Caryn Lin | Electric Violinist & Composer

Caryn Lin is a classically trained electric violinist and composer. Using electric violin, sound effects, live looping, and her own original recorded music, she creates immersive healing sound journeys rooted in melody.

Her music is often described as mesmerizing, otherworldly, calming, transformational, and healing.

Like light traveling through a prism, each melody unfolds into an entirely different world.

Why Healing Music?

In June 2022, I had a serious fall and ended up needing surgery on both my leg and my elbow.

One night after the surgery on my leg, I was lying in the hospital at about 2:00 in the morning in MAJOR pain. I couldn't have any more drugs. I was beside myself. All I could do was cry.

I remembered that I had Amazon Music on my phone. Although I practiced meditation, I didn't normally use music when I meditated. I did use music when I practiced yoga.

I thought, “I'll look up music for meditation.”

That's how I found “Ik Ardas Wahe Guru” by White Sun.

The singer, Gurujas Khalsa, sounded like an angel to me.

I was still in pain. But while I was listening to the music, I felt better.

I listened to it over and over.

And I remember lying there thinking, “When I get out of here, that is what I want to do. I want to make music that can help people feel better.”

That thought stayed with me.

My recovery was long. I had to learn to walk again. Physical therapy, yoga, meditation, breathing, and energy healing sessions all became part of my recovery.

Fortunately, my elbow was much less painful than my leg, and six weeks after my fall, I started playing my violin again. I was still using a walker and going to physical therapy. I could play long before I could walk.

By the end of August, I had started writing music again. The first piece I began was The Fall Out from the Twilight Zone.

That piece was directly influenced by “Ik Ardas Wahe Guru,” the music I had listened to over and over in the hospital.

I had already been writing and recording original music for decades. Melody had always been at the center of what I did. That didn't change.

But that night in the hospital, I knew what I wanted to do with my music, even though I couldn't hear the music in my head yet.

Somehow, I think it was already there in me.

The intention came first. The music revealed itself later.

Some of the music is very spacious and meditative. Some of it has more rhythm, movement, and momentum.

An artist friend told me that listening to the music was an experience—that you “go” somewhere. Then she said, “like a sound journey.”

I had heard the phrase before, but somehow, when she said it, it clicked. That was the phrase.

That same friend said something else:

“Just because it is healing doesn't mean it has to be quiet.”

I remember thinking, “Wow. How did I not see that?”

I had been putting a boundary around what healing music could be without even realizing it.

Healing doesn't mean the music has to sound a certain way.

I don't really think of myself as a sound healer. I'm an electric violinist and composer.

I make music.

But I believe deeply in the power of sound and vibration. The vibration is all of it. We don't just hear music—we feel it.

And what is vibration?

Energy.

When energy moves, our experience can change. And we can feel better.

I don't believe a healing modality does the healing for us. It can help create an environment in which change is possible. We are the ones who change.

Yoga has taught me to pay attention to energy in another way. And somewhere along the way, I realized that I've actually been paying very close attention to sound and vibration since I started playing violin at nine years old.

That's 57 years of listening.

I just didn't always know that's what I was doing.

And ever since that night in the hospital, I have wanted to make music that can help people feel better.