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Thanks so much everybody I am so very grateful! 🙏❤️
This trip to Crete for modal music training and networking with industry leaders in this field was made possible in part by the Australian Government Regional Arts Fund which supports the arts in Regional and Remote Australia.
The clip at the end is from last night's Sema in Fremantle run with experienced whirler Veetrag. It was such a lovely night - thank you everyone for making my last event before the trip so special. 🥰 Veetrag made an amazing cake which we all relished over at the end with a cup of licorice chai! 😋
I will continue running Sema in the South West where I am based on my return in both Margaret River and in Denmark and also in conjunction with events hosted by Sufi Teacher and Guide Vivienne.
I look forward also to bringing together more story telling creations in collaboration with dynamic visual artists - utilizing new and exciting forms of theatre and dance.
Let's see how this year pans out and the ideas and inspirations that it brings!
kemençe #worldmusic #whirlingdervish #regionalartsfund #regionalartsaustralia
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Many a musician would agree, it is a grand shame and a dastardly travesty to go away for a few months and put instruments in a cage! They're like people and if you let them alone - they just kind of spoil and slide into a somber sorry state and then need to be revived with love and attention when you return. Of all their needs, they must to be played!
Instruments exist to be played.
And so begins... The Monty Cash Instrument Library!
(Wow, what a great idea.. I know)
We have a few items on offer this round (there will be other rounds ladies and gents). It's a most precipitous moment to get started with the use of an instrument and also if you want a specific sound for some great masterly symphony you're crackin' on the DAW!
As a rule, the person with the most interest and least experience gets priority!
It's about getting instruments out there and played by people that have never played them before or never committed to buying one (or don't have the cash and that's completely ok).
It's also about engaging in alternative forms of exchange and encouraging and allowing opportunities for trust.
I will be based in Perth/Freo until I leave on the 19th of July and will need at least the Drum/Udu for the Sufi Sema gig coming up in North Freo on the 13th of July.
What are the terms of use/borrow:
- Take care of them like they are your children.
- If you don't use it for a month pass it on to someone else (don't leave the poor thing alone).
- Take care of them
- Use them
- For as long as you use it continuously consider that your updated library card
- oh, and of course, take care of them
It's really very simple - and if you feel so inclined - get it repaired and make it better. Consider it a service to yourself and to others who may use it in the future.
Ok - here are the options this round:
Full Button Accordion - This was a gift from Solange in the Netherlands. It is a family heirloom that otherwise would not have been used. I have learned all the fingering for this and written it down on a sheet. Once you get used to where the buttons are you actually have a lot more options than a piano accordion as your notes are closer together. Sadly, as I have been quite involved with Turkish Makam and Indian Raga and correcting my intonation to traditional ways - I have neglected using it (bad Monty!) but you can!! It's such a beautiful instrument and in very good condition for its age - it's el vintage-o. One of the surface of a button is missing but all the functions work and I bought some lovely velvet straps from Italy for it.
Tabla set - This is a decent tabla set and needs to be taken care of. Tabla is a serious instrument, it's not just a set of drums like bongos - in India people dedicate their entire lives playing this one instrument and they are supported by India for doing so. Youtube will help you but I warn you - get some doweling from bunnings and cut it into little bits and add some more strainers to the Dayan (the big one) - it needs them for tuning. Comes with a tuning hammer (looks like it came from a Scandinavian treasure cave) and some chalk (you need it to help your hand slide on the Dayan).
Homemade Kavals - Yes, I made these - in the style of a Macedonian Kaval. Two are in A (large ones for large hands) and one is in E. The Brown large one actually holds a good equal temperament (western tuning). The others are experimental masterpieces. On a Kaval there is no playing piece, you're literally blowing on an angle into a pipe, so once you get your head around the blowing technique (a quick video tutorial and a week of practice to make your first sound
) - you can be the pied piper on the streets of Perth and charm all the snakes at Beckenham train station!
Bendir/Frame Drum - This is a synthetic skin frame drum in D (well it kind of shifts a little sometimes but generally stays around D). You can use it for all traditional musics. Youtube videos are rife with tutorials on this. I use this one a bit like a daf or erbane from Iran which normally has rings on it. You can use a sitting method on your knee or hold it with two hands with a thumb on the side. The choice is yours!
Udu/Claypot Drum - I made this one - it's a little special. I even sanded it and made it smooth - your hand get sore but it makes a good doof. After a time your hand gets used to smacking against a clay pot. You'll discover a certain interesting tenacity building in your hand and finger muscles after about a month's time! Something to look forward to!
Thank you folks! Let me know if you're keen. I hope to come back from Turkiye with a massive bag/s of fizz bang fancy instruments, I paid an extra 10 kg luggage for 250 USD for a reason!
So the motto of this library is: Keep the ball rolling and keep instruments in the hands of those wanting to play them! Onwards!
You can message me on if you're keen - 0422 563 234
Let's start with a hot drink and a chat and take it from there (of course, I'll need to see you're really there! And also measure your keen as beans-ness!
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I've been playing the Sarangi since October last year - I've already used it in many performances and as an aid to the vocal workshops with Ram VJ from Jan to March '24. In this video is also a comparison between the Sarangi and the Klasik Kemence or Politiki Lyra (as it's called in Greece) from a street musician's perspective.
I play by feel and by ear predominantly. This is sometimes a limitation but also sometimes a source of great inspiration and innovation in skill that can't be learned from a teacher. More recently, I am learning a balance between the methods of learning set music and technique and training myself by ear and by feel. Allowing two different approaches at different times and then marrying them.
Primarily. I approach music as a 'feel' science in which feel is king. In this - if we are honest with ourselves through this exploration we also discover that feel can be expanded into to help us learn specific disciplines or instruments where we don't have a ready teacher or are in a state of mind where we will only learn from ourselves.
In the pursuit of greatness of efficacy and focus we can find our way back to the rest of the world through first teaching ourselves from within. Music is a tool that allows this growth back into the social sphere for a person that is finding their way out of a closed form of thinking created as a defence from trauma. By allowing feel to be king - a person can be made to feel they are in control and when they can receive it - allow more and more of the outside world to enter in - and in this, find reference points and eventually come to a level with the rest of reality and live one and equal with all.
Please note: I am not undisciplined. Please do not consider I can just pick up things and play them. I play them for hours and hours and hours and hours - using my ear and 'feel' as guide.
It has taken me a while to bring my mind to the point of intentional discipline - but I did it by training myself through allowing me to play music whenever I felt it. By encouraging the flow when the flow was happening and by only playing what I feel and not playing by obligation. Nowadays, I can much better apply myself to something by choice and discipline - I still very much use flow and feel to work my way into a new music, discipline or instrument.
By allowing and working with flow - we find our way into something by bringing all of our many aspects into line. Then in time - after coaxing this wild animal away from its secure den - we have the trust of the naive and innocent self and it is willing to learn things more by discipline. This is a particular pathway that is effective for finding a way out of trauma. Where trauma locks a person within a mind and detaches them from the outside. Flow and feel helps find the pathway by which to access greater connection - this can be done through music or any artform for that matter.
I claim no expertise in any field of psychology - so please take advice or anything I say with this in mind - I emphasize you are your own responsibility. In a world of careful legal everything - you cannot just speak and live your truth. I can only ever share the experiences I have had with myself, in my life and in my travels and honest observations honing the tool of the mind - using many reference points - which to my mind is a greater qualification than any particular academic achievement. I've gone to the depths of the self and discovered the processes for myself. If my methods and my words ring true for some - may they be a tool for experimentation. Otherwise, no they will not be available for everyone - nor do I wish to be Jesus.
I really just enjoy honing focus and bringing lost parts of the self into line to find a greater harmony. That seems to be where I get my kicks.
For a large part of the last 5 years, I wake up from 4-5am and the first thing I do is get a coffee and practice. I then fill my days with adequate listening material to fill my musical imagination with options and to train my ear out of western intonation. I am not just receiving some abundant gift as though magically from spirit. I am putting a tonne of work. I work so bloody hard you wouldn't believe it!
