cosmic sound transducers

陳老蓮（洪綬）・嬰戲圖

Chen Hongshou - Children Playing (detail)
Hangingscroll; ink and colors on silk
149.5 x 67.5cm
Circa 1650

scanned by dharmadhatu

教王護国寺（東寺）
両界曼荼羅（日本国宝）
細部及全體布局

進步文獻：

曼荼羅
http://www.sakai.zaq.ne.jp/piicats/mandara.htm

両界曼荼羅
http://www.sakai.zaq.ne.jp/piicats/mandara2.htm

胎蔵界曼荼羅
http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~mk123456/tai.htm

金剛界曼荼羅
http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~mk123456/kon.htm

胎藏界曼荼羅



金剛界曼荼羅

密教最重要曼荼羅：
日本・京都・東寺《兩界曼荼羅》
西元九世紀（平安時代）

Shakti - Face to Face (1977)

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Transcription by Daniel Rheault

胎藏界曼荼羅



金剛界曼荼羅

密教藝術重要瑰寶，日本三大曼荼羅之一：
國寶・子嶋寺紺綾地金銀泥繪《兩界曼荼羅》

“Conscious song choice is much relevant when trying to give music its original meaning. For this reason an mp3 player should not have an oversized memory: 45/60/90 minutes provide the right amount of time. Short storage capacity becomes a value as it makes room for just few accurately chose songs, avoiding thousands of them we wouldn’t ever listen.”

Designers: Stefano Pertegato, Massimiliano Rampoldi, Eloisa Tolu, Francesco Schiraldi & Giovanni Mendini

卡帶式手動充電 mp3 播放器
有 45/60/90 分鐘三種型號

轉自：http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/02/18/finger-power-works-the-tape/

古代尺牘選註
譚正璧編，上海光明書局，民國二十四年

1935 年的字體設計、筆劃簡法

程硯秋 《荒山淚》

圖一選自：歐陽予倩等：《程硯秋圖文集》(1946，絕版)

《程硯秋圖文集》下載 ＞ (PDF, 16.3 MB)

The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered musical sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine mountain range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire.

Completed in 2006, it is part of the series of four sculptures within the Panopticons arts and regeneration project created by the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network (ELEAN). The project was set up to erect a series of 21st-century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire as symbols of the renaissance of the area.

Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu.

from Wikiepedia (via http://mediyoker.tumblr.com)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Ringing_Tree_(Panopticons)

Laetitia Sonami
2008 Shaighai eArts Festival STREAMING RIVER PERFORMANCES

Photos by Dajuin Yao
Additional photos by the STREAMING RIVER Production Unit (Jiang Zhuyun, Lu Yang, Yang Ge)

古中國人對於異邦，比如在明代重要圖解百科全書《三才圖會》（明・王圻、王思義編，萬曆三十七年前後刊行）裡，表現出來的都是一種蔑視、獵奇，更多的是徹底胡說八道。比方說，在「人物十二卷」開始介紹海外各國，並插圖描繪之。而其中除了真有其國以外，更加了小人國、長腳國、聶耳國、穿胸國，等等等等。說說笑話當然無妨，但應該加註！

不過，見到「爪哇國」這一條倒是深感形容真切。其中描寫的爪哇國人無憂無慮隨遇而安之種種，頗為寫實。其實在今天的印尼音樂中也可證明。曾在「前味音樂網」某一集中介紹過的印尼銅管樂團演奏的喪禮樂，竟是所聽過世界各音樂中最快樂的狂歡即興…

（掃描自《三才圖會》，上海古籍出版社重印版）

Ancient Chinese depictions of the Kingdom of Java and the Land of the Pierced Chests. From the encyclopedia “Sancai tuhui”, published around 1609. Scanned by dharmadhatu from a reprint edition.

photo by João Oliveira, Pedro Oliveira

轉自 http://www.sleeveface.com/?p=285

德軍二次大戰時期作為偵查敵機來襲預警之用的聲響雷達，稱為 Ringtrichterrichtungshörer (RRH) (環形漏斗方位監聽器)。由三人小組操作。能測目標距離為五至十二公里，方位角誤差值為二度。

