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GONG MEDITATIONS WITH SYMPHONIC PLANET GONGS
FOR THE HARMONY OF BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT.
Gong Meditation Livestream from the 11th of October
Planet Gong Meditation - The Magic of the Feminine
Polished the video and sound a bit. 🙂
Planet Gong Meditation - The Magic of the Feminine
Polished the video and sound a bit. 🙂
Gong Livestream on YouTube on the 11th of October
Planet Gong Meditation - The Magic of the Feminine
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The Magic of the Feminine...unfolds out of silenceConnect ... with the principle of the feminine and open yourself to your deepest truth... with an internati...
How I became a gong artist.
Thanks to Jens Zygar, Gongteacher, cosmic octave, integral soundmusic
It all began around millennium when my friend and I organised Psychedelic Trance events in Germany. At some point, we managed to do a series of events in one of the biggest electronic music clubs in the area where I was living, in Bavaria.
So, we booked some live acts and DJs and one live act was called SSO (Star Sounds Orchestra). SSO are Steve Shroyder and Jens Zygar.
Steve on the keyboards and Jens playing these impressive gongs and percussions.
I was fascinated by those instruments when they set up the stage and man, I was impressed even more when I heard their sound.
Some of them had planet symbols on them and I got interested in the meaning. So, I did the research right after I came home from the party and learned about the Cosmic Octave and Hans Cousto, the Swiss mathematician, who discovered it.
SSO is the first band to be fully dedicated to the Cosmic Octave and creating music tuned to the planetary orbital frequencies.
In those days I had a ROLAND 505 Groovebox and when I found out the Earth Year key being a C# and its frequency 136.1 Hz, which results in a Master Tuning of 432.1 Hz, I tuned my Grovebox to 432.1 Hz and started a single note drone in C# and played it in a loop.
It was playing the rest of the day constantly.
I was captivated.
The reason was that I seemed to have discovered the soul of sound.
Tuning is changing the character of the sound.
This was the starting point for me to dive into the world of frequencies and I am still in it today.
Eventually, we booked SSO again for another event and Jens decided to stay a few days at my house it was the start of a lasting and sometimes challenging friendship.
Challenging, because Jens is very direct and he is very good in pointing out weaknesses, which need correction to evolve as an artist.
He said something during his visit, which stayed with me especially. He said: "What are you doing here in the Bavarian Forest with your talent, and why don't you come to Hamburg and join us?"
It didn't take me too long and a few months later I quit my job, got rid of most of my stuff and moved to Hamburg. The first thing we did there was jump in the van and having a gig in Istanbul.
The journey with SSO was packed with outstanding experiences and adventures and it was the initiation into the life of fully being dedicated to music and living with it.
I am not starting to tell all those stories in detail, but fast forward in 2007, I moved to Thailand to fully focus on my production skills and hopefully start to perform more often on stage myself.
The plan worked well. Jens and I stayed in contact and at some point I told him about a dream I just had the night before.
I saw myself playing a gong at sunset in the jungle on the Island in Thailand, where I was living.
Jens said: "Sounds like I have to visit you and bring some gongs."
...and he did. It was probably 1 or 2 years later, that the 2012 event was ahead and it was the year, when Jens decided to come. He sent 6 of his Symphonic Planet Gongs in 2 flight cases by air cargo shipment to Thailand, just to arrive in time to receive them at his arrival.
I was already having the resident opening show spot at the Halfmoon Festival.
When Jens arrived we found a nice spot for him to offer some gong mediations at Orion Healing Center, while on the island for the next 3 months and I took him on stage at the Halfmoon along with other artists.
We called it the Space Brothers.
We had some great shows and some additional gigs at smaller events. At some point, Jens looks at me after his gong meditation at the Orion Healing Center ( Detox & Yoga ) Koh Phangan and asked me: "The gongs work really well here. Why don't you buy them and keep playing them at the Halfmoon and for the gong meditations at Orion?"
I looked at him, thought for some moments, this happy feeling came up, I smiled and said "Yes, you are right."
Some words about Jens and the gongs.
