A flute has a tone, a vibration, a pitch, a key, a design, a material it is made out of. A key opens doors. A pitch is when someone throws something with force. A vibration shakes things loose. A tone creates a state and improves the current state. A printer uses “toner” to create an [...]
Archive for the ‘Flute Music’ Category
Tone
Posted in Flute Music, tagged flute, key, pitch, stone, tone on March 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The steady breath
Posted in Flute Music, tagged breath, flute, shakuhachi, spirit on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Blowing the bamboo flute is very challenging. The shakuhachi seems almost alive and changes from day to day. Not inanimate matter at all. When I play I listen to the sound, its tone, its steadiness, its roundness, its balance, its depth. It all reflects exactly how I feel right this moment. To hold a steady [...]
The healing flute: part two
Posted in Flute Music, tagged healing flute on February 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This week I have been adding crystals and gemstones to selected flutes. I bind or glue the stone in front of the sound hole, so that the air and the sound gently hit it. See the pictures below. I am going on the understanding that each stone is attuned to some natural and beneficial energy, [...]
A healing flute
Posted in Flute Music, tagged breath, Cartwright, healing flute, radio, Second Voice, spirit, vibration on February 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I am currently exploring a whole new dimension (for me) to flute playing. This was set in motion after commissioning a Healing Flute from Second Voice Flutes in the UK. The Healing Flute, notes and dimensions There is the sound and there is another dimension that we can’t hear. Compare to the Japanese shakuhachi: there [...]
Flute stories: part two
Posted in Flute Music, tagged Anasazi, crystals, flute, healing, Native American Flute, shakuhachi on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Flute talk and concert, appr. 45 minutes long (can be adjusted). See background description here. Title: The Spiritual Flute or The Healing Flute A presentation in four parts: The Love Flute, from North America. Legend of the origin of the Native American courting or love flute. Connection to nature and mother Earth. The Meditation Flute, [...]
Snake flute
Posted in Flute Music, tagged David Cartwright, Native American Flute, Second Voice on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The snake flute from Second Voice Flutes arrived today: Here is what it sounds like: http://guitarlight.com/mp3/flute/snakeflute.mp3
Flute stories
Posted in Flute Music, tagged Anasazi, flute, Native American Flute, school, shakuhachi, zuni on November 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I have occasionally been doing flute presentations at schools, for second grade and up. These presentations are a combination of story-telling and music performance. I select the three main flute types that I am most familiar with: 1) the Native American flute 2) the Japanese shakuhachi flute 3) the Anasazi flute There’s magic in the [...]
Chinese notes
Posted in Flute Music, tagged Earth Tones, flute, flute portal, walnut, xiao on November 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A friend of the flute brotherhood gifted me a Xiao flute this weekend. A beautiful walnut instrument, made by Earth Tones. Here’s some pictures. It plays like a Far Eastern dream.
The AC-33
Posted in Flute Music, tagged ac-33, Anasazi, flute, Native American Flute, Roland ac-33, Roland guitar amplifier on August 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I bought a Roland AC-33 acoustic guitar amplifier this week. To be used with my flutes. Wow, what a nifty handy thing it is. It runs on 8 AA batteries, it has stereo speakers, and it is light enough that I could lug it around on the subway if necessary. It sounds crystal clear. I [...]
TuneCore player
Posted in Flute Music, tagged flute, Native American Flute on August 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This link opens a media player of two of my flute albums: http://widget.tunecore.com/swf/tc_run_h_v2.swf?widget_id=70891
Unpacking the spirits
Posted in Flute Music, tagged flute, Native American Flute on July 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The new apartment in Stockholm now houses my flutes. They constitute an overwhelming presence:
Dragon flute
Posted in Flute Music, tagged flute, Native American Flute on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Unedited, recorded today in our empty house, just before moving to Sweden: http://guitarlight.com/mp4/DragonFlute.flv
A Law of Attraction flute story
Posted in Flute Music, tagged cherry, dragon flute, law of attraction, maple, Miguel Medina, Native American Flute, Singing Tree Flutes on June 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I browse eBay for Native American flutes on a regular basis. For some time I had been noticing the flute maker Miguel Medina of Singing Tree Flutes. His flutes looked very artistic, streamlined, with all manner of elegant totems, carved animals, and abstract figures. I saw horses, lions, and once even a purple heart dragon [...]
Cantos
Posted in CD 11: Cantos, tagged Anasazi, Blue Star, Butch Hall, Coyote Oldman, downloads, Erik the Flutemaker, flute, flute music, free music, High Spirits, Manetenon, mp3, Native American Flute, Ryofu, shakuhachi, Three Leaf on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is the eleventh flute CD, called Cantos. The singing flute. Now not to worry: only one song actually uses the human voice (mine).The track in question is The Lodge. You might want to skip that one. On this album I have been concentrating on slightly repetitive patterns and putting them into delayed parallel tracks. [...]
Breathing sound
Posted in Flute Music, tagged Anasazi, breath, flute, Native American Flute, shakuhachi, sound on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When playing the flute there is a connection with an invisible bank of music. The music, its feelings, its vistas, gets channeled in a sense. Music is manifesting in sound, but of course already exists before it manifests. This is a key point. There is no method here, no how-to. It’s a gift, I didn’t [...]
Episodes
Posted in CD 10: Episodes, tagged Anasazi, Coyote Oldman, download, flute, flute music, guitar, mp3, music, Native American Flute, Purtill, Ryofu, shakuhachi, Three Leaf Flutes, Wolfclaw on May 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Art is the activity most open to God’s influence. Here is CD #10 with flute music: Episodes. The new development is that I have a good number of tracks on this CD where flute is accompanied by guitar. That changes the style of the music drastically. For example, have a listen to “They Came from [...]
Album preview: Episodes
Posted in CD 10: Episodes, tagged download, flute music, free music, mp3 on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I will soon be publishing the tenth album with flute music. Here’s the album cover and a preview of one track: Some Evenings Last Forever — For the month of May 2011: consider backing my project at kickstarter.com —
No conflict
Posted in Flute Music, tagged conflict, flute, Hafiz, holy, poetry on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
No Conflict When the flute is playing For then I see every movement emanates From God’s Holy Dance. (Hafiz, 1320-1389)
Flute forum
Posted in Flute Music, tagged flute, music, Native American Flute on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My profile on the Flute Portal looks cool: http://www.fluteportal.com/music/187
Spirals CD
Posted in CD 09: Spirals, tagged Anasazi, download, experimental music, flute, free music, harmony, mp3, music, Native American Flute, shakuhachi, spirals, vision quest on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Flute music CD 9 is called: Spirals. Here is the cover image: The whole album as one zip file for download. On these recordings I am going on a much more experimental path. You can see this from the titles of the tracks. Five of the tracks use two flutes in different keys. The tune [...]
