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Victoria Deiorio speaks, teaches, and leads from the frontier where art meets consciousness. Her presentations don’t lecture, they resonate, blending live sound demonstrations, neuroscience, and storytelling to reveal how vibration shapes human experience.

With credentials as a DePaul University professor, author, and practitioner who has worked with sports legends, Broadway stars, and cutting-edge AI researchers, Victoria commands stages worldwide.

Her talks explore:
- How theatrical sound design principles enhance corporate creativity and influence workspaces.
- Sound as nervous system medicine for stress, burnout, and emotional regulation.
- The future of neurolinguistics and frequency-based cognitive enhancement.
What distinguishes her is experiential authority. Audiences don’t just hear about brainwaves, they feel them through live tuning forks, gongs, and psychoacoustic demos.
Her masterclasses offer hands-on frameworks for:
- Theatre professionals: Emotional architecture through sound.
- Wellness practitioners: Integral sound healing protocols.
- Corporate innovators: Vibration for peak performance and culture.
Organizations book Victoria because she delivers transformative insight with immediate applicability. Past clients report teams inspired to rethink creativity, healers equipped with new modalities, and leaders newly attuned to sound’s strategic power.
For conferences, universities, corporations, and retreats seeking a speaker who combines world-class credibility with palpable presence, Victoria offers more than keynotes, she offers awakening. Her voice reminds us: the most powerful instrument is the one we’ve always carried, our ability to listen, feel, and evolve through sound.

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Podcast Interview with Victoria Deiorio

Designed By with Joanna Pena-Bickley, August 26, 2023

The Backstage Creative

Krista Kopper, June 2020

A podcast with Victoria Deiorio, who is a Chicago based sound designer. We talk about women in theater, life in academia, and the myriad of opportunities in the sound world.

The Art of Theatrical Sound Design, A Practical Guide

Bloomsbury Publishing, September 2018

Emphasizing the artistry behind the decisions made by theatrical sound designers, this guide is for anyone seeking to understand the nature of sound and how to apply it to the stage. The Art of Theatrical Sound Design allows developing artists to apply psychology, physiology, sociology, anthropology and all aspects of sound phenomenology to theatrical sound design.

A Sound Designer on The (Remarkable) Encounter

Howlround.com, January 2017

At a moment when sound design’s artistry has come into question due to the elimination of the Tony Award category, it is critically important to see a show where you simply cannot ignore the importance and potential of sound design.

Is Technology in Sound Design Eroding Collaboration?

Howlround.com, June 2015

Sound design is a deep and thoughtful process of integration of all aspects of theatrical expression. Think of what is lost without the exchange of ideas and the depth of knowledge and experience the sound designer brings to the process. Collaborative directors and designers feed off of those thoughts from others and each one layers upon the previous one with respect to the artistry of each person’s addition. If you remove one of those voices, you lose an entire layer of artistry from your production.

Windy City Sound

Stage Directions, December 2014

Chicago’s sound designers have an identity as particular as their city’s theatres, and both were forged together. I identify myself as a composer/sound designer. But more specifically, I’m a Chicago composer/sound designer. And as I’m sure that every city has its story of how sound developed in their theatres, starting my career here in the mid ‘90s gave me the unique perspective of the evolution of what I consider the birth of artistic sound design in Chicago. The Community Itself Chicago’s theatre community is comprised of diverse artists that produce their work at theatres that vary in size…

What it Means to Sound Designers to Take Away the Tony

Howlround.com, June 12, 2014

Last night there was an outpouring of disgust, sadness, confusion, anger, and frustration over a decision to again treat our field as though we are not as important as the rest of the team. This rush of emotion comes because this is not new to us at all. The amount of work in order to be validated by the Tony Awards as a category, which was instated in 2008, seems to have meant nothing at all if it suddenly goes away. It’s not about an award. It’s not about the spotlight most of us work very hard to go unnoticed during a performance (unless we need to be noticed). It’s about validation for the…

What elevates her work is rare synthesis: decades of designing emotional journeys for live audiences, combined with published expertise on vibration’s physiological impact. She translates complex data into elegant, human-centered soundscapes that organizations trust for measurable outcomes, improved attention spans, reduced anxiety, enhanced learning retention.

For wellness platforms, researchers, and innovators, Victoria delivers evidence-based audio that feels like art, bridging the gap between clinical efficacy and emotional connection. Her work proves sound isn’t just therapeutic; it’s transformative technology for the mind and nervous system.

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In an era of cognitive overload, Victoria Deiorio’s research-based audio design offers precision medicine through sound, frequencies engineered to restore focus, regulate emotion, and unlock human potential. Through her co-founding of Vibes AI, she bridges neuroscience, neurolinguistics, and artistry to create psychoacoustic vibrational therapies that work.

Victoria’s audio programs target specific brainwave states: 40Hz Gamma for clarity and bliss, Alpha for creativity, and Theta for deep healing. She draws from EEG research, vibroacoustics, and her theatrical understanding of emotional entrainment. Unlike generic ambient tracks, her designs integrate language patterns, binaural beats, and somatic response to rewire neural pathways for sustained cognitive enhancement.

Her contributions to Vibes AI include:

40Hz cognitive wellness audio for memory, focus, and neuroplasticity.
Vibroacoustic protocols blending low-frequency vibration with therapeutic narrative.
Custom research audio for clinical trials, corporate wellness, and performance optimization.