Towards a systematization of community music therapy
10 aspects of practice
Mt Maria Gabriela Siccardi
The invitation to develop an approach to community music therapy means for me to rethink the practice.
A speech is action, discourse, movement and announcement in the language. Place where it is said, delimitation of space, a territory in a field. An election.
In the field of music therapy at the time can tell, the music therapy clinic, preventive and community. In the Community dimension
find the complex community, the music therapist is a part. This may be a distinguishing feature as for their participation and membership is that community becomes a music therapist. Now, not every group is a community.
first scheme to build a resort community access can synthesize some specific aspects:
a framework must be symbolic, cultural and spiritual heritage of all (language, traditions, beliefs, pursuits, and desires). For example, being a city state, such as Buenos Aires, we know that the worldview is to discover and contains many differences. But practice shows that there are common elements of symbolic unity.
Then a relational frame - link: it is the vital air of the community, relationships, affects, interpersonal exchanges.
Finally, what is the address, to where: the projects.
From the different experiences of community music therapy could abstract at least 10 objective aspects of practice:
1. Recognition of space awareness through hearing
2. Recognition by the concentration body personal and the collective dimension
3. Cultural Identity: Discovery, recognition and creation of "patterns and / or cultural traits"
4. The sound and body expression: The organization, form
5. Participation: The right to expression and expressiveness
6. Collective expression: breaking the social isolation
7. Vocal energy: The voice and his songs, pleasure by releasing the voice, song, collective singing, vocal improvisation and lyrics.
8. Being musical: Demystifying "musical traumatic diagnoses." The meeting with the Homo musicae
9. Reflection: Historicizing and Awareness
10. Community Building: From I to We
auditory awareness
1. Recognition of the sound space of the here and now
This goal translates into an initial activity, is the first step in starting any experience, is to get to hear where we are. Open our senses, hearing, sight, skin. Hear the nearby sounds that make up a soundscape. How we receive it. Distinguish own location in space through the reference direction, intensity, timbre etc. which gives us the auditory perception. As a second registration and subsequent approval by the purpose of the practice being performed, will focus on the sounds coming from the body - vital rhythms. 2 .-
personal and collective Contact
perceptual After preparation, takes care to contact a centering of the body. Location vertical and horizontal axis, top-down dimensions (heaven-earth) lead to a comfortable position. Support. Breath, breath, sound. Sound space itself and that of others. Cultural identity
3 - Discovery and creation of patterns and / or cultural features
We have two techniques that characterized so far the community music therapy interventions to promote this objective: namely the collective improvisations and song.
In making individual and collective improvisations can recognize rhythmic patterns, melodic. Turn gives rise to the pregnancy from others, the here and now, emerging from the situation. That would be the case Creating new patterns of identity of this community
This experience full of uniqueness and its many resonances form a whole which is experienced by all as a place of belonging and unity. We refer here to the tribal experience, or traditional communities, which is part of our archetypes, a common memory. This connectedness is also sound and music of the unconscious to unconscious (Jung's collective unconscious).
should then ask what are the experiences that lead to urban man to this dimension, ancient and essential? The experience required of an experience, and learning from it, not mechanical repetition. When
government offices encourage the art dealing with the author there is no room for the expressive and communicative body, for a culture of a people in which case the collective experience is emotional and symbolic resonance. Then a voice, "sound ID" can be singular "I" and in turn essentially "other"
The proposed Community music therapy for our urban popular culture is an invitation to the integration of different subjects that it juxtaposed live (pre-modern, modern, postmodern).
sound and body expression:
4 .- The organization, form
In these experiences we can pass the chaos the shape of the irregular to regular, impulsive than the expressive.
The form is a temporal-spatial organization, visual and auditory. Nieztcheano language would say, maybe it is Apollonian in its development, dithyrambic in sections of its route. Cells will incorporate rhythmic or melodic and rhythmic motifs, possible overlapping harmonics, and noise surrounding the city. Everything is included and is playing with structure forma. This form returns as host to mirror the participant group. And always dynamic, the interaction makes them turn this into another form, in transit at times chaotic. It is a collective creation experience to be so limited at times recognizable structures that give identity and cohesion to "everything." Participation
5. Right to expression and expressiveness
Community Music Therapy claims the right to expression and expressiveness.
Each and every human being has a right to expression. It is a basic need, when we are born we cry is the trademark sound that opens the clock until the final silence. The expression is a sign of life. Expressiveness
would go a little further, to enter the world of the qualities of expression. And the need is a search for aesthetic pleasure Why leave it only to musicians, dancers and poets?
Each and every one of us sentient beings to the subtleties of expression, being receivers (impressions) and producers (expressions). Move passive consumer site that is posed to the mass media and "return" to the matches live where there is a place to say and be heard. Provide a place, occupy a place.
collective expression
6 - Pleasure for the collective expression
We are in a sensitive and expressive definition of man, that man is linked to others with uppercase and lowercase. The other is in relation to the law, the father (J. Lacan) the sacred, M. Eliade. In the series with lower order pairs, brothers. Wonder if already incorporated
matriarchy and patriarchy will be able to establish a phratriarchos. A time of brothers who built horizontally a possible arrangement. Otherwise. This emerging form of bottom-up (as opposed to authoritarian, top-down, paternalistic) moves along the horizontal and vertical axis helical mode, natural structure present in the DNA strand in the snail, the birth of the leaves, the life.
