Music has the advantage of being understandable in all languages. Whereas to read or transcribe a book into braille, one must know the language.
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But musical braille is a very complex, difficult and very verbose system.
That’s why I chose to transcribe the melodies, note by note with slurs and ties. I don’t specify the piano fingerings, accents, or dynamics, which I write on the braille score. When there are repetitions, codas, or segnos, I transcribe all the notes to be played.
Another advantage of musical braille is that it stimulates memory and brain plasticity. Reading and playing simultaneously is not easy, but the measures are delimited by spaces, and the sensored receptors in the fingers are connected to the brain, facilitating gradual learning that leads to free interpretation. The senses, the brain, and the emotional body are stimulated simultaneously, promoting auto-regeneration.
You will find on this page the transcribed melodies.
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Some explanations.
The 4 boxes at the top are used to specify the note, and the 2 boxes at the bottom the duration.
The standard treble and bass clefs are not indicated to avoid complicating the transcriptions. Clefs are indicated when their use is unconventional.
When the first measure is an anacrusis (incomplete), it can be assigned the number 0.
Up to 3 alterations in the key signature are transcribed one by one, then they are counted .
The octave number must precede the note:
On each new line,
Whenever an interval is greater than or equal to a fifth,
Whenever an interval is greater than or equal to a fourth if the octave changes,
After textual information with the symbol (3-4-5) such as repeat signs, dynamics, time signature changes, rhythmic information, metronome indications…
But when the interval is in seconds or thirds, it is not necessary to repeat the octave sign before the note, whether or not one changes octave, going up or down.
For the musical numerotation, english numerals are used.
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An example of a musical score transcription.
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Click on a melody to see the score and an interpretation I did on piano or alto saxophone.
Why does contemplating the Imaginary Worlds of the Art Universe allow self-healing, if no memory, emotion, or fear blocks the process of self-regeneration?
Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
To answer this question, I rely on 3 reference books:
« The Biology of Belief » by Bruce Lipton, p101
As more complex animals evolved, specialized cells took over the job of monitoring and organizing the flow of the behavior regulating signal molecules. These cells provided a distributed nerve network and central information processor, a brain. The brain’s function is to coordinate the dialogue of signal molecules within the community. Consequently, in a community of cells, each cell must acquiesce control to the informed decisions of its awareness authority, the brain. The brain controls the behavior of the body’s cells. This is a very important point to consider as we blame the cells of our organs and tissues for the health issues we experience in our lives.
EMOTIONS : FEELING THE LANGUAGE OF CELLS
In higher, more aware life forms, the brain developed a specialization that enabled the whole community to tune into the status of its regulatory signals. The evolution of the limbic system provided a unique mechanism that converted the chemical communication signals into sensations that could be experienced by all of the cells in the community. Our conscious mind experiences these signals as emotions. The conscious mind not only “reads” the flow of the cellular coordinating signals that comprise the body’s “mind” it can also generate emotions, which are manifested through the controlled release of regulatory signals by the nervous system.
At the same time that I was studying the mechanics of the cell’s brain and gaining insight into the operation of the human brain, Candace Pert was studying the human brain and becoming aware of the mechanics of the cell’s brain. In Molecules of Emotion, Pert revealed how her study of information-processing receptors on nerve cell membranes led her to discover that the same “neural” receptors were present on most, if not all, of the body’s cells. Her elegant experiments established that the “mind” was not focused in the head but was distributed via signal molecules to the whole body. As importantly, her work emphasized that emotions were not only derived through a feedback of the body’s environmental information. Through self-consciousness, the mind can use the brain to generate “molecules of emotion” and override the system. While proper use of consciousness can bring health to an ailing body, inappropriate unconscious control of emotions can easily make a healthy body diseased, a topic I will expand upon in Chapters 6 and 7. Molecules of Emotion is a very insightful book describing the scientific discovery process. It also provides some revealing insights into the struggles encountered when trying to introduce new “ideas” into science’s Old Boys Club, a subject with which I am all too familiar! (Pert 1997)
Molecules of emotion by Candace B. Pert, p141
If we accept the idea that peptides and other informational substances are the biochemicals of emotion, their distribution in the body’s nerves has all kinds of significance, which Sigmund Freund, were he alive today, would gleefully point out as the molecular confirmation of his theories. The body is the unconscious mind! Repressed traumas causes by overwhelming emotion can be stored in a body part, thereafter affecting our ability to feel that part or even move it. The new work suggests there are almost infinite pathways for the conscious mind to access -and modify- the unconscious mind and the body, and also provides an explanation for a number of phenomena that the emotional theorists have been considering.
