For my major project, I created two short 2D animations demonstrating the positive impact music can have on people’s lives. Music drives me as a creative and contributes heavily to the development of my artwork, so I decided to research just how much music can activate our brains. This is when I came across ‘music therapy’. Researching into the transformative work of the British Association of Music Therapy (BAMT), I found that music can help all walks of life; helping dementia patients reformulate forgotten memories, assist autistic children with improving their social and learning skills and those with accident induced brain injuries regain their ability to speak. Music activates our brains in ways we cannot describe in words or draw on paper and we must preserve it.

I took the time to speak to a new music therapist, Aisling Palmer, who lost her job as a musician during the COVID pandemic. She now works as a music therapist with the elderly and the young sharing not only her beautiful talent on the piano but teaching how to play too! You will be able to hear her piano playing in one of my animations, a piece she entirely composed from my animatic. Thank you, Aisling!