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Sound therapy notes

Notes from happen-chance meeting with a sound therapist. Hearing about the basic foundation of sound therapy and how it differs from music therapy. After some cross-referencing and rudimentary follow-up research based on notes I made during our two-hour conversation, I am looking for scientific research to substantiate the information shared with me. Although the notes below still need to be unpacked, they provide a good starting point.

  • Sound therapy uses frequency and vibration, which differs from music therapy which uses 'music' (compositions/songs) as a foundational therapeutic treatment.

  • Sound therapy.

  • The body (human) is approximately 80% water. Sound travels through water.

  • Vibrational instruments.

  • Specific frequencies affect and are directly associated with areas of the body and brain.

  • Sound as medicine is used to massage, simulate or remap (?) neural pathways.

  • Determine what frequency range sensitivity is and how frequency range may impact mental and bodily sensations.

  • Classical music assists memory retention — NOTE: music therapy used to aid memory retention is based on 'frequency range'. Full range of frequency (and full-scale ranges (RATIOS)) in a musical composition stimulates 'all neural pathways'.

  • Human ear: Organ of balance, one of the first organs to form (I wonder what the first is, skin perhaps?) and the last to shut down.

What is:

  • Johansen therapy?

  • Metronome program?

  • Metronome program in sports therapy?

  • Audiology?

  • Mozart theory/affect?

Keywords

Sound therapy, Music therapy, Neuroscience, Psychotherapy

Bibliography

ABC Science. 2016. Power Of Music On The Brain | Dementia & Parkinson's. YouTube video, 00:29:17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnUSNbqtVJI&t=943s.

Bennett, Andy, and Susanne Janssen. 2015. "Popular Music, Cultural Memory, And Heritage". Popular Music And Society 39 (1): 1-7. doi:10.1080/03007766.2015.1061332.

Crum, Lawrence, and Kullervo Hynynen. 1996. "Sound Therapy". Physics World 9 (8): 28-34. doi:10.1088/2058-7058/9/8/22.

Bruscia, Kenneth E. 2013. Defining Music Therapy. eBook. University Park: Barcelona. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/reader.action?docID=3117673&ppg=28.

Heaney, Conor. 2019. "Tragic Rhythms: Nietzsche and Agamben on Rhythm and Art." PDF. la Deleuziana 10: 61–78. http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Heaney.pdf.

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