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Claudio Cominardi
Member of the Clinical Practice Commission
Claudio Cominardi is a certified Music Therapist in Italy, Lecturer in music therapy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Brescia. His work mainly revolves on preschool children, studying new forms of musical and analogical languages aimed at intercultural integration, developmental and learning disabilities. Trainer of preschool teachers and students in several institutions, he has presented his studies at international venues.
Contact: c.cominardi@tiscalinet.it
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A Message from the Co-Coordinator
The Unison of Diversity
"Music is everything one listens to with the intention of listening to music."(Luciano Berio)
In the contemporary world characterized by globalized communication, languages that are shared between human communities travel through multicultural and multimedia channels. Today, everyone in any part of the globe can communicate with others according to a recognized and conformed system of codes. This has led to a massive development of communication strategies however, at the same time we risk to flatten the richness and diversity of cultures that human societies have built into their histories.
Music penetrates into every form of communication and is increasingly absorbed in global multimedia and multicultural languages. Music has an extraordinary power and ability to portray human diversities by producing expressions based on conformed codes. Music allows every human culture to express its own aesthetic properties, history and identity without altering any characteristics and uniqueness due to the inner elements of musical language that are naturally recognized and learned. Consequently, through music every exclusive language of a community can be transmitted to another maintaining the same meaning, and growing a constant exchange from local to global, and vice-versa. Music is able to interact and share messages between different identities fully represented within themselves.
For music therapists it is important to understand the musical histories from multiple cultures around the world in order to lead to a better understanding of the many clinical applications of music in different cultures and in therapy settings. In fact, in a world in which diversities live so closely with each other, the more we understand different cultural roots, the better we manage our contemporary world, as well as draw new pathways for clinical, educational and social aspects of music therapy in the future.
The Folk Music Project is a working platform for music therapists to stimulate further studies, experiences and dialogues for developing new contributions and approaches to our work.
This is the reason why I proposed this task to WFMT Clinical Practice Commission, and for which I invite you to contribute writing on the musical history from your country, to further develop a worldwide vision and perspective of culturally diverse music therapy practice.
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