Ep 218. How Ambient Music Promotes Relaxation with Michael Whalen
Not Another Anxiety Show
Kelli Walker
4.8 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Join Kelli and music composer Michael Whalen as they chat about his recent album, Sacred Spaces, and how it promotes the relaxation response in listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today is guest Michael Whalen. |
| 0:18.4 | Hi, Michael. |
| 0:19.3 | Hey, Kelly. |
| 0:19.8 | How are you? |
| 0:22.4 | Good, good. Before we get started, do you mind if I share a little bit more about you? If you must. Great. So Michael |
| 0:32.9 | Whalen is a two-time Emmy Award-winning composer and music supervisor, a veteran of more than 800 TV and film scores, |
| 0:40.8 | thousands of commercials and numerous TV things, and video games. |
| 0:45.0 | Michael is also a world-renowned recording artist and producer |
| 0:47.8 | with 33 solo and soundtrack recordings to his credit. |
| 0:51.6 | His most recent instrumental electronic album, Sacred Spaces, |
| 0:55.4 | has been a critical and popular favorite worldwide. So can I ask about your latest album, |
| 1:03.3 | first and foremost, Sacred Spaces? Wow, we're going to get right into it. Good. |
| 1:08.9 | We're going right in. |
| 1:22.9 | Yeah, so tell me a little bit about, you know, what was your intention or goal behind, or driver. |
| 1:25.6 | You know, what was the driver behind your most recent album? |
| 1:33.3 | Well, you know, it's the story of the sort of the securitist path that led to the creation of this record as sort of well known now. |
| 1:35.3 | It took me about 10 years to make this record because it started actually as a classical |
| 1:42.3 | project. |
| 1:43.3 | I was in my mid-40s and I was looking for God in the sacred spaces, |
| 1:47.9 | and it was going to be a symphony, and it was all very important. |
| 1:50.5 | It's like, oh, my God, it's the most important music ever, blah, blah, blah, |
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