Suchness & the Field of What Recording is About for Me or Back in the Garden Again

 

 https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/album/new-totemic-encounters-2025

 

 

As Joni spread the fairy dust stardust golden canticle

and opened us to the seemingly impossible task

of getting ourselves back to the garden (not just the Rave

of Woodstock but to the X not marked on any map

--- I am reminded here of formulae from the alchemical 90's

which came to me in Sun Ra's voice one day:

the treasure map where X marks the spot is Map of Mystery

where X marks the spot of destination, el dorado, delusional ends

whereas the Mystical Map is where X marks the moment

this locus of process and reality evolving its flower

 

Eden is among us. It is found within the foundation of pure love. The keystone is within every seeker to join the formation of the temple. Eden is pure vibrational awareness, a modality of consciousness and sensation. Music is only a portal or a bridge to the feeling. Field recording is a ritual return to primordial perception while the alleged rational scientific purpose is ethnographic, ecologically rooted, leaving us with data to study and learn more about our environment. This learning is without end. The experience of the vibration also is without end and the spiritual aspect often lost in the gear is that circuit of vibrational constant sensing itself on all bandwidths. 

 

Musical instruments and recording gear are tools and as MacLuhan or Novalis seemed to say they are models and extensions of our own organs. 

 

Novalis suggested that new organs of gnosis and feeling were evolving. 

 

 All field recording is the creation of memories of places made sacred by memorialization, annotations of a transaction with the recognized infinite, temporary temples. Hildegard of Bingen had a garden too and I feel it must not have been far from Eden. It's modality was called Viriditas or the "greening power of G-d" Music, art, deity, earth, sky in no particular order or in every order in the palm trees, figs, olives, in the eyes of the wondering miraculous baby Buddha or the hooves of the ibex. Everything that is and including that which is not. As Lao Tze remarked, "the hole in the hub is what makes the wheel useful". The axle connects all the wheels.It is a thoughtful, mindful world and you are within it as discovery itself.