Music Is Life III - Music and Therapy

The power of music is extraordinary. He has the ability to make us dream, to get us out when we are sad, to dismiss ourselves, to help us get what we have inside and make ourselves travel in time. He has the power to unite and move to adults and children. It helps us remember and imagine, since it stimulates brain and creativity. Music is able to cure and help people feel better. Music is the lives of many people. Music is life is a series of interviews with people who dedicate their lives to music, and experience it from different fields and fish: effort, creativity, love, therapy ... Today we wanted to chat with Santi Serratosa, musician, music therapist and body percussionist. Santi graduated in modern music in the modern music classroom of the conservatory of the Liceo de Barcelona In 1999. Two years later he continued his higher battery studies in the Drummers Collective from New York. After a training stage with different battery teachers, personal research and other musical studies, in 2011 he obtained the Master's Degree in UPF in Barcelona. Parallel to his training as a musicotherapist, he trained in bodily percussion with different teachers such as Anna Llombart and Stéphane Grosjean. Battery teacher since 1994, currently imparts courses and bodily percussion workshops throughout the country, Europe, Brazil and Chile with their own methodology (SSM method: Signaling-Music). As drums he has acted and recorded with many bands since 1990. playing styles as diverse as jazz, Latin, flamenco-fusion, rock, funk, electronic music, etc. He has been a musician appearing on many television programs and was the 3rd battery of the Musical Grease. It is currently part of recognized groups at the state level as Astrium and Gossos, with which he continues to record discs and turning through different countries. As a body percussionist he has created and directs the SSM Bighand (Big Band Band Band) and shares the Santi & Mariona Duet project with Mariona Castells, with which he has participated in different advertising spots and artistic, social and educational events. If you were a song, what would you be? Because? Today would be: "8 (Circle)" by Bon Iiver. But tomorrow could be another. This specific song is part of one of the best albums I have lived in recent years. He is loaded with good exciting and conceptually very interesting songs. But obviously the connection is basically emotional, since it accompanies me in many vital moments. It is a very eclectic album and touches you in many and varied emotional states. What does music suppose in your life? It is very obvious but sometimes difficult to respond. Music occupies practically everything I do in my life. To say that music is my life sometimes seems to me a slightly daring statement, but really lively with music in my body and in my head every day. What function does music have in your work? In my case I work as a professional musician, specifically with the drums, but for a few years I am more involved in themes of musical pedagogy and music therapy through body percussion. Through its own methodology, the SSM method, I teach workshops and body percussion formations for schools, music schools, institutes, special education schools, social projects and other organizations. From the SSM method, based on sound and musical resources, we intend to facilitate the appearance of different sensory, cognitive, emotional and binding processes. The method promotes creative experiences that link the interests of people with their physical and intellectual abilities. This is approaching, through body percussion, to pedagogical methods that give much importance to improvisation, creativity and rhythmic language expressed with our body. It is in this scenario from you to you with the students expression and creativity as the basis of a psychosocial approach to a high educational value. How do you think it would be a world without music? Surely very different, because the emotional language of music seems very difficult to replace. We would have to find an emotional catalyst and evocative since, in all the cultures I know, this function practically only makes music. How do you imagine music in 20 years? On a functional level I think it will be the same, but the channels where we will listen to it, the sonorities, textures, etc. They will be others. Music is a basic need, it is useful to live, therefore this will not change. Spotify, CD, vinyl, cassette, live music ...? Does the format matter? I am currently from Spotify. I love the live, but I am not to as many concerts as when I was younger. The format matters but I am not very "purist": I think I am more practical or, at least, I want my life to be more practical, subjectively speaking.   Thanks Santi! www.santiserratosa.com/es