padma music

Karma brings you the magic of Tibet

  • February 2nd, 2011 10:22 pm PT

If anyone could be so in tune with the spiritual world of sound and karma, it would be Karma Moffett, the multi-modal master artist of healing sounds through Tibetan Bowls, Bells, Conch Shells, and Longhorns.  His shows are not your ordinary experience, but rather "ceremonies," journeys of elevating consciousness, which work throughout the body temple and the spirit on a path to healing.

Such a soul-reviving experience is best experienced in a venue that can truly cradle the intensity of Karma's work.  His most recent show on January 29th was held at perhaps one of the most suitable places for this master's work: the NeXus.  The NeXus is a "post-industrial temple" built for community workshops, music, art and other cultural events, which bring together like-minded individuals who are passionate about spreading positivity to the world and becoming more aware beings.  The most striking aspect of the venue is that it is filled with the most valuable, rescued Buddha statues from Southeast Asia.  A temple, indeed.

Karma sat with his twenty antique Tibetan bowls, and various instruments, sandwiched between the Buddhas behind him and a row of candles in front of him.  With prayers going out to world peace, in particular to the Revolution in Egypt, his music began with a pure yet rich Native American Flute, which swooped the audience to the vast plains of Tibet.  This was followed by the Tibetan Longhorn, an instrument over nine feet long, which vibrated the earth in the most maternal, nurturing way.  Karma played these instruments with his mastery of circular breathing, elongating and therefore maximizing the healing energy of the long tones, working through the listeners' lower chakras.

Then came the Tibetan Singing Bowls, all harmonically resonant with one another, selected out of 5000 bowls over 35 years of Karma's search for the perfect tones.  These bowls, with their clear yet harmonically rich tones and overtones, were struck individually or as layers of the most beautiful harmonies, and the entire audience was under a spell, of deep relaxation and meditation.  Then, the Tibetan Bells were played to release the energy of the middle chakras, followed by the Tingsha and Conch Shells, which energized the higher chakras.  The upward chakra journey was then reversed, to conclude the performance with the vibrations of the lower energy centers once again.

Accompanying the powerful, magical delivery of the healing music were Karma's paintings, which were so vibrant that they could be mistaken for real photos that had been photoshopped with layers of mandala-type graphics; but no, these were 100% oil, pure reflections of the artist's true inter-modality.  Karma Moffett embodies spiritual consciousness through all of his art, and his shows are worth much, much more than their monetary value - an Experience that can help the listener/viewer get in touch with their deep, authentic selves. 

Mayu Kawata 

Spirituality & Personal Growth Writer for Examiner.com
I am overwhelmed when I contemplate the radiance and healing that you spread throughout the world by your remarkable talent and contribution of peace, stillness, and serenity via The Bowls.   You rock on man.  I always cherish your notifications of performances in Bay Area.   You influence is not just local.  That's for sure.
 
Kent Cathcart
Nashville
I play your enchanted CDs every day in my home here in the mid south.
 Heads up for future info - this show was intensely good.
 It had the potential to be new agey, but wasn't. The tibetan scales are so weirdly dissonant (in a harmonic way) to western ears. Lots of playing with harmonics, phase canceling and Doppler. And an amazing array of instruments along the scales - the huge singing metal bowls, the big brass bells, the tiny cymbal style bells, conch shells, even a 10 foot tibetan horn. Amazing. I'd heard all these instruments before, but never played together like that. My brain was utterly eaten. At one point I realised that one of the best (if not the best) ambient soundscape artist - Thomas Koener - has many tracks that sound very similar to this music - using electronic tones rather than real instruments, but similar in structure, tone and idea. Very mellow, very hypnotic and very brain breaking.
 The guys' art was really amazing too.
 So, probably too late to check it out this time round, but next time you see his name on a flyer or bsp, don't miss.
 Jon
hi karma,
happy solstice! hey, i'll have to introduce myself to you when i see you next. you are always surrounded by so many people:) i just thought to tell you that when i saw you at grace cathedral months back, i bought one of your cds.  that night i played it and fell asleep. i woke up some time in the am from a dream in which i was crawling on my hands and feet to your music..as i followed the sounds as clear as day i turned my head to find you behind the Kanaka Kava bar (my friends kava place on the big island) playing your instruments on your carpet with the sounds of the ocean in the back ground.  i'm going home for my birthday this july and will be thinking of your music as i relax to the waves with kava. i just thought i'd mention it, in case you ever thought to do a sound healing retreat in the islands.
hope to be able to make it this saturday. thank you for your music (i play it for my clients during sessions), it is very powerful!  kelly 
Hello Karma,

