Looking for sound identity: laboratories in a disabled center in South Tyrol

Abstract

Background: People with severe mental and physical disorder are excluded from music therapy workshops. Patients unable to use musical instruments and whose speech is not contextualized become the focus of this project, aim of which is to engage in the music settings, both educators and families as a support for patients. The idea was to rebuild the musical history of patients through verbal and non-verbal experiences developed across music therapy. The sound identity search took two years. In the first year, three music therapists have researched for the “sound portraits” of participants, and in the second year two music therapists expanded it into “sound narratives”.Targets: Create an interconnecting network between patients, experts, educators and parents. Developing verbal and non-verbal expressive skills. Connecting the emotional memory through the storytelling of music experiences.Methods: Empathic psychodynamic-oriented improvisation, musical psychodrama, research the musical biography of patients t...