HISTORY
The Innato is an innovation based on the Huaca invented in 1980 by Sharon Rowell.
Rafael Bejarano, a Mexican sound shaman, learned about the Huaca from Alan Tower, who in 1999 introduced him to the inventor Sharon Rowell, to learn the sculpting method she began developing in 1980.
In 2015 Rafael died tragically on a spiritual retreat in Egypt at the age of 41, a devastating event for the tribe of people who experienced and followed his sound work.
After hearing about Rafael’s death I contacted Alan Tower and soon a collaboration began to further Rafael’s legacy. Rafa often played his Huaca close, such that the sound landed softly between the closed eyes of listeners, for a connective 3D sonic journey. Just before his death he and Tower had completed a first prototype of what they called an Immersion Flute, to better deliver Rafa’s surround sound experience to people.
The Innato is an innovation based on this instrument, designed to cover people in sound waves wafting down from above the head. The big breakthrough came when I found out that direct contact with the cranium created the effect that Rafael was going for. It took us over three years to perfect the instrument’s design and tuning. Our new Innate harmony instrument was born…
While offering musicians an open architecture to explore, the Innate Flute also offers non-musicians to be able to play the instrument easily and beautifully with no training. It is a classic “Innate harmony instrument” like others developed by The Resonance Center, and best exemplified today by the Hang or Handpan.
The Innato is dedicated to Rafael Bejarano and his legacy of offering sound to humanity as both a healing and life expansion modality.
