surprise hit for the duo, who now live in Portland. For a name, they chose Liila, a Sanskrit word roughly translated as “creative play” that evokes the generative flow that arises when the ego subsides. (Whiteley describes his travels from Upaya to Green Gulch to Great Vow as a “beautiful kind of organic pilgrimage.”)ĭuring the creative practice periods at Great Vow, their improvisations blossomed into songs, eventually leading to Soundness of Mind, the duo’s first album. What arose initially were strange sounds, drones, and burbles that floated from the duo’s laptop and synth through Green Gulch gardens, above the valley farm, and out to the restless Pacific ocean.Īfter four months at Green Gulch, Davis and Whiteley moved to Great Vow Monastery, a Zen residential center in Clatskanie, Oregon known, among other things, for its kickass marimba band. It’s a sense of: What happens from this place of stillness and silence and spaciousness? What arises? Can we listen to it? And can we follow it?” “Part of the reason our collaboration is so successful is that we share a certain realm of consciousness, a certain way of being,” Davis said, “and that space is one we’ve both cultivated for a long time both within and outside of monastic communities and Zen centers. On the porch of the yurt, Davis and Whiteley bonded over shared interests in Zen, experimental music, the link between contemplative practices and creative states of consciousness, psychedelics, the Deep Listening philosophy of Pauline Oliveros, and outside-the-box compositions of John Cage. ![]() Whiteley, who is from New Jersey, took the bodhisattva precepts at Upaya Zen Center, where he lived in residence for eight months before moving to the Bay Area. Like Whiteley, Davis’ intellect was piqued by Buddhism in college, but her practice deepened later while studying Chan in Taiwan and during her yearlong residency at Green Gulch, which is owned by San Francisco Zen Center. Originally from Los Angeles, Danielle Davis had brought her Eurorack synth to Green Gulch, where she lived in a yurt with an itinerant roommate, leaving her plenty of space to conduct sound experiments. Soon enough, Whiteley found the person behind the Instagram image. “It seems like I’d find my kind of people there,” he said. The image was enough to draw S Whiteley, a 28-year-old composer and sound artist, from New Mexico to Marin County, in search of a mind similarly enraptured by Buddhism and electronic music. In the background lay the lush green fields of Green Gulch, the Bay Area farm and Zen practice center. В рамках программы выходят тематические выпуски: "Лучшие треки месяца", "Vocal Trance", "Deep Space Progressive", "Psytrance Special" и другие.The pilgrimage began with an Instagram post: A maroon zafu, vase of flowers and a neat tangle of brightly colored cords sprouting from a modular synthesizer. Aly & Fila x Chapter 47 x Richard Bedford - Edge of Tomorrow (Extended Mix)ġ1. Cold Blue - Find A Place (Extended Mix) Karney - Compromise (Original Mix)Ġ6. Giuseppe Ottaviani - Conscious Mind (Extended Mix)Ġ7. Richard Durand & Christina Novelli - Fall Through The Earth (Extended Mix)Ġ8. Sean Tyas & Cari - Moroz Anywhere (Extended Mix)ġ0. INVIRON - Jolly Roger (Alexander Komarov Extended Remix)Ġ3. Tycoos & Sandro Mireno with Natune - I Will Try (AV Extended Mix)Ġ4. Ben Gold - I'm In A State Of Trance (Extended 2023 Edit)Ġ5. Bryan Kearney vs. Cosmic Gate & Gid Sedgwick - Emotions of Colour (Extended Mix)Ġ2. ![]()
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