Can you imagine a spiraling government? We need a training group gladly productions (which are dangerous to despotic whims and vain of me)
back, the music therapist is a facilitator who organizes and provides guidance for the ritual, but not the "Shaman" traditional. The music therapist knows the power and uses it to promote the ceremony, guide, inspire confidence, enthusiasm to participate, disinhibiting, listen and give rise to the smallest. Perhaps these are characteristics of a shaman century.
And why insist on the figure of the shaman? maybe I can be irritating to the scientific model of music therapy. It is not my intention.
There is a very valuable anthropological point is the original experience of music therapy. But its findings scientism and positivism and mechanistic limitations has been, paradoxically, to believe that these practices are not valid, and no sense.
In truth, we do a transpolación Cham ethnic group here and now, rather this formulation is to regain a sense of communion with the full expression, body, sound, music, word. Note that we Westerners, we appoint the body, sound and music, when the indigenous people simply say the name of the ceremony, because in the indigenous communities of the past and present (although increasingly less) have a common worldview all . The shaman is the healer, which communicates with the world above and / or below ground who speak the language of the gods, who sings to the spirits, entities and thus invisible cure.
We are located in a context of high cultural diversity, children of first generation immigrants in the country, Indians, mestizos and current immigrants. It is like a Babel.
The music therapist holds no power like the shaman (who can give life and remove it) simply awareness (called) and mobilizing those ritual communication patterns, but giving rise to the expression and power of the words of others, without hiding differences, "a shaman democratic?
's voice and his songs
7. Pleasure by releasing the voice, the song, the collective expression, improvisation with lyrics.
Voice. Sound body that runs the individual singing melodies, aphonic holes, the cry ... and also joins others in a collective and communal singing. Personal sound recording and other song is a right for all, not for the privileged.
Singing is an expression "natural", but our society inhibits spontaneous and free. Singing is an activity that stimulates multiple physiological functions: cognitive, emotional, communication, identity, sound, entertainment, etc. The singing group acts as an energizing stimulus. The choir, many voices - music.
Also in these experiments, the energy level, as well as the time passes and the power unit is another explosion, screams, chaos, (point top of the curve) that precedes a final silence (festival, vocal applause.)
Finally, the voice in support of the word also appears in the improvisation of letters in the spoken word of reflection.
The musical being of every human being
8. Demystifying the "musical traumatic diagnoses"
When children have told us: "do not serve for music, you're a dog, out of tune! etc. "organizing a mandate:" Do not sing. "As a result of the blockade of music, many humans do not have access to the experience pleasant and ancient song. Remember, the singing is genuine musical expression along with accompaniments rhythmic body.
Repair, rearrange, rehabilitate ... give signals to guide to that other "non musical" a musical life experience, to feel that it is possible to express themselves with the voice as an instrument, thwarting those phrases that inhibited his being musical. Community music therapy questions the validity of those judgments because one of its principles are based on the premise: We are all musical beings
Ma'mur Bâ Let's hear a contemporary shaman tradition Fulani, Senegal:
"We use the whole expression body as a language. To own breathing serves as punctuation, as well as vowel sounds. All sounds are with us from birth, we use for communication in Africa. That gives wealth, better life, even the detuned voices are as important as the tune, because the cause dissonances dissonant voices, rich texture, color and active given the energy to inspire others who come after. "
Then
Community music therapy promotes a state of personal and collective musical emotion.
The collective voice with the voice, instruments and enable the body to more "traumatized" because now the experience has been pleasant as possible and turn. This impact is at personal but collective resonance.
Reflection
9. Historicizing and identity
If we go through each of these points, we can conclude that music therapy is to propose an anthropological aspect, etnomusicoterapéutica, or just cultural. Emerges as a response to social novelty such as neighborhood assemblies, after the milestone of 19 and 20 December 2001 in Argentina.
What is new, is democratizing. It is participatory, it is creative, this search for identity in cultural diversity is part of Community Music Therapy. Therefore, as experiences in the context of the proposal allows, open space to reflect on what happened in terms of sounds, rhythms, improvisations and songs. Well arise associations and personal comments, common and different socio-historical. For example, in one of the experiences (percussion workshop and reflection) the main theme was slavery and guess what? the sound experience was in a public place, a plaza, a Sunday, in a circle, as did the black slaves in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Lead to the floor serves the community to meet. You may also be time for new proposals or projects. Express discomfort. The look at the source of the problem leads us to consider a common history of people, the office of the memory. Community Building
10. From me to us
ethics is a formulation to address the practice of Community Music Therapy. Impact on the mode of coordination by the music therapist, of belonging to a community but above all try to install a ritual experience that leaves mark on us who we are, fratriarcal dimension (say religions subsidiary)
us from living ceremonial , from the pleasure of a harmonic energy with their shapes, with chaotic nodes. Us with the melodies and voices that make up this time as an opportunity for change and personal and social transformation. We
and frustrations, the silences, the dimension as possible. We in the pulse
that reveal the simple beauty and everyday, accessible without money. An Exercise infinite
to limit the whims of the ego, of authoritarianism and lead to a common unity, of all others in us.
"sing our new song?
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