More About Subtle Bodies
More about Subtle Bodies
Janet Sussman, piano, synthesizer, and voice
Compact disk, $14.95
The music on this album is improvised, but the methods that I use to produce it have taken years to develop. I have learned to “back listen” to the music as it emerges, and hear it as sequences of sound that have a particular effect on the mind and body. My breath, body, and subtle energy system “jam” like jazz musicians as I play, so that the effect on listeners is complex and layered throughout their own physicality. The music is free-flowing and follows the contours of the energy body rather than a typical compositional framework.
The acoustic piano, due to its percussive nature, lends itself to punctuating the rhythmic sequences that pull stress out of the physical body. Through this kneading of the physical body, emotional knots are also released. The synthesizer, due to its digital and electrical nature, is naturally more ethereal and related to the subtle energy system. The spacious, open-ended character of the synthesizer in its many guises gives the listener the capacity to view other dimensions both from an interior and environmental point of reference. The vocalizations that I use on the album are adapted from guided meditational techniques that I work with in a therapeutic context. They represent the capacity of the subtle bodies to morph, shape-shift or stretch to occupy greater and greater amplitudes of space/time.
The combination of acoustic piano, synthesizer and voice creates a dynamic, integrative palette. This elicits a feeling of peace while delving deep into the tensions, conflicts and stored emotions of a lifetime. Ideally, you are offered an awakened, relaxed knowledge about your own inner state.
1. Mind River
2. Dreamtime
3. Light Spin
4. Gyro I
5. Spatial
6. Alchemical Strings
7. Suspension
8. Vertigo
9. Gyro II
10. Subtle Bodies
11. Arabesque
12. Disclosure
--Janet Sussman
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