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... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
More reviews from our January issue
... in a cramped council house into the convoluted world of music journalism. The book centres on her quest to ultimately ... do not go smoothly. After quitting school when offered a music critique role, she develops a fast-talking, ... lighter aspects of...
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...
Daring and unpredictable sci-fi
... score, supplemented by a carefully curated selection of music (medieval early music and Inuit throat-singing sit cheek-by-jowl to Patrick ...
Maternal power and its demise
... The production itself does not always follow the music’s nuance. In Act 1, as Agrippina conveys her plans to ... and pragmatism. In the meantime, we still have Handel’s music giving voice to a mother’s mixed bag of angels and ...
Reassessing perceptions of ‘inside’
... (be it paintings, drawings, sculpture, poetry, film and music) is diverse and multi-layered, the 150 artworks ...
Where is the love?
... and Wales using prose, innuendos, rap, and other genres of music in order to understand loneliness and how to overcome ...
Soul-searching and simply living
... of ‘average’ Joe Gardener (Jamie Foxx): a determined music teacher with a passion to become a successful musician. ...
Is education the way out?
... by their schools – whether they excel in art, music or academics. But what the series is really about is ...
Watching cartoons as self-care
... back into my daily life. The soundtrack, including indie music from Frankie Cosmos and Kishi Bashi is beautiful and by ...
Reviews
... of genius. Some chapters explain specific domains, such a music and literature. Belief is part of the job description. ...
Diving into something new
... 300 events encompassing film, theatre, literature and music. The experience of mental health difficulties is ...
The ultimate hidden truth?
... collages of incongruent pieces of archival footage and music are presented, accompanied by his own brand of ...
Seven broken hearts, seven racing minds
... This is an album of spoken-word poems set to atmospheric music, a series of individual narratives threaded together. ...
Before and beyond words
... later engaging with contexts of language and formalised music, as well as emerging methods in vocal analysis and ...