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iPad Music as Therapy
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I'm going to open up a bit here about my own situation, but not for any sympathy, rather to reflect on some of my thoughts with how touch devices are opening up music to people who may struggle with learning an instrument.
I have a condition that gives me awful head pains most days. I have a draw full of medication, injections and even an air canister by my bed. I spend most of my day tired and sometimes struggle to communicate with others. I have lost my career as a nurse and struggle to keep a job for more than half a year. I forget things - where I live or even what note to play next. My hands shake while trying to play a keyboard. I forget the scales....my beat timing is gone with the wind....
This iPad I write this on has kept me in touch with my love of making music. The great apps that help me play and enjoy sound creation are fantastic compared to what I had as a kid when working in a guitar / keyboard store. The prices of admission is maybe high for some, but after buying the touch device, apps are soooooo cheap.
With this in mind, How do you see the iPad and other touch devices moving forward? Do you think it will continue to open up music for many, or do you think it could have some negative effect on music skills? No right or wrong answers, just thoughts and speculation for fun.
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Yeah it can give you good times. And, as an Hommage, so do the ab forumers
Yeah, some crazy cats here! (I sound soon old haha)
I find it therapeutic for relaxing and de-stressing. When you're in the flow its wonderful.
Although on the other hand long sessions jabbing a tiny screen with big headphones on are probably not the best thing in the world mentally or physically...
All things in moderation I guess.
Respect to the way you're using iOS music therapeutically, which I know you mentioned on another thread recently too. I'm glad it's working for you.
Sorry to hear about your situation @Fruitbat1919. I am starting an in home care business, after being laid off from a satellite communications company (30 years in that industry), and I'm extremely interested in how music can be used therapeutically with my clients. I've received some great feedback from others on this forum previously, but I haven't gotten the traction I had hoped for yet.
I suspect that people, who enjoy music, can either be listeners, hobbyists, or musicians, and new technology won't reduce people's understanding of music in general. I think those who are musicians will dig deep enough, and have better tools, to learn it in depth. Hobbyists could go either way, depending on their level of interest. If they want to dig deeper, they may eventually feel they can call themselves a musician...or they may be content to remain a hobbyist.
I consider myself a hobbyist, but I would like to get to the point where I feel I qualify as a musician, however time is my biggest hurdle.
Thanks, and agree, over use of all things (except eating cake), can be bad. Flow is right, iPad gives me a way to control my flow....no more connecting cables and setting up my DAW for those times when I only have the energy to switch on a quick app and make a few loops or practice a melody line.
I will do some literature searches and look into the subject in more depth for you, if you want the help. There has to be some research out there and even though I don't have the access to the professional nursing library's I used to have, some must have filtered out to the Internet. It's just a matter of sifting through the chaf lol.
I'd certainly appreciate any assistance, but don't go out of your way. If you stumble across something, I'd appreciate it if you would pm me though.
Will do and wish you all the success
Music is inherently thereapeutic. Most of it has been making noise... noise that will never be heard again.
It's totally cool to just sit there and "jam" out on whatever. I do it often, especially with apps that are:
If dragging your fingers around a screen makes sounds that please you, awesome. I'm sure I could take some more time to recommend some other apps.
For example, singing into Vio is a blast. My 13 year old tough nephew got right into it.
Jamming in drumjam with Quantise on.
Either just to a drumjam loop - or something else running.
Great fun.
i have loads of apps I noodle on, but I'm thinking more in the vain of how touch devices can make it easier for people that would benefit from feeling they are making the sounds they hear in their head, but lack certain abilities that may be needed in other methods of making music. Damn even that probably didn't make sense either.....brain where are the now?
O Yes! I've commented elsewhere how Drumjam makes me feel I still have some rhythm left....maybe a smoke screen, but a pleasant one at that!
Where next though? Where should touch devices go to promote music as therapy?
Impaktor...
People with really limited motor skills could trigger that - rhymically or non rhytmically. Great fun. You can make a whole track with Impaktor.
There are also some motion apps that trigger music with eg your hand moving over the camera (something 'air') and a dance based one that triggers sounds when you wave the iPhone around... Again I forget the name.
Not sure what should be next though... Maybe something like Figure but using the accelometer etc rather than touch?
Yep some cool thoughts there Matt_Fletcher_2000
I've also been mulling over how future communication between devices may help these apps to better share experience between devices. I know latency can be problematic, but I'm sure things could improve.
I was thinking how handheld game devices work like Nin with their streetpass. Image apps that communicate ideas between devices just by passing near others....hmmm my brain is about to explode...
Agree, iDevices can provide for all sorts of therapies, but to me, the best thing is in the Accessibility; that is the key to my progress. I have arthritis in my hands; it's not real bad, but when it hurts I cannot play for very long on regular keyboards. However, when I use the touchscreen as my instrument, I can stay at it longer, and can continue to flesh out ideas and stay in the moment. And that in-turn produces bonuses in about every other aspect of music production.
I hope more people with needs can be exposed to mobile music making. Touch devices offer a unique opportunity to the physically challenged and it can open a door for people that, for some, had thought was nailed shut. Future tech will hopefully open those doors even wider...but how will that look? Hard to imagine "playing" something like Thor via a Minority Report style interface. Where is this going?
That's not hard for me to imagine. Figure is basically Thor presets (with some tweakability). Figure works by you simply drawing patterns on the screen. Why not just extend that to drawing patterns in the air (like you do with a sparkler on bonfire night). Or physically moving around a space.
Pretty sure it could kindof be done now actually, with some work on a TC-Data patch using the accelometer and compass to record and loop midi notes (and ccs) restricted to scale (with some quantised rhythm settings) - using maybe ProMidi to loop and send that midi to Thor. Could also work nicely into Gadget.
... Actually might be best using TC-Orbiter and wanging the phone around.
Or wait for TC-Orbiter to have an AppleWatch version (when the watches get a full accelometer and compass that apps can access). That would be pretty cool if the patch was calibrated right. You could basically conduct a lead part over a beat with your hand.
Outta box thinking....me likey........just think the AB forum saviours of the AppleWatch! Lol
Yeah, the problem would be calibration and any degree of accuracy though...
I personally hate using the accelerometer to control any parameter whatsoever because it's tiring and very inaccurate to move the device around. Waggling fingers across a screen in much, much easier if you can do that.
Agree, but have thought about using my camera tripod and ball head to make more use of those features I rarely use
Here's one that might be of interest for Minority Report style playing..
http://soundwandapp.com