Chamber Meditations
A monthly membership on music and mysticism
Monthly live lectures and a monthly sound healing and guided ritual, all live on Zoom, all recorded and archived for you. With the option to add one-on-one private sessions: music lessons in voice, composition and songwriting, or intuitive guidance and creative coaching.
Why Chamber Meditations
Company
A circle that holds each other. Every course, framework and technique is already out there, often for free. What's rare is being in the room with someone while the work actually gets done: people who remember what you said you'd make, and ask about it next month.
Finishing
Monthly guidance, on a steady rhythm. The songs half-written, the piece that stalled, the practice that went quiet: a monthly return is how they get finished.
Joy
Pleasure in music and in resonance, for its own sake. Nothing here is optimized or scaled. Resonance can't be forced; you can only make a room soft enough for it to arrive.
Understanding
The science of sound, held honestly: what slow breath does to the heart, what humming and chant do to the nervous system, how voices and bodies fall into rhythm together. Alongside the traditions that knew it first. The ancient technology was the modern technology.
Chamber Meditations began in 2021 in Princeton University Chapel and has since traveled to Kerala, Oaxaca, Rīga and a salt cave. It grows out of my dissertation at Princeton, Beyond Our Understanding: Music as Spiritual Technology, and now it gathers online every month.
Join
- First Sunday, 5 PM ET: the live lecture on music and mysticism [confirm schedule]
- Third Sunday, 5 PM ET: the live sound healing and guided ritual: voice, crystal bowls and gong
- Always: live on Zoom, recorded and archived for you
Chamber Meditations
- A live lecture on music and mysticism, every month
- A live sound healing and guided ritual, every month
- The full archive of past lectures and rituals
- The members' circle: company, accountability, and people who make things
Chamber Meditations+ one private session
- Everything in the membership
- One 1:1 private session each month, about an hour, on Zoom
- Your choice each month: a music lesson (voice, composition, songwriting) or intuitive guidance and creative coaching
- Priority booking
Chamber Meditations+ two private sessions
- Everything in the membership
- Two 1:1 private sessions each month, about an hour each, on Zoom
- Steady, close work on a voice, a record, a practice or a body of work
- Priority booking
Stop anytime, rejoin anytime. Nothing is lost while you're away. Prices are the same for everyone, and a few sliding-scale memberships are held each month. Write to me; no explanation needed.
How the private-session options work: you join through my booking calendar, which bills monthly and holds your private sessions, and I add you to Chamber Meditations on Substack by hand. [Acuity subscription link]
Not ready to join? The free letters bring essays and podcast conversations, with a guided meditation when you sign up.
Private sessions
One-on-one, about an hour, on Zoom. On their own, without a membership.
Lessons
Voice · Songwriting · Composition · Production
For singers finding their own sound, songwriters who want craft without losing the spark, and composers who want a teacher who has written for Attacca Quartet, Alarm Will Sound and ModernMedieval but still starts from the body and the breath. Bring whatever you're working on, or nothing at all.
Creative Guidance
Creative coaching and intuitive guidance, in one session
For artists and seekers at a threshold: a project that matters, a practice that's gone quiet, a decision that won't settle. We work on two levels at once: the practical (what's the work, what's in the way, what's the next true step) and the intuitive (what's moving underneath). A session can include listening and reflection, creative coaching, tarot, astrology, guided meditation, sound healing and vocal activation. Not a replacement for therapy or medical care.
The Listening Session
One piece of your work, heard all the way through
- Book a time below.
- Send your work at least 3 days before: a recording (a phone demo is fine), plus a score, lead sheet or lyrics. One song, one movement, or up to about 10 minutes of music.
- I listen closely beforehand, several times, score in hand.
- We meet for 60 minutes: what I hear, what's working and why, where it could open up, and a few concrete next moves.
- Within 3 days you get written notes and the recording of our call.
This is for people who make things and want to make them more truly: beginners and professionals, the unsure and the certain. It isn't for anyone looking for a hack, a content strategy or a guarantee. I can't promise a hit; I can promise you'll be heard all the way through.
Book
Choose a session and a time.
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