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Musicorps is an innovative music pilot program for injured soldiers recovering at Walter Reed Amy Medical Center. Soldiers participating in Musicorps use a specially assembled computer-based workstation along with traditional instruments, collaborate with visiting artists and recording experts, and compose and record their own music. Soldiers participating in Musicorps not only receive training in music and in the use of the equipment, but also work on projects tailored to their individual needs, talents, interests, and goals. Musicorps integrates three components: 1) Equipment: a computer-based music workstation along with traditional instruments, 2) Training: instruction in music and in the use of the equipment, 3) Projects: soldiers write and record songs in collaboration with visiting artists. Musicorps not only improves quality of life during lengthy and difficult recoveries, but also is expected to stimulate healing, especially from TBI (traumatic brain injury). Concussive blasts from IEDs and other explosions cause TBI, and it has been called the signature injury of the Iraq war. Learning, creating, and performing music involves so many aspects of brain function that it is believed to recruit uninjured parts of the brain to compensate for parts that have been injured, and to help those parts that are injured recover. The Musicorps pilot program is currently available to soldiers staying at the Fisher House facility at Walter Reed. Fisher House is itself a renowned private/public partnership that offers support to injured soldiers and their families. Please note that our use of the term Musicorps no longer refers to our entire network of collaborators participating in all of RIME's programs. |
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