We are still riding high from the wonderful event last week! Many people have told me how much they got out of your performance. Here is one email I received:

Thank you for having finding Karma Moffat and having him perform with his antique and authentic Tibetan instruments.  I never expected in my entire lifetime --- see that phrase "entire lifetime?"  ----- to hear the long Tibetan horn in person, (I figured a person would have to have visited Lhasa 20 years ago),  or to hear the silver and shell conchs played.  I've seen pictures of the conchs, and also the hand bells, and also heard the big long horn played in a movie -- but this was an incredible experience!!   I was able to sit in the first row for the entire performance.  It is almost indescribable.    Thank you so very much for this extraordinary experience.  Jo Ann

We would love to talk with you about you performing here again - perhaps near the winter solstice??

Many thanks to you for blessing our space with such wonderful healing energy,

Kirstin
Hey, did I forget to tell you that YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL man.
So's yer honey, but you vibe me out on a chromatic wavelength too.
 
Ring Out?
Sheldon Norberg
 


Hi--

    I received the box of CD's today and wanted to thank you and to say a 
special thanks for including the extras.  I guess it goes without 
saying that I love your music.  (Why else would I have bought 
everything?)   But let me say it out loud:  I do love your music and 
find that nothing can match it for inducing peace and centeredness and 
for awakening compassion.  I have sampled a good many CD's by people 
who do similar things--Danny Becher, and so on--but nothing quite 
equals what you do in my opinion.  It is not only good for my mind and 
my health:  it has a beneficial effect on my own musical composition.  
I am a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and teach 
classes in multimedia composition, including computer-assisted musical 
composition.  Lately--just a few days ago, in fact--I took up the 
Native American flute and have already recorded a few tracks with it.   
For that reason, it was especially nice (dare I say  it was karma?) to 
get your rosewood-flute CD as an "extra."  I am listening to it right 
now and am sure it will influence my own work with the flute. (The two 
flutes that I own at the moment are cherry wood and red wood.)

    One thing about your music--especially the golden bowls CD's--that has 
influenced me profoundly is your appreciation for sustained resonance 
and overtone.  So much of what passes for "music" in our culture is not 
only sappy but much too busy--too hurried, too frenetic.  But, as you 
well know, nothing is more beautiful or musical than a rich, sustained 
bowl tone or flute tone pulsing with overtones.  It doesn't need to 
"go" anywhere:  all it needs to do is be.  That's a lesson that I 
re-learn ever time I listen to your music.

    All best to you, and thanks again!

                        --Ed Rivers





Hi--

    I received the box of CD's today and wanted to thank you and to say a 
special thanks for including the extras.  I guess it goes without 
saying that I love your music.  (Why else would I have bought 
everything?)   But let me say it out loud:  I do love your music and 
find that nothing can match it for inducing peace and centeredness and 
for awakening compassion.  I have sampled a good many CD's by people 
who do similar things--Danny Becher, and so on--but nothing quite 
equals what you do in my opinion.  It is not only good for my mind and 
my health:  it has a beneficial effect on my own musical composition.  
I am a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and teach 
classes in multimedia composition, including computer-assisted musical 
composition.  Lately--just a few days ago, in fact--I took up the 
Native American flute and have already recorded a few tracks with it.   
For that reason, it was especially nice (dare I say  it was karma?) to 
get your rosewood-flute CD as an "extra."  I am listening to it right 
now and am sure it will influence my own work with the flute. (The two 
flutes that I own at the moment are cherry wood and red wood.)

    One thing about your music--especially the golden bowls CD's--that has 
influenced me profoundly is your appreciation for sustained resonance 
and overtone.  So much of what passes for "music" in our culture is not 
only sappy but much too busy--too hurried, too frenetic.  But, as you 
well know, nothing is more beautiful or musical than a rich, sustained 
bowl tone or flute tone pulsing with overtones.  It doesn't need to 
"go" anywhere:  all it needs to do is be.  That's a lesson that I 
re-learn ever time I listen to your music.

    I'm attaching a photo of me working with one of my students to give 
you an idea of what I do (I'm the one to the viewer's right).  In the 
picture we are working with the "Reason" music-composing program.

    All best to you, and thanks again!

