AarDHD - Flow State: Now Available

A week ago, I posted a short teaser about a new piece of music I'd been working on. It's called 'Flow State', and it's the first release from a new project of mine, AarDHD.

Why AarDHD?

I have ADHD and autism (AuDHD). Since before I was diagnosed, I've struggled to find music that helps me concentrate when my head gets stressed and noisy. Especially when I’m taking stimulant ADHD medication. Most "focus music," particularly tracks using binaural beats, tends to be monotonous and clinical. It works, but it's profoundly boring. On the other hand, music I actually enjoy is often too distracting to work to.

I needed something that sounded like actual music but still did the job of calming my brain down. I couldn't find it, so I decided to make it myself. 'Flow State' is the first result of that experiment.

What is 'Flow State'?

It's a ten-minute piece of melodic, functional music built around an 11Hz binaural beat. That frequency falls within the Alpha brainwave range, associated with a state of relaxed alertness—ideal for focus when stress or anxiety makes concentration difficult.

The challenge was to embed this frequency into a musically coherent composition without it sounding dissonant or like a science experiment. Working with Barry Diston at Fidget Studios, we figured out a way to achieve the frequency entrainment within the instrumentation itself. Without giving away all the trade secrets, it involves carefully shifting the pitch of stereo instrument layers in opposite directions. This creates the 11Hz difference required for the binaural effect, but within a coherent musical structure.

The track works as background music through any speakers, but for the full brainwave entrainment effect, you'll need to use headphones. That's how the stereo separation creates the effect in your brain.

Here is the full track on YouTube:

Listen, Stream, or Purchase

'Flow State' is a tool I built for myself, but I hope others find it useful too.

You can find all the links to stream or purchase the track on the main services via this one page:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/aardhd/flow-state

I want to create more of these tracks. I have enough ideas to create an album of 11Hz relaxed-focus music. And I’m thinking beyond that to albums that are made to create other mind states.

Streaming and sharing on YouTube or purchasing from one of the download sites will hopefully help me generate enough funds to follow through on these ambitions.

If this sounds like something that might help you, give it a listen.

You can read a little more about the project on the AarDHD website.