I have come to learn there is no way around it. You must work.
In this - work becomes a pleasure because you have taught yourself how to take control of your own reward circuit. When you want to get something done - you know how to do it. I made a joking comment to a farm owner recently about scarifying a paddock with a tractor and tool - in telling me how to use it he then said, 'go out and have some fun' - I said, 'this is fun?' with a cheeky smile - and he said 'make it fun'.
And that's what we do. We learn to control fun. We learn ourselves so well we wrap ourselves in and around our 'fun' circuit that we learn to be able to do anything with willingness and dedication. We find aspects of mundane jobs that allow us to use parts of ourselves we wish to hone - we find a way for something to be fun for us. And that pathway can be as specific as each person's individual experience.
The ear requires training for stamina as well. This takes time and the only way you can build the stamina of your ear is by pushing your ear to the edge of its ability more and more and then increasing where possible. Within this also requires a deep level of honesty with the self - that when your ear goes out - you need to say so - you need to say - yes, this is out and recognize your ear has lost the ability to focus. By being honest with ourselves we can find ground, without ground there is no hope of learning. In many cases a tanpura drone from an app is very helpful because it helps keep your ear in tone. But also practice without a tanpura so you can build the skill of the implied drone of the tonic which should also be there with you in your thinking as part of your music.
Instruments like the Klasik Kemence and the Sarangi - people spend their lives learning in their respective countries. I don't claim mastery - I'm enjoying exploring with honesty and persistence and in this learning new things about myself by increasing my capacity for applied focus. Instruments with a high degree of specificity allow me to increase this capacity for applied focus. They give me a measuring point from which to reference - they give me a 'ground' from which to find very very specific levels of focus - they give me a meter and a guide to tell me where I am and where I need to go. Through self-honesty this applied focus can be increased and then this skill is a skill adaptable to other walks of life. Music literally has the ability to change the world. It's one grand tool of change in our arsenal in working towards a true solution.
To those that understand - to pick up a Sarangi and have any performing proficiency within less than a year is quite a feat. It's not a miracle however. I have learned through persistence how to condition the body and how to allay thoughts that say 'I cannot do it'. I've also at times isolated my awareness so I only share certain things with people who have a positive can do mindset. As a sensitive empath, it seems important to culture this isolated self about something until I have developed a proficiency in it - then my body has it in its memory and it cannot be moved or forgotten by a wandering projection. I stop being a feather shaken so easy in the wind. This is another skill to learn - to maintain precious privacy for the self to cultivate certain habits, skills and lessons until they become a living part of the self.
I have at times had a mind that constantly tells me I cannot do it - and I persisted with physical practice and technique - and in doing this have proven time and time again that, that part of the mind was wrong - if we bring ourselves to the physical doing of something, the conditioned physical provides the opportunity for skill. This must be explored by each person alone to be effective however - I can't be a reference for you in your own mind when this is happening - to be proficient you must learn for yourself as yourself alone in your own mind. Then you are independent - and as parallel walking independent people we don't lean on each other - we walk forward in reference to a great goal and a true path, we walk together but.. alone.
With a honed intuitive compass and a large portion of persistence. Any skill is possible. I see absolutely anything is possible - anything at all. It just requires time and dedication in which to do it.
I seek to provide a pathway for others to learn through feel in the playful exploration of tone and with feel as the motivation as incentive. Through feel we can also find our way to method and rote - but in allowing ourselves to reinvent the wheel - we discover for ourselves the reasons why some of these musics and instruments have stood the test of time. In learning the foundations of the driving force behind these pillars as a living knowledge instead of just as a repetition because we are told that is what is right - we learn the fundamental building blocks that make something great and substantian to go on to build our own reality.
In presenting music as a place of experimentation and mistakes and learning - we remove it from the untouchable pedestal that an overtly traditional approach has given it and we give the average person access to tools to heal their soul.
Music is very spiritual in this sense for me - I mean spiritual in the way that by applying yourself and gaining deeper levels of focus - greater awareness is available to you. I don't mean spiritual as in needing to believe in something that isn't there or following religious dogma. Where when you apply yourself deeply in one field of focus - this same focus then becomes available in others. We are quite adaptable like this, us humans.
Industry likes to present finished products and in this - while growing up I like others believed people walked out of boxes being able to perform difficult things or touch our hearts with enigmatic solo pieces - this is simply not the case. It's like an iceberg. The top is the outcome of the performance and beneath the surface lay the immensely proportionate amount of practice that has gone in to touch the heart and make that performance possible.
There is certainly aspects of born talent some people have but even this, if not honed correctly and taken as a standalone measure of skill, just wilts and dies on the fields of discipline. Discipline and focus is needed to hone talent into something that is tangible and truly relatable - it can be a trigger or an entrance however
In some cases when we present things as finished products it can discourage people from having a go. I feel it's also important to get out in public and be unashamedly human. To show real progress through visible application - in this - it illustrates how any skill is available to anyone given the right focus, discipline and persistence. This focus then becomes a cornerstone of someone's character and for someone whose life has fallen apart - this reclaimed awareness then becomes a beacon of hope and the catalyst of change to then apply themselves to the rest of life and to be effective.
Yes, let's be effective. Let's embrace deeper methods for being more and more effective. That's a pretty good goal to have. It will get us places.
Ps. I wrote this following bit on my other post but I write it again in case you didn't read my last one because it's important to thank those that gave for my Crete trip! I'm so very grateful! I can cover my costs and get back to Australia with some excess to put towards a very special event in the South-West! Those that know me personally, know I put everything into what I do - to the point of self-detriment. I'll get better at taking care of myself - but also, it shows a reassurance that I remain true to who I am and give myself as an unconditional conduit to the service of music.
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I have trained myself by ear on the kemence since 2020. After being inspired by Turkish and Cretan music which is a taste I shared with an Afghan/Turkish/American friend (who plays the Oud in The Butterfly's Burden by Kelebek Evrimi) I decided to start my traditional music journey on a violin I bought for 40 dollars off a restaurant wall in 2019 which I restructured into a three string instrument to go on the knee.
I had already been practicing odd numbered rhythms 7s and 9s and 10s and been learning to improvise on them with my guitar. I really loved an 11 beat rhythm as well - this developed into learning to improvise free-form in many scales in over 30 different rhythms. I had yet to explore with an instrument that allowed me to play intervals outside of western 12 tone equal temperament (chromatic tuning).
The knee-violin was my beginning. On this frankenstein instrument I learned important techniques for the bow and for fingering - later I was able to purchase a kemence from what I earned for a voiceover job I did for a museum in the Netherlands. I first learned western tonality on the instrument (that is equal tempered 12 tone tuning) as I did not understand the point of microtones. If you haven't realised yet, a hall mark of my journey here has been reinventing the wheel. While this has been a slow process of getting to a point of proficiency in some ways - I feel that learning something as knowledge from within by understanding the processes is a truer way of learning and builds the concrete foundation to advance to far greater heights than just simply copying what is done.
In time, by listening to both Turkish Makam and Indian Raga repetitively (as well as Albanian polyphony and traditional Bulgarian Choir music and other traditional musics in the Balkan regions) - I slowly started to understand from an inner knowledge perspective. I trained my ear to be configured to truer intervals. The shift was slow but then there was a definite click into a realisation of the difference and the need to point my compass in the trajectory of original traditional disciplines in order to understand it as a living knowledge more deeply.
Later and more recently, I got confirmation from more than one musician about justonic intonation and started to really feel and understand microtones specifically through their relationship with the tonic. No longer did I discard these previously perceived 'out of tune' notes with my western conditioned ear as noise. This particular break through was especially helped from going to see an Indian Classical teacher in Freo (Branan Silvius) who went to a very specific school in Varanasi that taught about fine tune specificity with tone and understanding these relationships consciously.
More recently, I can hear how western music is kind of out of tune - it's still beautiful and is a lovely expression of the human but this realisation of tone and the relationships of intervals and a return to an original tuning structure - feeling it, genuinely - was a big ledge of understanding my mind finally grasped.