Jens had the idea to tune gongs to the planetary frequencies because he was thinking about how to experience these sounds in the most immersive way. When he had the idea, he instantly called the German gong manufacturer Paiste Cymbals and talked to the founder Mr. Paiste about his idea, who straight away invited Jens to visit and talk about it.
This is the story of how the Symphonic Planet Gongs were born. Jens sold to me four of the six gongs he shipped to Thailand, which are the first planet gongs ever made.
I felt greatly honoured to even have the opportunity to buy these gongs and I knew what responsibility it is to own and play these gongs. One day they will go to a museum as the first of their kind.
In the moment I played these gongs everything changed. I felt very comfortable playing them. They speak to me and I decided I will always play the gongs in the best way I possibly can.
Jens trained me in the Soft Manner playing technique, which is very fluid, breathing, and when performed ideally the gongs will literally sing.
In 2015 I left Thailand, sent the gongs to Moscow, played at the MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM , some other events and in various yoga studios. Then I went back home to Germany, prepared for the next season, bought a car and trailer, and drove 2700 km to Moscow to stay a half year this time with a final concert in the St. Peter and Paul cathedral, with Igor Goldenberg playing the church organ. The concert “Sounds of the Universe” can be found on the Gong Master YouTube channel.
youtu.be/fNsP4SATUSA?si=5pYBXmgyht6jD9If
I remembered a friend inviting me to check out Ibiza and in 2017 I ended up staying there till the pandemic shut my stay down and again back to Germany. The time in Ibiza is a story by itself.
youtu.be/1hF8chSRkcw?si=XPiuq5IqdBu2KqJ6
This is where I met Marko Bussian, a brilliant producer and performer on the synthesizers. It was my dream to have a project for the Cosmic Octave with an artist or more, who understands music in the same way I do and he does.
When the pandemic hit Ibiza and we sat out our first lockdown, Marko called me at the opening to come around with my gongs to his house, set up at his terrace and do a Cosmic Octave live stream. So we did and it was fantastic. We never played together before or rehearsed in any way. We just set up and performed a concert tuned the the Earth Year orbital frequency.
The Constellation was born.
It was then Marko who said sometime later, that we agreed that another COVID wave and lockdowns would come, so he offered to take all our equipment and move to his house in the Alps in Austria to make music and to sit out the virus.
This became the most productive time of my life and the final product is the best music I was ever part of creating.
We decided to do every Saturday a live stream of another planet concert for one hour, fully improvised and all tuned precisely to these frequencies.
We ended up doing the entire Solar System, which you can find on the Constellations's YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@TheConstellation
In 2022 I went back to Ibiza for another season with the gongs and realized that my work there was done and I had to move on.
For many years, already back in Thailand, I had in mind to go to Greece one day with my gongs and possibly live there.
So I went one more time back to Germany to prepare moving permanently to Greece. I chose Crete as my destination for various reasons.
First of all, I like living on an island and Crete is special in many different ways. It is the birthplace of Western Culture, ancient history, high mountains, caves, beautiful crystal clear sea, amazing food, wonderful traditional music, and I love the Cretan people.
When I arrived here I felt at home and this is where I am starting all over again to build up my gong work.
Thanks to Jens Zygar, Gongteacher, cosmic octave, integral soundmusic
It all began around millennium when my friend and I organised Psychedelic Trance events in Germany. At some point, we managed to do a series of events in one of the biggest electronic music clubs in the area where I was living, in Bavaria.
So, we booked some live acts and DJs and one live act was called SSO (Star Sounds Orchestra). SSO are Steve Shroyder and Jens Zygar.
Steve on the keyboards and Jens playing these impressive gongs and percussions.
I was fascinated by those instruments when they set up the stage and man, I was impressed even more when I heard their sound.
Some of them had planet symbols on them and I got interested in the meaning. So, I did the research right after I came home from the party and learned about the Cosmic Octave and Hans Cousto, the Swiss mathematician, who discovered it.
SSO is the first band to be fully dedicated to the Cosmic Octave and creating music tuned to the planetary orbital frequencies.
