Look what I found today: 1 Hour of Gurdjieff's Music Compilation - arr. for violin & strings
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George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Alexandropol, Russian Empire (now Gyumri, Armenia). Gurdjieff taught that most humans do not possess a unified consciousness and thus live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to awaken to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential. Gurdjieff described a method attempting to do so, calling the discipline "The Work" (connoting "work on oneself") or "the System". According to his principles and instructions, Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness unites the methods of the fakir, monk and yogi, and thus he referred to it as the "Fourth Way".
Thomas De Hartmann was already an acclaimed composer in Russia when he first met Gurdjieff in 1916 in St. Petersburg. From 1917 to 1929 he was a pupil and confidant of Gurdjieff. During that time, at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man near Paris, De Hartmann transcribed and co-wrote much of the music that Gurdjieff collected and used for his movements exercises and music therapy.
Arranged & performed by Anna Konoplyova - violin & strings
1. Oriental Song - 0:00 2. N40 - 6:32 3. Song of the Fisherwoman - 9:12 4. Greek Song - 12:06 5. Duduki - 15:39 6. Kurd Sheperd's Dance - 20:15 7. Persian Song - 23:28 8. Dance - 27:27 9. Tibetan Melody - 31:08 10. Armenian Melody - 32:44 11. Hindu Melody - 34:37 12. Violin Impro - 37:56 13. N39 - 47:40 14. Song for Molokans - 51:20
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Date: December 30, 2024 at 17:27:52 From: pamela, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: 1 Hour of Gurdjieff's Music Compilation - arr. for violin &...
thanks for sharing ryan-its a little slow but it picks up a bit, I enjoyed the other the best- listenened to it all and my cat Sunny enjoyed it too.
I like enya and many other meditative tunes
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Date: December 30, 2024 at 12:41:31 From: pamela, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: 1 Hour of Gurdjieff's Music Compilation - arr. for violin &...
a comment by a poster at the link:
One of my top 5 favorite quotes of all time is by Gurdjieff and I quote him often, because I have come to the same conclusion. Beautiful music by the way.
“Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.”
- G. I. Gurdjieff
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Date: December 30, 2024 at 11:57:13 From: shadow, [DNS_Address] Subject: Gurdjieff-Movements - Konya Performance, 2013
He apparently also did sacred dance choreography...this is one of several available on youtube... ;)
http://gurdjieff-movements.net
The first comment:
"The Konya Festival is dedicated to ancient and for the majority sacred traditions. It is a high level festival and the most important one for this area in the world today. Having been present this particular evening I have experienced the all envading silence, concentration and deep seriousness these Movements evoked in all those present, unifying performers and spectators in a unique bond. The word ‘entertainment’ couldn’t be farther removed from the truth shared during this performance. The short video selection is only a wittnes and hopefully an impulse to investigate this legacy of Gurdjieff further. What for some is ‘entertainment’ for others can be a revelation."
Date: December 30, 2024 at 13:00:27 From: shadow, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Gurdjieff-Movements - Konya Performance, 2013
And I'd already known he'd written Christmas music...so? ;)
It's so often seemed important to you, in many exchanges between us over the years, that you note "you already knew of" what I'm posting about... I wish I knew why that is... ;(
Date: December 30, 2024 at 13:04:26 From: pamela, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Gurdjieff-Movements - Konya Performance, 2013
He wrote Chirstmas music too? I didn't know that, lol. me thinks you might be overthinking? I will have to look into all his messages about the Beezelbub guy, Lol.
Date: December 30, 2024 at 14:05:17 From: shadow, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Gurdjieff-Movements - Konya Performance, 2013
Oh...um...okay, whether or not I'm overthinking that little pattern I'd noticed is anybody's guess, I suppose, but here, you've definitely got me...
And this is too funny. Let me just share the little journey this has taken me on...lol...
So my *holyday* music playlists aren't like most people's, I don't think. lol As I'm sure you can relate, pamela, for me Christmas has always been about the frequency of *unconditional love and compassion* Yeshua modeled with His life...so all kinds of heart-energy music *as per my own weird sensibilities* becomes what I want to hear this time of year... And while, yes, things like Silent Night and other classics of this season show up there, especially with multi-harmonies, all kinds of other stuff does as well...