This little seed grew and is still growing. To return to the spirit of original musics through discovering true tone. I am still not perfect and do not claim to be but understand that there is so much lost in music through the translation into the 12 tone equal tempered system. In Turkish music there is over 50 komas in one octave in theory - no, not all of them are used at once but 'accidental notes' within Makams which are notes with microtonal intervals are accessed through notating these komas.
In practice in both Raga and Makam - you cannot write down these intervals. They're not something to be defined with language or with symbol. They are specific mathematical relationships that can be known through the focus of the ear on the relationships between the tones - the mind is a science and it needs to be respected. These intervals need to be learned by the ear through repetition and training.
I do not know exactly what I do or understand where I go intuitively at times - I just do it - I use a different kind of mind and in doing - the need to explain it becomes secondary. Intellect becomes a handicap in this realm. Experience through knowing is knowledge passed through the generations and is not to be written down. Nor can it be. We have many languages and we speak them through many means unknown to the physical senses. This much must be acknowledged and it must be understood to truly progress on the path of true knowledge.
Here is an experiment in Kurdi Makam - an improvisation with no set music - I call it an experiment because I know Makams have rules and I don't think I am following the rules. I have a book on Makam - it says play this cadence here and that cadence there - I don't speak this language - I play through feel and in feeling I communicate. Music is a language, through it we can focus a great deal of energy and intention - and it must be shared with people.
I am only going by the feel that I have been impressed with by listening to recordings repetitively in order to understand how a Makam should be feeling - I didn't sit down and decide - this cadence is here and that cadence is there and now this is correct. To me this is the wrong way of learning.
I know and realise all the rules of Makam are specific. But I feel there is a deeper root to all of these musics - I wish to understand them all intrinsically to find the source. I need teachers however, I need to submit to disciplines - I need to get this from real people. And that is why I wish to go to Crete to understand what it is I am doing and to put names to it - to put a bracket around this or that under this or that traditional disciplines in order to give it greater clarity, validity and authenticity than just be the imaginings of a boy who decided to pick up a cultural instrument and appropriate. I didn't even mean to buy a kemence, I intended to buy a Cretan Lyra - I didn't even know what the difference was. I bought this from Ankara on Ebay with no idea what I was buying - I just decided to spend 750 USD and hope I was getting something close to what I was aiming for. I didn't buy this in Turkey when I was there, I bought this in Australia.
I sincerely hope to find a way to marry what it is that I do, in the methods of feel and playing by ear - with tradition - or at least understand the difference - then by knowing the boundaries around a tradition, I can be aware of when I am breaking their rules and be confident in calling something my own thing.
People like Ross Daly have already travelled this path for so long and have studied various music disciplines to come to a universal understanding that still has relevance in traditional culture. He, like me, has no roots in any of these culture - being born in Ireland. I am 3rd generation Australian with an 1/8th Chinese and a 1/16th Italian and the rest a motley mix of English, Irish and Scottish - maybe a tinge of Eastern European, I'm not sure - I did a DNA test - it wasn't very accurate - but my point is - I'm running blind without a culture but within this - I also have a great strength in that I am also not bound to any one culture's discipline.
In addition to all of this, I'm also afraid of showing disrespect to tradition in that in my journey I have already learned that my progressive western mind and ear have been wrong in so many ways I have they thought were right. I wish to show the utmost of cultural respect to these disciplines while also having the right to add my own impetus to things to truly create new music from a universal music imagination. I wish no longer to be the western elephant that just stomps on everything then makes his own and says - ah, this is culture. World music is by far the vaster and deeper universe than all western disciplines combined and yet the west puts it in this little box like a conquering culture demonizing the previous cultures Gods and rights. We must start showing respect for these disciplines, the spirit that we miss by throwing the baby of true tone and traditional discipline out with the bathwater of cultural prejudice - is a great impingement of our ability to walk the path of true knowledge.
I feel I have SO far to go in learning all different types of music to really bring it all together. I know I need to continue trusting myself and the little inclinations that lead me to realisations are screaming at me - GO AND GET A TEACHER!
I have been reading more recently in the book The Mysticism of Sound and Music by Hazrat Inayat Khan about the old ways of teaching - about repetition - in call and response with a master or teacher and not with visual. In my practice I have been working on training myself out of dependence on sight to play an instrumetn so there is direct feeling and expression from the mind to the fingers without going through any other senses. The same way one would use a voice. Where technique is not focused on but learned through feeling and through aiming at an outcome of feel. I feel this is the correct way forward -- this ensures there is no barrier between the mind and the instrument. Once enough technique has been learned and conditioned in the body then by using the feel of the sound created - alone - more fine tuned technique can be generated without actually focusing on the technique. The ear becomes the fingers and the mind becomes the instrument. This is the level of proficiency and mastering I wish with all instruments - through training with many instruments in many disciplines - these tools become appendages of the body - doorways to other worlds. I wish to learn from teachers. I want to learn via the old methods. I feel my rebellious spirit and my fire of independence can be kept in check to recognize the value of a teacher student relationship. I'm ready to learn.
ps. Also, this kemence has been through a lot. I put violin transducers on it to make it semi electric (which actually works really well, even picks up harmonics) thus the paint to cover this - professional musicians will looks at the paint and consider this is what an amateur would do - yes, I agree, you don't paint the soundboard it affects the sound. As you can see, years of playing have somehow made it possible for this instrument to be felt through the paint. I have also remade tuning pegs out of jarrah pieces I put on a lathe (I've ordered pegs from Turkiye and waited a long time, they never came), so I had to figure it out myself. The bow I have remade with horse hair I ordered from China and a bit of leather from a dumpstered couch. I'm due an upgrade. Thanks to a large donation from someone close, I'm getting something quite special - you'll see... I won't speak about it until you see it. 🤫
Thanks everyone, so much for your support - aside from the donation for the instrument, I have received almost 3000 dollars from so many beautiful and generous people and I may yet get the quick response grant for 3000 from Regional Arts WA - more than enough to cover my costs. I promise to put what excess I make into an amazing and accessible event in the South-West. See you soon x ❤️
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It's becoming increasingly obvious that the introvert stereotype can no longer hack reality by remote control - as algorithms are limited to those with limited connectivity in literal community with literal people - as a result 'hacking' requires real time integration.
Imagine a hoard of empaths making a deliberate effort to be part of society in order to intentionally shift its norms and conditionings. Avoiding this box or that box - no, I don't want to be in the crazy box or the hippy box - or any other box for that matter - as soon as I am in a box I become unrelatable and my perspective becomes less potent.
If I express feelings of this or of that - I feel a box being made for me... breaking out of that box requires a deep concerned effort to be equal - to show the people around that I am just like them - and yet also choose to behave differently and maintain a set of values or a moral code.
It is better in some instances to live an archetype - a solid role/structure within collective perception - and live it deliberately. Knowing the ins and outs of that archetype - knowing how that archetype is perceived by the group mind and what methods are effective from that position within the group. Without a position - there is no hope of change. A reference point must be declared - a flag - to say - I am here - and from this ground I build up and make my mechanism for self-renewal and change which behaves as a beacon sending waves out into the cosmos.
Effective communication can only occur between equals because from an equal perspective - others can take something said as if it came from them and integration happens quicker. If you want to develop your skillset and your ability to assist a world struggling to find a footing in any values - practice the art of being equal - deliberately. Adjust your self-identity to 0 while with another - allow yourself to unconditionally be with them - in this you are them, for a moment. Society's structures were not built yesterday and rarely intentionally - they developed over time - mostly as self-defenses to all the things that went wrong. Institutions that champion values and ethics have behaved as strongholds for lasting trust within a community. No longer do I throw the baby out with the bathwater of religion or any organized group for that matter. Without a structured value system - humanity slides. It could be a value in nature itself and the need to maintain and preserve it - this then precipitates other values like trust and a need to know and live truth. There needs to be an outside motivation - a reference point. We need this.
It is not without experience that I have come to these conclusions. I have gone through various cults/belief systems, five years of street living and seven years of as a street musician internationally - 10 years as an activist - and ever an adherent to truth - jumping in and having a go, even if others say it is wrong. Discovering for myself what is real - reinventing the wheel so many times.
