Why has sound been used as a tool for healing across cultures and throughout history? And what does modern neuroscience reveal about this ancient practice?

In this first episode of Resonances, physician, singer, and researcher Patricia Caicedo explores the deep and enduring relationship between music and medicine—from prenatal life and shamanic ritual to Pythagoras, Renaissance physicians, and contemporary neuroscience.

Drawing on history, biology, and clinical research, this episode examines how sound interacts with the nervous system, regulates emotion, modulates pain and stress, and shapes our experience of health. What ancient cultures understood intuitively, science is now beginning to explain.

This episode invites you to listen differently—and to reconsider the role of music not as metaphor, but as a biological and cultural force in human health.

🎧 In this episode:

• Sound, the body, and early healing practices
• Rhythm, vibration, and nervous system regulation
• Music as medicine across history
• What neuroscience tells us today

Welcome to Resonances—where music, health, and identity meet.

What if one summer could change the way you see music—and yourself—forever?In this episode of Resonances, Patricia Caicedo reunites with participants of the 2025 Barcelona Festival of Song—including Eden Rosenbaum, Cassandra Brittany Leisher, Ana Socaci, Jaiden Wettstein, Katelyn Breen, Campbelle Stencel, Sofia Jaquez, Crystal Buck, Stella Roden, Amethyst Shanks, David Dies, and Robert Rocco—as they reflect on their artistic journeys, discoveries, and the deep bonds formed through eleven transformative days of making music together.

What happens when Federico García Lorca’s most sensual poems collide with a historic piano in the heart of Barcelona?

In this behind-the-scenes episode, soprano-musicologist Patricia Caicedo welcomes composer David Dies and tenor James Kryshak to reveal the fiery birth of El Diván del Tamarit—a brand-new song cycle premiering July 4, 2025 at the Biblioteca de Catalunya on Enric Granados’ own piano.

🔍 Listen in to discover: • How Dies turns Lorca’s “white fire” and surreal images into razor-edged harmonies and soaring vocal lines. • Why Kryshak calls the poems “painfully urgent” for today—and how he sculpts every Spanish syllable for maximum impact. • Caicedo’s mission to prove the United States is already a Spanish-speaking nation and to spotlight Iberian-Latin American art song at the Barcelona Festival of Song (July 3–12, 2025). • The teamwork—pianist Joel Papinoja, live poem recitations, and more—that transforms raw verse into living performance.

If you love poetry, vocal drama, or the electric moment when art is born, join us—on site or online—as Lorca’s echoes reverberate through 21st-century Barcelona.

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