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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...
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...
John Booth Davies 1944-2017
... years, was a psychologist with a wide range of interests: music, addiction, human factors and safety. He was born near ... Big Band for many years. His first book T he Psychology of Music (1978) dealt largely with the cognitive psychology of music...
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...
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 ...
The fringes of the human mind
... one-man show as ‘an exploration of the modern mind with music, anecdotes and medical notes’. He was able to create ... guitar and keyboard; the journey felt palpable as the music represented the ‘manic’ phase of bipolar disorder ...
The rules of unruliness
... if you know, but one of the organising themes of the non-music content at this festival is ‘Revolution’. I think ... if you haven’t got anything better to do?! There’s music on, there’s comedy on, there’s cabaret on, and ... India , we’ve looked at football...
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 ...
A safe space for tough topics
... a background of her parents’ house, her parents’ music and her parents’ friends, she and Robbie have taken ...
Diving into something new
... 300 events encompassing film, theatre, literature and music. The experience of mental health difficulties is ...
Zander Wedderburn 1935-2017
... Presbyterian Church, and were both keen on folk music. Zander played the guitar and sang with a deep voice at ...
Waxing and waning on Goldfrapp's discography
... discovered was about oral sex. That track was the defining music of several films including My Summer of Love , a 2004 ...
A broad experience
... back home, they go for walks, sip some wine, and listen to music. ‘We like to enjoy the experience and just be in the ...
Heightening the senses
... allowed visitors to interact with moving sand, light and music to give the effect of seeing colours in response to ...
Reasons why you should proceed with caution
... ‘Hollywood’ about this series that is inescapable. The music is all too dramatic, the scenes of characters crying ...
Exploding with fiery intelligence
... had a bath-time ritual – he’d light candles, play music through a little speaker, add various oils to the ... positive to say about romantic love, or intoxication, or music, dancing and the arts in general – all of which ... or at its best the Ecstatic . . . It...
The truth we rarely hear: From mirror to prism
... We pushed a few high-top tables together, and with loud music blaring in the background, they began to reminisce. I ...
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
... by crashing waves? Did the layering on of powerful music from Carmen and La Traviata alongside Tom Waits, Bruce ...
Basquiat – ‘hauntingly relevant to today’s world’
... were more like electric magnified pages of his notebooks. Music also was an important influence, and it can be argued ...
Featured Job: Research and Product Development Director with 10x Psychometrics
... to sit back, play tennis and golf and listen to the soul music he loves. But he’s enthusiastic about the future of ...
Pop gifted
... rescues the sobbing child. Beach and sunset. The folksy music swells. The ending is compromise and she gets to join ...
The future of thinking differently
... remember a word. It helps with maths, too.’ Listening to music also helps her. In class, she finds it easier to focus on what the teacher is saying when she has classical music playing in an earbud in one ear. Her mother lobbied for ...
Stephen Morley 1950-2017
... family and proud of his children. He was passionate about music and birds – he apparently had a tough time choosing ...
A manifesto for psychological health and wellbeing
... through, new scholars who are looking at the evidence for music, creative writing, visual arts, theatre, dance, you ...
Minds run free
... he finds it therapeutic. If he’s not listening to rock music, he’ll use the time to pray or think. ...