I no longer value the projections of those around me that choose to put this experience into a place of no repute. What I have come through in order to function would scare most people within the Western world. I know of others that have come from a far deeper pit of perception - I do not claim to be unique.
However, I see that my qualifications are my experience - this serves me far better than a university degree or government approval or funding of a project. I see severe limitation working within the boundaries of the system. I have keenly observed and identified the behaviours of the group - and have come to an independent analysis of group psychology that later have referenced with documentation. I made these discoveries with the lab of my mind - first. I doubted myself many times and was clouded with emotion many times. I have come through all that to come to an honest understanding and a level to what is really going on.
We need to be different and we need to do it now.
ps. Video is at the highest peak in the south-west of Australia - the land is so old here that everything progressively got flatter and flatter. Some small peaks remain - this one is just over 1000 metres high - it's just such a beautiful and spiritually evocative spot.
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Open the Door was just the beginning...
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Find new dimensions in music with a meditative approach to alternative modes, scales and rhythms - through persistence and controlled isolation of awareness
This mode is used in my song - Ocean of Light on the album 'Open the Door' - you can find it on Spotify, RedmondRecords.com and Apple Music
I provide 1 to 1 music coaching/tutoring/consultancy to provide alternative pathways for learning and developing musical skill through 'feel' - contact me at montycash.au
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What is this 'feel' thing and why are musicians obsessed with it?
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Every instrument has a super power! 🦹♀️🦸♂️🦸♀️🧙♂️🧝 You can book me for 1 to 1 music tutoring/coaching/consultancy in person or via zoom - https://montycash.au
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This is a live loop recomposition of a recomposition using a traditional Turkish/Greek instrument called the Klasik Kemençe
First movement of Spring by Vivaldi, recomposed by Max Richter
Find 'Open the Door' by Monty Cash - his debut original instrumental album which is the soundtrack to a story about a boy or faces the unknown, infact, he embraces it - spotify, RedmondRecords.com and Apple Music
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kemence #vivaldi #maxrichter #fourseasons #spring #recomposed #reimagined #loopstation #liveloopartist #liveloopmaster #loopmaster #livelooping #klasikkemençe #kemençe #streetmusic #makam #classicalmusic
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/cwkbidkw
EMU Vol. 6 E Minor/Harmonic Minor 6 beat Rhythm
EMU (Expanding into the Musical Unknown) is an imperfect musical exploration into the universe's musical imagination.
The ability to learn new techniques, styles of music and instruments is highly dependent on our ability to let go and allow our minds to be a child again - in that - we stop insecurities about doing things right and we just play.. we make mistakes, and we learn - and in doing so, we learn how to learn - disposing of the 'hustle' of industry and retaining an authentic relationship with essence and our intention aimed at authenticity.
I provide 1 to 1 music tutoring, coaching and consultancy for all levels of musician using a music training method based on 'feel' with music theory not a prerequisite for learning. Explore with me a range of modes and rhythms from Eastern and Western traditions. Book me @ montycash.au
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improvisation #musicalexploration #looppedalmaster
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/omwaktcv
In 2020, I bought a prop 3/4 violin off a restaurant wall for 40 dollars. I carved a new nut and made it to take three strings like a lyra/kemence. I made a strap for it and put a microphone inside. This was the beginning of my learning the kemence and where I gained a lot of my initial bow technique before later actually acquiring one. When I ordered it, I had no idea what I was ordering either - I was going for a Cretan Lyra as was the envy of a friend but failed to know the difference. I got the money for the kemence from getting a voiceover job through a friend for reciting Dutch war history at a museum audio/video installation in Willemstad. My voice is still played possibly ten times a day in that museum... haha... anyways, the kemence was not what I expected - I learned it anyway and learned its history. I adapted to what I had and I embraced it. From these beginnings I began the looping techniques and soon got a Bendir - this all led to my writing of Open the Door at Redmond Records in Denmark in 2021 and recording of Open the Door in MarginArta House in 2022. This video is from when I owned a small coffee stall/trolley in Fremantle in a post lockdown city - what a dreary place it was - with little business and street activity, I had plenty of time to practice and listen to music... 🥰 Enjoy x
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kemence #cretanlyra #traditionalmusic #liveloopimprov #livelooping #storytelling
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/lbutaguu
You can book me for a zoom call or face to face for a consultation in Margaret River to work out a long-term strategy for learning your new instrument: https://montycash.au
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/aagidira
I wrote almost every day for over twenty years and around four years ago I decided words didn't mean anything anymore after having sung all sorts of political and spiritually provocative originals on the streets of the world for over 7 years. I then went on to develop an instrumental act and wrote a story that only implied things without stabbing any point directly as I decided the mass was inoperable having made collective concrete choices that would not shift on a train wreck to hell. That story is an important part of human evolution from my perspective. I felt it was the closest I could come to shifting anything. Being gentle with something artistic and subtle and being prepared to wait. But something happened this morning. This morning I was inspired to write. Here it is ❤️🙏
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newmusic #writinginspiration #standupandmakeitcount
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/ctnnmopr
A sneak peak of a private gig.. playing some originals from my ethno-western band Kelebek Evrimi. Search Kelebek Evrimi on Silent Flow dot org or Spotify... 🦋
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livelooping #liveloopartist #multiinstrumentalist
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/xvkdqjxx
Long-beat rhythm meditation for a hyperactive mind! Using elongated and concatenated traditional rhythms to calm the hyper-active mind and train it to enter trance at will.
Download the track and see the sequence on Bandcamp here: https://dtr.cool/meds1
I charge for this track because music is what I do for a living and I need money to live. If you are at the end of your budget and feel this will benefit you - I am happy to help you out too! Email me with a request: monty@montycash.au
The details for the shows at Nannup Festival by Calibrate Physical Theatre can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Co9miXcPgkG/
You can contact MarginArta House through this link here: https://facebook.com/marginarta
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marginarta #jarrahforest #livelooping #kemençe #drumming #meditation #meditationasmedication
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/elaebrbu
Become a channel of primordial consciousness
Access reservoirs of untapped energy within consciousness through mimicking core consciousness representations such as symbols and archetypes - traditional music and 'locked-in' melody lines is one example.
Attain syncronicity with the stream then deviate only in slight amounts. The idea of control is only ever a perception. Selflessness must always be the aim.
I provide 1 to 1 music tutoring for musicians with some experience looking to break out of the set musical patterns and expand their musical horizons to develop improvisational form to the next level based on 'feel'. This can be on remotely via Zoom or in person in Margaret River/Nannup area of Western Australia.
Contact details are available on my website: https://montycash.au
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selflessness #primordialconsciousness #archetypes #symbols #frequency #tappingintoreservoirsofenergy #consciousnessisabigcomputer
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/rcxraucd
EMU Vol. 5 G Moorish Phrygian
In conjunction with In-dance and the Sufi Dance course - soon I will be running weekly EMU workshops for training the ear with modal music and eastern rhythms right here in Margaret River! 🥰
The workshops are designed for those who already have some musical experience. You can bring any instrument (as long as it can play chromatic scales). You can even bring your voice and your legs for drums if you wish. We will focus on one or two rhythm/mode combinations per workshop and utilize repetition to program these forms into the physical body.
In addition, I provide 1 to 1 music tutoring for musicians with some experience looking to break out of the set musical patterns and expand their musical horizons to develop improvisational form to the next level based on 'feel'.
Contact details are available on my website: https://montycash.au
EMU (Expanding into the Musical Unknown) is an imperfect musical exploration into the universe's imagination.
The ability to learn new techniques, styles of music and instruments is highly dependent on our ability to let go and allow our minds to be a child again - in that - we stop insecurities about doing things right and we just play.. we make mistakes, and we learn - and in doing so, we learn how to learn - disposing of the 'hustle' of industry and retaining an authentic relationship with essence.
I provide one on one music tutoring and coaching for the purposes of assisting you in breaking out of your habits in music playing - using a specific teaching method I have developed myself as an ear trained improvisation focused musician. This method can be used for any musical style or instrument. It is not about learning songs - it is about learning feel and the feel or each particular scale/mode and rhythm.
