PUBLICATION CENTER

 

This project invites music therapists around the world to submit sound files capturing therapeutic moments of their clinical work. The intention is to learn about the healing sounds in music therapy from all traditions and cultures around the world.

Note: The audio files require mp3 players. Downloading the audio files might take a while.


How can you be part of this new WFMT Project?

  1. 1.Select an audio file (maximum 3 minutes) of a great music therapy moment.

  2. 2.Make sure that the sound quality is good.

  3. 3.Describe in one sentence the content including population, age, and activity. Add the location and year of recording (see examples below).

  4. 4.Give us your name, credentials, city, country, and year.

  5. 5.Make sure that you have permission from your clients /patients to use the audio file.

  6. 6.Download and sign the WFMT Multimedia License Form.


Send the above to the WFMT Publications Chair Dr. Kyungsuk Kim publications@wfmt.info

After we have reviewed your materials, we will notify you if your materials will be posted on this site.


Thanks for your contributions and willingness to share!

Welcome the Sound Board


Sound Board


2010-2011



AFRICA Sarah Newberry, MA, MT-BC, Woodland, Minnesota, USA Teenagers orphaned in the Rwandan genocide living in a therapeutic residential community made their own instruments, wrote and recorded a song for a day of music activities, 'Music Day.' (Recorded 2009. Rwamagana District, Rwanda)  
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND Kat McFerran, Ph.D. and Kate Teggelove, RMT, Melbourne, Australia Original song written and performed by 15 and 16 year olds in response to tragic losses in Australian bushfires (Recorded 2009, Australia)  NORTH AMERICA Petra Kern, Ph.D., DMtG, MT-BC, MTA, NICU-MT, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Four-year old children with autism singing “hello” song with classroom teachers and peers during circle time. (Recorded 2004, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)  Amy Clements-Cortes, PhD, MusM, MTA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada An 61 year-old female client in palliative care wrote this song for her husband to say "Thank you and goodbye." (Recorded 2008, Toronto, Canada)  LATIN AMERICA Camila Pfeiffer (Bachelor of MT), Buenos Aires, Argentina 20 year-old man with traumatic brain injury regaining his memory through music after awakening from a coma. He still demonstrates severe post-traumatic amnesia, cannot recognize his family members or therapists, but does recall a variety of songs he liked before his accident. (Recorded 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina)  Cybelle Loureiro, Ph.D., Belo Horionte, Minas Gerais, Brazil A moment of reminiscence. An elderly woman of African origin sings a slave songs she remembers from her childhood. (Recorded 1992, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil)  Yadira Albornoz, Ph.D; CMT, Caracas, Venezuela Permeating Resistance: Artistic music therapy with a non-verbal 13 year-old adolescent from Caracas with mental retardation and autism (Recorded 2002, Caracas, Venezuela)  SOUTH EAST ASIA Richard Bogen (MTI) and Yari Bundy, Tempe, AZ, USA A group of several "street" children engaged in a game of call and response, fused and intertwined with various other field recordings captured in India. A sonic retelling of our experience in India. (Recorded 2009, Bangalore, India)  Dena Register, Ph.D., MT-BC, University of Kansas and The Music Therapy Department, College of Music, Mahidol University, Thailand Forty to eighty-year old patients recovering from stroke, TBI, and Dementia playing Aung-Ka-Loong, a Thai percussion instrument at the Sirindhorn Rehabilitation Center while students who participated in a music therapy course were singing Chang Chang, a well-known Thai song. (Recorded 2009, Nakhonpathom, Thailand) 
EUROPE Claudio Cominardi, Brescia, Italy An intercultural group of 5-year old children from Italy, East Europe and Middle Asia, playing a Relationship Score designed by the inner sharing of synesthetic integration between sound, movement and color. (Recorded 2007, Brescia, Italy)  Friederike Haslbeck, Dipl.-Music Therapist, Dipl.-Violinist, NICU-MT, Bad Salzuften, Germany From crying to singing: First music therapy session with a 4-year old boy, a former premature infant, developmental delay in speech and social skills. (Recorded 1999, Witten-Herdecke, Germany)  EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Christine Stevens, MSW, MT-BC, San Diego, CA In northern Iraq, a peace-making music therapy interchange occurred between Hunar in Darbandikhan and his traditional Kurdish flute and me playing my colonial fife. You can hear us finding each other in music. (Recorded 2008, Iraq)  Aksana Kavaliova-Moussi, B.M.T., BA, BMus, MTA, Kingdom of Bahrain Boys, age 6-10 with a diagnose of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Down Syndrome singing “Hello” song with music therapist while taking turns strumming the guitar. (Recorded, Kingdom of Bahrain, 2009)  WESTERN PACIFIC Sisi Lin, MTS of the Central Conservatory of Music at Beijing, China Music therapy student singing “the pig songs” for 10-year-old survivors of the Sichuan earthquake as a means to connect with the children and bring back normality and laughter into their daily life (Recorded 2008, Sichuan, China).  Hye won Chung, Doctoral Candidate for Music Therapy in Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, Korea Six-year old child with autism and self-injury behavior vocalizes and drums with music therapist during piano improvisation. (Recorded 1999, Seoul, Korea)