Unser Programm für Science & Sounds 2024
Friday, September 6th
Opening
Christian Zöllner, Prof. Dr., Director of the department
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE),
Center for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care MedicineDepartment of Anesthesiology
Acute Pain Experience: Mechanisms of Development, Modulation,
and Modification through Music
Significant progress has been made in the investigation of nociception and pain experiences. Most of our knowledge about their underlying mechanisms, neurobiology and pathology is derived from experimental studies. Recent research focuses on investigating the course of pain experience and its neurobiological changes pre- and postsurgical. In this clinical setting it is possible to examine both the neurophysiological underpinnings of nociception and their interaction with cognitive, psychological pain processing in the formation of pain experience. Additionally, this clinical setting allows for the discovery of options for pain mitigation.
In his presentation, Christian Zöllner will explain the triggering, transmission and central processing of painful stimuli by the nervous system. A painful stimulus (e.g. heat, pressure or tissue injury) is detected in the periphery by pain receptors (nociceptors) and translated into the language of the nervous system. The pain receptors send electrical signals to the spinal cord via their axons. Here the stimulus is switched via synapses to other neurons before it is perceived in certain areas of the brain. In addition to dealing with pain mechanism, the lecture briefly addresses the different forms of pain and their treatment, including Music. Musical impressions and stimuli can lead to the release of opioid peptides through the activation of chemokines in the periphery and thus mediate antinociceptive effect at the site of pain.
Priv. Doz. Dr.
Regine Klinger
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Center for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
Unit: Pain Therapy and Pain Psychology
In her presentation, Regine Klinger will explain the mechanisms of pain processing at the brain level. She will demonstrate that the brain is able to modulate nociceptive stimuli so that pain experiences can be completely diminished (e.g. endogen pain inhibition, stress-induced analgesia, placebo analgesia, distraction from pain), or, on the contrary, can be increased (e.g. pain increase through catastrophizing or focusing on pain experience). Cognitive pain modulation strategies can significantly improve postoperative pain management by enhancing pharmacologic efficacy and providing patients with controllability and self-efficacy over their pain experience. Music can play an important role in the peri- and postoperative phases by lowering the pain experience. Research indicates that listening to music can modify pain perception by providing a distraction from the pain, which may be the underlying pain-relieving mechanism. However, further research is needed to determine whether music application represents a distinct entity.
Dr. med.
Hauke Basedau
Harmonizing Headaches: Exploring the Efficacy of Music in
Alleviating Headache Symptoms
In this lecture, we delve into the fascinating realm of non-pharmacological interventions aimed at alleviating headaches, with a particular emphasis on the efficacy of music therapy. Millions of people worldwide suffer from headaches, significantly compromising their quality of life and productivity. Headaches manifest as a complex spectrum of conditions, characterized by a diverse array of underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. Currently, the medical literature delineates over 220 distinct diagnoses encompassing both primary and secondary headaches. This extensive taxonomy underscores the multifaceted nature of headache disorders, highlighting the necessity for tailored diagnostic and therapeutic approaches tailored to the specific subtype of headache experienced by each individual. Furthermore, while effective pharmacological treatments are available, they may not always be suitable or effective for all patients with headaches due to side effects or other contraindications. Hence, alternative approaches such as music therapy have garnered significant interest due to their potential for alleviating headache symptoms, either as standalone therapies or as adjuncts to pharmacotherapy.
We explore the existing evidence regarding the effectiveness of music in alleviating headache symptoms, synthesizing findings from various studies. This lecture aims to shed light on the potential of music therapy as a complementary approach in headache treatment, acknowledging its role alongside pharmacological interventions. Additionally, we highlight the importance of integrating non-pharmacological interventions into comprehensive headache treatment strategies. By doing so, we hope to advance our understanding of headache management and enhance patient outcomes through a multifaceted approach.
Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC
Professor Drexel University,
Department of Creative Arts Therapies
Music therapy for pain management
Pain is one of the most common and costly health problems. Music therapy and music medicine interventions are receiving increasing attention as promising approaches for pain management because of their favorable effects on pain and wide appeal to a large number of people. Dr. Joke Bradt will discuss how music therapy can contribute to effective pain management through its impact on biological, psychological, and social factors that exacerbate pain. She will present an overview of existing evidence of music-based interventions for acute and chronic pain management. Dr. Bradt will also present the findings of several research studies she has conducted with people with chronic pain and introduce the Music4Pain Research Network, a new initiative funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (USA), to promote multidisciplinary research aimed at enhancing mechanistic understanding of music for pain management.
Ralph Spintge, Anesthesiologist, Pain Specialist BC
Session I
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
Anke Steinmetz,
Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Center for Orthopaedics, Trauma Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Playing-related musculoskeletal pain in professional musicians (presentation)
Playing-related musculoskeletal disorders and pain (PRMD) are highly prevalent among professional musicians, with up to almost 90% of professional musicians experiencing corresponding health problems in the course of their career (Steinmetz et al. 2015), which restrict them in the exercise of their profession (Steinmetz et al. 2014). IAMS are often localized in the neck muscles and upper extremities as well as in the lumbar spine region (Ackermann et al. 2012, Leaver et al. 2011, Steinmetz et al. 2014). Around 40% of German orchestral musicians report that they frequently or constantly suffer from PRMD. In addition, up to 43% of professional orchestral musicians report more than 5 affected pain regions (Steinmetz et al. 2014). These are clear indications of a high chronification rate of PRMD in professional orchestral musicians. Clinical examination data show that functional disorders of the postural stabilization systems in the area of the lumbar and cervical spine occur very frequently in musicians. Sensorimotor alterations and changes in pressure and temperature pain thresholds have also been shown in the cervical spine (Steinmetz et al. 2013, Steinmetz et al. 2016). Accordingly, a thorough examination of the musculoskeletal system is essential in order to be able to initiate successful treatment for PRMD.
Prof. Dr. med. Anke Steinmetz (University Medicine Greifswald) is an expert of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine with a professional violin training. As part of her doctorate, she investigated temporomandibular joint dysfunctions in violinists and specialized in the treatment of professional musicians. As part of her academic career, she has conducted a wide range of research into musculoskeletal problems and diseases in musicians and completed her habilitation on Playing-related musculoskeletal pain syndromes of professional musicians. She has been a member of the German Society for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine since 1994, was President from 2017-2019 and is currently serving as Vice President. Since 2020, she currently serves as the Kurt-Alphons Jochheim endowed Professor of Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine at the University Medical Centre in Greifswald.
Prof. Dr. med.
André Lee
Prof. Dr. med. André Lee studierte Medizin am Klinikum Rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München und promovierte hier mit der Note „Summa cum laude“ zum Thema „Repräsentationen interner Modelle zur prädiktiven Kontrolle feinmotorischer Aktivität“. Zwischen 2009 und 2014 war er Mitarbeiter am Institut für Musikphysiologie und Musiker- Medizin (IMMM) der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Seine wissenschaftlichen Schwerpunkte umfassten sowohl Bewegungsstörungen bei Musizierenden, insbesondere die fokale, aufgabenspezifische Dystonie und das aufgabenspezifische Zittern, als auch (chronische) Schmerzen. Von 2014 bis 2020 war er am Klinikum rechts der Isar in der Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie, wo er im Juni 2020 seinen Facharzt für Neurologie erlangte und 2022 zu Bewegungsstörungen bei Musizierenden habilitierte. Zudem war er 2015 Gründungsmitglied der interdisziplinären Ambulanz für Musikermedizin. Seit seinem 6. Lebensjahr spielt er Geige und ist weiterhin in verschiedenen Orchestern und kammermusikalisch aktiv. Seit November 2020 ist er als Juniorprofesssor mit Tenure Track wieder am IMMM tätig, dessen Leitung er am 01.04.2024 von Herrn Prof. Altenmüller übernommen hat.