I have travelled the world for over 7 years with street music as my primary form of income. In this journey I discovered many types of music that sit outside the influence of the western ear.
I, like Ross Daly of Labyrinth music school in Crete, feel that a return to modal music is key in rediscovering the roots of universal culture through embracing the diversity available in the collective's magical musical imagination.
Hear his explanation at a Ted talk in Crete -
Join me for a Sufi Dance course in Margaret River: dtr.cool/sc19
Join us for the next In-dance Sufi whirling session in Margaret River: dtr.cool/id26
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/gjfxxlfz
from last night's gig.
Book Monty for a gig, anywhere in the world:
https://montycash.au
ridersonthestorm #thedoors #jimmorrison #livemusic #cowaramup
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/kagjyikl
Listen to more @ https://dtr.cool/ts5
This track is part of the Trance Series of In.dance
These are six minute tracks designed specifically to assist you to engage in music induced trance for whirling and meditation. In the tracks, there are no lead elements but with circling repetitions around a specific traditional rhythm. Focus on the different elements as they rise and fall. Notice there the different sounds at different parts of the rhythm.
It is recommended to use headphones where possible or at least a stereo sound system.
Follow the rhythm which is derived from a Balkan rhythm. Sometimes in traditional music in the region they will combine or do multiples of shorter rhythms to make longer rhythms.
For simplification, it can be broken up in the following way:
9 - 9 - 12 12 123 12 - 12 12 123 12
The accents in this rhythm make it into an 18 beat rhythm, you'll notice when the frame drum (bendir) begins is sounds like this:
If the accents or different sounds of hits are on the 1s and the 3s it can be broken up this way
12 1112 112 - 12 12 123 12
Similar rhythms with different accents create different feels in music and in traditional music simply shifting the accents in the same rhythm makes it into a different rhythm and is used in different songs - on the other hand, some Balkan rhythms have many accent combinations while also being called the same rhythm (not so straight forward) - the ръченица (Bulgarian Rŭchenitsa) for example.
You will notice that there are elements within the track that are alternating providing different accents within the rhythm at different intervals occasionally with syncopation or staggered beats. This catches the mind off guard and pushes it deeper into trance. See if you can hear all the separate sounds individually - pick one sound or one tonality of vocal and focus solely on that until you can hear that clearly as a distinct element within the piece.
Good luck and have fun!
Stay tuned for more in this series to come!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/znpolyzp
Next gig at The Servo - This Friday the 17th from 6pm
This is an original song adapted from a poem by Čestmir Bergsma. Together we chanced a meeting on a beach near a mountain in Albania in 2018. Čestmir expressed to me that he wrote this work to represent the plight of Aquarians in our trying age which he intended to be made into an anthem to be sang at pubs and bars in merriment around the world. We sat down together for a brief moment in infinity, guitar and page in hand. Later we headed on to the camp with a gathering of free living men and women on a beachside mountain on the mediterranean which faced Italy.
This song is the result.
youngones #albanianbeach #poetryandstorytelling #ageofaquarius #merriment #revelry
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/swdxiwbj
EMU Vol. 4 G Lydian Dominant w/ 15 Beat Rhythm
In conjunction with In-dance and the Sufi Dance course - soon I will be running weekly EMU workshops for training the ear with modal music and eastern rhythms right here in Margaret River! 🥰
The workshops are designed for those who already have some musical experience. You can bring any instrument (as long as it can play chromatic scales). You can even bring your voice and your legs for drums if you wish. We will focus on one or two rhythm/mode combinations per workshop and utilize repetition to program these forms into the physical body.
In addition, I provide 1 to 1 music tutoring for musicians with some experience looking to break out of the jazzy/blues humdrum and expand their musical horizons to develop improvisational form to the next level.
Contact details are available on my website: https://montycash.au
EMU (Expanding into the Musical Unknown) is an imperfect musical exploration into the universe's imagination.
The ability to learn new techniques, styles of music and instruments is highly dependent on our ability to let go and allow our minds to be a child again - in that - we stop insecurities about doing things right and we just play.. we make mistakes, and we learn - and in doing so, we learn how to learn - disposing of the 'hustle' of industry and retaining an authentic relationship with essence.
I provide one on one music tutoring and coaching for the purposes of assisting you in breaking out of your habits in music playing - using a specific teaching method I have developed myself as an ear trained improvisation focused musician. This method can be used for any musical style or instrument. It is not about learning songs - it is about learning feel and the feel or each particular scale/mode and rhythm.
I have travelled the world for over 7 years with street music as my primary form of income. In this journey I discovered many types of music that sit outside the influence of the western ear.
I, like Ross Daly of Labyrinth music school in Crete, feel that a return to modal music is key in rediscovering the roots of universal culture through embracing the diversity available in the collective's magical musical imagination.
Hear his explanation at a Ted talk in Crete -
Join me for a Sufi Dance course in Margaret River: dtr.cool/sc19
Join us for the next In-dance Sufi whirling session in Margaret River: dtr.cool/id26
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/nhfountq
Listen to more @ https://dtr.cool/ts4
This track is part of the Trance Series of In.dance
These are six minute tracks designed specifically to assist you to engage in music induced trance while whirling or just sitting down and meditating. There are little solo or lead elements with circling repetitions around a specific traditional rhythm. Focus on the different elements as they rise and fall. Notice there the different sounds at different parts of the rhythm.
It is recommended to use headphones where possible or at least a stereo sound system.
Follow the rhythm which is a concatenation of two Balkan rhythms. Sometimes in traditional music in the region they will combine rhythms to make larger rhythms.
For simplification, it can be broken up in the following way:
8 - 8 - 8 - 7
123 123 12 - 123 123 12 - 123 123 12 - 123 12 12
You will notice that there are elements within the track that are alternating providing different accents within the rhythm at different intervals occasionally with syncopation or staggered beats. This catches the mind off guard and pushes it deeper into trance. See if you can hear all the separate sounds individually - pick one sound or one tonality of vocal and focus solely on that until you can hear that clearly as a distinct element within the piece.
Good luck and have fun!
Stay tuned for more in this series to come!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/lhtbengc
Listen to more @ https://dtr.cool/ts3
This track is part of the Trance Series of In.dance
These are six minute tracks designed specifically to assist you to engage in music induced trance while whirling or just sitting down and meditating. There are little solo or lead elements - only circling repetitions around this particular rhythm. Focus on the different elements as they rise and fall. Notice there is a different sound for each section of the single rhythm.
It is recommended to use headphones where possible or at least a stereo sound system.
Follow the rhythm which a traditional Bulgarian rhythm used in traditional music.
For simplification, it can be broken up in the following way:
123 123 12 123
You will also notice that there are elements within the track that are alternating providing different accents within the rhythm at different intervals. This catches the mind off guard and pushes it deeper into trance. See if you can hear all the separate sounds individually - pick one sound or one tonality of vocal and focus solely on that until you can hear that clearly as a distinct element within the piece.
Good luck and have fun!
Stay tuned for more in this series to come!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/pztolrqf
"Knocking on Heaven's Door" - Live at The Servo Taphouse - Next gig at the Servo on Fri 17th Feb from 6pm
Book a gig with Monty anywhere in the world: https://montycash.au
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/mcosrhnh
Listen more @ https://dtr.cool/ts2
Available exclusively through Bandcamp!
These are six minute tracks designed specifically to assist you to engage in music induced trance while whirling or just sitting down and meditating. There are little solo or lead elements - only circling repetitions around this particular rhythm. Focus on the different elements as they rise and fall. Notice there is a different sound for each section of the single rhythm.
It is recommended to use headphones where possible or at least a stereo sound system.
Follow the rhythm which is adapted from multiple concatenated Balkan rhythms.
It can be broken up in the following way:
Two nine beat bars and two eleven beat bars
12 123 12 12 - 12 123 12 12 - 12 12 123 12 12 - 12 12 123 12 12
You will also notice that there are elements that are alternating within the rhythm and providing different accents. This catches the mind off guard and pushes it deeper. See if you can hear all the sounds individually - pick one sound or one tonality of vocal and focus on only that until you can hear that clearly and separately within your mind.
