

About the Life on Mars
This may not be what you were looking for
It may however, turn out to be exactly what you've been searching for
Let me explain:
Do you consider yourself to be a rational, intelligent individual? Suspend disbelief for a few seconds and let me pose a hypothetical question to you: What if everything you've been told about the planet Mars is only partially true? Did you ever suspect the current popular scientific view of Mars to be anything less than accurate and true?
Imagine if the real truth about life on Mars was being concealed from you..
How could this be? Well, if the true agenda of the organization publishing the research, and presenting us with the "current Martian reality", was self preservation; Putting out one version of the truth for public consumption...While keeping the real information hidden away, would make a lot of sense. Especially the kind of information, that if made public, would rock the foundation of every belief system on our planet!
Let's go a little further:
There's a question not being asked
We are taught in our schools that petroleum and methane gas are products of organic origin. The result of decaying organic matter. Dead dinosaurs and ancient forests. So where does the methane gas, scientists now claim is responsible for the blue color of Neptune, come from? What about the oceans of frozen methane on the moons of Saturn and the methane scientists claim to be finding on comets?...And what about the methane gas on Mars?
Surely not from dinosaurs and ancient forests..
And what about the Martian beacon?
The most secret of Soviet secrets!
The old Soviet Union's space agency discovered a small satellite-like object believed to be of extraterrestrial origins. This object was discovered in a high altitude orbit around planet Earth back in 1973...And the real purpose for the Soyuz space station was to study this ancient artifact...
...that was broadcasting a repeating rhythmic pulse!
Apparently this object was designed to make itself known to us when our own technological development allowed us to "tune in" and hear it's message. In other words, our technological eyes and ears first had to evolve to the point where, what had been in plain view for possibly millions of years, could finally be seen and heard for what it really was: A beacon letting us know that we are not alone...Containing a message that hinted about who we were and where we may have come from.
The Martian signpost
How did the Russian scientists come to the conclusion that this object was from Mars? Because the mathematical formula deciphered from the object's repetitive broadcast pinpointed the exact location of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. When this same formula was extrapolated to the planet Mars it points directly to the so called "face on Mars"!
Where did this information about the Martian beacon come from?
The same place that can't explain the methane gas from dead dinosaurs on Neptune...
...PURE UNADULTERATED IMAGINATION!
Remember this: Information will only be important to you if you believe it to be true...And for the few seconds you suspended your disbelief, opened your mind and considered the possibility of a Martian beacon and it's wide ranging implications to your own life, you allowed yourself to break out of the box of "what you thought was possible" and took a step into the world of what could be possible..
Are you ready to take another step:
Because this is true..
The face on Mars
The most famous and controversial discovery ever made about the planet Mars came from a photograph taken by the Viking Mission to Mars in 1976. The "face on Mars", was discovered in a photograph years after the mission was over. This remarkable discovery has been responsible for popular scientific view of Mars. For here was proof! A photograph of the surface of Mars that shows a face!
A human face carved into what appears to be an artificial structure..
Mars could be the home of our ancestors. The ancient cradle of the human race.
If this was true, would it not shake the very foundation of your own perception of reality?
We tend to take for granted the commonly accepted wisdom and truth about our life and the world around us. We just accept it and go on with our lives. What if we are the victims of bad reporting? Information that has been taken out of context, misunderstood and then misreported to us as "the way things really are"?
Consider the possibility that much of what you are presented with on a day to day basis may not be true or real. The popular view of reality is constantly being altered, tweaked and censured. Anything that challenges the shared values of the culture will be resisted and quickly discarded as being irrelevant. On a personal level, if something doesn't fit into our way of thinking we just ignore it. Our culture does the same thing on a much grander scale.
Proof that perception isn't reality..
When I was a student at the Indiana University School of Music, many years ago, I had a surprising realization:
According to the textbook in my first year psychology class, human sight is the result of a chemical reaction caused by light hitting our eyes. What we "see" is the end product of a chemical process that travels to the back of the brain at the speed of 200 miles per hour.
