For Your Consideration

The problem I hear most often from people with disabilities is a simple one: they have few chances to meet anyone. So I made healing music from their voices.

His voice was never added to the music as sound. With his permission, specific low frequencies were extracted from his recorded monologue and shaped into the song’s harmonic spectrum, supported by psychoacoustic design. The recording itself was never corrected or cleaned up — dignity does not require fluency. And from that long, murmured monologue, one phrase emerged clearly: a question he asks the world. Perhaps a question the world should be asking itself.

Of everything I have released, this piece is always the one listeners respond to most. If this song travels far enough, his voice gets to travel the world with it.

This track was featured in a special collaboration in March 2025 at Nihombashi Mitsukoshi (Tokyo) with Goku no Kimochi, the Kyoto-founded head spa with salons in Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo and Hong Kong — often called the hardest booking in Japan, with more than 700,000 people on its waitlist. Therapists reported clients falling asleep faster than usual.

In an independent survey of 108 sound bath participants listening to her groove healing music (May–December 2025), 100% reported some psychophysical change and 90.2% reported reaching a meditative state (self-reported, 4-point scale). Read the Evidence Report.

Ma is the space between notes, between breaths, between people. The pieces were composed and mixed for multichannel playback. The aim of the mix is placement you can feel: sounds that sit at a distance, and the room between them.

The cover is a macro photograph of stained glass, processed and designed by the artist. It sets ma against Western sacred glass, earth against cosmos, and tries to make the viscosity of sound visible.