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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...
Where does inspiration come from?
... of our creative output. I have studied both psychology and music for more years than I care to admit and I am presently ... adventure and listening to Philip’s mesmerising music made me wonder: what is the effect of formal education ...
Which human experiences are universal?
... The octave system is not only intrinsic to Western music, it’s also mathematically-based: move up an octave, ... a given note doubles in frequency. Perhaps, then, Western music has come to use this system because it relates to the ... perceptions of people who...
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...
Reviews
... Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music James Rhodes This book is the product of a child’s ... the need for child victims to find expression (classical music in Rhodes’s case), a meaningful narrative and attuned ...
The rules of unruliness
... if you know, but one of the organising themes of the non-music content at this festival is ‘Revolution’. I think ... if you haven’t got anything better to do?! There’s music on, there’s comedy on, there’s cabaret on, and ... India , we’ve looked at football...
Transfixed at the Big Top
... marketing promised 'two visual artists who draw and play music live to build a big top universe'. My attitudes to mime ... the story, the delicacy and damn cleverness of the art and music produced along the way was utterly mesmerising. Meaning ...
To face reality and accept it
... relate it to their everyday lives on some level. Yet pop music is probably one of the last places many teachers would ... stimulated fans have been by the content, discussing the music’s links to psychological theories in such depth that ...
Cycles
... in Nature Human Behaviour by Park et al. examined music streaming habits on Spotify across 2016. Their random ... million individual users, comprising 765 million online music plays across 51 countries, revealed some startling ... daily patterns. People tended...
Harmonics of the mind
... sat on the chapel floor, surrounded by hair-raising music that took us through the build-up as the participant ... in vivid detail and talked about how the ambient music and the psilocybin interacted and guided him on a ...
Love and Mercy
... some of the most exciting and creative periods of modern music. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, the Who and from ... the 1960s. The sequences recreating the recording of the music are fascinating and sound every bit as good as the ...
Our December time machine
... experimental psychology . Our 2009 special issue on music psychology considered change in the digital era , emotion in music , music education , musical learning , and amusia . In ...
How real people communicate
... cooking by guiding you through a recipe, putting on some music, doing some shopping or just telling the time. If you ... and they are trying to get Alexa to play some suitable music. Nikos Alexa (2.6) Isabel play some New Year’s music...
A treat for the senses
... of ‘Brut 33’, and we’re right there on the set. Music plays a massive part of the feel of each story, and the ... place is already well-documented. Suffice to say that the music is excellent. One standout scene captured intimate ... cultural elements are...
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.,...
Find the reason
Reasons to stay alive include music, books, and running. But before protagonist Matt (Mike ... least actions that won’t hurt. Scenes are punctuated by music, lighting, shifting set, and dance and movement from ...
In a different timeworld
... minor triggers, like traumatic experiences or listening to music.) Most people described their TEEs as positive, even if ... such as sports, psychedelics, meditation, and listening to music. With the exception of sport, none of these are ... relaxed states –...
To sit it out or dance…
... yourself or literally shaking your body to the drum music. Rhythmic music stimulates basal ganglia , the part of the brain ... it is Afro-Cuban dance that is danced to the drum music and has elements of storytelling and playfulness. In my ...
Our August time machine
... about the mind . We looked at place attachment and blues music , considered what it’s like to be a British Muslim ... We also covered beliefs about delusions , and asked if music is important . In 2002 we had a sport special , ... find articles on ...
Being alongside people in a time of isolation
... agreements on the internet. If you are using existing music you will need permission or a license to use it. You could get music specially composed. You may know some local musicians, or music societies that might be interested in recording ...
Q is for… Quality of Life
... feeling isolated and lonely. Whether it’s listening to music or participating in a club, it is important that the ...
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 ...
A lullaby for a frenetic world
... broke records as the longest single continuous piece of music ever broadcast live on the BBC. Richter, a prolific and ... I woke in the morning with a sense of ease, as if the music had cocooned me safely all night. I was left thinking ...
Family drama with a twist
... likes to listen for hours on end to punk, 80’s and indie music, inherited from Dad, on his headphones. He won’t play ... independently and listen to, and recite, his favourite music. I couldn’t help but wonder if this recurring theme ...
A curate's egg
... singing along, loudly and not especially tunefully, to the music in his headphones. The clip had gone viral, and ... then straight onto India. An animated graphic and jaunty music popped up to illustrate each leg of this ill-advised ...