Music training for people with special needs.
What is Klangscope?
A Klangscope training course opens up a whole new musical world for people with special needs, and at the same time breaks down the barriers to the surrounding world. The long-term goal is to bring the student to be a part of a meaningful activity on an equal footing with their peers.
Our method
KlangScope is an individual four step training course that aims to overcome the barriers that inhibit a student’s musical expression in order to activate the benefits that come with musical activity and directly improve quality of life.
1. Connecting students to their natural musicality.
The focus here is on seeing music as a natural language and engaging with the student’s natural musicality. It is about having fun and discovering music from within. The goal is to identify the student’s musical ability and understand what they can already do and what comes naturally and easily.
2. Increasing motivation
Here the focus is on building a positive and personal musical experience. The lessons are built on producing music based on the student’s existing abilities and creating a collection of quality musical moments that presents the student’s own way of expression. This gives the student and their network successful musical experiences that increase motivation.
3. Developing basic musical skills
The student is now motivated and ready to be challenged and grow. The focus here is on building a regular practice routine. By creating manageable and easily reachable goals the student experiences success through progress. Thoughout this process we tailor instruments and modify playing techniques to take into consideration the physical, musical and mental framing of the individual.
4. Integration
Together with others this period enables the students to be integrated into further musical activity suitable for their abilities and interests. The focus here supports the transition to a new environment and prepares the students for shared activities based around positive musical and social experiences.
How music helps
In its essence music creates connection - for this reason it has profound social significance. It is a language of feelings that expresses experiences of the world and connects to the inner life of the individual.
For people with special needs, it helps examine, share and calibrate their emotions, especially when spoken language is less accessible. This helps them mature emotionally, improves self-confidence, and fundamentally improves their ability to be in the company of other people.
“Music can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life.” — Oliver Sacks
Evidence shows that musical training is a powerful method to improve motor skills and co-ordination, language development, focus, memory, discipline, and teamwork.
“Playing a musical instrument engages practically every area of the brain at once, especially the visual, auditory, and motor cortices…disciplined, structured practice in playing music strengthens those brain functions, allowing us to apply that strength to other activities.” From the video: How playing an instrument benefits your brain.
About Me
Yossi Karutchi — Musician, Teacher, Producer
Educated at Royal Academy of Music Aarhus. Three times winner Danish Music Awards.
For more than 25 years I have been working with realizing musical potential amongst people with special needs and this has given me a unique and powerful insight into my student´s individual inner workings and what it actually means to be musical.
I believe passionately that every single one of us - regardless of any particular physical or mental condition - is born with the potential to develop and express ourselves musically.
In KlangScope my focus is on not only building musical abilities but also using them as a bridge to interacting with the wider community in many different ways. Opportunities to interact with people outside their domain provides the space for my students to fulfill their fullest abilities, personally as well as musically.
Music is a common ground where all types of people can truly meet as equals.