Good luck and have fun!
Stay tuned for more in this series to come!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/nsqwwigm
Next gig @ the Servo in Cowaramup
Fri 17th Feb from 6pm
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garyjulesmadworld #covermusic #livemusic #likeaversion #folkmusic
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/nmrvdkfm
Cover of Shout by Tears for Fears
Next gig at the Servo in Cowaramup on Friday the 17th from 6pm
https://montycash.au
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/xyhhqwhh
Hear more @ https://dtr.cool/ts1
Available exclusively through Bandcamp!
These are six minute tracks designed specifically to assist you to engage in music induced trance while whirling or just sitting down and meditating. There are no solo or lead elements, only repetitions around a particular rhythm. Focus on the different elements as they rise and fall. Notice there is a different sound for each section of the single rhythm.
It is recommended to use headphones where possible or at least a stereo sound system.
Follow the rhythm which is adapted from a Turkish 24 beat rhythm.
It can be broken up in the following way:
123 123 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 1111
You will also notice that the kemence is making staccato from the beginning in a 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
Including alternating rhythms and different accents simultaneously catches the mind off guard and pushes it deeper. See if you can hear all the sounds individually - pick one sound or one tonality of vocal and focus on only that until you can hear that clearly and separately within your mind.
Good luck and have fun!
Stay tuned for more in this series to come!
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makam #sufiwhirling #sufidance #entertrance
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/lcrmjrsw
Come along to the In-dance at the Margaret River Karate Club on the 26th of Feb: https://dtr.cool/id26
And the Sufi Dance Course as well on the 19th of Feb: https://dtr.cool/sc19
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/olcobrnu
In conjunction with In-dance and the Sufi Dance course - soon I will be running weekly EMU workshops for training the ear with modal music and eastern rhythms right here in Margaret River! 🥰
The workshops are designed for those who already have some musical experience. You can bring any instrument (as long as it can play chromatic scales). You can even bring your voice and your legs for drums if you wish. We will focus on one or two rhythm/mode combinations per workshop and utilize repetition to concrete these forms into the subconscious mind.
I also provide 1 to 1 music tutoring for experienced musicians looking to break out of the jazzy/blues humdrum and expand their musical horizons for the purposes of developing improvisational form to the next level.
Contact details are available on my website: https://montycash.au
Previous EMU episodes were posted on my main music page facebook.com/montycashmontycash
EMU (Expanding into the Musical Unknown) is an imperfect musical exploration into the universe's imagination.
The ability to learn new techniques, styles of music and instruments is highly dependent on our ability to let go and allow our minds to be a child again - in that - we stop insecurities about doing things right and we just play.. we make mistakes, and we learn - and in doing so, we learn how to learn - disposing of the 'hustle' of industry and retaining an authentic relationship with essence.
I provide one on one music tutoring and coaching for the purposes of assisting you in breaking out of your habits in music playing - using a specific teaching method I have developed myself as an ear trained improvisation focused musician. This method can be used for any musical style or instrument. It is not about learning songs - it is about learning feel and the feel or each particular scale/mode and rhythm.
I have travelled the world for over 7 years with street music as my primary form of income. In this journey I discovered many types of music that sit outside the influence of the western ear.
I, like Ross Daly of Labyrinth music school in Crete, feel that a return to modal music is key in rediscovering the roots of universal culture through embracing the diversity available in the collective's magical musical imagination.
Hear his explanation at a Ted talk in Crete -
Join me for a Sufi Dance course in Margaret River: https://dtr.cool/sc19
Join us for the next In-dance in Margaret River: https://dtr.cool/id26
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/dgfwmtvo
Horse with No Name by America (1971) - This song was first suggested to be played by a bank employee in Perth, Scotland!
In 2014 I played music at the Fringe in Edinburgh and then traveled through Scotland living vicariously on the land. In this time I also took part in a forest occupation near Edinburgh to protect woodland owned by the local university from being developed into a commercial precinct. In Perth, I found an abundant welcome on the streets as I hitched through this small city a couple of times to refill my coppers. I have always been welcome on the streets of Ireland and Scotland - such rich music cultures with a keen appreciation of the voice!
After a long sabbatical from my acoustic street material I am finally performing as a guitarist singer/songwriter again with an actual gig thanks to Mat at the Servo in Cowaramup, Western Australia!
For over 7 years I travelled in the region from between Turkey to Ireland with this music as my bread and butter. You may have had the opportunity to see me playing at the Farmers or Artisan markets here in Margs, well now you can sit and also have a damn fine beer!
This is a pretty special place, new to Cowaramup - featuring an incredible and exclusive international/Belgium beer selection (thank God! Saviours of humankind!). There will also be a food van there on the day - good times all round!
I apologize for any confusion caused by the many projects I am running/maintaining. I run a sufi whirling dervish event called In-dance featuring Balkan inspired beats playing a range of instruments with an epic loop setup. I will be starting Modal Music classes for musical development in improvisation and music therapy - I also run Sufi dance courses, another one coming up soon at the Shala in Margaret River. Some people know me from the storytelling performance of Open the Door with music last year at the Witch and Windmill in Witchy featuring fine art accompanying each part of the story by the amazing artist Amanda Forward - and others know me from playing that very interesting three string instrument from Turkey the Kemençe in random public moments. I am also working in theatre with Sari Bennet and Amy Hastie - developing the amazing show based on Sari's life story - Finding Voice - which will be performed by us for the first time as a new production company - Calibrate - at Nannup Music Festival this year in early March! Needless to say, I am very busy and filling my time with a bounty of spirit energising projects!
I once considered having a different name for every little box. I have changed my performing name many times in my travels with vagrant parts of myself scattered across the internets. I have finally settled on this geriatric misnomer. 'Monty' came from a joke about a porn-star name which features the name of your first pet and your mother's maiden name which seemed a 'good enough' transition to avoid being deported from the UK way back in 2014 as the terrorist act of being free and playing music on the street can be a little too much for the diplomacy of governments at times.
There's a quite a bit more to my story and if you read all of that - three cheers to you! In brief, if you want some down to earth, honest and freedom inspired originals with some very original versions of some of the greats come down to the singer/songwriter set at the Servo, 4th of Feb - support local business and enjoy the naturally vibrant atmosphere springing up in Cowtown!
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livemusic #horsewithnoname #likeaversion #edinburghfringe #streetmusic #dervish
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/kqrbyrbo
Live footage with an artistic impression from today's In.dance at the Margaret River Karate Club. What a perfect atmosphere for this sacred practice. Thanks to all who came and supported including Di from the Margaret River Chai Company and the volunteers from Just Home! Just magic! ✨
(Shoutout to Lindsay Baker on the Sax and Harmonicas!) 😎🎷
ps. Listen on headphones for the full experience! 😉
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ambientmusic #liveloopartist #saxophone #sufidance #sufiwhirling #kemençe
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/ozeayrhh
Here's a little bite of the mini gig I did last night at the Marritree in Witchcliffe 😉 Thanks to Miranda and to all the other amazing performers and poets on this sold out night at old Darnell's! ❤️
Come to the sufi whirling dervish dance session tomorrow - https://dtr.cool/id29
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/mcvxukty
Volume 2 - E Hungarian Minor - 11 beat Rhythm
EMU (Expanding into the Musical Unknown) is an imperfect musical exploration into the universe's imagination.
The ability to learn new techniques, styles of music and instruments is highly dependent on our ability to let go and allow our minds to be a child again - in that - we stop insecurities about doing things right and we just play.. we make mistakes, and we learn - and in doing so, we learn how to learn - disposing of the 'hustle' of industry and retaining an authentic relationship with essence.
I provide one on one music tutoring and coaching for the purposes of assisting you in breaking out of your habits in music playing - using a specific teaching method I have developed myself as an ear trained improvisation focused musician. This method can be used for any musical style or instrument. It is not about learning songs - it is about learning feel and the feel or each particular scale/mode and rhythm.
