The Secret to Reinvention: Dr. Wally Bartfay on Dream Chasers Radio

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00:06Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Wally Guertfey, aka The Rockin' Prof, and I'm here with Yaya Diamond this evening.

00:27Hey guys, this is Yaya. I'm so, so thankful that you guys are watching the show today. This is the

00:33music edition. As you can see, you got the music going up. We got professors on the show. Well, ex

00:39-professors. We got doctors on the show. Go figure. We got doctors. What's up?

00:43So we have an amazing, amazing guest on the show today. He's a new song out, and it is right

00:50there in front of you. I want to go ahead and show you that this, you know, I'm so, so

00:55very excited to have Angel Eyes by adult contemporary recording artist, Wally Guertfey. I hope I said that right. If

01:05I didn't say that right, please forgive me, but I want to welcome him to the show. Thank you so

01:08much for being here with us today.

01:24Thank you so much for being here.

01:26Yeah. Hey, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here this evening. Yeah.

01:31Oh, it's a pleasure to have you. So you are a recording artist, but you're a retired professor as well.

01:37And there's just so many things that you, you can't be retired. I mean, there's no such thing as retired.

01:42I mean, to me, that's like, it's a funny word. I was just saying that a minute ago, like to

01:46be retired is tired again.

01:48And that doesn't make any sense. So you're just doing things you want to do now. Am I correct?

01:54That is true. I'm doing things that I want to do tomorrow. It's Friday. And I hope to do some

02:00stand up paddle boarding on Lake Ontario with my wife if the weather holds out and the winds hold out.

02:07So, yeah, but I'm writing music. I'm still engaged in some research related to music therapy and retirement's good. Retirement

02:17is great as of August 20, as of August 2024.

02:22Wow. And, you know, I've taught at various universities, Queens and Windsor, and most recently here in Oshawa at University

02:33of Ontario, Institute for Technology.

02:37I taught public health and epidemiology, and I was associate dean for the undergraduate programs. I was director of various

02:46programs. I was very, very busy.

02:48But I also did, as I mentioned, some research with Ontario Shore Centre for Mental Health Sciences. It's a hospital

02:56here in Whitby.

02:58And we set up a dementia unit, and we did some really cool stuff with dementia patients and light therapy,

03:06because here in Canada, we don't get enough vitamin D. We're always covered up.

03:11Even though it's summer, I'm inside now. We have air conditioning, so it's great.

03:18But light therapy for vitamin D, because it helps with their depression.

03:22Right.

03:23And we wanted to control BPSDs, which is a fancy way of saying behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. It's

03:30a real mouthful.

03:31But things like anxiety, hallucinations, aggression, and so forth. And we've done reminiscent therapy, but we've also done music therapy,

03:42which seemed to help patients as well.

03:46And I really got interested in dementia research because my father, he had many health conditions, stroke and everything else.

03:55But he had developed vascular dementia. And it's the second most common form of dementia.

04:03There's about 100 different forms of dementia. And about 10 million new cases are diagnosed every year.

04:11Wow.

04:11And if we count to three, one, two, three, someone in the world just got diagnosed with dementia.

04:18So one way that we used to calm him down when he was agitated, I would sing him folk songs

04:25that we used to sing around a campfire scene.

04:27And that would calm him down. And so music is really medicine. And I started to research music and medicine.

04:38And it's really fascinating because you go back and, you know, we were making music, you know, for incredibly long

04:48periods of time in Slovakia that I visited, a beautiful country.

04:53They have beautiful ice caves, but they have these other caves there.

04:56And in one of the caves in Slovakia called Witch's Cave, they found this long bone, a femur with holes

05:04drilled in it.

05:04And it's 40 to 60,000 years old. And this is the very first musical instrument around that we found,

05:11that archaeologists have found.

05:12So we've been making music for an awful, awful long time.

05:18You know, in Greece, Apollo was the sun god, but he was also the god of medicine and music.

05:25And they went hand in hand. And even in ancient Chinese medicine, if you look at the symbol for music

05:33and medicine, they're almost identical.

05:38The only difference with the medicine is they have an extra line on top of two vertical lines.

05:44But they've been interconnected for thousands, for thousands of years, we've been making music.

