Musical Medicine

“IF NOT US, THEN WHO?” ONLINE WELL-BEING FORUM

Musical Medicine: Where Science Meets the Soul

Join us for Musical Medicine — an intimate, immersive look at how music shapes our bodies, shifts our emotions, and helps us make meaning of what we live through.

Music can do astonishing things:

Quiet or awaken the nervous system.
Unlock emotions too layered for words.
Offer comfort in moments of isolation or illness.
And, for some people with epilepsy, stir memories and sensations powerful enough to provoke musicogenic seizures — revealing just how deeply sound, feeling, and brain activity intertwine.

Musician and advocate Guy W. Stoker will take us inside Purple Universe — his newly released, genre-spanning album rooted in his personal journey with epilepsy. Through story and song, he invites us into experiences rarely shared: the fog of medication, the unpredictability of seizures, the loneliness that can follow — and the fierce creativity that refuses to be silenced.

In one of the album’s most striking turns, we even hear from epilepsy itself — voiced not as a condition, but as a presence that shapes, challenges, and transforms a life.

Thursday, December 11, 2025
10:30 AM PST | On Zoom

Music as knowledge. Music as healing. Music as storytelling — from the inside out.

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GUY W. STOKER

About Guy W. Stoker

Guy W. Stoker is a British pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter from Northumberland, now based in Paris. Living with epilepsy since early childhood, Guy has transformed personal experience into art that bridges music, science, and advocacy.

With a Master’s in Contemporary Composition from UCF, he combines musical performance with neurological research to illuminate how sound and emotion intersect with the brain’s complex workings. Through Purple Universe and his public engagements, Guy invites audiences to listen — not only to music, but to the stories it tells about the human experience of neurological diversity.

If Not Us, Then Who? is more than a well-being forum — it’s a gathering for truth-telling. A place where the realities of epilepsy, so often hidden or misunderstood, can finally be spoken out loud. Hosted by the Hidden Truths Project, this online event invites us to step into the human side of the condition: the fear, the creativity, the resilience, the daily unknowns — and the art that emerges from them.