I have travelled the world for over 7 years with street music as my primary form of income. In this journey I discovered many types of music that sit outside the influence of the western ear.
I, like Ross Daly of Labyrinth music school in Crete, feel that a return to modal music is a key in rediscovering the roots of universal culture through embracing the diversity available in the collective's magickal musical imagination.
Let's travel this journey together!
Contact details are available on my website:
https://montycash.au
An example of Neveser Makam - Here the Saz Semaisi which is the 'standard' to learn the pentachords and tetrachords and ascending or descending movements - https://dtr.cool/nev
Here is the link to the Sufi Dance Event on the 29th in Margaret River, Western Australia - https://dtr.cool/id29
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makam #improvisation #livemusic #originalmusic #loopstation #kemence #balkangypsy #musician
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/dwpybfqy
This is an original song about living in a cardboard box.
Lyrics:
The rain falls, heavy and cumbersome tonight
ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
Relax now, a warm tea and a heart set
ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
The bitter things, they grow and they grow in the dark ground
ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
I search a place, myself in tender flesh found
ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
Oh little child that was born
Where did you go in the fog
on one side there is light
and on the other there is dark
the journey chose is a little less than its fright
a cardboard in the wind, a cave to carry us in
oooo, oooo,
oooo, oooooooooommmm
Fear not child, this body will hold you tight
ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
Out in the rain, a perishing home for your sustain
ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
The mental frights are only as big as you are
ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
Wake the sleeper that knows that all is fine
ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
Are you aware of the rain that falls, falls again
ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
Or is it lost on ears that fear the sound it treads
ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
https://montycash.au
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/zovunvjx
Here is a rundown of all the interesting instruments I use in my new album 'Open the Door'.
Turkish/Balkan Instruments:
Bendir
Klasik Kemence/Politiki Lyra
Full album available @ https://RedmondRecords.com.au
Guided Dream Meditation with the accompanying story and the first nine parts of the album available @ https://SilentFlow.org
Find out more about the story the music is based on @ https://dreamstoreality.vision
Contact Monty @ https://montycash.au
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/enfohtvp
Volume 1 - F# Hirajoshi - 15 beat Rhythym
EMU (Expanding into the Musical Unknown) is an imperfect musical exploration into the universe's imagination.
I recognize that the ability to learn new things and new instruments is highly dependent on me letting go and allowing myself to be a child again - in that - we stop insecurities about doing things right and we just play, make mistakes, and learn - and in doing so, we learn how to learn.
I provide one on one music tutoring and coaching for the purposes of assisting you in breaking out of your habits in music playing - these methods and tactics can be used for any musical style or instrument.
I have travelled the world for over 7 years with street music as my primary form of income. In this journey I discovered many types of music that sit outside of the western ear.
I feel that a return to the roots of modal music is a key in rediscovering the diversity available in the collective's unlimited musical imagination.
Let's travel on this journey together!
Contact details are available on my website:
https://montycash.au
ps. I am from Western Australia and I recorded this in a studio converted from an old chicken shed in Margaret River.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/oceikiqg
Interview by Matheus Luzi @ Revista Arte Brasileira to Monty Cash - What is 'A Guided Dream':
'A Guided Dream' has been performed live in yoga studio settings with people laying down and going on a journey into self. The story it is based on is being developed into a stage-play in the Netherlands. After an inspiration, Solange Niessen of Weert in the Netherlands decided it was a great idea to speak the story with 'you' as the protagonist to allow the listener to feel they are in the journey.
What is the meaning of the poetry?
The original version of this story/poem is called 'Open the Door'. It is about a person who searches the world and finds little substance in it yet through chance finds a way that is not usual. This way is the path of facing the unknown. This person then goes on to achieve their limitless potential.
We find it important to address this 'dark night of the soul' that we have all collectively been going through - in that the way out of this solitary and singular place is to face that which we fear the most and say - enough!
Is there any interesting story as to how the poetry came to be?
This story was first written as an accompaniment to a music score. The intention placed in the story when it was written was - 'what is needed most for humanity to progress at this time.' It seems arrogant to write for such a purpose but it was written nonetheless from a pure heart and honesty. The story slowly became much more important than the music and different collaborations based on the story have now formed bringing together a community of artists around the world. The musical score is an original world music score which is a result of a street performer's musical experiences traveling through Turkey, Greece and Macedonia. It contains many traditional balkan elements including a focus on traditional form and acoustic sounds.
Dreams to Reality Productions are a fresh production group that has been born from this story. We seek to challenge the norms of expression and creativity as has been distorted by industry and once again allow a free platform of expression using story as the key - rekindling our ability to make magic! Join us on our journey: https://dreamstoreality.vision Is also airing on Ze Rock Porto station in Israel!
If you'd like to add this to your radio station playlist - please download it here! You're welcome to upload it to your website - write us a review! Email: info@dreamstoreality.vision for more info. https://files.fm/u/jrtqc6nmj Shoutout to @juliakponsford 😉
It is also on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/dreamstorealityprod/a-guided-dream-solange-niessen-and-monty-cash
And on youtube:
This artwork along with the story and music were released in Witchcliffe, Western Australia in August 2022 For more about the artworks by Amanda Forward:
guideddream #contemporaryart #storytelling #guidedmeditationfemalevoice
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/mfpteejj
Music download here: https://dreamstoreality.vision/music
Upcoming grand release of music and art by Amanda Forward on August 19-20 at the Witch and Windmill, Witchcliffe - https://dreamstoreality.vision/events
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/lysuwaui
Music available for purchase @ https://dreamstoreality.vision/music
Music: Monty Cash
Footage: Cottonbro
Edit: Sol
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/pvachizp
"A peculiar coldness grips him by the shoulder
A dim light dissolves the dark form
Subtle echoes drip into the deep,
and the edges of the abyss become visible"
"Abyss" is part of our 'Open the Door' project, which consists of nine musical pieces and a story about the dive into the unknown which we are developing into a stage play to be performed with an orchestra, choir and contemporary dance. Find us here: https://dreamstoreality.vision
Music: Monty Cash
Videos: Cottonbro https://omycotton.com/
Editing: Solange Niessen
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/acelodfr
I see you have traveled far in this world... dear traveler...
https://dreamstoreality.vision
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/awpkxkbj
👉👉 Here is a a snippet from the Guided Dream meditation @ The Shala on the 28th of May, 2022 - Next Guided Dream will be run at MarginArta House in Nannup on the 12th of June - Search MarginArta House on FB for deets ❤️
Dreams to Reality Website
Odysee
Youtube
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/kzvtphuj
As you talk you broach a curious subject of which the kind man is all too aware
The Axis of Sanity
The decision to decide on what 'is'
A foundation from which to grow roots, and branches, and leaves
and by which to commit
This is a part 7 of the story titled 'Open the Door' written by myself.
We (Solange Březina and I as Dreams to Reality Productions) are developing this story into a screen play with contemporary dance and impact theature as the focus elements.
This part of the story is in a 3/4 rhythm using the Mixolydian Scale.
The artwork used for the cover is by Jessica Berry who is illustrating an entire brief graphic novel on the experience.
You can find her at:
https://www.pekkaladesign.com/
https://artofintruition.com/
I also asked her to narrate the story for a greater effect when I present it with her completed artworks in January 2022.
https://m.soundcloud.com/montycashmusic/open-the-door-narrated-by-jessica-berry
So far on board the massive project of making this into a beautiful stage production - we have:
A screen writer
A costume designer
A narrator
Illustrator
Audio Engineer
Set designer
We need:
Marketing agent
Booking agent
We would like:
An orchestra
A major blockbuster based on the story
Bodily autonomy respected... (sorry, had to throw that one in there)
If you are in the Netherlands and are part of a dance school near Amsterdam or Brabant we would like to hear from you:
Email me: mailbox@montycashmusic.com
Let's make something wonderful! Let's make something powerful! Let's expand human potential to its ultimate! Let's fucking be! Sending love,
Monty
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/bueggqpp
Deep in the forest you find a caravan of nomads
A dark and kind man invites you to join him on his float
Smoking spiced herb and drinking mint tea
Newly befriended, you converse into the morning
This is a part 6 of the story titled 'Open the Door' written by myself.
