Spherical Improvisations
TRANSFORMATION THROUGH SACRED SOUNDS
Inari
Coming Soon!
it will be possible to buy or download
my new children's CD / DVD / PODCAST
my new children's CD / DVD / PODCAST
INARI'S PUPS
Discover Our Wondrous World
Text, Narration and Musical Compositions by Marianne Green 2007
Illustrations by Brenda Ferrimani
The narrated, orchestrated and illustrated adventure, intended for children ages 4 - 10, is about a fox vixen, Inari, initiating her small cubs into the wonder of nature. Interwoven in expansion and contraction are ‘healing sounds’ with rich overtones (the monochord, tuning forks, chimes, crystal and Tibetan bowls, cowbells, church bells,) as well as the koto, piano, cello, alpine horns and sounds of nature, all of which nourish the bodies and souls of the children and families listening to this new kind of ‘music’.
My greatest testimonial comes from my 4 year old granddaughter:
“I don’t want it to end!”
Two 1 Minute Demos
Info Soul's Garden
Soul's Garden
HARMONY BEAUTY DEEP INNER PEACE
Connecting to our Innermost Essence
A Journey into Inner Space
Compositions of Sacred Sounds by Marianne Green
Unlocking the Gates to Your Inner TempleHARMONY BEAUTY DEEP INNER PEACE
Connecting to our Innermost Essence
A Journey into Inner Space
This CD begins with large Crystal Bowls playing the tones C# and G#, the interval of the perfect 5th, Universal Harmony. This interval balances our brain hemispheres and cells. The ensuing interplay of sounds and overtones, and the soft tranquil melodies of the Koto, lead us into a deep journey through our Soul's Garden. Each listening experience brings us to new initiations and transformations.
Possible Uses for this CD: Meditation and Transformation, Relaxation, BodyWork, Ceremonies, Setting Sacred Space, Slow Movement and Artistic-Creative Processes, Insomnia
Instruments: Crystal and Tibetan Bowls, Monochord, Koto, Chimes. Gong, Xylophone
The tone B, at this moment in my own intuitive experience, is the key to my heart, the key to my soul, which is why I have tuned the Monochord and Koto to resonate in harmony with the B crystal bowl.
My Journey through Soul's Garden
I imagine myself on the periphery of a secret garden. It is sunset, eve of the new moon. Anticipation: the promise of increasing new light! It is the TIME OF INITIATION into the next round on the spiral into the heights of my soul.
Beautiful ethereal sounds calm me. Resistance to moving closer slowly dissipates as I feel myself being drawn by Sacred Sounds into a journey through my Soul's Garden. The path is filled with spaciousness, color and vibrant light, images, gentle releasing of old patterns and energies.
I am renewed and filled with harmony and peace.
I AM BEAUTIFUL! I AM LOVE! I AM LIGHT!
I AM
"What I find most striking about this CD, beyond the extraordinary depth and expansion achieved with the sound frequencies, is the outstanding musical artistry."
Karen Foley, Radiant Communications, Boulder, CO
Review of Soul's Garden
Demo
Order Soul's Garden
Insomnia
Contact Marianne at 303 772 4047
Possible Uses for this CD: Meditation and Transformation, Relaxation, BodyWork, Ceremonies, Setting Sacred Space, Slow Movement and Artistic-Creative Processes, Insomnia
Instruments: Crystal and Tibetan Bowls, Monochord, Koto, Chimes. Gong, Xylophone
The tone B, at this moment in my own intuitive experience, is the key to my heart, the key to my soul, which is why I have tuned the Monochord and Koto to resonate in harmony with the B crystal bowl.
My Journey through Soul's Garden
I imagine myself on the periphery of a secret garden. It is sunset, eve of the new moon. Anticipation: the promise of increasing new light! It is the TIME OF INITIATION into the next round on the spiral into the heights of my soul.
