Alexandre Tannous
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377 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Yes. Well, thank you for recognizing this. I got here by being a student and working hard and being curious and open and working incessantly. So music seems to be the most indispensable art. If you look and see what humans have done everywhere in the world, in the past, in the present, they highly rely on the presence of music in different contexts.
And that's something I studied deeply as an ethnomusicologist. For those listening, watching, don't know what ethnomusicology is, it's a field in music that studies music as a sociocultural phenomenon, and the ultimate goal is to understand human beings by studying culture through music. It's kind of like anthropology of music. So you study why people are into this band or this artist.
How does this band's music impact the community around that? There are various aspects. The behavior, also the economical aspects. And we see that we use music everywhere, all the time, in religious experiences, in three book religions. And the music changes, whether you are in a Catholic church, Protestant church, Greek Orthodox church. They use it to a whole other level.
Byzantine chants are very, very complex music. and the music is enormously complex. We'll talk about that later.
In Eastern philosophies, in Hindu temples, chants, prayers, the sutra system that can be sung as well sometimes, and people using music in parties and festivals, in films, commercials, in sports games, in weddings, funerals in some cases, and various functions and events and award-giving ceremonies. everywhere all the time. So Muzak is a company that started
recording instrumentals to be played in elevators and in places where people work, companies and hospitals sometimes. And there's a field called music therapy that people may not know about it. And now sound, working with sound, unfortunately, it's called terms I don't believe they're just empowering to the individual to use, sound healing and sound baths. I like to call it sound meditation.
It's not a term that I coined. It's been around, but I find it to be suitable because it communicates truth or something poignant in just two words. And we don't always pick the words to describe that, to create that reality. Because words create triad, they will come back to the esoteric side of sound later in music.
So the fact that human beings use music everywhere all the time means it's very important and they're following intuitive intelligence. And that's the best lab. If you want to notice what's important for people, observe them, especially if they're not impacted by some authority, some establishment that's guiding them. Here, do this, do that, do this. Yeah. TV, radio.
Not only that, they did a lot of great things on an educational level, of course. And that's something, as a musician, composer, conductor, academic, I was deeply interested in. And the more I studied about music, the more I realized, whoa, whoa, whoa, there's a lot more fascinating things.
My intention was to do undergrad, like most people, maybe a master's, but ended up by staying at the university for 12 years, doing four degrees, and I just couldn't stop. And I taught at the university as well.
And then I left and stopped doing what I was doing, being a professional musician, composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist, teaching music in different contexts in New York City and traveling quite a lot, to focus on what is this about? What else can we do with music? Where does this power come from? How can we use it in a more meaningful way?
How have others in the world have used it and to do what? What do they use to talk about it? What do they think is going on? And that became my life's work. 25 years ago, I started becoming interested in the power of sound, the harmonic series, the place where harmony comes from. I'll talk about that later.
And it's intersection with consciousness, spirituality, inner capacity we have within us, divinity, psychedelic research, shamanism, because sound music, when I say sound, that encompasses music and words, of course, and vocalism, non-verbal singing. Why? Why do we do all of that? What is... They're about to learn.
And as I got also deep into the esoteric side of music, which is where they mentioned, I'll talk a bit about it later. All of these things, by the way, are not just cans of worms. They're buckets of worms and barrels of worms. So we can spend an entire week taking them apart. So I'm going to be succinct in certain areas that people should research these things because there's a lot to know.
My website is a good place for that because I... put a lot of useful content that empowers people. I don't water down things, but I explain things, spend so much energy in transmitting something so important because everybody loves music. Not everybody practices and is interested in other arts, painting, drawing, and sculpture.
Not everybody goes to dance performances, poetry readings, and music is so accessible, indispensable. So that's what I wanted to understand, human behavior. Where is this going to lead us to? And the more I became exposed to the esoteric side of music, the more I realized that, whoa, it takes you to God. And most book religions start with the idea that sound is God. Sound creates reality.
In the Old Testament, you have Genesis. In Genesis, you have, on the first day, God said, let there be light, and there was light. On the second day, and then tells you the story. It's transmitting a message to the subconscious mind in a way that the person's intellect cannot understand this.
They need to use it as a story, as a mythology, as a myth, and that's how myths work, transmitting truth, something to feed the learning, the expansion, feeding the subconscious mind, because this is what impacts conscious reality 95 to 98% of the time, in a good way or bad way.
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