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The Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart and renowned tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain have announced Sound Consciousness: Drones for Sonic Bathing, a 10-part program on Commune, a “video course platform for personal and societal well-being.” The course will feature sounds and drones created by Hart and Hussain, set against animated artwork created by Hart. The series is now available on Commune.

According to a press release, “Sound Consciousness: Drones for Sonic Bathing invites participants to go on a 10-day journey, setting aside 15 minutes per day to leave their usual plane of existence and travel through the vastness of their mindspace, gently landing back on earth relaxed, renewed, and with a radically revised sense of self.”

“This is a sonic wonderland that gets you into the moment, into the now,” Hart says. “It gets you to connect to the very center of you, the vibratory center of you.”

The tracks feature traditional instruments such as the tabla, as well as sounds from Hart’s collection of recordings from around the globe. In addition, they will feature “mind-bending drones played on The Beam, an amplified Pythagorean monochord Hart has been refining for more than 40 years.”

The first five of the ten installments can be accessed for free; click here to access and for more information. For a preview of the program, see the video below.