In those days I had a ROLAND 505 Groovebox and when I found out the Earth Year key being a C# and its frequency 136.1 Hz, which results in a Master Tuning of 432.1 Hz, I tuned my Grovebox to 432.1 Hz and started a single note drone in C# and played it in a loop.
It was playing the rest of the day constantly.
I was captivated.
The reason was that I seemed to have discovered the soul of sound.
Tuning is changing the character of the sound.
This was the starting point for me to dive into the world of frequencies and I am still in it today.
Eventually, we booked SSO again for another event and Jens decided to stay a few days at my house it was the start of a lasting and sometimes challenging friendship.
Challenging, because Jens is very direct and he is very good in pointing out weaknesses, which need correction to evolve as an artist.
He said something during his visit, which stayed with me especially. He said: "What are you doing here in the Bavarian Forest with your talent, and why don't you come to Hamburg and join us?"
It didn't take me too long and a few months later I quit my job, got rid of most of my stuff and moved to Hamburg. The first thing we did there was jump in the van and having a gig in Istanbul.
The journey with SSO was packed with outstanding experiences and adventures and it was the initiation into the life of fully being dedicated to music and living with it.
I am not starting to tell all those stories in detail, but fast forward in 2007, I moved to Thailand to fully focus on my production skills and hopefully start to perform more often on stage myself.
The plan worked well. Jens and I stayed in contact and at some point I told him about a dream I just had the night before.
I saw myself playing a gong at sunset in the jungle on the Island in Thailand, where I was living.
Jens said: "Sounds like I have to visit you and bring some gongs."
...and he did. It was probably 1 or 2 years later, that the 2012 event was ahead and it was the year, when Jens decided to come. He sent 6 of his Symphonic Planet Gongs in 2 flight cases by air cargo shipment to Thailand, just to arrive in time to receive them at his arrival.
I was already having the resident opening show spot at the Halfmoon Festival.
When Jens arrived we found a nice spot for him to offer some gong mediations at Orion Healing Center, while on the island for the next 3 months and I took him on stage at the Halfmoon along with other artists.
We called it the Space Brothers.
We had some great shows and some additional gigs at smaller events. At some point, Jens looks at me after his gong meditation at the Orion Healing Center ( Detox & Yoga ) Koh Phangan and asked me: "The gongs work really well here. Why don't you buy them and keep playing them at the Halfmoon and for the gong meditations at Orion?"
I looked at him, thought for some moments, this happy feeling came up, I smiled and said "Yes, you are right."
Some words about Jens and the gongs.
Jens had the idea to tune gongs to the planetary frequencies because he was thinking about how to experience these sounds in the most immersive way. When he had the idea, he instantly called the German gong manufacturer Paiste Cymbals and talked to the founder Mr. Paiste about his idea, who straight away invited Jens to visit and talk about it.
This is the story of how the Symphonic Planet Gongs were born. Jens sold to me four of the six gongs he shipped to Thailand, which are the first planet gongs ever made.
I felt greatly honoured to even have the opportunity to buy these gongs and I knew what responsibility it is to own and play these gongs. One day they will go to a museum as the first of their kind.
In the moment I played these gongs everything changed. I felt very comfortable playing them. They speak to me and I decided I will always play the gongs in the best way I possibly can.
Jens trained me in the Soft Manner playing technique, which is very fluid, breathing, and when performed ideally the gongs will literally sing.
In 2015 I left Thailand, sent the gongs to Moscow, played at the MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM , some other events and in various yoga studios. Then I went back home to Germany, prepared for the next season, bought a car and trailer, and drove 2700 km to Moscow to stay a half year this time with a final concert in the St. Peter and Paul cathedral, with Igor Goldenberg playing the church organ. The concert “Sounds of the Universe” can be found on the Gong Master YouTube channel.
youtu.be/fNsP4SATUSA?si=5pYBXmgyht6jD9If
I remembered a friend inviting me to check out Ibiza and in 2017 I ended up staying there till the pandemic shut my stay down and again back to Germany. The time in Ibiza is a story by itself.
youtu.be/1hF8chSRkcw?si=XPiuq5IqdBu2KqJ6
This is where I met Marko Bussian, a brilliant producer and performer on the synthesizers. It was my dream to have a project for the Cosmic Octave with an artist or more, who understands music in the same way I do and he does.
