SOUND JOURNEY TO HEALTH
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Music therapy can be used on the one hand in the field of the patient handling (acute prevention and formal aftercare etc.), on the other hand in the human health maintenance (adult education, creativity center, etc..).
In the borderland between art, education, self-experience and therapy, humans need today a performance-free space (for example:the Free Music Center,Munich).
On the whole, music reaches the listener, no matter what style, because something acoustically symbolizes itself in it, what addresses to human conditions: luck, pain,falling in love, aggression, protest, inner tearing or beauty.
It is beyond doubt that the musical expression of mental experience, both the spontaneous as well as the intentional action, is most meaningfully when you experiment with the musical material yourself. Listening to music helps but the best training of this type of intuition is the free improvisation.
On our sound journey we actually ar participating to the old Shamenean tradition, to travel by means of acoustic stimulation to the inner world of ourself, thus in an uncommon state of consciousness.
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We focus to awake to two levels:
1. the experience of the presentness momentary in the body and in the breath motion as well as
2. listening sounds, rhythms or music.
The listeners are prepared for sound experiences, where perception exercises are verbally offered, which helps the listeners to relaxation, clarity, peace and awakeness, or it makes clear to them, where and how their mental condition is disturbed. The "gates" of the perception are cleaned. The awakeness leads them to the substantial bottom, to the being-with-themselves, and that in a dwell phase. It takes time to "be",for example on the ground on a cover surrounded by silence, which belongs also to the preparation of the sounds, when these thereby stand out more clearly.
The sound journey is an expedition inward, with which unknown landscapes can be explored and discovered. Additionally, one can search whether and how hearing can reveal, above all typical mental basics for musical structures, called archetypical topics. Sorrowful and disturbed early experiences are re-activated, and also the whole elementary potential of happiness and creativity.
Instruments can be used as acoustic archetypes. Each musical instrument is characterized by a certain quality of timbre, which results from the specific spectrum of overtones, and which we regard as acoustic archetypes.
1. On the first archetypical level in the sense of musical structures, there is the single tone, which can be played repetitive monotonal.
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2. On the next level, the intervals come as doubletone - archetypes. These form scales, usually five to seven tones within one octave.
3. On the following level, you can examine melody and chord archetypes
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4. Naturally, various rhythm archetypes can be differentiated and researched.
On the primary level of the single tone,the awakeness is stimulated with activities on sound bowls, large gongs, monochords, muzzle drums, music elbows, drums or rattles.
The rattle, which is frequently used as a toy and as a fascinating mobile in the crib, is in the history of mankind used early. In Indian tribes of South America it is still the most important sacral object. The rattle can be made out of all different materials, and is used like the drum for rhythmic stimulation.Practising(<click)
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Further information: Tonius TIMMERMANN , Die Musik des Menschen. Gesundheit und Entfaltung durch eine menschennahe Kultur. (Wege zur Ganzheit, H.Milz & M Varga von Kidéd, eds.). München, Piper, 1994, 271 pp.
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