Sonic Solutions 

Transforming passive audio experiences into active therapeutic interventions.

Sonic Solutions

Gavin Lawson

These services translate electronic music craftsmanship into measurable outcomes—using composition, sound design, and high-fidelity delivery to shape mood, attention, and the autonomic nervous-system. Whether deployed as bespoke soundscapes for premium spaces and experiences, or as headphone-based functional sessions for deep restorative listening, each offering is engineered with intent: to calm, focus, regulate, and restore through carefully structured harmony, spatial immersion, and frequency-aware design concepts.

1) Music for Purpose

Choreographed Sound Solutions

Music for Purpose is a bespoke service designed with one objective: to support the client through intentional composition, sound design, and curation. Rather than treating music as ambience, it treats sound as an engineered experience—carefully structured to influence mood, attention, and physiological state.

Rooted in contemporary electronic music practice, each piece is built from deliberate harmonic language, immersive soundscapes, and considered frequency architecture—chosen to encourage calm, relaxation, focus, or emotional release. The result is a form of auditory mood regulation: sound that can soothe the nervous system, create psychological spaciousness, and support mindfulness and therapeutic contexts without requiring instruction from the listener.

These choreographed sound solutions are developed to align with the identity, environment, and objectives of high-end hotels, spas, businesses, and events. Whether the goal is to elevate guest experience, increase perceived quality and comfort, support restorative rituals, or set a refined emotional tone across a space, the music is customised to the setting—subtle when it needs to disappear, expressive when it needs to lead, and always purposeful in its effect.

2) Functional Music

Neural Entrainment

Functional Music is precision-produced for deep listening—created as a structured, headphone-based experience where sonic detail is not a luxury, but a requirement. Produced in Ableton Live 12 and intended for playback through audiophile-grade Audeze LCD-series headphones with a Chord DAC chain, this service is designed to deliver therapeutic intent with maximum fidelity and immersion.

At this level of reproduction, every micro-detail becomes meaningful: deep spatial mapping, nuanced timbral work, transformer-style saturation and simulation, and carefully managed frequency response are all used to shape the listener’s internal state. Functional Music is not simply “high quality audio”; it is neuro-aware sound craft—built to support neural entrainment through stable, intentional rhythm, tone, and spectral balance that encourages the mind and body toward calmer, more coherent patterns.

The result is a purposeful session format: an invitation to mindful listening where the equipment becomes part of the therapy. By removing sonic fatigue and revealing depth, warmth, and dimensionality, the listener can fully receive the music’s design—turning headphone listening into a repeatable practice for focus, decompression, emotional regulation, and restorative reset.

GOING BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT

Close your eyes and imagine visiting a place you have never been to before that almost feels familiar, a place where the mind is free to roam and explore.

This is the sonic landscape, where waveforms take the mind on a journey, adventure and voyage.

Functional music is a key to transformation, with architectural spatial compositions crafted for positive outcomes.

High fidelity audio, professional audiophile equipment, essential oil blends and a mindfold mask can support those who are seeking refuge from screen time and a busy schedule. 

Sonic Landscapes 
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A SPACE BETWEEN SLEEP AND AWAKE

Hypnagogic (falling asleep) and hypnopompic (waking up) states—often described as “a place between sleep and awake” are liminal zones where vigilance relaxes, the nervous system can downshift, and the psyche becomes more fluid, receptive, and capable of quiet re-integration. Therapeutic sonic soundscapes can be a precise access point to this healing space because they do not demand cognition; they create conditions for surrender. As Brian Eno puts it, “Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” This permissive quality is essential at the threshold of sleep: you can attend to the sound if you need an anchor, or let it recede as the mind releases control. Eno also describes the deeper function of such music as environmental rather than narrative: “I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. It leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.” In that “painting” of sound—present, evolving, and non-insistent—the in-between state becomes a soft landing: a place where the body feels safe enough to let go, and the mind is free to drift, repair, and release without being pulled back into effort.

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SONIC FISHING

 “Sonic fishing” is a compositional approach that “casts” carefully chosen acoustic cues to gently draw the listener into a restorative space with sound—borrowing its logic from soundscape ecology, where biophony (living organisms), geophony (non-biological natural forces), and anthropophony (human-made sound) form the core layers of environmental listening. In practice, this is built as an intentional ecology: biophonic elements such as birdsong and insect chorus are foregrounded for their calming, orienting qualities; geophonic textures—river flow, wind, distant thunder—provide continuous broadband “bed” that supports slow attention; and anthropophony is either minimised or curated into soft, coherent gestures rather than intrusive noise. Bio-sonification and data sonification extends this further by mapping biological signals (for example, plants electrical impulses, breath cadence, heart-rate variability, or circadian timing) into musical parameters like midi notes, tempo, filtering, and harmonic density, so the resulting composition becomes a living representation of birdsong and flowing water—designed to entrain steadier breathing, reduce stress, and reintroduce the listener to a sense of natural rhythmic safety.

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Gavin Lawson

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Sonic Therapeutics

Sonic solutions for hospitality, sport and business.

  • Music For Purpose

    CHOREOGRAPHED SOUND SOLUTIONS

  • Functional Music

    NEURAL ENTRAINMENT
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