When composer Pauline Oliveros quoted Tibetan lama Sogyal Rinpoche on putting meditation in an equation with the wisdom of listening and the depth of insight in 1999, she had realized that her own listening skills were still continuing to evolve – forty six years after she started meditating on sound.

In conversation with music therapist Prof. Dr. phil. Isabelle Frohne-Hagemann I want to find out how receptive music therapy works and whether there are similarities between my own approach to listening and the established technique. Could guided listening to music possibly be an appropriate form of therapy for misophonia?