23.7. 1993 Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain - World Federation of Music Therapy

Remarks during playback:
Breathing in and out, his basic theme, gets reflected by
me in the drum and cymbal, instruments with loud and
multiple vibrations.
Or, here, another response to his scarce vocalizations
with the gong.
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An experience of receiving vibrations within his body
could, in my thinking, gradually call forth a pleasure
together with a bodily embrace, as I was suspecting he
sensed through the hot rays of the sun. And if these
vibrations were to follow the rhythm of his movements
or vocalizations, he might, perhaps, experience this
holding embrace in relation to a human presence,
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something that was totally and fundamentally absent
from his entire life.
Within one month, the issues were no longer so simple
and square. His self-stimulations turn into painful
beating and whipping onto his own body, his
vocalizations into intense cries of indignation and
desperation.
-- Video excerpt from the session of 7 November 1989 -
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For the months that followed, things were utterly
unpredictable. Emilio was either withdrawn into his
ritualistic movements, or in desperation through
primitive cries, beating and wailing.