極罕錄音公開：
Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stensen Quartet Live
Graz, Austria 4.7.1974

Desireless
Spiral Dance
Passion Dance
Hasta Siempre

http://urge2burge.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/jan-garbarek-quartet-graz-austria-471974/

本站映像直接下載：
http://www.post-concrete.com/dharmadhatu/audio/Garbarek1974Graz.zip

感謝 pock liu

Photo: Arthur Sand

Cosmic Sound Transducer 宇宙聲響轉換器：

1963 年的台北中華路（中華商場）

身心靈一體

造字、書法：周方正

何謂 transducer (能量轉換器)，這裡講得簡單清楚：

What are Transducers?

Transducers are electric or electronic devices that transform energy from one manifestation into another. Most people, when they think of transducers, think specifically of devices that perform this transformation in order to gather or transfer information, but really, anything that converts energy can be considered a transducer.

Transducers that detect or transmit information include common items such as microphones, Geiger meters, potentiometers, pressure sensors, thermometers, and antennae. A microphone, for example, converts sound waves that strike its diaphragm into an analogous electrical signal that can be transmitted over wires. A pressure sensor turns the physical force being exerted on the sensing apparatus into an analog reading that can be easily represented. While many people think of transducers as being some sort of technical device, once you start looking for them, you will find transducers everywhere in your everyday life.

Most transducers have an inverse that allows for the energy to be returned to its original form. Audio cassettes, for example, are created by using a transducer to turn the electrical signal from the microphone pick-up – which in turn went through a transducer to convert the sound waves into electrical signal – into magnetic fluctuations on the tape head. These magnetic fluctuations are then read and converted by another transducer – in this case a stereo system – to be turned back into an electrical signal, which is then fed by wire to speakers, which act as yet another transducer to turn the electrical signal back into audio waves.

Other transducers turn one type of energy into another form, not for the purpose of measuring something in the external environment or to communicate information, but rather to make use of that energy in a more productive manner. A light bulb, for example, one of the many transducers around us in our day-to-day lives, converts electrical energy into visible light. Electric motors are another common form of electromechanical transducer, converting electrical energy into kinetic energy to perform a mechanical task. The inverse of an electric motor – a generator – is also a transducer, turning kinetic energy into electrical energy that can then be used by other devices.

As in all energy conversions, some energy is lost when transducers operate. The efficiency of a transducer is found by comparing the total energy put into it to the total energy coming out of the system. Some transducers are very efficient, while others are extraordinarily inefficient. A radio antenna, for example, acts as a transducer to turn radio frequency power into an electromagnetic field; when operating well, this process is upwards of 80% efficient. Most electrical motors, by contrast, are well under 50% efficient, and a common light bulb, because of the amount of energy lost as heat, is less than 10% efficient.

轉自：http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-transducers.htm

德國空軍改裝版之美造 F4 PHANTOM 幽靈戰鬥機

果然與美利堅美學大大相異。納粹，不，應說整体獨逸國之傳統美學於此可見

尤其色彩感，參考獨逸國旗。這個傳統是強烈癖好黑色、深紅、橙黃的，可絕不只是國旗的一種設計而已。這套色系（以及，很重要的，其濃度 saturation）在獨逸美學中是視為正色。

美國 McDonnell 所造之 F4 Phantom 2 於 1958 年推出，至今仍為日、德、韓、希、土五國空軍之現役戰機。

圖片來源：荷蘭 F4 幽靈式戰鬥機大站
http://www.f-4.nl/

「阿彌陀來迎圖」是淨土宗佛教藝術的一個重要主題。事見《阿彌陀經》、《觀無量壽經》。就圖像學而言，其中必定有阿彌陀佛率領眾菩薩，尤其大勢至 (Mahasthamaprapta)、觀世音 (Avalokitesvara) 二大菩薩。二大菩薩伴隨著阿彌陀佛（合為西方三聖）前來迎接信徒，往生淨土。《觀無量壽經》中描繪「上品上生」之往生：