05:50So I became fascinated with how we can use music and to benefit patients instead of using pharmacological interventions, which

06:01have nasty side effects.

06:02And, you know, we've seen some very positive results.

06:09It's really in its infancy. We're only rediscovering medicine for healing and various other applications as well.

06:20There is noise therapy that you maybe heard of as well.

06:24If you walk into your local Walmart and people are buying baby monitors and not baby monitors, these white noise

06:32machines, right, to help the baby fall asleep.

06:36It's white noise that is out there.

06:40There's also brown noise, pink noise, gray noise.

06:44Brown noise has a little bit more base and everything.

06:47And the gray noise can be used for treating ADHD, for sleep disorders.

06:55Gray noise has been used to treat tinnitus, which is a fancy way of saying ringing in the ears as

07:03well.

07:05Yeah.

07:06So we're all interconnected there.

07:09Yeah.

07:09That is amazing.

07:10That is amazing that all that stuff has been because of, well, noise, music, and, hey, don't die around somebody

07:19back in the olden days because you'll be turned into a piece of music.

07:24Wow.

07:25That's crazy.

07:26Wow.

07:27So your research is taking you to music instead of away from it.

07:32You know, before you were into this, did you ever think that you would be a musician or that you

07:39loved music as much?

07:40Yeah.

07:41Yeah.

07:41As a jury, an early year, when I was a young child, we used to put on Christmas concerts with

07:49my cousin Irene and my sister Kathy in nursing homes in Chattagy, Quebec, where I grew up for veterans and

07:58for seniors at Christmas time.

08:00And you could see their faces light up.

08:03And my mother and aunt would bake cakes and cookies and everything.

08:08And it was a really big event.

08:09And I'd like to give back to my community at that time.

08:14And I guess there's a full circle of life because that nursing home where I used to volunteer as a

08:20parent was the place that my father actually ended up staying before he passed about four years ago.

08:32So there was a connection there, you know, there was a real connection.

08:37But, you know, even there was a long time and in my early, you know, in my early 20s and

08:45so forth, I used to play in a lot of coffee houses in Montreal and with a friend of mine

08:51who unfortunately passed away as well, Danny Arsenault.

08:56But life got busy with careers, the school and work and two kids.

09:03And I really rediscovered songwriting and making music during COVID.

09:11I took out my old guitar and I started to dust it off and started to write music again and

09:17connected with the gentleman, Stephen Wrench, who had, you know, various, he's a Grammy judge.

09:26And he had produced many, many, worked with many, many great artists, Leonard Skinner, he worked with ABBA, you name

09:35it.

09:35He's worked with everybody practically under the belt and I connected with him on Facebook and we kind of hit

09:46it off.

09:47And to this date, we have five number one indie hits either on the world indie music chart list or

09:58the Euro indie chart list.

10:00So I got, I got five to date. So I'm pretty happy about that. Yeah. And currently my newest single

10:07called Angel Eyes is number four on the world indie chart list.

10:15So I'm really happy about that. Yeah. Yeah.

10:17Wow. Well, congratulations.

10:20Yeah. I've been blessed. Yeah.

10:22Oh, definitely. Congratulations on that. My gosh, that is wonderful.

10:26Yeah. This song is really special because it was, my mother unfortunately passed away at her 90th.

10:36She had recently her 90th birthday in March and she had to, she passed away in palliative care.

10:43And this was the last song that she heard when she passed called Angel Eyes as a demo.

10:50So I played it for her in palliative care. So it has some, some meaning. It's, it's about an MMA

10:57fighter who falls in love with a girl and, you know, all this physical pain, but he also has a

11:04lot of psychological and mental health pain.

11:07And she really is, heals him on many levels. You know, she falls in love with this girl.

11:13So that's what the, the basis of the story is behind, behind Angel Eyes, you know.

11:19Wow. Wow. You know, I, I find it so amazing that, um, and my condolences. Okay.

11:27Cause I, you know, I too am an orphan. I mean, I figured that out. I was like, wait a

11:34minute.

11:34What do they call adult orphans? I always, you know, there's no, there's no word for us.

11:37I'm an orphan. Forget it. Okay.

