About

Music has long been know to stir up emotions in people. Sometimes a song can give you goose bumps, make you want to cry or give you a lift when you are feeling low. Sound on Mind is an ongoing exploration as to why this happens. Here you will find information and articles on music and its effect on the brain and occasional digressions on music, making music, meditation, well being and the all encompassing miscellaneous.

Sound On Mind is run by me, Jeff Fletcher (the shiny headed fellow in the picture). Apart from running this blog, I work as a new product developer at an Internet Service Provider. Yes, yet another techie blogger, but the world needs more of us. I'm a qualified electrical engineer, but I haven't engineered anything electrical in a very long time. Between writing stuff for this site, not engineering electrically and thinking about better ways to provideInternet services, I play bass for One Mighty Atom.

Sound On Mind first started as an effort to cash in on the binaural beat based enhance-your-brain-with-music-now market that has emerged in the last few years. Since I have a music studio and can do a reasonable facsimile of ambient music, it seemed that by addingbinaural beats to the music, I could ship large container fulls of Cd's to new age types with lots of cash. But then my conscience wrestled me to the ground and told me that its best to know how, and more importantly if, what I was selling would work.

This led to researching the phenomenon of binaural beats and in turn about a billion other topic relating to music and its effects on the brain, and this website.