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SOUND THERAPY
Sound healing is the process in which a practitioner uses music — including the emotional, psychological, spiritual, physical, social, mental, and superficial — to improve the health of their patient.
Sound healing therapy improves many facets of the patient’s life, including emotional and social development, cognitive and motor functioning, and psychological and psychiatric health.
Healing with sound happens in a number of ways. Patients listen or sing along, improvise musical acts, meditate, chant, and play musical instruments. Some practitioners subject the patient to specifically crafted sounds to induce positive brainwaves.
Instruments Used In Sound Healing
Singing bowl
Singing bowls are so popular in healing with sound that they have an entire method dedicated just to them.
Singing bowl therapy is one of — if not the — most popular sound healing methods because of its effective and various aspects of healing. From lowered blood pressure to relief from anxiety to the opening of the pineal gland, singing bowls can do it all.
Tuning fork
Tuning forks are, as the name suggests, tools designed to tune other instruments.
But the tuning fork itself is also a harmonic instrument. As mentioned above, tuning forks can be used in sound healing therapy in a fashion reminiscent of acupuncture.
After all, your body is an instrument, too. Tuning forks balance our energies and center us.
Windchimes
Wind chimes are perhaps the most magical of all the sound therapy tools.
And while they might be simple garden ornaments or decorations to most of us, but they actually date back to ancient India, China, and even Rome.
Wind chimes are popular in Feng Shui because they maximize the flow of life force. Since they require wind to make music, they also carry elemental power.
As with most, they center, balance, and promote relaxation. They also invoke feelings of joy and contentment.
Yugay, I. (2019). Everything You Need To Know About Sound Healing. [online] Mindvalley Blog. Available at: https://blog.mindvalley.com/sound-healing/.
EXAMPLES
《Sonambient Pavilion》by Harry Bertoia
This work, created by artist Harry Bertoia, is an indoor installation consisting of a series of giant metal rods. When the metal rods are gently tapped, they emit a soft sound, creating a relaxing acoustic environment.
What makes this work worth studying is its exploration of materials and its use of natural sounds. bertoia exploits the resonant properties of metal to create a pure, natural sound environment that promotes relaxation and meditation.
《Whispering Table》by Julian Treasure
Created by sound expert Julian Treasure, the piece is a decorative table with wireless headphones and a microphone. The audience can plug their headphones into sockets on the table and thus immerse themselves in a surround sound environment emanating from the table. The table also records the sound of the audience's speech and translates it into visuals, adding to the sense of interactivity and engagement.
What makes this work worth learning is its interactivity and personalization with the audience. The audience can adjust the volume and timbre themselves to create their own sound environment, which adds to the sense of engagement and personalization of the experience.
video link：https://vimeo.com/14476328
CaseStudy-Wet Sound
Curator and composer Joel Cahen is getting audiences to see sound in a whole new way. His underwater sound installation, Wet Sounds, which has been touring pools across Europe since 2008, brings swimmers into a live sound experience that The Guardian has called "startlingly immediate and inevitable. The immersive experience doesn't even begin to cover it.
From the Wet Sounds website: "Wet Sounds effectively creates three sound spaces in the physical space of the swimming pool. One inside the water, one outside the water and one a merger of the two as the listener floats on the surface of the water. These three distinct sound spaces are chosen by the listeners as they move in and out of the water. The three sound spaces are used to convey parallel narratives, musical and literal."
The installation also features a strong outreach to children with special needs and the hard of hearing, who can still enjoy the installation through vibrations.
video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8It81oWNY2U
MUSICAL HYDROTHERAPY
It has been shown to enhance well-being, improve sleep patterns, increase vocalisation as well as voluntary stretching and movement.
Experience a space for deep relaxation, for introspection and a break from the need to respond to stimuli and gravity.
Water Projection
Liquid Vibrations
As we all know that sound is vibration and liquid is kind of sensative material to vibration. That's the reason why I am thinking to play with this two elemnents. There are some ideas:
1.With the change in vibration produced by the sound playing, the water surface will also give a response and produce certain variation. This could be an interesting experiment to explore.
http://www.everydaylistening.com/articles/2011/4/7/sound-monolith.html)
2.The liquid itself can be the subject, using its fluidity to collide with other objects. The flow of water has a certain randomness and therefore the results produced are also random.
A good sample is sea organ.
3. interestingly enough, in my research for art installations about water and sound, I found out that light is also an important and playful element.
Due to the refraction of water, the underwater light can create strange changes.