Morning Meditation
9.23.25
7am - 8am
9.23.25
7am - 8am
'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w FIM Basel Concert March 2023 Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion). Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways. Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. http://kamaupatton.com
Imagine the perfect state of beingness. Where would that be found? Is it a fixed point, a destination we must chase? Or is it fluid?
A fixed state that does not flow cannot evolve — it is already stuck, whether labeled “perfect” or not. Yet, as we know from direct observation, the world (and universe) is always in motion, always evolving in a creative movement. Even at the coldest theoretical temperature, there is still a subtle motion at play — what physicists call zero-point energy.
Along the path of human society, systems were created to convince people they were not good enough as they are, that they must seek validation before some external authority. But these arguments are slowly giving way to a deeper truth: you are already perfect in your beingness, exactly as you are. Beneath all changing experiences, there is you — as “I am.”
Babies learn any language in the world without needing to be taught how to learn. They simply are, and through their attention, their awareness expands. Each of us — you, me, your friends and family, and everyone else — began as a baby. That fundamental nature has not changed as we’ve grown and expanded.
This meditation is about inquiry. It will guide you to see, through your own direct experience, how your attention works — and how to expand your awareness by using attention itself.
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