The Power of Sound: How to Manage Your Personal Soundscape for a Vital, Productive, and Healthy Life with CD (Audio) » (1st Edition)

Joshua Leeds is a sound researcher and pioneer in the production of application-specific audio, with over twenty-five recordings to his credit. He is the cofounder of Applied Music & Sound, specializing in programs for the therapeutic, education, and consumer sectors. He has collaborated with such visionaries in the fields of medicine, psychology, and neurodevelopment as Andrew Weil, M.D., Anna Wise, and Robert J. Doman Jr. Leeds teaches psychoacoustic applications of music to lay people and professionals in the United States and Europe.

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Discover firsthand in this book/CD set the powerful effects sound has on you and learn to customize your own soundscape for a better quality of life.

• Sound pioneer Joshua Leeds shows how to use music to reduce stress, enhance learning, improve performance, and address conditions as diverse as dyslexia and depression.

• Includes accompanying CD featuring musical examples designed to induce specific mental states such as relaxation, receptivity, concentration, and creativity.

• Includes detailed guides for musicians and healthcare professionals

What we hear--and how we process it--has a far greater impact on our daily living than we realize. From the womb to the moment we die we are inescapably surrounded by sound, and what we hear can either energize or deplete our nervous systems. It is no exaggeration to say that what goes into our ears can harm us or heal us.

In The Power of Sound Joshua Leeds explores the importance of healthy auditory function. He investigates how noise- or stress-induced auditory dysfunction may result in difficulties in learning, communication, and social interactions, and he explains new techniques designed to invigorate auditory skills. The accompanying CD of psychoacoustically refined classical music provides immediate examples of the benefits of music explained in the book. Readers can experience the effects of a variety of sounds and begin the life-enhancing design of their own soundscapes.

Joshua Leeds is a sound researcher and pioneer in the production of application-specific audio, with over twenty-five recordings to his credit. He is the cofounder of Applied Music & Sound, specializing in programs for the therapeutic, education, and consumer sectors. He has collaborated with such visionaries in the fields of medicine, psychology, and neurodevelopment as Andrew Weil, M.D., Anna Wise, and Robert J. Doman Jr. Leeds teaches psychoacoustic applications of music to lay people and professionals in the United States and Europe.

Anabeth Cox

In this fascinating book, Joshua Leeds discusses the work done by Tomatis and Doman to stimulate the ear and, hence, the body...

The Power of Sound
How to Manage Your Personal Soundscape for a Vital, Productive, & Healthy Life

Acknowledgments Introduction
Part One: Sound
1. What Is Sound?
2. The Physics of Sound
3. The Mechanics of Hearing
4. Resonance and Entrainment
5. Frequency Medicine: The Work of Alfred Tomatis
6. Neurodevelopmental Auditory Training: The Work of Robert J. Doman Jr.
Part Two: Sound Awareness
7. A New Awareness of Sound
8. Sonic Safety
9. Music and Sound in Your Life
Part Three: A Guide to Soundwork Techniques and Applications
10. A Matter of distinctions
11. The Building Blocks of Therapeutic Sound
12. Sonic Neurotechnologies
13. Applied Psychoacoustics for Healthcare Practitioners

Epilogue Appendices A The Anatomy of Psychoacoustic Music Creation B Stress-Induced Auditory Dysfunction C Core Principles of Alfred Tomatis D Tomatis: Revising the Map of the Musician's Odyssey E The Birth of a Sound Therapy: Alexander Doman F Music Therapy Glossary Sound Remedies Catalog
Music for the Power of Sound CD Track Listing Soundwork Resources Notes Bibliography thepowerofsound.com Index