Voices from Nature: immersive sound journey with Olo
This CTC Weekly, we welcome back Olo team, after 1.5 years, for a new and improved immersive Audio Journey experience.
Join us for an intimate, guided demonstration of a new kind of audio experience—an Immersive Audio Journey unlike anything you’ve heard before.
Created by award-winning Finnish composer Markus Pesonen, this spatial composition weaves together high-resolution field recordings from remote ecosystems and spatially recoded intstruments—rendered in three-dimensional space using cutting-edge audio technology. The result?
A surreal, uncanny sense of presence that past participants have described as psychedelic, transportive, and profoundly emotional (with no substances involved).
After the journey, we’ll gather for an open conversation on the future of self-directed health—exploring how practices like this don’t just reduce stress, but increase the frame rate of life—sharpening perception, deepening connection, and expanding what it means to feel fully alive.
EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP FLOW
6:30 PM | Threshold Crossing As you arrive, we'll guide you in setting intentions and preparing your nervous system for deep listening.
6:50 PM | Sonic Immersion Surrender to a carefully orchestrated soundscape designed to bypass your analytical mind and speak directly to your cellular intelligence.
7:30 PM | Collective Reflection Emerge gradually and share insights within our supportive community circle, as we integrate individual experiences into collective wisdom.
THE OLO APPROACH
Olo’s approach is rooted in a simple truth: sustainable agency emerges from clarity, and clarity emerges from recovery. True transformation doesn’t start from willpower—it starts with a regulated nervous system.
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What is Conscious Tech?
"Conscious Tech" has a two-fold meaning:
1. Technology that expands consciousness, on an individual or collective level, towards mindful loving compassion, and flourishing. (e.g. mental health tech, tech for caring, tech for spiritual awakening & wisdom).
2. Technology that are crafted with conscious intent and process and a truly life-centric orientation, minding the complex systemic dynamics that a product and service reside in. (e.g. calm tech, ambient computing, natural gesture interfaces)
What is CTC? We are a 2 year old multidisciplinary innovators' community - from backgrounds such as neuroscience, engineering, brain-computer interface (BCI), human-comuter interaction design (HCI), psychotherapy, arts, plant medicine, somatic healing, and other ancient wisdom practices. We come from academic, industry, and startup contexts and gather weekly in person in San Francisco, and go on excursions to other parts of the world.
Together, we explore shared concerns and curiosities about the impact of a new wave of emerging technologies on human well-being: from AI to next-gen BCI and biosensors, and more. We contextualize them with ancient wisdom technologies such as plant medicine and meditation to advance our research and innovation projects, holistically. We aim to channel technology's power to heal our connections to Self, Each other, and the Planet.
We advocate for the ethical research, design, and development of well-being-focused products and services - enabled by emerging technology. We also advocate for systems change - positive futures where Technology and Capital support human and planetary flourishing. Not the other way around. We want to contribute to an economy that's regenerative, life-sustaining, and positive-sum, not extractive.
Our 4 pillars of action are:
1. Community Building
2. Translational Research
3. Innovator Support
4. Product Incubation
A deep dive of our values can be found here: https://lu.ma/rcb9yltg
If these resonate, join us!