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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,...
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...
1984…
... 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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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... 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...
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... stories in the details. Not unlike the adoption of Western music and fashions by young people in traditional cultures, ...
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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... who is Research Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Keele ...
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... the negative consequences – scientific discoveries, art, music, but also slavery, war, pollution – calling for a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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... Assistant at the University of Sheffield Turn off the music! More or LessWord of Mouth BBC Radio 4 Psychologists ... listens (or podcasts in my case). Go on, turn off the music and turn on the words and numbers – it’s good for ...
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... Trust Billed as ‘two brainy days of dance, theatre, music and art for all ages’, the Barbican Weekender: Brain ...
Book reviews
... that give their lives meaning. He describes how images and music play important roles in emphasising those feelings. ...
Book reviews
... Flin, R. et al. The Psychology of Female Violence Motz, A. Music, Language and the Brain Patel, A.D. Imaginative Minds ...
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... radio, newspapers, websites, films, theatre, exhibitions, music, apps… you name it, we’re interested. If you would ...
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... drastically reducing evacuation time. With no formal music training, Quentin has absolute pitch and is physically ...
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... of supposedly ‘happy’ games involving light-hearted music and cartoon characters and the unwillingness of the ...
Myers and medicine
... International Conference on Nineteenth-century music, Royal Holloway, University of London. Costall, A. ...