BERNHARD IOAN SIEGEL -- CURRICULUM VITA

 

 

  1. - Paris. Mr. Siegel begun as a drummer and saxophonist playing Be-Bop and Free Jazz in Paris. There

began a fruitful collaborative relationship with Don Cherry.

1962 - Stockholm. Mr. Siegel began his research the mathematics of sound called Pythagoreism or Harmonik

with Professor Wolf Natusch, a renown Pythagorean theorist, mathematician and artist. Mr. Siegel, here in

Stockholm, laid the theoretical groundwork for thirty years of experimentation and invention. Professor

Natusch is a pupil of Hans Kayser of Switzerland who can be said to have rediscovered Pythagorism, which was

up until 1950 largely forgotten.

1966 - Accademia di Belle Arti, Roma. Mr. Siegel began his studies under Prof. Franco Gentilini.

1967 - HARP OF PYTHAGORAS. Mr. Siegel invented the first in a series of musical instruments based on the

principle of Overtone- sound production. These first instruments were 12 ft long with thick steel strings.

Gradually the number of strings increased and the soundbox became more sophisticated.

1967 - Rome. Worked as saxophonist for the Steve Lacy-Big Band.

1967 - Rome. Mr. Siegel composed and performed film-music for "Viva Cleopatra" interpreted by

actors from the Andy Warhol troupe.

1968 - Creative partnerships with the groups of Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum: Musica Elettronioca Viva

1968 - Mr. Siegel performed with the Chicago Free Jazz.

1968 - Mr. Siegel founded a Jazz-Rock- esemble, the INDIFFERENT IDENTIFICATION and

performed Tito Schipa`s Rock-opera, `Orfeo 9´ at the Teatro Sistina in Rome.

1970 - Asian Tour. Mr Siegel began a concert tour of India and Nepal, including a performance at

Chola Mandal, performing with his latest musical invention, the SWAYAMBHU SVARA

VEENA, a Sanskrit term, which translates as: The instrument with chords that give rise to the

spontaneously arisen tones. The tour was met by a series of favorable reviews in the Asian

press including articles in The Indian Express and Rising Nepal.

  1. - Madras, South-India. Mr. Siegel began his studies of Karnataka music with the Venerable

P.Balakrishnan.

  1. - Dharmsala, India. Mr. Siegel began his studies of Tantric Buddhim under the V.Venerable

    2. Geshe Rapten.

  2. - Kathmandu, Nepal. Mr. Siegel studies the Ayurvedic Rasayana from Nepali Vajracharyas.

    3. Rasayana is the main pharmaceutical ingredience in use in one of the 8 branches of Ayurveda

    and deals specifically with what in the West is called Alchemy.

  3. - Mr. Siegel became a disciple of the V.V. Sabju Rinpoche and later of Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche

and the V.V. Urgyan Tulku at Nagi Gompa.

1973 -Kathmandu, Nepal. At the invitation and patronage of the Royal Family of Nepal, Mr. Siegel

was co-founder of The Royal Nepalese Institute for Religious and Classical Arts, and the Space-

Theatre. The RNIRC, under the direction of Mr. Siegel, acted as a catalyst for cross-cultural

artistic collaboration between Western artists and writers visiting Nepal and traditional Nepali

musicians, artists and theatre troupes.

 

 

 

As director of the departments of Music and architecture, Mr. Siegel initiated a project to survey, measure and date early sacred architectural Buddhist monuments (Stupas). The analysis of this field work during the 1970s continues to form the basis of Mr. Siegel´s current research into the correlation between the mathematics of pure- note tonality, sacred architecture and planetary astronomy.

1976 - Mr. Siegel left Asia and spent a year in Austria, to found the Dharma -Centre Scheibbs with friends.

1977 - Rome. Renown Italian composer, Giacinto Scelsi, commissioned a reproduction of the HARP OF

PYTHAGORAS.

1978 - Rome. Mr. Siegel started a new band called BOMBAY TRANCE JAHS.

1980 - Mr. Siegel performed on Italian Television.

1981 - Mr. Siegel began writing numerous articles and novels.

1986 - Northern Europe. Mr. Siegel started a concert and lecture-tour, performing in Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart and

Hamburg. At the University of Graz, Austria, Mr. Siegel conducted a seminar on Pythagorean theory.

1986 - Kosmos, Amsterdam. Mr. Siegel provided the music for a conference entitled NEW AGE

which featured Ruppert Sheldrake, Colin Wilson, Count Kaiserling and others.

1987 - Teatro dell Orologio, Rome. Mr. Siegel recieved recognition from the Italian State for his unique

contribution to the performing art, and as a composer for the Teatro dell Orologio.

1988 - Mr. Siegel performed in Hamburg, Bremen, Freiburg and Copenhagen. During the following

ten years, Mr. Siegel has conducted many workshops and seminars.

1991 - Mr. Siegel performed with Joachim Ernst Berendt and appeared on German radio.

1993 - Produced the solo-album `A Pristine Source Of Sound´. He performed at the Opera Houses of

Cologne and Essen. Using a larger, more refined instrument, Mr. Siegel began to integrate

electronic equipment into his performances.

  1. - Based on his thirty year research into in the field of music -mathematics evident in ancient

    2. sacred architecture, Mr. Siegel discovered, that the famous tower of Babylon was a `fore-

    runner´ for the symbolic`earth-element´ in the prototype of the small Tibetan Chörten and that

    both structures were composed by means of transformed sound-numbers, that also lie at the

    base of the ageless Tibetan ritual oboe, Gyaling.

  2. - Mr. Siegel discovered, that the famous `Harmony of the Spheres´ really exists, just as Plato

    3. suggested. The body of evidence is a tone-scale of the Tibetan ritual oboe, `Gyaling´.

  3. - Widening his research and drawing hundreds of diagrams, Mr. Siegel found that the Great

    4. Stupa of Boudhanath in Nepal also shows many astronomical relevances: it fascilitates both

    geocentric and calendaric computations and - unheard of at that time,- a precise knowledge of

    the heliocentrical nature of our planetary system..

  4. - Mr Siegel found the mathematical evidence that the ancients not only knew about heliocentricity

and, expressed it music-mathematically, but they were also capable to compute from the

apparent synodic orb of the planets the heloicentric orbs, as seen from the sun.

1997 - He concluded his mastodontic enquiry that comprised many famous architectural sites, from the

Great Pyramid of Gizeh to the dome of Aachen, from the tower of Babylon to the harmonical

proportions in many Buddhist symbols.

1998 - Mr Siegel resides in Tuscany.

  1. Mr Siegel became the coordinator of the Department for Sacred Art at the International Shang

Shung Institut for Tibetan Studies

 

 

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