Sound Formation

08/20/2025

Sound Formation® Method Certified Teacher Brennan Forrester released his new EP Ante Up on 8/8/25 under the name 8 of Spades. If you're a fan of EDM or Drum and Bass this music is for you. Powerful debut from this seasoned artist. Click below to listen and read about Brennan's new music.

Integrative Music Education

07/23/2025

We are thrilled to announce the commencement of the Sound Formation Institute for Gifted Musicians. This endeavor is designed to connect top-level music students globally with truly unique trainings that give participants an exceptional edge. The Institute will offer a number of programs including:

•Remote Mentorship Programs
•Audition-Only Summer Intensives
•Rhythm Theory Training
•Physicality of Music Training
•Specialized Individual Coaching

Learn more at: https://soundformationmusic.com/sound-formation-institute-for-gifted-musicians/

Integrative Music Education

05/22/2025

We're running music production (grades 5-10) and hand-percussion + rhythm theory (grades 2-6) camps at Dawson School this summer. Check them out if you're interested:

Make their summer unforgettable at Dawson Summer Camps. Sign up for over 100 enriching programs in sports, arts, science, and leadership for kids ages 5-15.

03/26/2025

The Sound Formation Mentorship Program is designed to support serious music students before, during, or after college. We help with:

•Guidance on College Selection

•Acceptance and Scholarships

•Liangong to Enhance Biomechanics, Rhythmic Feel, and Instrumental Technique

•Professional Music Coaching and Career Support

•Insider Information for Certain Colleges

•Rhythm Theory Training to Distinguish Your Playing and Composing

•Support for those with Learning Differences like Dyslexia

Integrative Music Education

02/15/2025

We're happy to be offering a number of exceptional summer music camps (Music Production, Guitar, Piano, Percussion) teaching the Sound Formation® Method to students ages 6-18. These camps will be held in Denver and Boulder at Dawson School, Colorado Academy, Parker Arts, Graland Country Day School, and Kent Denver School.

Integrative Music Education

12/18/2024

Peter John Stoltzman Music and Curtis Madigan are teaming up to offer a Physicality of Music Intensive on Saturday January 11th, 2025 from 10am-4pm. Recommended for professional and amateur musicians and college students. Topics include:

•Unlock Higher Levels of Mastery in Your Playing: Experience new heights of freedom and joy from utilizing physical engagements that improve rhythm, feel, and tone all at once.

•Attain New Techniques for Excelling on Your Instrument: Eliminate and alleviate common movement issues like pinched nerves, tendinitis, postural discomfort, and more with Liangong or simply breakthrough to more fun and speed on the instrument.

•Radically Improve Your Rhythmic Feel: Madigan will teach his new discoveries on how to easily feel rhythm in a way that’s intuitive and natural rather than through mental exertion.

Integrative Music Education

11/12/2024

Have you ever wondered how to improve your rhythm or what it REALLY is? Or why you feel like you have "no rhythm?" There are essential principles of rhythm which pervade and transcend every aspect of musical performance.

Integrative Music Education

07/29/2024

Ever wonder how to practice music off of your instrument while traveling? Do you know you can significantly improve your rhythmic abilities through simple mental practices by using a new cutting-edge system? Visualizing music is critical for mental practice as is internal hearing.

Integrative Music Education

07/06/2024

Brennan Forrester of the band Evanoff shares his journey from debilitating tendinosis - halting his musical journey completely - to having a full recovery and then playing better than even before.

03/27/2024

A huge percentage (84% according to one study) of musicians suffer from injuries that interfere with their playing. Sound Formation Founder, Curtis Madigan continues to see the same imbalances over and over in the professional musicians he helps regardless of whether they play drums, strings, keys, or wind instruments. Read on about the common occurrences and how to fix them.

10/31/2023

Attention Musicians!

Professionals and college students (plus serious high school students and adult musicians) are invited to attend an 8-week online rhythm theory course. This course is taught by Curtis Madigan and covers many topics from his theory of rhythm in depth:

•Rhythmic Calibrations and Alignment

•Movement Mechanics and Rhythmic Perception (Enhancing Technique and Feel)

•5 Principles of Rhythm: Simple Concepts That Make a Huge Impact on Your Playing

•The Rhythm Compass™: Understanding Rhythmic Relationships, Mental Practice, Building a Vocabulary of Rhythmic Shapes

•Learn the 14 Rhythmic Shapes that make up 95% of All Rhythms You’ll Encounter

•Sight Reading: Vastly Improve Your Reading Skills by Recognizing the Shapes in Notation

Early Bird Pricing is $455 until 11/15/23 and after that will be $625. DM us for scholarship opportunities.

This is an 8-week rhythm theory intensive designed for college students and professionals. This course is taught by Sound Formation Founder, Curtis Madigan. Topics covered include: