About
Michael Rene is a musical visionary, polymath, and co-founder of the Harmonics Institute alongside Dr. Kelly Snook. A versatile multi-instrumentalist and composer, his work bridges performance, contemplative practice, and meta-disciplinary research. Michael has worked innovative theoretical frameworks including the Delta System and the Harmonic Model, which explore music as a fundamental generative principle connecting consciousness, creativity, and natural systems. Through moments of profound personal transformation, he has consistently evolved his artistic and philosophical approach, finding deeper resonance in each new chapter of his journey.
A versatile multi-instrumentalist, Michael’s musical journey began with jazz trumpet and piano, deeply influenced by the technical brilliance and lyrical approach of Clifford Brown. His instrumental versatility expanded to encompass vocals, synthesizers, guitar, electric and upright bass, vibraphone, and percussion — all informing his unique perspective as a composer and producer.
His musical education includes multiple residencies at the prestigious Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Jazz Program, as well as international study and performance tours. Throughout his development, Michael has sought out mentorship with luminaries including Steve Coleman, Terence Blanchard, Ingrid Jensen, Hugh Fraser, David Monette, and Quincy Jones, each contributing to his evolving synthesis of technical mastery and theoretical innovation.
Michael’s musical journey has been profoundly shaped by an eight-year period of intensive contemplative practice in his twenties—several formative experiences during this developmental phase catalyzed his unique approach to harmonic meta-theory and practice. Drawing from comparative mystical traditions, he developed methodologies for translating contemplative approaches into a musical context.
His autodidactic approach to learning has integrated mathematics, logic, computational theory, physics, psychology, language, literature, and many other fields—creating a multidimensional foundation for his work. Notable mentors in his interdisciplinary studies include philosopher Ravi Ravindra, contemplative teacher Thomas Hübl, and poet/scholar Philip Penner.
Michael Rene offers music production & studio services on a limited basis. His work supports artists, creative projects, and organizations through high-integrity music creation and creative development.
Creative Consulting: Offered on an individual or bundled basis, Michael’s private consulting sessions provide focused support for artists and visionaries looking to deepen their creative process, overcome blocks, or align their work and creatve purposes. These sessions reflects the principles explored through Michael’s work in the field of Harmonics and combine intuitive insight with actionable strategies to foster technical acuity, creative continuity, and originality.
Music Production: From concept to completion, Michael provides custom composition and full-scale, multi-instrumental production tailored to each project. With a hybrid analog-digital workflow and fluency across genres, he brings a refined, collaborative approach to building music that is sonically distinct and context appropriate.
Music Licensing: Original works from Michael Rene’s catalog are available for licensing across film, television, advertising, and other media. Each piece is crafted for emotional depth and narrative power. Custom scoring is also available to meet the unique needs of creative and commercial projects.
In-Person Studio Sessions: Select artists may book in-person studio time in a private, high-end recording environment. These sessions offer a focused, hands-on approach to learning, performance, recording, production, and co-creation, and are available on a limited basis by appointment.
For more information or to request a consultation, please visit [email protected].
The Harmonics Institute is an international nonprofit research and cultural organization dedicated to advancing Harmonics as a holistic musical paradigm. Rooted in music yet extending beyond it, Harmonics studies the principles of resonance, creative self-organization, and coherence as they manifest across disciplines—from cosmology and cognition to technology, consciousness, and culture.
Founded following a 2023 conference at the intersection of science, spirituality, and the arts, the Institute was created to provide a dedicated home for theoretical and applied research in this emerging field. It serves as a nexus for scholars, artists, technologists, contemplatives, and systems thinkers working to articulate a more unified view of reality—one in which harmony is not only metaphor but method.
The Institute’s core mission is to cultivate, develop, and share a harmonic worldview: a way of understanding the universe as a fundamentally musical structure, arising through generative cycles of relationship and self-reference. Its research spans multiple domains—including creative intelligence, contemplative science, musical systems, generative technologies, social organization, and cosmological theory—while remaining unified by a commitment to harmonic function as a key to interdisciplinary synthesis.
Through publications, public programs, collaborative projects, and the development of innovative tools and methodologies, the Harmonics Institute fosters meaningful engagement across academic, spiritual, and cultural sectors. Its workshops, presentations, and conferences create platforms for cross-disciplinary dialogue and applied exploration, bridging theory and practice in both grounded and visionary ways.
The Institute also plays a vital meta-theoretical role, modeling a new kind of integrative inquiry—one that honors depth and diversity while seeking common structures of coherence. At its heart is a guiding intuition: that harmony is not only aesthetic or mathematical, but a generative principle of reality itself.
For more information or to connect, please visit harmonics.institute or reach out via email at [email protected].