I was dumbfounded!
Was I the only one who had been taught that the speed of light was about one hundred eighty six thousand miles per second? If we can only "see" at the speed of 200 miles per hour, we are missing a whole bunch that is taking place...Right in front of our eyes!
Putting this into perspective:
Remember those beautiful photographs you've seen of the planet Earth taken from outer space by the orbiting Astronauts? Now imagine laying face down on the ground with your eyes open. What you see now, just a few inches in front of your eyes, is still the planet Earth...But a very different view than the one photographed by the Astronauts. Both are still the Earth. The only difference is the perspective of the observers.
My life mission begins to unfold..
Is the music we are constantly exposed to in our culture nothing more than a means of reinforcing the popular view of reality? Short answer: Yes! Does music also have the ability to alter our perception of reality? I believed that answer to this question was also yes...And I was determined to uncover the hidden mystery of the true origin of music. Something I have dedicated my life to.
As a student I realized music was "dumbed" down. It's true power to affect us kept in a box. I was at one of the most prestigious music schools in the world...But I was a lone voice. The only one who believed there had to be a different way to create music. Music that would make you feel things you've never felt before and take you to places you've never been to before.
A simple understanding of left-brain thinking:
The mind's built-in barrier to the real power of music
By design the left hemisphere of the brain uses a step by step "reasoning" process we call logic. The left brain must calculate 2 + 2 in order to come up with the answer of 4. It's the computer side of the brain. Complex thinking from this place is the result of many steps. Each step must be weighed and measured before the next step is attempted. This is a slow cumbersome process of trial and error when compared to the function of the right hemisphere of the brain. The vast majority of music we hear today is the product of this left-brain thinking process.
Music should not be part of a thinking process!
Feeling is a higher brain function which is the true source of music..
The right-brain hemisphere is our own personal quantum computer. It is the seat of intuition and imagination. A place inside each one of us where anything is possible. The right brain already knows the answer is 4 without the trial and error process of logic to slow it down. Instead it relies on a holographic process which instantaneously interprets patterns of experience. This innate power to "know" the answer bypassing the trial and error "reasoning" enables music of pure feeling to be created. Music of emotion that touches your heart, and nourishes your soul.
Remember learning about the "right brain" in school?
Probably not. We've been taught that imagination is somehow immature. Children have vivid imaginations. The passion and emotional feeling which are the flavors which accompany a vivid imagination are to be held in check. So we are conditioned to push down our natural tendencies. Never giving ourselves the opportunity to fully embrace the power of our right brain.
Yet we seek out this place...The world of imagination and feeling..
through drugs, alcohol, altered states of consciousness, movies, sports, books, games and of course music. We now spend more on "entertainment", seeking refuge from our left brain reality, than we do on any single item besides food and healthcare. We spend more time trying to escape from our left brain "real" world than any other thing we do.
What if music originating from the right brain stimulated your own right brain functions?
What I am about to reveal to you is the complete truth: No mind games or attempts on my part to illustrate a point. Just the most honest communication I am capable of. With a completely open heart, I can reveal that I have discovered a process for creating music which bypasses the left brain and utilizes the right brain!
Over time listening to this music will change you. If you listen to it you will begin to sense the change and then actually "see" things differently on a day to day basis. The more you listen the greater the change in your consciousness will become.
Music that is a journey into a new reality..
This is music created as the result of a lifetime of my own trial and error. Music that is far more than an entertainment vehicle. It is music that comes from the quantum part of the brain. It resonates and communicates with that same part inside you. Your quantum consciousness.
How I created a new kind of music
One day many years ago as I was recording myself playing the piano. I immediately began to improvise with other instruments adding more and more tracks to the recording of the piano. When I was finished it sounded like an uncontrolled block of noise! But, I knew intuitively that somewhere within this noise was a piece of music unlike anything I had yet heard...It (the music) was waiting for me to pull it out of the noise.