Beautiful ethereal sounds calm me. Resistance to moving closer slowly dissipates as I feel myself being drawn by Sacred Sounds into a journey through my Soul's Garden. The path is filled with spaciousness, color and vibrant light, images, gentle releasing of old patterns and energies.
I am renewed and filled with harmony and peace.
I AM BEAUTIFUL! I AM LOVE! I AM LIGHT!
I AM
"What I find most striking about this CD, beyond the extraordinary depth and expansion achieved with the sound frequencies, is the outstanding musical artistry."
Karen Foley, Radiant Communications, Boulder, CO
Review of Soul's Garden
Demo
Order Soul's Garden
Insomnia
Contact Marianne at 303 772 4047
Demos
Listen to a Demo of Soul's Garden
Track 1: 1:02 Minutes Koto
Track 2: 3:02 Minutes Koto, Monochord, Bowls (Crystal, Tibetan)
Track 3: 1:34 Minutes Bowls, Chimes, Xylophone
Track 4: 2:34 Minutes Bowls, Chimes
2-01 Track 01 1.mp3
2-02 Track 02 1.mp3
2-03 Track 03 1.mp3
2-04 Track 04.mp3
Track 1: 1:02 Minutes Koto
Track 2: 3:02 Minutes Koto, Monochord, Bowls (Crystal, Tibetan)
Track 3: 1:34 Minutes Bowls, Chimes, Xylophone
Track 4: 2:34 Minutes Bowls, Chimes
2-01 Track 01 1.mp3
2-02 Track 02 1.mp3
2-03 Track 03 1.mp3
2-04 Track 04.mp3
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"Balance and Initiation" - Track 1 ($1.99)
"Peace" - Track 2 ($1.99)
"Going Deeper" - Track 3 ($1.99)
"Being" - Track 4 ($1.99)
"Beauty" - Track 5 ($1.99)
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Marianne Green
736 Boxwood Lane
Longmont, C0 80503
Thank you very much for your order!
marianne@sphericalimprovisations.com
Insomnia
I mentioned to a friend who has difficulty sleeping that when I wake up in the middle of the night I pray! And when I don’t get back to sleep, then I put on my CD and pray more! This works 98% of the time.
One week later, I read in Nancy Van Domelen’s newest book, The Higher Dimensions - Our Next Home, how there is a spiritual significance to insomnia. This is a channeled book from a group called the Lightbringers. If you are interested, read below what they have to say about insomnia.
Visit Nancy’s Website at: http://www.shiningmountain.net
“Another way to restore planetary balance can be found in an area seldom considered by those living on the Earth plane. It consists of communing with spirit in the hours just before dawn. At the end of the day, the spiritual energies start to accumulate and increase throughout the dark of the night. Because of this phenomenon, it has always been recognized as auspicious to set aside a time within this period to open up to the realm of spirit. Monks, nuns and others who have taken vows within a religious order commonly pray and meditate in the middle of the night. They have known that the spiritual energies are the most powerful during these hours.
Why is this so? The answer is very simple. The Earth exists on a plane of duality or opposites. Whenever the forces of light are the most prominent, there is an attraction for the forces of darkness. Correspondingly, when darkness is predominant, the vibratory powers of light are activated to establish balance. You ask then why does is not become light during the nighttime hours? It is because the law of duality keeps the light forces in check so as to honor the natural laws of this realm.
What is important to remember here is that the vibratory energies of light are very close during the dark of the night. In these hours, major connections can be made to the realm of spirit if one is awake, quiets the mind and enters into a receptive state. At the present time, the frantic pace of life and barrage from the energies of modern technology cause many individual to have problems sleeping. All kinds of medications have come into existence to assist one in getting to sleep.
The irony in this situation is that what the individual really needs is to be awake and attentive to the realm of spirit, which is close and available. Sleep is not what the person requires. Since the western world has moved so deeply into materialist ways, there is no period set-aside during the day to stop and prayerfully honor the Divine Creator. Because this act is a basic human need, the spirit within interrupts nighttime sleep so that the person can attune to the higher realms during the peace and quiet of these hours.
