Over the course of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, the notion of music as a conduit to spirituality has taken a variety of forms: individual contemplation, communal praise, the physical discipline of dance, a rock star's beatific charisma.
There is a difference between mere noise control and genuine silence, and Prochnik makes an eloquent case for the latter, whether in the form of personal contemplation or communal spaces of tranquillity.
communal living; communalism". .
I love every element of it – the not eating, sure, but also the long tasbih sessions, the contemplation, the meditation, the communal prayers, the hum of anticipation right before iftar.
In place of scores suited for assimilation into the Western classical canon, Ms. Oliveros offers "Sonic Meditations," a 1971 collection of text-based contemplations, meant to facilitate communal music making.
When the city rolls out its share-a-cab program this fall, the solitary taxi ride — and its private, if jerky, moments of contemplation — will yield to the more intimate world of communal travel.
Discovered 20 years ago by Hyper Island's founders, who were looking for a cheap venue to host the first event, they found the prison's communal spaces lent themselves well to collaboration while the cells enabled quiet contemplation.
Contemplation Environments.
A fan?" He concedes that "the quest for self-realization via Jackie contemplation isn't a standard male route," but when he thinks about her, he's at his "most collective and communal".
