METAPHYSICS OF MUSIC
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course addresses an important aspect of our musical life: our creativity, our inspiration, and how we can become the kind of musicians who bring more to the artistic table.
Perhaps you're looking for that missing element in your music. Perhaps you're seeking a deeper understanding of its power. If so, this course is for you. If you are frustrated because your colleagues and band members think of it as a job, a diversion or a craft, this course is for you. If you're a super music fan, this course is for you. Come and meet other seekers of the mysteries of music that so far have eluded you.
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The seminar takes place in a magical setting of the Andes mountains of Ecuador. Cuevas del Ilaló is a place of inspiration and reflection. The power of the ancient Andean cosmovision deeply influences the artists and you will feel it immediately.
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Professionals and amateurs alike will leave this course with a renewed sense of mission and purpose. Music aficionados will get a deep look into the musician's creative process, and indeed, take part in it. Everyone will learn to absorb and understand aspects of music and sound that previously have escaped your perception.
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This is an interactive event and participants are encouraged to bring their instruments.
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It is only by knowing the source of frequency, vibration, sound and musical construction that we can deepen our artistry and ability.
INCLUDES
• Single or double rooms (your choice) in the
4-star Hotel Ilaló, breakfast included.
• Lunch served at Cuevas del Ilalo.
• During evening activities, artisanal pizza will be served at Las Cuevas
• Ground transportation daily to the Cuevas
• Optional ayahuasca ceremony
• Evening Sound Bath
• Final concert and live recording
• Certificate of participation
PRICING, LANGUAGE & CAPACITY
- The course will be in English
- Capacity of 15 participants
- Pricing: $980 + tax in double rooms. $1080 + tax in single room *Flights not included.
- Online participation available
- Bring your instrument if desired!
Program
Monday August 5, 2024
8:00 am - Breakfast at Hotel Ilaló
9:30 am - Transportation to Cuevas del Ilaló (about 15 minutes)
10:00 am - Welcome presentation
10:30 am - Understanding the functions of music in society (Entertainment • Sacred • Healing • Background • Commercial • Artistic • Soundtracks • Meditative • Dance • Fetish • Emotional control)
12:30 pm - lunch break
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Relationship between music and Time (Music as a linear construct that unfolds in time • Music as a vertical construct whose impact does not have to depend on a developing “story” • Music as an entrainment method that synchronizes the energy of individuals and groups)
5:30 pm - Welcome Sound Bath
7:00 pm - Relax, get to know each other with pizza
8:30 pm - Transportation to Hotel.
Tuesday August 6, 2024
8:00 am - Breakfast at Hotel Ilaló
9:30 am - Transportation to Cuevas del Ilaló
10:00 am - Walk the path of the Seven Levels of Consciousness
11:00 am - Understanding music as a type of energy
(Difference tones • Vibrational coding • Frequency programming • A.I. application)
1:00 pm - lunch break
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Music as energy con’t (Overtone series • Manipulation of emotions • Rhythmic and melodic trance induction • Intro to healing frequencies)
6:00 pm - Transportation to Hotel.
Wednesday August 7, 2024
8 am - Breakfast at Hotel Ilaló
9:30 am - Transportation to Cuevas del Ilaló
10 am - Healing properties of music
(Healing with frequencies • Bypass of typical cognitive functions • Trusting intuition equally with knowledge)
1:00 pm - lunch break
2:30 pm - Cymatics demonstrations
4:00 pm - Maestro Mauricio Vicencio* introduces Creativity and Music for shamanic purposes. (Use and properties of wind and string instruments in shamanic ritual • Using the voice to join Heaven, Man, Earth • “Sound Objects” of the Inca)
6:00 pm - Conversation with Mauricio on the sacred ritual of sound and medicine; or transportation to Hotel for those who may want to rest.
7:30 pm - Optional ayahuasca ceremony with Mauricio Vicencio
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*shaman/musician Mauricio Vicencio, founder of the group Altiplano from Chile.
Thursday August 8, 2024
8:00 am - Breakfast at Hotel Ilaló
9:00 am - Transportation to Cuevas del Ilaló
9:30 am - Understanding properties of sound
(Frequencies are relational • Pitch is a moving target • The note is not as important as its function • Texture, dynamics, articulation, overtones, color, intensity, etc.)
1:00 pm - lunch break
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm - (Intervals are vertical spaces between notes, rhythm is horizontal space between notes • Japanese concept of “ma” • more on John Cage)
6:00 pm - Transportation to Hotel.
Friday August 9, 2024
8:00 am - Breakfast at Hotel Ilaló
9:30 am - Transportation to Cuevas del Ilaló
10:00 am - Tuning systems of the world (Equal temperament, Meantone, Just Intonation, Persian, Asian, etc.) • Minimalism and Non-traditional composers
1:00 pm - lunch break
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Making music without our usual instruments
6:00 pm - Pizza and Conversation
8:30 pm - Concert, Presentation of certificates, Closing event
Transportation to Hotel.
Wish to extend your time in Ecuador?
· We can help arrange for individuals or groups ·
Quito
A one-day tour to the historical downtown of Quito to visit the churches built on top of astronomically aligned pre-Christian temples.
Galapagos
A trip to the Galapagos Islands, the cradle of evolution.
Quitsato
A one-day tour to Quitsato, the middle of the world. A unique astronomical point of view from this advantageous location and the historical quest to find a scientific measuring unit:
the Meter.
Amazon
A trip to the Amazon Rainforest.
Papallacta
Papallacta Hot Springs.
One hour away.
Coast
A trip to the ecuadorian coast.