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Music

(Badly) Analysing The Evolution of Pop Music With SCIENCE

It's exciting to be able to study the evolution of popular music scientifically. But now we want to go further, and find out not just how the music has changed, but why....

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Tinnitus and the Brain 3D Mapped

Activity directly linked to tinnitus was very extensive, and spanned a large proportion of the brain...

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The Radiophonic Workshop. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2015

Although they're still going strong these are in a way end-of-an-era shows carrying a huge and fascinating weight of history....

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System of a Down Rage Against Armenian Genocide

So all-encompassing was this attempt to exterminate a nation that the term “genocide” was invented...

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Test Dept – DS30 : April 23, Ritzy Picturehouse

This screening of DS30 is accompanied by a selection of archive material of the group on film and video which will be followed by a Q & A with founding members ...

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Music, motor function, learning and memory

Playing music enhanced the activity of genes involved in dopaminergic neurotransmission, motor function, learning and memory....

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At it like rabbits? Kids, Vids and Sex

As the portrayal of women as objects of lust reflects patriarchal values, media images that support this type of male dominance may provoke resistance in female viewers....

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‘Scott Walker: 30 Century’ Director Stephen Kijak talks Backstreet Boys

'Let's make a film about something that at one point in your life you actively disliked, and try to find a way in'...

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Loitered Lens : Luke Haines

Photos of Luke Haines at Islington Assembly Halls, January 2015...

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Every myth is a memory, formed through complex layers of tellings through time.

OE: Orpheus and Euridice: For the next half an hour music and poetry weaved in and out of each other in a richly discursive mesh of words and sounds, sometimes obscuring and at other times refining...

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The Blackheart Burlesque where suicidal onesies bump, jump and grind to Die Antwoord.

Suicide Girls : Blackheart Burlesque Live While the majority of the men in the audience quietly beamed, the girls in the audience hooted and hollered....

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Music : Did We Even Like it Anyway?

Why is the music industry failing? Perhaps it’s just that most folk never really liked it much anyway....

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Pete Seeger and the Cop Problem

The true purpose of a union was and remains: to bind the oppressed and exploited in solidarity - not act as agents of their oppression....

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Rufus Reid in Grammy Running

Inspired by the sculptures of Elizabeth Catlett, the suite of big-band jazz interpretations is neither elitist nor predictable...

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The Last Honky Tonk in Nashville

You’ll get a solid handshake, by men who believe a firm handshake can tell a lot...

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Terry Riley and Africa Express at Tate Modern [Film]

Tate Modern and Africa Express present Terry Riley’s In C Mali is released online on 27 November at The Space...

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Are You ‘Beat Deaf’?

Beat-deafness, though very rare, is a problem not simply of how people feel a pulse or move their bodies, but instead, how people synchronize with sounds they hear....

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Julian Bahula [African National Congress] : Interview

When Julian Bahula tells you music contains the power of revolution, that it is “a weapon for the struggle,” you believe him....

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Dieter Meier [Yello] Interview

'Conceptual art is pure rationalism. If there is an opposite to that, it’s music.' ...

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Domestic Violins : Luthiers Kept Design in the Family

Four families likely influenced violin shape over four centuries...

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Francis Dunnery [Interview]

I think it is a dreadful mistake to base your decisions on what an audience might like. Audiences are as fickle as a donkey's tail....

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Choose Beats or Buzz? Sleepy Driving Strategies

Both caffeine and music keep drivers feeling more awake, caffeine also helps them maintain good driving performance....

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Diamanda Galás [Interview]

'The work may recall the state of isolation, which is common to all of my performance works'. ...

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RIP : George Hamilton IV

Country music legend George Hamilton IV has died aged 77 of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee...

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Amy Winehouse : Art Exhibition

When I Walk In Your Shoes is a contemporary art exhibition in the aid of the Amy Winehouse Foundation....

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Henley Business School Music Industry Grants

A UK Grant available to support SME owners to study an MBA at Henley Business School...

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Wolves in the Throne Room : Celestite

One gets the sense that Wolves in the Throne Room are soundtracking the Joseph Campbell monomyth of their own lives, but rather than a Disneyesque prog version, they’re going deeper. ...

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Stylus Stories

It is modern folklore, providing an insight into the human condition and a soundtrack to match. Stylus stories listening club....

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Finding Nick Tosches

I asked him how he had gotten his first book published. “It’s a dead industry”, he said....

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Midsummer Music Festival 2014

Midsummer Music Festival gathers some of the world's finest classical musicians into an intimate and charming performance space....

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