Sound Space Connect Online Sound and Wellbeing Summit Series

A Sound and Wellness Fesitval Event

Connecting People & Spaces through Sound

Sound Space Connect Online Summit - May 2023

£25

A global conversation on the field of music and sound for wellbeing.

The Sound Space Connect online summit, part of the Northern Ireland Sound and Wellness Festival will be delivered over a series of 7 podcast episodes from the 12-22 May 2023, to showcase talks, workshops, research and interviews with sound and wellbeing industry professionals, artists and professionals who work with sound to support wellbeing.
We hope you'll find something here to inspire your practice.
This event is CPD / CPE certified worth 6 points.

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Meet your hosts

Dr. Janelle Junkin

Janelle Junkin, PhD, MT-BC

Dr. Junkin is a Vice President of User Experience at JP Morgan Chase listening to employees about their experience with communication tools.
She has developed equity-based Monitoring and Evaluation systems nationally and internationally.

Dr. Junkin is a Qualitative and Mixed Methods researcher and leads teams of researchers in their efforts. She is a board-certified music therapist with over 20 years experience providing support to domestic and international communities.

She has trained and supervised community artists and creative arts therapists who work with refugees, survivors of torture and vulnerable populations and is the founder of Orchestral Dialogues: Musicking with Community and the Junkin Group, LLC. Dr. Junkin has worked in 15 countries on five continents.

Dr. Junkin is published in the Journal of International Humor, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, the International Journal of Education & the Arts and International Journal of Doctoral Studies.

Her book chapter was published in Healing Through the Arts for Non Clinical Practitioners in 2018.

Her areas of research include child and youth identity development, the role of the arts in conflict transformation, and understanding the community arts and creative arts therapies as vehicles that provide hope and healing to people and communities in crisis.

Tessa Ann

The Sound Healing Spa & TESSA UN Ltd

Tessa Ann is a Sound Artist, Therapeutic Sound Practitioner, Teacher and Independent Researcher. Her role in the music and creative industries spans back 27 years, as a local and international artist and community sound and music practitioner.

From 2003 - 2015 Tessa set-up and established music education centre Beat 'n' Track. Contracted by local and international companies and colleges to deliver her sound and music based education programmes to communities in Northern Ireland

In 2021 Tessa received a Gold Level Innovator recognition from the Department of the Economy having been recognised by Invest NI for her work in developing innovations in Sound Art products and experiences.

Tessa has produced sound and wellbeing events for a range of organisations. Having recently set-up her Therapeutic Sound Academy, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, she delivers bespoke CPD certified and accredited Level 3 Diploma training products to support those who work in community and social arts, as well as artists and musicians.

Tessa’s recent sound innovation projects have seen her collaborate with Queen’s University Belfast and, Mid and East Antrim Council.

"The use of sound for wellbeing is my inspiration and I am always seeking to develop new ways of reaching out to people through the experience of sound". Tessa Ann

Episode 1 - Introduction to the summit

Introduction to the Sound Space Connect online summit video series and to your hosts:

Dr. Janelle Junkin - Music Therapist and Psychologist and Tessa Ann - TESSA UN Ltd & The Sound Healing Spa.

Episode 2 - Music & sound for well-being - Presentation

Delivered by Dr. Janelle Junkin and Tessa Ann from The Sound Healing Spa.

In this episode we discuss how music therapy and sound therapy relate to wellbeing and why this is an important topic

Episode 3 - Workshop - Interactive ways to make music & sounds to support well-being

Delivered by Dr. Janelle Junkin and Tessa Ann from The Sound Healing Spa.

In this episode, we will share our music therapy and sound therapy techniques with experiential and practical components.

Episode 4 - Worldbuilders Project - Immersive audio stories for people living with Parkinson's disease

Interviewing: Hanna Slattne - PhD Researcher
Immersive audio stories for people living with Parkinson's disease

Adventures in Metaplasticity explore ways the body engages with the environment, through immersive sound, performance and story.

Hanna's background is in performance, with a focus on storytelling, dramaturgy, and immersive audio. Adventures in Metaplasticity was developed as part of a practice-based PhD in which she created immersive audio stories for people living with Parkinson’s Disease to explore how this medium could help with mobility and motor symptoms brought on by the illness.

Word and sound connecting the body to an imagined virtual space in first person her focus was on the dramaturgy of this challenge. How to incorporate the different layers of sound, text and motor imagery and which narrative techniques best support the 1st person perspective.

In this presentation, as well as the audio story examples, Hanna has included a 10-minute video, presenting her project, its aims and challenges in more detail, along with a short video explaining the connection between the condition of Parkinson’s and this project.

Episode 5 - Sound in healing spaces

Interviewing: Dr. Marisol Norris:
Dr. Melita Belgrave and Dr. Natasha Thomas

Black Music Therapy Network

Black women and femme musical placemaking practices have played an integral role in healing and reclamation within Black communities and beyond. The documentation of these practices, however, has been left outside of broader music and health discourse.

Watering Our Gardens: Black Women and Femme Musical Placemaking Practices, as an intellectual, creative, expressive and political project, seeks to acknowledge how Black communities have consistently challenged perceptions of healing space and what it could be and honor the liberatory function of restorative sound for Black women and femmes--how they have helped us get free, deepened our capacity to heal and be healed, and devised new worlds.

Join this podcast to learn more.

Episode 6 'A Sound Space Connect - Listening Experience' with Tessa Ann

Immerse yourself in a series of real-world and imagined soundscapes.
As previously delivered in the Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast.
Close your eyes, as you are guided through an experience of active listening. Tune into Tessa Ann's carefully curated selection of sounds, connecting you with your sound environment.

Episode 7 - What's next? Continuing the conversation...

Following on from this summit.
Sound and Wellness Festival highlights.