So, all of our first-timers, welcome. Before you are 22 chromatically tuned quartz crystal singing bowls, which means you have all of the white keys on the piano plus the black keys, and some additional lower and upper notes as well. What this does is this allows us to paint with color, to add chroma, chromaticism. Chroma, from the Greek word for color — from which we derive color, I should say. It's the color of sound, using multiple tones and pitches to really give us more of a palette from which we can express, move and use frequency and sound and the relationships of sound to evoke responses within our system.

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So, this weekend we're coming up on the new moon, that dark period when we have an opportunity to begin to really sit into the silence. I love to say that sound's twin sister is silence, which means that they are inextricably linked, and one gives rise to the other.

So today we're going to begin to enter the silence, this silent period under that dark new moon, moving towards that space with sound itself. And we're going to do something that feels very artistic. We're going to begin to clear our canvas, our metaphorical canvas, so that we can welcome in and create anew, afresh, with a wild, reckless abandon if that's how you'd like to create, or with constructive, linear, precise methods, whatever this is.

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Yeah, the resonance is great right now, isn't it? I know. It's really, really just sitting in it. We'll talk about that in a second — and we'll talk about it right now.

So, where we're sitting, we're sitting in this space of, in music theory, what's called a perfect fifth. This is two notes that are basically — I'm starting on a D in my left hand and an A in my right hand. They're basically five notes apart: D, E, F, G, A. The perfect fifth is one of the — actually, it's the second most stable interval, or space between two notes, in all of music. It is a bedrock. It's a foundation on which pretty much anything else is built. So it's really interesting that we're sitting in this perfect fifth, stability of this perfect fifth.