meet some of our community members
Rachel Porquet-Chanmugam
Bathing in sounds, co-creating with nature
Rachel is a sound alchemist who creates Music Medicine & Healing Soundscapes, by blending therapeutic, traditional and electronic instruments together, as well as including Nature sounds (live, recorded or recreated). Her new project revolves around Connection, Co-creation and Healing, including AND targeting people + the more-than-human, using mostly sound, music and vibrations, but also 'arts' in all their various formats, research, education, and AI. A systemic and holistic wellness web of experiences for humans AND nature, using creativity, intention, intuition and interaction.
Rachel is a French citizen who has been living in Sri Lanka for almost 20 years, with her local family. She is certified in different Sound Healing practices, Nature-Connectedness & Environmental courses, Kundalini yoga and holds a Master in Education Sciences. She specializes in linking Wellness to all forms of Connection (to Self, Nature & others), and combining multiple modalities together. The goal being to address physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual and environmental healing, as well as providing journeys that are crafted with intention, intuition and artistic sense.
www.ee-ess-see.com
www.instagram.com/rachel.chanmugam
www.instagram.com/ecosystemssoundcollective
www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-porquet-chanmugam-b2448a14
www.facebook.com/rachel.porquetchanmugam
www.youtube.com/channel/UCEwN-GZldqk4aNFgZ7loAYQ
soundcloud.com/rachel-chanmugam
Rogerio Jardim
A perfeição é o inimigo
Rogerio is a Brazilian-born drummer, singer, composer, producer, and visual artist with over 40 years of international experience. Known as the original drummer of Infected Mushroom, he blends acoustic and electronic drumming with expressive precision. Rogerio has also created and produced four solo albums, exploring Brazilian rhythms, progressive rock, and electronica. He is the creator of AereoZen, a live wellness experience combining rhythm, aerial imagery, and meditative sound. Through his visual art brand LinoDreams and his music, he continues to explore the harmony between movement, sound, and visual expression.
rogeriojardim.com
www.youtube.com/user/redjaro
linodreams.comyoutube.com/@aereozen
Haakon Rian Mancient Ueland
"Music is emotions distilled - watch your frequency"
Haakon Rian Mancient Ueland is a Social Work Frontline Survivor who has spent four decades performing autopsies on failing systems and institutional chaos. A Viking Monk and conscious meat eater, he has navigated Norway’s most challenging social frontlines since 1983 without having to throw a punch, a feat he attributes to a steady habit of Karate, Krav Maga, and a proprietary "monkey fighting" form. A Mensa member since 1993 and the leader of the Poetic Genius Society since 2014, he is the founder of Earth House charity.
Operating under the handle mAncient, he possesses a 3.7-octave range and more than 100 songs on Spotify and other services, totalling roughly 8 million streams and 100,000 "friends" on social media . He is a master of the long game; he had a fan base even before he released his first album, consisting of three people who promised to buy his record. He started learning the accordeon at four, and plays perc, keys & harmonica.
He wrote his first song around 1980 on the night train to Stavanger. It featured the immortal metaphor "naked as a prawn". Still makes him shudder.
Much of his music is available for free on Audius and his socials can be found by searching for "mancient". Always open for collabs; mancient@protonmail.com.
www.audius.co/mancient_one
Rich Schwegerl
Let's jam!
Rich had the honor of touring as the vibraphonist and percussionist with Lou Rawls, composing for the Travel Channel & MTV as well as performing with dozens of LA Bands. Currently band leader of Island Voyage and The Right Vibe. Rich learned the art of entertaining by performing with some of the best: Lou Rawls, Taj Mahal, Robert Greenidge, Chuck Mangione, Horace Silver, Tommy Castro, Emil Richards to name a few.
islandvoyage.com
Nick Blake
Nick is a writer, musician, producer and AYSO all star soccer coach. He has performed with numerous indie bands, including Good Little Monkey (with Tom Deis), Excited States of America, Bluegrass Block Party and Big Medicine Revival.
After years of being told he should be on the radio for his music and singing voice, but frustrated with the options available for underground indie artists, he built the vt so that talented indie artists around the world could have a better chance at being discovered along with a meaningful career path.
No socials. Real conversations with real people only.