At the beginning of November 2020, audio producer Marco Stefanelli came to Barcelona with his recording equipment. We spent two amazing days going around the city, recording sounds and noise, music and voices. Our journey ended in the music room of the Catalan Institute for Music Therapy, where I also played some Bach. During those two very intense days, we talked about sensory issues, especially in relation to Autism, which makes my way of perceiving sensory stimuli quite different from …
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What is music therapy? Is it a kind of “alternative” thing? When referring to music, we usually think of a structured, organized art form. Our idea of music mainly involves …
I was 12, and my parents decided to change the carpet that covered the entire floor of our flat with a wooden floor. Because I had asthma, and carpets are not …
Self-stimulatory behaviors, also called stimming, are one of the typical features of autism. They are repetitive, stereotyped movements of the whole body (rocking, spinning) or just one part of it (flapping …
Music, as we know it today, can be seen as a structured language. A codified system, molded by cultural factors, which allows the organization of what otherwise would be an …