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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,...
Music and change the Rowley Way
Some people call the Music and Change project a Trojan horse,’ says Charlie ... during her training were important in developing Music and Change. ‘Working in the NHS, I thought one-to-one ... of gang culture in New York was another influence on Music...
One on one ...with Raymond MacDonald
... to finally play for Celtic. One therapeutic application of music Daniel Barenboim in his BBC Reith Lecture series ... to address why many adolescents lose interest in formal music education around the time music becomes their most important...
One on one... with Jaak Panksepp
... minds. One way of understanding ‘the chills’ evoked by music ‘Skin orgasms’ may be closely linked to our primal ... similarities between the chilling emotions evoked by music and those engendered by separation distress and grief. I talk about this in my 1995...
One on one... with Tom Dickins
... released by WARP records, 1995. I was introduced to their music when I was a PhD student at the University of ... by this cool, creative place he belonged to. Autechre’s music is beautifully pared down, creating melody and mood from rhythm. As with exquisite...
Careers
Mindsets, music and magic Ian Florance meets Roberto Forzoni St Pancras ... outside work: playing football, DJ-ing and listening to music. ‘I DJ-ed on Solar, a pirate radio station, and ... Roberto’s website ( www.robertoforzoni.com ) calls music ‘...
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 ...
Careers
... a classical pianist since the age of four. My interest in music and performing is a continuing one. I did Maths, Physics and Music at A-level and became interested in sound recording. I ... a small Maryland Liberal Arts College, double majoring in Music...
How to get ahead in the psychology of advertising
... them with huge enthusiasm. The first looks at the role of music in advertising, which, as will become clear, is central ... or do the “incidentals” – the particular scene, the music – actually cause an advert to be successful or not? ... I’m researching “...
‘Psychology sang to me’
... isn’t particularly associated with psychology, but with music and creativity. It was celebrated by the folk singer ... multi-ethnic restaurants, coffee bars, street stalls and music shops. Jake Farr – the founder of Alchemy Personal ... of people write, play...
Can we have a Happy Christmas?
... tend to be highest at the time of year when Christmas music is being played, with this effect enhanced when the music played is paired with Christmas scent (Spangenberg et ... Christmas: The interactive effects of ambient scent and music in a...
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...
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 ...
Forum
... to this condition in the pages of The Psychologist (‘Music – shelter for the frazzled mind?’, December 2009). ... on a task to identify emotional depiction within music (which apparently does not detract from their appreciation of the music)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...