Sw Shivam Sanjiva

(Charles Roux)

Sanjiva was born in Québec in the late 50s, and began studying flute, piano and guitar at the age of six. His musical journey went to a new level when the opportunity arose in high school to play on a pipe organ. This opened up vast possibilities of sonic experience, as did coming into contact with Indian music. He saw and felt how harmonics, modalities and tonalities could have a rich effect on the mind, mood and silence, understanding experientially how music and meditation were closely related. He learned to create spaces with music and silence.

His research into sounds deepened by imbibing the Bardo Thodol, Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, giving him a language and framework to formulate a broader understanding of the mathematical structures of music and the objective effect of sounds on the nervous system.

Sanjiva came to Osho in 1982 and in 1986 moved to Poona, living there for 10 years. He played music in Darshan and meditations and was often the "sound man" at the mixer. Additionally, he worked with various therapists to create music supporting the therapeutic process.

In 1989, at Osho's request, he composed The Secret of the Golden Flower, the sound track to a Taoist meditation based on Osho's discourses in The Secret of Secrets.

In 1991, his lifelong studies of sound were mature to a point where he began a two-year period of concentrated composing, resulting in 160 works, each resonating with a specific aspect of the human experience.

Starting in 1996, he released 6 Albums of electronica, on the Berlin Label Ninetysix Sounds.

Since 2002, he is in retreat, mainly focusing on meditation and meditation music, in particular deepening a study of the Kyotaku, a long shakuhachi used in meditation.

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discography

1978 Chaque marche se replie (Soundtrack & Performance at a night of poetry at the Collège Édouard-Montpetit, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada)

1979 Le cristal en poussière (Soundtrack & Performance at a night of poetry at the Collège Édouard-Montpetit, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada)

1980 Rythme de vie (personal research, Montréal, Quebec, Canada)

1983 Albio (Soundtrack, Experimental Theatre Festival of Eskabel Festival de Théâtre expérimental, Montréal, Quebec, Canada)

1987 Chuang Tzu’s Dream (Collaboration, OIF, Switzerland)

1988 Open Window (Collaboration, OIF, Switzerland)

1988 Past Lives (OIF, Switzerland)

1989 Gemini in the Air (Poona, India

1989 Just Around the Corner (Collaboration, OIF, Switzerland)

1989 Moldovite (Poona, India)

1989 The Astrolab Project (6 albums set, OIA, Poona, India)

1989 The Clouds Have Heard Me (Collaboration, OIF, Switzerland)

1989 / 1991 The Secret of the Golden Flower ( (OIF, Switzerland)

1990 Heart Journey (Tour recording, Europe)

1990 No Cloud Beyond the Golden Sky (Poona, India)

1990 / 1992 Chakra Sounds (Collaboration, OIF, Switzerland)

1990 Empty Sky (Poona, India)

1991 Between Yourself (Tour recording, Europe)

1991 Dance With the Dragon (4 albums set, OTT)

1991 Over the Top (24 albums set, OTT)

1992 Memphrémagog (Sita Comm., Germany)

1992 States of Mind (5 albums set, Sita Comm., Germany)

1992 Taras of the Blue Moon (4 albums set, OTT)

1992 The Gap: Death is Dead (4 albums set, OTT)

1993 / 1998 Tales from the Land of Osho (Poona, India & MaGaDa, Montréal, Canada)

1993 Third Eye, Beyond Body And Mind (Nightingale, Germany)

1993 Entering the Elephant (Collaboration, Poona, India, OTT)

1994 Center of the Cyclone (Sufi music, Poona, India)

1994 Reiki Wave (Poona, India)

1995 News from the Waterfall (album master)

1996 : Origin

1996 : Essence

1997 : Initiation

1998 : Tales from the Land of Osho

1998 : Radiance

1999 : Human anonymous

2001 : Transparent

2013 : Mystica Organicum

2013 : Neti Neti

2013 : The sun and the moon

2013 : Meditation

2013 : Who is in?

2013 : Aqua

+ six "Atmosphere" ambient CDs

videography

Sanjiva's YouTube channel

Mystica Organicum - Contemplation

see also

Sanjiva Kyosan on facebook

Sanjiva Music on facebook