Music Technology Tools – A Therapist-in-a-box?

Jonassen, Kjetil Høyer

doi:10.15845/voices.v21i2.3308

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“…Even though technology is a daily part for many music therapists, there are still many misconceptions about how to implement music technology fluidly in practice (Crooke, 2018;Hahna et al, 2012). Specifically, the use of music technology is experientially, culturally, aesthetically, and relationally very different than using acoustic instruments, and little is known about how these elements impact clinical decision-making in music therapy (Crooke, 2018;Jonassen, 2021;Stensaeth, 2018;Viega, 2018).…”

Section: Digital Music Technologies In Music Therapymentioning

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“…Both Stensaeth and Noone (2020) noted that music therapists can develop healthpromoting relationships with music technology. In addition, Jonassen (2021) reported that technology can act as a nonhuman co-agent within a therapeutic relationship, as he focused on the use of iPad as a co-creator. Crooke and McFerran (2019) discussed specific room arrangements, frequency settings, and instrument placement for improvising that does not just offer functionality, but instead showcases the relationship therapists need with various music technologies to best promote health in a way that is individualized and intentional.…”

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Entering the Ambient

Viega¹,

Druziako²,

Millrod³

et al. 2023

Voices

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Since the 1980s, there has been an interest in the clinical benefits and challenges with the use of digital music technology in music therapy, yet there is still little information about the experiential potentialities of digital music technologies from relational, psychodynamic, and ecological frameworks. The ambient mode of being presents a heuristic approach to clinical listening when using digital music technology. Performative collaborative autoethnography was utilized by a group of four music therapy clinicians who wanted to understand their shared experience of entering the ambient while improvising using digital music technologies. Seven video excerpts from six different improvisation sessions were chosen to explore this topic and its implications for being a music therapy clinician. In keeping with the values of performative collaborative autoethnography, the results and discussion of this study are presented as a dialogue between the researchers. Each group members’ experience of entering the ambient was unique, but they shared a common reverence for how they were able to create an ambient space using digital music technology, which acted as a co-agent within their group process. The group members discuss clinical implications for this research including the benefits, challenges, and the role of gender/identity when using digital music technologies.

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Section: Digital Music Technologies In Music Therapymentioning

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Entering the Ambient

Viega¹,

Druziako²,

Millrod³

et al. 2023

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“…In the interview with the therapists, the very act of doing something was highlighted as an important quality of this project. It is not just a "pill" one takes for symptom relief; it is an activity afforded by the technology at hand, a co-agent (Jonassen, 2021), that enables one to co-create one's own improvement. It is something that builds self-efficacy.…”

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“…2 In the humanistic approach to mental health care, the agents who are involved in the recovery of a patient include both professional therapists and other professions who work together to promote mental health and wellbeing. This approach is presented and discussed in general terms by Bøe and Thomassen (2017), and in terms of technology in music therapy by Jonassen (2021). 3 The recovery perspective grew out of an increased focus on patient involvement.…”

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Health Musicking Technology

Jonassen

2023

Voices

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The purpose of this article is to contribute more knowledge about digital technology in music therapy and public health, focusing on portable tablet technology. The article presents the findings from a multiple case study in which four adolescent outpatients from a mental health institution for children and adolescents participated in an iPadbased music workshop. The empirical data is sourced from qualitative interviews and participatory observation conducted during the workshop. The analysis suggests that the activity of making music with an iPad establishes and develops social relations, promotes self-esteem, and develops identity, enhances subjective wellbeing, and aids in dealing with daily life problems. Furthermore, it is suggested that the activity has value in terms of affording co-creation, strengthening agency, and building self-efficacy. The discussion includes reflections and critique concerning health-affordance, health musicking, and identity, and it argues for the benefits of using digital music technology with adolescents in mental health care.

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“…These devices are relatively inexpensive and are coupled with easy-to-use software. From a music therapist's perspective, these digital systems can act as non-human co-therapists, or "cooperative elements" (Kjetil, 2021).…”

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Digital music interventions for stress with bio-sensing: a survey

Ferguson

Castellanos

Pasquier

2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Music therapy is used to treat stress and anxiety in patients for a broad range of reasons such as cancer treatment, substance abuse, addressing trauma, and just daily stress in life. However, access to treatment is limited by the need for trained music therapists and the difficulty of quantitatively measuring efficacy in treatment. We present a survey of digital music systems that utilize biosensing for the purpose of reducing stress and anxiety with therapeutic use of music. The survey analyzes biosensing instruments for brain activity, cardiovascular, electrodermal, and respiratory measurements for efficacy in reduction in stress and anxiety. The survey also emphasizes digital music systems where biosensing is utilized to adapt music playback to the subject, forming a biofeedback loop. We also discuss how these digital music systems can use biofeedback coupled with machine learning to provide improved efficacy. Lastly, we posit that such digital music systems can be realized using consumer-grade biosensing wearables coupled with smartphones. Such systems can provide benefit to music therapists as well as to anyone wanting to treat stress from daily living.

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Music Technology Tools – A Therapist-in-a-box?

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Digital music interventions for stress with bio-sensing: a survey

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