Patients of a Devon mental health unit have created an ambient music album as part of a therapy project.<\/p>\n
A group of six patients at Dawlish’s Langdon Hospital recorded and edited the album, called Labyrinthe Des Esprits: The Cosmic Hunt, using sounds from across Devon.<\/p>\n
Noises including the bells of Buckfast Abbey, beehives and atmospheric sounds from Fernworthy Reservoir’s ancient stone circles have been combined with synthesized and traditional musical instruments to produce the songs.<\/p>\n
Members of the group who recorded the album said they were pleased with the work and hoped it showed people in secure units can “do creative things”.<\/p>\n
Matt Smith, musical technical instructor at the site run by Devon Partnership NHS Trust, said the songs were based on ancient mythology and had a “rural narrative” running through the album.<\/p>\n
He added the project helped patients get in touch with nature.<\/p>\n
“It’s the not knowing what you’re going to discover and taking time to just sit and absorb being outside,” Mr Smith said.<\/p>\n
“I think for the chaps that I work with here who do have limited access to outside spaces, you can just see that’s it so beneficial and they just love it.”<\/p>\n
A patient called Seb – not his real name – who helped record the album, said he found the process therapeutic as it “tapped into the senses”.<\/p>\n
Seb added: “I hope people will be able to relax, get some enjoyment out of listening to this and realise that people in secure services can do creative things and contribute to society.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patients of a Devon mental health unit have created an ambient music album as part of a therapy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-116171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}