This month’s Composer’s Choice, “Lotus Opening”, is a meditation on a painting by Frank Wesley called “Krishna and Radha”. (see the full image below) It was painted by Frank for my 21st birthday in 1982. This is what I’ve said about it in other blogs: “This painting came about from long discussions with Frank about the origins of religious deities and the connection I saw between Pan and Krishna. The drawing alone took 3 months to complete. Another 3 months to paint. Frank Wesley was a prime influence on my creative and philosophical development. He taught me drawing, watercolour and calligraphy over the 6 years I’d visit him, once a week , after school. It was only after I left home, that he revealed that as a young man he was commissioned to make the funereal urn for Ghandi’s ashes.” This astonishing painting (more so if you know how difficult it is to paint watercolours!) resonates with me on so many levels: Krishna and Radha are dancing into being – the universe itself. To do so, they have to be synchronised- separate in their identities, unified in action. It reminds me of the love I have for my wife, CelesteLotus Opening – by Stephen Fearnley
The Magic of 432 – by Stephen Fearnley
Vibration underpins all matter in the universe. No matter can exist without sound and vibration. cymascope.com Yes, it’s official. One Mind Live is going 432! From now on, there will be a difference in all the music I compose for our meditations. And, as the weeks go by, I will be remastering ALL the music to date – for the radio and the Composer’s Choice – and rolling it out. So what is this magic 432? Why get so exited about it? It’s all about vibrations – specifically the ones that fall into a frequency that measures 432 HERTZ. It’s called “scientific tuning”; It is a measurable thing that instruments and orchestras around the world used to use – an ancient tuning system. It was quantified by Pythagoras, though used thousands of years before he was able to measure it, right up to 1953, when for no reason that makes sense it was universally changed up to 440 Hz and became a world standard. Everything you hear on CD and on the radio and on streaming music stations is 440Hz. The difference its almost imperceptible – but the difference is organic and real. 432 Hz is a mathematical harmonic ofThe Magic of 432 – by Stephen Fearnley