16 Meditations was composed late in the year 2003. It could be described as offspring of the Azimuth project since the material was derived from snippets and remnants left over from it. The pieces are not not intended as the standard “sugary” types of cliche’ sounds one might associate with meditation. To the composer, meditation is a state of mind that not only happens when one is sitting in a Lotus position and alone. For him meditation is a state of mind one chooses. It is held any time and any where. The experiences one has while in meditation are a re-contextualization of what we ironically term “normal” reality, which turns out to be a habitual state of mind and not natural at all… just easy. It is easy to continue and perpetuate the conditioned state of mind that we have inherited from our friends, family, society and from thousands of years of genetics. Meditation is a break in this fixation and so can lead to new ways of perceiving what is normally considered the mundane. 16 Meditations is intended to be just such a re-contextualization. |
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Track One: | Meditation #1
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1:23 | |
Track Two: | Meditation #2
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2:12 | |
Track Three: | Meditation #3
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2:11 | |
Track Four: | Meditation #4
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2:20 | |
Five: | Meditation #5
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2:20 | |
Track Six: | Meditation #6
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2:20 | |
Track Seven: | Meditation #7
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2:26 | |
Track Eight: | Meditation #8
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2:33 | |
Track Nine: | Meditation #9
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2:34 | |
Track Ten: | Meditation #10
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2:38 | |
Track Eleven: | Meditation #11
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2:31 | |
Track Twelve: | Meditation #12
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2:33 | |
Track Thirteen: | Meditation #13
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2:42 | |
Track Fourteen: | Meditation #14
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2:29 | |
Track Fifteen: | Meditation #15
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2:23 | |
Track Sixteen: | Meditation #16
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2:34 |