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A 3D audioscape with Martyn Ware
New adventures in hi-fi The Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival Martyn Ware (‘Recapture’) and Alexis Kirke ... (‘Remember a Day’) The Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival has often explored the relationship between music and memory,...
News
... impossible finding that listening to children’s music can reduce participants’ actual chronological age. ... are self-harming and their families.’ js The mystery of music The latest of the ‘Plug in your brain’ public ... came in the form of a delightful...
Digest
... supported this idea: participants who listened to music with the intention of feeling happier actually ended up ... feeling less happy than others who merely listened to the music with no happiness goal. But now a new study has come ... Sheldon criticise the...
Society
... save an attractive moat containing myriad fish. African music and tropical animal noises piped throughout added to ... of volunteering activities.’ Research seminars on music and language Middlesex University’s Language & ... competition to hold a series...
Book Reviews
... Northampton Eminently readable The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology Susan Hallam, Ian Cross & Michael Thaut ... to rehab, I said no, no, no.’ The public face of popular music in the 21st century seems to be all rock ‘n’ roll ... questions concerning...
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... Brookes University Excellent starting point You Are the Music Victoria Williamson Victoria Williamson’s You Are the Music explores the many ways music is central to human experience in a readable and ...
News and media
... brains and our subjective mental lives. While the music Mrs O’Connor hears and the childhood memories she ... rope-controlled set, energetically performed Balkan folk music, and inventive props (at one point, an overhead ... it raised some profound issues. But...
News
... of people’s beliefs in the mind control powers of music. This took in 18th-century fears over the seductive power of music used by mesmerists; Jean-Martin Charcot’s use of ... and 20th-century panic in America over the supposed use of music-...
Eye on fiction: Heavenly and hellish - writers on hallucinogens
... experiments with LSD in this memorable description: The music vibrated through my body as if I were one of the ... of the sounds ran through my hair like a caress. The music ran down my back and came out of my fingertips. I was a ... now depicted through other...
News and digest
... review says that airbrushed adverts, sexist sitcoms, lurid music videos, easily-accessed internet porn, ‘lads mags’ ... curriculum; lads mags to be put on the top shelf; sexy music videos to be broadcast only after the watershed; and a ...
News and media
... influence others in developing similar projects.’ Music to your ears The simple act of listening to music can improve some aspects of our musical competence – ... participants with a mixture of formal expertise levels and music listening...
Book Reviews
... whilst encapsulating the main cognitive processes of music. One of the key messages that resonate throughout this book is how music is experienced within the mind. Although music is capable of manipulating our emotions, memories, and ...
Reviews
... clips from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and beguiling music written and performed by patients, staff and allies in ... an assistant psychologist – Recovery/Service Development Music from the dark side of the mind I’m going slightly mad ... track of this...
Media
... eyes surveying our discipline. JS Media - Curiosity Music is a form of media that doesn’t get a lot of ... to recall information when it’s placed in the context of music, ‘An empty bliss…’ tackles amnesia and is built ... as one review says: ‘Kirby isn’t just...
Book reviews
... stories in the details. Not unlike the adoption of Western music and fashions by young people in traditional cultures, ...
News and Media
... the border and 600 in the capital, to hear talks on love, music, addiction, and more. Edinburgh The process of dating ... article last month, posing the question ‘is pop music bad for young people?’ North concluded that the evidence suggesting a link between...
Damon Albarn's 'Everyday Robots'…
... very simply rendered, and often mournfully sung. The music uses samples of voices and sounds, sewn together with a ... that influence how we shop, atmospherics (e.g. lighting, music played in shops), and brand ‘priming’. He writes in ...
News
... I tinyurl.com/y6v8y2e The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) has two grant schemes ... advancement or promotion of research in the psychology of music or music education. I Reg and Molly Buck Award: one grant ...
Book reviews
... on Viennese life at the turn of the century, on classical music, psychoanalysis, the origins of Rorschach’s famous ...
Society
... makes us human, crisis negotiation, and whether or not pop music is bad for young people. In London the topics included ...
Eye on Fiction - Where the wild things are
... and ‘dream pictures’ while listening to classical music. His aim was not unlike that of a patient in ... on one page… beginning and ending, if possible, with the music itself.’ He said that some of these were ‘purely ...
Digest: What else can you expect from a Crappo?
... electricity, law, linguistics, mathematics, medicine, music, pathology, philosophy, and physics. But how much of ...
News and media
... from internet dating and subliminal messages in rock music through to Barbie dolls. The media and popular culture, ... targets for the censors – aggressive or antisocial music tends not to have a negative influence on young people. ... interpret or ignore...
News, Digest and Media
... proper. The subject this year was the psychology of music and consumer behaviour, wittily titled ‘The tills are ... you by French or German wine by playing the appropriate music, David Hargreaves gave the audience examples of music on his...
Book reviews
... who is Research Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Keele ...