The events have two different formats
Formation 1: MANDALA SONIC-VISUAL
This mandala is made up of two circles ,an outside and inner circle. The artists with their pictures should be the visual mark of the perimeter of the mandala. The artists should have some experience in sound and their art will be an expression of this to share with the public. The artists can exhibit as many paintings as they wish and the space inside the circle should be no less than 1 ½ metres. So that the public can enter and exit as many times as they would like. Also, the artists can be free to paint and express themselves freely with the sounds and vibrations of the gongs. The central point will be for one or more gongs and the gong performance will last for about 1 ½ hours.
Formation 2: MANDALA OF SOUND
1:This mandala will be made up of six concentric circles and the central reference point will be where the organizor is situated.
2:The circles will be formed with people who previously contacted the organizor via internet, radio etc. the organisor should publicize the event giving e-mail directions, so that all participants can be well informed of dates and times and let the coordinators know what instruments etc they would like to bring with them. It is so important for everybody to meet and communicate before the event takes place, so that the circles can be organized in advance.
3:The organisor needs to select coordinators , thus each one can refer to directions and organize their circle accordingly. Contact details of participants should be given to each coordinator so that they can then assess the level of skills of individuals. For the formation of groups at each level, beginner, intermediate, advanced etc
4:It is most important that the Organisor and coordinators hold a meeting before the event takes place.
5:It is equally important to hold a meeting before hand of the coordinators and participants of each circle to see how each will be formed. Especially in the case of some instruments, like the shamanic drums and other percussion instruments.
Development:
The instruments and activities will be performed in stages of 7 minutes of duration.
Starting with the first circle, the perimeter, with a moment of silence at the end, to give the following circle the signal of when to begin and so on to the next circle. Continuing successively through each until arriving at the central point of the gongs. Here there will be a gong bath of 10 minutes. Then the dynamic feeling inverts and the same pattern of sound with each circle will follow on from inside circles to the perimeter circle. The coordinators should stay attentive to the director when ending their performance, whilst the organisor guides the combination of harmonies into the distinct circles of instruments. These will be from the7 mo circle.
From the centre of the mandala, where the gongs are positioned, the director will follow the criteria of the last harmonic combinations of sounds. The finale will be to join together the different sound harmonies, as if the mandala on the outside is a representation of our interior human energies..harmonizing…uniting and integrating.
This will bring the beginning of the sound of the ceremonial caracoles .Mayas (el Aguila) and the culture of Tawantinsuyo Pututo peruano ( el Condor). The prophecy of the condor and el Aguila talk of union and the integration of the villages of the north and south and their ancestral wisdom. The same when they have played the four cardinal points beginning with the North and continuing through the rest.
Note:These formats can be adapted to all cultures of country of origin and ethnic back grounds, using their instruments. Always using the gong in the centre, use your instruments to form the concentric circles. Also there can be more than 6 circles, perhaps up to ten.
Order of the rings inside the great circle:
1st- outside circle: shamanic drum and shamanic maracas (COLOUR RED)
2nd- circle: didgeridoo (COLOUR ORANGE)
3rd- circle: Tibetan singing bowl, Tibetan bell (COLOUR YELLOW)
4th- circle: quartz singing bowl (COLOUR GREEN)
5th- circle: chanting of mantras (COLOUR BLUE)
6th- circle: silent meditation (COLOUR PURPLE)
7mo circle: centre point of the circle where the gongs will be positioned (COLOUR WHITE)
The grand human mandala:
The participants make a big circle inside of which contains another five concentric circles and a central point for the position of the gongs. Each circle will be identified by a colour. You can wear head scarfs to signify the colour of your circle, tea shirts etc. there fore each circle is identified by a colour and the sound of its ancestral instrument. The mandala will represent each chakra of our body, like an great prana tubular connector, the integration of the material, the emotion, and the conscience. A cosmic, collective conscience, converge,, all and every one of them, a generator of harmonic frequencies that these ancestral instruments produce in us and all that are present…holistic resonance…the energy of healing.
Organisation inside of the mandala:
Each group will have a coordinator who will develop the circle they choose to work with. the coordinator will instruct which of rythmns will be used in their particular circle and place each person inside the ring . Each coordinator following the directions of the organisor who will be in the centre of the mandala with the gongs, for the harmonic combinations inside of the circles.