                        --Ed Rivers




Hi--

    I received the box of CD's today and wanted to thank you and to say a 
special thanks for including the extras.  I guess it goes without 
saying that I love your music.  (Why else would I have bought 
everything?)   But let me say it out loud:  I do love your music and 
find that nothing can match it for inducing peace and centeredness and 
for awakening compassion.  I have sampled a good many CD's by people 
who do similar things--Danny Becher, and so on--but nothing quite 
equals what you do in my opinion.  It is not only good for my mind and 
my health:  it has a beneficial effect on my own musical composition.  
I am a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and teach 
classes in multimedia composition, including computer-assisted musical 
composition.  Lately--just a few days ago, in fact--I took up the 
Native American flute and have already recorded a few tracks with it.   
For that reason, it was especially nice (dare I say  it was karma?) to 
get your rosewood-flute CD as an "extra."  I am listening to it right 
now and am sure it will influence my own work with the flute. (The two 
flutes that I own at the moment are cherry wood and red wood.)

    One thing about your music--especially the golden bowls CD's--that has 
influenced me profoundly is your appreciation for sustained resonance 
and overtone.  So much of what passes for "music" in our culture is not 
only sappy but much too busy--too hurried, too frenetic.  But, as you 
well know, nothing is more beautiful or musical than a rich, sustained 
bowl tone or flute tone pulsing with overtones.  It doesn't need to 
"go" anywhere:  all it needs to do is be.  That's a lesson that I 
re-learn ever time I listen to your music.

    I'm attaching a photo of me working with one of my students to give 
you an idea of what I do (I'm the one to the viewer's right).  In the 
picture we are working with the "Reason" music-composing program.

    All best to you, and thanks again!

                        --Ed Rivers

I was moved to reach out to you this morning while talking to my partner.  We were talking about how much benefit we have gotten from yuor recordings of the bowls. 
 
To give a little of my story, I live in a household or chosen community consisting of myself, my partner, and my best friend and her partner.  Without getting into details, we're going through hard times, specifically dealing with the impending loss of a parent for my best friend and ill health for my partner and depression for myself. 
 
I have been tryingt o root myself more in meditation and spirituality, specifically tibetan buddhism.  I found a link to download your recordings fromhimalayanbowls.com, and just could feel the power of that sound through my whole body.  I purchased 2 - 3 albums and have been sharing this music with my sweetheart and my best friend, and found out this morning that my friend has been using your music to relax to when she can't sleep because she's too upset, and that this has often been her support and a source of peace in the wee small hours of the night.  My fiancee and I have both spent a lot of time listening to your music when relaxing or feeling unwell.  I feel those tones are so healing and powerful, and they have truly blessed me and mine here recently. 
 
Thank you so much for your music and for the energy of healing and mindfulness I have received from it.  I imagine life has blessed you and I certainly hope that is true.
 
Best wishes to you,
 
Jamie Martin

On 05/05/11 12:53 PM, Sheldon Norberg wrote:


Dear karma,

"Karma is awesome!

I've seen the TBE a dozen times, and it always provides a deep healing experience. I own several of his disks, and find his musicianship to be fairly impressive. I've also had a personal ringout session, too which was an amazing vibrational healing. Oh, and he's an AMAZING painter to. It's humbling to be around him, except that it's so much fun!" 

Service Category: Artistry

Year first hired: 2000 (hired more than once)

 Top Qualities: Personable, High Integrity, Creative
And as usual...you were wonderful, mystical, intuitive off the charts and your music transformed the evening ! 
Tom Keland 
Grace After Dark Labyrinth Guild 
Grace Cathedral San Francisco

Normally, during these mediations I often listen to Enya ... today, however, I 

was guided to go again on my "Way to Katmandu" ... it has been a very special 

moment ... one that contiunes and does not wish to stop!

In your own very special way, you, too, have been a part of this .... as many 

around the world doing their "own thing" are now part of it.

In Love and Peace, Always, in All Ways,

Amoran


I've been listening to your CD and I totally love it.  I've got tons and 

tons of all kinds of vibey music -- I've been teaching yoga for over a 

decade, after all -- but I have to say that there's just something 

particularly powerful and direct about your beautiful CD.

Thanks so much -- Susan and I will definitely take in a concert of yours 

soon, I hope!

Edward


 Many Blessings and Thanks for all your beautiful music that has soothed and uplifted me for many, many years. There were times when yours was the only music I could listen to, the only thing I could think that would improve upon the silence....

Darshana Maya Greenfield

 





Hi--

    I received the box of CD's today and wanted to thank you and to say a 
special thanks for including the extras.  I guess it goes without 
saying that I love your music.  (Why else would I have bought 
everything?)   But let me say it out loud:  I do love your music and 
find that nothing can match it for inducing peace and centeredness and 
for awakening compassion.  I have sampled a good many CD's by people 
who do similar things--Danny Becher, and so on--but nothing quite 
equals what you do in my opinion.  It is not only good for my mind and 
my health:  it has a beneficial effect on my own musical composition.  
I am a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and teach 
classes in multimedia composition, including computer-assisted musical 
composition.  Lately--just a few days ago, in fact--I took up the 
Native American flute and have already recorded a few tracks with it.   
For that reason, it was especially nice (dare I say  it was karma?) to 
get your rosewood-flute CD as an "extra."  I am listening to it right 
now and am sure it will influence my own work with the flute. (The two 
flutes that I own at the moment are cherry wood and red wood.)

