About Sentiosonics
The study of the interaction between sound and sentience.
Sentiosonics is a publication about what sound and music do to the mind: binaural beats and brainwave entrainment, music therapy, sound baths, vibroacoustics, and the research on all of it.
The field is full of claims and short on careful reading. Apps, frequency channels and wellness sites promise things the studies often don’t support. Meanwhile some of the real findings, like the effect of music on anxiety before surgery, get less attention than they deserve. We read the papers, grade them, and write up what holds.
How we work
Every research summary links to the paper it describes and carries an evidence grade, with the full scorecard on the page. How the grading works, who does it and how to correct us is on the methodology page.
An AI research agent does much of the legwork: it searches the literature, finds each paper, scores it against the rubric and drafts summaries. The editor reviews that work, and nothing is published as ours until the editor has.
Articles report and explain, with their sources. Opinion is labelled as opinion. When a news story gets the science wrong, we say so and show our reasoning.
None of this is medical advice. We describe what the evidence shows; questions about treatment belong with a clinician.
Who is behind it
Sentiosonics is published by Pirate & Fox LLC. If you have a correction, a study we should know about, or a question, write to us.
Five commitments
- 01
Grade the evidence
Every study gets a published scorecard: eight criteria, each score with its reason. If you disagree with a grade, you can say exactly where.
- 02
Read the paper, not the press release
Claims link to the primary research or a systematic review. If we can't locate a paper, it doesn't go on the site.
- 03
Cover the whole history
From Gerald Oster's 1973 article that made binaural beats famous to this month's trials. A field only makes sense when you can see what has already been tried.
- 04
Say how sure we are
"Strong evidence" and "a few small studies suggest" mean different things, and we use them carefully. No evidence is not the same as evidence against.
- 05
Correct in public
When we get something wrong, the page says so, with the date and what changed.
Sound and music change how people feel; nobody serious disputes that. The interesting questions are how, how much, and for whom. Those are the ones we try to answer carefully.