TZOLKIN DVD
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Directed By: Michael John Wiley View Official Website	Release Date: 2009-05-01 Running Time: 2:30 Content Rating: PG (Parental Guidance)	DVD Region: All Regions Media Format: NTSC-DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3
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Synopsis

Experience the sacred Maya Calendar in real time through sight and sound in this international award winning orchestral composition and animated presentation scientifically rooted in whole systems synthesis in this one of a kind DVD which contains:

• Newly Re-mastered Audio Video presentation of the Sacred Maya Calendar, the TZOLKIN, plus an Introduction, Description and Theory behind the Music, Tzolkin in C Major.

• 2002 Audio Performance by The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at the Toru Takemitsu Orchestral Competition in Shinjuku-Tokyo, Japan.

• The Enigmatic 2000 Debut Album OXLAHUN, including the slide show, Tzolkin Dance!

• Biography of the Composer (Michael John Wiley) with current works.

• A Virtual Perpetual Thirteen Moon Calendar

• & Loads of Extras in the Archive Vaults...

Mayan cosmology is of a simple but very profound nature. It deals with radial as opposed to linear mathematics and qualitative as opposed to quantitative numerical expression. These concepts directly correlate to how the Maya understood the passage of time. Nowadays, time is viewed as a linear notion ruled by the clock. Consequently, the nature of time has eluded modern science for centuries. Now, this ancient Mayan knowledge has resurfaced in the form of a renewed emerging chronometric science.

Tzolkin in C Major was conceived and realized through aesthetic and mathematical discoveries based on an ancient Mayan calendar cycle and timing frequency. It was the composer’s intention to present a work that is scientifically based on this cycle. The frequency, better known as a ratio (13:20), is represented by two smaller cycles, which musically generate a simple and elegant harmonic progression of 260 consecutive harmonies. This reveals a music with an air of spatial continuity, which supports the meditative aspects of music for orchestra and audience alike. Therefore, the work is intended as a cultural study in meditation, whereby the participation of the audience is encouraged and appreciated.

The project encompasses several levels; primarily, it is a cycle of 260 consecutive musical harmonies that are performed by a full 90-piece orchestra in the span of 20 minutes, which includes a digital slide show of an artistic rendering of 260 Maya hieroglyphs central to the calendar and synchronized to the composition.

Ultimately, the project is a cultural study in meditative unity whereby the energetic, conscious and collective participation of the audience is integral to the experiment. This orchestral meditation approach is unconventional in conception and form, yet musically classical in its instrumental arrangement. The purpose of the experiment is to impart ancient knowledge on the nature of time in a meditative multi-media fashion while simultaneously creating public awareness.

This first edition DVD is the only one of its kind, and a monumental achievement in musical whole systems synthesis. If you want to know more about the Mayan calendar and want to experience this knowledge directly in time, then you will be amazed at the profound language of simplicity and elegance found in this artistic and scientific discovery.

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Director: Michael John Wiley | bio
The composer (Michael John Wiley) was born in New Mexico, on June 1st 1970, and enjoys a well-rounded cultural background. He was raised in Mexico City, where he acquired an early bilingual foundation. He later grew up in Miami, Florida where in 1986 he became a recipient of the Alexander Muss High School in Israel foreign exchange program. This was an intense educational experience that toured and studied most of Israel. He has traveled through the country of Mexico extensively and has spent time in Central America. Michael has resided in Arizona since the summer of 1987 and currently lives in the city of Tucson. He has been a guitarist for over 20 years and acquired a Bachelor’s degree in Music Composition from the University of Arizona where he studied with professor Daniel Asia.

Following graduation, Wiley became intimately involved with mathematical knowledge of the ancient Mayan culture. He met Dr. Jose Argüelles whose work had a tremendous impact on his life. Argüelles is a leading, planetary whole systems, anthropologist and author with a Ph.D. in Art History and Aesthetics. He is a renowned expert on the ancient Mayan calendar cycles and their astronomical mathematics.

At the turn of the millennium, Wiley made personal scientific and musical discoveries of his own based on this renewed knowledge, which yielded a composition called “Tzolkin in C Major.” According to Wiley, the composition was conceived and realized through the understanding of aesthetic and mathematical discoveries, made by him and others, regarding the ancient calendar and their chronometric timing systems.

“Tzolkin in C Major,” Wiley explains, “is an experimental and meditative orchestral performance of a mathematical composition based on an ancient, sacred timing frequency; a mathematical ratio of 13:20 or a matrix whereby 13 x 20 = 260 kin. A kin is a day, a person or thing, a moment in time, or a number of any equivalence or conception. This timing system deals with radial, as opposed to linear mathematics, and qualitative, as opposed to quantitative numerical expression. These concepts directly correlate to how the Maya understood the passage of time. Now a days, time is viewed as a linear notion ruled by the clock, but time is not a line.”

Michael Wiley is the second American and first Mexican National, to be nominated as a finalist for the prestigious Takemitsu Composition Award. The Toru Takemitsu Composition Award is an international competition following the famous Japanese Composer’s principles "Prayer, Hope, and Peace." The award was established in 1997 to encourage a younger generation of composers to help shape the coming age by creating new orchestral works.

The award is unique in that each year only one judge is responsible for the outcome. Joji Yuasa chose five works from among 122 worldwide entries accepted for 2002. Screening of the scores was anonymously made with only titles and entry numbers. The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by maestro Ken Takaseki, performed the five nominated works for Mr. Yuasa’s final judgment, where Wiley took third prize for his inspiring composition.

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2002 Toru Takemitsu Orchestral Competition (Tokyo, JAPAN)