More about Herb Ernst

Herb is a composer and musician from the Pacific Northwest. His focus is to produce gentle, intuitive music to aid in the healing of our wonderful world.

He was born in San Diego, California, on March 11, 1950. He began piano lessons at age eight. As his father was in the military, the family traveled extensively in both Europe and the U. S. Herb entered college to study music but became bored with structured musical ideas and methodology. As a new social awareness was developing in the 1960’s, he changed his major from music to sociology and graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 1972.

In his youth, Herb developed an interest in metaphysics and a love for meditation. With meditation he explored new musical forms and the possibilities of using music for meditative purposes.

After returning to school to earn an Associate of Science degree in electronics, herb began to experiment with combining his knowledge of electronics and music. He has had an enduring fascination with the vibrational energies of sound, light and color and has built a large electric "lightbox" directly connected to the eighty-eight keys of a piano; when a key is played, a corresponding light illuminates. Twelve colored lights in all 9 one for each tone of the chromatic scale), arranged in the sequence of the rainbow spectrum. Unlike chaotic, random – patterned "disco" lights, this device renders colors in geometric patterns that correspond note for not to the music being played.

Herb, with his sociological perspective and background in psychology, has achieved a unique integration of metaphysics, meditation, music and electronics and, through this process, has been able to attune with deeper levels of sensitivity – the levels at which he discovered the music of The Dreamflight Trilogy and continues to attune with in his expression of the "musical portraits."