Harmonics Symposium 2017
"HARMONICS, A NECESSITY"
May 6 + 7, 2017
in Meeting House St. Jobst, Nuremberg
The leitmotif for this symposium was "harmony, an emergency maneuverability".
The need to turn around is the general cultural, economic and political crisis of our time.
It should be illuminated with the first main theme "Our understanding of the world, our world relationship today" from a harmonic point of view.
The second main theme "How does harmony succeed?" devoted himself to the possibilities for the success of the harmony on the background of the questions raised to the first main theme.
On Sunday morning, these considerations were under the 3rd main theme "How to achieve harmoncs?" with a view to the further development of harmonics.
The presentations
1st Main topic: Our understanding of the world, our world relationship today.
Lecture on the theme by Hans G. Weidinger
The lecture first describes the emergence of today's understanding of science from the early beginnings in Greek antiquity. From an originally close harmony with nature, finally, a natural science emerged, which is no longer able to give man a home in the world she describes. Harmonics offers a way to overcome this alienation. For it builds a bridge between abstract, objective thinking and calculation on the one hand, and subjective feeling on the other.
The presentation can be downloaded HERE as a pdf Version (in German).
Consequences from the point of view of philosophy
by Carl M. Hofbauer
No manuscript available
Man and nature - the human measure in harmonics
by J. Kotschy
The lecture covers the following topics:
Universal sizes: space and dimensions - space and time
Waves - connection of space and time - seeing and hearing
The human measure in time and space
It will be our most important task to make this planet harmonic. Harmonia means harmony, unity, evenness, beauty ...
The lecture can be downloaded HERE (in German)
2nd Main topic: How does harmonics succeed?
Keynote Address: Principles of Harmonics
by W. Limbrunner
A four-fold transformational structure of the Tetraktys is described in three examples of intellectual history:
The Villard figure
The Mandukya Upanishad
Kant's categories
The presentation can be downloaded HERE as pdf-file (in German)
The cult song of the monks in the monastery Buchhagen
by Uta Hügerich
The lecture reports on the experience of the natural singing of the cult song of the orthodox monks in the monastery church in Buchhagen. It describes the history of the monastery as well as the tradition of cult worship cultivated there. In particular, it sheds light on the harmonic background of these songs and gives examples to listen to.
The presentation can be downloaded HERE as pdf-file (in German).
Harmonics in Geometry
by H. Ullmann / W. Limbrunner
Using the example of a 24-star, the lecture describes elementary harmonic-geometric relationships. For comparison it will also be shown how these simple harmonic principles, can be transferred e.g. on harmonic relationships in the construction of the electron shell of a hydrogen atom.
The presentation can be downloaded HERE as pdf-file (in German).
Harmonics and our relationship to the cosmos
by H. Warm
"In this arrangement, therefore, we find an admirable harmony of the world and a reliable harmony of movements and trajectories." Nicolaus Copernicus "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" (1543)
Even modern astronomy is - perhaps unconsciously or used only as a metaphor - in search of the harmony of the spheres.
The presentation can be downloaded HERE as pdf-file (in German)
3rd Main Theme: Future Aspects of Harmonics
Keynote speech by C.M. Hofbauer
No manuscript available.
How can the harmonics incite the art?
by A. Kandler Seegy
The power of harmonics also becomes audible, tangible and visible in art.
"Let me suppose that harmonical and artistic sensibilities merge into one impulse, and we quickly grasp the inestimable value of harmony when we are exposed to disharmony. I invite you to take part in a search, namely the search for balance. ... "
The presentation text can be downloaded HERE as pdf-file (in German).
Alexander Technique, applied harmonics
by H. Riedel
No manuscript available
Harmony in my life
by R. Fuchs
Reinhard Fuchs reports in pictures and sound about his life and his work as an architect in New Zealand
A small excerpt from the presentation can be downloaded HERE (in German).