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One on one... with Jeune Guishard-Pine
... Courtney Pine CBE, is pretty amazing! Oh, and his music’s not too bad either! Seriously, to hear great jazz ... hear outstanding musicianship. Jazz musicians are creating music instantaneously rather than writing and rewriting it ... career path I would have...
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-...
On vines and minds
... Some psychologists have demonstrated associations between music played in retail outlets and subsequent wine purchases. Playing classical or pop music does not influence the amount of wine purchased but ... the average price of bottles selected, with classical...
One on one
... moment that changed my career Deciding that the career in music I was following was not ‘my first love’. I took the radical step to leave music college and take up a post as a Student Registered ...
The essence of the human condition?
... in different features. Now do the same for a piece of music/song (e.g. ‘Yesterday’ by The Beatles), moving ... initially sceptical on what the work might add to the music itself, I found myself captivated by an incredibly rich and moving journey through the...
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...
One to one ...with Ray Bull
... The first LP by The Doors, in 1967. It changed ‘rock music’ for ever. One alternative career path Mathematician or something relating to rock music (having been on the Student Union Social Committee for ...
Interview: 'Time is all you've got'
... Youth Orchestra, so that link between time perception and music, particularly I suppose with rhythmic parts like bass ... interaction between them. There’s been work on time in music, by Marie Rhys-Jones and Marianne Boltz who was her ... we played it on our...
Giftedness and the brain
... of different levels of performance, whether it is music, maths, sport or some other domain? Or consider general ... might represent a morphological disposition for a specific music-related, potentially inborn, skill that appears to be ... 583–587.Pantev, C.,...
Careers
... I told my father as a teenager that I wanted to do either music or psychology his response was “music’s a hobby and psychology isn’t serious”. I ended ... ‘In my 20s I studied double bass at the Royal Academy of Music in the same student cohort...
Online only - One on one with Deborah Christie
... the time. One cultural recommendation (i.e. Book, film, music) Milan Kundera’s The unbearable lightness of being, ...
Interview: Would you want a super memory?
... individuals have been identified who have super memory for music, being able to recall tens of thousands of songs. Derek ... and be able to replay it on the piano, and it appears that music was the natural way for him to channel his energy and ... particular...
A trip down memory lane (via Penny Lane)
... are on whether brain trainer software works and on music and memory.’ Catriona also gets asked by the media to ... is very responsive nowadays.’ Magical mystery tour Music came up regularly in our conversation, partly as a key ... – was on the stereo. If only...
One on one - with Bill McKeachie
... I gave my grand piano to my daughter. I couldn’t see the music any more.’ (He had macular degeneration). ... pieces you had memorised?’ ‘No. I never could memorise music.’ What a tragedy! One on one - with Bill McKeachie ...
Experiencing time in daily life
... tempo in the sound of the boiling kettle, almost like music; you planned (automatically and without awareness) the ... or clowns going around; in a call centre, background music will be used. Such activities divert people’s ...
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...
Secular ecstasies
... (where ‘art’ means paintings, literature or classical music). Laski’s contribution to wresting free ... might include: The experience of chills while listening to music, whether in the nightclub or at the concert hall. ... possessing beneficial effects;...
Is it not beautiful?
... as well as in sound (waves, waterfalls and rain) and music (birdsong and nursery rhymes). Mathematical fractals ... in the Society section. Alex Forsythe said: ‘Noel loved music, and any donations to ... – a charity that helps disadvantaged kids with ...
Searching for superhuman
... would you believe that anyone could identify a piece of music merely by looking at the groove patterns on a vinyl ... anything other than his own vast knowledge of orchestral music from Beethoven onwards, combined with an ability to ...
So you think you can dance?
... – and he intends to be nothing short of dazzling. The music begins and he starts to move. You hold your breath… ...
State of the art - Synaesthesia
... A? What does the number 1 taste of? Does listening to music, speaking or eating food produce colours, shapes or ...
New voices: Learning from learners
I immerse myself in three disciplines: research, music and art. I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University ...
Why I study...media psychology
... to study psychology. As an English graduate and freelance music journalist, I found myself near Zurich doing a feature ...
State of the art: Psychopathy
... it, psychopathic individuals ‘know the words but not the music’ (p.217). In this article we argue that although ...