Echo Life is a patented, enjoyable, music interactive technology to help you focus, feel relaxed, destress, and have a better quality of sleep. This can be accomplished by wearing the Echo Life wristbands on each wrist and connecting them to your smartphone via Bluetooth. The wristbands have multiple haptic vibrations. The vibrations will match the music being played on your phone for you to feel the full range of sound. The wristbands will also detect movement which allows you to play your own music by simply moving your hands.

Echo Life features will work with your available senses, allowing you to receive its benefits when you need it the most. For example, if you‘re stressed in a theater, a social setting, at work or in class while watching and listening to a lecture, you can mute the audio and discretely feel the soothing music through the vibrations in the wristbands. This allows you to use Echo Life without it distracting you or distracting others around you. The goal is to help you stay calm, focused and productive without having to remove yourself from a stressful environment/situation which can result in missing out on learning the required material and missed opportunities.

Unique Interactive Music Experience

• Hear and feel music
• Watch a movie and feel the sound
• Use Echo Life in a fitness aerobics class
• Drum along to songs on your phone by simply moving your hands
• Connect multiple Echo Life wristbands to one Echo Life Hub to drum along with friends and family
• Use Echo Life in a percussion ensemble
• Compose
• Learn actual drumming rhythms
• Practice for a Performance
• Use Echo Life as a unique and creative performance piece

School/Work

• Be more calm, relaxed and focused, be more productive
• Help to keep you calm, focused and on task in class or at work while silently air drumming or just feeling the soothing vibrations for a positive sensory impact
• Use Echo Life with your available senses so you can stay calm, focused and productive without it being disruptive to you or your peers

Home

• Release stress in a positive fashion
• Drumming without disrupting family
• Readily available to de-escalate
• Bonding and jamming together as a family activity

Travel

• Car, bus, plane, train
• During trips with family

Social

• Fun and cool tech to interact and play music with others

Sleep/Relax

• Sleep soundly
• Soothing
• Live well and comfortably

• Bendable wristbands to quickly and easily put on and take off. You can squeeze them around your wrist for a custom firmness fit for your preferred comfort level.
• Each wristband has 5 vibration haptics to feel the full range of sound. You can feel the audio’s lows, medium and high pitches as well as feel the volume intensities.
• Wristbands detect hand movement for you to air drum. You can feel your drumming through the vibration haptics for a more realistic sense of playing and hear your air drumming from the speakers, headphones or earbuds the hub is connected with.

• Speaker inside to hear the audio from your phone and your drumming with the wristbands
• Has bluetooth to connect to your phone, bluetooth headphones/earbuds and multiple pairs of wristbands to jam with multiple Echo Life users.
• Headphone jack to connect wired headphones or connect to a larger speaker system.
• Attach a strap to wear on your arm while you run or attach on your belt. There’s a space on the back to adhere a velcro strip to attach to the back of your phone and other objects.

Express yourself! Choose a song on your phone or a song online to jam along with. Pick a percussion instrument on the Echo Life app on your smartphone and jam along by simply moving your hands. It's similar to air drumming but you can hear it and feel your drumming through vibrations in the wristbands. Use this feature as a unique, live performance tool. Use it to record music tracks for a composition. Practice drum lessons or practice rhythms for an upcoming performance or simply just jam out to a song. Overall, this Echo Life feature allows you to be creative anywhere at any time through an enjoyable, realistic, music interactive experience.

Echo Life can comfort you while you fall asleep. Pick a song to fall asleep or relax to and the vibrations in the wristbands will match the music. Enjoy hearing and feeling the music as it soothes you. Echo Life will gradually reduce the volume of the music and the vibration intensity. This will provide you with a nice, comforting and peaceful experience helping you to relax and peacefully fall asleep in bed.

Matt was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome at the age of 5 along with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He began drum lessons at the age of 5 and discovered his symptoms disappear while drumming. Additionally, music has helped him overcome many challenges as a result of his diagnoses.

In 2003, Matt started Drum Echoes, Inc. to facilitate drum workshops with the purpose of providing people the benefits of drumming and music as it has helped him. He has worked with thousands of people all over the world seeing firsthand how music helps others. His desire to help others with music grew but he can only be at one place at a time. He realized how much better their lives could be if they could have a similar music experience with them all the time and anywhere. That's how he came up with the idea for Echo Life!

Media Recognition

NY Times "Eclectic Drummer.... Exceptional Performer"

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Dr. Oliver Sacks; 2008 NY Times Best Seller

BBC Imagine "Tales of Music and the Brain"

PBS Nova "Musical Minds"

75 Watts, Short Documentary Featuring Matt Giordano. Winner for Best Documentary Short, 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival

2012 Nominee, Canadian Screen Awards

Matt doing an improvised drum set solo at an African fundraiser.

Matt doing an improvised drum solo at the 2013 National Music Therapy Association Conference.