DAVID HYKES AND THE HARMONIC PRESENCE FOUNDATION,


A warm welcome
to you from David Hykes and the Harmonic Presence Foundation.
Greetings from Delhi, India, where we are offering concerts, teachings
and seminars! Namaste!
May all beings find happiness and harmony and
their causes!
May all beings find freedom from suffering and its
causes!
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Harmonic Flash #1:
Bringing the Harmonic Chant lineage practices to "Mother India":
DAVID
HYKES AND THE HARMONIC CHOIR are featured in
the International
Festival of Sacred Arts in Delhi, India.
Their final concert is
tomorrow night, March 8th, at 6:30 pm,
in the outdoor ampitheater
of the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts.
The following day, Tuesday, March 9th, David is giving a full
day of teachings
about Harmonic Presence work and Harmonic Chant
lineage practices at the Global Arts
Village.
You can download the brochure and registration
info here (click).
For more information please email us, or call
Joel on (+91) 9886714285.
Harmonic Flash #2:
Announcing the March-August, 2010 schedule of Harmonic Presence retreats
and seminars
at the Fondation Présence Harmonique retreat center
near Paris, France
(click to download French version with dates; English text
version to follow)
Harmonic Flash #3:
There are more and more applications being received
for David
Hykes's HARMONIC PRESENCE ONLINE PROGRAM,
which allows students
around the world to have online sessions with David Hykes.
But there
are a few places still available. For information and application
details, you can download the brochure here.
Harmonic Flash #4:
HEARING SOLAR WINDS
(Alight),
David's all-time best-selling album with The Harmonic
Choir, is available for download or on CD,
remixed and
remastered from the original recordings in a remarkable 96kz stereophile
edition.
ALSO AVAILABLE: his 11th album,
also with The Harmonic Choir, HARMONIC WORLDS,
and their concert
DVD, HARMONIC MEETING, from Paris.
Harmonic Flash #5:
"Harmonic Presence: Music of the Spheres, Contemplative Awareness and Healing
Harmonization"
David will be teaching Sept.5-10 this year at magical Esalen Institute.
(Registration info to follow soon.)
SOUNDS OF COMPASSION...
The Harmonic Presence Foundation is
dedicated to sharing knowledge about
the deeper nature of the
Harmony present in the universe and the mind,
from "the music of the
spheres" to the spheres of human communication, contemplation,
well-being and attunement.
We are devoted to sharing as widely as possible the creatively inspired,
deep and joyful contemplative music lineage
called Harmonic Chant,
founded by David Hykes in 1975,
as well as the Harmonic Presence
work, contemplative practices and teachings
linking music,
meditation, the mind, and healing harmonization.
The great violinist Lord Yehudi Menuhin called Harmonic Chant a
"veritable music of the spheres."
Composer-singer David Hykes has
developed the work through
concerts with his legendary group, David
Hykes and The Harmonic Choir),
albums, seminars, conferences,
presentations
and contemplative retreats, and conferences and
seminars.
The Harmonic Choir includes outstanding senior
collaborating artists Timothy Hill, Seth Markel, Joel Bluestein,
flutist Stéphane Gallet (France) and percussionists Ev Mann and
Bruno Caillat (France);
and supporting singers Federico Parra
(Argentina) and Fred LeVan (France).
Described by the New York Times as "composer-mystic",
Hykes is
equally a singer, visual artist, writer,
meditation teacher and
retreat/seminar leader.
In addition to concerts around the world,
often bringing his legendary group The Harmonic Choir,
David
conducts Harmonic Presence music and meditation seminars and
contemplative retreats,
at Pommereau, a peaceful retreat center in a
park and forest near Paris, France,
as well as in the USA, Denmark,
and in many other countries.

The contemplative
Harmonic Presence work David teaches is a non-sectarian approach to
self-development, well-being, healing and spiritual growth, which is
equal parts creative art, spiritual training, and healing
harmonization.
These 3 main branches and concerns could be described
as follows:
1. To make possible the embodied experience and vision of a
contemplative music of the spheres, available to all,
which can help
attune us evermore deeply to the needs of harmony in this, our very life
on earth.
2. To delve deeply into essential contemplative practice, through
accompanied group and guided group meditation training,
a wonderful
voyage of exploration, discovery and recognition of the deeper nature
within.
