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  • Angel Frequencies

    Angel Frequencies

    The album ANGEL FREQUENCIES is inspired by angel numbers—repeating number sequences often seen as messages from the spiritual world. These numbers tend to show up in everyday places like clocks, license plates, receipts, or phone numbers. (In fact, even as I type this I notice my clock reads 2:22)

    Angel Frequencies by J.S. Epperson album cover
    Angel Frequencies by J.S. Epperson album cover

    Since the start of 2025, I’ve been seeing these numbers everywhere. Maybe it’s coincidence, maybe it’s how the mind notices patterns, or maybe it’s a reminder to connect with deeper parts of myself.

    The album itself is built on repetition and variation. Each track is tuned to frequencies matching the angel number, layering multiple bands of binaural beats and other brainwave entrainment technologies in the audio.

    The tracks each contain between 4 and 6 bands of binaural and/or monaural beat frequencies and other entrainment techniques. All contain Delta, Theta, Alpha brainwave patterns: we’re going for a pleasant and present vibe without so much critical thinking going on, you hear? Get into a quiet space, pop in some earbuds, and rise with the vibration!

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    WHERE TO LISTEN

    Individual tracks are available everywhere, but “Angel Frequencies (33:33)” is available exclusively from Bandcamp, Insight Timer and YouTube.

    Apple Music | Amazon | Deezer | Spotify | Tidal | YouTube

    CAPITALISM

    I’m a busker at heart, just settling into the flow of the universe and sharing what I can. If meditation music brings you peace, feel free to listen as much as you’d like. I create with no expectation — just know that that generosity is paid forward in more ways than one. 😉

    Download some tracks at higher-music.bandcamp.com: just enter a donation of $0 and your email address at time of purchase for a free copy. If pretty sounding wallpaper is your thing, subscribe to my YouTube channel, or you can even just send a few nickels my way through Venmo. 😉

    Thanks for being here!

    ATTENTION

    This music contains binaural beats, an audio brainwave entrainment technology that works best with stereo headphones or earbuds.

  • Connecting the 432Hz tuning to right wing fascist politics

    Fashwave (432 hz): How Audio Frequencies Take on Meaning in Neofascist Communities

  • 432Hz music and the hidden problem of tuning

    About ten years ago, I released Splendor, a project I later removed from my discography. I built the album around the 432Hz tuning, keying each track to one of the seven chakras.

    As I kept experimenting with tuning and retuning my synthesizers, I realized I’d been going about it all wrong. Most of the “432Hz” music I’d been listening to wasn’t actually composed in that tuning at all—they were just 440Hz recordings pitched down by 8Hz. That approach made even less sense than what I was doing; no matter who was doing it, the math simply didn’t math.

    But the thing that drove me to drop the project completely was best articulated by Christopher Jaros in his book Sonic Alchemy (Amazon):

    Claims about the ancient origins of the 432Hz tuning encounter a major obstacle, which is the anachronism of the concept itself. The idea of consciously tuning instruments to an absolute value measured in cycles per second (cps), or today’s Hertz (Hz), is inextricably linked to the modern, scientific paradigm.

  • Hello world!

    Yeah so today was the day I hit the reboot button on this little website. Allow me to reintroduce myself: I am J.S. Epperson, purveyor of headphone music for voyagers, blender of binaural beats, angel in disguise, and all around kook dilettante. For best results, use headphones.