Feb 17 2008
A meeting with Logos
A meeting with Logos.
Logos because of the equivalence with Greek concerning the Bible that means: “In the beginning was the Word”. It’s also a label of a record-production.
The sacred takes a great part in Stephen’s inspiration and work. His purpose is to use music that joins the human being with is divine essence.
His inpiration is combined with alchemy, Bouddhism and yoga. Basically these ways lead to his musical work.
To compose he uses the synthesizer, the sampler and the computer. Thanks to the technology, he plays his music with sound effects (water, birds, crickets, etc …).
The ALCHEMY OF The NOTES interview of Stephen SICARD alias LOGOS7.
Entry “the melody is the prayer which the man addresses to God, the harmony is the answer that God made to the man.” Cyril Scott (1933), Music, Edition LA Baconnière, Neuchâtel.
- Why to have chosen the name of Logos?
- Symbolically it corresponds to the aspect of the Creator.
Concretely, it’s a company which carries out discs and cassettes, such as for example “La Vallée des Rêves” of Charles Cunin.
- With does such a signature spirituality have to play an important part in your work of creation?
- It occupies even a dominating place there: The goal of my work is to bring closer the man his interior divinity thanks to the mediation of the music. This language of the Heart makes it possible to create the magic moment where one feels transported in another dimension to be it, on a spiritual level where one tests a feeling of plenitude and serenity.
- With does the fact, when begin your career from musician?
- I am an autodidact. In 1986, whereas I am student in physics with the Faculty of Orsey, I feel taken by the desire for carrying out a cassette. Before any work of composition, I decide to prepare to me by making a spiritual stage in the Tibetan monastery of Kagyu-Ling. I carry out there “a training course of hell” with amongst other things 50 000 will mantras over the week! This crucible will emerge “the sound colors”, works which will gain a great success. By superstition, I never dared to modify the version on cassette although with the passing, I estimate that it comprises some mistakes of youth. After this first stage, I created the musical accompaniment of two cassettes of meditation of Michel Dogna: “La Boule d’Amour” and “La Source Intérieure”. After this phase, my production was packed: “La Lune des Sages”, “Quintessence – the Sounds of Colors” which is the remastered version for the compact disc of one of my first recording, Heliopolis and then “Eve”. One can wonder whether the public is well informed of my discography because I still often have booksellers who order me “X” exemplary of Logos!
- Which carries out the covers of your albums?
- This work is completed by various artists. For example, Johfra was occupied of “La Lune des Sages”. I find that it represented the concept of death well. The cover of Eve was carried out by Natacha Toutain. Originally it was to be a postcard representing Isis but its symbolism “hung me so much” that I wanted to use it for “Eve”.
- What represents for you the music and the act of composition?
- Above all, there are a life and a healthy thought. Then the music runs. Will mantras play a paramount part in my phase of purification. After that, there are a process of spontaneous creation and where I do not have any more but to play the part of channel.
- Ultimately, where will you draw your inspiration?
- My competences are esoteric, very impregnated of alchemy, Buddhism and Yoga. For example, “La Lune des Sages” was built on the topic of the philosopher stone. In “Eve”, certain titles make unambiguous allusion to alchemy. I am what one could call “a fan of the traditional esotericism”. Esotericism, Buddhism, Alchemy cannot be dissociated from my primarily esoteric advance i.e. hidden and educated by initiation. This unit is useful to me primarily of “food” for musical work. It is an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Alchemy includes the esoteric totality of the knowledge (Yoga, Theurgy, Astrology, operativ Alchemy) since it teaches the physical manner to express the latent divinity of each one of us. Buddhism does not hold a particular role. I feel at ease in each religion (Christianity, Bouddhism, Soufism, etc…). The presence of Kagyu-Ling beside my old Burgundian residence makes me a little more often speak about Buddha. For me all these religions are only the expression in the various shapes of the same divinity. Like one says: “in the monastery, as many monks do as many visions different of God”.
- And which is the place of the technique in your work of composition?
- The synthetizer, the sampler and the computer enable me to carry out an enormous work. For example, in one of my works I use a “Om sampel” which was recorded thanks to the contest of a choral society of my friends. Thanks to the technology of the sampler, I was able to shift this sound sequence of an octave below. I could also have placed this sequence above an octave. It is a revolutionist but not original bus of the discs of quot;techno “were also produced starting from” samplés “recordings. Thanks to the technique I have fun to decorate my music of various sound effects like those of water, the birds, of the crickets…
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