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Terry Laakso
History – and the Present State
Terry Laakso is an artist and researcher whose work integrates the neurophysiological effects of color, sound, and the visual environment into one coherent whole. More than four decades of research across art, science, and cultures have shaped his unique understanding of how the environment influences the functioning of the human nervous system, balance, and the experience of space.
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Terry Laakso has developed the world's first neurophysiological color, sound and visual method, the Registered TERRY–NORA method. The method developed over a career spanning over 40 years, and its actual birth was in 2018 in the fishing village of Santoña in northern Spain. Since then, the method has expanded and deepened, combining art, science and neuroscience into one whole through neurophysiological research in the 2020s.
In 2014–2015, Laakso intensively studied flamenco dance, music and rhythm in Spain. He toured with well-known flamenco artists in major concerts, documented their lives with video footage and analyzed the neurophysiological impact of flamenco rhythms on movement, space and nervous system dynamics.
Laakso has held over a hundred art exhibitions during his career and his works have been presented both in Finland and abroad. He has also been a guest on television from 1989 to 2007, during which time his art and research have attracted widespread interest.
During his artistic career, Laakso has created over 3,000 works from different styles and eras. His works are in the collections of the President of the Republic of Finland and numerous private individuals and companies.
Laakso has been composing music since 1983, studying the neurophysiological effects of sound, rhythm and the nervous system’s response to different frequencies. This work has been a central part of his later NeuroMelodia research.
Laakso has lived in Mexico and Spain for 25 years, in a total of 14 different cities, and knows over 160 cities on three continents. During this international experience, he has studied different cultures, architecture, the structure of contemporary and historical cities, colors, sound environments and the way of living and experiencing space.
Today, Laakso focuses entirely on wellness courses and training programs for city organizations based on the neurophysiological system he developed himself.
He can also train artists graduating from art academies and art schools, offering them in-depth neurophysiological knowledge of color that is not taught in any other educational system.
This extensive research work — the interaction of cultures, architecture, light, color, sound, health, and the nervous system — has been a central part of the birth of the TERRY–NORA method.
The method combines art, science, and neurophysiology into a single entity that explains how colors, sounds, and visual structures affect the human autonomic nervous system.