Name: Sutherlandsounds- Research Presentation & Listening Party
Start: 2025-08-17T08:00:00+12:00
Location: Exchange Christchurch - XCHC

Sutherlandsounds- Research Presentation & Listening Party

Come join us for a cozy intentional listening party at XCHC on Sunday the 17th!
This event will include a research Presentation & 2-hours of never-heard-before Music for Psilocybin Therapy by Michael Sutherland AKA Sutherlandsounds.
We will be listening to "Side-A" of the on-going recording sessions for Psychedelic Music Therapy recorded by Sutherlandsounds.
This music focuses on non-western percussion, sound-healing instruments & Taonga Pūoro, vocal performances by Nikau, Gigi and Sophia and abstract harmonically-tuned, analog synthesis by Finn-Mitchell and Michael Sutherland.
Join us early to attend the research presentation portion, an upcoming feature-length documentary & the plans to fund & host a new recording session for Side-B right here in Ōtautahi with local artists.
6pm: Research Presentation Aprox 90mins + Q/A
8pm: Listening to Side-A of the new Project - 2 hrs
Tickets: (supports new music)
https://events.humanitix.com/sutherlandsounds-research-presentation-and-listening-party
Michael's Research:
https://www.sutherlandsounds.com/music-for-psychedelic-therapy
Host Bio:
Michael Sutherland is a recording engineer, musician, loop-pedal artist and psychedelic music researcher from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Michael learned the art of recording/engineering from some of New Zealand's best from the film and commercial music industry and has a talent for merging vintage era with the future.
He has been involved in many records, including some of Aotearoa's biggest acts, local rock/pop artists, and larger jazz & orchestral ensembles.
Michael also pioneered Music for Float Tanks in 2019 which is now used in 70+ Float Centres around the globe.
Michael develops & composes music for Psychedelic Therapy including his 6-hour post-grad project "Music & the Mystical Experience" and continues collaborating with clinical trials to heal communities, bring incredible artists together, and teach us more about music's incredible role in these breakthrough therapies and consciousness in general.