We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: BAST founder and director Lyz Cooper has had her music featured on BBC Sounds as part of a wonderful playlist curated by Afrodeutsche.
About the Playlist
Music for the Hush Between Twilight and Moonrise is an hour of music chosen to bring calm and solace, drawing from composers across the UK. The playlist features recent work from cellist Peter Gregson, Northern Ireland-based composer Michael Keeney, Angus Macrae, and many more — alongside a showcase of new music that includes Lyz’s own piece, Somnus X.
About Somnus X
Somnus X is a ten-minute composition written specifically to support better sleep. At BAST, we conducted a study into the effects of this piece, and the results were genuinely encouraging.
Participants completed a questionnaire exploring the quality and duration of their sleep, and the knock-on impact on their health, wellbeing, relationships, and work before and after seven days of listening to Somnus X — with the freedom to play it multiple times through the night or whenever they needed it.
At the outset, 41% of participants felt they definitely had a sleep problem, 45% said they sometimes experienced one, and 14% felt they didn’t have a sleep problem at all — though all were included in the study. By the end of the seven days, difficulties had decreased across the board. Some categories showed an interesting shift too: where participants had previously described their sleep difficulties as severe, many moved to describing them as only slight — a meaningful step in the right direction.
Listen Before It’s Gone
The playlist is available on BBC Sounds until 3rd April 2026, so don’t wait — listen here while you still can.
And if you’d like ongoing access to Somnus X and Lyz’s wider body of therapeutic compositions — built across more than 25 years of research and practice — you can find it as part of our therapeutic music subscription programme at LifeSonics.com. It’s Lyz’s life’s work, brought together in one place for those who want to use music intentionally for their health and wellbeing.
