Vocal and tangible technology for music and health
2013 (English)In: Book of abstracts: setting the tone: cultures of relating and reflecting in music therapy / [ed] Gro Trondalen, Oslo: The Norwegian Academy of Music , 2013, p. 24-24Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
Our voice and body are important parts of our self-expression and self-experience. They are also essential for our way to communicate and build relations cross borders like abilities, ages, locations, backgrounds and cultures. Voice and tangibility gradually become more important when developing new music technology for the Music Therapy and the Music and Health fields, due to new technology possibilities that have recently arisen. For example smartphones, computer games and networked, social media services like Skype. In this paper we present and discuss our work with voice and tangible interaction in our ongoing research project. The goal is to improve health for families, adults and children with severe disabilities through use of collaborative, musical, tangible sensorial media. We build on use of voice in Music Therapy and studies by Lisa Sokolov, Diane Austin, Kenneth Bruscia and Joanne Loewy. Further we build on knowledge from Multi-sensory stimulation and on a humanistic health approach. Our challenge is to design vocal and tangible, sensorially stimulating interactive media, that through use reduce isolation and passivity and increase empowerment for all the users. We use sound recognition, generative sound synthesis, vibrations and cross- media techniques, to create rhythms, melodies and harmonic chords to stimulate body- voice connections, positive emotions and structures for actions. The reflections in this paper build on action research methods, video observations and research-by-design methods. We reflect on observations of families and close others with children with severe disabilities, interacting in three vocal and tangible installations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oslo: The Norwegian Academy of Music , 2013. p. 24-24
Keywords [en]
Interactive Music, Music Composition, Interaction Design, Tangible Interaction, Health, Music and Health
National Category
Musicology Design Music Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy Occupational Therapy Interaction Technologies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-11174OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hkr-11174DiVA, id: diva2:657446
Conference
The 9th European Music Therapy Congress, Oslo
Projects
Interactive Music CompositionRHYME.no, The Research Council of NorwayMusicalFieladsForeverInteractive Sound Design2013-10-192013-10-192021-09-09Bibliographically approved