Sound Consciousness

Sound & Consciousness

by Maximilian J. Sandor

Overview (expanded Table of Contents)

Prelude – “Cutting Adorno’s birthday cake”

A strange twist of fate made me, as a timid 7-year-old, becoming elected, or better: singled out, to cut the old man’s birthday cake on the day after his birthday, which was the eve of mine – an event which he himself ridiculized as “Kinderkram” – silly stuff that children do.  The moment the knife in my hand approached the cake, the entire room seemed to engulf in a deafening silence.  Then, when I cut, the knife’s blade, gliding over the porcelain plate below the cake, made the most awkward noise I ever heard until then. A scratchy shrill screeching sound, impossible to define, let alone replicate. Unexpectedly, the silence continued. Seconds, that seemed to be hours, passed by. I was traumatized. Somebody commenced clapping hands and, embarrassed, stopped again. Applause was insult to Adorno’s ears. And then, Adorno laughed, or perhaps just smiled, a significant event in either case, and the birthday crowd relaxed and eased.  “Quite unique” he said and was shaking my hand.

What followed were hours of talks, most of which I, barely alphabetized, did not understand to the least extent. About aesthetics, about music and philosophy, and why ‘music is life’. The latter stuck in my ear, it followed me in my life. It made me spend time and money on making ‘music’ on all kinds of instruments while rejecting sillily to learn or play compositions of others other than fragments of melodies which could be woven into a free flow of meditative tonal events.

What elates us hearing a certain piece of music and what bores us while listening to some other? What is the origin of the phenomenal appearance of ‘music’ and why is it found exclusively in the human domain?

Questions I was chasing for a lifetime. While I have not found a conclusive answer yet myself, and only fragments of possible answers from others, I collected clues, hints to potential realities behind our perceptions, some of which I will point to in the following.

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Ifá-21 Online Seminars

These online seminars have been taking place since 2011. There are different groups for English, Portuguese, Italian, and German speaking participants.

This seminar is interactive, has 8 modules of about 1 and a half an hour each, and is accompanied by an online course book that contains illustrations and diagrams.

The most recent such seminar was in May 2016, held by Oscar L. Marzorati in the Italian language with guest appearance of Max Sandor.

In the moment, no seminar has been scheduled. If you are interested in a future seminar, please follow the social media in order to be notified.

Bibliography

Books

1 Polar Dynamics 1 – Maximilian J. Sandor, Edward J. Dawson
2 Your Personal Archetype – Sandor, Dawson, Miranda
3 Between Heavens and Earth –  Maximilian J. Sandor
4 Oltre le Nubi –  Maximilian J. Sandor (in italian only)
5 Letters from Rome –  Maximilian J. Sandor
6 Contos Verdadeiros de mundos estranheiros – Sandor, de Almeida (in portuguese only)
7 Beyond the Sphinx – The Logs of JD Flora I – Joachim H. Steingrübner
8 Daughters of Time – The Logs of JD Flora II  – Joachim H. Steingrübner
9 Beyond the Sphinx  – The Logs of JD Flora III  – Joachim H. Steingrübner
10 Sound & Consciousness (in preparation)  –  Maximilian J. Sandor
10 Tales From The Hellequin Cycle – Edward J. Dawson
11 Harmonie Lehre – Arnold Schoenberg
12 Tractatus Philosophicus – Ludwig Wittgenstein
13 Sound and Symbol – Viktor Zuckerkandl
14 Die Lehre des Buddho – Georg Grimm
15 Phänomelogie des Geistes – Georg Wilhekm Friedrich Hegel
16 Pali Canon (Early Buddihsm)
17 Spandakarika (Kashmir Shaivism)
18 The Sacred Ifa Oracle: Afolabi A. Epega, Philip J. Neimark
19 Drumming the Gods – Luis M. Núñez
20 Apocryphon of John – trans. Frederik Wisse
21 Thunder – Perfect Mind – transl. George W. MacRae
22 The Hypostasis of the Archons – trans. Bentley Layton
23  תּוֹרָה‎, (Torah)
24 القرآن‎‎ al-Qurʾān (Koran)
25 Καινή Διαθήκη (New Testament)
26 Excalibur Revisited – Geoffrey Filbert
27 History of Man – L. Ron Hubbard
28 Also sprach Zarathustra – Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen. 1883–1885
29 Jenseits von Gut und Böse – Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft. 1886
30 On Nature and Language – Noam Chomsky
31 Epigenetics – Bruce Lipton
32 The Science Delusion – Rupert Sheldrake
33 老子 – Laozi / Tao Te Ching
34 Weltbilderschütterung – Erhard Landmann
35 Die Welt der Musik – Rudolf Steiner
36 Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil, 1832, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
37 Zur Farbenlehre, 1810, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
38 Scientologie, , Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens, 1934,  Anastasius Nordenholz
39 Science and Sanity, 1933, Alfred Korzybski

Publications (papers)

p1 IV World Conference on Robotics Research – IEEE, 1992, Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Joachim H. Steingrübner
P2 The Concur Paradigm –  Joachim H. Steingrübner, 1991, Pacific Western  Univ., Los Angeles
p3 Über Buddho und Hegel (4 parts)- 1977-1979, Yana Journal, Utting a.A.
p4 Ambient Music – Beginnings and Implications – Radford Univ., Virginia, Chris Melchior
p5 PARCOR Speech Analysis Implementation, 1975  FTZ Research Institutes, Darmstadt
p6 Meta-Parser for a Compiler-Compiler, 1979 THD Darmstadt

Websites

w1 Max Sandor’s official website
Universe (online book by Maximilan Sandor)
w2 Sandorian Grove (BLOG of Max Sandor)
w3 Adesso qui
w4 O futuro presente
w5 SimpliGermanissimus
w6 The Complete Guide to Energy Bodies (Chris Melchior)
w7 Maps of Universes (Chris Melchior)
w8 The Ghost Danse – Ouran
w9 Vikings – Emund Meadows
w10 PHNOHTEFTU – The little Purple Notebook on How to Escape from this Universe (by Max Sandor)

Audio

a1 Mindshift – (Max Sandor / Dino Productions, Hollywood)
a2 Shango Overdrive (Max Sandor), 2002, Los Angeles (amazon)
a3 Luci (texts of Max Sandor – in italian), Milan, Italy 2005
a4 Bigger Than Blue – Lisa Franco, Los Angeles
a5 Arnold Schoenberg – Gurre Lieder, Vienna
a6 Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, of 1912

Video

v1 Passion for Truth (English subtitles) – Portuguese: Italian
v2 2012 Countdown Worldtour
v3 Repentistas (Salvador, Bahia)
v4 Ludwig Wittgenstein – Eintragung 1931


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