On Saturday, May 23, Northwoods Music Collaborative and ThirdTone collaborate on a sound experience titled “Live Binaural Journey” at the Black Box Theater at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington. The organizations will combine low frequencies and live instruments to create an immersive sonic field.
“This is a live binaural field where sound is generated inside your perceptions,” ThirdTone cofounder, composer and conductor Evan Premo said in a press release. (Premo previously served as codirector of Marshfield chamber ensemble Scrag Mountain Music.) “As the frequencies interact, listeners begin to generate new layers of sound internally, reshaping their sense of space and time.”
Did you follow all that? Put simply, a combination of ambient noise, pulsing tones and live instruments will help guide audience members’ brains into a relaxed, meditative state. What makes it different than, say, a sound bath is that “Live Binaural Journey” is meant to produce tones from within the listeners themselves, creating what Premo calls a “dynamic interplay between external sound and internal perception.”
And if you’re wondering what the hell “binaural” means (other than a mid-career Pearl Jam LP), it’s recording sound to mimic the way human ears hear. When different frequencies are played in each ear, it creates a so-called binaural beat — a ghost beat — entirely inside a listener’s head.
The event also serves as a release party for the new app from ThirdTone, which uses binaural frequencies to create internal tones that the founders describe as “supporting brain-body synchronization.” The app purports to engage the nervous system in an effort to help regulate the body and even improve sleep quality.
“Sound moves in the ears and is processed through the whole body,” cofounder, author and sound therapist Lisa Mase points out in a press release. “ThirdTone creates conditions where people can feel that interaction directly and allow the body to respond. This sound experience is taking ancient traditions of vibrational healing into new forms.”
Sounds pretty cool! (See what I did there?) I don’t think I’ve ever been, uh, vibrated from within, but hey, there’s a first time for everything.
For more details, visit northwoodsmusiccollaborative.org or thirdtone.io.
Burlington expats All Night Boogie Band are back with a new single. The R&B and soul quintet, whose members are split between Vermont and New York City these days, dropped the track “Always on My Mind” last Friday.
A romantic, classic-pop-leaning tune, the single features front woman Jess Leone belting out a 24-karat vocal of undying love.
“Lovin’ you is easy, babe / ’cause you know you’re just my kind,” Leone sings. “I ain’t one for star signs, boy / But I believe that we’re aligned.”
Along with other advance singles the band has released this year, such as “Keep On Rolling” and “I Think They Called It Peace,” the new track will appear on the band’s forthcoming third LP, If You’re Blue and Lonesome, due out later this year.
Spruce Peak Arts in Stowe has announced some excellent shows this summer and fall. The greatest drummer who ever lived (I’m available for debates!), Stewart Copeland, formerly of the Police, is set for a speaking engagement on November 15. But if you’re looking for an actual performance to get psyched for, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn comes to the mountain on Friday, September 11.
Yorn will celebrate 25 years of his breakthrough album, musicforthemorningafter — good gravy, my knees hurt just reading that sentence — a record that perfectly encapsulated early 2000s indie ambivalence and included hits such as “Life on a Chain” and “Strange Condition.”
“These shows will lean heavily into songs from that record,” Yorn wrote in a press release. “I’ll also play favorites from across my catalog — and maybe even take a few requests along the way. Every show will be a unique experience.”
I’m guessing the unique experience for yours truly would just be a wave of college-era nostalgia and maybe some memories of bad breakups — Yorn is a great heartbreak soundtrack.
Tickets go on sale for members on Wednesday, May 13, and to the public on Friday, May 15, at sprucepeakarts.org.
Shows to Watch Out For
- A$AP Rocky at Bell Centre in Montréal, June 1
- Wilco at Thompson’s Point in Portland, Maine, June 21
- Deer Tick at Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington, June 27
- Jack White at the Midway Lawn at Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, July 15
- Ruthie Foster at the Stone Church in Brattleboro, August 14
- Graham Nash at Spruce Peak Arts in Stowe, September 17
- Liz Phair at the Egg in Albany, N.Y., September 24
This article appears in May 13 • 2026.
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