| Dear Friends and Divine Community,
I am writing to you from Bahia, Brazil, where I feel home, inspired, and sweetly contained, and I am aware that is the right time – for me – to implement my lifelong dedication to music to explore the movement from longing to belong. Loneliness and longing sometimes are hard to distinguish. We all share a basic human need to belong,and the idea of belonging “feels” great!
So…after years of research on the affective quality of sound and music, I am inspired to create an album of ambient music that will not disturb our need for silence, and where the music becomes both a space to dwell and a gentle aural companion. I am layering instruments, voices, and soft pulses to induce concentration, and an at-ease state that I like to call ‘mindful listening bliss’.
To bring to life this music – and for first time in my life – I launched a crowdfounding Kickstarter campaign. This means that I invite you to come on board and join me on this creation by PREORDERING the ALBUM,make your generous PLEDGE to support the journey, and you’ll get back many exciting REWARDS. When you read the rewards, you’ll see that this recording is truly intended as a community project.
We want you to be an essential part of its creation.
HERE is the KICKSTARTER page where you can see videos, listen to the music, and read all in detailed. THANK YOU in advance for taking the time to visit and navigate the page.
AN IMPORTANT NOTICE: if we don’t reach the minimal goal of $24,000 by June 3rd, pledges will not be charged. We get nothing…
So…help us to spread the word as far and wide as you can envision. I’ve been working on this campaign full time, positively, and diligently for three months. Your support means the world to me. Let’s dream big together!
About the creative process:
Musically, I am singing ethereal melodies inspired by the mood intelligence of the Indian ragas, and the voice emerges out of textural layers of sound in dialogue with Todd Boston ‘s instrumental elegance, among other fantastic musicians that I met throughout my life as a world traveler. I think that this new album will be somehow a recapitulation of my musical life.
As spiritual practice, I am approaching the music of this album as dharma art. Dharma art is creative work that springs from an awakened meditative state and provides a vehicle to appreciate and express without any desire to achieve. This, I learned from the artist and supreme teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche; Genuine art-dharma art-is simply the activity of nonaggression.
May this music and your ‘mindful listening bliss’ bring more
gentleness and unity to this world.
What you can DO?
WATCH the SHORT VIDEO and READ MORE about this CAMPAIGN that ENDS soon on JUNE 3rd.
Participate & Collaborate!
Just choose your REWARD’s level and PREORDER the album.
You are making a generous pledge to support this music. I am convinced that we are all fascinated by the evolving convergence of technology, community and creative adventurousness. Thus, I invite your outrageous ideas for collaboration on this album, as well as any personalized REWARD that will benefit your work. Send an email to voxmundi@yahoo.com to discuss this further. Visit the Kickstarter page to learn how your money will be spent.
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photo art by Andrea Boston
