Koln 75

The film Koln 75 was very enjoyable ...

'Brandes quit the music business a few years ago, after a very successful career. Why? "Digital formats were taking over the record industry, which was giving away entire repertoires to companies like Apple with a completely idiotic accounting system in the background, which would never, ever allow for the artists to get properly remunerated for their rights. The whole industry thought that digital would be the biggest portion of whipped cream on top of the cake that they would continue to be eating until the end of all time.'"

Instead, inspired by a 1993 study that found that listening to classical music-specifically Mozart-enhances spatial-temporal reasoning, and by Don Campbell's bestselling 1997 book The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit. Brandes studied psychology at university and then, funded by the Austrian Ministry of Culture, established the Research Program for Music-Medicine at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg. "Being a music producer, I dreamt about doing scientific research on the effect of music and trying to figure out what effects music has on us - cognitive, emotional, whatever," she says. "Since then I have developed a method to use music to help people with chronic depression."

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Jazz

Stuart Jeffries, How a teenager helped to make jazz history, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 30/31 May 2026. p.15.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CrFdGMj4cM

c/o RollingStone UK - "U2 surprise-drop politically charged ‘Days of Ash’ EP with six new songs"

The collection delves into ICE, Israel, the West Bank, Ukraine, Iran — and features a guest vocal by Ed Sheeran

U2 (RollingStone UK - Picture: Anton Corbijn) 

By Andy Greene

'U2 have emerged from a long hiatus with a surprise six-song EP, Days of Ash, available now, in which they address political flashpoints around the world, including ICE raids in the US, the Iranian uprisings, the war in Ukraine, and Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

The six songs — ‘American Obituary’, ‘The Tears of Things’, ‘Song of the Future’, ‘Wildpeace’, ‘One Life at a Time’ and ‘Yours Eternally’ (featuring Ed Sheeran and Taras Topolia) — are all on streaming platforms. They’ve also created lyric videos for each one.' 

Continued ...

Previously: conflict : war : hope : peace

Raven Chacon - graphical musical scores

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'The artist and composer Raven Chacon, 46, who grew up in Albuquerque and now divides his time between the city and upstate New York, used to explore these lava fields as a youngster, ingesting psychoactive plants such as jimson weed and searching for petroglyphs on the sides of rocks. Some - spirals, zigzags and dotted lines, for example - have found their way into the graphic musical scores for which he is now known. When I visited him in Albuquerque, he drove me out to see them.'

Raven Chacon, American Ledger No. 1 (Army Blanket), 2020. Graphic score

My source: Griffin, J. Sound of a different music. Life&Arts. FT Weekend. 24/25 February 2024. p.17.

Image: ECHOES OF A PLACE - Raven Chacon on transforming land, memory and political resistance into sound: https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/echoes-of-a-place-raven-chacon/

See also: RAVEN CHACON - https://spiderwebsinthesky.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_Chacon

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All Day All Night - c/o Christine Sun Kim

Source: https://whitney.org/media/61514

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SOCIETY parents signing friends signing? ghosting SOCIO-	ghosting accessibility inclusion -POLITICAL

Ack. Christine Sun Kim - https://christinesunkim.com/

Liverpoool Biennial 2025 - Christine Sun Kim (Look forward to this - may post again.)

My source: Budick, A. The sound of Deaf rage, Life&Arts, FT Weekend. 1-2 March 2025, p.16.

Trauma - MUSIC PRESCRIPTION - James Rhodes

 'By now we're all familiar with the idea of music as therapy. For James Rhodes, however, music can be equivalent - at times even preferable - to  medication in the management of mental health. "Obviously, I am in favour of medication when it is necessary to save lives," says the 49-year-old British-Spanish classical pianist, when I meet him at Peregrine's, an upmarket piano shop in Clerkenwell, central London. "I was on medication and it genuinely saved my life. What I'm not in favour of is medication as a kind of easy option instead of doing other things that will also have the same effect. And there's no question that music [can]." 

 Manía, Rhodes's new album, is driven by that philosophy. Traversing swaths of classical territory, from JS Bach to 20th-century Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, it is an attempt to profile the therapeutic properties of music from all angles, "I've always loved this idea of prescribing pieces," says Rhodes. As someone who has struggled with his own mental health, he says he has selected works that "accompany me and my insomnia, my anxiety, my desperation and my fears in the middle of the night"'. p.13.

My source:
Nepilová, H. Music on prescription, Arts, Life&Arts, FTWeekend. 8-9 March 2025. p.13.

