Composed by Damian Montagu
432 HzFind your Frequency
Immerse into the sound. Make yourself comfortable, close your eyes, and let the frequencies find you.
Enter the Sound WorldsThe Sound Worlds
Step into your resonating frequency
Five looped frequencies. Tap an orb to start its sound, and tap it again to stop. Layer the sounds that belong together, and find your frequency.
One rule: Classical and the Ambient · Pulse pair take turns. While one side plays, the other rests in grey — stop the sound, and it wakes again.
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Where it began
About Quency
Quency began with a simple but compelling question: if vibration lies at the heart of the natural world, what role might it play in our own wellbeing?
Created by composer Damian Montagu following a shock diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, it started as a personal exploration into whether music, rhythm, nature and vibration could help quiet the mind, support sleep and create moments of stillness.
As the work evolved, one thing became clear: no single discipline has the full picture.
Scientists continue to study how sound and the brain interact, from neural oscillations to rhythm's influence on movement and wellbeing. At the same time, musicians, meditation teachers and sound practitioners from all cultures around the world have long recognised the power of sound in human experience and its potential to influence wellbeing on many levels.
Quency doesn't ask you to choose between them. It invites curiosity.
Some are drawn to science. Others to tradition, intuition or nature. Quency is open to what is known, and curious about what is not yet fully understood. Quency is simply a place to explore.
The floating circles let you build your own soundscape, blending music, natural environments and carefully selected frequencies. There is no right or wrong combination, no fixed path — only the freedom to listen and discover what resonates with you.
Perhaps you'll sleep more easily.
Perhaps you'll feel calmer.
Perhaps you'll focus more clearly.
Or perhaps you'll simply take a moment to pause and listen.
Whatever brings you here, we hope Quency encourages curiosity, openness, and above all, helps you find your freQuency.
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.
The mission
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.
With thanks
Credits
Quency is made by hand, in West Sussex, with the help of these people and places.
- Composed, performed and produced by
Damian Montagu
- Strings
The Tippett Quartet
- Field recordings
The South Downs National Park
The Knepp Estate, West Sussex
- The resonance mark
A 432 Hz tone, photographed vibrating in water
- The mission
Parkinson's UK
Quency is an independent project. If you hear your work here and we have missed you, please write to us and we will put it right.
Before you ask
FAQs
What is Quency?
A set of sound worlds composed by Damian Montagu. Tap a floating circle to start its sound, layer the ones that belong together, and balance them until the room sounds like you want it to. There is no right combination — only the one that resonates with you.
Why 432 Hz?
It is the tuning at the heart of Quency's sound, and the mark you see everywhere on this site is a real 432 Hz tone photographed vibrating in water. We use it because of how it sits in the body of the music, and because it gives Quency its name. We make no claim that it is objectively better, or more healing, than any other tuning.
Is Quency a medical treatment?
No. Quency is a wellbeing companion — music for calm, sleep, focus and stillness. It is not a medical device or a therapy, it is not designed to diagnose, treat or manage any condition, and it should never replace advice from your doctor.
Are the sounds original?
Every one. Strings, piano, cello and trumpet, composed and produced by Damian, alongside field recordings made on the South Downs and at the rewilded Knepp Estate. Nothing is pulled from a stock library, and nothing is generated by AI.
Do I need headphones?
They make a real difference. Much of this music lives in low frequencies that phone speakers simply cannot reproduce, so headphones — or good speakers — are how these sounds are meant to be heard.
Why do some circles turn grey?
Because not every sound belongs with every other. While Classical is playing, the Ambient and Pulse circles rest in grey, and while either of those plays, Classical rests. Stop the sound that is playing and the others wake again.
How does the Parkinson's mission work?
Damian was diagnosed with Parkinson's, and Quency grew out of that chapter of his life. A share of everything Quency earns goes to support Parkinson's research. It is a way of giving something back — not a claim about what the music does.
When is the app coming?
The Quency app is being built for iPhone, with the whole Studio of sound worlds inside it. Subscribe to the newsletter below and we will tell you the moment it arrives.