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Reviews
... Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music James Rhodes This book is the product of a child’s ... the need for child victims to find expression (classical music in Rhodes’s case), a meaningful narrative and attuned ...
News and digest
... review says that airbrushed adverts, sexist sitcoms, lurid music videos, easily-accessed internet porn, ‘lads mags’ ... curriculum; lads mags to be put on the top shelf; sexy music videos to be broadcast only after the watershed; and a ...
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 ...
A fortnight of fascination
... interactive experiment , on Saturday 12 March, about how music influences experience of films. The audience will be filmed watching clips of films to see how music changes their interpretation of the clips. Among the ...
To face reality and accept it
... relate it to their everyday lives on some level. Yet pop music is probably one of the last places many teachers would ... stimulated fans have been by the content, discussing the music’s links to psychological theories in such depth that ...
Harmonics of the mind
... sat on the chapel floor, surrounded by hair-raising music that took us through the build-up as the participant ... in vivid detail and talked about how the ambient music and the psilocybin interacted and guided him on a ...
News and media
... influence others in developing similar projects.’ Music to your ears The simple act of listening to music can improve some aspects of our musical competence – ... participants with a mixture of formal expertise levels and music listening...
Love and Mercy
... some of the most exciting and creative periods of modern music. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, the Who and from ... the 1960s. The sequences recreating the recording of the music are fascinating and sound every bit as good as the ...
A treat for the senses
... of ‘Brut 33’, and we’re right there on the set. Music plays a massive part of the feel of each story, and the ... place is already well-documented. Suffice to say that the music is excellent. One standout scene captured intimate ... cultural elements are...
Longer at Latitude
... Stokoe , we have organised two spots at the weekend of music and the arts, which takes place in Suffolk from 13 to ... content across the programme too, in addition to so much music, comedy, theatre and more.’ That additional ...
'It sends an important message'
... research has focused on creative collaboration in music communication in relationships. Her research has seen ... work with PhD students who are exploring the psychology of music and creative collaboration. ‘I’ve not had time to ...
Find the reason
Reasons to stay alive include music, books, and running. But before protagonist Matt (Mike ... least actions that won’t hurt. Scenes are punctuated by music, lighting, shifting set, and dance and movement from ...
Fashion matters… in mental health
... of art therapy. O’Flynn, also Patron of Raw Material Music & Media and Trustee/Company Director of the Bethlem ... de-stigmatising and cathartic release through music creation and art for patients he treats who have ... Collection Trust. David is also...
Plenty to consider in Cambridge
... of events, from 2pm to 6pm the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research will open its doors for an exploration of social neuroscience and its role in music therapy as well as a live therapy session involving imagery and music-listening. ...
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 ...
Safeguarding children with strength and hope
... of psychosis Taggart said he took great comfort from music which may have been seen by others as ‘mad’: John ... ordinary life, it was too anaemic. It was only with music like this that there was any peace.’ Taggart touched ...
A lullaby for a frenetic world
... broke records as the longest single continuous piece of music ever broadcast live on the BBC. Richter, a prolific and ... I woke in the morning with a sense of ease, as if the music had cocooned me safely all night. I was left thinking ...
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 ...
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...
Reviews
... 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...
Media
... eyes surveying our discipline. JS Media - Curiosity Music is a form of media that doesn’t get a lot of ... to recall information when it’s placed in the context of music, ‘An empty bliss…’ tackles amnesia and is built ... as one review says: ‘Kirby isn’t just...
Daring and unpredictable sci-fi
... score, supplemented by a carefully curated selection of music (medieval early music and Inuit throat-singing sit cheek-by-jowl to Patrick ...
Actively investigating rest
... the Max Planck institute who was interested in researching music, emotion and exercise. From his extensive work he patented fitness machines that produce music as someone works out: this in turn has been used to ...
Maternal power and its demise
... The production itself does not always follow the music’s nuance. In Act 1, as Agrippina conveys her plans to ... and pragmatism. In the meantime, we still have Handel’s music giving voice to a mother’s mixed bag of angels and ...