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Daniel Saks’ Bands, Books, Music Education, Podcasting, Press & Appearances
Noodle Loaf - a Music Education Podcast for Kids: an Orff-Schulwerk inspired educational music podcast for children created and hosted by Daniel Saks: https://www.noodleloaf.com
Noodle Loaf is a Common Sense Media recommended podcast for kids. “Dan Saks is a gentle and playful host. He models kindness, curiosity, and compassion throughout the show. He shows acceptance through his celebration of different types of people in the world through music and is a role model for empathy and freedom of expression.” https://www.commonsensemedia.org/podcast-reviews/noodle-loaf-music-education-podcast-for-kids
Noodle Loaf was a 2020 Webby Honoree in the Kids and Families Category: https://winners.webbyawards.com/2020/podcasts/general-series/family-kids/123584/noodle-loaf
Picture Books Written by Daniel Saks: Families Belong, Familes Can, Families Grow, We Share This School, We Share This Neighborhood, We Share This Earth
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2212132/dan-saks/
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music: Daniel Saks completed his clinical internship at BKCM and is currently part of their music therapy team. At BKCM he has worked with children of varying abilities, seniors in a memory care unit with the Dafunkies, a neurodivergent teen rock band.
Orff-Schulwerk: Daniel Saks is trained in Orff-Schulwerk, a music education approach that incorporates music, movement, speech and drama in a way that feels like child’s play.
Recording Artist: Daniel Saks spent many years as a recording artist and touring musician with various bands. A recent highlight was performing with the LeeVees on a Tiny Desk Concert. Other highlights include touring with Os Mutantes and headlining a music festival in Krakow.
Clinical Improvisation: Improvising in a music therapy context is different from what you would expect in a free improvisation context or a drum circle. The focus is on the experience, or the “qualia”, of the improvisation. It can look and sound a lot of different ways depending on the therapist and the participant(s). In this video you can see how it looks in Deborah Seabrook’s practice. Click here for more information on the role of improvisation in music therapy.
Daniel Saks on CBS New York - How music is helping dementia patients in Brooklyn: CBS Snapshot visited Watermark to share the work being done by Rafe Stepto and Daniel Saks in a memory care unit within a senior living home. Music therapy can help patients with dementia connect to themselves and each other.
Daniel Saks on CUNY.TV: Arts in the City visited PS 3 to share an example of the sessions Rafe Stepto and Daniel Saks lead in Brooklyn public schools. The group in the clip is of 5th graders who received weekly music therapy as part of BKCM’s offsite programming.