We (Solange Březina and I as Dreams to Reality Productions) are developing this story into a screen play with contemporary dance and impact theature as the focus elements.
This part of the story is in a traditional 3/6 balkan rhythym in a different position of the harmonic minor scale sometimes known as Romanian.
The artwork used for the cover is by Jessica Berry who is illustrating an entire brief graphic novel on the experience.
You can find her at:
https://www.pekkaladesign.com/
https://artofintruition.com/
I also asked her to narrate the story for a greater effect when I present it with her completed artworks in January 2022.
https://m.soundcloud.com/montycashmusic/open-the-door-narrated-by-jessica-berry
So far on board the massive project of making this into a beautiful stage production - we have:
A screen writer
A costume designer
A narrator
Illustrator
Audio Engineer
Set designer
We need:
Marketing agent
Booking agent
We would like:
An orchestra
A major blockbuster based on the story
Bodily autonomy respected... (sorry, had to throw that one in there)
If you are in the Netherlands and are part of a dance school near Amsterdam or Brabant we would like to hear from you:
Email me: mailbox@montycashmusic.com
Let's make something wonderful! Let's make something powerful! Let's expand human potential to its ultimate! Let's fucking be! Sending love,
Monty
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/alvbixmq
A pink hue surfaces on the horizon
Shifting shores erect from the waters edge and turn a pale yellow
Trees lay their shadow on the soft dew ridden sand
An elegant forest rises to meet you
This is a part 5 of the story titled 'Open the Door' written by myself.
We (Solange and I - as Dreams to Reality Productions) are developing this story into a screen play using contemporary dance as the focus element.
This part of the story is in a traditional turkish/bulgarian 9/16 rhythym in the G Dorian scale.
The artwork used for the cover is by Jessica Berry who is illustrating an entire brief graphic novel on the experience.
You can find her at:
https://www.pekkaladesign.com/
https://artofintruition.com/
I also asked her to narrate the story for a greater effect when I present it with her completed artworks in January 2022.
https://m.soundcloud.com/montycashmusic/open-the-door-narrated-by-jessica-berry
So far on board the massive project of making this into a beautiful stage production - we have:
A screen writer
A costume designer
A narrator
Illustrator
Audio Engineer
Set designer
We need:
Marketing agent
Booking agent
If you are in the Netherlands and are part of a dance school we would like to hear from you - as we are applying for funding to get this project off the ground over there:
Email me: mailbox@montycashmusic.com
Let's make something wonderful! Let's make something powerful! Let's expand human potential to its ultimate! Let's fucking be! Sending love,
Monty
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/bwbfucze
I didn't get a music video made this week as of yet (still time)
but I did make this one..
The trick to having the best starting chair is to be approximately 75% satisfied with it and then it is important to persist with its 75% percent of chairy value (otherwise known as 'chairy-chairiness') until the other 25% (which totals your frustration threshold (FT)) slowly grows into a total of 100% fedupity.
It's called the 'I've had e-fucking-nough of this fucking damn fucking bullshit' method of finding/doing/making things.
I hope this helps you in life with other things as well.
I also provide live coaching sessions.
In love,
Monty
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/nornaozg
https://dreamstoreality.vision
This is a part 4 of the story titled 'Open the Door'.
This part of the story is in a traditional turkish taksim style using the major/minor scale.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/dovwhwps
After staring into the abyss for a time and resolved never again to return to the land of the known
You take a running jump and dive directly into the bowels of the deep
The rising wind shakes and rattles every cell in your body
This consistent apocalypse encloses around you
You fall
fall
fall
This is a draft version of part 3 of the story formerly titled "Foundation" written by myself.
I have been busy.
This story is being developed into a screen play using contemporary dance and a full orchestra.
This part of the story is in a traditional 10 beat rhythm and in a musical scale similar to the Hicaz eastern scale.
I decided to start telling the story directly to 'you' after a suggestion from co-producer Solange from the Netherlands.
The artwork used for the cover is by Jessica Berry who is illustrating an entire brief graphic novel on the experience.
You can find her at:
https://www.pekkaladesign.com/
https://artofintruition.com/
I also asked her to narrate the story for a greater effect when I present it with her completed artworks in January 2022.
https://m.soundcloud.com/montycashmusic/open-the-door-narrated-by-jessica-berry
If you are a dancer or part of an orchestra or within any industry that can assist along the way.
Email me: mailbox@montycashmusic.com
Let's make something wonderful! Let's expand human potential to its ultimate! Let's fucking be! Sending love,
Monty
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/idgqlvrq
Silently committed, he enters
As a peculiar coldness grips him by the shoulder A dim light dissolves the dark form Subtle echoes drip into the deep and the edges of the abyss become visible Hear the full story read by the fireside as read by Monty Cash himself - https://soundcloud.com/montycashmusic
This is part one of a live album release by Monty Cash and the Nomads of Elysium
A full download of the album will be available through various distributions on completion of all 9 parts (probably within the next month).
Stay tuned @ https://instagram.com/montycashmusic
Join Monty's mailing list @ https://MontyCashMusic.com
Follow Monty's blog @ https://peaks.com/@montycashmusic
Copyright Monty Cash Music 2021 All Rights Reserved
storytelling #makam #balkanmusic #balkangypsy #kemence #loopstation
This was uploaded on 3speak first! Thanks for being a community run video platform that shuns censorship and champions freedom of speech!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/ztmimauj
Hello Alien Art Hivers! I made this strange video to promo my upcoming live album called 'Foundation' and it made me think of you! This symbol is a self creation that represents crossing the line of the known world and transforming into our most potent dream.
"Foundation" is a Live album recording by Monty Cash Music and the Nomads of Elysium.
Available October 2021 on all distribution platforms.
Live videos will be uploaded here as they are made and the album release will shortly follow.
Stay tuned @ https://instagram.com/montycashmusic
Join Monty's mailing list @ https://MontyCashMusic.com
Follow Monty's blog @ https://peaks.com/@montycashmusic
Stay strong and exuberant!
Copyright Monty Cash Music 2021 All Rights Reserved
The music video for the first song - The Door - has already been uploaded on 3speak - you can find it here: https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@montycashmusic/qukonfzb
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/qukonfzb
The boy travelled far in the land of the known and by chance found a way that was not usual.
This new path before him, signalled by a single door, intrigues him. "There is no choice," he says to himself, "I must open this door!" Hear the full story read by the fireside as read by Monty Cash himself - https://soundcloud.com/montycashmusic
This is part one of a live album release by Monty Cash Music and the Nomads of Elysium
A full download of the album will be available through various distributions on completion of all 9 parts (probably within the next month).
Copyright Monty Cash Music 2021 All Rights Reserved
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=montycashmusic/irgmnhxg
The essence of this body has been up to things... what have you been up to?
Lyrics:
I'm a sheep
I must do
What other sheep do
Baa Baa Baa
Oh look, you're doing that
I must do it too
Baa baa baa
I grow some lovely fine fur
master master
Baa baa baa
And maybe I'll give you
a bit of cheese too
then you can eat my arms
and you can eat my legs
my brains my gizzards too
then you can eat my eyeballs
I'm a sheep
I just do
What you do
Baa baa baa
Oh it's so fun
to do things together
Baa baa baa
I have no independent thoughts
of my own
Baa baa baa
We do it all together
and never alone
We're going to die together
It's the best way... to die
Oh everybody off the cliff now
or take some cyanide
I'm a sheep
I'm inside my little home
Baa baa baa
I cook my eggs
I kiss my wifey
Baa baa baa
I get my paycheck from the government
every week
Baa baa baa
Oh, what's that?!
VACCINATE?!!
NO WAY!!
I'M NOT A SHEEP ANYMORE
I WON'T TAKE YOUR BULLSHIT
I WANT TO BE FREE NOW
SO
I'M GONNA PUT UP
A BIG SHEEP FIGHT
[burrrrp, [come on it's part of the song dammit!]]
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