Find your flow state – on demand.

If focus was easy for us modern humans, we wouldn’t have made this album. In our fast worlds, with a thousand things demanding our attention, its really tough to “get into the zone” and apply all our mental power to one project. It’s often called “flow” or “being in the zone” and a state many of us refer to reverently. The great news: this state can be cultivated and learned.

Focus on Task is music for optimal human productivity. It creates an environment that supports clear focus and greatly enhanced concentration. Slow tempos, gentle music, and occasional nature sounds create a ‘Body Relaxed’ condition through the process of rhythmic entrainment. The high spectrum sounds of flute, clarinet, and violins, harmonic-rich acoustical recordings, and subtle variations in rhythm and dynamics facilitate the state of ‘Mind Alert.’ The alignment of the two is what creates the beautiful harmony that allows us to drop in, hone in, and ace our desired task.

Welcome to the bliss of aligned productivity. 

The breakthrough research behind Through a Dog’s Ear shows that the mammalian nervous system is extremely sensitive to sound — and that special arrangements of classical music have a profound soothing impact on anxious beings. We created this music for human health, as well as your discerning ear.

We’ve taken the mystery out of one of those “really rare days where everything just seems to click.” There’s a formula for optimal human productivity, and sound is a tool that can bring on that state. Bulgarian psychiatrist Georgi Lasonov, known as the father of Accelerated Learning, discovered that music was an integral component in the psycho/physiologic state known as ‘Body Relaxed/Mind Alert.’ In this mind/body combination, concentration, memory, and imagination are sustained in a heightened state.

The two programs of Focus on Task are sound collages specifically designed to increase productivity using Body Relaxed/Mind Alert audio techniques. Alternating soundscapes of baroque classical music and nature sounds invigorate mental clarity, and facilitate project attentiveness. These original recordings feature a chamber ensemble, consisting of woodwinds (flute, clarinet, oboe) and string sections (violin, viola, cello, and bass). Occasionally, psychoacoustically-designed nature sounds are included to further heighten the Body Relaxed state.

The music is the secret sauce of the iCalm systems. iCalmPet co-founder Joshua Leeds is an expert in psychoacoustics – the study of the effect of music and sound on the human nervous system. He has been creating application-specific soundtracks since 1986, used in homes, clinics, classrooms, and animal care facilities around the world.

Enjoy some sample music