Stronger Pain but Faster Habituation in Musicians Compared to Non-Musicians
Playing related musculoskeletal disorders (PRMD) are one of the most prevalent problems in professional musicians. However, little is known with regard to alterations in pain perception and processing in musicians compared to non-musicians. To address this question, we applied contact heat stimuli to 15 healthy musicians and 15 healthy non-musicians (Group, G). We used two different baseline temperatures (35°C and 42°C, B) at the hands and feet (Location, L). Each location was stimulated 15 times. After each stimulus we asked participants to evaluate the stimulus intensity with the numeric rating scale (NRS) from 0 to 10 (0 = no pain, 10 = strongest imaginable pain). Furthermore, we recorded contact heat potentials (CHEPS) at the Cz position for each stimulus. To assess possible differences with used a linear mixed model, expecting higher pain intensities and CHEPS-amplitudes in musicians. We found a significantly higher pain intensity for the simulation in musicians with a faster habitation to these stimuli. Both groups showed a decrease in CHEPS amplitude without a significant difference between groups. The finding of a higher pain intensity to painful stimuli could be confirmed. However, a faster habituation in subjective NRS pain rating that was not visible in the CHEPS was a surprising result. A larger study will be conducted to confirm these findings.
Prof. Eckart
Altenmüller
Eckart Altenmüller born in Rottweil. After studying medicine in Tübingen, Paris and Freiburg and simultaneously studying music at the Freiburg University of Music, he completed his doctorate in 1983 and passed his final concert exam in flute in 1985. Since then, he has performed as a chamber musician and soloist in Germany and abroad. After working as an assistant and senior physician and completing his habilitation in neurology, Prof Altenmüller has been Director of the Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine at HMTM Hannover from 1994-2024. He has authored over 300 publications, is a member of the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences at Göttingen and has received numerous prizes, including the Science Prize of the State of Lower Saxony, the Betty and David Koetser Prize for Brain Research and the "Neuroscience of Music Award" from the Mariani Foundation.
Management and outcome of playing-related pain in musicians: A long-term follow up study in 123 patients
Playing-related pain (PRP) syndromes are the most common disorders in musicians. The current management of PRP in musicians is mainly based on clinical experience. There is a shortage of outcome studies focusing the effects of available therapies. One hundred twenty-three musicians with PRP filled out a questionnaire and underwent a structured telephone interview. All patients were seen, diagnosed and treated at the outpatient clinic of the Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine at Hannover University of Music, Drama, and Media. In the majority of musicians with PRP, successful treatment is possible using the currently available therapies and rehabilitation strategies. Patients’ active involvement in the rehabilitation process is crucial for an optimal outcome.
Session II
Dr. med. Melike Mentner,
Senior physician
Melike Mentner is a senior physician in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University Medical Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). She is currently medical director of the UKE day clinic for pain and supervises the pain therapy on clinical wards. As a lecturer in the field of pain therapy, she teaches the complex treatment of pain to medical students. During her specialist training, she treated a wide range of chronic and acute pain conditions on the palliative care ward, in the outpatient pain clinic and as a pain therapy consultant for all clinical wards at the UKE. In her work as a pain therapist, she focuses in particular on interdisciplinary multimodal teamwork in the treatment of chronic pain patients.
Pain therapy in an interdisciplinary, multimodal setting
Pain acts at its first occurrence as a warning of possible illnesses or injuries. The resulting behaviors of rest and withdrawal are important and useful for recovery at the beginning. When pain becomes chronic, it loses this warning function and develops into an autonomous disease. Chronic pain grows more complex and the coping mechanisms that initially seemed adequate, have an increasingly negative impact on the sufferer's professional, social and family life. Treatments such as physiotherapy, pain medicine and psychotherapy are often no longer sufficient, when carried out independently of each other. The increasing complexity of pain requires treatment that is more comprehensive. This is where interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy becomes more effective, combining and intensifying the treatment components of the various professions. Together with other chronic pain patients, the development of new strategies for dealing with pain and the establishment of new habits is enabled and consolidated. Close cooperation and intensive exchange between medical, psychotherapeutic and physiotherapeutic disciplines allows for individualized treatment.
The UKE day clinic for pain has been offering this interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy in a six-week program since March 2021, thus combining a thorough program with the possibility of direct implementation in the afternoon and at the weekends.
