Consciousness Tuning™
Music for calm, sleep, and quiet reconnection
Nicola Zena composes music that creates a space of peace and harmony away from the noise of everyday life — created to calm the mind, aid deep sleep, and support quiet reconnection with the natural world and the self.
Consciousness Tuning™ is her ongoing body of work exploring the meeting point of ambient composition and sound therapy principles — intuitively composed, carefully considering frequency, texture, and space. Magical soundtracks carrying a genuine wish to calm, uplift, and enrich listeners, each piece is composed as its own world: something to rest in, return to, and lose yourself inside.
This fascination with frequency and its effect on the body and mind goes back to her earliest music studies, and shaped relaxation-focused work long before Consciousness Tuning™ existed as a named series.
Her music has found a home in schools, at live events, and in gallery settings — valued for its calming, focusing quality. Parents have also reported it helping with children's sleep and colic, and listeners have found it useful for stress, insomnia, anxiety relief, and focus.
An award-winning interdisciplinary composer, her soundtrack and sound design received the Czech Radio Award at the Prague One World Film Festival, and her work has been internationally recognised over more than thirty years, supported by Arts Council England and featured by the BBC and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
Curious about Nicola's wider artistic practice — three decades of sound, moving image, and interdisciplinary work, and the marine conservation project she's now developing? [Read the full story →]
Curious about Nicola's wider artistic practice — three decades of sound, moving image, and interdisciplinary work, and the marine conservation project she's now developing? [Read the full story →]