BERNHARD IOAN SIEGEL

Is currently coordinator at the Department for Sacred Art at the Shang Shung Institute for Tibetan Studies, founded by Chögial Namkhai Norbu at Archidosso, Tuscany, Italy

(click on his curriculum vita )

( 1 ) BIS is engaged in ( a ) studies concerning Indian and Tibetan spiritual and artistic traditions

( b ) studies of proto-mathematics and proto-astronomy ( Click on research )

( c ) studies concerning Pythagoreism and Harmonik ( Click on research )

( d ) studies concerning prehistoric art, especially of the artistic remains of the

Neanderthal species. ( Click on: Prehistoric Art )

( 2 ) BIS is the inventor of the HARMONIC MEGA HARP

( 3 ) He is also the founder and director of the music ensemble THINK TANK TIGER ( TTT)

( 4 ) He is a composer of mans songs in various styles ( click on it )

(5 ) He is the author of several -yet unpublished- novels.

( 2 ) The HARMONIC MEGA HARP, invented by BIS 1968 in Rome, is a new type of instrument, that allowes to make extensive use of the flagiolettes or harmonics. It is tuned according to the pure note system. It has 7 about seven ft. long stings which are bowed. BIS music is warmly acclaimed, especially in India, Nepal and Japan where also contemplative musical modes have tradition

( 3 ) The music ensemble THINK TANK TIGER is a multinational ensemble currently working in Italy. It is composed of Nicola Fanelli, an excellent guitar player, who, together with Gianpaolo Ciacci on percussions and keyboards. Jörg Hüttemann is a multi-instrumentalist and computer wizzard.

The NOVELS are part of the Gesamtkunstwerk in which BIS expresses himself. He began writing in Rome around 1980. He found it logical to record what he had experienced and seen on the world-circuit peopled by musicians, artists, writers, scientists , religious seekers, masters and charlatans. In several works he not only chronicles memorable stories concerning personalities enliving `the Sixties´ of last century, but he speculates with great humor, what could have happened , if the ` back- to- nature ´ trend en vogue then, had continued. When BIS moved for a decade to Germany, he started to write in his native tongue. Being a perfectionist, BIS engages excessivly in rewriting. He therefore has accumulated about a dozen novels in his drawyer.