Therefore, we ask those of you who awaken in the night or cannot sleep to look at what is happening with a very different view. Recognize your human need for connection to the creative forces of the universe. Quiet yourselves and sink into deep communion with the Divine Creator in whatever manner is appropriate to your belief system. Use slow, rhythmic breathing as your method of entering a prayerful state. Then just be, floating in the arms of Universal Love.
The amount of sleep that you miss will be offset by the higher vibratory energies entering and radiating throughout your body. You will awaken in the morning refreshed and energized – ready for the day in a far better fashion than if you took a sleeping pill. Sleeplessness is a modern problem of astounding proportions. It is no more than a reflection of the lack of meaningful time during the day to perform a basic human act – that of attuning to and honoring the source of our existence.
So. We ask that you attend to our words and trust the import of what we say. Try our suggestion. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. What a different place the earth would be if everyone worldwide would set aside time in a twenty-four hour period to connect with the realm of spirit, directly and with intent. Visualize the energy of vibratory light that would encircle the planet, healing and uplifting all those who live on this plane! We would have a new Heaven and a new Earth, would we not? And, secondarily, we would solve our sleeping problems within the wind of an eye.
The Higher Dimensions – Our Next Home, Pages 18 - 20
Nancy Van Domelen Copyright 2005
http://shiningmountain.net
One week later, I read in Nancy Van Domelen’s newest book, The Higher Dimensions - Our Next Home, how there is a spiritual significance to insomnia. This is a channeled book from a group called the Lightbringers. If you are interested, read below what they have to say about insomnia.
Visit Nancy’s Website at: http://www.shiningmountain.net
“Another way to restore planetary balance can be found in an area seldom considered by those living on the Earth plane. It consists of communing with spirit in the hours just before dawn. At the end of the day, the spiritual energies start to accumulate and increase throughout the dark of the night. Because of this phenomenon, it has always been recognized as auspicious to set aside a time within this period to open up to the realm of spirit. Monks, nuns and others who have taken vows within a religious order commonly pray and meditate in the middle of the night. They have known that the spiritual energies are the most powerful during these hours.
Why is this so? The answer is very simple. The Earth exists on a plane of duality or opposites. Whenever the forces of light are the most prominent, there is an attraction for the forces of darkness. Correspondingly, when darkness is predominant, the vibratory powers of light are activated to establish balance. You ask then why does is not become light during the nighttime hours? It is because the law of duality keeps the light forces in check so as to honor the natural laws of this realm.
What is important to remember here is that the vibratory energies of light are very close during the dark of the night. In these hours, major connections can be made to the realm of spirit if one is awake, quiets the mind and enters into a receptive state. At the present time, the frantic pace of life and barrage from the energies of modern technology cause many individual to have problems sleeping. All kinds of medications have come into existence to assist one in getting to sleep.
The irony in this situation is that what the individual really needs is to be awake and attentive to the realm of spirit, which is close and available. Sleep is not what the person requires. Since the western world has moved so deeply into materialist ways, there is no period set-aside during the day to stop and prayerfully honor the Divine Creator. Because this act is a basic human need, the spirit within interrupts nighttime sleep so that the person can attune to the higher realms during the peace and quiet of these hours.
Therefore, we ask those of you who awaken in the night or cannot sleep to look at what is happening with a very different view. Recognize your human need for connection to the creative forces of the universe. Quiet yourselves and sink into deep communion with the Divine Creator in whatever manner is appropriate to your belief system. Use slow, rhythmic breathing as your method of entering a prayerful state. Then just be, floating in the arms of Universal Love.
