THE TAO OF SOUND
Acoustic Sound Healing for the 21st Century
Fabien Maman
With Terres Unsoeld
Tama-Do Academy, 1988
By Melinda Gardiner
Music for Healing and Transition Program
This is a beautiful, hard-bound book with stunning fullcolor photographs and illustrations. It could be called a “coffeetable” book. Fabien Maman is not only one of the foremost and articulate visionaries in the field of acoustic sound healing, but his body of work is a unique and beautiful integration of the musical wisdom and healing systems of both east and west.
Volume I of the book contains 80 pages of full-color photographs and a careful record and explanation of the pioneering work exploring the influence of acoustic sound on human cells that Fabien undertook in 1981 at the University of Jussieu in Paris.
Volume II is titled Acoustic Sound Therapy and comprises two-thirds of the book. There are eighteen chapters, covering the scope of Fabien Maman’s work over the last 30 years.
The material addresses a very wide range of subjects. The information particularly for us, as therapeutic musicians, includes: acoustic sound and its qualities, how our being processes sound, and particularly the overtones and their essential importance in healing.
It also covers musical relationships, and Fabien names the Fundamental Sound® and exercises for discovering one’s Fundamental Sound. There is a beautifully illustrated and very clear description of how each musical interval affects us energetically on the physical and emotional levels. Chapter fourteen is a treasuretrove: an extensive exploration of the qualities of musical modes, from the more familiar Greek modes to the many pentatonic modes: Hindustani, Japanese, and Chinese. Also in that chapter is an explanation of Fabien’s unique application of the pentatonic modes appropriate to each season, which some of us experienced and participated in at our 2006 MHTP conference.
There is much more in this book well worth exploration. For example, there are chapters on Kototama, the Japanese science of pure sound, and sound and the five elements of Chinese medicine; a chapter on the musical instruments Fabien has created; and chapters on sound and acupuncture, seasonal healing concerts, and the music of the future.
For a more complete review, see the December 2011 issue of Harp Therapy Journal.
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