To describe the structure of PianoMirroring we can use the image of a flower. A flower consists of four dimensions: the bulb underground, the stem, the petals and the scent that emanates from the flower.
1. Mirroring, the scent of your flower
Like a flower, the sum of who you are is released in the scent that emanates into the world. That scent is your personality. The individual mirror has the ability to bring out the scent in the form of sound. Through empathic contact, it is possible to capture a state of the individual, whether conscious or not, and turn it into music in the form of improvised music compositions that are born in the moment, in line with the person’s feelings. The music that comes out is a fluid snapshot of what we could compare to the scent of an individual, an emanation of it, engraved in musical form. In front of the participant stands a sort of mirror in which to look, or rather, through which to perceive the scent which concerns the person, now transformed into musical form. You, however, are not a flower, a simple organism with only one scent. While a rose has only the scent of a rose and nothing else, you are a complex being, multidimensional and mutable. Your scent is not a single one, and it is not static. It changes over time, sometimes only for brief moments. For this reason, the mirroring of a person is always different even while maintaining some constants.
Capturing the scent of an individual, therefore, does not mean enclosing it within a static frame, but rather exploring a ground that is constantly changing.
2. The seminar: the bulb
The scent of a flower has an origin on which its personality depends, the underground bulb that contains the invisible information that produces the visible flower.
The same goes for you. Looking at the bulb means diving into the symbolic world of your psyche.
Inside you, in fact, there is a representation of your whole outer world, a microcosm which is in the likeness of the macrocosm that you see outside.
The outer world, in fact, is nothing but a mirror of our inner nature.
The ordinary eye sees things and objects, and attributes meanings to them that are suggested by the conditionings of culture, family, society and trends. But those objects are complex symbols.
At night we have dreams where narrative objects have meanings that go beyond the ordinary sense. Dreaming about a horse does not mean dreaming just about an animal, but about an image that tells you about something that doesn’t concern its animal nature, but concerns your life.
Understanding a dream means bringing light to your existence.
While awake, things are not so different. Everything that happens tells us, as in a dream, something that goes far beyond the simple fact. Everything is symbolic; everything is the story of something that is behind its appearance.
The mirroring seminar is a great opportunity to interact with ideas that correspond to the objects that you see outside. This is the bulb, the place that contains the invisible symbols from which the flower of reality develops.
3. The reading of symbols: the stem
Once you have made symbolic information emerge from the right hemisphere, it needs translation; a vector that leads from underground codes to the awareness of the petals. This phase corresponds, as we were saying, to the stem, the bridge. This is the oracular stage, that is, the translation of irrational dimensions into rational concepts.
Through the stem, lymph flows towards the petals, bringing information that becomes scent. The same happens inside you.
An oracular system allows you to empower the information that constantly flows between your right hemisphere and the left, between the inner and outer worlds.
This is a key moment during PianoMirroring. The entire symbolism emerging through music finds an astonishing translation here.
4. PianoMirroring Institute: the petals
Like a flower with its petals, you also possess organs that exist to manifest what you have inside. They are five petals which, unlike the five senses that are used to import information from the outside world, have the opposite purpose, to bring out your inner world: your body movement, your sociability, your word, your ability to create images and to write.
These expressive functions cannot be modified in their structure, but can slowly open up like petals that have remained closed for a long time by following the natural process of unveiling, without forcing.
In PianoMirroring, the work of the opening of the petals occurs via periodic meetings, weekly in groups or individually. Once the reasons and modalities of large or small opening of your personal petals are revealed through the seminar, music can facilitate their blooming, according to the natural rhythm of growth.