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A self-defining period
... got me thinking about the ways that the brain processes music. When I have cried at songs in the past, I had always ... to investigate some studies related to the psychology of music, and here’s what I found. It has been proposed that neural structures of the...
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,...
Interesting insights
... combines psychology with Soviet history and the meaning of music was always going to catch my eye. My Russian ... Stalin’s regime, and many have conjectured that his music carried coded political messages. In this short book, ... now and again to explain the...
One hour of 120 bpm
... praise from the Evening Standard ( “Dizzying dance music trip… something to rave about”) that may seem ... so that new segments are brought into relief, the use of music in the virtual tour is pretty excellent too. Even if it ... of physical ecstasy”, the...
The personal at the heart of the music business
... problems is huge. Empirical evidence backs this up: the music industry really does make people sick . Joe Penhall’s new play, 'Mood Music', currently showing at the Old Vic in London, explores ... complex psychological issues that lie at the heart of...
Finding a melancholic balance
... revealed across four EPs. Russian Linesman writes all his music on acoustic guitar and piano, harking back to a past ... touring as an acoustic singer/songwriter playing folk music. This ethos has evolved into recording with vocals as ... and in turn finding...
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,...
‘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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
'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...
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...
Dark peak
... of an enigma, not only because of their genre-defying music, but also because they wear masks. These are grotesque, ... from Preston, but we have no names, no context for their music. Despite having achieved the front cover of the ... privacy and anonymity...
‘They’ve agreed to build something bigger than themselves’
... is on a mission to introduce new audiences to classical music, showing them that its relevance isn’t restricted to ... ‘Without that sense of coming together we can’t do music, so one of the things that’s really clear to me as a musician, is that music...
A curveball angle
... and interact. Let us take this third suggestion first. Music in three time ‘projects itself’ onto curves of ... and vision (as in the kite flying of Ray Bethell) while music in four or two time hearkens unto marching and jumping. ... is increasingly normative...
An unlikely pairing of music and fabric
... members on bespoke instruments, resulting in collective music making. When Covid hit, Hewitt moved the workshops ... platforms and adapting the workshop methodology, so that music could still be produced. Hewitt then turned the hybrid ... different media, and...
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...
Their song could be our song
... rent is coming from. Rent also saw the style of music change. Here was music that appeared to come from the charts, not from the ... as a protest song in Hong Kong (and has been removed from music streaming platforms in China), and an Arabic...
Universalise that human experience
... . The album bridges modern classical and electronic music, with swelling strings offset by disquieting scratches ... and Goula tells me: ‘Unconsciously I always relate my music to a psychological experience by trying to universalise ...