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.

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.