11:39My sister said that too. I don't want to adult. I don't want to adult anymore.

11:46She said that when my mother passed and she said it to bedside, you know, we're orphans now. And I

11:49said, God, there's, there's no name when you're, when you're an adult anymore.

11:53No, we're orphans.

11:54It hurts as much. It hurts just as much.

11:57It does. It does hurt. That's why I say, dear, orphan is an orphan, no matter what age we're orphans

12:02now. And, and now our kids looking at us and we're like, but we want our mommy's and daddy's.

12:11So, I mean, you know, yeah, it hurts just as much. It does. It really does. And to, to have

12:16that come out of, uh, such a, a very, very, uh, stressful, I would say, but also heart wrenching moment

12:25for you.

12:26What was that like to actually write something that was, uh, out of pain and agony or even love and

12:35remembrance?

12:36Yeah. Yeah. I think most artists would argue it's, um, you know, most of my songs have some history.

12:42Um, there's always the connection where it's, it's either writing about myself or someone I know, a friend or something,

12:49uh, who has gone through a difficult time or a good time.

12:52You know, it could be about love. It could be about separation. It could be about just having a good

12:58day at the beach, you know, like a little sunshine girl.

13:01Just it's a good day on the beach, you know, perfectly on the beach. It could be about something happy

13:05like that or, or something about dancing or something.

13:08So, uh, but you always try to connect it, you know, to that human, that human context, you know, that

13:15every song I would argue has a human context, a connection.

13:19And that's what I try to do. And, and I, and I, and I, and I guess I'm blessed because

13:23I'm obviously connecting with some people and, uh, people like my music.

13:29And, uh, you know, I got the, uh, the, uh, I guess the, uh, the name, I guess the nickname

13:36by my students, the rock and prof, uh, because I used to, uh, uh, you know, take my guitar and,

13:44uh, I wouldn't always be wearing my, my suit.

13:46I would first day, I would just go in wearing jeans or something and even put on a cowboy hat

13:51or something to hide my bald head.

13:53And, uh, and, uh, and then you say, who is this guy up front? And I would start singing a

13:58song and I would say, uh, you know, and it's a great way to break the ice with them.

14:04Uh, and you have 250 students sitting in the audience or something, and then you connect it. You say, well,

14:09today's lecture is about neurological disorders.

14:12And we're going to talk about one of them called dementia. And my father had dementia. And when I played

14:17this song, it calmed him down.

14:18So there's the connection with the research and the music. So I would try to make those, those, those connections

14:23in, in, in the classroom. Yeah.

14:25Yeah. Yeah.

14:26I found it easier in college to learn, uh, when things are placed in a musical context. Um, you know,

14:35even when I was learning, uh, you know, cause I went to school for, uh, I went to pre-law,

14:41they call it pre-law, but I call it torture.

14:43Um, you know, I didn't finish law school. I wouldn't let you know. I did not finish law school, but,

14:51um, you know, whenever I needed to study, I always put it in a song context, which was for me

14:57easier to learn.

14:58Cause you know, and I figured, I was like, why am I in law when I love music so much?

15:03So we switched all that out, but, um, it's, it's amazing to see that music can really clog or bring

15:13back the memory and help the person to actually progress instead of regress.

15:20And there's just so many other things, like you said, that are happening today. Like the noise, they got lasers

15:25too, that are helping from what I understand. And so many things that are happening. Are you a part or

15:31did you know about that as well?

15:33Yeah. Well, not with the lasers, but I've done some work with binaural beat therapy and, uh, binaural beat therapy

15:41is, um, it's, it's basically a, uh, auditory hallucination.

15:46We hear about 20 to 20,000 Hertz, our regular ear. Right. And if you put on a set of

15:52headphones on one side, I have 310 Hertz and the other side, 300 Hertz, 310 minus 300 is 10 Hertz.

15:59Uh, we can't, um, really detect 10 Hertz, but our brain will pick it up and, um, and it becomes

16:08what they call an auditory hallucination.

16:10And over time it becomes synchronized, uh, with your brain waves and, um, you can, you can affect, you can

16:17decrease stress, um, uh, binaural beat therapy.

