Why Music? A Look at Autism Through the Lens of Creative Motion

Throughout Why Music? you will be introduced to representative children for whom the sense of “energy-gearing” (as it relates to music) is the defining moment. Gearing is the thought of an action and the body’s adjustment to it. The release of energy which travels forward from this sense of gearing and onto and into its intended destination results in a wholeness-of response. In other words, something is ignited within and travels to a destination outside of oneself. The matter of a wholene...