released November 1, 2014

MIRA OMERZEL - MIRIT, Ph.D., who cuts her own path, is a scientist with a doctorate in musicology and a degree in ethnology/anthropology (ethnomusicologist). She is the instigator of a new global scientific discipline – ETHNO-ARCHAEO-MEDICAL VIBRATIONAL MUSICOLOGY. She is not only an active musician, a member and the artistic leader of the TRUTAMORA SLOVENICA / VEDUN Ensemble, but also a sound-energy therapist and writer. Her scientific and artistic (musical) creative output comprises more than 20 LPs and CDs, and 12 wide-ranging books. Together with the Ensemble, she has staged over 1,000 concerts in Slovenia and abroad. She has written numerous papers and articles about the importance of sound, about the essence of music and life energy. She has held hundreds of lectures and workshops, has participated in numerous radio and television programmes, and has given countless interviews. In her work, she connects SCIENCE, ART, TRADITION, AND THE WORLD’S SPIRITUAL WISDOM. Mirit brings together scientific work FROM THE ARCHIVES AND THE FIELD which she then combines with HER OWN EXPERIENCE. She connects THEORY AND PRACTICE, ART AND THE FOLK TRADITION. Without all of that, the subtle levels of ancient music could not have been revealed to her, and there would have been no lectures and concerts featuring ancient, forgotten musical traditions of the world. Mirit’s doctoral dissertation focused on the historical development of pre-classical folk musical instruments on the Slovene ethnic territory (and in the world) from prehistory onwards. Her research work is the foundation of both her music making and her re-creation of music.

RESTORING PRECIOUS KNOWLEDGE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, SONGS, MUSICAL PRACTICES, AND THE SONIC GEMS OF THE SLOVENE, EUROPEAN AND THE WORLD′S HERITAGES

Music is an exceptional gift, a reflection of history and human striving. It is a miracle that is difficult to describe and a reflective echo of every culture. Music is a remedy and an inspiration, an effective ELIXIR OF LIFE. It is crucial to understand the building blocks of sound. Spontaneous expression through music, when it is not being fixed into rigid patterns, sets free dormant, as yet undiscovered abilities, and boundless creative forces. For this reason alone harmonising musical possibilities should always be available to everyone. Music is a unique language of sound, speaking to and expanding the human spirit and consciousness, confirming and awakening within people the eternal yearning of the soul to delve into the magical realms of the unknown. Both deliberate and spontaneous sound plays have the ability to shape harmony and peace within people. For hundreds, even thousands of years, cultures of the past nurtured the wisdom of how to USE SOUND TO REACH BENEFICENT SILENCE! They passed this down from generation to generation. And just like our planetary ancestors, people living today are seeking the same timeless gifts. At all times, in all countries and historical periods, people have sought out keys to beneficence. These keys are reflected in sound patterns as well as in the powers to harmonise life. They belong to all of humanity.
Music CONNECTS the earthly with the beyond – THE CYCLE OF LIFE AND DEATH. It offers precious tools for knowing the dimensions of reality in which we live on Earth; tools for the expansion of spirit and awareness.

Musician-healers, known as VEDUNS in Slavic cultures, were – and in some places still are – Masters of creating harmonising sound images. They are MASTER WEAVERS OF THE LIFE ENERGY OF SPIRIT AND BODY. Performing a spontaneous and living (not computerised!) sound play and safeguarding the precious sound keys of the past, veduns live as fulfilled a life as possible and serve humanity. Contemporary veduns – the musicians of the Slovene Vedun Ensemble – embrace gifts and tasks similar to those of their predecessors: HARMONISING THROUGH THEIR PERFORMANCES (singing and playing ancient forgotten musical instruments) in a transcendental state of consciousness (also called COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS which is considered the highest level of consciousness). Veduns shape sound in a theta ‘shamanic trance’ (in medical terms: EEG theta state between 4 and 8 Hz) and this is a particular challenge for them. Sound created in this way carries exceptional power and therapeutic efficacy.

Their musical performance draws upon DIFFERENT MELOS, MUSICAL PRACTICES, AND SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS OF THE WORLD. THIS IS REFLECTED IN THE RICHNESS OF THEIR SOUND, WHICH HONES ACCEPTANCE OF DIFFERENTNESS AND MULTICULTURAL TOLERANCE.

Mirit, Spring 2022