Posted by Leslie Wagle on 6/23/2008, 10:39 am, in reply to "Re: music enhance phototherapy"
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Well, maybe the trouble was listening to "music alone," which triggered sad memories or feelings of not being embedded in it any more, and it might help if music was revived as part of a creative project where he might SELECT and incorporate it with photography. I'd suggest using current things he can see, esp. nature subjects, rather than personal album childhood shots, etc. I wound up putting my music videos with photography impressions at YouTube which also lets you feel like you haven't just made them for your own hard drive, but have shared something with the world. http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=wagle88&p=r Some of those are sort of high-animation ones, so look for the North Carolina seasons. They are all technicallly "videos" but ones like the seasons are really just a series of still shots with cross-dissolves, which are easy to do and might engage him like it does countless others now that the software is cheap and learnable at that level. The potential for self-expression is huge that way, and can be easily loaded to YouTube without having a personal website, and it's free. Start him out by searching on certain composer names or opera themes to see what people are already doing and I'll bet you will come up with some postings and often comments by people who have viewed and "rated" each other. It's not all just kids and dogs and other nonsense, but a lot of classical performances are on there. The main thing is, he could draw on his music knowledge but not have to perform and be would be primarily engaged with photography until the last stage of "editing" (deciding what pictures express what melodies). I taped my sounds at local piano recitals and then moved on to downloading MP3's from YouTube (amateur performers who wouldn't be likely to be offended or cite copyright) and fitting visuals to them. Two teenagers who had just taped themselves sitting at the piano were thrilled when I emailed them to go see what I did with adding photo expressions to tapes of their playing. If any of this seems to obscure, write me back. There could be variations on the idea that are less computer based like the man drawing or painting, then someone could scan his work and make a "slide show" for him, and test whether it gets around his crying reaction (people usually love to see their photos showcased). I just think digital photos fit right into the new realm and if he's already doing that, he could probably learn or take a short local class for beginners for the rest of it and catch on easily. From what I have seen, it helps depression sometimes to just accomplish something.

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Posted by Leslie Wagle on 2/27/2009, 5:51 am, in reply to "Re: music enhance phototherapy"
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I just wanted to update that I decided to change the focus of evocations.org to relate to my retirement practice of landscape architecture, so now my sideline of video production doesn't have a URL, just in case anybody was puzzled who might have gone there. But I will always be interested in the healing aspects of music and photography. Since last posting I have also noticed that there is a (purely graphics centered) movement to create what they area calling "vision boards" in which people make colleges to help them define their goals and solve problems, usually done in workshops. This seems to relate to phototherapy, even if they don't realize the connection. Here is a link to a site that has some ideas maybe somebody else could use (she has other pages to look at there) http://innervisionportraits.com/workshops

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