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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...
A glimpse of our potential
... darkness: Group flow and environmental expression in the music of Black Sabbath and Joy Division. This combines two of his great interests – psychology and music – which threaded our conversation. I first asked ... Pepper came out and from a very young age...
‘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...
An invigorating look at heroin and jazz
... heroin epidemic prevalent in the 40s and 50s jazz music scene in the USA. Prudent music choices from the period place the listener at the heart ... for drug addiction, the ‘Narcotic Farm’, where music played a huge part. The researchers of the...
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...
Emotions in motion
... which starts with a stretch, deep breaths and loud music. We breathe in and stretch up, before we release from ... pain, lack of energy and mood swings. Dancing to music is a great way to overcome these negative feelings ... both the exercise and our emotional...
Thirty three and a third
... with their darkly humorous and soul-baring lyrics. Perfect music for this old punk rocker! There’s plenty for ... to the new album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Music and science in harmony Laura Meldrum-Carter looks for ... in our archive , and over on the...
The surprising world of synaesthesia
... he claimed to experience coloured words, sequences and music. Regrettably, Sachs did not attempt to explain why he ... Pulford. Pulford (EP) said she experienced words and music in colour and asked whether anyone was interested in ... that are mainly located in...
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...
Is music important?
... thought ‘Is it worth my while, since it’s only about music?’ Like millions, you may like to listen to the car ... to play’ in their local bar, or as pressure is put on music to justify its position and funding in the school ... at secondary and tertiary levels...
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 ‘...
A treasure trove of psychological wisdom
Rap music for many brings to mind themes such as exorbitant ... and psychologically insightful genres of contemporary music. A politically charged subgenre of rap – known as ... However in rap especially, the narrative nature of the music means you...
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...
Is isolation or networking the pathway to genius?
... In contrast, the geniuses who manage to create images, music, stories, ideas, proofs, theories, or inventions ... the preposterous idea of providing an inventory of popular music available for purchase for whosoever had the cash – even if that music...
Dredging the riverbed of our national psyche
... ’. It’s a charge that could be levelled at the music world, too. Like psychologists and psychotherapists, ... grin. Gazelle Twin has always made deeply psychological music. She’s influenced as much by the Freudian dystopian ... horror films of David Cronenberg...
‘I took the plunge and chose the risky option’
... jazz band – how did that come about? I always loved music, and being a musician helped me become financially ... my PhD, I had to decide – should I continue playing music on stage or leave that behind me and aim for an ... good money, much more than an...
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...
Actions speak louder than words
... enabled the worlds of science, psychology, dance and music to come together to present this breath-taking ... style. Although it appeared like Anna was dancing to the music (as you would expect), this was not the case. Anna was actually generating the ...
Giving a voice to people with advanced dementia
... Mirroring as communication can also be facilitated by music, which has been shown to elicit a fundamental, ... al., 2011). Aldridge (1996) explains that receptivity to music is an ability that remains in the late stages of ... of cognitive abilities. One...
Music and science in harmony
There have long been links between music and science, from studies of acoustics at the ... Points himself suggests that rather than force parallels, music and science can exist exclusively but also ... and creative freedom essential for the most uplifting of...
Things not to say to someone with schizophrenia
... whether the bright yellow backdrop with modern jazz music played throughout portrayed the vibrancy of life, ... spans and promoted the therapeutic value of colour and music. These characteristics of brightness with jazz music perhaps challenge...
‘What is therapy’s value, and how do we decide this?'
... She initially studied the violin at the Royal Academy of Music, and later qualified as a music therapist. Her work in the field of music therapy led to an undergraduate degree in psychology ...
'This project is a proper human interest story'
... when those with a background in psychology go on to make music. Sure, most songwriters will have a pretty good grasp ... but how about those (such as Floating Points ) who release music more professionally? Russian Linesman, who studied Psychology at...