In this episode we dive deep into the magical harmonic mathematics of the number 432, looking at it's recurrence in the measurement of time and how it makes the perfect reference for musical tuning. 

After a bit of a lengthy break from streaming, we return here with a 2-part session, the first being more free flowing, catching up on some of the personal events of recent months and deliberating the future of this project in these uncertain times.

Part 2 goes into Bitwig, and a couple of experimental new music projects. One involving the representation of astrological data as sound , and another more 'avant-garde'. 

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I wish I could say "the title says it all" but honestly it barely even begins to cover it. There's a a lot of ground covered here, I felt the need to open up about some of my deeper spiritual beliefs and perspectives gained from shamanic work that has been very influential in my life.

I talk about God, how I came to believe, and how I think of the concept of God as the source of Good Energy or Goodness. 

We dive into Alchemy and look at the divine attributes of the Principles, Elements and Luminaries, and I…

Though we can talk endlessly about the various facets of an artists life, the essential task we are each confronted with every day is quite simply this:

Just Make Something Beautiful

In this video I dive into sorcery, what it is, how it is used in the world today, and how to break free from its influence. I think this will be a recurring theme in the streams, since we are currently living in a time of rampant sorcery. 

You may have heard this biblical quote before, it's thrown around a lot these days:

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."…

Individuation is the process of becoming an indivisible person or a 'whole man'.

We are all born with a unique set of codes in our body, from our DNA to our astrological birth chart, our finger prints and biometrics etc. Our individual essence is fundamentally numerical, it's a code that is unique to us.

In alchemy it is understood that all essences, being numbers, are eternal, they are not subject to the same cycles of growth and decay as material objects, rather they are numerical quantities that exist…

I was super tired and foggy brained during this stream (full story explained at the start of the video), but the intention was to have an introductory exploration of Bitwig, and hopefully managed to achieve that on some level. 

To be honest though I barely scratched the surface of what this awesome software has to offer.

Nevertheless, I will be back, well rested, with more Bitwig streams in future! :) 

Here we look at the Integral Model of philosopher Ken Wilber, some wise words from Terrence McKenna, and we explore some 600 year old Alchemical art on the vibrational nature of the Luminaries, and how they affect human consciousness. 

A 14th Century Representation of Mercury, ruler of the intellect (Mercurius > More Curious)

In the 2nd part we dive into Ableton, look at some creative ways to use a Grand Piano patch, some probabilistic sequencing with Melodic Steps, and finally a desperate attempt to get…

The music of the ancient world was designed to correspond with the cycles of the stars in the heavens or the so called "music of the spheres" based on the Hermetic principle of "as above, so below".

The image below, from ancient Greece, shows correspondances of western diatonic musical modes, or moods, with planetary energies and the seven muses, or the seven sisters, daughters of Apollo. 

A mode is essentially a geometric division of the octave, with diatonic (7 notes) hexatonic (6 notes) and pentatonic…

For this video I put together a mind-map showing the 7 stage alchemical process for music production, see the image below for a high level version. 

I talk through the 7 steps, and look at structuring musical compositions around the sine wave.

Then I dive into Ableton and do some work on the project I started way back on the first live stream. 

I hope you enjoy it, shoot me any questions if you got em! 

btw - I wasn't aware that my webcam wasn't showing, sorry

Next time someone let me know, yeah? ;) 

At the deepest levels of reality, beyond the flesh, beyond the stars, exist a set of eternal creative principles that we represent as symbols.

The symbols we are most familiar with are letters and numbers. We call them into action by spelling - casting a spell - a word - a sequence of symbols expressed with emotion and intent to cause changes in the world around us.  

It is said in Qabbalistic philosophy that numbers, letters and sounds are all one and the same in the Divine mind.

A word is a symbol or…

A long long time ago, on a volcano far away ... there were a series of life changing events called the Audio Alchemy Retreats. 

This was a collaborative project between myself and Andy Freeland aka Opulence, a DJ and events promoter based on the Big Island of Hawaii at the time. 

Andy reached out to me in 2013, following the release of the Wanderlust EP, and we began having regular Skype calls, supporting each other in business and creativity, loosely based on the idea of a "mastermind group". 

I had long…

I wanted to share this documentary from Luxor Media - this is not my own content, but it's one of the first good films I watched on the subject of alchemy, about 5 years ago. 

This inspired me to create the 7 step process of music making which became known as Audio Alchemy.

I'll be getting into this a lot more, but for anybody who's unfamiliar with Alchemy, or thinks it's some old fashioned hocus-pocus pseudo-science, you couldn't be more wrong. Alchemy is at the root of it all, the intersection of science…

Kicks off with a few minutes of generative jazz "live performance" .... nice.

Then I get into some alchemical art, spirit science, what it means to be an alchemist, and look at some esoteric concepts and how they relate to music.

Second part I dive into the generative Jazz template, talk through how it was made, attempt to make a generative bass (and fail), then answer some questions. 

In music and mathematics, it is understood that all sounds are composed of combinations of frequencies known as Sine Waves.

Every sound can be represented as a waveform, and every waveform no matter how jagged or distorted can always be reduced to a series of perfectly smooth and curvy sine wave components (a process called Fourier Analysis).   

The videos show how the sine wave relates to circular motion, and how the addition of higher frequency oscillations (harmonics) changes the resulting wave from a…

In this first live stream, we look at using S&H LFO's and uneven loop lengths to add life, variation and unpredictability into sounds.

I use Ableton's Operator and 'Melodic Steps' MIDI device, combined with the mappable LFO device, as well taking a brief excursion into XLN's XO plugin for building drum loops.

My laptop was reaching it's limits during this stream, so I kept it brief, but a new computer is on it's way - supercharged mac mini with 3.2Ghz 6-core i7 and 32GB of RAM.

Future streams will be…