Essays
Short-form writing exploring music, culture, and transformation.
[New essays released regularly]
Create From Nothing: How This Workshop Actually Works
A practical breakdown of the Create From Nothing workshop, showing how anyone can use sound, rhythm, and instinct to create music from scratch and access their own creativity.
Music as Microcosm: How Music Reveals the Underlying Structure of Human Experience.
How musical patterns mirror the deeper structure of human experience.
The Patterns in Music– and How They Shape Our Lives
How tension, release, and rhythm in music reflect the patterns shaping our lives.
Music as Consciousness: Sound, Technology, and the Hidden Nature of Reality
What if music isn’t just sound, but a way of accessing deeper layers of reality and consciousness?
The Physics of Sound: How New Science is Changing the Way we Think about Music.
How new discoveries in physics are challenging our understanding of reality, and what that means for how we hear, create, and experience music.
What is the function of Music and Art? What I learnt from interviewing 10 Artists and Musicians.
What artists actually use music and art for, from identity and culture to wellbeing, creativity, and self-understanding.
Why we Move to Music: The Psychology of Rhythm and Entrainment
Why moving to music isn’t just instinct, but a fundamental part of how we connect, communicate, and function as humans.
How Music Hijacks Your Nervous System - in a Good Way
How music uses resonance to directly influence the nervous system, shaping how we feel, respond, and connect.
How we Hear: Recreating the World through Sound
Why sound isn’t something we simply hear, but something the brain actively constructs, shaping how we perceive and experience the world.
Every Transformation Follows This Pattern: Dark Night of the Soul and its Relation to Music
How the “dark night” reflects a recurring pattern of transformation, and how the same structure appears in music.
Beyond Sound Healing: The Music Method That Rewires the Psyche
A practical approach to using music to shift emotional patterns, gain insight, and work through change.
The Hidden Patterns in Music: How to Use Archetypes
How recognising archetypal patterns in music can give your work greater depth, meaning, and impact.
What Music Actually Does: The Three Elements That Shape Its Impact
A breakdown of the core elements that shape how music affects us, across ritual, religion, and contemporary culture.
The Spiritual Roots of Electronic Dance Music (Part 2)
How core musical patterns from ritual evolve into house and electronic music—shaping energy, movement, and collective experience.
The Spiritual Roots of Electronic Dance Music (Part 1)
How electronic dance music emerged from deeper cultural and spiritual traditions—shaping connection, expression, and altered states through sound.
5 Ways Music Shapes Health and Well-Being
A breakdown of how music affects the body, mind, and social connection, across both clinical settings and everyday life.
“I Make Content, not Art!” How We Traded Deep Musical Experience for Consumerism.
How music shifted from meaningful experience to consumable content, and what it takes to reconnect it with creativity, culture, and human depth.
The Soul of Percussion: Crafting Life Stories through Rhythm
A personal account of how rhythm and percussion have shaped my life, through travel, performance, and lived experience.
The Multi-Sensory Nature of Music Rituals
Why music is most powerful when experienced as part of a wider environment, combining sound, movement, space, and perception.
Music as Life Philosophy: 10 Ways Music teaches us to Live Better.
How the principles of music—rhythm, timing, listening, and flow—translate into practical ways of thinking and living.