3. To find a clear and compassionate "healing harmonization,"
almost
like an atmosphere of natural blessings,
which comes through the
unique "harmonic spirit" David Hykes brings to this work,
nourished
and guided by his studies and immersions in Tibetan Buddhist traditions,
the Gurdjieff Work, Christianity, Native American tradition,
Hinduism and Sufism.
Harmonic Chant, as well as The Harmonic Choir, the group David Hykes
founded in New York in 1975,
and the Harmonic Presence teachings,
retreats, seminars, and presentations, are now known in countries around
the world.
David's pioneering work the past 34 years linking mind, music,
meditation,
and holistic medicine has included projects with His
Holiness the Dalai Lama,
the Mind and Life Institute, the Gyuto
Monks, and raga singer Sheila Dhar,
among others, and shows how
integrative harmonic knowledge can help
bring about deep
harmonization and transformation--
especially on a planet like this
in times like these!
And-- in people like ourselves!
For information, you can e-mail
us,
or you can call the Foundation office in the US at +1 203
987 5416, in France at +33 9 52 56 74 69 or in India at +91 973 634
9473.
Here is some general information about Harmonic Presence
intensive retreat-seminar dates at Pommereau,
our contemplative
center in a park and forest near Paris,
as per events of November
and December, 2009
(Click here to download the
brochure).
The 11th annual Harmonic
Presence retreat by the sea in Denmark will be August 2-7, 2010.
SHARING SOUNDS OF THE VOICE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN...
From giving interfaith, one world harmony concerts and
contemplative retreats around the world,
to collaborations with His
Holiness the Dalai Lama, concerts for major Dharma centers
like
Rangjung Yeshe Institute, with the Gyuto and Gyume Monks Monks,
to
presenting his work to the neuroscientists and contemplative
practitioners
of the Mind and Life Institute,
David Hykes has
served the cause of sacred sound for almost 40 years,
bringing to
life new awareness about "the music of the spheres" and exploring many
unheard possibilities.
"David Hykes has opened a new dimension in music, bringing us the
music of the spheres.
It is the music of overtones which hold sway
throughout the universe
and govern all spatial and mathematical
relationships.
As music, these wondrous sounds
retain an
extraordinary mystery, for they do not belong to man.
They have not
to be worked by him and must make every listener feel humble and yet
part of the great System.
"The Harmonic Presence Foundation offers concerts, seminars, retreats, teachings and
residencies all over the world,
spreading a form of knowledge
which joins the sciences at their most intangible level,
where what
appears as matter turns out to be pure energy.
This music which David Hykes brings us, from the harmonic series, being,
as he says the musical DNA,
the source of all the music we know,
which gives us life,
also provides an extraordinary 'Genesis
Chapter' for musical education at all levels."
--the
late Lord Yehudi Menuhin, renowned violinist and yogi.
"David Hykes's music is haunting and transporting. It takes you some
place like the Sahara desert,
somewhere completely otherworldly. It
transports you to the Ancient Time.
While searching for music for
my film 'Travellers and Magicians,' I listened to so much music.
But
I always came back to David's. From the moment I heard it, there was no
doubt."
--Revered incarnate Tibetan lama Dzongsar
Khyentse Rinpoche.
Here are two videos of David Hykes in
concert in Paris on YouTube:

"Spectral Path";
and
"Harmonic Opening"

Encouragement of the spiritual inquiry
dimension, "listening in" to the deeper nature of self and reality,
comes from blending this primordial sacred sound stream, Harmonic
Chant,
with contemplative practices and teachings uniting music,
meditation, and the medicine of deep harmonization,
the Harmonic
Awareness work. This work cultivates the spirit of service to Harmony,
in the world, in oneself and for all beings, and develops
mindfulness,
compassion, healing, and a sense of greater well-being
in all spheres --all octaves-- of this Creation.
SOUNDS OF VOICES OF EXPERIENCE...
Says
experienced teacher and human resources consultant Crystal
Forthomme of the Real Change Network
about David's Harmonic
Presence retreats:
"David is wonderful. He embodies what he
teaches, is funny, engaging and a master of opening
to the healing
energy of sound/vibration/harmonics. A brilliant pioneer and
practitioner."
Last summer, David Hykes served
on the faculty of the Mind and Life Institute,
which brings
together leading neuroscientists and contemplative practitioners
with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other spiritual teachers to study
the transformation of the mind through meditation.
He gave the
closing evening concert with his group,
The Harmonic Choir, in
celebration of the 25th anniversary of their breakthrough album,
"Hearing Solar Winds," the best-selling overtone album of all time
(300,000 copies and still selling).
