Theraphonia

Listeners of Mars Arcana recordings already know of our love for ephemeral audio, whether it's NASA clips, speeches, vintage sci-fi cinema or natural sounds.  Field recordings have also become a passion in recent years, fueled by our slow-travel lifestyle. Theraphonia is where we'll be releasing those recordings along with other off-beat projects for meditation, study and relaxation. 

For us, these recordings have a strong sentimental connection since they represent quiet, introspective places we've visited and spent many hours enjoying.  Hopefully they will have a similar effect for others.

Soundprint Archive

For some time now we've been gathering field recordings for use in our creative projects. We've decided to start posting a few of them here for listeners looking for a natural alternative to music for relaxation, meditation and study. Feel free to download them to listen when and where you choose. 

Volume 1 gathers up a small sampling of the amazing Nova Scotia soundscape. With no looping whatsoever, enjoy four and a half hours of the natural world around us.

Brain Entrainment

This playlist focuses on the more-serious side of brain entrainment, ie, making it quicker and easier to achieve a desired mental state like meditation, sleep, study, focus, etc. Our "recreational binaurals" will appear in a different list. 

These projects are not the typically sterile sinewaves of mobile software generators but rather fusions of effective tones, field recordings from the natural world, and abstract koan compositional approaches. In general, they are less about music and more about texture and atmosphere. 

Most of our initial releases use binaural beats to create the requisite brainwaves. Headphones are essential for the experience since the waves are produced by discrete pitch differences between the left and right ears. 

Obviously, operating heavy machinery under the influence of sleep and dream inducing binaurals qualifies as a really bad idea...

RECREATIONAL BINAURALS

So what makes a binaural "recreational" instead of "therapeutic"? For starters, simply intention. While meditation-oriented binaurals are geared towards clearing the mind, recreational binaurals focus on seeding the imagination (and maybe even getting the hips moving!). They pair nicely with cannabis, which typically brings a potent amplification to the experience. On a good day, when the psyche is chill enough to become enraptured, these recordings have produced some intensely uplifting experiences. If your head's just not there, try a binaural from the Brain Entrainment Experiments playlist instead. 

As with all binaurals, headphones are essential for the experience since the binaural waves are produced by discrete pitch differences between the left and right ears.