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When words are not enough
... it likes. Ultimately, it’s like trying to describe music. It is essentially visceral: like the experience of ...
Fatalistic tone ultimately helps nobody
... people of my age now resistant to listening to once-loved music from the rock band Lostprophets, after frontman Ian ...
Amy
... absorbing and at times shocking. Whether you liked her music or not this is a film not to be missed. - Reviewed by ...
Hope, resilience, and mental toughness
... and not seek help for mental health problems. Sabrina’s music choices included ‘Girl on fire’ (naturally), and ...
Unafraid of conflict or its consequences
... chance to hear her sing (P J Harvey wrote the original music for this production). In the film version, there are ...
Craig against the machine
... us something about what substances were ingested or what music was playing as the text was keyed in. Something of the ...
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 ...
‘It’s an unusual type of therapy’
... – from the gleaming tabernacle, to the menacing organ music, to the priest’s green vestigial gowns – is ...
A gothic mystery
... – a safety poster that says ‘Don’t be a victim’. Music is also used to great effect, never playing behind a ...
Pop gifted
... rescues the sobbing child. Beach and sunset. The folksy music swells. The ending is compromise and she gets to join ...
Mass psychogenic illness, or more spooky?
... same time as the Toronto Blessing, acid house and trance music spread across the UK, including to the Hacienda, where ...
Accepting the raw elements of living
... and the world. Connections with others, communication, music and dance are all areas to focus attention on when ...
Book reviews
... on Viennese life at the turn of the century, on classical music, psychoanalysis, the origins of Rorschach’s famous ...
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 ...
Messy narratives of childhood
... gratuitous slow motion. The baby lies forgotten as dance music pounds, bottles smash, powder flies, and grimaces of ...
Book reviews
... who is Research Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Keele ...
Book reviews, September 2016
... easier and less risky. Today, apps that support art, music and photography are readily available – but, ...
Mapping Fatherland
... Poem' on homelessness at Unfear on Oldham Street. Original music from the show, by Karl Hyde and Matthew Herbert, is ...
Book Reviews
... the negative consequences – scientific discoveries, art, music, but also slavery, war, pollution – calling for a ...
Drawn to the nectars of negativity
... to a breadth of darker interests. These may comprise music resembling ‘nothingness’ (e.g. death / doom metal), ...
Letters
... fashion, film and video, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts, publishing, software and computer ... for him, to establish himself as performer and creator of music – and, then, agreeing with the ‘social’ gurus, to ...
Hallucinating in the deep waters of consciousness…
... give the audience the experience of synaesthesia, by using music in place of words, or colours and music together. But this is disappointing in its ...
Mining for myths
... Psychology of Chess , by Fernand Gobet The Psychology of Music, by Susan Hallam The Psychology of Weather , by Trevor ...
Reviews
... brought The Salon Project to London, promising ‘a new music theatre event inspired by the rituals of the 19th century salon… where performance interventions, music and guest speakers entertain and provoke ...
Spearman and the Importance of Archives
... ability to mentally recall a piece of instrumental music while ‘No movements of his voice-muscles accompany ...