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Young Carers Choir - 'Love is Enough'

'Young carers face many challenges throughout the year and Christmas can be an especially tough time.

When their friends are having fun, young carers’ responsibilities don’t stop. That’s why we’re delighted Sir Ed Davey and the Bath Philharmonia’s Young Carers Choir have come together to record for a wonderful Christmas song – Love is Enough. 

The song, in support of young carers through Carers Trust and the Bath Philharmonia, has been written by young carers and shines a light on their lives.' 

continued ... 

'Nurse Emmanuel' by The Unthanks

'Nurse Emmanuel by The Unthanks is taken from the album The Unthanks - In Winter, out now. Listen to the whole album here: https://linktr.ee/theunthanksinwinter The song is written by Vanessa Lampert and Adrian McNally, set to the tune of O Holy Night, and is in tribute to the NHS, the work that medical professionals did over Covid, and the message that the NHS is in our hands, to protect and appreciate.'

My source: 'X' @TheUnthanks

Prev. 'music'

'Little Shrew' (Snowflake)

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Chappell, P. Heathcliff, it's me again: more new music from Kate Bush on the horizon, The Times, October 26th 2024, pp.18-19.

AI in the Creative Industries: An Interdisciplinary Conference [One week left!]

[reposting as there's just over one week left to submit abstracts for our summer conference on AI]

AI in the Creative Industries: An Interdisciplinary Conference [EXTENDED DEADLINE]

7th June 2024 - Hosted by Futureworks, Manchester UK

Artificial Intelligence has advanced extremely rapidly over the past months. Responses have been polarized; with some predicting the end of the world and others celebrating a technology with the potential to create a new industrial revolution. The biggest difference between these new algorithmic technologies and those that preceded them are the potential for new AI models to generate creative content. Visual art, photography, literature and digital scripting have been produced by AI, to varying levels of success. To the existing debates around AI (questions of ethics, consciousness, or cyborg theory, for example) have arisen new problems regarding the role of art and the artist in the age, not of mechanical reproduction, but mechanical production. Can a robot be creative?

This conference aims to bring together researchers from across media studies, music and sound, the visual arts, video games, film and TV, animation, sociology, history, literature, politics, philosophy and aesthetic theory, to interrogate the growing role of AI in the creative industries, its potentials (both negative and positive), and how we are to react to the rise of AI as both tool and creator.

Abstracts for 20-minute papers are welcomed on subjects including, but not limited to:

• AI creativity: is it truly creative?
• AI and transhumanism
• AI and the question of consciousness
• Copyright law and artificial intelligence
• Utilization of AI as a creative tool
• The depiction of AI in creative media
• The ethics of AI usage and its potential to help or harm
• The aesthetics of artificial intelligence

Please submit 250 word abstracts with accompanying 50-word bio and 5 keywords to organizer joe.darlington AT futureworks.ac.uk by 29th February 2024. 

Submissions are encouraged from academics, postgraduate researchers and non-academic speakers alike. Creative practitioners are also welcome, as are those working in the production or utilization of AI.

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Let Us Speak With One Voice . . .

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"A singer's voice may be their prize asset,	but its sonic frequency
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.* Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)	isn't theirs to copyright."

Hunter-Tilney, L. (2023) Can AI make me a star? Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 27-28 May, pp.1-2. 
https://www.ft.com/content/408a8920-cf0c-4f23-925f-8496da15153f 

https://www.ft.com/ludovic-hunter-tilney

Illustration: Raj Dhunna

*How times have changed, and for many 'voice' related quotes.

Listen also: BBC Radio 3 - Artificial intelligence and music

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001md3n

International Women's Day: Nobel - Music

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	Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. Who are the women who inspire you the most?#IWD2023 pic.twitter.com/roRhfO7qCd — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) March 8, 2023
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World

When you look at Hodges' model, how would you assign the achievements of these particular Nobel Prize winners to the domains of Hodges' model?

My source: 

McAfee, A. "They shall be heard", Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 25-26 February, 2023, p.9.  And Twitter.

