Sonic Rewrite

A mirror
for your ears.

Not music you like.
Music you use.

You talk for an hour. You get back an album of your own life: a record built out of the sentences you actually said, in an interview nobody has ever asked you to sit through before. You hear it for the first time sitting with the person who made it. Then you are guided through thirty days of listening, a protocol for letting it settle into the body rather than the head, and the aim is simple: it becomes your new favourite album.

Keep going

Do not treat this lightly.And if five minutes is genuinely
what this is worth to you today,
then you are right,
and this is not for you.There are other things and some of them are good.

The method, as physics

Not songs about you.
Songs made of you.

Press a frequency and watch how it changes you.

    Frequencies affect the body. That is real, and it is taken into account in how a Sonic Rewrite is built.

    What happens

    Two months, five movements.

    Beforea few days

    Before you make the payment

    It starts before any money changes hands. You tell us, in a few sentences, what is going on and where you are in life, and what made you want this. That is not admin. It is the first honest thing you say to us, and it is the ground the whole hour is built on. We read it, we come back to you with the next interview dates and answers to anything you still want to ask, and only then do you pay.

    The hoursixty minutes

    The interview

    Sixty minutes, or two to three hours if you choose the deeper one. Live, on video. This is the product. The music is what it leaves behind.

    The makingone to two weeks

    One person makes the album

    Your sentences are mapped, engineered into lyrics, and produced. Nothing is written that you did not say.

    The first listenone sitting, live

    You hear it for the first time
    with her

    You do not receive a link. You sit down with the person who made it, on a call or in a room, and hear your album for the first time while she is there. Whatever it does to you, it does to you in company. This is how Sonic Rewrite is delivered, and it is different from everything else we make.

    At the end of that sitting the album goes online. Afterwards you receive the Spotify link, and the others.

    Thirty daysthen as long as you like

    The 30-day protocol

    The album comes with a protocol. What happens in those thirty days is the thing you actually paid for.

    You are not everybody.

    Who you actually are
    is not the marketing here.

    It is the raw material.
    Everything we make is built
    from you and for you.

    The version of you

    Whatever version of you
    turns up to the interview
    is the version you will hear
    sung back
    for the rest of your life.

    The constraint

    A songwriter has
    the whole dictionary.
    We have only
    what you said.

    That constraint is the entire difficulty. Every metaphor has to be one you already produced. No borrowed imagery, no stock phrasing, none of our own language smuggled in. Building something that works as music out of a closed set of pieces is the part that cannot be automated, and it is the part people assume is easy because the result sounds inevitable.

    Four unusual rooms
    to go deeper.

    Check one out, check them all, or check none of them.

    01 / 04Hear it5 min for one track · half an hour for all of it

    The ListeningRoom

    Put your headphones on. Four people filmed the first time they heard their own album, five real tracks with the notes on what each one was built to do, and every cover ever made. This is the only way to answer the question you are actually asking, which is: what does it sound like?

    Enter →     02 / 04Feel it10 min if you answer honestly

    The Questions

    A mirror, held up to your own words, for ten minutes. Seven explorations, each one begun for you and finished in your own hand, each one shaped by the answer before it — the kind of question nobody asks you and you never quite ask yourself. Then it is read back to you aloud, in nothing but the words you just wrote, in a voice you choose, over music. Most people are surprised by what they hear, and it is theirs.

    Enter →     03 / 04Trust it20 min to read · an hour with the letters open

    Who created the Sonic Rewrite,
    written by 420 other people.

    Anyone can write a beautiful sentence about themselves, so there is not one on this page. There is eighteen years of what happened to other people instead — what they could suddenly say, what they stopped carrying, what changed in the week after — written by them, not by us, and each line opens the whole letter it came out of so you can read past the part we would have chosen.

    Enter →     04 / 04Understand it15 min for the page · the sources have no bottom

    Everything you would have to understand.

    Most of this site is a sales page. This part is not. The whole apparatus, withheld from nobody: the seven centres, the seven pleasures, the nine disciplines the work has to hold at once, the five stages from first sentence to finished album, why it costs what it costs, and twenty-nine sources underneath so you can go and check.

    Enter →

    Is this you

    There are as many days worth celebrating as we choose to.

    There is no right or wrong moment for this, and there are as many reasons as there are lives. These are the ones people usually arrive with.

