CAS SEE Seminars with Guests: Helena Dukic


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Helena Dukić holds a BA degree in piano from Music Academy Zagreb (2010) and a BA in Music from University of Cambridge (2011) where she graduated on the theme of synchronized and asynchronized rhythmic interactions. She studied film composition as her master degree at Kingston University, London (2013) researching the influence of film music on the perception of image and movement on screen. Helena is a Level III Guided Imagery and Music trainee and is currently in education for a Gestalt psychotherapist. Dukić completed her PhD in 2019 at University of Graz, Centre for Systematic musicology, focusing on the narrative nature of music and imagery in GIM and has since presented her research in numerous international conferences and in four peer reviewed papers. Her research interests are music and emotion, music and perception of narrativity, music and imagery, Guided Imagery and Music therapy and prenatal origins of emotional reactions to music.

CAS SEE Seminars with Guests: Helena Dukic

On Thursday, November 4th at 12 pm (CET), we hosted a CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Helena Dukic, moderated by Sanja Bojanic. The seminar is entitled: “Guided Imagery and Music”

What is the purpose of music and why do we listen to it? Does music need to relate to extra-musical stories and ideas to be meaningful or does it simply exist for its own sake? Latest theories suggest that musical meaning could be conceived of as being the consequence of the narrative-like patterns of tension and resolution embodied in music that motivate our cognitive and neural responses. To evaluate this, three studies were conducted. They established the similarities and differences between classical instrumental music pieces and literary narratives using the Guided Imagery and Music method. The results suggest that music creates an illusion of a narrative in the conscious experience of listeners by exchanging music features that emotionally and cognitively engage a listener with those that do not, thus creating tensions and relaxations that allude to a three-part narrative form. In the unconscious experience of listeners however, music features convey mostly static scenes and objects that do not develop or change in time. This dual nature of music, directional on one hand and discursive on the other, marks music’s inherent therapeutic and artistic potential.

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