Sound Thinking: Using Music, Resonance, and Harmonics for Human Wellbeing with Alexandre Tannous
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 161 minutes
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(Conversation recorded on May 1st, 2024)
Show Summary:
Music has been an integral part of the human experience for thousands of years, and continues to embody a unique aspect of culture across the world today - yet most people hold only a preliminary understanding of the full range of benefits that sound, resonance, and harmonics can provide. Today, Nate is joined by ethnomusicologist Alexandre Tannous for a deep dive on the evolution of the human relationship with sound and how music could be used as a tool to facilitate personal resilience and healing. How can resonance quiet our reptilian fight-or-flight system and positively impact personal and group consciousness? When grounded in ceremony, how does music enhance spirituality and well-being for communities? What could a world look like in which every human has the access and energy to focus on healing themselves through the powerful tools of sound and meditation?
About Alexandre Tannous:
Alexandre Tannous is an ethnomusicologist, sound therapist and sound researcher who holds four degrees in music, and years of experience performing, composing, conducting, teaching and lecturing on music. He has been investigating the therapeutic and esoteric properties of sound from three different perspectives - Western scientific, Eastern philosophical, and shamanic societal beliefs - to gain a deeper understanding of how, and to what extent, sound has been used to affect human consciousness.
The material he transmits about sound is based on multidisciplinary research conducted over 24 years. Inspired by his findings, he designed a protocol of an integrated experience he calls "Sound Meditation", raising an awareness to how a specifically designed sound can have the ability to help us to disconnect from habitual patterns while judiciously listening to the overtone-rich instruments he plays. He uses a method that empowers the participants to engage actively with tools that enhance their experience.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Great Simplification. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Nate Hagen's. |
| 0:06.2 | On this show, we describe how energy, the economy, the environment, and human behavior all fit together and what it might mean for our future. |
| 0:15.2 | By sharing insights from global thinkers, we hope to inform and inspire more humans to play emergent roles in the |
| 0:22.7 | coming great simplification. |
| 0:27.2 | An increasingly central part of my work, which means this podcast, has been the focus on |
| 0:33.7 | how important it is to create behaviorally stacked humans, approaching the great simplification |
| 0:41.5 | through creating emotional resilience and coping mechanisms. This, of course, is easier said |
| 0:48.3 | than done and requires a vast array of practices, including community, exercise, food, etc. |
| 0:55.7 | But one thing that I've increasingly found to be helpful for me is the use of sound and music. |
| 1:04.7 | With that introduction, I am very pleased to introduce today's guest, Alexandra Tanu, who is an ethnomusicologist, |
| 1:14.6 | sound therapist, and sound researcher who holds four degrees in music and years of experience |
| 1:21.4 | performing, composing, conducting, teaching music, and holding sound meditation retreats. |
| 1:29.0 | Alexander has been investigating how sound affects human consciousness through Western |
| 1:33.8 | scientific, Eastern philosophical, and shamanic societal beliefs, which has led him to the |
| 1:41.3 | intersection of art, science, philosophy, and spirituality. |
| 1:45.0 | In this episode, he and I discussed this work, the history of sound and humanity up to this point, |
| 1:53.0 | and how sound meditation could be used in the future as a tool to grow the amount of more |
| 2:00.0 | emotionally balanced humans. This was one of those episodes |
| 2:04.5 | like Ian McGilchrist that surprised me. It was long. It was dense. It was beautiful. I hope |
| 2:10.7 | you enjoy my conversation with Alexandra Tano. |
| 2:20.5 | Alexandra, welcome to the program. |
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