「生彼國時，此人精進勇猛故，阿彌陀如來，與觀世音、大勢至，無數化佛，百千比丘，聲聞大眾，無量諸天，七寶宮殿，觀世音菩薩，執金剛臺，與大勢至菩薩，至行者前，阿彌陀佛放大光明，照行者身，與菩薩授手迎接。觀世音、大勢至，與無數菩薩，讚歎行者，勸進其心。行者見已，歡喜踊躍，自見其身，乘金剛臺，隨從佛後，如彈指頃，往生彼國。生彼國已，見佛色身，眾相具足；見諸菩薩，色相具足；光明寶林，演說妙法。聞已，即悟無生法忍。經須臾間，歷事諸佛，遍十方界，於諸佛前，次第授記，還至本國，得無量百千陀羅尼門。是名上品上生者。」

日本的「阿彌陀來迎圖」有頗多傑作，我特別愛的是這幅重要國寶，平安時代後期的「阿彌陀聖眾來迎圖」（現藏和歌山有志八幡講十八箇院）。佛之前可見觀世音菩薩手捧金蓮臺於佛左、大勢至菩薩雙手合掌於佛右。

從來就覺得 John McLaughlin 和 Carlos Santana 的駭人傑作 Love Devotion Surrender 中之二人表現，就是菩薩下凡，就是「阿彌陀來迎圖」中的勢至、觀音。其中我認為 McLaughlin = 勢至（智慧）；Santana = 觀音（慈悲），竟然連左右位置都恰恰相同。這幅「阿彌陀來迎圖」，應該更適合作為這專輯的封面。

而在「阿彌陀來迎圖」與唱片內頁二人與上師合影兩圖之比較中，當然他倆上師 Sri Chinmoy 是否能與阿彌陀佛相提並論，值得嚴重懷疑，但二位菩薩的對照意象是毫無問題的。


下為「阿彌陀聖眾來迎圖」triptych 三幅全貌：

French sound artist Lionel Marchetti recording on a seacliff near San Luis Obispo, California, USA. (Using TASCAM DA-P1 DAT recorder, AudioTechnica AT 822 stereo microphones)

July 2002

photo by dharmadhatu

法國聲音藝術家 Lionel Marchetti 在南加州海邊攀岩錄音
二零零二年七月攝於 San Luis Obispo

高野山
大門・金剛力士

註：高野山乃日本密教真言宗聖山

轉自：世界遺產・高野山
http://sekaiisan-koyasan.com/
（可下載 wallpaper 壁紙）

佛性特強作曲家山下勉 (Stomu Yamashta) 最重要絕版黑膠作品系列 IROHA 天、地、水、火。(1981 – 1983)。

特別推薦「IROHA 水」、「IROHA 火」兩張心靈音樂鉅作。

全套下載：「悪膠癖」
http://maojimao8.blogbus.com/logs/36999805.html

IROHA 天

Opening
Chanty
Sutra
Organic Tune
Kyrie
Shingon
Photone

IROHA 地

Native
The Autumn
Iroha
Hannya Sutra
The Key
Infinity
Change of Life

IROHA 水

A1 しらべ Prologue (1:34)
A2 山水 Sansui (5:43)
A3 流れ Come To River (1:47)
A4 海 Sea (2:42)
A5 水舞 Water Dance (6:44)
B1 水路 Suiro (5:03)
B2 うねり Swell (8:01)
B3 やすらぎ Serenity (2:34)
B4 # 水夢 Water Ring (6:16)

IROHA 火

A1 聖誕火 Birth (12:50)
A2 天火 Cosmic Fire (6:26)
B1 受命 Destiny (5:01)
B2 御仏は In The Heart (3:25)
B3 いろは変奏曲 Iroha Variation (2:55)
B4 定道 Our Way (6:04)
B5 久遠 As Far As (3:05)