Hearing Solar Winds, Harmonic
Worlds, and the recent "Harmonic Meeting" concert DVD from Paris are
available here.
You can read some texts about David Hykes's work by spiritual and
cultural luminaries
here,
and you can read testimonials from some of the many people
who have studied with or received healing sounds work by David Hykes
and have had deep musical, meditative and/or healing experiences here.
David Hykes is a renowned and award-winning composer, singer, and
researcher in contemplative music practice.
He's a widely-respected
teacher of contemplative music and meditation,
and founder of the
universal sacred music called Harmonic Chant (harmonic singing) (New
York, 1975).
He has been teaching the contemplative and spiritual
awareness practices called the Harmonic Presence work since 1980.
He
has had the honor to contribute his universal sacred music in festivals,
Cathedrals and spiritual
centers around the world, and especially
to projects and events in collaboration with
His Holiness the Dalai Lama,
the Gyuto and Gyume Monks,
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoché,
Chokyi Nyima
Rinpoché
and the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, and Tsoknyi Rinpoché.
Feel free to contact us with any questions or for more information
by e-mail or phone: the
Foundation office in the US at +1 203 987 5416 or in France at +33 9 52
56 74 69.
Since September 11, 1981, our Foundation, founded at New York's
Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
has served the global need for
ever-greater awareness about the nature of real Harmony,
in life, in
ourselves and in the universe.
To serve the cause of better inner
and outer Harmony,
we continue to share our work, research,
discoveries, teachings and practices about the deep relationships
between primordial and sacred sound, listening awareness and the
mind,
meditation practice, healing harmonization and
well-being.
David Hykes is a recognized pioneer and supporter of
global sacred music
and respected teacher of musical spirituality
and contemplative practice with over 30 years of experience.
Harmonic Chant (harmonic singing) is a universal contemplative music
practice
based on the natural harmonic presence found at the heart
of all musical sound in the universe
as well as deep in the heart of
our listening consciousness.
Collaborations over the years have included events with His Holiness the
Dalai Lama,
the Gyuto and Gyume Monks, concerts in sacred spaces
and retreat teachings in over 20 countries,
as well as many film
scores, including major Buddhist motion pictures,
such as Dzongsar
Khyentse Rinpoché's "Travellers and Magicians" and John Bush's trilogy
"Journey Into Buddhism."
He is an award-winning composer and singer
whose 12 albums of music,
beginning with "Hearing Solar Winds," his
landmark album with The Harmonic Choir, is the best-selling harmonic
vocal album of all time,
which almost single-handedly launched the
nascent modern harmonic sounds movement world-wide.
Click here for the current calendar of David's concerts and
teachings in the US and Europe
from May through September, 2009,
with other concerts and teachings to be announced.
"David Hykes
has opened a new dimension in music, bringing us the music of the
spheres." -- Lord Yehudi Menuhin
David's unique voice and guided
musical journey of the past 33 years toward the heart of the world's
wisdom traditions
have made him one of the visionary wake-up callers
regarding the deeper nature of the crisis of harmony in today's
world.
His calling is to share, inspire and encourage knowledge
right here on earth of of the great Harmony--
from the music of the
spheres to the deepest vibrations of mind and heart,
and its
resonant relevance to our need to find harmony in life on Earth.
His
call, one might say, is for a global warming of the heart.
Our
Foundation organizes international seminars, retreats, concerts and
festivals,
sharing global teachings which explore the deep nature of
harmony in mind, life, and the universe, along with practices which help
our re-attunement to it.
Through the universal contemplative music
called Harmonic Chant, mindfulness and meditation training, and healing
harmonization practices,
we share inspiring ways of opening the
heart, clearing the mind, and harmonizing the body.
Our events are a
way to bring people together inside and out, for deeper harmony, healing
and understanding.
Our work is for all those seeking deeper
awareness and attunement to essential nature of harmony in oneself,
life, and the universe.
David Hykes and the Foundation work actively in support of the quest for
greater global harmony and respect for human rights.
Therefore we
strongly endorse the quest of the people of Tibet for basic human rights, both
political and spiritual.
Deeply devoted to the ideal of
religious freedom,
the Foundation has offered sacred music to
projects and events with
His Holiness the Dalai Lama,
the
Gyuto and Gyume Monks, the Nuns of Nagi Gompa and Rangjung Yeshe Institute,
Tsoknyi Rinpoché,
Dzongsar Khyentse
Rinpoché, and others.
