Fascination Monochord - Post Election Day Restorative Workshop

This hands-on workshop offers participants the opportunity to experience a subtle and fascinating instrument for sound mediation and sound-healing: the feeltone monochord. Consisting of 34 strings on a resonating wood body with a curved shape, monochords made by feeltone are a modern reinvention of an ancient instrument, specifically designed for sound meditation and sound therapy.

Workshop participants are offered an introductory talk with an overview of the monochord instrument and the feeltone Company that builds them. Next everyone is offered the opportunity to try out strumming the monochord, rotating between 6 Monolina models with different tunings. After a deeper monochord exploration, supplemental instruments are introduced from the Elemental Soundscapes instrument collection, featuring corresponding collections that match each of the 5 monochords. These instruments include: kalimba, Sansula, Tongue Drums, and Hanging Chimes.

Participants who are interested in trying out playing feeltone monochord instruments including wellness practitioners, artists and musicians.

+Those needing a restorative, gently soothing sound workshop at the end of the stress of this past election season!

Joule L’Adara, MFA is an experimental vocalist, holistic vocal coach, and sound artist who has performed with the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall. She is also the Founder of Sounding Circles: a group facilitation vocal method bringing people into resonance through sound, and through which has been leading sound workshops, trainings, and retreats across the United States and internationally since 2009. Joule has enjoyed a 15-year artist partnership with feeltone: a therapeutic instrument company based in Germany building handmade monochord stringed instruments, and has been their official US sound therapy trainer since 2016. After many years living in NYC Joule is now based in Beacon, New York.

Host or Publisher Joule L'Adara