Jonny Gunton.
Composer and sound designer. Founder of HEALHQ Studio.
25 years of music and sound for
BBC, Disney, ITV, Channel 4, MTV, National Geographic
RTS award-winning composer
Not simply music. Emotional architecture.
For two decades, my job has been to understand what people feel beneath the surface.
To watch a scene and recognise the tension underneath the conversation. The pressure inside silence. The precise moment a person softens, breaks, holds on or lets go. That’s what composition is: shaping atmosphere so the body responds before the listener knows why.
Somewhere inside that work, a quieter question took hold. Not how do you make someone feel something, but how do you help an overactivated nervous system finally switch off?
The right space between sounds tells the body it’s safe to stand down. I trained in EME with Mandy Morris and RTT with Marissa Peer, and combined that training with everything I know about sound. HEALHQ Studio is the result: sonic experiences designed to guide overloaded minds out of stress and into deep rest.
I still compose for television and film. HEALHQ is the same craft, pointed somewhere new.
For people who are exceptional at what they do, but struggle to fully recover.
The thinkers. The over-analysers. The people carrying pressure, responsibility and mental noise long after the day has ended.
Where to start.
The Sleep Reset is the foundation of the work, designed to be listened to for at least 21 nights in a row. For deeper support, I work privately with a small number of clients.