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Above Skyline

A love song about the need to find avenues of escape from the congestion of a traffic and media clogged world.

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Sonic bathing and devotional chanting

It was a great weekend with friends old and new in Joshua Tree, CA.  We met at the Integratron for a ‘sound bath’, which must be experienced to be appreciated.  We were thrilled to be joined by Krishna Das along with his manager and band member Nina Rao.  I could tell he was a real […]

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Ojai – friendly and beautiful

We discover a hidden world in the Ojai hills.

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The Swift Achiever is here! Sacred Tibetan chants

The long awaited CD of Lama Jigme Tenzin has officially dropped.   A chant master and long time Buddhist from Bhutan, Lama Jigme has performed original renditions of sacred Tibetan chants.  He asked my wife Julie and I to produce a modern album that would help people realize the depth inherent in these works, and also […]

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A New Take on Sacred Buddhist Chants

  “Blessings Like Rain” is the first music/video collaboration between Lama Jigme Tenzin and Music House Productions with William Belote and Julie Lilly-Belote.  It is inspired by the deeply resonant singing of Lama Jigme as he chants sacred texts from his Tibetan Buddhist tradition.   The complete chants is found here. Lama Jigme Tenzin, disciple of […]

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(Electronic synthesizer experiments) EC 1, 2, 3, and 4

Four early studies in a series of  1 or 2 track improvisations (Electronic compositions) utilizing parts of the current modular synthesizer: This first two rely upon a fully expanded Turing Machine for pitch selection.  It derives it’s trigger pattern from a K4815, and the Turing is being quantized through a uScale whose A out goes […]