Liam Tormey

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Good Vibrations: How Music Heals Us All

A life-course book about music as a force for regulation, connection, repair, and presence. It moves from infancy and parent–infant voice, through learning and rehabilitation, into dementia, pain, oncology, and end-of-life care — asking what music does when bodies or relationships need support most.

The angle: music heals by organising time. Rhythm, voice, and movement can help bodies settle, help movement return, help speech re-emerge, help memory stay reachable, and help people remain in relation to one another when words or other systems fail. The book treats music not as magic or background, but as a practical, embodied form of care with biological, psychological, and social effects — framed through musicology and ethnomusicology as much as neuroscience, asking which musical forms, in which settings, for which people, and how those practices are shaped by culture, family, and clinical context.

Status: strong conceptual shape and chapter architecture in place. Currently building the source inventory; next step is locking the chapter order and drafting the introduction and first two chapters in full. No publication date yet.

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Liam Edward Tormey (also known as DON VIBRATON et al.) may appear as mercurial as the great bear or as relatable as a manic pixie elf. He has sought health, wealth and stealth. A perennial pilgrim, ascetic indulger, musical magician, flow master supreme, R.A.P (relatable artistic prophet) STAR, bozo-sattva, and a one time zig zagging, sun seeking, soul surfing zinger stringer.

He has raged mad ahab in the belly of the beast and sat in peace gazing upon Himalayan heights. Some say he's a skillful scribe, others a proficient omniscient prompter, some don't know what he's talking about, other's just pass him on by on the merry-go-around-again.

Professionally he's known as an actuarial artisan, marketing swindler, high frequency trading bot, theological synchrotron and in exchange for poems will happily turn lead into gold.

It's rumoured he has a piece of paper that says BACHELOR of MUSIC and one of these days he might get another bit of paper that says MASTER of TEACHING. But until then he's striving to be MASTER of EVERYTHING.

On weekends he likes to get hyperborean in his delorean and on weekdays he physically isolates and oscillates from Uluṟu to Mt. Meru…all the while still calling burn city home…And YES! he will send you salubrious salutations on LinkedIn!

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