Health and wellbeing

This is Art Beat's main area of specialism, developed through eight years of experience in bringing music to healthcare contexts. Voice and drumming are the most fundamental and easily accessible means of making music, so that's what we use most often.

To find out more about a particular area, check out the links on the right.

Music is an inherently holistic activity, offering benefits affecting mental, physical, and emotional domains.

Jane's recent PhD study found that the main effects of interactive music identified by participants were:

   stress relief - people felt a
  reconnection to their
  embodied selves, cathartic
  release, and emotional
  expression

  mental preoccupation -
  distraction from everyday
  worries or recurring thought
  patterns

  social reconnection and
  communicative development

Click here for a more detailed summary...