David Hykes' career began in New York as an experimental filmmaker and composer at age 20 with the screening of the film "Moving Parts" in the Whitney Museum's New American Filmmakers series in 1974.
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, who oversaw David's exposure to enlightened Tibetan, Mongolian, Sufi and Christian teachers.
David also was mentored by violinist and yogi Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Indian raga singer Sheila Dhar, and his godmother from Taos Pueblo, who said, "we gave you the privilege to sing."
David has had the honor to contribute his music to sacred projects both East and West, including with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Gyuto and Byume monks.
The Harmonic Choir and Harmonic Presence Recordings
David
Hykes has been a very prolific recording artist over the
last 30 years. The musical and meditative vehicles of
his approach --the universal sacred music called Harmonic
Chant, and the Harmonic Presence work-- blend spiritual
cosmology, music, meditation, sound yoga, and healing
harmonization. They are a principal source for the modern
overtone chanting and healing sounds movements. His work
has been honed, blessed and transformed by direct contact
and dialogue with a number traditional teachers.
David' srecording are becoming collector's items. Click
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"In
the beginning was the voice... and the voice created
space. Here one really has the sensation of a space
being created. It is, undoubtedly, something never
felt before."—Alain Swietlik, France
David
Hykes is a seeker, searching for the relationship
between music, silence, listening and the Creation.
Hykes finds that serenity through his harmonic chanting
and that of his Harmonic Choir, the singing listeners.
Hykes bases his music on the observations of Pythagoras,
who 25 centuries ago, related note to number and
sensed musical values as central to the Creation.
Hykes studied the timeless geometry of the harmonic
series, relating harmony in music to ordered states
within oneself and the universe.
This
recording sprang from a traveling art exhibition
called The Tent of Meetings. Hykes composed the
music for this project, which was based on the sacred
art of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. And for
the first time, Hykes incorporated actual words
into his harmonic chanting, sacred words common
to those three religions, words like "Hallelujah"
and "Kyrie Fragments." Hykes says, "It
is the harmonic content of the words which interests
me. The harmonic content in a word can be brought
to life; it comes from the same place as a pure
vibration."
David
Hykes is a seeker, searching for the relationship
between music, silence, listening and the Creation.
Hykes finds that serenity through his harmonic chanting
and that of his Harmonic Choir, the singing listeners.
Hykes bases his music on the observations of Pythagoras,
who 25 centuries ago, related note to number and
sensed musical values as central to the Creation.
Hykes studied the timeless geometry of the harmonic
series, relating harmony in music to ordered states
within oneself and the universe.
The
double focus of this album is on harmonic polyrhythms
(just-intonation transposed into the realm of rhythm),
and singing harmonic songs. The trio format is very
inspiring, and, with collaborators like Peter Biffin
and Bruno Caillat, seems to hold few limits. "These
times ask us to share a responsibility for which
little data of a spiritual nature in our civilization
has survived to prepare us. We are cut off from
that level of harmony which, were we able to attune
to it, mibht illuminate and guide us, with quite
different results than those thich we are now having
to face", says composer and producer David
Hykes
The double focus
of this album is on harmonic polyrhythms (just-intonation
transposed into the realm of rhythm), and singing
harmonic songs. The trio format is very inspiring,
and, with collaborators like Peter Biffin and Bruno
Caillat, seems to hold few limits. "These times
ask us to share a responsibility for which little
data of a spiritual nature in our civilization has
survived to prepare us. We are cut off from that
level of harmony which, were we able to attune to
it, mibht illuminate and guide us, with quite different
results than those thich we are now having to face",
says composer and producer David Hykes.
David
Hykes has helped to introduce the "throat singing"
of Tuva, Tibet, and Mongolia to western audiences
and has also created a world of sacred music called
the Harmonic Chant. This latest CD features eight
profound compositions that open the listener to
incredible states of expanded consciousness aligned
with the vibrational frequencies of the cosmos itself.
David
Hykes explores the omnipresent harmonic series.
These musical vibrations are found everywhere in
the cosmos, from the continuous echo of the Big
Bang to human voices and animal song, from the voices
of crickets and elephants to the sounds of birds
and whales. Hykes shares his universal music in
concerts and recordings, as well as in open retreats,
workshops and seminars. He has collaborated with
the Dalai Lama and Tibetan monks, and with medical
professionals and neural scientists.
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Harmonique Centre
David Hykes, through his Harmonique Centre in France, offers concerts, seminars, retreats, school and conservatory lectures and residencies. David is spreading a form of knowledge which joins the sciences at their most intangible level, where what appears as matter turns out to be energy. series, being, as he says, "the musical DNA, the source of the music we know, which gives us life, also provides an extraordinary 'Genesis Chapter' for musical education at all levels."
David has been referred to as the foremost Western authority on harmonics in sound and related meditative and harmonizing/healing arts, and has has released 10 CD's, co-hosted evenings with the Dalai-Lama and the Gyuto Monks, and taught and performed at spiritual centers and conservatories worldwide. His music has been heard in films such as: "Meetings With Remarkable Men", "Dead Poets Society", and "Baraka".
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
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