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    Ritual Music for Magnetic Meditation

    Peter Nolan, Easthampton, MA

    April 28, 2013

    My pregnant bride and I were married at a ceremony at the Integratron near Joshua Tree, California October 11, 2008. All of the legal stuff actually took place at a smaller procedure in the city hall building of Downtown Manhattan a few months earlier, but the ceremony was out in a spaceship with the tumbleweeds. The ceremony was conceived after having read "the Spiritual Journey of Alexandro Jodorovsky". I was pretty moved by the way he weaved ritual and ceremony into everyday life and after reading this book we decided that we should invent our own wedding ritual and that it should take place somewhere that had a specific resonance to us. We chose the Integratron because of it's location in the Palm Desert. We'd visited the Joshua Tree National park a few times throughout our relationship and it just felt right. The Integratron itself is an acoustically perfect wooden structure that was designed by former Howard Hughes engineer and Nicoli Tesla disciple named George Van Tassel. It was located close to a Native American holy site called "the Big Rock", which was said to have unusual magnetic energy. This place was perfect.

    As noted, the Integratron is an acoustically perfect space. You can stand on one side of the great room and whisper a message to someone at the other side over 50 feet away. They do daily meditation rituals in the room with Tibetan Prayer bowls. I decided that I wanted to devise my own piece of music to make use of the sound and feeling of the space, a magnetic sound bath. I recorded the first piece on this cdr to be played as part of our wedding ceremony as people entered the great room through a small portal in the floor. I feel that this music was strongly conceived and has a fast moving glacial quality, so I've decided to share it here.

    The second piece is a recent addition recorded 4 1/2 years after the wedding. I wanted to make another piece of meditational music to round out the set to make it more of a proper release. After spending some time with the ritual music, I sat down at my newly acquired Aquarius Entertainer organ for a meditational session. I fear that recent events in our new home state have given this one a darker color than the first two pieces, but I think that it works well with them as night does to day.

    Instruments played on these pieces include, but are not limited to: Roland Juno 6 Synthesizer, Electric Violin, Bowed Metal, Trumpet, Binson Echorec, Aquarius Entertainer organ.

    This release is dedicated to Kim Gordon as it comes into existence on her birthday 2013.

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This is the ceremonial music that played after we performed the wedding ritual that we'd invented. It has a ceremonial trumpet sort of flare to it. It's very joyful. We also played a piece of music that Mick Flower recorded for us for the date. He's a long time friend and Julie and I had toured england as Spectre Folk a few years before this. I always thought Vibracathedral Orchestra's music was like an eternal ecstatic celebration of sound and I wanted to have that vibe at our wedding. I'm not going to include that track on this digital album since I think it was just something he did for us for the wedding and I don't want to overstep things.

Super fun day in the desert. We actually had a pretty good turnout of friends and family being that it was a destination kind of thing. Our New York friends are always looking for a good excuse to get the fuck out of dodge... so it was a cool scene. After party was steaks at Pappy and Harriats in Pi town. Super fun till my dad had some kind of anxiety attack.

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from Peter Dustin Nolan "Ritual Music for Magnetic Meditation", released May 19, 2014

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Arbitrary Signs is the vanity record label of Pete Nolan of the Magik Markers. Artists: Magik Markers, Spectre Folk, Devin, Gary, and Ross, MV&EE. For links to other Magik Markers see Drag City's Bandcamp. For more Spectre Folk go to the Vampire Blues Bandcamp page. ... more

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