Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Live Interventional Music?
Music Over Mind is a North Carolina-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit delivering live interventional music directly to patients in hospitals, clinics, and senior living communities — positioning music as a non-pharmacologic tool for pain management, anxiety reduction, and mood improvement.
How M.O.M. is different
Recorded playlists, music therapy, and live interventional music
Three related but distinct practices. The differences matter to clinicians scoping a partnership.
A recorded music playlist
A fixed, pre-curated set of tracks queued up on a device — useful in waiting rooms, but static. The same track plays for every listener regardless of how the room feels that day.
Board-certified music therapy
A clinical discipline delivered by credentialed music therapists (MT-BC) as part of a treatment plan. Music Over Mind musicians are not board-certified; M.O.M. is a complement to clinical care, not a substitute.
M.O.M.’s live interventional music
A trained M.O.M. musician in the room, selecting repertoire in real time in response to the patient, the room, and the care environment — responsive non-clinical music delivered bedside across 11+ UNC Health hospitals and partners.
Questions from clinicians
What clinicians and partners ask M.O.M.
Sources & Partnerships
Where M.O.M.'s evidence and reach come from
Outcome language tracks the four published outcome domains M.O.M. programs target — pain management, anxiety reduction, emotional and behavioral health, and caregiver support.
UNC Lab for Neurostimulation
Clinical research collaboration on live music as a non-pharmacologic intervention.
Parkinson's Foundation
Partner advancing evidence-based research on live music as a healing intervention.
Carolina Performing Arts
Co-presenting partner on live demo programming that links performance and clinical research.
UNC WELL
University-wide wellness partnership delivering therapeutic music at The Farm at Penny Lane.
UNC Health
Health-system partner across 11+ hospitals and clinics — bedside delivery via DooR to DooR.
Brookdale Senior Living · Croasdaile Retirement · Forest at Duke
Standing senior-living partners for regular live programming.
Want to Bring Live Interventional Music to Your Setting?
Talk to our partnerships team or download the hospital-facing rack card — same scope, two paths in.