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The Third Ear on Listening to the World The Third Ear On Listening to the World Joachim-Ernst Berendt was born in Berlin in 1922. Having spent many years travelling widely and exploring diverse traditions, he realised the universal importance of sound in shaping cultural and spiritual life, and this became the underlying theme of his work. As Europe's foremost jazz expert and producer, he has helped to found Sudwestfunk, one of West Germany's most popular radio stations. He has produced numerous concerts and records, and directed many international jazz festivals. He is also the author of more than twenty books. THE THIRD EAR ON LISTENING TO THE WORLD Joachim · Ernst Berendt Translated by Tim Nevill ELEMENT BOOKS IN MEMORY OF Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) ethnologist, biologist, and systems researcher, © Element Books Ltd 1988 who once said that any living thing which triumphs in the struggle against its environment destroys itself. First English language edition published 1988 by Element Books Ltd Georg von Bekesy Longmead, Shaftesbury, Dorset (1899-1972) physiologist and biologist, Originally published as Das Dritte Ohr who taught us to understand the miracle © 1985 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH of the human ear more completely. Reinbek bei Hamburg Niels Bohr (1885-1962) All rights reserved. atomic physicist, who was the first person to note the No part of this book may be reproduced or similaritybetween the concept of Field in ChineseTaoism utilised in any form or by any means, and theoretical physics. electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing fro,!\ the Publisher. Albert Einstein Typeset in 10/111/2 pt Palatino (1879-1955) Colset Private Limited, Singapore who created the theory ofrelativity, uncovering Printed and bound in Great Britain the cfeceptive nature of oursense of time. Designed by Clarke Williams Cover design by Max Fairbrother RichardFester Cover illustration produced by Martin Reiser (1910-1982) researcherintolanguagesandoriginatorofpalaeo-linguistics, British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data whodemonstrated the truthoftheTowerofBabel myth. Berendt, Joachim E. (Joa<:him-Ernst) The third ear: on listening to the world. Heraclitus 1. Man. Auditory perceptives (c. 550-c. 480BC) I. Title philosopher, who bidus discoverharmonywhereit ismost 152.1'5 deeplyconcealed. ISBN 1-85230-049-3 Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) psychologistand analyst, who made men awareoftheir animaand women oftheir animus. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) astronomer, mathematician, and musician, who heard and calculated 'worldharmonics' in planetaryorbits. RamanaMaharshi (1879-1950) ~ Indian sage, who taught us to askanew: Whoam I? CONTENTS Pythagoras (c. 570-c. 480BC) FOREWORD xiii philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, theoretician of music, whodiscovered theharmonyof thespheresand was INTRODUCTION 1 thefirst man to travel thewayweare onceagainlearning today: from theOrient to the Occident - and thereby I Voyaging through the Ear 1 established Western Science. II The Ear as a Compass 1 Maulana ]alaluddin Rumi III Hearing Penetrates Deeper 2 (1207-1273) the Persian poetinwhoseverses IV Changing Course 3 thewisdomofSufismbecamesound. V What is the East to Us? 4 VI Flight into an Ideal World 5 Colin Walcott (1945-1984) VII Experiencing Hearing for Oneself 6 musician and percussionist, whoplayedandlivedWorld VIII Listening is 'In' 6 Musicsomarvellously. IX A Word to the Reader 7 1 EAR AND EYE 9 I Blocked Ears 9 II Plays for Listening and Silent Films 11 III Counting by Ear 13 IV Seeing = Seeking 17 V Love through the Ear 19 VI Petrarch on Mont Ventoux 21 VII Hear, and your Soul Lives Now 23 VIII TheEye Says I 27 IX Eye and EarNeedOneAnother 28 X He who hasEars to HearSees! 32 2 WE SEE THREE DIMENSIONS BUT HowMANYDoWE HEAR? 34 I Relativity isn't a Problemfor the Ear 34 II Infinityand the Ear 36 III Baby in the Ear 37 viii Contents Contents ix 3 THE EAR GOES BEYOND: On the Miracle ofHearing 39 V 'Rock around the Clock' 76 VI Greater Volume, More Out of Tune 78 I The Ear as Hall of Mirrors 39 VII Alarm and Aggression 79 II We HearMore than We Believe 39 VIII Enamoured of Explosions 80 III Bridging the Gap 41 IX Noise = Power! 