The amount of sleep that you miss will be offset by the higher vibratory energies entering and radiating throughout your body. You will awaken in the morning refreshed and energized – ready for the day in a far better fashion than if you took a sleeping pill. Sleeplessness is a modern problem of astounding proportions. It is no more than a reflection of the lack of meaningful time during the day to perform a basic human act – that of attuning to and honoring the source of our existence.
So. We ask that you attend to our words and trust the import of what we say. Try our suggestion. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. What a different place the earth would be if everyone worldwide would set aside time in a twenty-four hour period to connect with the realm of spirit, directly and with intent. Visualize the energy of vibratory light that would encircle the planet, healing and uplifting all those who live on this plane! We would have a new Heaven and a new Earth, would we not? And, secondarily, we would solve our sleeping problems within the wind of an eye.
The Higher Dimensions – Our Next Home, Pages 18 - 20
Nancy Van Domelen Copyright 2005
http://shiningmountain.net
Review of Soul's Garden
A REVIEW OF "SOUL’S GARDEN" BY MARIANNE GREEN
Reviewed by John K. Galm
Professor Emeritus of
Ethnomusicology
University of Colorado
Reviewed by John K. Galm
Professor Emeritus of
Ethnomusicology
University of Colorado
“Enter the soul’s garden that will
unlock the gates to your Inner Temple.
HARMONY BEAUTY INNER PEACE “
unlock the gates to your Inner Temple.
HARMONY BEAUTY INNER PEACE “
This is the invitation that Marianne Green offers with her recording of Soul’s Garden. A special musical hour unfolds in five movements that reveals a subtle architecture built sound by sound. A carefully selected palate of sounds that begin with a pure timbre and then blend into an alchemy of timbres create a beguiling journey of space and time.
The composition centers on the pitch, “B”, of a frequency of 248 cycles per second. When the same pitch is added to the crystal bowls, Koto, Monochord and glockenspiel, each has a slight variation of this frequency resulting in a shimmering of vibrations and new timbres.
The movements unfold with the musical maturity of Marianne in that she has the courage to focus the listener on the decay of the sounds instead of the beginnings. These sounds grow and recede into the imagination of the ear –“Am I actually hearing these sounds or do they exist only in my aural memory?”
Many of the sounds reveal themselves as pebbles dropping in a still pound or stars appearing in an evening sky. I sense that Marianne’s exploration and discovery of the tundra region of the Swiss Alps has produced the pacing of the sounds as a reflection of the unfolding of the precious, tiny wildflowers.
A musical composition of only timbres is rare in Western Music. Only Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage experimented with this idea. But this recording slowly builds an expression of timbres that is beyond experimentation leading to a beautiful, revealed structure.
Beginning with the opening minor third interval of many lullabies, the crystal bowls start our sonic journey of the first movement “Balance and Initiation”.
This introduction sets the aural parameters of the entire composition and acts as a book-end with the final movement.
“Peace”, the second movement is the most spacious with only the timbres of the gongs , chimes and bowls.
The center movement, “Going Deeper”, satisfies our hunger for melody with only the Koto. However, melody here is never a cognate ---just a passing hint. This center of the composition, carefully avoids the indeterminate timbres of the other movements.
“Being” returns to the sonic bath of the gongs, bowls, chimes with only a hint of melody to balance the previous movement.
The final movement, “Beauty”, closes the composition with the feature of the incredible 50-stringed Monochord tuned to the “B” frequency. This instrument, skillfully recorded by David Dvorsky whose talents are subtly present in this piece, is able to build many harmonics with repeated strummings. Eventually the listener can perceive the “Chord of Nature” as the harmonics build to a climax, and then decay in a final resolution of the composition.
The composer suggests a journey of the music and I am certain that many journeys can be discovered, especially with repeated listenings. Also she suggests many uses for the album, such as: meditation, accompanying body work, sound healing, etc. But, I am of the opinion that the composition is so strong and unique that it is a major engaged listening experience in and of itself.
What a musical gift from Marianne and David!
