Our goals
This project supports European artists in holistic Music Therapy, and it will bring together professionals and amateurs working in joint music events.
Holistic music therapy is an art production used to treat mental disorders, neuroses or improve the condition of mentally disabled individuals.
The holistic music therapy art also shows a demonstrable effect on preventing mental health problems in a healthy population. Music therapy work with folk musical instruments in natural tunning (just intonation), and these instruments are usually known for a very long historical period in the local area. Some of these instruments are rattles made from fabric, which is easily found in the area.
Therapists use many types of drums used in tribal history anywhere in the world. There are also many breath instruments, like different kinds of pipes and hollow branches as didgeridoos (also called yedaki or yerdaki). Metal instruments like Tibetan bowls or hang drums are also a part of the music therapy performance. Sometimes they use also string instruments like marimba, kalimba, balafon and many others.
Holistic music therapy sessions can be passive, more like a relaxation, or active, like a workshop that requires work with the audience. Passive music therapy relaxation is arranged as a concert, except that the audience often lies and relaxes during the performance. Active music therapy production includes audience activity. Participants play drums, rattles or other percussion instruments or join in singing led by a therapist. This group production will enable the audience to experience a sense of belonging and harmony with the group, which is just one of the healing components of music therapy.
The project focuses on supporting artists in holistic music therapy, especially on developing their original production and cooperation with musicians from other countries and playing different styles and creating new performances together like joint production, merging styles. The vital part of the project is to increase awareness about this type of art and its possibilities and create publicity for these artists. However, the project also offers new perspectives and opportunities on business associated with the Covid 19 pandemic crisis; the online course can increase awareness about the field of music therapy even in the situation when face-to-face events can not occur.
The project’s first activity is an organization of a music festival that contains a performance of Czech and foreign artists, including their original joint production. We will organize this festival every year regularly.
The next part of the project is an online course and communication platform for the public audience and all interested people. This platform will be used for sharing information and stay in touch during an occasional lockdown. The course will introduce the history and usage of all the instruments often used in music therapy and the impact on people’s well-being and health. This course will also contain records of the music played on these instruments by professionals. We will create a website about the festival and the rest of the project to promote the artists’ work. Other parts of the project are a mobile music therapy lab that brings artists close to their audience and enables them to organize events in nature.
Promoter of the project
Saturnin z.s.
the company works on projects that improve the quality of life or well-being.
The portfolio of all the projects is on the webpage:
www.saturnin.info
Partners of the project
EEA and Norway grants
Ministry of Culture
