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(1) News, Events, Interviews, Workshops, Classes, Exhibits, Products, Articles, Tutorials

Solar System Geometry Calendars for 2015

The popular Martineau Solar System Series calendar for 2015 is still available. The models depicting averaged (circular rather than elliptical) orbit relationships are astonishingly accurate … and simple! Enjoy! :-)

You can order the 2015 Martineau-inspired Solar System calendar here.

Interview with Starr Fuentes

On November 27, 2014 I was the guest of long-time fellow geometer and sacred geometry enthusiast, Starr Fuentes on her BlogTalkRadio show, Starr Gazing Radio. I shared some of the historical precedents of my interest in the subject and much more. I’m scheduled to be a presenter at her conference next June 13-14 in Hot Springs, Arkansas; stay tuned!

Great Pyramid and more – another interview with Dave Cohen

Dave Cohen (a.k.a. Davie Crockett) and I did another interview on 21 December, 2014, on his LA Talk Radio show covering interconnectedness, shared interests, the Hermetic Law of Mentalism, oneness, Platonic philosophy and geometry, metaphysics in general, our usual romp through sacred geometry – a few tangents like the timeless movie Joyeaux Noël – and an extended segment on the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt.

Fibonacci Garden: Mathematics in the Plant World – New DVD from Michael Schneider

Last month I indicated that I would do a more proper review of “Fibonacci Garden: Mathematics in the Plant World“, the latest DVD from Michael S. Schneider, author of the superb book A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Michael Schneider (which I often recommend as a companion to Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook.) I only had time to watch about half of it–busy month!–but what I saw and heard (earlier today) was superb, and already surpassed my high expectations. I recommend it highly. I’ll do a more detailed review in next month’s (January 2015) bulletin. Thanks for your patience. If you’re a math educator or sacred geometry enthusiast, you won’t regret getting a copy for your collection.

(2) Websites, Books, Videos, Imagery, Music and Quotes

Khan Academy has LOTS of great tutorial info on geometry
Chad Adams’ Extended Fibonacci Series Facebook page
A reader’s email question about geometric constructions of an ellipse led to this MathWorld page about the ellipse, another from ‘ancient curve drawers‘, and another about the foci of ellipses.
The image for this month’s bulletin was a screen snap from the lavishly illustrated video: The Lost Scale Extended Version – by David Sereda which explores non-distoring harmonic scales

(3) Request for Submissions

As always, please let me know how I might support you. Please send me any interesting items about sacred geometry or related interests … since everything is inter-related!If you would like to stay connected and network with kindred souls online, check out my pages on
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If you like to color with colored pencils (or other media), make 3-D fold-up geometric art, do stained glass, quilts, geometric arts and/or crafts, or just want an extensive reference/resource of geometric archetypes, patterns and essential line art, you might enjoy a copy of my first book, Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook: Universal Dimensional Patterns.

If your leanings are more metaphysical … and perhaps whimsical :-) … you might enjoy my second book, The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation. It was originally going to have geometry and Hermetic Laws/symbolism as a primary focus, but in 2007, a reawakened interest in the spiritual masterpiece, A Course In Miracles – thanks to Gary Renard – shifted the primary emphasis to an exploration of the two thought fundamental systems we all vacillate between, and how we can gradually shift our mind’s identity to the happy one.

Bruce Rawles
PO Box 192, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104
author of The Geometry Code book; co-author of The Geometry Code screensaver
author of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook
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Being a fan of early electronic music, I recently watched a DVD documentary entitled “Ohm+: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music“, featuring pioneers like Robert Moog and others in that genre of musical experimenters. I was happy to discover that track 14 featured a synthesized composition (computer generated) with both partials (harmonics) and relative timing of notes based on the golden ratio by FM synthesis pioneer John Chowning of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Here is an audio clip and some screen shots (both taken with my iPhone so the quality isn’t quite as nice as it could be, but I was a bit lazy), but you’ll get the idea and can rent this on Netflix (or elsewhere) if you’re interested. Ignore the cat meows, which aren’t on the original. :-)

Years ago, when I was studying electronic music at University of California Davis with Tony Gnazzo and Jan Pusina (the instructors there at the time), I recall learning of Chowning’s work during that era, and in particular of his using a tetrahedral arrangement of speakers (1 directly overhead, the other 3 equally spaced at 120 degree angles from the listener) to do acoustically realistic 4-channel audio spatial modulation. I remember that one of his experiments was taking a recording (using 4 microphones with the same 3-D spacing) to simulate a fly buzzing around someone’s head, and being able to simulate this using computer-generated 3-D spatial modulation.)

Enjoy!