I can't remember how I first came across Thomas de Hartmann...probably while searching something else...but it was around Christmastime a couple years ago, during a difficult time, when I came across some of de Hartmann's Orchestral music, a piece he did with the Lviv National Philharmlonic Orchestra of Ukraine (at link)... I found it so soothing and uplilfting and celebratory, went on a tear finding other stuff he did, then found what he'd done with Gurdjieff... This year I reran that holyday playlist...which also had a couple tracks from that compilation you posted, Song of the Fisherwoman and Persian Song! lol So when I saw your post, I only had a minute but remembered Gurdjieff had cowrote many of those pieces, so just took that moment to write what I did briefly...and, woops, spazz them into being "Christmas" music...lol...
...and note the other thing, that I did...which hardly seems important anymore if it ever was in the first place...lol... 8-}
And maybe the coolest little gift this spazz offers me is realizing I'd not noted, before, the connection between the strongly heart-resonant energy I feel moving within Gurdjieff's/Hartmann's musical compositions...and the intellectual density of Gurdjieff's written-/verbal- teaching oeuvre... ;->
I'd always known, from having read him before to some degree and then with all the exposure Ryan has offered us to Gurdjieff, that I was on the same page with his bottom lines, so to speak... That quote of his that you shared here is the perfect example... ;) And maybe I'm just getting older...lol...but I'm gravitating far more toward musical/artistic ways of expressing so much I've always relied upon exhaustive words for, anymore, feeling it to be a faster/shorter track for impactive heart energy to move upon...and that's going for what I take in as well as what I offer...
So it was wonderful to come upon then and, rediscover, now, through this twisty little exchange, Gurdjieff's energetic truth and reality as translated through the music he created...! Thanks pamela! ;D
Date: December 30, 2024 at 17:34:29 From: pamela, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Gurdjieff-Movements - Konya Performance, 2013
8-} of course I always enjoy me own tunes best,,, why not?
>So my *holyday* music playlists aren't like most people's, I don't think. lol As I'm sure you can relate, pamela, for me Christmas has always been about the frequency of *unconditional love and compassion* Yeshua modeled with His life...so all kinds of heart-energy music *as per my own weird sensibilities* becomes what I want to hear this time of year... And while, yes, things like Silent Night and other classics of this season show up there, especially with multi-harmonies, all kinds of other stuff does as well..."
Yes and anything which brings the energy/frequency higher is always the best thing for each of us, especially since many of us spend 9 months of freezing cold temps and the white shit for far toooooooo long, Lol, I so miss the California weather/Sun, but not in the summertime!
Would love to hear some of your pieces, pamela, if you feel up for sharing any recordings here! I can't recall if you ever did so here, way back when...? Started searching in the direction of my own fav high-resonance music to share w/you but, of course, even there what feels like that to one might not be the same to another...and I'd love to hear/feel how that is, for you, from your own creations!
And wow, your weather makes me jealous, never thought I'd say it but I actually miss my old Chicago winters now after 37 years baking in the desert. DingDingDing! I'm way overdone! Someone please take me out the oven! lol How I wish I could send some of this re-lent-less Sun up your way...it was 71 here Christmas day, I hated it...lol... *oye* This time of year it travels lower against the southern horizon, feels so much closer & hotter even than in summer, when it peaks more overhead. The air temp can be lowest it gets here during average winter daytime, even upper 40s/low 50s, and if you're in the Sun for any length of time with skin white as mine you can still get sunburnt... ;-O
Anyway...warm thoughts coming your way... Here's a long chunk of Gurdjieff/de Hartmann music I came across yesterday that I think is lovely, "Songs of Sayyids and Dervishes: A Musical Tribute to Sufi Culture"...also has some beautiful Sunlight imagines... ;)
Thanks-- the only song I got recorded in a studio was way back in 2002- when I lived in N Idaho, Rain Song. The rest of them are on cassestte recordings. I have not lived in S Calif since moving away in late 1998. But have gone back to visit family occasionally- but the latest was when I visited in 2008. So its been awhile since I got to see family there in person-(tho they have come here to visit me on occassion) and also vist some of my beaches. We always made it a point to go to the beaches when I came out there. I recall the summer of 1998- it was so hot and humid and smoggy--ugh. I'm a California native born ya know.
Date: December 31, 2024 at 13:08:26 From: shadow, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Gurdjieff-Movements - Konya Performance, 2013
Oh, right! Of course! I remember that beautiful song of yours, remember back when you shared it, now...thank you for reminding me, and sharing it w/everyone again... ;) Memory gears getting just a little squeaky now is all...lol... If your current situation allows it I think it'd be grand if you could get back into not only making more music but sharing it... ;)
And yes, I remember when you first mentioned having lived in S. California... Hopefully you can keep visiting as you're able and they'll continue to visit... ;)