When the pandemic hit Ibiza and we sat out our first lockdown, Marko called me at the opening to come around with my gongs to his house, set up at his terrace and do a Cosmic Octave live stream. So we did and it was fantastic. We never played together before or rehearsed in any way. We just set up and performed a concert tuned the the Earth Year orbital frequency.
The Constellation was born.
It was then Marko who said sometime later, that we agreed that another COVID wave and lockdowns would come, so he offered to take all our equipment and move to his house in the Alps in Austria to make music and to sit out the virus.
This became the most productive time of my life and the final product is the best music I was ever part of creating.
We decided to do every Saturday a live stream of another planet concert for one hour, fully improvised and all tuned precisely to these frequencies.
We ended up doing the entire Solar System, which you can find on the Constellations's YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@TheConstellation
In 2022 I went back to Ibiza for another season with the gongs and realized that my work there was done and I had to move on.
For many years, already back in Thailand, I had in mind to go to Greece one day with my gongs and possibly live there.
So I went one more time back to Germany to prepare moving permanently to Greece. I chose Crete as my destination for various reasons.
First of all, I like living on an island and Crete is special in many different ways. It is the birthplace of Western Culture, ancient history, high mountains, caves, beautiful crystal clear sea, amazing food, wonderful traditional music, and I love the Cretan people.
When I arrived here I felt at home and this is where I am starting all over again to build up my gong work.
The “sound-healer” scene is sick!
I am tired of the unicorn communities who are obsessed with their fairytales and refuse to take in facts and evidence.
The sound healing community is sick.
Invaded by ignorant and selfish believers with no knowledge about even the basics.
It is really frustrating to see how the constant growing army of pretenders and fake healers is flooding the market. Workshops with certified participants pretend to be authorities while these teachers often lack any foundation to teach others.
I am distancing myself from this disgusting unicorn community in any possible way.
It goes like this:
“Hy, I am Trixy. I am a certified energy and sound healer… I will heal you and raise your vibrational frequency with my pure intention, so your chakras will all get activated and you will transform into pure universal love.”
I am so done with these pretenders and ignorant people. The new-age esoteric people are obsessed with the sacred healing frequency cult. They mostly lack any basic knowledge about the terminology they use excessively in their everyday postings.
They just blah blah repeat whatever they heard and sounds crystalline enough.
The most disturbing part is, that they have invaded and occupied the sound workers community. Anyone not using their nonsense sales pitch will be seen as an outsider.
They change terminology, make up stories about healing and in no time they even invite to teach others and spread the nonsense even further.
It is sick. Like a viral infection.
I could just ignore them and do my thing, but I feel it is my duty to speak up and shine the light of truth on the virus.
It is certainly not helping my career as a sound worker, but to me telling the truth and holding on against this virus seems more important than my personal success.
The obsessive frequency cult is fed buy business people who use the opportunity to sell angel- and sacred healing instruments.
It has become a monstrous business and nobody seems to actually care to study and do the homework, practice and master the proper performing techniques.
They pay for a weekend course, get a certificate and now they believe they are truly healers.
I rather ride the pink pony.
I am tired of the unicorn communities who are obsessed with their fairytales and refuse to take in facts and evidence.
The sound healing community is sick.
Invaded by ignorant and selfish believers with no knowledge about even the basics.
It is really frustrating to see how the constant growing army of pretenders and fake healers is flooding the market. Workshops with certified participants pretend to be authorities while these teachers often lack any foundation to teach others.
I am distancing myself from this disgusting unicorn community in any possible way.
It goes like this:
“Hy, I am Trixy. I am a certified energy and sound healer… I will heal you and raise your vibrational frequency with my pure intention, so your chakras will all get activated and you will transform into pure universal love.”