Quantum consciousness music is born
This is the day I began to practice musical magic! Magic because there is no logical explanation for what began to happen. Because, I felt that I should remove certain passages from each instrumental track. This was going to radically change what I had initially recorded...But somehow I knew that letting go of what was "in front of me" would begin to uncover something even more profound waiting to be heard just beneath the surface.
What I began to discover was a unique musical "form" unlike anything I had ever heard before. As I continued this editing process I seemed to know exactly what musical parts should stay and what should go! My right brain was at work creating something new. The pure feeling, quantum part of myself was somehow communicating a joyful knowingness about what to do next.
This was for me a purely intuitive process. I didn't think about what I was doing. I just seemed to know what to do and did it. The entire process of editing out the noise and confusion in the recording took place in a period of minutes. I was absolutely astonished at the outcome...Over time this became the way I created music...Quantum consciousness music.
What does Quantum consciousness music sound like?
How unique is my "quantum consciousness music"?
How unique and original is my music and the way I create it? So unique and original that in January, 2007 the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded my record label, Gathering Wave® LLC a Federal Trademark for Escape Music®. A trademark describing a unique and original form of music. I don't know, but I may be the only Artist ever to receive this validation from the U.S.P.T.O.
My unique style of music is first to ever be awarded it's own protected trademark!
And in 2004 my first album of quantum consciousness music was released:
"THE LIFE ON MARS"

"There is only one word for this "the Life on Mars" and the entire collection of works entitled "The Martian Experience": Genius! Gathering Wave founder Bob Baran certainly has quite an arsenal of sounds at his fingertips and isn't afraid to use them. Bob has let himself stretch and grow into a musical giant! This is one of the most amazing CDs I've ever heard. It's so unearthly while still striking a primordial chord that lies within each of us. ...This groundbreaking album will certainly serve as a catalyst spawning creative growth for many musicians who will undoubtedly choose to follow the path that Bob has illuminated. If you like the works of Carlos Nakai, Deep Forest, Chick Corea or Miles Davis this collection is for you.
-Thomas Leary, Publisher Muledog Magazine
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"His (Bob Baran's) label (Gathering Wave®) includes The Life on Mars, a compelling "soundtrack of a science fiction trilogy that was never made," along with an acoustic piano CD (Sound Paintings) and "The Art of Love," one of the best straight-ahead urban contemporary jazz albums I've heard in a while."
-Richard P. Myers - Independent Record, City Editor
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"The Life on Mars" - "Having trouble getting a foot inside the space/time continuum? Trans-locate from fractured Earth to ground yourself in the Universe. The body resonate will respond in kind to the Universe resonate. You'll remember where you came from and perhaps come to trust why you're here...
..Mainstreaming the ebb and flow, he (Bob Baran) exudes pizzazz, genius and mastery. Every track blends the elements and in the process, alchemizes the soul.
...Baran's music is addictive and good for what ails you. One CD goes with me to the massage parlor, another unleashes my creativity. One is for crying over what couldn't be, another for believing anything is possible. One's purely celebratory and another is, well,"just because."
-Sarah Louise Hannah, Writer / Musician / Director
If you haven't listened already click here for the sound bites of "The Life on Mars"
Want to own this unique and life changing music to see what it can do for you?
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Thank you for exploring these possibilities of perception...
...And the music from "The Life on Mars".
Warmest regards,

Bob Baran
Composer, Performer and Producer
Gathering Wave® LLC
Montana, USA
contact@thelifeonmars.com
P.S. At the end of 2004 I released the second album in "The Martian Experience" Trilogy... "Martian Wonders". My wife says this is some of the best deep relaxation music she has ever used. Click on the link below to hear sound bites from each track. (This will take you to my label's site, GatheringWave.com.)

"Martian Wonders" is the furthest I've ventured into real-time (quantum consciousness) composing using multiple instruments. It represents a sequence of the most fully "right-brain" musical compositions I've been able to manifest to date and serves as another musical benchmark for me as I continue to explore this unique creative process.
- Bob Baran
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Thanks for visiting the Red Planet with me!
Bob Baran
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