Dr. Andrew Rossetti is the director of Oncology Music Therapy at the Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine, Mount Sinai Healthcare System. His clinical practice in medical music psychotherapy encompasses all areas of oncology in the hospital environ where he specializes in the treatment of trauma, anxiety disorders, and biopsychosoical pain management. In parallel, he has been instrumental in establishing Music therapy in various neonatal ICUs, and developing Environmental Music Therapy in fragile populations. Dr. Rossetti’s work is supported by numerous studies published in international journals, that include music therapy’s impact on pain and resilience in patients receiving chemotherapy. He has also contributed chapters to numerous text books. He is an international lecturer and has been a frequent invited and keynote speaker at conferences and universities in the US, Asia, Europe, South America, and Canada, He is the Executive Committee Secretary for the International Association for Music & Medicine, the chair of its Ethics Committee, and an Editorial Board Reviewer for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology and Physics. Dr. Rossetti is on the faculty of Montclair State University, the University of Barcelona, El Conservatorio de Puerto Rico, and ArtEZ University for the Arts
TSR Trauma, Safety, and Resilience: Pain Management within a Trauma Informed Music Psychotherapy Model for Addressing Illness Burden in Oncology
TSR is a cutting edge emergent model in Music Psychotherapy practiced at the Louis Armstrong Music Therapy Department and Center for Music & Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, in which an eclectic mix of psychotherapeutic constructs merge with music experiences as a medium and facilitator of the therapeutic relationship/alliance to address the concerns of the fragile population of people receiving care for cancer. The discreet symptomatology resulting from disease as well as treatment itself contributes to at potentially overwhelming illness/treatment burden and debilitating medically induced trauma. This paper will present the TRS model and elucidate its theoretical basis and clinical application in biopsychosocial pain management in cancer patients, and related psychobiological phenomena.
Dr. Andrew Rossetti PhD,
LCAT, MT-BC
Dr Katie Fitzpatrick is a music therapist and researcher from
the west of Ireland.
Dr. Katie Fitzpatrick,
Senior Music Therapist
She holds the post of Senior Music Therapist at the Pain Management Centre in the University of Limerick Hospitals Group (ULHG). She completed her PhD research in 2023 on the use of music therapy for adults with chronic pain at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick (UL) where she also obtained her masters level education (MA Music Therapy and MA Community Music), and continues to guest lecture. Katie is also a graduate of Uni-versity College Cork (BA Music and English). She is the co-chair of the international special interest group on music therapy and chronic pain and is the country representative for the European Music Therapy Confedera-tion. Prior to her appointment ULHG her clinical work was in the areas of adult and child mental health, chronic pain, autism and intellectual disability.
Integrating Music Therapy in Minimally Invasive Pain Procedures at an
Orthopaedic Hospital in Ireland.
This paper details the integration of live music therapy into minimally invasive pain procedures at an Orthopae-dic Hospital in Ireland. Music therapy has demonstrated efficacy in chronic pain management and anxiety re-duction during medical interventions. This paper details research that explored patient experiences and percep-tions regarding the influence of music therapy on pain levels and anxiety during their procedures. A unique live music therapy protocol for use in theatre was developed and tested in collaboration with the multidisciplinary clinical team. Patients receiving various types of interventional procedures (including nerve blocks, local aesthet-ic or corticosteroid injections, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulation, intrathecal drug delivery system implantation) were offered choice of live music therapy during their procedure. It was noted that the use of live music during pain interventions helped to reduce anxiety and pain, while improving patients overall levels of perceived care.
Session III
Carmen Ding,
Music Therapist M.A.
Seit Februar 2022 als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Studien- und Forschungsbereich Musiktherapie im Projekt AMYGDALA unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Susanne Metzner an der Universität Augsburg.
Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: Partizipatives Forschungsprojekt TRIO (Musiktherapie für Patient*innen mit EndomeTRIOse), Resonanzatmung zur Beeinflussbarkeit von Stress und Angst in der Präoperativen Phase. Seit 2022 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Forschungsprojekt AMYGDALA. Von 2005-2020 selbstständig als Opern- und Konzertsängerin im Fach Mezzosopran an verschiedenen Theater und Ensembles
im In- und Ausland.