David has been on television news programs twice recently in
France, on behalf of the Tibetan cause,
and continues to
offer concerts for Tibet on a regular basis.
As an offering to your listening, here is his composition "Prayer Song for Tibet," (copyright Harmonic Presence
Foundation 2008 all rights reserved)
from a recent concert in
France for the organization Solidarité Tibet.
Among David Hykes's many "sacred cinema" film music projects, we want to
share with you the following very special moment:
David Hykes's powerful first feature film scoring, for
the extraordinary feature film
about the great master G.I.
Gurdjieff, MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN
Harmonic Chant, a deep fusion of sacred chant
and overtone-based
"throat-singing," reveals and explores the essential harmonic nature
of contemplative mind in relation to the music of the spheres.
Hykes's music and teachings explore the harmonic nature of
vibration
found at every scale in the universe, for harmonics are to
musical sound what the color spectrum is to light.
They are the
vibratory DNA of all music in this resounding Creation,
from the
still-echoing harmonics of the Big Bang, to the harmonics of stars.
Closest to home, we can discover the deep chord
of our own being--
the harmonics of mind, heart and body.
The 11 albums of his music, the concerts around the world with his
groups
including The Harmonic Choir, the retreats, international
seminars and master classes
in many countries the past 33 years
continue inspire, help, and reattune thousands of listeners, musicians
and contemplative practioners.
His work as a healing accompanist
to those facing serious or life-threatening illness
is more and
more coming to the fore.
You can read testmonials and articles about
David's work and music from listeners, patients,
spiritual teachers,
leading cultural figures and yoga teachers here.
In 2007, David offered a benefit concert in Boudhanath, Nepal, in honor of the 10th
anniversary of the Rangjung Yeshe Institute,
directed by one of his
gurus, the Tibet Buddhist reincarnate lama, Tulku Chokyi Nyima
Rinpoché.
Inspired by this occasion, and his recordings of the amazing huge
bell
at the Boudhanath Stupa, David has begun a series of new Dharma
Music compositions
which include the resonances of the
mantra-covered bell.
He offers you the chance to listen to the first
composition of the series,
called "First Attunement," which you can download here.
The Harmonic Presence work brings to life teachings and practices for
deep harmonization, attunement and communication,
based on a
universal music available to all. You are more than welcome to
participate in our programs,
and you can also help by making
donations to the Harmonic Presence Foundation,
our not-for-profit
organization based in New York and France.
Because of our Foundation's devotion to events that foster
the growth of authentic knowledge and direct experience of essential
Harmony,
especially in ways that connect Mind, Meditation, Music and
Medicine,
we have hosted seminars and retreats with leading
spiritual teachers like revered Tibetan Buddhist lama
Chokyi Nyima Rinpoché and the Nuns of Nagi
Gompa from Nepal.
We also support the enlightened and
compassionate activities of the renowned lama Tsoknyi Rinpoche
and
his Pundarika Foundation, and the amazing Nangchen
Nuns.
Our project in New York, the first wave of our
Festival entitled "Resonance and Radiance: Sacred Music, Sacred
Mind",
brought together practitioners of traditional and
contemporary sacred chant
to explore the emerging relationships
between mind, music, meditation and medicine.
You can download
the brochure here.
You can make a donation to us in support of our work here:

This year marks the 26th anniversary of "HEARING SOLAR WINDS,"
Hykes's landmark album
with The Harmonic Choir, which launched the contemporary harmonic and
healing sounds movement,
has inspired countless listeners, singers
and "sound healers", and remains the best-loved overtone recording of
all time,
with over 300,000 copies sold to date.

Among
the most widely-influential recordings of sacred sounds in sacred space
ever made,
"Hearing Solar Winds" opened ears world-wide to marvelous
new realms of harmonic sound.
"Hearing Solar Winds," and Hykes's 11 albums since, including the recent
HARMONIC WORLDS,
continue
to inspire thousands of listeners around the world
in seeking finer
attunement to harmonic realms of sound and spirit.
The Harmonic Presence teachings have ripened through intensive
retreats, seminars and research
conducted around the world over the
past 33 years.
The Harmonic Presence teachings offer an integral,
non-dual approach to recognizing reality in this life,
through
attunement to the deepest principles of Harmony-- that which resonates
everywhere, from the heart to the heavens.
