(IE) Dakini by John Beaulieu, George Quasha

In these Dakini recordings the Dakini drawings of George Quasha are viewed as music scores allowing each Dakini to manifest in sound. The essence of playing Dakini music is the freedom of the hands to independently move, creating a mobile, moving, sonic form embedded in the vortex appearance of still points which unpredictably appear and disappear. The playing of notes is always an indeterminate harmony subject to the movement patterns of emerging Dakinis. I am centered in an internal still point, and through the discipline of allowing each arm/hand/finger to move independently over the piano keys. The independent parts of the self find a way to interrelate without conscious intent. The mind appreciates yet makes not effort to control. The Dakini appears.

Although I am a university trained pianist my axial keyboard discipline requires that I become like a child. When I was a child sitting at the piano I did not know how to control my hands, or how one hand related to another. I sat at the piano and the sound moved them. Something inside of me, exciting, precious and without a name traveled within the sound and sought sonic relationships beyond consonances, dissonances, and virtuosic expectations. My hands, as extensions of my being, naturally and without effort, discovered sounds that inspired my imagination to soar. I navigated sounds discovering again and again wonderful sensations embedded in waking dreams of magical realities.

KEY to JOHN BEAULIEU's discography:
SH-Sound Healing
SJ - Sound Journey
CI-Classical Improvisation
EM-Experimental Music
IE-Intuitive Sound Explorations

John Beaulieu is a composer using multiple mediums of creative expression as part of his exploration of consciousness for healing. John is always experimenting with new ways and forms of creative expression.

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