Sound worlds composed by Damian Montagu

The Quency resonance mark — a 432 Hz cymatic pattern with the Q at its centre432 Hz

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The Sound Worlds

Step into your resonating frequency

Four worlds to listen to, short tastes of what each one holds. Join the app to listen to the full sounds.

  • RainRainSoft, steady weather against glass: the world turned quiet and close.
  • OceanOcean DeepSlow swell and distant shore, breathing in long, even tides.
  • ForestForest DawnFirst light through the canopy, carried on the dawn chorus.
  • BeehiveBeehive ResonanceThe warm, living hum of the hive, low and golden.

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The mind behind the sound

Every sound is my original composition

I'm Damian Montagu, a composer and producer from West Sussex. I've released through Decca, topped the iTunes Classical chart, and heard my music carried onto Radio 4 by Hugh Bonneville. Quency is the most personal thing I've made.

These aren't playlists, or loops pulled from a library. Every sound in Quency is composed by hand for deep listening. Strings, piano, cello and trumpet, gathered around a single tuning: 432 Hz, the frequency that gives Quency its name.

Nothing here is borrowed or generated. I build each world from the ground up. One began with a Chopin nocturne: I took the melody away, kept the quiet left hand beneath it, slowed everything down, and let a cello sit in alongside the piano. By the end it wasn't Chopin any more. It was something stiller, and it was mine.

I make these because I need them too. When I sit inside one of these worlds, something in me settles, and that is the whole of it. The mind becomes a place to put the day down for a while.

The mission

Frequencies, in support of Parkinson's research

I was diagnosed with Parkinson's. Quency was born, in part, out of that: the long hours I spent inside these sounds, finding a stillness I badly needed.

I'm not offering a cure, and I never will. What I can offer is calming music made to slow you down and quiet the noise, for anyone who needs somewhere softer to be.

So a share of everything Quency earns goes to support Parkinson's research. This music came from a hard chapter of my life; it feels right that it gives something back.

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The journal

Notes on each sound

Where each world was recorded, what it holds, and how to listen: written long-form, to be read slowly.

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