Jamk University of Applied Sciences

The coronavirus pandemic has significantly restricted not only the working conditions of musicians and other performing artists, but also the possibilities of bringing art to different customer groups in need of care and rehabilitation who, due to their state of health or location, cannot access art activities and culture. However, the Act on Cultural Activities in Local Government (166/2019) contains provisions on equal access to and promotion of culture and the arts as a part of residents' well-being and health.
The project aims at bringing the well-being impacts of music as part of the daily life in health care by utilising digitalisation. Multiprofessional collaboration in music and health care are being promoted by developing digital operating models in which music and health care professionals work together to promote well-being.
The project creates a platform for music professionals to target digital music products and services to different customer groups. Health care professionals, on the other hand, can use these products and services in their work and contact music professionals for multiprofessional collaboration. The project also tests and pilot the free MuPsych mobile application that can track mental states during music listening as a therapy tool. MuPsych application allows the therapist to get real information about the customer's music listening, which helps guide the customer's music listening to a direction that bolsters mood. Further, Resonance Frequency Breathing (RFB) - slow breathing exercises which have been successfully used to enhance outcomes of music therapy - and music composed to guide these exercises is tested and piloted in the project. In addition, other digital music tools suitable for relaxation and emotional work are mapped, tested and piloted.
Digital music services, methods and tools are tested together with music and health care professionals and students and piloted in real life health care contexts. As a result of the project, digital music products, methods and tools that renew health care are introduced, and health care and music professionals are educated to use them. The project aims to reform health care practices, improve the digital skills of music and health care professionals, and promote equal access to the arts and the employment of music professionals in the health care sector.