madame gandhi

In this Grounding Practice, Madame Gandhi guides us through a meditation to  center in who we are and connect to a vibration of joy from within.

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The guest of this episode of The Accutron Show is the incredible Madame Gandhi, award-winning artist and activist known for her uplifting, percussive electronic music and positive message about gender liberation and personal power. She has been listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 in Music and BBC 100 Women, and her mainstage TED Talk about conscious music consumption has been viewed over a million times. Madame Gandhi’s mission is to use music as a medium for a message about positivity, personal expression and human thriving. “Waiting For Me,” shot in Mumbai, India, which focuses on radical expressions of joy, color and freedom won the Music Video Jury Award at SXSW Film Festival in 2021. In June of 2022, Gandhi completed a Masters in Music Science & Technology at Stanford University's CCRMA where she spent time in Antarctica sampling the sounds of glaciers melting to create empathy and awareness around climate change.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

5:20 The activism came from a very young age. We were always encouraged by our parents to give back, to volunteer and to be mindful of others. And because music gives me such effortless joy, when you combine joy with an opportunity to give back, I think you are fueled for life. 

18:40 During the pandemic I spent a lot of time recording sounds in nature, because that's the only place we could go. I learned how to build underwater microphones. When I was invited to Antarctica, I started recording the sound of glaciers melting in the South Pole. 

27:40 We need adults to believe in their own magic so we can make the world a better place. Music has the power to soften certain feelings, it gets them moving, brings people back into that childlike purity.

Madame Gandhi is an incredibly diverse guest: she is an award winning producer, composer, and drummer for M.I.A., a member of Forbes' 30 Under 30, has given several TED talks, has an MBA from Harvard and a Masters in Music Science & Tech from Stanford, and famously ran the 2015 London Marathon while menstruating freely to combat menstrual stigma. We talk about how she tackles both self doubt and imposter syndrome in her many creative endeavors, her concept of optimizing for joy in our passions to foster sustainability, post-show rituals, and so much more.

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Links:

• Madame Gandhi
• Organic Nature Sounds Sample Pack
• TedX Talk
• M.I.A.
• Elevate Conference

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