Abstract:

Music has the ability to bring people together, to facilitate the sharing of common emotions by making us feel socially members of a Community. In the case of those people affected by an intellectual disability, music can be a great support to happiness, to contribute to live better together with others, relatives or friends, as well as to facilitate their understanding, establishing a communication much more harmonious and fluid. Our proposal summarizes a project that deals with music education and the promotion of creativity in people with intellectual disability, connecting directly with music therapy supported by the use of technological applications. We present a project about collaborative music creation, sharing emotion and feelings as a part of a group that creates something new and unique. Ways of interpersonal and intrapersonal communication. The “magic” of music, the wonder of technology applied to artistic creation and the satisfaction of validating “plural benefits”. We develop of our proposal together users of the Occupational Center for People with intellectual disability "La Torre" of Valencia. The technological support will be the use of the "Soundcool" application, a free system designed, implemented and permanently developed by the Performing Arts and Technology Group (PerformingARTech) at the Universitat Politècnica de València for music education and collaborative creation using computers, smartphones and tablets. In our proposal we highlight as technology improve aspects related to the psychomotricity of the users, the cognitive stimulation, the improvement in the social relations and the well-being of the users, the increase of the self-esteem and the enhancement of the own abilities of each user participating in the musical project.

Keywords:

Functional diversity, Disabilities, Soundcool, ICT, Inclusion, Learning, Creativity, PerformingARTech.