111 focuses on an aspect of sound, which is well-known in many different cultures all over the world for thousands of years: its enormous healing effects! For Nadja, voice and initiator of the project, that’s not just an assumption or a diffuse hope but a fact, experienced first hand. In her early twenties, a surgery which was supposed to be routine became a life threatening experience - fear of death and weeks in hospital. In her mid-twenties and graduated ‚summa cum laude’, she started feeling exhausted and after another 5 years of working in the political system, she was burned-out: a trauma, tinnitus and lots of fear. Real help was extremely hard to find! Music finally saved her:the positive effects of soft, warming sounds and calming rhythms on anxiety and tinnitus. And most of all, Nadja discovered her own voice. Reading on music therapy and especially listening to the so-called ‚healing‘-music, she felt that the sounds and the style were often a little clichéd and foreseeable. With 111 Nadja and her producer want to bring the positive effects of music to a wider audience by picking up the knowledge of music therapy and the healing sound traditions of different cultures and translating it into a new sound aesthetic: No eso-cliché, but a fresh, organic ambient-electro-sound that transports a feeling of relaxation and warmth. That is why, for example, the songs are presented in 432 hz instead of the usual 440 hz pop songs are produced in. Studies prove that this frequency has relaxing and empowering effects because it matches the natural vibration of the human body. 111 combines instruments from different musical traditions which are known for their touching and relaxing sounds, for example the monochord. 111 also integrates mantras from different religions which are known for their comforting and healing effects. There’s an extended version of each song, so listeners are invited to chant, if they want to!