Why are we lonelier than ever despite having infinite music at our fingertips? The answer lies in something neuroscientists call "brain-to-brain coupling"—and it's the missing ingredient in your Spotify playlist.

This week, we explore the Social Brain Hypothesis and discover why passive listening can't cure loneliness. We look at the groundbreaking hyperscanning research showing what happens when humans make music together (hint: your brainwaves literally synchronize). And we reveal why the modern music industry has created the largest service failure in human wellness history.

The solution isn't more playlists. It's reclaiming your 60,000-year-old birthright.

Next week: The Musicably Musicking Pyramid—your complete nutritional guide to musical health.

In this episode of Musicably, we travel from a Slovenian cave to the back of your own throat to ask a radical question: what if music isn’t a talent at all, but a 60,000‑year‑old survival technology wired into your body. Drawing on the Divje Babe Neanderthal flute, the tiny floating hyoid bone in your throat, and the FOXP2 gene, we explore why your voice and hands are biologically built for song and rhythm—not just for speech or scrolling. Along the way, we dismantle Steven Pinker’s “auditory cheesecake” idea, show why every known human culture has music, and introduce the thought that musical communication may be older than language itself.

You’ll also get a simple piece of “homework”: a tiny, concrete act of musicking that reconnects you to the same vibrational behaviors your ancestors used tens or even hundreds of thousands of years ago. This episode is an invitation to drop the shame around “not being musical,” and to start reclaiming music as your birthright—not as performance, not as product, but as an ancient nervous‑system and social technology living in your own body.

In this inaugural episode, Palo Beka introduces the concept of "The Great Musical Malnutrition." We live in an era of infinite access to music, yet we have never been more disconnected from its true power. Most of us have become "passive spectators" of sound—consuming "Sonic Sugars" that provide a temporary hit of dopamine but leave our nervous systems unregulated and our creativity dry.

It's time to reclaim your Sonic Sovereignty.

In this episode, you will learn:

• The fundamental difference between Listening and Musicking.
• Why modern "passive consumption" leads to musical malnutrition.
• How to identify "Sonic Sugars" in your daily life.
• A simple, 60-second Somatic Reset to ground your nervous system.

Whether you are an overwhelmed professional seeking focus or simply looking to age with more vitality, this episode is your first step toward a more resonant life. Stop just listening to music. Start living Musicably.