TEHNIKE RELAKSACIJE KROZ ZVUČNU IMPROVIZACIJU
RELAXATION TECHNIQUES THROUGH SOUND IMPROVISATION

Summary/Abstract: Research from acoustic ecology highlights the ever-growing negative impacts of noise on people’s health, hearing impairment, disturbances in communication, fatigue, or more generally, a decline of the immune system (Nadilo, 2013). The aim of this work was to acquaint the surveyors with the concept of active listening, improvisation and sensibility to sound frequencies as relaxation techniques. In order to examine the experiences of the respondents, a specially designed questionnaire was constructed. A total of 151 subjects were examined. A third of the respondents were between 31 and 40 years old. Respondents reported on their educational status age, and how they spent their free time, as well as about the feelings they had before, during and after the sound improvisations. Respondents chose which feelings or emotional states they experienced in those three time moments out of the 14 offered. The results showed that the respondents felt relaxed after the sound improvisation (49,00%), as well as that they would like to participate in a similar activity again, thus violating the main hypothesis. Research has shown that it is necessary to work on raising awareness of the harmful effects of noise and the exceptional potential of sound as a relaxation technique.

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