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<p class="has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#121212">=^.^=</p>
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<p class="has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-large-font-size" style="background-color:#121212"><strong>COLLECTIVE SOUNDING</strong></p>
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<p class="has-white-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#121212">Collective Sounding invites participants to hum and to move (slowly).<br><br>Collective Sounding is tuned to the utility hum found in our built environment.</p>
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<p class="has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background">Embracing a broader view of music as an activity rather than an object, Collective Sounding will be a 30-minute program of group sound-making and gentle, synchronized movement. We have designed the program to be suitable for a group of any size, with no prior music experience necessary. The sound making will include vocalizations (speaking, soft humming) and the movements will be non-aerobic and adaptable by participants to their own abilities. As we guide participants through the experience, we will support their soundings with electronically generated tones that enhance synchronization and create sonic magic.<br><br>Our research and development process includes sound studies, musicology, biomusicology, anthropology, biology, psychology, and neuroscience. The sonic materials will be tuned to the utility hum found in our built environment. The tempo of program activities will align with the physiological paces of human ambulation and respiration. The experience of sounding and moving together will develop and enhance group-cohesion by tapping into deeply evolved neurological rewards (including endorphin release and self-other merging).</p>
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