The John Lennon Property and mindfulness app Lumenate are bringing a recent perspective to John Lennon’s traditional tune Thoughts Video games with the discharge of 9 meditative remixes.
Launched on Wednesday (Might 1) for Psychological Well being Consciousness Month, these reimagined tracks are designed to information listeners right into a relaxed state by way of a mixture of sound and light-weight.
Lumenate makes use of the smartphone flashlight to create particular mild sequences that glint at particular frequencies. These frequencies are mentioned to nudge the mind right into a state between deep meditation and psychedelic experiences. Every of the 9 Thoughts Video games mixes is paired with a novel mild sequence.
The mixes take Lennon’s unique recording and sluggish it down and lengthen it to lengths starting from 5 to 33 minutes, making a extra immersive listening expertise. 4 of the mixes are “Binaural” variations, which means they use barely completely different frequencies for every ear to create an auditory phantasm that may affect brainwaves. These mixes goal Beta, Delta, Gamma, and Theta brainwaves, every related to completely different psychological states.
Sean Ono Lennon, John Lennon’s son, performed a job within the undertaking. “I’m very completely satisfied to be working with Lumenate on this launch for Psychological Well being Consciousness Month,” he mentioned.
“I feel our Thoughts Video games undertaking is enjoyable, significant, and doubtlessly mind-expanding. I’ve been utilizing the Lumenate app for my very own private meditations because it launched, and have had many profound experiences.”
He added: “My father was famously into meditation. I bear in mind making an attempt the ‘flicker machine’ he saved within the bed room, which is what first launched me to the thought of stroboscopic mind wave induction. I assumed it made sense to mix the music of Thoughts Video games with the science of Lumenate. I actually hope folks benefit from the outcomes as a lot as I’ve.”
“It’s been such a privilege working with Sean and The Lennon Property on this thrilling collaboration,” Lumenate co-founder Tom Galea mentioned.
“The journeys it takes you on are so deeply stress-free and emotive, offering a uniquely highly effective canvas for exploring your thoughts. I can’t look forward to the world to expertise it, it’s already had such a significant affect on me personally.”
“My father was famously into meditation. I bear in mind making an attempt the ‘flicker machine’ he saved within the bed room, which is what first launched me to the thought of stroboscopic mind wave induction. I assumed it made sense to mix the music of Thoughts Video games with the science of Lumenate.”
Sean Ono Lennon
Launched in 2021, Lumenate goals to make altered states of consciousness for psychological well-being extra accessible.
“Although many are conscious of the advantages of meditation, and the emergent area of psychedelic remedy, resulting from limitations of price, time and legality, these advantages are inaccessible for most individuals. Lumenate is right here to vary that, permitting customers to achieve these deep, explorative states immediately and effortlessly utilizing solely a smartphone,” the corporate mentioned.
Rosamund Pike, a Glolden Globe-winning actress who starred in Gone Woman (2014) and most just lately, Saltburn (2023), is the Artistic Director and voice of the app.
This collaboration between the John Lennon Property and Lumenate displays the rising presence of wellness and meditation apps throughout the music business. It joins a latest pattern of partnerships, equivalent to Major Wave‘s emeraldwave model just lately teaming up with Endel to create personalised soundscapes for sleep, focus, and rest from their music catalog.
“It’s been such a privilege working with Sean and The Lennon Property on this thrilling collaboration. The journeys it takes you on are so deeply stress-free and emotive, offering a uniquely highly effective canvas for exploring your thoughts.”
Tom Galea, Lumenate
Equally, Endel collaborated with Spinnin’ Information, Warner Music Group‘s EDM label, in October 2023 to create “psychological health-boosting soundscape” albums catering to varied states like focus and sleep.
Warner Music additionally teamed up with British well being tech startup MediMusic in December 2023 to discover the potential of music as a therapeutic instrument.
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