Ep. 148 *BEST OF EPISODE* MindTravel: Creating a Soundtrack for Expression, Transformation and Celebration with Murray Hidary
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On the podcast this week is Murray Hidary, a multi-disciplinary artist, tech pioneer, composer, and the Founder of MindTravel.
Murray’s purpose-driven approach is at the heart of his business success, acclaim as a visual artist and global recognition as a musician. Ever pushing boundaries and guided by a strong desire to help people find their purpose, Murray is now focused on touring his immersive musical experience MindTravel across the globe.
Over the past five years, Murray has created over 500 MindTravel experiences for over 100,000 people in cities from Los Angeles to London, Paris to Pittsburgh, Berlin to Boulder; in venues such as Lincoln Center, The Theater at the Ace Hotel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Cathedral, and The National Arts Club.
This episode originally aired on June 9, 2020 and we can’t wait to share it with you again!
In this week’s new episode we chat about Murray’s journey with music, music as a powerful language for expression, healing, and emotion, and how he’s moving people to greater purpose in their lives through music. We talk about MindTravel, the inspiration behind this transformative immersive musical experience, and the deeper levels of consciousness he’s been able to tap into through this practice. Plus, Murray shares his insights from quarantine, his top tips for connecting your passion with your purpose, the most impactful lessons he’s taken from music, how to hold space for our emotions, and so much more!
I’m so excited to share this week’s inspiring conversation with Murray, and I can’t wait to hear what you think! Make sure to join the conversation on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter!
“MindTravel started as my personal practice, it’s what I did to take me somewhere, to open up this space. I describe it as these transporting experiences that I deliver musically. For me, it’s about moving people to purpose and healing through music.”
Murray Hidary is a multi-disciplinary artist and tech pioneer. His purpose-driven approach is at the heart of his business success, acclaim as a visual artist and global recognition as a musician. Ever pushing boundaries and guided by a strong desire to help people find their purpose, Murray is now focused on touring his immersive musical experience MindTravel across the globe. Over the past five years, Murray has created over 500 MindTravel experiences for over 100,000 people in cities from Los Angeles to London, Paris to Pittsburgh, Berlin to Boulder; in venues such as Lincoln Center, The Theater at the Ace Hotel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Cathedral, and The National Arts Club.
Murray created the first MindTravel experience in 2013. He invited a group to his living room for a live performance of his provocative, improvisational, real-time compositions at the piano and then asked them what they thought of the experience. Moved by their emotional response and the power of music to take the group on a deep inner journey, he moved forward to bring it to the world.
Growing up playing music since he was five years old, Murray knew he wanted to be a composer by the time he was in high school. He also began a deep inner journey of discovery as a teenager that led him to study eastern philosophy, Zen Buddhism and other wisdom traditions. His composing became deeply influenced by these teachings and he began to fuse the two into a personal reflective practice at the piano. This practice inspired him to discover great insights and provided healing through profound personal loss, grief and life's tribulations. It became a voice he used to connect to his higher sense of purpose. A musical language and journey continued to emerge and evolve. He called it MindTravel.
MindTravel brings together Murray's passions for contemporary classical music, visual art, theoretical physics and wisdom traditions. They are the four pillars of an integrated experience that seeks to explore an understanding of the universe at both the visible and hidden levels.
“There’s something deeper to one’s purpose than the what, the action. Your purpose really is the driving values that have formed within you, and you’re actually expressing those values through what we call the passion, which is the action – the vocation, the skill, whatever it is you’re doing it through. Whatever your passion is, there’s an underlying value that’s driving it.”
“Music is a language of healing and emotion. Like our emotions, it’s not always so simple. We are complex individuals and sometimes our emotions are multi-faceted, and layered. Music is a language that can hold space for that layering.”
To learn more about Murray visit his website www.murrayhidary.com and to learn more about MindTravel visit their website www.mindtravel.com and on Facebook @mindtravelmusic Twitter @murrayhidary Instagram @mindtravelmusic @murrayhidary
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