Recognition and attunement to those deep harmonic principles can come
through meditative awareness training,
sacred sound work, and
healing harmonization practices. Then awareness and compassion awake
within.
We can find and cultivate the purest harmonics of our
being-- the light in the mind, the love in the heart,
and the
universal resonances of the body attuned.
The principle forms of Hykes's work are concerts and "Harmonic
Meetings" with public groups;
Teachings, retreats, seminars,
workshops, and presentations in different countries,
including his
main retreat center near Paris, France; and recorded music and
teachings.
David Hykes also offers a Harmonic
Presence online study program,
dedicated to helping motivated
students around the world maintain contact
and develop their
practice in their own lives.
The online program is also
dedicated to helping individuals around the world
who are struggling
with or recovering from serious or life-threatening illness.

David will be giving the 11th annual English-language Harmonic Presence
summer retreat
by
the sea again next year in Denmark, August 1-6,2010.

Again, for info about concerts, teachings, retreats, workshops
and seminars, you can download the brochure here!.
Some of our other spiritual and interfaith activities
include
contributing original Harmonic Chant and Mantra compositions
to the three recent films of "Journey Into Buddhism" by John Bush,
endorsed
by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama, distributed by WGBH/PBS around the country and
abroad.
We have also released a concert DVD, " HARMONIC MEETING",
an evening with DAVID HYKES AND THE HARMONIC CHOIR, filmed live in Paris, and now available for on-line order! Harmonic Chant and the Harmonic Presence work have been nourished
by over 3 decades of retreats, experiences, research and intensive sharing
and collaboration by David Hykes with The Harmonic Choir and other musicians.
Perhaps the main mystery of the flowering of the work is explained by the extraordinay nourishment,
blessings and challenges received from both great spiritual teachers (including leading teachers of the Gurdjieff Work and Tibetan Buddhism) and great musical mentors (including Yehudi Menuhin and Sheila Dhar).
In a larger sense, "The Harmonic Choir," the living sound of this exact and exacting work,
includes the thousands with whom the work has been shared since 1975, and the thousands of musicians, "sound healers" and others
inspired indirectly by the harmonic vision.
The Wisdom traditions and teachers of Tibet, India, the Gurdjieff work, and the West remain important influences and inspirations.
David has a long immersion in Eastern and Western spiritual studies,
sacred music, cosmology, and yogas of sound.
Hykes was the first westerner to connect deeply with the "throat-singing" traditions of Mongolia, Tuva and Tibet,
but Harmonic Chant has evolved along a unique new songline path and employs
a unique set of ideas, techniques and principles.
David started laying the groundwork for the modern harmonic and
healing sounds movement as a young musician and spiritual student in New
York in 1975,
the year he created The Harmonic Choir, the western
world's oldest and pre-eminent overtone ensemble.
His most direct
influence and supporters were his root guru, Lord John Pentland of the
Gurdjieff Foundation,
and the Honorable James George, retired
Canadian ambassador and also an eminent Gurdjieffian and distinguished
spiritual authority.
Hykes was invited to Mongolia in 1981 (after 6 years of diplomatic
hurdles),
and upon return to Paris, thanks to James George's
intervention on his behalf,
received priceless teachings on sacred
sound and breath from the late, great Tibetan master, Thuksey
Rinpoche,
one of His Holiness the 12th Gyalwaung Drukpa's root
teachers (from whom David has also received teachings).
Hykes, the Foundation, and the Harmonic Choir co-hosted events
with the Gyuto and Gyume Monks in New York in 1985-86
and with His
Holiness the Dalai Lama in California in 1989.
These early collaborations helped pave the way for the world-wide
renaissance of interest in so-called "throat-singing" and Tibetan chant.
More recently, Hykes's interest in the Tibetan traditions came full
circle
with the invitation of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's for
Hykes to compose music for his feature film "Travellers and
Magicians."
In addition to numerous grants and awards, such as a recent $50,000 Fellowship he received from the Flying Elephants
Foundation,
David helps sustain the Harmonic Presence
Foundation programs through his film music,
for films including "Travellers and Magicians"by revered incarnate
Tibetan lama Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche,
"The New World,"
"Ghost" and "Dead Poets Society" and even "X-men: The Last Stand".
The David Hykes/Harmonic Choir concert in Paris at the Cité de la Musique,
in the series
"Ecstase et Trance" (with Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Tony Conrad and many
others),
included both a concert of Harmonic Chant and a Harmonic
Meeting, an experiential session of Harmonic Presence work.