THE MIND IN THE BODY: FILTERING, STORING, LEARNING, REMEMBERING, REPRESSING
Because of the research I’ve been describing, we can no longer consider the emotional brain to be confined to the classical locations of the amygdala, hippocampus, ans hypothalamus. For example, we have discovered other anatomical locations where high concentrations of almost every neuropeptide receptor exist, locations such as the dorsal horn, or back side of the spinal cord, which is the firt synapse within the nervous system where all somatosensory information is proceed. (The term somatosensory refers to any bodily sensations of feelings, whether it is the touch of another’s hand on our skin or sensations arising from the movement of our own organs as they carry on our bodily process.) Not just opiate receptors but almost every peptide receptor we looked for could be found in thi spinal-cord site that filters all incoming bodily sensations. In fact, we have found that in virtually all locations where information from any of the five senses -sight, sound, taste, smell and touch- enters the nervous system, we will find a high concentration of neuropeptide receptors. We have termed these regions “nodal points” (or, colloquially, “hot spots”) to emphasize that they are places where a great deal of information converges. The information is carried by axons and dendrites from many nerve bodies that are passing near or making synaptic contact with each other.
The Tao Te Ching « The Book of the Immanence of the Way » de Lao-Tseu, A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell, HarperCollins e-books
Chapter 1: The tao that can be told
The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
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Since emotions are molecules that regulate the body’s balance, they can sometimes block the body’s self-regenerating capacities.
As the mind can consciously use the brain to generate “emotion molecules” and override the system, meditation that acts on the mind will allow us to find inner peace which will neutralize the emotional molecules that blocked self-regenerating capacities.
Through meditation, the body’s self-regenerative abilities will be operational again, and they will be able to heal.
But since regulation occurs in both directions, it may be that the emotional blocks the realization of meditation.
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As Candace Pert points out, information from our five senses – sight, sound, taste, smell and touch – enters the nervous system, in areas with a high concentration of neuropeptide receptors.
This is why art therapy, olfactology, etc. are techniques that allow us to correct the mismatches that have occurred between the « conscious » function of the brain and the « emotional » function of the body, which until now have caused health problems.
This reinforces my idea that reading braille using the senses (touch, sight) and the brain for comprehension, can help free the receptors of emotional molecules linked to trauma, false beliefs that have been inscribed in the body’s unconscious.
Braille is a tactile writing system, using 6 raised dots, which allows you to write all languages, mathematics, music and to do layout.
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For a braille letter the 6 dots are always arranged in the same way but they can represent a character or 2 lettres (, …, ,… ) or a contraction (,…) or a punctuation mark ( ,…) or be considered as an indicator (, … , …).
In French, there is integral braille which consists of transcribing a text letter by letter and abbreviated braille which represents certain groups of letters and certain words with fewer braille letters. Abbreviated braille makes it possible to have a more concise text, faster to write and books that take up less space. English braille works this way, but the letter from a to z are the same.
While it is quite easy for a sighted person to learn braille and read it with the eyes, it is more difficult to read it with the fingers. This is why I decided to translate small books to practice.
I learned integral French braille which is close to Grade 1 in English: one-to-one transcription. I transcribe the English books letter by letter which means that my transcriptions are not the best, but since the aim is to develop the sense of touch, to help the brain to cure the body, this method is good in this context.
I introduced some contractions as I went along because I found that they provide an interesting variation to see the interaction with the brain.
You will find on this page all the books that I have transcribed. I can send you a copy for free, as sending mail in braille is free even for foreign country.
If you have small books (very small) that you would like me to transcribe into braille, send your request, I will be happy to do the one-to-one transcription if it is within my possibilities.
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Some tips for learning and reading braille more easily.
