Bob Baran - "Heavenly Body" from The Life On Mars
About the Life on Mars
Imagine creating a soundtrack for a
science fiction motion picture
- and you get to choose the storyline!
Hi my name is Bob Baran
I love movie music. Even the You Tube mono-sound version of my music - a current You Tube limitation - takes the amazing pictures from the Hubble Telescope to a new level of feeling.
Combining the power of a symphony orchestra with cutting edge electronic synthesis takes the music to places it's never been before. A no limit excursion into flavors of emotion that simply can't be achieved by any other means - especially when you combine it with visuals that are often nothing short of amazing by themselves.
Unless you are totally cut-off from your emotional self, you've been affected by music. It's one of those universal things all humans share. Why does some music take you to "places" you've never been before, while other music is just background noise?
My life mission begins to unfold..
Does music also have the ability to alter our perception of reality? I believe the answer to this question is yes...And I was determined to uncover the hidden mystery of the true origin of music. Something I have dedicated my life to.
As a student in college (Indiana University School of Music) I realized music was "dumbed" down. It's true power to affect us kept in a box. I was at one of the most prestigious music schools in the world...But I was a lone voice. The only one who believed there had to be a different way to create music. Music that would make you feel things you've never felt before and take you to places you've never been to before.
A simple understanding of left-brain thinking:
The mind's built-in barrier to the real power of music
By design the left hemisphere of the brain uses a step by step "reasoning" process we call logic. The left brain must calculate 2 + 2 in order to come up with the answer of 4. It's the computer side of the brain. Complex thinking from this place is the result of many steps. Each step must be weighed and measured before the next step is attempted. This is a slow cumbersome process of trial and error when compared to the function of the right hemisphere of the brain. The vast majority of music we hear today is the product of this left-brain thinking process.
Music should not be part of a thinking process!
Feeling is a higher brain function which is the true source of music..
The right-brain hemisphere is our own personal quantum computer. It is the seat of intuition and imagination. A place inside each one of us where anything is possible. The right brain already knows the answer is 4 without the trial and error process of logic to slow it down. Instead it relies on a holographic process which instantaneously interprets patterns of experience. This innate power to "know" the answer bypassing the trial and error "reasoning" enables music of pure feeling to be created. Music of emotion that touches your heart, and nourishes your soul.
Remember learning about the "right brain" in school?
Probably not. We've been taught that imagination is somehow immature. Children have vivid imaginations. The passion and emotional feeling which are the flavors which accompany a vivid imagination are to be held in check. So we are conditioned to push down our natural tendencies. Never giving ourselves the opportunity to fully embrace the power of our right brain.
Yet we seek out this place...The world of imagination and feeling..
Through drugs, alcohol, altered states of consciousness, movies, sports, books, games and of course music. We now spend more on "entertainment", seeking refuge from our left brain reality, than we do on any single item besides food and healthcare. We spend more time trying to escape from our left brain "real" world than any other thing we do.
What if music originating from the right brain stimulated your own right brain functions?
What I am about to reveal to you is the complete truth: I have discovered a process for creating music which bypasses the left brain and utilizes the right brain! My first serious attempt was "The Life On Mars". My most recent attempt came two years later. A solo piano album: "Escape Music® - A New Dawn" which made to the 49th annual Grammy Awards ballot in four catagories!
Listening to this music will change you. If you listen to it you will begin to sense the change and then actually "see" things differently on a day to day basis. The more you listen the greater the change in your consciousness will become.
Music that is a journey into a new reality..
This is music created as the result of a lifetime of my own trial and error. Music that is far more than an entertainment vehicle. It is music that comes from the quantum part of the brain. It resonates and communicates with that same part inside you. Your quantum consciousness.
How I created a new kind of music
One day many years ago as I was recording myself playing the piano. I immediately began to improvise with other instruments adding more and more tracks to the recording of the piano. When I was finished it sounded like an uncontrolled block of noise! But, I knew intuitively that somewhere within this noise was a piece of music unlike anything I had yet heard...It (the music) was waiting for me to pull it out of the noise.
