26isfam045 10.3205/26isfam045 urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam0453 Meeting Abstract Schäfer Schäfer Anja A

University of music and performing arts, Graz

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260612 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0652 045 International Society for Arts and Medicine The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine Presentation Abstracts Berlin 20260618 20260620 26isfam045 TextBackground: A randomized controlled trial (RCT) by Schäfer et al. (2022) demonstrated that receptive music therapy using monochord and voice significantly improves depressive symptoms, mindfulness, and autonomic regulation.Objectives: The Relax!@MUMUTH project transfers these therapeutic principles into an artistic, multisensory concert setting, exploring how improvisational sound, visual media, and spatial staging may foster therapeutic effects while expanding aesthetic experience.Methods: The therapeutic manual was adapted for a transdisciplinary performance involving music therapy, visual arts, instrumental pedagogy, and electronic music students. Live improvisation with monochord, voice, piano, guitar, clarinet, and electronic media forms the auditory core. Real-time visual installations—3D abstractions, point-cloud imagery, dynamic lighting—respond to evolving sound. The dramaturgy follows therapeutic principles of alternating stimulation and rest. Audience members may experience the performance in lying, seated, or standing positions.Results: The RCT showed significant symptom reduction in both study arms, with the music therapy group demonstrating greater improvement in mindfulness, total heart-rate variability, and parasympathetic activity. These effects confirm enhanced relaxation and emotional regulation through receptive monochord-voice improvisation. The artistic adaptation expands this modality into a multidimensional concert installation, retaining mindful listening, resonance, and nonverbal communication.Conclusion: This project translates an evidence-based music therapy protocol into a multisensory performance environment, offering an immersive aesthetic and potentially therapeutic experience. It bridges clinical research and artistic practice, presenting an innovative model for transferring validated therapeutic processes into cultural spaces. 0 0 0 0