Thursday, July 9, 2009

Week 8- Improvisation

Reading about this as a form of musical style made me feel better- at least this is a talent I can relate to. I did improv speaking in high school and I remeber the basics of it and what makes you sucessful and what makes you not sucessful. I am assuming it is a similar concept with music (I could be wrong).
wiki's definition partially as follows: bringing one's personal awareness "into the moment" fusion of awareness and understanding.
this seems a little dreamy. Maybe that works for music.

voices: this looked interesting, I bookmarked it for more detail reading later.
Interesting about the border-line patients who are fixated in the operational thinking and unable to manipulate symbols- music maybe more like a means to carry out their chaotic thinking.
I know a borderline person but am afraid to ask for her opinion of this. I would like to know it though, few things are more interesting than personality disorders.

I spent a great deal of time this week on research for my paper on music and autism. I am not happy at all with what I am finding. Nothing exactly like what I need. Journal articles aren't what I need, the books at my library are too old (anything over 2 years is really outdated on autism) and my brand new (expensive) stuff does not say anything about music specifically. Pretty frustrated right now but I still want to stay with it.

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