It was in the year 2000, when I studied the power of color healing called Aura Soma. My question at the time was if color has wave lengths, how would they translate into sound or musical frequencies? I did not find an instant answer. BUT - the movie industry provided a door with the block buster "Mission to Mars". It still is one of my favorite films; a science fiction movie directed by Brian de Palma about a rescue mission to Mars following a disaster during the first manned voyage to the planet.
"When the rescue crew arrive on the red planet, they find Luke, the captain of the first team, still alive. He has built a greenhouse and been living on its produce, including oxygen. He tells the rescuers about his crew's find... He had spent the time alone attempting to learn the secrets of a mysterious structure. He shows the rescue team his most significant clue: a recording of the noise heard in the area of the formation. He had found that the sound was a map of human DNA, in XYZ coordinates. Together, they discover that the mysterious signals are actually a prompt, requiring a return radio signal to input of one missing pair of chromosomes which would complete human DNA." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_to_Mars)
The sound bites are mind blowing. At least they were for me.
In the meantime I had the opportunity to research more and found many people who are on the same quest. Not that I am a musician or composer, but the idea that we are interconnected with sound bites and that we can perhaps heal and harmonize our four walls with sound is magical....
Yogis practice this since thousands of years, as did other representatives of sacred music, which emerged during the evolution of mankind. If you are interested start reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_music!
Today there are new pioneers who align their music to the waves of chakras, colors or biological structures... Just take M. A. Clark and John Dunn, with their Life Music: Improvisation on Genetic Themes http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/CD.htm...
Another artist/scientist is artist Peter Gena and medical geneticist Charles Strom, who presented their work demonstrating the translation of DNA sequences into music at the Sixth Symposium on Electronic Arts. Gena and Strom use a sophisticated algorithm for converting the DNA sequences to music.
The Festival of World Sacred Music (Festival des Musiques Sacrées du Monde) brings together performers from every corner of our planet for a week of artistic show in Fes, Morocco's ancient holy city. The festival intends to represent the spiritual heart of Islam – peaceful, pluralistic, generous and cheerful, honouring all the world's spiritual traditions and dissolving musical boundaries. http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/383/Fes+World+Sacred+Music+Festival+Report:+2004
The World Festival of Sacred Music-Los Angeles is the largest citywide festival that takes place in Los Angeles once every three years. It is a sixteen-day celebration of the rich sacred music and movement traditions of the people of Los Angeles, with 40 events produced in 40 diverse venues ranging from the city's major stages to intimate places of worship. http://www.festivalpreview.com/tags/gospel
Or take the Society for Universal Sacred Music, which is "to foster the creation and performance of music that celebrates God's unconditional and eternal love for us all, and to archive such music to make it available worldwide." http://www.universalsacredmusic.org/
Fascinating.
While I was working for Klaus J. Jahn in 1980s, a pioneer in the field of urban design on his project Antropolis, my part was to be playful and research possibilities to design living spaces which can adapt to the needs of a human being; eg. wall colors change to nurture the individual psychologically, perfect matching sounds can be applied to harmonize the environment. Today this concept is still very alive in me - and I am working on how to integrate what is available into my workshops Grace your Place....
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