Music therapy for women with endometriosis (Trio). Research diaries as a method for developing an aftercare programme following surgery - a participatory research project.
Endometriosis is a chronic pain disorder that mostly affects women. In addition to medical treatment, the psychosocial dimension of the disease is rarely taken into account. It affects self-image, fertility, relationships, working life, etc. As music therapy is already being used successfully for other chronic pain disorders, the participatory research project TRIO serves to develop an outpatient care program at the University of Augsburg as part of the Amygdala Project under the direction of Prof. Dr. Susanne Metzner and the University Hospital of Augsburg.
Three workshops with women affected by endometriosis (= co-researchers) were held from May to December 2022 to collect data. Various music therapy methods were tested and discussed in terms of their usefulness for an outpatient treatment concept. The collection of material included both audio recordings and the co-researchers' notes in research diaries. They were processed and analyzed using qualitative content analysis.
The specific main music therapy categories that emerged from TRIO I form the basis for the developed music therapy treatment concept. This has been tested in a pilot project, TRIO II, since September 2023. Additionally, the aim of this study phase is to identify possible effects and to develop and test data collection instruments for a future clinical study. Two established questionnaires are used to collect data on quality of life in endometriosis (EHP-30) and symptom burden (SCL-90). For generating qualitative data, the participants will again write a research diary and the music improvisations will be audio graphed. The aim of this second phase is to test the feasibility of the project and to obtain information on the effects (positive and negative) and, if applicable, effect sizes to calculate sample size.
This paper presents the decision criteria for the procedure, the yield of certain methods, in particular the participatory approach, and the (interim) results.
Associate Professor of Music Therapy at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland and previously the Director of the National Centre for Arts and Health, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin.
Prof. Hillary Moss
She is passionate about the interaction between music, health and well-being with over 25 years of re-search and practice experience as a Music Therapist and manager in mental health, older age and adult medical environments. She has an MBA in Health Service Management and completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin Medical School. Her research interests include music/music therapy in ageing and dementia care; chronic pain and singing and health. She has published widely on health humanities and inter-disciplinary research topics. She is founder and chair of the Arts and Health Research Network at UL and has over fifty peer reviewed journal publications on arts and health related topics. Her book Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings was pub-lished by Routledge in 202s and she has guest edited two special issues of journals on music, music therapy and health topics. She regularly appears on radio and other media on music and health topics.
What do you need? And how can I help?” The role of music and music therapy for
people living with chronic pain
Research on the role of music and music therapy conducted for several decades reflect a dearth of literature on the health and well-being benefits of music-based and music therapy interventions for people living with chronic pain. To support the advancement of research in music therapy for chronic pain, Moss co-chaired a Special Interest Group (SIG) on music, music therapy and chronic pain within the International Association of Music and Medicine and published a special issue of their journal on the same topic. This presentation explores key themes across Moss’ 25-year career in music therapy, arts and health management and music therapy research, from her first work with a chronic pain hospital team in 2004 to recent telehealth work with adults living with chronic pain in 2023. She will pose priority questions for future research in music therapy and chronic pain, explore ethical challenges and research methods, and describe practice techniques used. Above all, she advocates a person-centred approach to working with people living with chronic pain.
Christoph Salje, Dipl.-
Music Therapist (FH), Heilpraktiker (Psychotherapy)
works as a self-employed music therapist in his practice
in Hamburg and different hospitals.
In recent years his work is focused on Palliative Care as well as Chronic Pain diseases. He is also lecturer at HfMT Hamburg, UDK Berlin, SRH University Heidelberg, MSH Hamburg and Member of the professional advisory board of the German Association for Music Therapy). Since 2023, he has been building and managing the Music Therapy Institute and Teaching Outpatient Clinic at UKE Hamburg.
Sounds of pain - Music therapy in treatment of chronic pain
Music therapy is an evidence based part of multi-professional pain treatment for hospitalised patients. Work-ing with sounds and specifically improvised music in a defined professional protocol can help patients change the perception about their disease and their control over their symptoms. With the Music Therapy Institute and Teaching Outpatient Clinic we currently implement this approach at the Universitatsklinik Hamburg‐Eppendorf. We will present different concepts that have been developed in Germany on music therapy and chronic pain, and discuss outcome, potential and limits.