You can
download the evening's program here.
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The best-known dimension of our work, Harmonic Chant (harmonic singing),
reflects
thirty years of study and practice of wisdom and healing traditions,
including Tibetan Buddhism, the Gurdjieff Work and Advaita Vedanta;
twenty-five years years of retreats and workshops with thousands of
students and friends all over the world;
and thirty years of sacred
music-making with The Harmonic Choir and many other musical
collaborators and artists.
David Hykes has collaborated with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Gyuto
and Gyume Monks,
and religious and spiritual groups from a broad
range of traditions.
For work "demonstrating singular creativity,
passion, integrity and leadership, and inspiring reverence for the
natural world,"
The Harmonic Presence Foundation was awarded a
$50,000 Fellowship from the Flying Elephants Foundation,
whose work is
supported by the *"Ashes and Snow" exhibition of photographer Gregory
Colbert. <
Hykes was the first musician to integrate the
throat-singing of Mongolia and Tuva
with the Just Intonation
movement of contemporary western music into a comprehensive musical
system, which,
together with guided studies of meditation, sacred
chant, mantra and sound yoga,
have allowed the vision of Harmonic
Chant as a universal sacred music to gradually unfold.


Hykes' career began in New York in 1974 as an experimental filmmaker and composer at age 20
with the screening of his film "Moving Parts" in the Whitney Museum's New American Filmmakers series.
He founded The Harmonic Choir, the West's oldest and pre-eminent vocal overtone ensemble,
in 1975, and performed the first-ever Harmonic Chant music on film,
offered to the Gurdjieff Work for Peter Brook's film "Meetings with Remarkable Men,"
thanks to his root guru, Lord John Pentland of the Gurdjieff Foundation,
who oversaw David's exposure to enlightened Tibetan, Mongolian, Sufi and Christian teachers.
David was also was mentored by violinist and yogi Lord Yehudi Menuhin,
Indian raga singer Sheila Dhar, and his godmother from the Taos Pueblo,
who said, "we gave you the privilege to sing."
"David Hykes is an inspired musician whose ground-breaking and enlightening spiritual harmonies
are ecstatic to behold and yet also contemplative, woven of the divine light and pure energy
that dreams, prayers, and all beings, are made of.
It deserves the kind of listening, reflection and contemplation
which Tibetan masters call 'the Three Forms of Prajna (Wisdom),comprising a genuine Higher Education.
Listening to his remarkable music helps me stop and meditate, hear silent echoes of emptiness,
and feel closer to that Luminous Void from which all sounds arise." --LAMA SURYA DAS
Hykes was also inspired by the Western harmonic traditions,
from medieval chant to Just Intonation pioneers Hermann von Helmholtz,
Alain Danielou, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Tony Conrad,
whom along with Steve Reich, Hykes reveres as Western inspirations.
It's important to remember, harmonics are universal!
Harmonic sound waves were part of the Big Bang and their echo, the cosmic background radiation,
still resounds, to the tune of some 400 million photonal vibrations per spatial volume the size of your body.
Harmonic Chant is part of a 14-billion year old tradition--the harmonic presence illuminating every nook and cranny of the cosmic space.
Those subtle waves of photonal warmth, the cosmic background radiation, still radiate across the sky in every direction,
in waves as wide as 2 full moons.
And at the other end of the infinite vastness of SCALE,
smaller than the tiniest particles, the first movement, the first vibration, the first stirring in the void
would be the harmonic resonance of the "strings" of String Theory,
their harmonic resonance being "none other" than the identity of the created particle,
of photon or neutron, electron or quark.
The universe arises from a harmonic process; the universe has a musical nature.
Our delightful earthling music is the echo and renewal of that original harmonic realm...
The main "harmonastery" of the Harmonic Presence work is Pommereau,
a 12-century Cistercian site and park in the forest just 90 minutes southwest of Paris, France.
It's a magical and ancient part of France, 20 minutes north of the Loire River, near castles and forests, lakes and fields.

For any and all information write Harmonic Presence/France or call +33 (0)9 52 56 74 69 or +1 203 843 3524.
To hear David's many interviews on WNYC-fm in New York over the years with John Schaefer, you can go to the WNYC-fm archives.
David is often a guest as well on the WFMU-fm show hosted by Irene Trudel.