    If yours is not here

    Tell us what it is, and we will gladly make the album for that.

    There are as many reasons as there are lives, and the five above are only where people usually start. A personal change. A professional one. A vision of a life you have not lived yet. Something you want to be able to remember exactly.

    Drawing 06 · what you are actually buying

    The album is not
    the service.

    The album plus the protocol is the service. The thirty days after you first hear it are where the thing you paid for actually happens: six practices built on somatic approaches, with a system for reinforcing what they move. They ask something of you.

    Drawing 06a · the 30-day protocol · six practices, in order

    P1

    The live first listen with her

    You hear the album for the first time with the person who made it, on a call or in a room. She is there as its creator and as the one holding the space: a conversation about how it feels, while it is happening.

    P2

    The digital mirror

    highest resistance, highest yield

    You listen while recording yourself on video, holding eye contact with your own face on the screen.

    P3

    The karaoke

    your own vocal cords

    You listen while reading the lyrics, and you sing along. Saying it yourself is not the same as hearing it said.

    P4

    The somatic pass

    below the neck

    You let it move through your body. Dance, shake, or simply move. You cannot think your way out of a trauma response.

    P5

    The journal

    the cringe is data

    Afterwards you write down what surfaced, where you cringed, and what shifted.

    P6

    The saturation

    thirty days

    Then you simply let it play. Dishes, walking, the gym. It sinks in underneath you.

    Drawing 06b · one client’s two months, measured

    She received two albums. She listened to both at least once a day for two months, and journalled two hours a week. That comes to ninety-three hours of focused attention. Drawn here against what one hour a week with a psychologist adds up to across a whole year.

    THE PROTOCOL · TWO ALBUMS, DAILY, PLUS JOURNALLING 93 h IN 2 MONTHS A WEEKLY PSYCHOLOGIST · FORTY-FIVE SESSIONS 45 h IN 12 MONTHS TWICE THE HOURS, IN A SIXTH OF THE TIME. SCALE · hours · not a substitute for either, a multiplier of what you already do

    What happens to it afterwards

    Yours to keep, for life.

    Your words stay yours

    Nothing you say in the interview belongs to anyone but you. Repeat it, publish it, write your own book out of it. You never have to ask.

    The music is yours to use, for life

    You have access to your album indefinitely. Personal use is unlimited and permanent: play it, share it, put it in a film about your life, play it at your wedding or your funeral, leave it to your children. It does not expire and there is nothing to renew. You also get the files.

    You hear it first, with her

    Nothing goes anywhere until you have listened, and you listen with the person who made it. After that sitting the album goes online, on every platform, with a title and a subtitle about the album and not about you, and you receive the links.

    What it costs

    Three ways to do this.
    One of them is a year.

    The album is not the product. The change is, and change takes time, so the honest version of this is a year and the other two are the shapes a shorter commitment can take. Read the three and choose the one that describes your life rather than the one that fits your budget. Every number here is the whole number: nothing is quoted later, and there is no call to find out the rest.

    Which one choose the one that is you

    Every album is five to nine songs. The number is set by what you say in the interview, not by what you paid: a long answer makes a long album. In the Year and the Four, each album is built out of the cycle before it, so the sequence knows where it has been. A single album has no before.

    Where to write to you

    Two Years run at a time, and no more. It is one interview, one build and three sessions every month, and there are only so many months.

    If you are still deciding

    Nobody has understood what this would do for them until they had been through it.

    Not one person, in advance. The people who have been through it all arrive at the same sentence afterwards, and we stopped trying to improve on it.

    “I had no idea what
    I was going to receive.
    You won’t understand what this is
    until you’ve experienced it.    ”

    So the honest advice is to take one of the four doors rather than read more of this page. Hear a track. Sit with five questions. Read what four hundred people wrote. Then decide.

    The whole thing, in one breath

    All of this is about you.
    None of it is about us.

    You are unique in exactly the way everybody is unique. Whatever is going on in your life right now, the good and the bad and the ugly, is the only material this works on. We add nothing. We do not improve you.

    Sonic Rewrite is a mirror
    of who you are and where you are,
    made so that you feel seen and heard.

    $3,500One album
    $65,000A year of them
    ZeroCalls before you know the price
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