Ontogenesis by NTHNL

Ontogenesis is the third in a series of albums called the Tranquility Studies. The idea was born in 2020 around the beginning of the pandemic as a way to formalize my explorations into making music to affect feelings of peace and introspection in listeners. This music combines electronic binaural frequencies with performances on a variety of instruments to create soundscapes that are at once calming, poetic and healing. The music uses a technique called brainwave entrainment, which uses certain frequencies to sympathetically vibrate the mind, inducing it into meditative states.

From the artist:

In 2021 as I was finishing Cosmic Flute Rides Again I was approached by Leslie Graves, a yoga teacher and musician I collaborate with frequently, to see if I’d like to make an album to accompany a yoga class in its entirety. We began with the Chakras and worked from the bottom of the body to the top, meeting for a few sessions in which we sketched ideas on the piano with Leslie prompting the musical ideas through certain body-related keywords and I responding in sound. Originally, this “Music of the Body” (the original title) was conceived as a meditation on and through the body. Over the course of the next year, as I spent more and more time with the material I realized that the album’s progression through the body should exist in time as much as in space.

I came upon the word Ontogenesis in Erwin Schrodinger’s What is life? A book written before the discovery of DNA which attempts to find the physical basis for life’s existing and reproducing itself and coming upon many deep and beautiful ideas in that exploration. Ontogenesis means the progression of an organism from conception through death. As we move up the body, we move through a life: from before the beginning to after the end, reflecting and accepting at every stage in order to move on and through. Each of the tracks on the album has a corresponding visualization meditation you can do while listening, you can return your focus to the music or to the given meditation, using them in tandem to amplify the experience of each to the other.

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