The Super Sound Sound Bath Cleaned My Stress After CES 2025

“Are you ready to listen with your whole body?” Said a voice in my ears.

After a week in Las Vegas screen The cost of CES 2025an extensive and representative technical exhibition of our electronic futureI was really ready. Ready to escape the hustle and bustle of crowded casino venues and convention centers; ready to let go of the stress, tension and fatigue I was carrying in my body and mind; willing to see if art he can get me out of my head, even for a minute.

I then headed to the New York-New York hotel to experience “The Hum,” a high-tech acoustic shower that promised a respite from the CES energy. All week I have been searching for technology that can reduce my anxiety and I hope it can be that.

I slipped into the arms of the giant foam “woman” and settled into the zero gravity recliner where I got dressed. eye mask and was placed in a heavy blanket. At first through my headphones I could still hear Natasha Bedingfield’s voice wailing around the casino, but she was soon engulfed in a sonic journey that didn’t exactly take me to a quiet place, but a place of mental and physical relaxation.

Which is heard in The Hum

Idea, says Gen Cleary, CEO and founder of Sound Connectivethe company that created and produced The Hum, and created a bridge between music therapy, entertainment and parental practices such as singing, humming and drumming, all of which filled my ears. At the same time, it seemed to be inside my body thanks to the 20 transducers inside my chair and the panels on my chest that allow the waves to be heard.

The voice jolted me into deep breaths and hums as the bass line built, and I felt like I was being pushed back, or maybe carried on a galloping horse. When I put it this way, I know it doesn’t sound overly relaxing, but I gave in to it like you would a hard massage and it was relaxing.

The feeling of weightlessness, along with the waves of sound passing through my body and the music in my ears, took me out of the casino and threw me into a different journey. I was emotionally and physically connected to the drum, before it suddenly stopped when I hit the peak, where I felt like I was lost in a bubbling spring.

“Pushing energy into the body”

Cleary, who has worked for many years as a manager of Las Vegas DJs, says that creating this sound was a lot of research including bowel movements to make sure it was strong without being too much for the people.

“Everything that we are going to give,” he said, “must be carefully planned until we know that we are taking care of our people and no one will come out of it feeling worried or worried. Bad.” Instead, it should feel like “pushing energy into the body.”

The Hum debuted at CES, but Cleary’s plan is to bring it with other sound installations and experiences in different places to make it accessible to everyone – an idea based on his dislike of the way many music venues are like Las Vegas clubs. . They are in talks with a number of different airports – high traffic hubs – where The Hum helps passengers relax before or after flights.

“If we give you this opportunity to relax, come back soon, by connecting to this music, not just hearing, but with your whole body… then what happens?” he said.

He was removed from the fog of exhaustion

The Hum event lasts for five minutes, and after doing it twice in a row, I can say that the experience was really, as Cleary described it, a reboot. It made me breathe enough to be present, to be suspended in time with the music that permeated my entire body and carried me on a journey that eventually brought me back to my normal, peaceful self. I came out feeling like I had been released from a fog of exhaustion.

Like Cleary, I often find practicing meditation and breathing difficult – especially when I’m stressed and controlling my thoughts is a challenge for myself. As I see it, The Hum allows you to relax. You can sit back and let technology carry the load.

There’s a certain non-verbal storytelling element to The Hum, and over time Cleary wants to use technology to create different experiences that can take place simultaneously and tell other stories. It’s easy to get into for most people, he says, because whether we realize it or not, we’re already familiar with the idea of ​​using music to comfort us. And maybe we can figure out what it sounds like, whether it’s through a club subwoofer or an acoustic guitar, manipulating the mind and the vibrational waves in our bodies.

“We’re really touching on something that’s already established in everyone’s mind, or something that people do,” he said. “It’s a group that encourages people to use music to help themselves in any way they can.”