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Research - Since SoundScience’s early efforts working with music and sound,
they have gathered studies from the ever-growing body of research
concerning the psychology of music, early childhood development
and the musical brain, psychoacoustics, and cognitive development
through the language of music and the sounds of nature. For example, studies conducted by the late Dr. Lee Salk Ph.D. eminent child and family authority revealed that when exposed to a recorded heartbeat at 72 beats per minute (BPM), newborn babies gained weight at a faster rate than babies who were not exposed to the heartbeat. In another example, Dr. Harvey Karp M.D., a leading media pediatrician based in Los Angeles, suggests that babies are - in effect - born one trimester too soon and deprived of adequate womb experience. His theory is that babies cry because they miss the safety of the womb and are frightened by the new neonatal world. |
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Further, in 1992, Dr Gordon Shaw, Ph.D of University of California -
Irvine discovered that college students performed markedly better in math and cognitive
reasoning tests while the music of Mozart was being played in the background. SoundScience is also working closely with the Scientific Arts Foundation (www.scientificartsfoundation.org) who has assembled a board of medical professionals to study the effects of specific music on cancer patients and other medical conditions. Their work is groundbreaking, and the studies are concluding that there are, in fact measurably positive results within patients exposed to this music. These studies helped to substantiate what SoundScience had already developed. Building upon these results and other new research, they have focused their attention on creating audio and musical products that are specifically designed as organic solutions to medically-related problems such as sleep disorder, stress, as well as issues in cognitive development. Providing for a positive state of well-being can greatly serve as preventative “medicine” against so many stress-related conditions, and the common sense health benefits alone from audio and music therapy are becoming more and more recognized. SoundScience is proud to be a part of this global research for a higher quality of life and clearer consciousness. |
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Discoveries - Always working with the understanding that music and sound itself have the capability to alter
states of consciousness and to affect us in positive ways, SoundScience has developed a method
to engineer audio works of great utility and long-lasting value. Extensive research, along with a
professional skill set and years of testing/refining each product led to discoveries that are both
medical or scientific in nature. The result? Groundbreaking audio products that are far superior
to other products competing for the same market. SoundScience states, “Our flagship discovery is the new “WombEffect” technology, which is the audio reproduction of the womb-sound environment. Combined with our carefully constructed music it helps babies feel safe, thereby enabling a sound sleep. In our implementation of the technology, we also found it useful for children, teens and adults. Our newest research investigates the possibility of a “cellular memory”, a memory of the first musical environment we once knew, the sounds of the womb, including the heartbeat, the flow of water - the human body’s distinct sonic environment and the desire for safety and calm.” “From our study of a multitude of medical/scientific and audiological/music research (our core competence), we have helped to discover and define a field of endeavor we call “Bio Music”, where music and sound is constructed vis-à-vis the physical, i.e. biological, and quantum nature of life itself, where ‘musical works’ are ‘modeled’ in one sense, on the workings of the body both at the macro and micro levels. These new constructions therefore are not ‘artistically-driven’ and are largely non-narrative, in that is there is not a ‘musical story’. Rather, they are imbued with an organic “randomness” that much more closely emulates the essence of nature and the grander story of existence and being.” “Through the creative exploration of this new technology and method of sonic composition we are able to create environments which evoke distinctly positive benefits within the listener, and while NOT drawing attention to the music itself, as this would be antithetical to the process and goal of the music. The feelings evoked from listening to these soundtracks has been likened to a walk in nature, or a return to our nature, without imitating it, rather a musical nature of ourselves. These sonic works were composed and produced in the spirit and mind of the biological processes we have chosen to liken.” They have also composed mathematically-conceived audio and music based in particular numerical or proportional relations and pitch patterns. These recorded compositions, through the language of music, are being used to educate the young child the abstract and concrete concepts of space, relations, time, movement and vibration – all concepts inherit in musical compositions, and sound itself. The result is a learning experience which helps to demonstrate a spatial-temporal virtual world through sound. SoundScience feels that through the combination of art and science it can help to clarify the mind and promote accelerated brain development in infants and toddlers. Simply by listening to musical constructions - the ear in this case being the portal to a neuro-transformation, sound and meaning is absorbed and assimilated into the total, young fabric of consciousness in childhood. |