Ground Tactics was initiated in 2015 by Colin Tobelem, a multi-disciplinary artist exploring psycho-acoustics as performative art form that enhance one's connection with themselves and the vibrational universe. Through immersive, multi-sensorial stimulations, his performance facilitate the experience of self-reflection through sound, Entraining states of inner coherency, enhancing presence, and self awareness.
This is an insight in Ground Tactics creation,
intentions and vision.
Colin in 2018, Berlin
Initially rooted in Colin's passion for electronic and experimental music composition, Ground Tactics made its first public appearance with the release of his vinyl (LP) titled "Ground Tactics - Dawn of City Lights" in 2015, supported by Edouard Morin's label, "Lumières la Nuit records." While residing in Brussels at the time, Colin explored the direct expression of his unfiltered intuition. Drawing inspiration from his early years as a child pianist, he gave voice to deep inner visions, maintaining their raw and authentic nature while playing with aleatory improvisation. Using modular synths and a Prophet 8 (Dave Smith Synthetizer), he entranced and inspired himself, uniting with a deeper relationship with his intuition and that which is beyond.
Ground Tactics - Reality Implant
(Midgar Records)
2020
Ground Tactics - UH999HZ
(Self Released on Bandcamp)
2021
In Berlin 2017, supported by Maria Orciuoli Colin was introduced to Jacopo Severitano Founder of Midgar Records with whom complicity and friendship inspired the collaboration on the musical releases "Immaterial Breath" in 2018 and "Reality Implant" in 2020.
Ground Tactics conceptualise other ways sound can be experienced and how can we engage with it, moving from the composition of electronic music to the composition of psycho acoustic performances grounded the principle of reaching out to the unknown with the heart driven intention to give, in person, harmony and loving awareness.
The word spreading from mouth to ear, hundreds of free ( priceless ) sessions to individuals across Berlin and Brussels made it possible to explore the benefits of holding space for co-regulation of the nervous system with sound and eventually
integrating this concept to modern music culture.
Led by curious synchronicities and dreams made reality, Colin fully surrendered to the subtle intuitive guidance and founded the project Ultraheaven (UH999HZ) / Https://www.999Hz.co in 2019 to provide high quality human calibration instruments for human tuning, Accessories and artefacts.
Dream echoes returning to the shores of his awakened states marked Colin’s own prophetic initiation, from which Ground Tactics slowly took form.
In these explorations, sound revealed itself as more than texture or rhythm. Pure tones seemed to carry something ancient within them, a quiet intelligence, as if primordial (pure & acoustic) waveforms inform us in subtle ways. As a form of cosmic and timeless knowledge passing through as vibration itself, barely noticeable, yet somehow a deeply familiar coding language of the human biological system.
ULTRA
HEAVEN
Since then (Berlin 2020), Ground Tactics slowly moved beyond being only an electronic music project, turning into something more like a philosophical path, With sound as the light shining the way. It engages the body, the emotions, and the inner life in the process of self-realization, wandering through the subtleties and strange mysteries of perception itself. it is as simple as observing the eye looking, listening to the ear hearing, sensing the senses, and noticing the nervous system gently interfacing with our experience of reality.
This symbolic quest leans toward contemplating the dance between perception and all that is; all that can be perceived & Beyond. It opens a door to the wonder of how we might relate to what is just beyond our grasp, reflecting on our relationship with the unknown and the unconscious. In its own way, it becomes a path toward inner reconciliation, entering in accordance, learning to live with appreciation of what is, in tune, with the value and meaning quietly communicated by everything that can be felt, seen, or sensed.
Light Body Activation
WAVEFORM TRANSMISSION
"Ground Tactics revives from a dream, an inter-dimensional art form which enlightens one’s
relation with themselves and with our vibrational universe, "Light Body Activation" meant to induce altered states of consciousness with multi-sensorial stimulations
offers the experience of self reflection through sound.
The human body on which the art is applied, delicately performed on a living & versatile
playground, by the Use of Tuning forks sound is propelled within the body which becomes a resonance chamber, activating natural self regulation mechanisms by inducing an immersive experience of deep relaxation and self recognition.
This process expands awareness and informs us subtly with
timeless, cosmic & universal information from the embodiment of sound.
Attuning to nature's geometry expression with precise frequencies, a sonic journey that
propels us into a wise future and mindful culture as its resonance inspires balance and harmony.
Light Body Activations are experienced in various settings: private home, space,
venue for a singular individual or for a couple setting.
By using high precision human calibration tuning forks a metaphorical story-telling comes into play, the Sun rising is orchestrated within and rain falls throughout the body, transposed into a resonance chamber, the experience invokes in the audience a vibrational mirror in which one can appreciate self recognition, inspire transcendental transformations."
In 2022, Ground Tactics evolved into a collective & movement, expanding into various cultural and
social contexts - combining sound, embodied philosophy, and live interaction into what can be
described as the art of Human Tuning. Colin’s psychoacoustic workshops,
“State of the Art” inspired a growing community that began
practicing together and with time self-defined “Unit.”
The Unit brings together artists, musicians, poets, lovers, engineers, somatic
practitioners, and philosophers, deploying in teams across events, festivals, and gatherings.
Ground Tactics inspire setting the stage for artists to apply virtues within diverse cultural contexts
and in everyday life. Practitioners learn to entrain themselves to act with intention, developing a sense of grace and measure, empowering forms of communication and gestures that nurture individuals and open space for respectful and meaningful exchanges. Through this, practical tools and methods for self-regulation are shared, gently contributing to a culture that learns to support and balance itself.
At its core, the project explores how sound influences human states in various social contexts and
inspires to gain agency on regulating oneself, in a playful sensorial way. The art of human tuning
carries an empowerment which deeply moves and connects people.
Since 2023 Ground Tactics is welcoming new participants to train to join the Berlin
based Unit and/or Create new Units Abroad.
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