u/symionewin

I’m a composer building IFAH, an instrument for creating acoustic environments rather than fixed songs.
I’m trying to understand how sound is actually used in somatic practice today, live instruments, playlists, silence, drones, environmental sound, changes during different phases of a session, etc.
For practitioners here: do you actively shape the sound environment, or is sound mostly secondary to the somatic work? And what do you wish you could control that you currently can’t?

I’m developing a tool for composing repeatable acoustic environments, and I’m trying to understand where this could or could not be useful in professional music therapy.
For practicing music therapists: when you use recorded or designed sound in a session, what matters most clinically, the musical material itself, adaptability in real time, familiarity, reproducibility, the therapist-client interaction, or something else?
I’m particularly interested in where a tool like this would not belong