Sound Therapy

 Despite our best attempts to think of another name (Boogiecam? Musical Squares?) we still come back to “Dancing Squares” as that’s what they are - squares on which you dance and trigger music. We used to have them in the Music Gym as wooden boards covered in furry fabric. Through trying them out at Learning Disability Today, first in London and last week in Manchester, they’ve evolved into a brightly coloured mat attached to a stand with a tray for the laptop running our  Unlocking Music software.

Later this week we’ll be installing them in the resource centre of a national autistic charity, inside an inflatable “igloo” so the movement will also trigger projections on the igloo walls.

If you’re not sure what we’re talking about, or you’ve seen them already and want to describe them to colleagues, we asked one of our Music Gym assistants if she’d mind being filmed having a go on them. This was the first time Julia had seen them as they’ve not been in the Music Gym for a while. We think of her as very quiet and reserved but she threw herself into using the squares. The film is here 

Julia was trying them by herself but they can be used by up to four people at a time, each one triggering a different rhythm. We can provide a larger mat for wheelchair-users.

If you’d like more information about the dancing squares, the Unlocking Music software or the Music Gym please contact us on 01424 439192, on enquiries@decoda.org or by filling in the contact form.