Introducing REN 17 // Healing Music

TCM Five Element Sound Theory & Biofeedback // Debut Album by REN 17

"Sound as medicine" played a defining role in my journey toward acupuncture and traditional medicine. Through a friendship rooted in silent meditation and open conversations, my partner in sound, Sam McCarthy, has helped me breathe new life into ancient ideas about the alchemy of musical medicine.

Steeped in millennia of scholarship, universal principles, and genuine intention, REN 17is a modern approach to sound healing that traces its origins to teachings documented over 2,000 years ago in the Yue Ji (Record of Music) chapter of the Li Ji (Book of Rites).

Through a carefully composed sonic journey, REN 17 weaves Five Element Sound Theory together with real-time biofeedback to create an immersive therapeutic experience. This project translates Qi into sound and delivers it through your ears, a sound bath designed to regulate, rebalance, and root participants in harmony with the natural world, bridging inner and outer realities.

All living things have measurable conductivity that changes moment to moment in response to their environment. Want to learn more? Sam and I made this rad YouTube video for you.

Check us out on Spotify and Apple Music!