81 IV Microscopic Precision 41 X Pianistic Potential: 17 to 19 Tons 82 V Sound Exalts Time 42 XI Checking Service for Body and Soul 83 VI Music - Art in Time? 43 VII Hearing Entails Quantising 45 9 THE WORLD IS SOUND 84 VIII The Ear Finds Crossing-Places 46 I The Way of Harmonics 84 4 THINKING THROUGH THE EAR: Suite on Essentials 48 II The Miracle of the Octave 85 III The Earthly Triad: Day, Year, and Moon Tones 87 I Two Themes 48 IV The Harmony of the Spheres From Pythagoras to Kepler 92 II Duos on theSecondTheme 49 V Scientific Confirmation 94 III Fuga Canonica 51 VI Harmonic Pollution 96 IV Heraclitus's Grand Cadenza 53 VII Cosmic Aspects of Architecture 97 V Rondo Intensivo 53 VIII Harmonic Architecture to Man's Measure 98 VI Mozartean Variation 54 IX Visualisation of Hidden Harmony 101 VII Finale with T.S. Eliot 55 X In the Beginning was Sound 102 5 ANALOGIES LEAD FURTHER THAN LOGIC 56 10 TOTAL LISTENING: The Implications ofHolomovement 105 6 LISTENING WORDS 61 I Listen to the World! lOS I The 'Absolutely Superfluous Abundance of Language' 61 II The Interconnectedness of Everything 109 II Jimi Hendrix - The Veil of the Temple was Rent in Twain 64 III The Deja Vu of Consciousness 111 IV Physics Changes Society 113 7 LANDSCAPES OF THE EAR: A Summer Experience 67 V Revolution Now! The Paradigm Shift 116 8 EARS THAT Do NOT HEAR: On Noise 72 VI Summa 117 I Noise is Acoustic Garbage 72 11 AUDIBLE AND INAUDIBLE SOUND 119 II Silence as a Higher Potency of Sound 72 III Noise Makes You III 73 I Where is the Third Ear? 119 IV 'Mountains of Noise' 73 II Lack of Clarity about 'Vibrations' 120 x Contents Contents xi III Music of the Solar Wind and Geomagnetism 121 15 LISTENING IS IMPROVISING 169 IV From Skins to Electronics 123 I Listening to Others More than to Oneself 169 V Kepler: 'Give Space to the Heavens ...' 125 II The Collective as a Single Organism 171 VI The Drive towards Harmony 126 III Why Composers can be Deaf 172 VII Listening is the Way 128 IV Composed Music Exists in Space 174 V Improvised Music Says: We! 175 12 WHY WOMEN HAVE HIGHER VOICES 129 I Men and Women have to Sound Different 129 16 PuTTING TO THE TEST 177 II High Voices Carry the Melody 130 I Seeing = Judging: The Primordial Separation 177 III Natural Dominance? 132 II Three Days with Bound Eyes 178 IV Above and Below 133 III Of Ray' Charles, Roland Kirk, and Sleepy John Estes 183 V High Distance and Low Unity 134 VI High Means: Watch Out! 136 17 DoYou HEAR THE RUSHING OF THE RIVER? A Meditation 186 VII The Ragings of the Great Mother Linger On 137 18 SONGS OF PRAISE 194 VIII Why Women Want to be Seen 141 I 'God Hungers for Songs' IX Female Sounds are Older 143 194 II The 'Purpose' of Music X Women Created Language 145 195 III 'Do You Know How Many MO,squitos Dance ... XI Girls Talk Earlier and Say More 148 r 197 IV Waltzing Whales XII The Primal Human Being - a Listener 149 198 V The Universe Dances XIII Polyphony as a Model 151 199 VI The Ladder of Love 200 13 OVERTONES OPEN THE DOOR 153 r I Many Voices from a Single Throat 153 Notes 205 Bibliography 223 II Overtones Inform us about Reality 154 Index of Names 227 III Overtones = Supersounds 157 Subject Index 233 IV Music: Material.:>r Transcendental? 161 V The Fatal Connection: Western Science and Western Music 162 VI World Ml~sic: Discovering what We have in Common 164 , 14 TV REASSURES THAT SHOOTING DOESN'T HARM ANYONE 167 FOREWORD The reader will soon understand why this book fills me with admira­ tion and wonder for its author, a kindred spirit who corroborates my conviction that the magic of listening brings us closer to the central core of the universe. To begin to comprehend the mystery of life it is not sufficient to touch and to see - we need to hear, to listen, and thus to unite heart and mind and soul. The softer the sound, the more important it is that we perceive it. We have, I fear, become a deaf people, and the cries of pain of the flora and fauna around us, the very air we breathe, the suffering of our fellow human beings in our urban deserts, in parts of the globe we have subjected to war, to famine and flood, through greed and selfishness, have become inaudible. The media encourage us to read, to view, to hear, but that does not mean we listen. Until we can create a still centre within ourselves we will be unable to attune the 'third ear' to the messages that are broadcast to us, loud and clear for the most part, but rendered futile due to our incapacity to listen. This handicap is more than deafness; it is blindness as well - and ouronlyhope as we reach the endof the twentieth century is to heed that childhood rhyme we all learned - a key to finding the 'third ear': A wise old owl lived in an oak The more he saw, the less he spoke; The less he spoke, the more he heard ­ Why can't we be like that wise old bird? Sir Yehudi Menuhin Hear, and your soul shall live. Isaiah Merely looking at something cannot develop us. Goethe Hidden harmony is mightier than what is revealed. Heraclitus Our tradition teaches us that sound is God - Nada Brahma.
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