Fundamentos De La Terapia a Través Del Sonido

Fundaments of Sound Therapy as Alternative Therapy After Dr. Alfred Tomatis introduced the idea of using Mozart´s music for his experiments in auditory stimulation on children with speech and communication disorders, the popular knowledge of its therapeutic properties started spreading all over the world. However, the so called Mozart Effect has both its defendants and detractors. Nowadays, somescientists investigating into its capacity to help reduce epileptic seizures, or conducting experiments where it shows short time improvement of spatial reasoning tasks, are the faithful successors of those 1950´s first discoveries. Others, based on the lack of consistent scientific data results and the apparent inability to reproduce experiments successfully, argue that the Mozart Effect is onlya result of the short-term effects of music listening on mood and arousal. Conducted experiments on humans and animals, brain scanning, auditory stimulation activities, music computer analysis, and all sort of different scientific approaches are being devoted to finally show if Mozart is capable of producing his famous Effect or not. Beyond the scientific field, this effect could be very easilyunderstood. From the vibrational therapy point of view, we could conceive the Mozart Effect as sound working by means of resonance on the patient, acting at the different energetic levels of the being. An effect that would be possible to achieve not only by submitting subjects to Mozart´s music but also to any pattern of rhythm, melody, or harmony organized into certain forms which would help, body,mind, spirit, or emotions return to harmony.

The main concept to highlight here is that, while clinical music therapy mostly centres its work on the psychological and emotional human response to music as a piece of

art, sound therapy, as vibrational therapy, focuses its attention on isolated sounds, or minimalistic combinations of them, and the effects their frequencies of vibration mayhave on living organisms at different levels. Many times, even non-musical instruments are used to create therapeutic sounds: tuning forks, Tibetan bowls or electronic sound generators can be some of them.

Resonance was discovered by Galileo Galilei with his investigations of pendulums beginning in 1602; a simple and clear example of resonance, how sound therapy is supposed to work, is wheneverin a room an object is found to give out a sound every time a particular note is played on a musical instrument. That is to say, resonance occurs when we have two objects of the same or similar vibrational rate that, when we set one into vibration, the other takes up the vibrations sympathetically and vibrate, too. Here, the first one will be called a generator of sound and the second one, aresonator. In the case of the Mozart experiments, Mozart´s music would be the generator and the participants, the resonators.

Beyond the strict scientific field, the fundaments for this work are based on the ideas proposed by ancient oriental philosophy and some modern research results put together. The basic idea could be explained as follows: All matter is formed by atoms. Each atom is constitutedby a nucleus, composed of neutrons and protons, and an electron, or a group of them, which spin at a certain speed around the nucleus in exactly the same way the planets go around the sun. The number of these particles varies depending on the nature of the substance. The spinning movement of the electrons crates a pulse which derives in a wave capable of being perceived as a form or matter by thehuman senses. Due to mechanic causes, whenever the electrons of a substance move, they produce sound. Thus, permanently, each electron of each substance, only by being in movement, produces sound even when our ear cannot perceive it. This is the basis on which Pythagoras built his idea of the Music of the Spheres, for each constituent element of the universe moves and, consequently, produces...