Art in music therapy: Feasibility study on the emergence of dialogue in partner play improvisations

In preparation for planned clinical studies on the emergence of dialogue in music therapy partner play improvisations, a feasibility study will be conducted from October 2018 until March / April 2019.

At the core of data collection, records will be made of several 90-minute "assessments", in which healthy adult test persons (trained music therapists and lay people) improvise freely together on a digital piano. The purpose of this primary study is to gain insights into the subjective experiences of both players by combining the collected MIDI data, the accompanying physiological measurements (HR, HRV, respiration, skin conductance), and the recorded narratives of individual debriefing interviews focusing on the emergence of dialogue in the previous improvisation.

Project Team: Monika Smetana, Irene Stepniczka

Current Status: Assessments & data collection completed; data processing and analysis

Contact: wzmf-dialog@mdw.ac.at

This project is supported by the mdw AR-Pilot call (an internal fund for pilot projects in the field of artistic research).