Quantum consciousness music is born
This is the day I began to practice musical magic! Magic because there is no logical explanation for what began to happen. Because, I felt that I should remove certain passages from each instrumental track. This was going to radically change what I had initially recorded...But somehow I knew that letting go of what was "in front of me" would begin to uncover something even more profound waiting to be heard just beneath the surface.
What I began to discover was a unique musical "form" unlike anything I had ever heard before. As I continued this editing process I seemed to know exactly what musical parts should stay and what should go! My right brain was at work creating something new. The pure feeling, quantum part of myself was somehow communicating a joyful knowingness about what to do next.
This was for me a purely intuitive process. I didn't think about what I was doing. I just seemed to know what to do and did it. The entire process of editing out the noise and confusion in the recording took place in a period of minutes. I was absolutely astonished at the outcome...Over time this became the way I created music...Quantum consciousness music.
What does Quantum consciousness music sound like?
"Heavenly Body" the music in the video at the top of this
page is an example. For more examples click on the link below:
How unique is my "quantum consciousness music"?
So unique and original that in January, 2007 the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded my record label, Gathering Wave® LLC a Federal Trademark for Escape Music®. A trademark describing a unique and original form of music. I don't know, but I may be the only Artist ever to receive this validation from the U.S.P.T.O.
My unique style of music is first to ever be awarded it's own protected trademark!
And in 2004 my first album of quantum consciousness music was released:
"THE LIFE ON MARS"
"There is only one word for this "the Life on Mars" and the entire collection of works entitled "The Martian Experience": Genius! Gathering Wave founder Bob Baran certainly has quite an arsenal of sounds at his fingertips and isn't afraid to use them. Bob has let himself stretch and grow into a musical giant! This is one of the most amazing CDs I've ever heard. It's so unearthly while still striking a primordial chord that lies within each of us. ...This groundbreaking album will certainly serve as a catalyst spawning creative growth for many musicians who will undoubtedly choose to follow the path that Bob has illuminated. If you like the works of Carlos Nakai, Deep Forest, Chick Corea or Miles Davis this collection is for you.
-Thomas Leary, Publisher Muledog Magazine
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"His (Bob Baran's) label (Gathering Wave®) includes The Life on Mars, a compelling "soundtrack of a science fiction trilogy that was never made," along with an acoustic piano CD (Sound Paintings) and "The Art of Love," one of the best straight-ahead urban contemporary jazz albums I've heard in a while."
-Richard P. Myers - Independent Record, City Editor
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"The Life on Mars" - "Having trouble getting a foot inside the space/time continuum? Trans-locate from fractured Earth to ground yourself in the Universe. The body resonate will respond in kind to the Universe resonate. You'll remember where you came from and perhaps come to trust why you're here...
..Mainstreaming the ebb and flow, he (Bob Baran) exudes pizzazz, genius and mastery. Every track blends the elements and in the process, alchemizes the soul.
...Baran's music is addictive and good for what ails you. One CD goes with me to the massage parlor, another unleashes my creativity. One is for crying over what couldn't be, another for believing anything is possible. One's purely celebratory and another is, well,"just because."
-Sarah Louise Hannah, Writer / Musician / Director
If you haven't listened already click here for the sound bites of "The Life on Mars"
Want to own this unique and life changing music to see what it can do for you?
Then pick up a copy of "The Life on Mars" today...
Thank you for exploring these possibilities of perception...
...And the music from "The Life on Mars".
Warmest regards,
-Bob
Composer, Performer and Producer
Gathering Wave® LLC
Montana, USA
contact@thelifeonmars.com
P.S. At the end of 2004 I released the second album in "The Martian Experience" Trilogy... "Martian Wonders". My wife says this is some of the best deep relaxation music she has ever used. Click on the link below to hear sound bites from each track. (This will take you to my label's site, GatheringWave.com.)
"Martian Wonders" is the furthest I've ventured into real-time (quantum consciousness) composing using multiple instruments. It represents a sequence of the most fully "right-brain" musical compositions I've been able to manifest to date and serves as another musical benchmark for me as I continue to explore this unique creative process.
- Bob Baran
Click here to listen to "Martian Wonders" sound bites at GatheringWave.com...
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Thanks for visiting the Red Planet with me!