Saturday, September 7th
Eckart
Altenmüller
Vom Neandertal in den Konzertsaal: Warum wir ohne Musik nicht leben können
Die Menschen haben zu allen Zeiten in allen Kulturen Musik gehört und Musik gemacht. Die ältesten Musikinstrumente, kunstvoll verzierte Flöten aus Knochen und Elfenbein, sind über 40.000 Jahre alt und wurden in den Höhlen des oberen Donautals gefunden. Aber warum haben eiszeitlichen Menschen musiziert, gesungen und getanzt? Was hat sie angetrieben, ihre kostbare Zeit für das Bauen von Instrumenten und das Einüben von Spielfertigkeiten einzusetzen? War es nicht viel wichtiger, für andere Grundbedürfnisse, für Nahrung, Wärme, und Sicherheit zu sorgen? Die Antwort kann nur sein: Musik ist für Menschen so wichtig, wie Essen und Trinken. Denn Musik hat mächtige Wirkungen: Musik erzeugt Emotionen und teilt Emotionen mit, Musik schafft Gemeinsamkeit, Musik erhöht die Lebensfreude, rhythmische Musik synchronisiert Aktivitäten, Musik kann tröstende oder bewegende Erinnerungen aufrufen und Musik kann uns ganz von den Mühen des Daseins befreien und uns in eine andere, bessere Welt versetzen. Musik ist Teil unserer Spiritualität. In meinem werde ich die zahlreichen Wirkungen der Musik auf das Nervensystem, auf Emotion und Gedächtnis und dies mit ausgewählten Musikstücken an verschiedenen Flöten erlebbar machen.
Eckart Altenmüller born in Rottweil, Germany received his first piano lessons at the age of 6 and flute lessons at the age of 7. After studying medicine in Tübingen, Paris and Freiburg and simultaneously studying music at the Freiburg University of Music, he completed his doctorate in 1983 and passed his final concert exam in flute in 1985. Since then, he has performed as a chamber musician and soloist in Germany and abroad. After working as an assistant and senior physician and completing his habilitation in neurology, Prof Altenmüller has been Director of the Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine at HMTM Hannover from 1994-2024. He has authored over 300 publications, is a member of the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences at Göttingen and has received numerous prizes, including the Science Prize of the State of Lower Saxony, the Betty and David Koetser Prize for Brain Research and the "Neuroscience of Music Award" from the Mariani Foundation.
Georg Hajdu
Healing Sounds and Soundscapes - a Gestalt-psychological Perspective
on Musical Soundscape Interventions
The Healing Soundscapes project is an integral part of the ligeti center exemplifying the transdisciplinary character of its research and knowledge translation. This presentation will focus on the hierarchical aspects of soundscape composition starting with the single sound, its acoustic and psycho-acoustic properties as well as the resulting textures which are generated by a probabilistic (i.e. based on chance operations) software in real time whose parameters are set by the composers involved in the project. The soundscapes which are meant to run in hospital waiting areas and operation rooms aren't complete without factoring in the environmental sounds which put the compositions to the test in terms of their usability. Currently, the software parameters are guided by navigating a two-dimensional arousal-valence space, with artificial intelligence facilitating transitions between five emotional states defined by the composers.
Georg Hajdu is a German composer and professor. After studies in molecular biology and composition in Cologne as well as computer music at UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), he graduated with a PhD in 1994. He co-wrote the opera Der Sprung - Beschreibung einer Oper with librettist Thomas Brasch. In May 2002, his networked performance environment Quintet.net was used in a multimedia opera performed at the Munich Biennale for Contemporary Opera. In the same year, he was appointed professor of multimedia composition at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT), where he founded Germany’s first master’s program in multimedia composition in 2004, and the Center for Microtonal Music and Multimedia (ZM4) in 2012. In 2010, he was artist in residence at the Goethe Institute in Boston and visiting professor at Northeastern University. In addition, he has been involved in a number of national and international projects such as the Culture 2007 project CO-ME-DI-A and is the founding director of the ligeti center.
