Listen Up: Maniac

Overview

With multi-screen technology and life's general background noise perpetually present, many of us have lost touch with music, you know, actually listening to it. We've wound up with some not-so-flash listening skills, putting a playlist on in the background and switching off. But psychology and mindfulness studio, The Indigo Project, has discovered a nifty way to help you tune back into that big, beautiful world of sound.

Once a month, the Surry Hills space hosts a music-driven meditation session called Listen Up, drawing on a mix of modern mindfulness, psychology, and music therapy techniques. No phones allowed.

Usually, each of the hour-long sessions centres on a different acclaimed artist's album — but this month's a little different. This Saturday, October 20, you'll spend two mind-bending hours meditating to the soundtrack of Maniac. For the uninitiated, the dark psychological Netflix series features Emma Stone and Jonah Hill in a pharmaceutical trial, and they get lost in their own — and each other's — minds.

During the meditation class, you'll listen to Dan Romer, Daryl Hall & John Oates and Geto Boys as you, maybe, go on a psychic journey as a mobster, lemur-stealer, elf or con artist magician at a séance. Or, maybe you won't. But you'll work on clearing focus, opening the mind, and getting those creative juices flowing the way they should. Not to mention, you'll likely discover a newfound appreciation for The Police.

If you need a chance to unpack all this, there'll be drinks, cheese and chats on the rooftop afterwards.