Posted by Leslie Wagle
on 4/8/2008, 5:00 pm
24.136.189.193
Hi everybody, I've held back on posting until I could explain what I'm interested in. I did submit a paper to the center about a year ago which dealt with the potential for music to be used along with phototherapy (it's in the archives at the center)...and I've continued to be interested in this, as I complete my requirements for a master's in music technology.
I found something today that's making me "come out", that I thought others of you might want to read, dealing with memory therapy using family photos accompanied by a music sound track. The article is here: http://www.therapytimes.com/content=0602J84C48968694406040441 This caught my interest because I'm also a pianist and I'm almost ready to put some of my own imagination-stimulation digital tapes on the internet around the end of May on a new website.
Any of you that think you might have a patient this might work with, or even a group, please contact me. I've got in mind that the client (or group) could even just make watercolors or finger paintings around a topic and let me process them into a digital "movie." For an example of this, you might want to see how a workshop was done by a music professor I've also corresponded with (Hugh Sung)- although he doesn't have a therapy focus. For a sense of how a group might work, you can see a video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8cFNIJ0b-I&feature=related
I'll come back to give a link to my own work in a month or so. The samples will display various graphics, not family photos, but the idea would work with furnished photos anybody could send me as scans...or maybe the client could do art work stimulated by looking at photos they don't want to release... or even take some new expressive shots, and relay the photos by emails. I'm no therapist myself but just wanted to pass along the thought to people involved in therapy as there seems to be potential here.
Feel free to use my email and I'll be back when set up (my URL will be evocations.org)
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