From The Alphabet of Light Press:
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Other Ways of Being is a collection of 100 poems each describing a different state of being as they relate to our common experiences, and as we often experience more than one at the same time. It is an ontological treatment of various topics related to the perception and understanding of surface knowledge versus those of inner sight and the mystical.
Minor Arcana contains the words for many songs written by Rendina throughout his 20s. His songwriting is kaleidoscopic with every song in a different style, and touch on subjects not typical of popular music, including astral projection, auras, extra-sensory perception, near death experiences, perceptual illusions, archetypes and symbols, shadows and light, and make use of his sophisticated sense of harmony and tonal color.
Other Ways of Listening is a collection of largely handwritten musical scores by Rendina and covers many styles and aesthetics in music including graphical and text scores. The composer prefers to write everything by hand before recording, and printed scores, if even extant, are used only for pieces with multiple performers. Graphical and visual elements are of particular importance, and scores sometimes require written instructions, so standard musical notation does not do justice to most of his music.
Chromatic Saturnalia contains most of the artist’s two-dimensional visual art output and includes over 250 drawings and paintings. Rendina divides his two-dimensional output into three types: black and white pen and ink line drawings of geometric character, ethereal watercolors with shifting tones, and acrylic and oil paintings with symbolist and surrealist elements relating to alchemy and archetypes.
On the Elements of Music is a comprehensive music instruction book covering the seven elements of music - melody, harmony, rhythm, form, texture, timbre, and dynamics. The book provides a foundation for a new method, combining Western harmony with the Indian melakarta raga system to yield a system of 88 new “keys” - the number of keys on a piano and modern constellations. The book is ideal for the teacher as a complete curriculum or accompaniment to an existing curriculum, for the student wishing to deepen their understanding and fill the spaces in their knowledge, for the composer or songwriter looking to extend their palette of musical ideas, for the performer in need of an easy reference for practice, for the recording artist to quickly grasp the complications of recording, and for the musical healer looking to extend their wisdom in the effects of music on the body and mind.
On Spheres is a collection writings by Rendina including Constellations, Ragas, and the Piano; Harmony and the Three Dimensional Localization of Sound; Quantum Gravity; Globes, Crystal Balls, and the Retina; On the Distribution of Solar Energy. These are foundational writings for the forthcoming era of holistic transcendental experiences, cosmic music based on the cycles of the sun, moon, and earth, and lay the groundwork for understanding the elusive energy in the ether.