Michael Peschka
Ich denke also übe ich – Potential mentalen Übens
Professionelle Musiker_innen klagen im Laufe ihres Berufslebens leider sehr häufig über körperliche Beschwerden, wobei der Schwerpunkt im Bereich des Bewegungsapparates liegt. Insbesondere der Schulter- und Nackenbereich, Unterarme und Hände sind dabei betroffen. Ebenso können neuromuskuläre Bewegungsstörungen (sogenannte Dystonien) auftreten. Im Grunde allen diesen Beschwerden gemeinsam ist ein sehr hohes Pensum an Übe- und Spielstunden an den jeweiligen Instrumenten mit vielen repetitiven komplexen Bewegungsabläufen. Es stellt sich daher die Frage, ob man rein körperliche Übezeit mit anderen Strategien reduzieren und somit eine Schonung der Ressourcen erzielen kann. Mentales Training ist im Leistungssport inzwischen zentrales Element der Trainingspläne und im Prinzip schon seit den 1980er Jahren etabliert, der Transfer dieser Strategien gewinnt aber auch in der Musik zunehmend an Bedeutung. Auch in der Schlaganfalltherapie gab und gibt es Methoden, die sich der Technik intensiv vorgestellter Bewegungen bedienen. Diese interdisziplinären Parallelen sollen im Vortrag beleuchtet und diskutiert werden. Vorab kann eindeutig verraten werden: Das Potential mentalen Übens zur Verbesserung der Performance und zur Reduktion körperlicher Belastung ist bemerkenswert.
Michael Peschka Medizinstudium an der Medizinischen Universität Wien und Musikstudium an Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität bzw. Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz. Diplomprüfung Klarinette 2008, medizinische Promotion 2009. Facharzt für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie, Facharzt für Gefäßchirurgie, Ärztekammerdiplom Arbeitsmedizin. Bis 09/2023 Oberarzt im Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder Eisenstadt (persönlicher Schwerpunkt Gefäßchirurgie und Herzschrittmacherchirurgie), seit 03/2023 Mitarbeiter an der Abteilung Musikphysiologie der mdw im Rahmen einer Tenuretrack-Stelle. Projektmitarbeit am Freiburger Zentrum für Musikermedizin (Physiologie des Blasinstrumentenspiels mittels fMRT). Mitbegründer und derzeit stv. Präsident der ÖGfMM. Mitglied der DGfMM, der Österreichischen Gesellschaften für Chirurgie, Gefäßchirurgie und Arbeitsmedizin. Meisterkurse bei Gerald Pachinger, Howard Klug, Martin Spangenberg und Alexander Neubauer. Mitwirkung in verschiedenen Ensembles und Orchestern (u.a. Vienna Classical Players, Orchesterverein Wien, Junge Bundesländer Philharmonie, Orchester Wolfgang Ortner). Rege kammermusikalische Tätigkeit zu karitativen Zwecken.
Christoph Salje
Wie klingt Schmerz? Musiktherapie in der Behandlung chronischer Schmerzen
Musiktherapie ist eine im Gesundheitswesen weit verbreitete Methode. Wie aber kann dieser besondere Be-handlungsansatz Menschen helfen, die unter chronischen Schmerzen leiden? Anhand praktischer Beispiele aus der Musiktherapeutschen Instituts- und Lehrambulanz (MIA) des UKE geben wir Einblicke in verschiedene Methoden, die aus jahrelanger Forschung verschiedener Studiengruppen in Deutschland entwickelt wurden und heute erfolgreich in Anwendung sind.
Christoph Salje works as a self-employed music therapist in his practice in Hamburg and different hospitals. In recent years his work is focused on Palliative Care as well as Chronic Pain diseases. He is also lecturer at HfMT Hamburg, UDK Berlin, SRH University Heidelberg, MSH Hamburg and Member of the professional advisory board of the German Association for Music Therapy). Since 2023, he has been building and managing the Music Therapy Institute and Teaching Outpatient Clinic at UKE Hamburg.