I am so done with these pretenders and ignorant people. The new-age esoteric people are obsessed with the sacred healing frequency cult. They mostly lack any basic knowledge about the terminology they use excessively in their everyday postings.
They just blah blah repeat whatever they heard and sounds crystalline enough.
The most disturbing part is, that they have invaded and occupied the sound workers community. Anyone not using their nonsense sales pitch will be seen as an outsider.
They change terminology, make up stories about healing and in no time they even invite to teach others and spread the nonsense even further.
It is sick. Like a viral infection.
I could just ignore them and do my thing, but I feel it is my duty to speak up and shine the light of truth on the virus.
It is certainly not helping my career as a sound worker, but to me telling the truth and holding on against this virus seems more important than my personal success.
The obsessive frequency cult is fed buy business people who use the opportunity to sell angel- and sacred healing instruments.
It has become a monstrous business and nobody seems to actually care to study and do the homework, practice and master the proper performing techniques.
They pay for a weekend course, get a certificate and now they believe they are truly healers.
I rather ride the pink pony.
Since the censorship in the so-called sound healer scene is similar to an authoritarian state, I will stop sharing at these channels and stick to my page.
Here the censored article I was sharing at a group called “Sound Bath Practitioners World Wide”.
The article had a great feedback, people even sent me friend requests and asking to learn more after reading it.
But when I asked in the comments to instead follow my gong master page the comment got removed as being self promotion and now the entire article got removed for an unknown reason.
So, here it is: (FEEL FREE TO SHARE)
Did you know, that there is no sound in nature, which has a singular frequency?
I have the feeling it is time to attempt to explain this to the people in this group.
There are lots of opinions, beliefs, and imaginations about frequency, vibration, and energy.
Based on the way many people use these terms it has become obvious, that there are rather big misconceptions circulating especially in the scene of sound workers.
These false ideas are rooted in some new-age stories, which became a widespread belief.
Sound is produced by resonance (vibration) and its volume is determined by the energy involved. The actual frequency of a vibration is determined by the number of vibrations (oscillations) in a certain timeframe.
In nature it is matter of any sort, which can vibrate. Energy does not vibrate. The material density and the shape are responsible for additional overtones, which are harmonic frequencies at higher octaves. Some materials are too soft and will actually absorb sound.
The fundamental frequency of the vibration plus the resulting overtones, caused by the resonance body, are what we call sound and it is typically transmitted through air in form of frequent pressure waves, which can be detected by ears. So sound is only audible to lifeforms which ears are made to pick up that specific frequency spectrum of air pressure waves. To other creatures this sound doesn't exist as such.
Sound is a sum of frequencies.
Even if you play a clean singular frequency (sinus wave) through a loudspeaker it will still come with overtones, because of the speaker itself being a resonating body.
If there would be no overtones and sound would only consist of a singular frequency, then all instruments would sound the same.
We wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a piano and a trumpet.
Each instrument resonates within a certain frequency spectrum (bass, mid, high) and has its unique overtones. This is why even instruments of the same kind are still sounding differently.
Many of us play gongs and no gong sounds exactly like the other.
This all becomes most obvious if we look (listen) at the voice of each person.
Per-Sonos… It comes from Greek and it differentiates individuals by the sound of their voice.
Each of us has a unique and personal tuning of the voice and the physiology of our body determines the overtone range of our voice.
This is why we can identify each other by the sound.
So, the audible sound in our universe is never one singular frequency. It always comes with its harmonics.
On the level of the periodic table of chemical elements we can find singular frequencies, anything made from these elements (anything within out universe) will be therefore a mix of frequencies.
I am writing this not only to explain the nature of sound and frequencies, but also to guide the mind into the right direction, where you can realize, that this obsession about singular frequencies is not based on actual truth, but on accumulated misunderstandings, false teachings, and a certain inability to let go of such beliefs for various reasons.
The actuality of frequency, vibration, and energy is magical enough. There is no need to hold on to new-age and esoteric fantasies.