Do not learn letters visually. The 6 dots have a predefined number . You have to memorize the dots of the letters.
Examples:
a this is dot 1, memorize a (1)
b these are the dots 1 & 2, memorize b (1-2)
For the letters, the top 4 dots (1-2-4-5) form 10 possibilities and the bottom 2 dots (3-6) determine a decade, i.e. 3 decades for the 26 letters and 5 wordsigns: and, for, of, the, with which can be words or contractions, see booklet braille: wordsigns + by to.
There are 2 ways to understand their codes:
By decade, which is better at the beginning to familiarize yourself with the 6 dots. Learn the position of the dots for each letter, decade by decade.
By column, once the 3 decades have been studied. For each column the top 4 dots are identical, for each decade dots 3-6 are identical. Learning that a, k, u are from the same column, they will all have dot 1 and dots 3-6 of their decades, i.e. a (1), k (1-3), u (1- 4-6).
For the numbers, the numeric indicator (3-4-5-6) and the numbers (first decade). The indicator is only put at the beginning, it is active until a space, the caps (6) or letter (5-6) indicator. Dot 3 as thousands separator, dot 2 as decimal separator.
Examples:
10 (3-4-5-6, 1, 2-4-5)
For the thousands 4,500 (3-4-5-6, 1-4-5, 3, 2-4-5, 2-4-5, 2-4-5)
For decimals 0.7 (3-4-5-6, 2-4-5, 2, 1-2-4-5)
The time 10h25 (3-4-5-6, 1, 2-4-5, 5-6, 1-2-5, 3-4-5-6, 1-2, 1-5)
The time 5.30 pm (3-4-5-6, 1-5, 2, 1-4, 2-4-5, ,4-5, 1-2-3-4, 1-3-4)
An oblique stroke to denote « per » 100/sec (3-4-5-6, 1, 2-4-5, 2-4-5, 4-5-6, 2-3, 2-3-4, 2-5, 1-4)
An oblique stroke to separate groups of letters and/or numbers ab/1234 ( 1, 1-2, 4-5-6, 2-3, 3-4-5-6, 1, 1-2, 1-4, 1-4-5)
Avoid the oblique stroke for dates 8/9/36 (3-4-5-6, 1-2-5, 3-4-5-6, 2-4, 3-4-5-6, 1-4, 1-2-4)
For punctuation -5th decade, this is the first decade taken down a notch. Not all characters are punctuation, there are also en and in, which are Initial-Medial-Terminal Groupsigns ; in is also used as wordsign, see booklet braille: end of letters. No space between a word and the punctuation mark but a space between the sign and the following word.
Example:
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For the rest, you need to learn. I don’t use contractions, except by, to.
Space is represented by the 6 empty dots. It is very important for reading. And, for, of, the with, to, by, in, into contractions should be written unspaced from a word which follows, even when a sense break or natural pause is present.
Don’t read with your eyes closed to imitate a blind person. This adds stress to the brain which will have difficulty memorizing the code, will get tired and lose concentration.
You must open your eyes and look in front of you without paying attention to what you see but “pay attention to the sight under your fingers”. This is the picture. You have to really concentrate on the feeling of your fingers in order to feel each dot and the spaces.
For alphabet books, there is only one word, you read it from left to right with the pulp of the index finger of the hand you want. There is always one hand better than the other, but both work. Reading braille is ambidextrous. The letters of the alphabet book are also in relief so you can feel them.
For stories, the text is a whole line, the two hands read the line: the left reads to the left and the right to the right, we change hands halfway through. At the beginning we place the left index finger on the first braille letter on the left, the right little finger on the last letter and the right index finger on the middle letter. The left travels the beginning until meeting the right index which continues and the left index goes down one line, it positions itself at the start of the next and when the right has finished, it joins the left in the middle of the next line and the left begins reading until they meet. And so on.
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English braille letter chart.
I don’t know exactly how to use contraction characters, so I do a one-to-one transcription.
Remarks :
5th decade corresponds to 1st decades moved down one notch. Only dots 2-3-5-6 are used.
Bottom row corresponds to 5th decade moved down one notch. Only dots 3-6 are used, which is why there are only 2 possible characters.
