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In context of Charlene's thread 'Calling for contributions for labour and birth app - relax into birth' on the subform 'collaboration', I've decided to make this thread talking about Musicure, or music as medicine and therapy.
http://www.ambientonline.org/forum/showthread.php?4430-Calling-for-Contributions-for-Labour-and-Birth-App-Relax-Into-Birth&p=32608#post32608
A Danish composer called Niels Eje has for several years worked in a collaboration with a chief physician and professor, to try and map out certain principles needed in order to compose music for the purpose of medicine and therapy. Thus it is that music correctly composed, has the ability to lower heart rate, blood pressure and decrease the amount of stress hormones in your body, amongst other thing. They've found out that the bpm should be equal to that of a healthy heart rate being approximately 60 bpm, and the rhythm should be constant throughout the whole track. Furthermore one should be careful about composing with too many dynamic changes, which is welcomed at a normal listening environment, but not when waking up from a coma, since it can seem stressful. On top of that Niels Eje has mentioned that he aims at composing music with a rich depth, and he uses a lot of field recordings from nature.
Niels eje also describes the need of an genre-less, neutral and universal expression.
The research studies using music from Musicure has shown the following:
If you are further interested here are some articles:
about:
http://musicure.com/category/about-musicure-6/
overview:
http://musicure.com/category/research-overview-72/
Scientific article:
http://musicure.com/Resources/Files/...s%20Heslet.pdf
sounddesign:
http://nielseje.dk/sound-design/
Youtube Musicure:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMusiCure/videos
http://www.ambientonline.org/forum/showthread.php?4430-Calling-for-Contributions-for-Labour-and-Birth-App-Relax-Into-Birth&p=32608#post32608
A Danish composer called Niels Eje has for several years worked in a collaboration with a chief physician and professor, to try and map out certain principles needed in order to compose music for the purpose of medicine and therapy. Thus it is that music correctly composed, has the ability to lower heart rate, blood pressure and decrease the amount of stress hormones in your body, amongst other thing. They've found out that the bpm should be equal to that of a healthy heart rate being approximately 60 bpm, and the rhythm should be constant throughout the whole track. Furthermore one should be careful about composing with too many dynamic changes, which is welcomed at a normal listening environment, but not when waking up from a coma, since it can seem stressful. On top of that Niels Eje has mentioned that he aims at composing music with a rich depth, and he uses a lot of field recordings from nature.
Niels eje also describes the need of an genre-less, neutral and universal expression.
The research studies using music from Musicure has shown the following:
- Significantly reduced feelings of stress, anxiety and pain
- A decrease in use of medication and drugs (tranquilizers, morphine, sleeping pills, etc.)
- Lowering of the body’s production of hormone cortisol (stress hormone)
- Increase in production of hormone oxytocin ("peace/love hormone")
- Generally – an increased sense of calmness, well-being, motivation and inspiration
If you are further interested here are some articles:
about:
http://musicure.com/category/about-musicure-6/
overview:
http://musicure.com/category/research-overview-72/
Scientific article:
http://musicure.com/Resources/Files/...s%20Heslet.pdf
sounddesign:
http://nielseje.dk/sound-design/
Youtube Musicure:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMusiCure/videos
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