(c) Peter Kuper
I started with a group of people with mental disorders music therapy laboratory that develops in about four months. At
of each track I make some questions, more or less the same.
What I want to communicate the experience of sound and music. What interests or predispositions
meet the new group. What knowledge I
new way of learning. As a reminder
feel, if the body movement, musical improvisation, song, silence ...
The mental illness (or psychiatric, in some ways) often takes the shadow of despair. We are fortunate to walk in the developing world, the little knowledge that our nature gives us, for who we are and what moves in and around us. We know that the destructive potential of insanity, alienation, self-destruction, is present in the body and mind of everyone.
With this in mind, it is not difficult to meet others with easy opening.
is where the sound is presented as an opportunity.
The connective tissue of the music, its scope harmonizing, exciting, stimulating, relaxing favors the meeting. There is no separation when you are immersed together in the same sound waves.
Phenomenology tells us that all human beings respond with the same features and the same mechanisms in certain situations, but each fielding its specificity arising from the resources, the history, from wounds, from personal joy.
Sound unites and differentiates then. It is at this meeting that can be diversified constructive confrontation, surprise, learning.
In this fertile soil, is of secondary importance to the technique you use, or the goal of expression that you want to put in place. That is, remain a crucial and important because they characterize and give meaning to the intervention, but both are useless, meaningless, of course, if you do not rely on the common ground of the meeting.
The music is both container and contents , expression and inflection, opening and folding. The first
music therapist's task, in situations of distress, then, is to remind all the participants for himself first, what are the human characteristics that are common to us all equally. The second task, which was created and developed together, is the enhancement of the individual nature of each person. It is important that the balance favors sound experience in an extraordinary way.
When the group, for example, engages in collective improvisation with Orff instruments, a common gesture of making music and sharing promotes differentiation, the specific contribution of each participant. The quality of the commitment, energy, rhythmic precision, attention another, their claim over the other ... is the principle on which the wheel and experience it connotes that particular type of balance. The excitement of discovery becomes more active, moved by the vitality and sound generates unexpected emotions, which you can accept or reject, but they are there to make sense of our common do.
All this comes before beauty of a performance or a voice, but inevitably generates, sooner or later, beautiful. We must overcome the beauty of what is played, danced, sang. We must overcome the negative, going beyond the idea that people who do not have specific knowledge music, what is more limited by mental suffering, can not in any way come something beautiful and that, therefore, that quality should not be sought at all. We must pass positive and go beyond the idea that a primary goal should be to play beauty. Using specially the term "reproduction". The beauty does not come from the turning to models (symphonic, jazz, singer-songwriter, ...) specific and known, but the unexpected opening. It is naturally balanced and the potential benefits of music, who reveals himself in listening to each other and the ability to let go authentic experience. Refer to an already beautiful dato può rivelarsi costrittivo, inefficace, doloroso.
Armonia ed esperienza autentica sono obiettivi importanti di lavoro . E qualunque siano le tecniche messe in gioco, il musicoterapeuta può raggiungere questi obiettivi solo attraverso l’incontro e il confronto. Inutile dire che il primo ad essere disponibile a questo incontro deve essere proprio il musicoterapeuta.
Senza paura.
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