Our Music: Feel it All

I am an innately sensitive person. I see a bee pollinating a flower and I feel the wonder of it — its gift, its delicacy and strength, its sense of something larger-than-life within life itself. That’s the same honesty I bring to music: when created with care, attention, and excellence, music inevitably carries feeling.

“Feel It All” is my attempt to make the science of climate change not just understandable, but perceptible in the body. You can hear the data: CO₂ rising as ascending distorted notes, problems resolving as descending, playful passages, points on a graph transformed into sound. I’ve taken unbiased, reliable science about solutions and infused it with my own artistic expression — the sonic landscape is joyful where good news emerges, celebratory where the Earth shows promise. Because yes, I am biased: I believe we have a duty to care for this magnificent, mystical world we call home.

This piece is about reconnecting with the fundamental truths that shape our world. Science gives us honesty; music gives us feeling. When we learn to meet these truths fully, we reconnect with ourselves, with our environment, and with the quiet, subtle joys of life — from the honey in our tea to the stars in the sky. By engaging deeply with reality, we open ourselves to curiosity, humility, grace, and emotional availability.

Through composing this work, I’ve practiced seeing the beauty and patterns inherent in data, in nature, and in human relationships. I’ve learned patience for myself, for others, for life itself. And I’ve realized that when we face truth — whether in a graph, in a relationship, or in the world around us — we create space for real freedom, real joy, and real choice.

“Feel It All” is a celebration of life, grounded in the rigor of data, expressed through the intimacy of music, and offered as an invitation: to feel, to wonder, and to recognize that the tools for solutions are already all around us.

It’s about how i’m teaching, not just showing, but giving a lesson, a roadmap on how we ought to both surrender to feelings we already have and heal ourselves, but learn that we have control over our emotional availability to a degree as well. 

We can learn that graphed data points means something, there’s a story before, and there’s implications after if those solutions are implemented.

And I shouldn’t be the only person to be able to feel that information, but as a practice of “walk the walk” not just talk the talk, i’ve made an example of how one can FEEL scientific information. 

I’m giving a spiritual roadmap, an ideology, a way of being, not just a lens to view through, but rather the removal of a lens. 

This isn’t just a composer’s note about music or climate data — it’s a lesson in presence, emotional literacy, and agency. It’s teaching people how to inhabit reality, how to surrender to feelings but also recognize that we can choose to feel responsibly and fully. It’s both spiritual and practical, giving a roadmap for how to engage with truth, with data, with nature, and with self.

–Raine Stern