tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575648116408516011.post8521754178930949787..comments2023-11-25T03:26:17.543-08:00Comments on RaySolution: The Healing Sound of MusicRaySolutionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03351141873630759696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575648116408516011.post-17428245000204460262010-02-09T13:25:00.525-08:002010-02-09T13:25:00.525-08:00Thanks Angela for sharing about Matt's music. ...Thanks Angela for sharing about Matt's music. It sounds very magic. I watched the one video link and enjoyed the mountain pictures.RaySolutionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03351141873630759696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575648116408516011.post-36494265081810020562010-01-11T08:49:42.794-08:002010-01-11T08:49:42.794-08:00Story Idea: Good Vibrations - "Hang" Mus...Story Idea: Good Vibrations - "Hang" Musician discovers power of Vibrational Harmonics<br /><br />Dear RaySolution,<br /><br />I was very intrigued by your post about the "Healing Sound of Music". I would like to submit a complimentary follow up information / article to support your piece. I am happy to send you a finished story to your specifications or simply, my abstract for you to include in your own article. <br /> <br />I have been working with Matt Venuti, a San Francisco-based composer and musician. He's a talented multi-instrumentalist who has for the past few years focused on one of the first genuinely new acoustic instruments of the 21st century. Known as the Hang (meaning "hand" in Swiss, the language of the Hang's 2001 creators), it looks almost like a retro flying saucer and its melodic voice is expressed through touch. It produces beautiful music and has healing, soul-soothing energy.<br /> <br />Music therapy has proven useful in alleviating pain associated with overworked muscles and joints, cancer and sports injuries among other ailments. According to the American Music Therapy Association, music therapy "can be designed to promote wellness, manage stress, alleviate pain, express feelings, enhance memory, improve communication, and promote physical rehabilitation." Several studies have demonstrated that listening to pleasing music can reduce pain and anxiety and improve physiological parameters (such as blood pressure, immunity and levels of mood-boosting endorphins) in patients following surgery or in other clinical settings. Because stress hormones can suppress our immune response, it's hardly surprising that relaxing music boosts our body's ability to protect itself from disease.<br /> <br />"The body is held together by sound-the presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune."<br />- Dr. Deepak Chopra<br /><br /><br />Matt Venuti understands the healing power of "vibrational harmonics", and how the Hang has a soothing, relieving adjunct. When Matt performs live, his audiences are mesmerized (link to his Hangsoul YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/hangsoul). He says the Hang music seems to soothe and calm people and has been a large part of his own healing process over the past year since he lost his beloved wife to cancer.<br /><br />May I provide an abstract or finished piece, photos, or arrange a conversation with Matt either through email questions or by phone? I can also provide photos of Matt and/or his most recently released CD, Hangisphere.<br /><br />Many thanks,<br />Angela James, Media Owls for Matt Venuti<br />angela@mediaowls.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15729702349326770463noreply@blogger.com