[BINAURAL LISTENING VERSION: Larger screens and headphones necessary for optimum experience.]

“Meadows” {if breezes were voices blending communities} is the first of a series of electroacoustic music and video compositions intentionally produced for meditative, mindful, and prayerful moments to be experienced through concert or exhibition audiences, small group therapy, educational or corporate climate improvement, or individual personal practice. The series will feature a variety of captured moments from visually compelling scenes composed with minimal sound sets for the purpose of facilitating focus on breath and inward presence within a simple slice of time. For me, dissonance demonstrates innate resilience. Most people cannot listen to anything discordant. If one looks up definitions for dissonance and discordant, they will find two meanings for each. Both are defined musically as tension, being harsh, or lacking harmony. Unfortunately, these words carry on the same meanings in the context of humanity’s inability to be together in peace and harmony. Sometimes, whether it be industrial thrash metal or European serialism, listening to harsh music allows me to release my tension by embracing it like a child scribbling finger paint on a wall-sized canvas or thinking like a poet writing in a stream-of-consciousness modality. But music can also be passively dissonant as experienced when listening to very ancient motets composed in the middle ages. There is nothing like a Gesualdo madrigal resolution from a tense harmony melting the soul in your stomach from your auditory command center! Allow yourself to embrace what you at first may perceive as clashing discordance. Breath with the flow of the voices. Stare into the movement. Become one with the pulse of the wind. Air knows no dissonance.

Music and Video Composed by Jason Matthew Malli

Voices by Catherine Malli

Clouds {if hedrons were dimensions calibrating} explores vastness – vastness in human potential and vastness without regard to human beings at all. In the simplest sense, this work intends to evoke recollections of staring into vastness – the formations, textures, colors, rhythms, collisions, enveloping, commingling, charging, dissipating, and even absence. Clouds release as the sky breathes. Clouds massively reduce our very self to an appropriate scale of our worth, value, and purpose. We do matter, but no more than any other single self does. And if we allow ourselves to blend simply by stepping aside for another to pass first, we will see that our path is clear for an arrival that requires no certain time.

After all, from the cosmos perspective, the moon and the sun share the clouds. “Clouds” was composed during the coronavirus epidemic and quarantine experience that permeates the lives of every Earth inhabitant. Conflict exists within controlling forces while fear and loss meander almost aimlessly inside each of us daily from dawn until dusk.

Pause from this cycle, perhaps to repair or at least to take care.

Get comfortable, if possible, with headphones, a large screen, and feet on the floor embracing good posture. Find the pulse and flow in this work and breathe within its accompaniment.

Peace.

Music and Video Composed by Jason Matthew Malli

Fixed Media and Virtual Instruments Recorded by Jason Matthew Malli

Branches of Light {if seconds were kinsfolk sharing wisdom}, subtitled as the thought set, “{if seconds were kinsfolk sharing wisdom},” continues the Immersive Mindfulness prototype series with a mid-winter, mid-morning sunrise as perceived through the bare maple tree branches accompanied by bird songs and granularly processed detuned piano. The participant is invited to imagine being bundled up sitting outside in need of fresh air after feeling cooped up in the staleness of the indoors and simply watching the sunrise bounce light against the trees. Each second is a precious moment to breathe in as wisdom and then pass and share to another.

Music and Video Composed by Jason Matthew Malli

Piano Performed and Processed by Jason Matthew Malli

Shadows of Light {if orbits were lifeforces transcending}

Think back to your childhood during winter if you lived where snow falls. Remember fearlessly falling into the snow without worries of getting cold or sick? Did you ever fall face first and just marvel at the sparkles of the light glistening in the snow? Did you ever playfully open and close your eyes at different speeds almost controlling the transitions of sight blurring with experimental bliss? If yes, bring that feeling to this video. If not, try to imagine being that free. Whether or not, please enjoy what I have captured from one of the few 2020 episodes of snowfall in Connecticut on a day when there was not so much weight on our shoulders. Go ahead and imagine rolling in the snow, in slow motion.

Music and Video composed for meditative, mindful, and prayerful moments by Jason Matthew Malli.

Virtual classic synthesizers, Prophet, Jupiter, Farfisa, and Synclavier performed by Jason Matthew Malli

Streams {if glimmers were beacons cast meandering}

Music and Video Composed for Meditative, Miindful, and Prayerful Moments by Jason Matthew Malli.

Fixed Media and Virtual Instruments Recorded and Mixed by Jason Matthew Malli