Dustin Wells · Sound Ceremony Artist. Guide.
Music that moves people.
Experiences that change them.
Somewhere between a live concert, a listening practice, and a contemplative experience through sound — music you lie down inside of, from a lifetime jazz musician trained under a multi-generational sound lineage in Nepal.
Experience
Sound Ceremonies
Presence over performance. An immersive sound journey built for the room it happens in. You don’t watch the music — you lie down inside it.
Go deeper
Retreats
Multi-day experiences for leaders, teams, and anyone ready for real change — with thirty days of guided integration after.
One on one
Coaching
Two ways to work privately: a two-day Breakthrough intensive, or a twelve-month journey.
Why now
We are the most stimulated people who have ever lived, and the least practiced at listening.
A ceremony is an evening, or a whole day, with nothing to answer — no feed, no decisions, nobody needing anything from you. Just sound arriving from every direction, and the slow discovery that your attention will settle if you give it somewhere to land. Most of what people come back for happens in that gap.
Why sound
Sound is a technology — the oldest one we have for changing human state.
A tone can settle a nervous system. A rhythm can move what conversation can’t reach. Long before language, this is how we gathered, grieved, and celebrated — and it works as precisely today as it ever did. I practice it with an engineer’s precision and a musician’s reverence.
The technologies behind the workListen at home
Listen Deeply — a contemplative practice in sound.
The ceremonies, recorded in the room and left whole, with live sets and overnight field recordings from Bali. Original music, all of it. Play them here, and soon in the Listen Deeply app for iPhone and Android: offline, on your speakers, with a sleep timer that fades out.
Practice daily
108 Moments — one practice a day, one moment at a time.
A ceremony ends. The practice doesn’t have to. Each morning gives you one specific thing to catch yourself noticing, and every time you catch it you move a bead on an eighteen-bead necklace. The counting happens in your hand, so your phone stays in your pocket. Two minutes to begin, seconds at a time after that.
The philosophy
Life as ceremony — full attention, real presence, nothing wasted.
The thread
I’ve spent my life inside music — jazz stages, studios, sacred rooms. Now I use it to build states of being.
A lifetime as a jazz musician taught me to listen, improvise, and answer a room in real time. Formal training in singing bowls and sound healing in a multi-generational Nepalese lineage taught me where to aim it. Every ceremony carries both.
The goal: empowering one billion people to live joyfully, connected to purpose, and grounded in presence.
Gatherings
Upcoming
- Thu, Oct 29Meditation & SoundMeditation & SoundA private home in Telluride, near the high school · Telluride, Colorado
- Sun, Nov 8Live Sound CeremonySound CeremonyWilkinson Public Library · Telluride, Colorado
- Wed, Nov 11Meditation & SoundMeditation & SoundA private home in Telluride, near the high school · Telluride, Colorado