[Applause]
what is your soundscape the sounds
surrounding you this is what’s happening
to your body when you are exposed to
these loud sounds sound goes through our
ears to the sympathetic nervous system
who activates the fight-or-flight
response the fight-or-flight response is
the ability to instantly decide whether
to hit the ground running or to stay and
fight this is this survival instinct
actually is a hormonal response our
adrenal glands produce adrenaline that
dilate our pupils raises our heart rate
and prepares us for anything even if we
now our hearing is on because it keeps
us safe we cannot turn it off we can
close our eyes we cannot touch something
we cannot put something in our mouth we
can close our smell but our hearing is
constantly on because it keeps us safe a
throwback to the caveman days this fight
or flight response is with us today but
instead of worrying about saber-toothed
Tigers chasing us we use it to run
across the street as we dodge cars if we
are exposed to loud sounds long enough
it will make us vulnerable to
cardiovascular disease stress anxiety
blood pressure
and it will infect our overall health
the World Health Organization estimates
that in Western Europe 1 million healthy
life span years have been lost annually
due to traffic related noise alone these
days were wearing headphones all the
time we can carry our smartphones we
have iPods we can carry sound with us
anywhere we go this is causing a
prevalence and hearing loss our hearing
relies on 15,000 hair cells in our inner
ears called cilia these hair cells
receive sound vibrations
Karia converted to electrical signals
that travels to the brain
once these hair cells have been
flattened or damaged by high volume
sound there is nothing to regrow them as
of yet now sound could be nutritious or
it can be toxic for me nutritious is
music that I love the sounds of voices
of the people that I love nature sound
silence toxic would be jackhammers
construction jets leaf blowers cell
phones on speaker in public well I’m
gonna play a piece for you that I wrote
at the tempo of 60 beats per minute it’s
called Kiva a journey within I wrote it
at 60 beats per minute because that is
the average beats per minute of a heart
rate in a relaxed state my intention is
to entrain your heart rate to slow down
and train that in physics is the effect
of one system on another and Trainmen
and music is the process of our three
internal rhythms our heart rate our
breathing and our brainwaves
synchronizing with an external rhythm
proximity and volume are key factors
I hope that I untrained your heart rate
to slow down after possibly triggering
your fight-or-flight response earlier
with the loud noises now in kiva used to
call me the egg lady when I went to
these clubs because I would play these
in people’s ears to enhance their
experience what I noticed when I
analyzed what the DJ was playing to
entrain the people’s bodies to move with
that would introduce the toms or the
congas the shoulders would start moving
lower frequency lower part of the body
[Applause]
so what is your soundscape make
conscious choices to choose nutritious
sounds to surround you so you can live a
healthier life thank you [Applause]
what is your soundscape the sounds
surrounding you this is what’s happening
to your body when you are exposed to
these loud sounds sound goes through our
ears to the sympathetic nervous system
who activates the fight-or-flight
response the fight-or-flight response is
the ability to instantly decide whether
to hit the ground running or to stay and
fight this is this survival instinct
actually is a hormonal response our
adrenal glands produce adrenaline that
dilate our pupils raises our heart rate
and prepares us for anything even if we
now our hearing is on because it keeps
us safe we cannot turn it off we can
close our eyes we cannot touch something
we cannot put something in our mouth we
can close our smell but our hearing is
constantly on because it keeps us safe a
throwback to the caveman days this fight
or flight response is with us today but
instead of worrying about saber-toothed
Tigers chasing us we use it to run
across the street as we dodge cars if we
are exposed to loud sounds long enough
it will make us vulnerable to
cardiovascular disease stress anxiety
blood pressure
and it will infect our overall health
the World Health Organization estimates
that in Western Europe 1 million healthy
life span years have been lost annually
due to traffic related noise alone these
days were wearing headphones all the
time we can carry our smartphones we
have iPods we can carry sound with us
anywhere we go this is causing a
prevalence and hearing loss our hearing
relies on 15,000 hair cells in our inner
ears called cilia these hair cells
receive sound vibrations
Karia converted to electrical signals
that travels to the brain
once these hair cells have been
flattened or damaged by high volume
sound there is nothing to regrow them as
of yet now sound could be nutritious or
it can be toxic for me nutritious is
music that I love the sounds of voices
of the people that I love nature sound
silence toxic would be jackhammers
construction jets leaf blowers cell
phones on speaker in public well I’m
gonna play a piece for you that I wrote
at the tempo of 60 beats per minute it’s
called Kiva a journey within I wrote it
at 60 beats per minute because that is
the average beats per minute of a heart
rate in a relaxed state my intention is
to entrain your heart rate to slow down
and train that in physics is the effect
of one system on another and Trainmen
and music is the process of our three
internal rhythms our heart rate our
breathing and our brainwaves
synchronizing with an external rhythm
proximity and volume are key factors
I hope that I untrained your heart rate
to slow down after possibly triggering
your fight-or-flight response earlier
with the loud noises now in kiva used to
call me the egg lady when I went to
these clubs because I would play these
in people’s ears to enhance their
experience what I noticed when I
analyzed what the DJ was playing to
entrain the people’s bodies to move with
that would introduce the toms or the
congas the shoulders would start moving
lower frequency lower part of the body
[Applause]
so what is your soundscape make
conscious choices to choose nutritious
sounds to surround you so you can live a
healthier life thank you [Applause]
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