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Big Picture: BitterSuite symphony
... a perception in another – for example, listening to music might cause a synaesthete to literally see colours. ... ‘BitterSuite springs from a motivation to take classical music audiences out of their mind to experience an embodied ... to truly create a sensory...
Music to our ears
... One ubiquitous aspect of everyday auditory environments is music. Music has a range of powerful physical, social, and emotional ... for example, Raymond MacDonald and colleagues’ 2012 book Music, Health and Wellbeing ). It is surprising,...
One on one… with Susan Hallam
... career and influenced me to research the wider benefits of music. One favourite film Farewell My Concubine. This film ... turning point in my life On leaving the Royal Academy of Music I became principal second violin in the BBC Midland ... for Oxfordshire...
‘Let’s make a joyful noise!’
... Choir With No Name , has a passion for using the power of music and song as pathways to recovery for people with a ... Memory, put the audience through a rigorous experience of music memorisation using chunking, imagery, mnemonics and a ... notation but, on...
Unpleasant reactions to ‘music’
... (February 2015)? I have always felt a connection between music and a sense of space. Listening to pieces in two parts ... correct term for it. It occurs when I hear some sounds or music created by electronic means. Currently when the BBC ... as queasy. The same...
Dealing with confrontations
... I had chosen to research a very loaded topic – digital music piracy (see my ‘New voices’ article at ... this certainly appears to be the case with digital music piracy. I have given talks, for example, where it is ... with presentations is when I discuss the ‘...
Putting flesh on the skeleton of narrative
... narrative, loss, creativity and growing older, it is less music documentary and more carefully crafted and wonderfully ... being one single interpretation of our experiences. The music too play with rhythmic conventions, giving a sense that ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘Tears were and still are crucial for our functioning’
... make them cry, such as sentimental movies or listening to music that engenders feelings of sadness. On the other hand, ... to more positive factors such as weddings, reunions and music. Our findings indicated, however, that the most ...
Big Picture: Beyond seizures
... exhibitions and art-science workshops, theatre, film, music, sound art, and outreach talks. They are currently ...
Before and beyond words
... later engaging with contexts of language and formalised music, as well as emerging methods in vocal analysis and ...
A glimpse towards the future
... and moral questions. The set is simple and effective, the music perfectly chosen, and the acting brilliant. Payne’s ...
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. ...
A bumpy but engaging ride
... are dressed up as if to party, complete with mirror balls, music, and confetti. Then, approaching the audience, in a ...
Book Reviews - April 2016
... this surprising given the huge audiences for visual art, music and dance – the three art forms that are the focus of ... resource for specialists in the psychology of visual art, music and dance, for teachers and students in other ... specialisation; individual...
On a mission
... psychosocial stimulation sessions, including music, craft, toy-making, colouring, dancing, etc., ...
Poignant and fascinating
... three beautiful songs - with words by A.E. Housman set to music by the composer George Butterworth who, as an officer ...
So what is a gene?
... spread through, politics, philosophy, science, art, music, and psychology. No wonder it was bitterly resisted. It ...
What I seek… when I want a busman’s holiday
... and the small screen, I look for insight and escape in the music of Massive Attack. More drugs. - By Dr Sally Marlow, ...
When words are not enough
... it likes. Ultimately, it’s like trying to describe music. It is essentially visceral: like the experience of ...
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 ...
Big Picture: Poetry as a mental health resource
... Walton, K. (2011). Thoughtwriting – in poetry and music. New Literary History, 42(3), 455–476. Zeman, A., ...
The Psychologist presents… How to talk so people listen
... answer the question in a very deadpan way: “I was at a music workshop”, or he could say “what do you mean, ... People telephone and say “I’ve got this problem with music next door”, noise next door, whatever it might be. ...