Wayne Altman: How to Use Music to Focus, Improve Mood & Optimize Brain States

Where does music come from?

And why does it play such an enormous role in our lives?

In my first book, The Musical Brain, I admitted that, “If I didn’t have music, I’d be certified insane.” And I stand by it.

Music taps into the brain, the heart and the soul like nothing else.

And today I’m thrilled to welcome to the show, Mr. Wayne Altman, a U.S. Army Veteran, author, and creator of MelodyClouds.

After his hearing was damaged during service in the army, causing severe ringing in the ears or tinnitus, Wayne experimented with sound masking and binaural beats to help ease his symptoms.

He’s here today sharing how we can use sound with intention to improve our mental health and performance. We’re chatting about:

How to utilize music functionally to achieve different brain states and boost mood
The origins of music and why it affects us so profoundly
How to use sound masking to ease symptoms of ringing in the ears and improve physiological states
How music and sound is used by Hollywood, the military and corporations (for better or worse)
And much more…

Let’s go hang out with Wayne.

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Where To Find Wayne Altman

Head over to MelodyClouds.com to access the huge library of audiobooks, nature sounds, binaural beats, fables, lullabies, and much more.

Wayne Altman: The subscriptions that we’re doing right now, it’s a subscription service, $2.99 for the first 60 days. That gives you an opportunity to see whether or not this is for you and you find any value from it. At the end of 60 days, Melody Clouds goes to $5.99, six bucks

I want to provide value to someone. And if they like it, come with me on this journey. And if not, listen, God bless you. So we’re about one-sixth the cost of any of our competitors. And we have 18,000 audio books. We have 138 Aesop’s Fables that have been recorded and are being placed on the app, lullabies. We didn’t even go into lullabies. So the next time we talk, I’ve got to tell you about these lullabies. Nature sounds and binaural beats. And very shortly, I am very pleased to announce that we will do 8,000 episodes of Old Time Radio.

The Melody Clouds app is available to download from the App Store or on Google Play.

You can also find Wayne Altman and Melody Clouds on Facebook and LinkedIn.

'I cannot be sad listening to a banjo.' ― Wayne Altman Share on X

And one more time, start listening today over at MelodyClouds.com.

Before You Go

If you’d like to hear some of my own original music, including the award-winning Swamp Thing album, my book The Musical Brain, and much more, you can check that all out at AbelJames.com.

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