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Mindful Music Moments

Imagine an entire school – students, teachers, and administrators – taking time each morning to turn inward together, and listen to a brief mindfulness prompt and world-class music.

Available For: Schools Schools Organizations Organizations Groups & Families Groups & Families Individuals Individuals

The Well's programs combine best practices in arts and wellness and are designed in partnership with those they serve. How do we create our programs? In partnership with others and especially those we serve.

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Neighborhood Songlines

Neighborhood Songlines

Neighborhood Songlines is a community-oriented sound project/new music commission led by Jenn Howd (collaborator on the very popular Field Recordings including Fiona's Lullaby). Based in two Cincinnati neighborhoods, Camp Washington and Pleasant Ridge, Jenn & The Well hosted two sound-collecting events, asking the favorite sounds of households and businesses— the clanking of bottles in The Gaslight Cafe, the coos of mourning doves by Wavepool Art Gallery, the twinkling of wind chimes on a front porch, children laughing, ocean waves, and much more.

Jenn collected clips of the sounds, created sound maps of the neighborhoods for community sound walks, and turned them into musical collages for The Well’s national Mindful Music Moments program–bringing daily mindfulness and music into 300+ schools nationwide. 

Listen to the music and view the community sound maps below!

Jenn also created interactive SonicMaps, which use your phone’s GPS to play the favorite sounds we collected as you stroll through the Cincinnati neighborhood. You can also access and interact with the SonicMap from home using the links below.

Photos from Camp Washington Sound Collecting

OCTOBER 8, 2022 at the well

Bryce and Jenn standing, ready to ask about your favorite sounds.
Musician Deej brings her talent with crystal bowls.

Local musician Deej

Four people standing and smiling together outside
Two people sitting on the floor playing with wind chimes

Photos from Pleasant Ridge Sound Collecting

OCTOBER 29, 2022 at community happens here

Bryce and Jenn stand at a table, ready to collect your favorite sounds!
Sonya plays a harp with a young girl

Holistic Educator Sonya Verma

A board of post-it-notes with everyone's favorite sounds

Photos from Visit to Pleasant Ridge Montessori

November 22, 2022

Students look inside of a wind chime while Stacy moves it around.
Students take turns playing a tongue drum

Photos from Pleasant Ridge Community Sound Walk

May 20, 2023 at Community happens here

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A board of sticky notes that people wrote their favorite sounds on

The favorite sounds of Camp Washington

A piece of paper showing how the different layers of sounds become a single track of music

Jenn's score visualization for "Camp Washington Dreams"

Photo of Jenn Howd

Jenn Howd

Sound Artist  / Musician Jenn Howd has collaborated with The Well on several different projects in the past, including co-composing with Ben Sloan the very popular Fiona’s Lullaby for The Field Recordings Project, supported by the Ohio Arts Council and the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.

Learn more about Jenn

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