In this two-day intensive workshop guided by Jens Zygar, participants learn hands-on, field-tested protocols for the core instruments of contemporary Sound Music: gongs, shamanic frame drum (heartbeat pulse), singing bowls, and high-spectrum overtone instruments. The training focuses on practical application — how to build coherent layers, shape dynamics, and combine all elements into spontaneous real-time composition.
Sound Music is composed in the moment. It grows from resonance awareness, deep listening, and simple, reliable cues that keep an ensemble aligned—without written scores. This methodology strengthens presence, emotional intelligence, and expressive clarity, while offering structure that can be repeated and refined.
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Gongs — Bass & Field: Establish a stable vibrational foundation, fill the space with a coherent sound field, and learn sustainable playing strategies (timing, transitions, pacing, volume hygiene).
Frame Drum — Heartbeat & Steering: Create a grounded pulse, guide group timing, and use simple steering patterns that stabilize attention and energy in any Sound Music setting.
Singing Bowls & Overtones — Opening, Transitions, Detail: Shape the fine layer: openings, bridges, and luminous texture that supports the overall arc without overstimulation.
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By mastering this three-layer method, you will learn how to structure an intuitive Sound Music framework for different contexts—a meditation, a sound-healing session, or a Sound Music concert—with clear arcs, stable transitions, and a coherent energetic flow.
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Combine bass, pulse, and overtone layers without sonic clutter
Use simple ensemble cues for timing, transitions, and intensity control
Build a complete Sound Music arc (open → build → resolve)
Apply safety basics: pacing, volume hygiene, grounding and integration
Course Schedule: 31 January, Saturday: 10 am to 6 pm | 1 February, Sunday: 10 am to 6 pm
Course Fee:
Early Bird: SGD $1444 | use promo code SOUNDMUSIC to unlock special rate (valid until 10 January 2026)
Full Price: SGD $1888
Meet Your Facilitator
Jens Zygar has developed and taught integral Sound Music protocols for over four decades and has influenced the international evolution of sound-based performance and facilitation. His teaching combines precision with playful experimentation, supporting participants in strengthening their personal sound language and performance presence.
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Jens Zygar is an internationally recognized sound musician, artistic researcher, and educator whose work unfolds at the intersection of music, science, and cultural evolution. Over more than four decades, he has explored sound as an aesthetic, relational, and organizational force—shaping perception, experience, and collective awareness across artistic, scientific, and social contexts.
As a pioneer of contemporary Sound Music, Jens Zygar co-developed the Planetary Gongs in collaboration with physicist Hans Cousto and co-founded the Star Sounds Orchestra, one of the first ensembles to translate cosmological frequency relationships into large-scale musical performance. His artistic trajectory integrates experimental music, embodied listening practices, and sustained research into resonance as a universal principle shared by natural systems, technological structures, and human consciousness.
At the Singapore Sound Days, Jens Zygar brings together the diverse currents of modern sound culture within a coherent and future-oriented framework. The event functions as a living laboratory in which performance, research, pedagogy, and cross-cultural dialogue interact dynamically. Planetary-tuned instruments, contemporary performance formats, acoustic traditions, and scientific perspectives on vibration and perception are woven into a shared experiential field.
Central to Jens Zygar’s work is the capacity to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously—artistic, scientific, therapeutic, and cultural—allowing them to interact without hierarchy or reduction. Singapore Sound Days offers a resonant environment in which these viewpoints encounter one another, generate dialogue, and open new pathways of synthesis. Sound is experienced as a dynamic process that shapes space, influences group perception, and supports creative and personal transformation.
Situated in Singapore—a city characterized by precision, hybridity, and cultural openness—this work finds a context that reflects its own integrative logic. Here, long-term research into sound as an organizing principle meets a global audience engaged in exploring contemporary formats that move fluidly between concert practice, research discourse, and embodied experience.
Singapore Sound Days thus emerges as a distinctive event within contemporary sound culture: a space in which sound operates as an integrative medium, connecting art and science, tradition and innovation, individual perception and collective resonance—curated and guided by one of the field’s most experienced and forward-looking voices.