    One thing about your music--especially the golden bowls CD's--that has 
influenced me profoundly is your appreciation for sustained resonance 
and overtone.  So much of what passes for "music" in our culture is not 
only sappy but much too busy--too hurried, too frenetic.  But, as you 
well know, nothing is more beautiful or musical than a rich, sustained 
bowl tone or flute tone pulsing with overtones.  It doesn't need to 
"go" anywhere:  all it needs to do is be.  That's a lesson that I 
re-learn ever time I listen to your music.

    I'm attaching a photo of me working with one of my students to give 
you an idea of what I do (I'm the one to the viewer's right).  In the 
picture we are working with the "Reason" music-composing program.

    All best to you, and thanks again!

                        --Ed Rivers




Hi--

    I received the box of CD's today and wanted to thank you and to say a 
special thanks for including the extras.  I guess it goes without 
saying that I love your music.  (Why else would I have bought 
everything?)   But let me say it out loud:  I do love your music and 
find that nothing can match it for inducing peace and centeredness and 
for awakening compassion.  I have sampled a good many CD's by people 
who do similar things--Danny Becher, and so on--but nothing quite 
equals what you do in my opinion.  It is not only good for my mind and 
my health:  it has a beneficial effect on my own musical composition.  
I am a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and teach 
classes in multimedia composition, including computer-assisted musical 
composition.  Lately--just a few days ago, in fact--I took up the 
Native American flute and have already recorded a few tracks with it.   
For that reason, it was especially nice (dare I say  it was karma?) to 
get your rosewood-flute CD as an "extra."  I am listening to it right 
now and am sure it will influence my own work with the flute. (The two 
flutes that I own at the moment are cherry wood and red wood.)

    One thing about your music--especially the golden bowls CD's--that has 
influenced me profoundly is your appreciation for sustained resonance 
and overtone.  So much of what passes for "music" in our culture is not 
only sappy but much too busy--too hurried, too frenetic.  But, as you 
well know, nothing is more beautiful or musical than a rich, sustained 
bowl tone or flute tone pulsing with overtones.  It doesn't need to 
"go" anywhere:  all it needs to do is be.  That's a lesson that I 
re-learn ever time I listen to your music.

    I'm attaching a photo of me working with one of my students to give 
you an idea of what I do (I'm the one to the viewer's right).  In the 
picture we are working with the "Reason" music-composing program.

    All best to you, and thanks again!

                        --Ed Rivers






Hi--

    I received the box of CD's today and wanted to thank you and to say a 
special thanks for including the extras.  I guess it goes without 
saying that I love your music.  (Why else would I have bought 
everything?)   But let me say it out loud:  I do love your music and 
find that nothing can match it for inducing peace and centeredness and 
for awakening compassion.  I have sampled a good many CD's by people 
who do similar things--Danny Becher, and so on--but nothing quite 
equals what you do in my opinion.  It is not only good for my mind and 
my health:  it has a beneficial effect on my own musical composition.  
I am a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and teach 
classes in multimedia composition, including computer-assisted musical 
composition.  Lately--just a few days ago, in fact--I took up the 
Native American flute and have already recorded a few tracks with it.   
For that reason, it was especially nice (dare I say  it was karma?) to 
get your rosewood-flute CD as an "extra."  I am listening to it right 
now and am sure it will influence my own work with the flute. (The two 
flutes that I own at the moment are cherry wood and red wood.)

    One thing about your music--especially the golden bowls CD's--that has 
influenced me profoundly is your appreciation for sustained resonance 
and overtone.  So much of what passes for "music" in our culture is not 
only sappy but much too busy--too hurried, too frenetic.  But, as you 
well know, nothing is more beautiful or musical than a rich, sustained 
bowl tone or flute tone pulsing with overtones.  It doesn't need to 
"go" anywhere:  all it needs to do is be.  That's a lesson that I 
re-learn ever time I listen to your music.

    I'm attaching a photo of me working with one of my students to give 
you an idea of what I do (I'm the one to the viewer's right).  In the 
picture we are working with the "Reason" music-composing program.

    All best to you, and thanks again!

                        --Ed Rivers