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ing and production and with rock musicians and bands, invented the Wasp (the world's first battery-powered, portable digital synthe- siser), has written scores for films, anima- tions, TV documentaries and commercials, and released a number of albums of his own music, including Merak, Inca Gold, Karming the Elements and Ambient Collection. In the 1980s he started his own music enterprise, The Music Suite, facilitating album production for many artists and groups as well as his own projects, reflec- tions of his Celtic origins. His new compa- ny, MediaQuest, is a multimedia sound-ser- vice company and CD production studio. Maintaining his film company connections, in 1999 he composed the music for a new TV documentary on the life of Jimi Hendrix. In recent times, Adrian Wagner has been working closely with Sir Laurence Gardner and has composed, recorded and released companion musical suites to his books: Holy Spirit and the Holy Grail and Genesis of the Grail Kings. His current projects include a new musical work, entitled Anunnaki, and the music CDs for Laurence Gardner's book cycle. Adrian Wagner was recently appointed Chevalier of the Imperial and Royal Order of the Swan (CIROS). Chevalier Wagner is the great-great grandson of 19th-century Grail opera composer Richard Wagner, himself made a CIROS by Ludwig II of Bavaria. memory—and to reaffirm their value in today's environment. Our Earth's fuel resources are beginning to expire, and we must embrace other forms of energy if we are to allow any of our benign technology to be of use in the future. Unfortunately, the present payback for our non-ecological use of technology is that it is doing us more harm than good in the longer term. But this does not have to be the case—certainly not, if we can com- prehend and reutilise the resources that were available in ancient times. How heartening it is to learn that some of our most advanced scientists are now real- ising that the previously perceived "vacu- um" of space is actually filled with what they term "exotic matter", and that some of this vibrational and resonant energy is available for our beneficial use on this planet. oo known as the Plane of Sharon, the super- conductive forces inherent in levitation may not be possible. We do not know at this stage whether the Tibetan stones contained a monatomic sub- stance, but the possible use of such a sub- stance is becoming apparent when we con- sider other architectural structures around the world—such as the pyramids of Egypt and temples of the Inca—which have spe- cial acoustic properties. The results of this collaborative research will be included in further books and music. Meanwhile, the sources of modal forms and sounds and the development of a new understanding of harmonic progression (which I have termed "modes of extended transposition") are inherent in the music I have created in Holy Spirit and the Holy Grail and Genesis of the Grail Kings. I began this essay by confirming that we are currently able to examine many hitherto hidden elements in sound and music. We now have the opportunity to go behind the veil of these unique elements—elements that are not lost, but hidden away somewhere in our subconscious genetic About the Author: Born in 1952, composer and music producer Adrian Wagner had a music-oriented educa- tion, studying musical composition and orchestration before beginning his profes- sional career at the age of twenty. Since the early 1970s, he has worked in music record- NEXUS - 81 Hidden Elements in Music and Sound Continued from page 38 DECEMBER 1999 — JANUARY 2000