Work samples

  • Deep Rest Through Sound Session Documentation

    This video documents a Deep Rest Through Sound session, focusing on the design of the sonic environment and the layered use of instruments. Rather than presenting performance footage, it captures atmosphere, spatial relationships, and the audience’s experience inside sustained sound.

  • Deep Rest Through Sound

    This piece explores the emotional and physical effects of sustained resonance. Layered bowls, low-frequency drones, and subtle tonal shifts create a listening environment that slows the body and heightens awareness. Rather than functioning as background relaxation, the work invites the audience into an immersive sound field where stillness becomes an active experience and time feels momentarily suspended.

  • Throat Chakra Alignment- LIVE AUDIO RECORDING

    This live studio recording documents a Throat Chakra alignment session built from layered vocal improvisation and sustained harmonic resonance. Four vocalists, who did not rehearse together beforehand, contribute independent vocal lines, including sung affirmations in Arabic expressing gratitude and care for the voice, forming an emergent polyphonic texture in real time. The work demonstrates live sound structuring, frequency blending, and spatial listening as compositional tools within a controlled studio environment.

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About Maurice

Baltimore City  

Maurice Carroll is a Baltimore-based sound artist whose practice centers on immersive listening environments and sustained resonance as a contemporary artistic medium. His work explores how resonance, spatial tone, and frequency influence perception, attention, and the experience of time.

Through live sound practices, studio composition, and long-form listening pieces, Carroll treats sound not as accompaniment, but as an environment to be inhabited. His ongoing project Deep Rest… more

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Deep Rest Through Sound: Live Practices and Studies

Deep Rest Through Sound is an ongoing exploration of how sustained vibration, resonance, and spatial tone affect the human nervous system and perception of time. Each session is structured as a listening environment rather than a performance, inviting participants to inhabit sound as an immersive field. The work evolves across venues and contexts, functioning as both artistic practice and research into attentive stillness.

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    Installation view from a Deep Rest Through Sound session.

  • Deep Rest Through Sound — Session Documentation Image
    Deep Rest Through Sound — Session Documentation Image

    Installation view from a Deep Rest Through Sound session.

  • Deep Rest Through Sound — Session Documentation Image
    Deep Rest Through Sound — Session Documentation Image

    Installation view from a Deep Rest Through Sound session.

  • Deep Rest Through Sound Live Recording session

    Live recording from an additional Deep Rest Through Sound session. Included to show how the structure and resonance evolve across settings.

  • Deep Rest Through Sound — Session Documentation (Alternate)

    Short documentation clip showing the spatial setup and instrument arrangement for a Deep Rest Through Sound session. Included to provide process context rather than performance footage.

  • Deep Rest Through Sound — Program Overview

    Supplemental document outlining structure, instruments, and conceptual framing for the Deep Rest Through Sound practice.

    • Musical Expression With Friends: Collaborative Sound Practices

    Musical Expression With Friends (MEWF) is a collaborative sound practice centered on shared listening, improvisation, and guided musical exploration. The project creates structured environments where participants engage sound as a medium for expression, interaction, and creative discovery.

    As lead artist, I design the sonic framework, instruments, and pacing that shape each session, allowing the work to adapt organically to different spaces and group dynamics. MEWF emphasizes process over performance, positioning sound as a communal experience rather than a finished product.

    • Musical Expressions With Friends — Collaborative Sound Practice
      Musical Expressions With Friends — Collaborative Sound Practice

      Documentation from a Musical Expressions With Friends session, highlighting collaborative sound-making, improvisation, and shared listening within a structured sonic environment.

    • Musical Expression With Friends — Collaborative Sound Practice
      Musical Expression With Friends — Collaborative Sound Practice

      Documentation from a Musical Expressions With Friends session, highlighting collaborative sound-making, improvisation, and shared listening within a structured sonic environment.

    • Musical Expression With Friends — Session Documentation

      Documentation clip from a Musical Expressions With Friends session, capturing collaborative sound exploration and group interaction within a structured sonic environment.

