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Improvisation Based on Yoga Listening Practices and Philosophies (last edited: 2025)

MELISA YILDIRIM
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This research endeavours to reveal the transformative potential of artistic creativity by combining musical improvisation and yoga-based embodied listening practices. The study incorporates three listening practices: humming and self-observation, listening only with the right ear, and listening to the space within the heart. The effects of these experiments are documented in a journal and recorded as audio files. In addition to improvisation as a musical practice and embodied listening, this research also considers how yoga, - which has become an important part of Indian culture over the centuries with its roots in Vedic culture - can shape artistic identity through its philosophical understanding of sound, and its perspectives on the human body as a cosmos. The research emphasizes subjects such as the healing power of humming, chakra energy, collective consciousness, energetic centers of consciousness in the human body and their potential role in transforming the artist's identity. The thoughts and experiences in this research are personal, but the content of this article has been written based on these experiences as an attempt to present visions for global musicians to transition their musicianship into a more universal form, and to pose multifaceted questions to the reader. This paper draws attention to different improvisation techniques makam terminology and explores existing literature to open innovative doors based on holistic experience. The findings reveal the vibrant and energetic connections between the effects of music and vibrations on human life and the body, and the various philosophies that nourish the artist's identity and expression. This thesis encourages improvisation as a form of existence to establish deep spiritual connections with experiences from the past and present. Highlighting dimensions of music that are unnoticeable due to existing industrial structures and education models, the most importantly, esoteric knowledge of the body, inviting the reader to be open-minded for all sonic possibilities.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsImprovisation, Yoga, Artistic Identity, Anahata, Esoteric Knowledge, Kemane, Kamancha, Turkish Music, esotericism, Embodied listening, Turkish Folk Music
date29/10/2025
last modified31/10/2025
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightMELISA YILDIRIM
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3959289/3959290


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name1. Day - one sound - the sound reflecting from inside me
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name2. Day - Short melodic
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name3. Day- atonal with bending under bridge
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name6. Day - harmonics and languages
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name7. Day - Is there free will?
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name8. Day - rain and strings
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name9. Day - curious and passionate
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name10. Day - No control, fingers are in charge
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name11. Day Noises mixing in the environment
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name12. Day - to get lost in the sea of sounds
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name13. Day - The vibration in the fish skin
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name14. Day - Free fingers and fluid sounds
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name15. Day - Sun and Body
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name1. Day - silence and ether
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name2. Day - concentrate on the heart
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name4. Day - fresh new sense
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