16:22There, there's some very good clinical evidence in a growing body, not only stress and anxiety, but you can alter

16:27things like insulin levels for, for diabetics and dopamine levels,

16:32which is really, uh, critical for patients with Parkinson's disease. For example, uh, you can decrease, uh, pain levels. It's,

16:40it's, there's another area called auditory analgesia.

16:45So if you're in a dentist office or something, you don't have to have so much anesthesia given to you.

16:51Uh, you can have less if you, if you actually, if they play music, these are all well-documented clinical,

16:57um, uh, benefits.

17:00And also in athletes, uh, it's been shown to increase motor performance and functions.

17:06And, uh, and, uh, there's even acid reflux research, acid reflux disease that comes down your acid in your stomach.

17:12So, um, you know, these hard clinical indicators for this viral, viral beat therapy.

17:18And, uh, if, if, if we think about it, everything in the universe vibrates, everything is in music on a

17:24different level.

17:25It could be birds singing. It could be leaves rustle rustling. The earth has a frequency called Schumann's, um, resonance,

17:33which is 7.83 Hertz.

17:35So every planet has a certain resonance. The resonance of the universe is 432 Hertz.

17:41So why is that important? Because if we listen to some, something at a 432 noise or viral beat or

17:48something at 432, it's very calming.

17:52And the concert pitch, incidentally, the concert pitch, which, which has been around for, God knows, but, uh, since, uh,

18:001939 is 440 Hertz.

18:03And what's interesting, if you look at research and you look at heart indicators, uh, stress hormones like catecholamines in

18:09the blood, um, you know, you have your, your subjective data and you have your objective data, uh, as well.

18:16So if, uh, if, uh, during the concert, uh, if you tune the instruments to concert 440, uh, yes, they

18:23enjoy the concert, but if you tune it to 432, which is the, uh, uh, the, the same resonance as

18:30the, or a cosmos, people enjoy the concert more.

18:35Yeah. And, and every, and if you may have heard of, um, you know, string theory and M theory, you

18:41know, everything, everything from gravity, um, the, the weak nuclear force, the strong nuclear force, magnetism, everything's vibrating, right? Electrons,

18:50protons, everything vibrates at a certain frequency.

18:53Uh, you know, so everything in, and, and, uh, it, it can also be, um, the frequencies and, and, uh,

19:02uh, uh, if we hit a certain frequency, it can be therapeutic, but it can also be, uh, very destructive

19:08if you hit a certain frequency.

19:10Uh, in, um, 1940, November 7th, the Dakota bridge, uh, there was, uh, an incident where, um, the winds picked

19:19up to about 40 miles per hour, uh, which is about 64 kilometers an hour, incidentally.

19:25Um, and what happened with this bridge is started to, with that resonance started to swing, swing and vibrate.

19:33And we have an obstructive resonance frequency created and the bridge actually collapsed.

19:38So you have this steel bridge with the steel cable and concrete and everything, because it was in sync with

19:45that windstorm that was happening, that Dakota bridge actually collapsed.

19:49Oh my God.

19:50So we have to design things in, you know, I'm not an engineer.

19:53My father was an engineer, but we have to design buildings, keeping frequencies in mind, you know, as well.

20:00So we're all connected, we're all vibrating, um, in our body.

20:04Now they're using, uh, research for cancer, uh, a hundred and a hundred thousand to 150,000 in the lab,

20:12right?

20:13Uh, we can kill cancer cells in the lab, uh, with, with sound, with sound waves, right?

20:18I saw that, I saw that, I saw that, I saw that, that study.

20:23Cause I, I get all those studies and I'm like, oh my gosh, what?

20:26I'm so, and I, I hope they do find the cure because too many people are, are passing away.

20:33I think, I think, and, and don't quote me on this.

20:36Okay.

20:36But I'm just thinking, I'm thinking that it might just be the food.

20:41Yeah.

20:42Well, well, there's lots of things in our environment.

20:45Uh, there's tons of plastic, you know, we're consuming every month about a credit card worth of plastic.

20:52Like, that can't be good for us, right?

20:53So, no, you know, there's too much, there's too much everything.

20:58So, too much everything.

20:59Yeah.

