DESCRIPTION:
1. Muladhara, Base or Root Chakra - Ionian Mode (5:09)
2. Swadhisthana, Sacral Chakra - Dorian Mode (2.53)
3. Manipura, Solar Plexus Chakra - Phrygian Mode (6.07)
4. Anahata, Throat Chakra - Lydian Mode, Heart Chakra (5.49)
5. Vishuddha - Mixolydian Mode (5.28)
6. Ajna, Third Eye Chakra - Aeolian Mode (10.51)
7. Sahasrara, Crown Chakra - Locrian Mode (7:30)

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Composed and performed by Richard Irwin, this is a work in seven movements with each movement focusing on one of the Chakra. In Hindu and Buddhist tradition the Chakra are the focus of spiritual power or life force in the body. Each Chakra meditation is written in a different ancient modal scale that is related to vibrational base of the Chakra - which is often heard as a drone in the music. The ancient modal scales were defined by the Greek Philosopher, Aristoxenus of Tarentum in his Elements of Harmony dating from the 4th Century BCE, but were used in ancient music long before this.

Writing modal music imposes a particular discipline on the composer, denying them the use of many more familiar harmonic progressions available in modern western music and excludes the use of sharps and flats! Modal music was used in early Christian Church music, but the final mode, Locrian, was banned by Church authorities. The Locrian mode has neither a major nor minor triad, the fifth note being diminished. It also has no natural resolution.
As to listening, the clue is in the use of the word Meditation! Best listened to with headphone on, with eyes closed and with focused breathing.



The work is dedicated to Angelina Saunderson and her late father my old friend Richard Saunderson.
Copyright ©2014 Performance ℗2014, Certain Rights Reserved
Richard Mark Stephen Irwin (b.1955)