The left column of the shifted right only uses dot 4 of the top 4 dots (1-2-4-5) and the 3 possibilities for dots (3-6) which gives 4 possibilities. Then dot 4 moved down one notch for a 5th possibility then moved down another notch for the 6th possibility.
The right column of the shifted right uses the 2 dots 4-5 among the top 4 dots (1-2-4-5) and the 3 possibilities for the dots (3-6), which gives 4 possibilities. Then the dots 4-5 moved down one notch for the last possibility with dots. Finally, the space which does no dots.
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Click on a book to browse it in digital format.
If you would like a paper version of the booklets by decade so that you can practice reading with your fingers, send me a request with your postal address to obel.bourgait@gmail.com. Sending letters in Braille is free, even to foreign countries. I do not have stock, I transcribe the books as requests arise, but I do my best to send them quickly.
It’s an inner shower of well-being which can go until the healing, if no memory, emotion, fear block the process of self-regeneration.
The creations of Universe Art come from « The Source of Life » from where springs the universal energy which feeds our body with vital energy.
This makes that the creations of Universe Art can set in motion our flow of vital energy which will then regenerate the body.
But it happens that our emotional -our lived- forms a barrier.
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That’s why, I tried to animate the Universe Art with music:
Music is pure emotion.
It touches the heart of our Being.
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I discovered the alto saxophone at the beginning of February 2022, and at the beginning of March 2022 I switched to tenor saxophone.
The saxo and me, it is a love story, because it is an inner metamorphosis.
So, I decided to realized musical videos combining my interpretations with Tenor Saxo Buffet Crampon 8102 with Selmer S90 170 mouthpiece and the Universe-Art creations of Ki’Chi’Qi.
I do not master the saxophone enough to play optimally. The videos are a first set to feel the potential that a waltz between the Art-Universe creations of Ki’Chi’Qi and music can bring to Inner Meditation.
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Musical videos of the Universe Art can help to regain Inner Peace thanks to Contemplative breathing.
I adapted the protocol of the Contemplative breathing in order to take advantage of the meditative state offered by the Universe Art and the emotional release offered by music.
The musical video of « Frankie and Johnny » to test by yourself.
Contemplative breathing of the Universe-Art creations of Ki’Chi’Qi promotes auto-regenerative Inner Meditation.
Unlike to painting or drawing, the wax painting used needs no long technical to acquire, just let the inner creativity make.
Alchemist between sticks of colored wax and heat’s iron let emerge the invisible worlds which inhabit us. These invisible Worlds have joined my quest for our origins.
So when I create, I connect to the « Source of Life » which is also the Source of the vital energy which runs through our meridians (flow of vital energy called Ki in Japan and Chi or Qi in China and which I call Ki’Chi’Qi at the level of creations). As the imaginary Worlds appear on the support, encaustic paper or canvas, I listen to my body to know how the energy flows, and my eyes to know if it is harmonious. When the 2 feelings are granted, I stop the creation. An auto-regenerator World of Ki’Chi’Qi has come to life.
When I look attentively at the Universe-Art creations, I activate the flow of the vital energy through my meridians, this means that if you contemplate with attention the Universe-Art creations of Ki’Chi’Qi , the flow of vital energy of your body will come alive.
Immerse yourself in the hearth of a creation, as if you were discovering a new Earth where you can breathe;
contemplate it in every detail, dialogue with the beings you meet, like a child marveling at everything around him;
Feel the energy flow through your body, the calm invade you, your mins opens, everything becomes possible;
you enter a meditative state conducive to auto-regeneration.
The request:
« Please, Regenerate-me »
Fools the eye that sees in creation only an image to look at and the brain that seeks to understand what he sees.
Your energetic body takes over, brings the energy of « The Source » -Space without woe- from where comes the creation, to your physical body, thanks to the flow of energy -the Ki or Chi, Qi, emanating from this same Source, and flowing through the body via meridians.
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In the Contemplative breathing process, there are 2 stages:
The Inner Meditation. On the back of each card, you find the technique to activate Inner Meditation, present at the top of the page. This allows you to soothe your mental’body starting from the breath, and to find inner calm; Peace within You.
The process of auto-regeneration process. It will be more or less active according to your doubts, your fears, your will, because it respects your free will.
