Working with Gabriela Bocanete, a talented Holistic Health Coach, has lead me to collaborate with her on the application of Sound Therapy as an essential element of Holistic Health management practices. Gabriela has developed a combination of Yoga Nidra practices with sound therapies derived from what has become popularly described as ‘Gong Baths’.
I make occasional contributions to her collection of resources, one of which was a short meditation piece composed on an array of MOOG polyrhythmic synthesisers called SubHarmonicons. These are modular synthesisers which create raw level musical sounds which you can develop and shape into a library of tones unavailable by any other musical route - essentially sound design. This gives you the potential of creating any sound with any timbre at any frequency. Combining multiple units gives you unlimited ‘sound design’ possibilities.
The MOOG Subharmonicon Modular Synthesiser
I used a piece I had composed in this way in combination with animated renders from a fractal generation application called Chaotica to which I applied a kaleidoscope filter, in Final Cut Pro X, to create the Mandala scene I show below.
The overall result is very effective in relaxing the listener while keeping their attention through the moving graphics.