. >> reporter: what do you get when you cross opera star renee fleming with rock star mickey hart of the grateful dead and indian classical music virtuoso zakir hussain making music for healing in the middle of a pandemic? it's called drone music, and embraces ancient healing and meditation traditions. >> music and medicine goes back as far as history goes back, you know, shamanism, people lived by that. >> we are taught that when somebody got sick in the house, we were told to play our tambour, which is the drone instrument. >> when you think about these types of therapies and interventions, they're non armaceutical, they're very low cost, and they really are working. >> reporter: the power of music to heal, or at the very least promote well being, is well documented in most cultures. but it's only been in the past two decades that the sentific and medical communities have me together in an effort to prove its efficacy and possibilities of including it in medil protocols. >> suddenly these things that were simply left to speculation, into theory, we now have measurements on it, we h