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Museum of Medicine
Special Exhibition for Spring
Stars of Stage & EKG Screen – Music Remedy in the Last Half-Century

Introduction

Music has always had a curious impact on the human brain. since time immemorial , it’s been used by mothers and mid-wives the world over to soothe crying children, by love-stricken teenagers to woo one another, by grown men to express profound emotion. Centuries before the invention of the printing press, stories were memorized and re-told by traveling singers known as troubadours. It is a vast understatement to say that our lives are inexorably intertwined with the music that weaves through our days, months and years.

In 2021, Dr. Roger Calvert introduced his Music Ingestor at a medical fair in Tucson, AZ. This device could, he claimed then, capture and store the waves of music in such a way that they could be applied to the mentally ill like, “a mental salve.” It took years for anyone to take it seriously. By 2035, it was a staple in hospitals throughout the developed world. And Cure Four, comprised of Dr. Calvert’s niece Jensan and her 3 childhood friends, were the biggest musical act in the world. Their live shows sold out in every town across the US, and their off-the-cuff songs had become true proof that Dr. Calvert had stumbled onto the next evolution of medical treatment.

In its early days, Music Remedy was used exclusively for treatment of mental disabilities. It wasn’t until a Calvert rival, former MIT-dropout and technology investor Eli Stones, found a way to distill the stored musical waves into a concentrate that it became applicable as a cheap, safe alternative to anesthesia. That breakthrough spawned a cottage industry in applying various distillations of the stored musical energy. By the time Cure Four took a hiatus after Dr. Calvert’s death, Music Remedy had no less than 54 certified applications to treat everything from infection to DVT.

In this gallery, we’ll explore the timeline of Music Remedy from Calvert’s early experiments in his New York state garage to the explosion of Music Remedy distillations of the last ten years.

Gallery 2
Piece 112.A – Description Text
Photo of Cure Four (c. 2019)

In the summer of 2019, four friends from the same neighborhood in Irvington, NY were inseparable. Casey, Jensan, AJ and Lila were always putting on shows for the neighbors in Lila’s backyard. They would do renditions of Justin Timberlake and Adele songs, mostly, but occasionally they would make up their own silly songs. Years later, long after they’d stopped being four friends from outside New York City and become, instead, Cure Four, they would recall those days fondly.

“We didn’t understand Music Remedy then, of course. We were kids!” Jensan says. “We were just having fun one day with something we made up when Dr. Calvert put his ingestor on Lila’s porch. I don’t remember exactly when this photo was taken, but it was certainly after he realized our songs generated more charge than the recordings he’d been using.”

Dr. Calvert’s wife dated the photo in August of 2019, 14 months before the Calvert Ingestor patent was granted and the medical world was changed forever.

To date, Cure Four has been credited with over 1000 early-discharges from hospitals all over the world and 42 lives saved. They are, without a doubt, the brightest-burning stars in the ever-growing field of Music Remedy.