01
Live Immersions
Extended performances in dedicated venues, festivals and cultural spaces.
← Current practiceThe Soundful
Immersive sound practice · 2024 to present
The Soundful
Experience
Composition, psychoacoustics, lived experience and collective listening brought into one evolving artistic form.
01 / Origin
From making sound
to listening through it.
The practice emerged through one hundred consecutive days of Nadabrahma meditation.
On the hundredth day, the word soundfulness appeared: not sound as background, entertainment or escape, but sound as a receptive practice. That experience opened a new direction in Sam’s work.
The Soundful Experience brings together the full trajectory: composition, production, electronic performance, spatial sound, education and community development. Decades of building trust across classrooms, stages and community settings now inform the way Sam holds a room while something real unfolds.
02 / The Form
Not a concert.
Not background.
An immersive sonic arts experience created for full-bodied listening.
Each work is composed through voice, guitar, percussion, electronics, harmonic resonance, spatial movement and silence. Audiences may sit, lie down, move or listen from across the world. The aim is not passivity. It is an active encounter with sensation, attention and inner experience.
Visit the full Soundful Experience site ↗Digital Live Practice
Intimate performance.
International reach.
03 / Forms
One practice.
Multiple encounters.
02
Digital Gatherings
Weekly international live works through Insight Timer and online Soundful events.
03
Team + Community
Participatory listening created with organisations, teams and communities, grounded in relationship, context and shared experience.
04
One-to-One Work
Personalised sound delivered through headphones, transducers and composed protocols.
05
Original Works
Compositions including The Space Between, The Inner Compass and The Feeling of Abundance.
06
Research + Development
Ongoing enquiry into vibration, attention, psychoacoustics and lived experience.
04 / Selected Contexts
Local rooms.
International reach.
Insight Timer Live
Weekly international performance
Original live works shared in real time with a growing international listening community.
Restful Waters
Ongoing live immersion
Extended works developed for a dedicated in-person listening environment.
Wild Camp Out
Festival performance
Large collective experiences bringing live sound into an outdoor festival community.
Fremantle Dockers AFLW
Team recovery experience
A restorative group work created for players and staff inside a professional sporting environment.
Experience the Work
Selected digital
and live works.
Soundful Journey
Soundful Experience
Soundful Live05 / Continuing Enquiry
The central question
What happens when we listen?
Not for the next answer. Not for entertainment. Long enough for the noise to soften and something underneath it to become audible.