A sound retreat in the Atlas
Three nights at altitude with a sound healer, a cellist, and twelve people who hadn't met. The silence between sessions was the program.
A guest practitioner approached us with a question: what would a sound retreat look like if the silence around the practice was treated as carefully as the practice itself?
We built the answer in the Atlas, in a riad-style stone house at altitude. Two sessions a day — one guided sound bath, one long-form cello — and a strict, almost monastic silence for the ninety minutes that followed each. Tea was poured in the silence. Meals were eaten in it.
Studio Notes — 09
The participants came as twelve strangers and left as twelve people who had spent a week in the same room without performing themselves. The silence did most of the work.
Designed with a guest sound practitioner. Twelve guests. Three nights. One quiet stone house.