    • Musical Expression With Friends — Session Documentation

      Documentation clip from a Musical Expressions With Friends session, capturing collaborative sound exploration and group interaction within a structured sonic environment.

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    • Music Direction & Live Performance

    This section highlights my work as a performing musician and musical director, including international touring, directing bands, and leading the Loyola University choir. These experiences deepen my understanding of sound as a communicative force and show how musical structure, resonance, and ensemble dynamics inform my approach to immersive listening and sound healing. The skills developed in live performance — timing, acoustics, emotional nuance — directly influence how I shape therapeutic sound environments.

    • In Azerbijian teaching original music to university students

      This scene is moments after I taught university students how to play one of the songs that we would be performing at a concert. They were accompanying us on stage for a few songs. The interpreter wasn't there so this interaction happened through music only.

    • Learning how to play an Azerbaijani Tar
      Learning how to play an Azerbaijani Tar
    • ArB local news captured our performance
    • Directing Loyola's Chosen Generation Gospel Choir
    • Music Director for- Femi the Drifish & The Out of Water eXperience (one of several live performances)
    • Playing keys for a band at Hard Rock Cafe
      Playing keys for a band at Hard Rock Cafe
    • One God — Live Performance (Auxiliary Keyboards)

      This live performance features One God, a Maurette Brown Clark anthem that reached #2 on the Billboard Gospel Airplay chart and is associated with a multi-award-winning, Stellar and Dove Award–recognized artist. I performed auxiliary keyboards on the live recording that later became widely known through Clark’s popular rendition. My role in performance and sound execution aligns with decades of professional creative practice in live musical expression and audience engagement.

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    • Music Production

    This section presents my work as a producer and composer across multiple genres, including projects with nationally recognized and Grammy-nominated artists. Studio production sharpened my ability to shape tone, frequency balance, and emotional pacing with precision. That compositional control directly informs my sound healing work, where intentional sonic design is used to guide attention, mood, and embodied response.

    • Maurice-listening back to a recording
      Maurice-listening back to a recording
    • Maurice-Producing at Stages (Timonium, Maryland)
      Maurice-Producing at Stages (Timonium, Maryland)
    • Prophecy- by The Floacist formerly of Floetry-PRODUCED & RECORDED by Maurice Carroll

      This track features The Floacist (Natalie Stewart), British neo-soul artist and co-founder of Floetry, a group that earned multiple Grammy Award nominations and sold millions of records worldwide. I produced, recorded, and mixed the song, contributing to its professional sonic execution alongside a Grammy-recognized voice and collaborators with significant award histories. The work reflects decades of high-level music practice and underscores how compositional and production expertise inform my broader sound artistry.

    • UNDER MY OWN WEATHER- Produced by-Maurice Carroll, Andros Rodriguez, Carolyn Malachi,Nicole Neely

      This track features Carolyn Malachi, a Grammy-nominated artist recognized for her Urban/Alternative Performance nomination at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards for Orion. I contributed production and mixing to this project alongside a team of producers whose combined credits include Grammy wins and nominations, underscoring professional excellence in composition, engineering, and sonic execution. The work demonstrates high-level collaboration in contemporary music, blending creative vision with technical precision.

    • 25th Anniversary remix of Rise-Produced by Maurice Carroll

      This remix marks the 25th anniversary of Keep On Rising, a dance music track that has consistently topped charts over multiple decades. I recorded, produced, and mixed the remix, and co-produced the vocals with Michelle Shellers for both the anniversary version and the original release.

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    • Written Works & Narrative Practice

    This section brings together my published essays and book-length work exploring sound, mindfulness, and lived experience through clear, accessible storytelling. These writings document the ideas and frameworks behind my sound practice, translating what happens in a session into language people can carry with them. Paired with the audiobook and companion text, this section shows how my work moves between sound and narrative as two connected forms of communication.

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