Navigating Music Technology

What do we need to use technology effectively in everyday practice? How do you learn to work with it? And how do you integrate it into the education of future music therapists? In this groundbreaking handbook, Professor Artur Jaschke, together with Carola Werger and Marijke Groothuis, explores the opportunities music technology offers for the field of music therapy.

"If we cannot master the instrument we play – here the music technology itself – we will not be able to help our clients make music with this medium," the authors state. "As music therapists, we often wonder how we can use technology in our everyday practice, how we can learn to use it effectively and last but not least, how we can incorporate music technology into the curricula of professional music-therapy education."

The book provides the theoretical framework in which the practices-based approach is imbedded, but it can also be used in education, as a guide in everyday clinical practice, as a collection of methods and approaches, and as a window into the practical use of music technology.

Carola Werger is a music therapist, music educator, senior lecturer and head of the bachelor Music Therapy at ArtEZ in Enschede. With an additional Master’s in Learning and Innovation (MLI), her main interest lies in innovating curricular educational concepts.

Marijke Groothuis is a senior lecturer at ArtEZ in Enschede, connected to both the bachelor and the master of Music Therapy. She also works in special needs education, providing music therapy and music education to children age 4 to 18 with physical and mental disabilities and chronic illnesses.

Artur Jaschke is professor of Music-Based Therapies and Interventions at ArtEZ and works at the department of Music Therapy in Enschede. He is also connected to the The University Medical Center (UMC) in Groningen.

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