From Scratch Archive .: The Group .: Hocketing

HOCKETING . . . notes towards a wider understanding:
"The clearest sounds I remember from days as a sound recordist for film, is a pair of cicadas isolated from the background texture of their relations, clicking and chirping a hocket-duet in slowly phasing rhythm and pitch, . . like a looped eclipse of the moon".

In strictly musical terms 'hocketing' is the sharing of a rhythmic and/or melodic line or phrase between two or more players, one part resting while the other part(s) has a note or notes. The word 'hocket' is derived from medieval music making, but the style is found all over the world wherever people group to make rhythmic music, . . . one source of reference for the GLOBAL HOCKETS concept ... but there are others:

An essential element of hocketing is integration - the working together and interlocking of parts, a procedure that has it's roots in basic principles of masculine/feminine, active/passive, positive/negative, sun/moon . . . primal universal forces of energy, creation & renewal.

In nature, insects, birds, animals and humans all signal their need and attraction for kind, via sound and sign; calls and response. As stated by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov - "all things under the sun blaze, burn and boil for the unification of the two principles".

The feminine is integral to the masculine, and the masculine can be found within the feminine, this is part of the universal law and finding one's true nature on this level is to recognise and unify one within the other, a kind of 'whole man' hocket.

On the higher level of the 5th dimension, this is the endless search for the 'twin soul', the meeting of the lower self and higher self, where the inner polarities of self are reconciled.

Hocketing in the domains of the social/political might be viewed in terms of a dialectic, where opposing views are reconciled via understanding and creative development; where folk talk to one another rather than past each other ... a 2 way transmission/reception as in the transmission of pure light: radiation, reception, reflection, an idea that has resonance in the realm of heavenly/earthly exchange ... an interpenetration of body/mind/spirit.

In a more political sense, most systems of power and government remain trapped in pairs of opposites, while a deep essence of co-operation and equality remains preserved, symbolically embedded in grass root forms of cultural pattern; weaving and other decorative arts and crafts, folk dancing, and some sports with their implicit geometrics/esoterics. The genuinely "Gung/Ho"(working together) takes the competition out of the "ping/pong".

In a more scientific way, we could consider the push/pull interactivity of harnessed polorities as a kind of hocket. At it's simplest electricity, where the correct polar relations are required for energy to flow. Connected wrongly, things short out. This is true also of the energy flow within the body. Stagnant energy causes the body to malfunction.

On a more atomic level is electron flow and energy exchange, and subatomically, 'strings' that express the notion of connectedness between all things/materials/matter.

And in nature, from the macro dimensions of planetary motion down to micro dimensions of cellular growth in body/plant/animal/insect life etc. visual pattern is probably the most evident manifestation of the hocket principle, representing interpenetrating forms and shapes. As sound, language is the essential representation. In human, animal, and insect communication - via aural sign and language - a kind of random hocketing applies, a functional semiotics based often on simple emotional and instinctive reactions to impulses of fear/insecurity/desire and procreation.

"two crickets singing on a dirt path, high on the cliffs of Punakaiki, one on each side of the track. I lay in the middle spellbound, immersed in their miniature world." P.D