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Jim Oliver (Emmy Award winner) composes soothing music for healing and relaxation. He began his musical studies at the age of five including classical organ, composition and orchestration at Hartt College of Music, West Hartford, Connecticut. His activities include:
Soundtrack to Life in the Stress Lane which also featured
Jim and his research on music and health;
composer-in-residence at Robert Redford’s Sundance
Institute; created live and recorded music for John Bradshaw
and Brugh Joy and numerous performances internationally.
Jim currently works with many hospitals to provide
music for the operating rooms, chemotherapy suites and
children’s areas.
HEALING MUSIC BY JIM OLIVER
The purpose of this writing is to present to you what I call the potentials and possibilities of music and sound. We have long known of the power of sound and music to affect our emotions and moods and ultimately our physical bodies. Tribal music, ceremonial music, devotional music and spiritual chanting are a few well-known examples of how sound can be used to create change. Intense use of ritual chanting can create altered states so powerful that humans in India allow themselves to be intentionally bit by cobras and do not become ill, and the fire dancers of Java can immerse themselves in huge fires and not be injured. Prisoners of war have endured incredible situations such as starvation, isolation and physical punishment by humming and singing whenever possible to maintain their sense of self and ultimately keep themselves
alive.
Sound has long been used as a communication tool - since the beginning of time. Native Americans sent messages by drum beats. They developed ritual songs and dances for rain, war, hunting, good harvest, marriages and so on.
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