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Not specifically, Marinos. Most of acoustic therapeutic work has
focused on music (controlled sound).
I am currently writing a book ("The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding
the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places) that partially covers
that subject. What is known and written about are the health efx of
natural soundscapes on indigenous cultures...some living in Africa,
more remote parts of the Amazon, and Papua New Guinea. When these
groups retreat to the forest to heal and escape from the anthrophony
of industrialized society, they find solace, tranquility, and
resonance that seems to cure them of all kinds of illness and stress.
Some inferences can be found in the writings of Louis Sarno (Bayaka:
The Extraordinary Music of the Babenz=C3=A9l=C3=A9 Pygmies) and in the work=
of
Steven Feld, an anthropologist who lived and worked with the Kaluli in
Papua New Guinea.
The rest is anecdotal...cultures like ours turning to natural
soundscapes (instead of culturally-biased music) in a search for
healing properties of natural sound. But all that depends on (1) what
kinds and the quality of the natural sound media, (2) on the
environment in which these sounds are heard (a restaurant, a quiet
bedroom, the lavatory, a hospital room, etc) and (3) the delivery
system (headphones, multi-speakers in an acousti-voiced room, etc). I
might also add that I am a lead researcher in a double-blind study at
a large medical center that is about to commence. It addresses a large
number of subjects across a wide range of illnesses and conditions
specifically designed to test the efx of natural sound in these
instances. But it will take three or four years before we have any
publishable results.
Bernie
On Aug 31, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Marinos Koutsomichalis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for citations, academic papers or other resources on
> the therapeutic qualities of nature soundscapes
>
> particularly I am interested if there are any scientific researches
> that reach the conclusion that nature or wildlife sounds have indeed
> some therapeutic qualities
>
> thx
>
> m
>
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>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause
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