Four primary samples were chosen from the original songs, each exploring different affective elements discovered in the music. Viega created what he called “miniature sound portraits” representing the three different stages of original songs, the past, the present, and the future. What emerged from this phase was developmental journey of the songwriting, revealing a more complex relationship between of AS’s past, present, and future self 

Wanna Give And Get Back

Looking Back TEST1

Feel My Legs TEST1

Results of an arts-based analysis of AS song.

GET AND GIVE BACK FINAL

Original songs used for analytic and experiential analysis 

AS3 - Bright Future

AS2 - Good Days & Bad

AS1 - Looking Back

JB 1 Beer And Smoke

JB2 1 Call Me Now

JB 2 Survive

JB2 3 Will I

JB2 2 Waiting Game

MS 3 My Children Happy

WF 1 Isolation

WF 3 Bright Or Dark

WF 2 What I Am Thinking

AM 3 I Can See Myself Walking

BW 3 Every Door Must Open

4 We're Alive

3 Creative Energy

2 My Pain Is Real

Remixing Neurodisability 

1 WIll Not Comply

Assistant Professor, Music at Montclair State University. Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (NYS). Doctorate, Temple University. See weblink for current publications.

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