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Touch of Sound
The Touch of Sound turns bodies into instruments of healing.
The Space of Touch investigates how sound waves interact with our body. How the physics of singing and the application of overtone singing can physically change cells by putting the body in tune. This is the junction of music and health.
The Space of Touch turns bodies into instruments. Every body has the capacity for sound and can create music to tune the body. Each organ system has a fixed distance from where the voice is created. This can be measured and pitch can be tuned to intersect the body. Songs can be composed to specifically generate wavelengths for health. The musical key for the heart would be different from the musical key for the brain because of distance. Each organ system can be sung, translating our body into sound, without losing any data.
Basic and Mechanistic
principles and equipment
Translational and Clinical
pedagogy for vocal and overtone production
Methods and Outcomes
clinical testing and patient cohort
Capacity Building and Infrastructure
training for speech pathology for patients
The physics of overtone singing and proposition for inquiry to correlate the frequency length from the origin of phonation in the larynx, overtone production by the secondary resonance chamber in the oral cavity, to distance in abnormal growth in brain tissue and calibrate consonance in the neural network. Polyphonic overtone singing segregates laryngeal phonation and the oral cavity as a secondary resonance chamber using lingual, dental and labial manipulation to amplify a single resonant frequency. If phonation has an origin point then the whole number ratio can be calculated in vectors although acoustically, sound travels in three dimensional wave forms.
Sonic therapy may target abnormal brain growths. Patients can be taught overtone singing as part of their treatment regime of music and healing. Sonic therapy or vibrations can be harnessed with additional inquiry and resources, supplemental to chemotherapy and radiation, giving the patient agency in their own recovery.
National Institutes of Health
SoundHEALTH Grant
Introduction
NIH hosted a workshop in January 2017 bringing together neuroscientists, music therapists, and supporters of both biomedical research and the arts to discuss the current landscape of research on the interaction of music and the brain as well as how music is used as therapy. A set of research priorities and recommendations for basic and applied research were identified that will:
increase our understanding of how the brain processes music
develop scientifically based strategies to enhance normal brain development and function
advance evidence-based music interventions for brain diseases and human health overall.
NIH is collaborating with other federal agencies to support funding opportunities and programs that study the application of music in health settings. Basic scientists, clinical researchers, musicians, educators, and music therapists will play an integral role in increasing our understanding of how the brain interacts with music, and this understanding is providing a foundation for promoting health and treating disease. To achieve this, Sound Health will focus on the following research:
Basic and Mechanistic
Establish what neural circuits are involved in the interaction between music and the brain
Investigate which neural pathways are enhanced by musical training
Examine to what extent music and language processing overlap
Explore the possible evolutionary benefit of music to Homo sapiens
Translational and Clinical
Better integrate mechanistic understanding with music therapy approaches
Develop and validate biomarkers for music interventions
Investigate the question of “dosing” in music interventions
Explore how music is “special” and develop methods to better understand and predict individual differences in responses to music interventions
Methods and Outcomes
Develop methods to integrate brain-based measurements with musical activities
Conduct longitudinal and ancillary studies to assess outcomes of music interventions on timescales matching developmental trajectories
Promote more rigorous reporting of interventions, methodologies, and results
Establish standardized and/or personalized outcome measures
Capacity Building and Infrastructure
Promote multidisciplinary research and capacity building through networks and collaborative studies involving neuroscientists, music therapists, musicians, and biomedical, behavioral, or social scientists
Support the training of neuroscientists and music therapists interested in basic or clinical research on music and the brain
Establish evidence-based best practices for music interventions intended to enhance wellness or treat/ameliorate specific health conditions