Sew Handpan – Instruments & Sound Culture
Sew Handpan is one of the most important handpan maker and sound instruments for wellbeing. With a presence in over 50 countries and a network of around 180 distributors, Sew Handpan has played a key role in spreading sound as a tool for awareness and transformation.
Sew Handpan is the creator of the Sew Retreat Center, a space dedicated to training, research and immersive sound experiences. They have opened several Sew Handpan Schools, bringing musical and vibrational education around the world.
Among the spin-offs of the Sew Group are Wepan and SonicArt.
Wepan is an innovative e-learning app dedicated to handpan and sound education, offering live lessons, an interactive virtual handpan, and structured practice programs that make sound learning accessible anywhere in the world. SonicArt is focused on sound-based installations, including the Sound Tree and other sonic artworks that explore the relationship between sound, space, and human experience.
Within Sound Healing International, Sew Handpan contributes to the development of standards related to instruments, sound quality, and professional sound healing practice.
Federica Rogani - Sound Healing Explorer
Federica Rogani is a sound researcher, educator, and the co-founder of Sound Healing International. Raised in a family where yoga and sound were a daily presence, surrounded since childhood by musical instruments from diverse traditions, she developed an early and embodied relationship with sound as a living practice.
Since 2016, she has been working hands on with sound in educational and experiential contexts, integrating tradition, contemporary practice, and direct observation with people from all over the world. Her work focuses on sound as a field of exploration, learning, and professional development, supporting practitioners through structured education and shared standards.
Federica brings to SHI an accessible and rigorous approach, capable of guiding students from their first encounter with sound to the construction of a true professional identity as Sound Healing Experts.
Dott.ssa Silvia Perrone - Scientific Advisor
Silvia Perrone is a psychologist and psychotherapist specialized in Third-Wave Cognitive Therapy. She is also a certified Mindfulness instructor with advanced training in neuroscience and neuroaesthetics.
She serves as Senior Psychologist at the Pathological Addictions Service of the ASL of Lecce, focusing on prevention, treatment, and the promotion of psychophysical well-being, with particular attention to self-regulation, awareness and mind–body integration. She is Director of the Institute of Clinical Neurosciences in Lecce and a member of the Center for Applied Hermeneutics and Phenomenology at the University of Salento.
She is the Scientific Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Mindfulness and Neuroscience, dedicated to the study of awareness and its neurobiological foundations through an integrated approach based on neuroscience and contemplative practices.
Her research focuses on neuromodulation, including transcranial stimulation and non-invasive methods rooted in meditation, as well as the use of sound as a tool for neurophysiological and emotional regulation. She also collaborates with the Contemporary Art Foundation Lac o Le Mon, exploring the intersection of art, aesthetics, neuroscience and transformation of the mind.
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Giorgio Rizzo
Gabriele Rampino
Gabriele Rampino
Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Salento, Italy.
He studied (1995-2000) at the Ludwig Maximilans Universität in Munich, Germany, where he attended to the Promotionskurs (PhD).
He studied also at the New School for Social Research in New York (2001) and he achieved (2000) PhD in “Ethics and Anthropology” at the University of Salento with a thesis on the ‘Faculty of Judgment in Hannah Arendt’. After having earned his PhD, he focused his research on phenomenology, studying and teaching at the University of California Irvine and becoming member of the Californian Phenomenology Circle and the American Husserl Circle.
Other subjects of inquiry on which he wrote several books and articles are philosophy of language (with special regard to Ludwig Wittgenstein) and philosophy of mind (Sellars, Davidson, Searle). Another philosophical subject on which he is working in the last two years is a theory of ‘atmospherical perception’ which can have some repercussions also on contemporary African philosophy.
For the first time in the history of the University of Salento, he holds since 2022 a course devoted to African metaphysics, ontology and ethics. He is co-director of the Center for Hermeneutics and Applied Phenomenology (CHAP) director of the African Center for Applied Phenomenology at the Saint Bonaventure University in Lusaka (Zambia), and co-editor of the international philosophical journal Segni e comprensione (Signs and Comprehension). Since 2022, prof. Giorgio Rizzo regularly holds courses on phenomenology and critical thinking at the University of Zambia and the Saint Bonaventure University in Lusaka.
Gabriele Rampino
Gabriele Rampino
Gabriele Rampino
Composer of the soundtracks for Edoardo Winspeare’s films Galantuomini (2008), Sotto il Cielo Azzurro (2009), In Grazia di Dio (2014), and of the score for the short film Il Primo Anniversario (Le Cadeau d'Anniversaire), commissioned by Louis Vuitton for the contemporary art exhibition Travelling. In 2010, he created the sound for Antonio Novembre’s art installation Between East and West and composed the music for the short film presented in Milan at the San Fedele Gallery, commissioned by Pirelli for its first campaign for the protection of the territory and the promotion of beauty in Coppula Tisa, entitled A Short Film on Beauty.
A lawyer admitted to practice before the Higher Courts, he develops and explores issues of copyright law in its modern interpretation linked to technological progress and new media. He specializes in the Organization and Legislation of Law in the Arts, Cinema, Music, and Performing Arts.
He is a consultant for the Fondazione Notte della Taranta, Artistic Director of the concert series Jazle, of the music and record label Dodicilune (for which he has produced over 250 albums), and of the I Fiori del Jazz Festival.
He has taught Music Production and Music Design at the University of the West of Scotland, Film Music Laboratory at the DAMS of the University of Lecce and Music Production at the University of Salento.
He recently composed the music for the films Just A Dream by Francesco Carofiglio (2022), Segni Elementari by Alessandro Valenti and Francesco Carofiglio (2022), Oltre il Confine by Alessandro Valenti (2023), and L’Abbaglio by Alessandra Cardone (2024). In 2023, he also composed the music for the reading based on Il Fuoco Invisibile by Daniele Rielli.