There are 3 reference card formats of the Universe-Art creations of Ki’Chi’Qi made with the technique of colored hot wax, to facilitate inner meditation:
Representation in Reset Card of 8,5 x 11,5 cm
Example: « Reset Ki’Chi’Qi 1 »
Example: « Reset Ki’Chi’Ki 2 »
An Universe-Art creation on encaustic paper that I decline in the form of a small card, signed in head-to-tail, in order to facilitate the desire to turn it in all directions.
In the form of a small card, you can slip it into your wallet to take it everywhere in order to Regain Inner Peace at any time.
Its particularity is to offer a different journey at each turn.
It is also a harmony of colors to offer for the pleasure of the eyes, which can be framed.
They are unique, signed, have no title, but a number to identify them.
This requires training, a regular practice of Contemplative breathing with the card at the beginning and then with and without the card.
If you make a habit of practicing Contemplative breathing with the card, you will amplify your space of inner calm, and the day you are stuck in a traffic jam, or in any other stressful situation, you will not need to have the card in your hands to enter into Inner Meditation.
All you need is:
To think of the space of calm within you that you have discovered during the Contemplative breathing sessions with the card,
To take a deep breath from this space,
To suspend your breathing for a little while,
To breathe out slowly,
Inner Meditation is activated,
You find again, as the breathing cycles progress, Peace within You.
The benefit of framing the map is that as soon as you step past it, your space of inner calm feels the energy and activates on its own. If you look at her or talk to her, even for a moment, even for a word, it will amplify the connection between your physical body and your space of inner calm.
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Representation on canvas
Small canvas of 28 x 22 cm
Example: « Tous les chemins sont bons » « All paths are good »
Vivre, Magique alchimie d’un fil invisible. Obel’Isa To live, magic alchemy with an invisible thread.read.
The creations are made on a canvas, with stretcher, which is coated with gesso so that the wax adheres without being absorbed by the canvas.
The works are unique, signed Obel, my artist name, at the tip of a needle in the wax.
They have a title and a haiku which is written on the back of the canvas.
Here are the places where the Universe-Art creations of Ki’Chi’Qi’s are on sale.
The Artmajeur website –https://www.artmajeur.com/obel-isa: The 3 reference card formats, as well as the representations on canvas and « The Conquering », are on sale. – You will also find other collector’s versions of the representations of the Universe-Art on sale: the Orchestra collection « Collection Orchestre », the Symphony collection « Collection Symphonie ». – And artistic representations to discover all the facets of the Art Universe.
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but they can represent a character or 2 lettres (
, …, 
,… ) or a contraction (
,…) or a punctuation mark (
,…) or be considered as an indicator (
, … 
, …).
. You have to memorize the dots of the letters.
this is dot 1, memorize a (1)
these are the dots 1 & 2, memorize b (1-2)
(3-4-5-6, 1, 2-4-5)
(3-4-5-6, 1-4-5, 3, 2-4-5, 2-4-5, 2-4-5)
(3-4-5-6, 2-4-5, 2, 1-2-4-5)
(3-4-5-6, 1, 2-4-5, 5-6, 1-2-5, 3-4-5-6, 1-2, 1-5)
(3-4-5-6, 1-5, 2, 1-4, 2-4-5, ,4-5, 1-2-3-4, 1-3-4)
(3-4-5-6, 1, 2-4-5, 2-4-5, 4-5-6, 2-3, 2-3-4, 2-5, 1-4)
( 1, 1-2, 4-5-6, 2-3, 3-4-5-6, 1, 1-2, 1-4, 1-4-5)
(3-4-5-6, 1-2-5, 3-4-5-6, 2-4, 3-4-5-6, 1-4, 1-2-4)
(3-4-5-6, 1, 2-4, 1-2-5, 1, 3-6, 3-4-5-6, 1, 2-4, 2-4, 2-4-5)
(3-4-5-6, 1-2, 1-2, 5-6, 1, 2-5-6)
(3-4-5-6, 1-2-5, 6, 2-4, 1-3-4-6, 3-4-5-6, 1-4, 1-2-4)
ellipsis (3, 3, 3)
Ki-Regeneration ® 