AudioAnalgesiA is a research network comprised of a core investigative team (CIT) of scientists and clinicians whose collective expertise spans music therapy, pain, neuroscience, social work, psychology, engineering, and medicine; additionally, expert scientists from professional and scientific associations and academic consortiums will be invited to join the network.

Our mission is to form a transdisciplinary group of clinicians, musicians, researchers, and people with lived experience to identify and investigate the mechanisms that explain how music-based interventions improve pain-related outcomes.

Research network activities include webinars, writing groups, and annual workshops to support dissemination and progress toward the following specific aims:

1. Address major gaps in understanding of biopsychosocial mechanisms, including biomarkers, of MBIs in chronic pain;
2. Explore novel technologies and methods to enhance the objective, unobtrusive measurement of pain within the context of music experiences; and
3. Implement a pilot program to fund pilot intervention studies specifically focusing on the mechanisms and technologies to advance music-based pain research.

At the completion of the proposed activities, our expected outcomes are:

1. a research framework that bridges the gaps between the basic, applied, and clinical trials in MBI research;
2. novel technologies and methodologies to examine the mechanisms of MBIs and quantify their effects on chronic pain conditions; and
3. preliminary data from funded pilot projects to support new and senior investigators in securing large-scale funding for definitive research on MBIs and pain.

These outcomes will significantly advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the potential effects of MBIs on pain and provide guidance regarding best practices for objective measurement in MBI and pain research.