21:00I'm hoping that we can figure it out.

21:03Yeah.

21:03It's not good.

21:03Yeah.

21:04I'm hoping we can figure this out because I mean, you know, to me, it's, it's like, yeah, it, it,

21:09we're destroying ourselves along with the planet.

21:13No one's going to be here and nothing is going to be here by the time we're done.

21:17It's like, oh, get rid of it all.

21:20But let me ask you a question.

21:23Absolutely.

21:24Do you have new music coming up in the future?

21:27Yeah, I, I do.

21:29I'm working on two pieces.

21:32Well, I released just recently the two songs I mentioned, Angel Eyes.

21:36There's also one, Poison and Desire.

21:38That hit number one on the World Indie Music Chart list and number two on the Euro Indie Chart list.

21:45And that song's about this guy who falls in love with this beautiful European model and he, he can't sleep

21:53at night.

21:54He can't drink.

21:55He can't, he can't, can't do anything in life.

21:57Everything's unless, unless he's with her.

21:58So it's just kind of a love song, but I'm working on a song called Kiss of Death.

22:06And I got the idea because I'm, I like to watch, I'm a big James Bond fan and I wanted

22:14to have a female Bond.

22:16So it's kind of a female, kind of a swing.

22:20This one is not country or rock, which I traditionally, this one's actually a swing piece, a real fun piece

22:27with lots of brass.

22:28And it's called The Kiss of Death and it's about this hired, you know, spy assassin, which is kind of

22:35fun.

22:36And the other one is just the stress of everyday life about a rancher who's, it's called I Can't Stand

22:42It Anymore.

22:43So it's, it's, it has lots of banjo and so forth.

22:49A little bit of a country rock, a little bit edgy.

22:52Just someone who's overworked and we can all associate with it overtaxed, you know, tax man takes half his salary

22:59or tax to death.

23:02And when he's with someone who just, you know, flies through his money, you know, he works hard seven days

23:08a week on a ranch and he can't even afford a new cell phone.

23:11You know, all of those lines are in it.

23:14I can't afford a new cell phone.

23:16Yeah.

23:16And his significant other is out painting your nails or something.

23:20He's like, why did you do that?

23:20Oh my gosh.

23:22Those things are so expensive.

23:23I don't even get that done.

23:25I don't even like it.

23:26I have press on nails and I don't even use those.

23:30I just got these things.

23:32Yeah, right.

23:33Stop getting your nails done, maybe get a manicure.

23:36Yeah, right.

23:36Get a manicure and be happy with it.

23:38But definitely, I mean, you know, you're right with everything that's going on.

23:43But I love that you're continuing with your music.

23:46Where can people reach you?

23:48I'm on every social media site on planet Earth, I think.

23:53So Instagram, I'm on Facebook.

23:55Of course, my music is on Spotify and Apple Music.

23:59If you punch in my name, Wally Bartfey, just music, you'll see, you know, on SoundCloud and all those other

24:10sites will pop up as well.

24:13Also, my lectures will show up.

24:15Some of my lectures that are still posted that people still watch and use today.

24:19So I'm kind of happy about that, you know.

24:22So congratulations on everything on the charts, on the new music and on Angel Eyes and everything that you're doing

24:29and done and about to do.

24:31And you're retired.

24:32My mother's smiling.

24:33I know she's smiling.

24:34Oh, yeah.

24:35In your retiredness.

24:40But thank you so much, Doctor, for being on the show.

24:42I appreciate it.

24:44It's been a pleasure, Yaya.

24:45I want to thank you for having me on your show.

24:49And God bless.

24:50And you too.

24:51And you too.

24:51And thank you guys so much for tuning in.

24:53We're going to have all our information about where he is, at least one of the places, so that it'll

24:58be connected to all the other places.

25:00And that way you can go ahead and listen to the music and get in contact with him and watch

25:04some of the lectures that he's had.

25:05Okay.

25:06Because we might all be headed in that direction.

25:09And I don't know.

25:10I don't remember.

25:11But okay.

25:12It doesn't matter.

25:13I want to thank you guys again so much for tuning in.

25:16And until next time, guys.

25:18Bye.

25:27Bye.

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