Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 3.04 Survey of

The Neurosciences and Music I

V

Conference 2011

Learning and Memory

Workshop 2:

SOCIAL / REAL WORLD METHODS

(5-8)

Title, Category

Aim

Mus. Material, Cultural Ref.

Technology & Procedure

Main focus of interes

t

Conclusion

5. Stefanie Uibel
   Education through music

: The

model of the Musikkindergarten Berlin

Cat. 7: Culture Cat. 10: Training

6. Maria Majno
   From “El Sistema” to other models: learning and integration through collective music education
   Cat. 7: Culture
   Cat. 10: Training
   7. Katie Overy
   Making music in a group: synchronisation, imitation and shared experience
   Cat. 7: Culture Cat. 17: Sensory

-motor

Articles: Molnar-

Szakacs &

Overy (2006)

. Overy &

Molnar

-Szakacs (2009)

8. Nigel Osborne
   Music a

s a therapeutic

resource for PTSD children in conflict zones

Cat. 11: Disorder

Cat. 12: Therapy

Kindergarten in which music is used as the central education medium during every child’s day. Examples from our experiences

over the last six years

The pre

sentation takes its

clue from the model of

the Venezuelan nationwide project “El Sistema”, and will survey a number of projects aiming at the exchange between social, educational, cultural and artistic contri

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butions of such networks

I will outline the SA

ME

(Shared Affective Motion Experience) model of musical experience

and propose that

the effects of

music are due to

the co-

occurrence of motor,

emotional and social facets of music

Based on experiences of using music as a therapeutic intervention for t

raumatised

children in zones of conflict and

post-

conflict, the paper

draws some clear connecting lines joining neuroscience research and therapeutic practice

Children experience

music in all its different aspects and in its unique

capability as a transfe

r

medium into all the other

educational areas

The unprecedented and unequalled success of

“Sistema” is based on its qualities as a vehicle

of social integration aiming at the prevention of endemic crime by offering an alternative “system” to children

McC

artney: Hey Jude.

England football supporters in Portugal 2004

Method, ambition and experimental ground is not only education in or with music, but ‘education through music’

To distill

the principles for

higher efficiency, accessibility, stab

ility and

visibility of results

I sugge

st that the human

mirror neuron

system

provides a possible clue: it suggests

that when we hear

music, we do not only hear

abstract patterns of sound

• 
  

we can also hear

the

expressive, human motor acts behind

those sounds

Neurophysiological symp

• 
  

toms, including chronic raised tone in the sympathetic divi

• 
  

sion of the autonomic nervous system

, leading to raised

heart rate, higher blood pressu

re, irregularities

in

breathing, dysregulation of movement repertoires

Consistent evidence linking PTSD to specific neurophysiological symptoms