Research

Like all who love music, we'd be the first to admit that this relationship is a mystery… perhaps you feel the same way. The World Mosaic of Sound consists of people in many different countries who wish to find new ways of increasing their understanding of the relationship between humans and sound. The results of our work hint at whole new worlds to be discovered, investigated and researched. We get together regularly to share our discoveries and make music together in a live admosphere of improvisation and on-the-spot composition, often sharing the results of our work in the form of concerts, CD's and tapes.

To listen to samples from the CDs currently available, please visit Our Music page.

Colour affects moods. For example:

• RED increases levels of attention and alertness, which is why it is used for warning signs;

• GREEN has an uplifting refreshing effect which is explains why people feel recharged from being with nature;

• BLUE has a calming and cooling effect such as that felt gazing upon a blue sea.

Music and colour are both manifestations of energy. Colour can be scientifically analysed and every shade has a precise frequency of electromagnetism. Similarly, the nature and rhythms of music connect to and amplify different kinds of energy. It's not so much the music that affects the listener, more the amplification of the energies as they are manifested in sound.

Each of the seven bands of visible light in the naturally occurring spectrum, as seen in the rainbow or in the decomposition of white light shone through a prism, represents a distinct frequency of electromagnetic energy. The Mosaic Orchestra has researched the spectrum energies and composed original music that portrays in sound the exact nature of each colour.

The effect on the listener when hearing this music can be startling. The colour spectrum represents a set of natural energies, all of which are needed by human beings if they are to feel well. Listening to spectrum colour music causes well-being in the listener by recharging and balancing the inner lives of the body. This unique music not only engages the conscious faculties but is also 'heard' by the lives within.

There is a rich and never ending source of research, exploration and development in the discovery and application of the laws and principles that are the natural government of life on our planet.

Musicians of the World Mosaic of Sound have been researching many of these principles for 20 years or more, and what is offered here is brief insight into just one concept - 'the tuning fork' principle. It is simple to see, universal in its application and profound in its significance.

With two tuning forks of the same pitch, when one is struck, and sounded, say on a wall, the other, if held to the wall, will begin to resonate and sound in sympathetic vibration with the first. This law of attraction by sympathetic resonance, or more simply put "like goes to like", applies universally. There is, as one example, a remarkable story of the fisherman from Borneo, who by tradition fish by imitating in their swim the nature of movement of the fish that they are trying to catch. This nature of swimming sets up a tuning fork which attracts the fish.

The same concept applies in human life. In music the first instrument is the human itself, and like a musical instrument, our faculty, mind and emotion need to be tuned to what it is we are trying to do. Playing a piece of music, for example, is not simply a matter of mechanically playing the notes. To capture the spirit of a particular piece of music, the player needs to tune themselves to the nature, qualities, significance and meaning of what it is they are attempting to play. When a performer is able to do this, then the essence of what it is they are playing is present in what they do.

This notion of tuning forks applies to human development also. The remarkable feature of the human instrument is that it can tune to such a diverse range of frequencies. Just look at the diversity of sound that a human can make compared to any other life form.

We are gifted with freedom of choice and each of us can choose what it is we tune our instrument to. We can of course simply tune our instruments to what is readily available - many millions for example do this weekly, when they tune not just their radios but themselves to their favourite morning programme. Or we can set about, through development, to tune ourselves to higher or finer frequencies that are not so readily available - for example to the frequencies that can heal in music rather than simply entertain. The first premise in setting about consciously to tune the human instrument is in the thought pattern - "It's not what you do but the reason why you do it that counts".

Our workshops offer more insights into these and other concepts related to the natural laws in music and the development of the human instrument.

Nick Woodeson

In countenance of moon upon thy face,
doth God portray a holy grace.

And if ye look, no fear to lose,
it shall reveal its earthly trace.

The gift of green, given anew,
the willingness for you to do.

Yellow to thine heart divine,
steadiness in pulse sublime.

Blue keep safe, the kidneys clean
the words you say to match your mean.

Red in action, moving along,
forever there, repetition strong.

White the instinct to the liver,
holds the line, antibiotic giver.

Thus the five - thy choice to use,
first self of God, in heavenly muse.

To the inner life, do moon codings glow,
the light within for the wise to know.

The lowest is the deepest, the moon thy teacher,
child the father of the man, the creature.

The waxing moon in rising splendour,
with Jupiter above, the saviour sender.

Aud Wilken

Life is not all wanting and willing
Life is receiving and giving
Like gentle mist
a drop of rain
stretching my arms to the sun
It is wisdom protecting her young
holding them close to her heart
that they may not lose their humanity
In passing you will know
that here lives a drop of eternity
a spark of decency
and a home for care
From it comes the trust
in the purpose of it all
like the strength of an unbroken chain…