These are simply not the truth and it is causing problems for our profession if those false teachings keep spreading and infecting the minds of so many.
The frequency cult has to go.
Yes, it is a great business but we would still buy instruments, just no more chakra sets or any of those fake sacred healing frequencies.
It is all just a sales pitch.
None of these frequencies are actually based on occurring frequencies in nature, with one exception. The Symphonic Planet Gongs are tuned to actual orbital frequencies of planets.
These are the only frequencies which are directly transposed from nature.
And even within the planet gong collection are fake ones, which are Sedna, Chiron, and Nibiru.
I hope this will help at least some of you to transcend the belief and join the side of truth.
Here the censored article I was sharing at a group called “Sound Bath Practitioners World Wide”.
The article had a great feedback, people even sent me friend requests and asking to learn more after reading it.
But when I asked in the comments to instead follow my gong master page the comment got removed as being self promotion and now the entire article got removed for an unknown reason.
So, here it is: (FEEL FREE TO SHARE)
Did you know, that there is no sound in nature, which has a singular frequency?
I have the feeling it is time to attempt to explain this to the people in this group.
There are lots of opinions, beliefs, and imaginations about frequency, vibration, and energy.
Based on the way many people use these terms it has become obvious, that there are rather big misconceptions circulating especially in the scene of sound workers.
These false ideas are rooted in some new-age stories, which became a widespread belief.
Sound is produced by resonance (vibration) and its volume is determined by the energy involved. The actual frequency of a vibration is determined by the number of vibrations (oscillations) in a certain timeframe.
In nature it is matter of any sort, which can vibrate. Energy does not vibrate. The material density and the shape are responsible for additional overtones, which are harmonic frequencies at higher octaves. Some materials are too soft and will actually absorb sound.
The fundamental frequency of the vibration plus the resulting overtones, caused by the resonance body, are what we call sound and it is typically transmitted through air in form of frequent pressure waves, which can be detected by ears. So sound is only audible to lifeforms which ears are made to pick up that specific frequency spectrum of air pressure waves. To other creatures this sound doesn't exist as such.
Sound is a sum of frequencies.
Even if you play a clean singular frequency (sinus wave) through a loudspeaker it will still come with overtones, because of the speaker itself being a resonating body.
If there would be no overtones and sound would only consist of a singular frequency, then all instruments would sound the same.
We wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a piano and a trumpet.
Each instrument resonates within a certain frequency spectrum (bass, mid, high) and has its unique overtones. This is why even instruments of the same kind are still sounding differently.
Many of us play gongs and no gong sounds exactly like the other.
This all becomes most obvious if we look (listen) at the voice of each person.
Per-Sonos… It comes from Greek and it differentiates individuals by the sound of their voice.
Each of us has a unique and personal tuning of the voice and the physiology of our body determines the overtone range of our voice.
This is why we can identify each other by the sound.
So, the audible sound in our universe is never one singular frequency. It always comes with its harmonics.
On the level of the periodic table of chemical elements we can find singular frequencies, anything made from these elements (anything within out universe) will be therefore a mix of frequencies.
I am writing this not only to explain the nature of sound and frequencies, but also to guide the mind into the right direction, where you can realize, that this obsession about singular frequencies is not based on actual truth, but on accumulated misunderstandings, false teachings, and a certain inability to let go of such beliefs for various reasons.
The actuality of frequency, vibration, and energy is magical enough. There is no need to hold on to new-age and esoteric fantasies.
These are simply not the truth and it is causing problems for our profession if those false teachings keep spreading and infecting the minds of so many.
The frequency cult has to go.
Yes, it is a great business but we would still buy instruments, just no more chakra sets or any of those fake sacred healing frequencies.
It is all just a sales pitch.
None of these frequencies are actually based on occurring frequencies in nature, with one exception. The Symphonic Planet Gongs are tuned to actual orbital frequencies of planets.
These are the only frequencies which are directly transposed from nature.
And even within the planet gong collection are fake ones, which are Sedna, Chiron, and Nibiru.
I hope this will help at least some of you to transcend the belief and join the side of truth.