International Women’s Day: Kalia Vandever - "Temper The Wound"

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	Wound

Kalia Vandever

BBC Radio 3: J to Z International Women’s Day Special

Art as 'social media' 1923

Music, Health and Character

"The varied picture presented by life is viewed by each individual through the transforming medium of his own private consciousness. Our judgements are biased, being coloured, inevitably, by our personal  interests, occupation and experience. To the physician has been entrusted the health of the body; his outlook upon the world is tinged by his desire to prevent disease by eliminating abnormal predisposing causes. So close and so intricate is the union of mind and body that modern medicine recognizes the necessity of right thinking and right conduct for the highest development of the body. Hence, from his unique corner of advantage, that of the sympathetic confidant of innumerable life tragedies, the physician views with dismay the ruin of individuals, and the disaster brought on families and entire communities by frequent contact with the morbid, even at times the depraved teaching which is embodied in many branches of art with lighthearted irresponsibility. More and more profoundly are the medical psychologists impressed by the creative and the destructive power of such intangible forces as ideas. More and more urgently, therefore, does modern medicine plead, in its capacity as guardian of the public health, for the improvement of mental and moral conditions. With wiser education people will demand that Art shall be pure, sincere and life-giving, and that artists shall value seriously their responsibility and their power to mould the character of the community. The true artist always aims high and discourages the association of art with all that is trivial, insincere and debasing." p.225-226.

Agnes Savill (Agnes Forbes Blackadder), Music, Health and Character, London: Bodley Head Limited. 1923.
(Book cover: AbeBooks)

In health, education, in work: We are all - Four Loom Weavers

"The author Michael Morpurgo (War Horse, Private Peaceful) explores the ways in which folk songs have reflected timeless human experiences, both in the past and today. 

Michael Morpurgo

With help from singers, songwriters and other passionate experts, Michael admires the indelible stories within classic songs that deal with migration, war, protest and love. Over the four themed episodes, Michael considers the locations and historical contexts that gave rise to much-loved traditional songs, and finds out how the same topics are inspiring new folk songs in the 2020s.

In the second episode, Michael considers a song of protest: Four Loom Weaver. 

With Professor Lawrence Goldman, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Nancy Kerr, Karine Polwart, Nicola Kearey, Ian Carter, Blair Dunlop and Ashley Hutchings." BBC Radio 4

Michael Morpurgo's Folk Journeys

"Many Lancashire folk, can give personal testimony of relative having worked in such a role.

My maternal grandmother was a four loom cotton weaver until the mill, where she worked, in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, was closed and relocated to India in the 1920s approx. Mill workers worked their way up to four looms which were rented from the mill. Four was the maximum so my nan told me, so a four loom weaver was an indication of the level of attainment in the industry. So I think the title is probably correct and not a corruption of a poor loom weaver.

Will Lever, Malpas, Cheshire" Wikipedia

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Travelling to the Spiritual ... Liminal ...

"I am on a lonely road and I am ...

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.. Looking for something, what can it be? ..."

Joni Mitchell

BLUE cover image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_(Joni_Mitchell_album)

@jonimitchell

Source: Blue CD track 1 "All I Want" – 3:34 in the car travelling from Hay-on-Wye back to the NW England.

Still looking - listening: 'Both Sides' ...

Endangered - so many things ...

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	Songs of Disappearance
Musics Lost and Found

Musics Lost and Found image:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Musics-Lost-Found-Collectors-Tradition/dp/178327607X

My source:

Lagan, B. Endangered birds on song in album chart, The Times, December 21, 2021, p.43.

Hewett, I. Your mission: to find the most endangered song in the world, Books, The Daily Telegraph, 30 October 2021, p.18.

PHI MAGAZINE (Φ) - Liminal Issue [i]

 Submissions are OFFICIALLY open for our Liminal Issue.

The word ‘Liminal’ encompasses the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the transitional stage of a process, boundary, or threshold. It comes from the Latin word līmen, relating to participants of rites of passage who no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete. During a rite's liminal stage, participants stand at the threshold. In many ways, this is where the world stands today.

We take all kinds of submissions: prose, photography, poetry, painting, opinion pieces, film or music—you make it, we want to publish it!

Submit to us before 14/02/2022 to be considered for our Liminal Issue.

Submit here: https://phimag.org/submit

For enquiries: submissions.phimag AT gmail.com

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WHAT IS PHI MAGAZINE (Φ)?

Φ Magazine is a quarterly publication aimed at showcasing the creative talents of Philosophy students across the globe outside the academic realm. Be it photography, painting, poetry, prose, or anything in between then it can find a place in the pages of Φ.

My source: 

Philos-L "The Liverpool List" https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/

@PhilosL @LiverpoolPhilos 

Thanks to Chiara at PHI Magazine for the cover image by Taudalpoi.

n.b. I will add a further post to relate the above call to threshold concepts and Hodges' model.

Raymonda ...

... Care Aesthetics :: Care Architecture :: 

Care Choreography :: Care Design :: Care Journeys ...

"An epic journey of love and courage.

Taking inspiration from the ground-breaking spirit of Florence Nightingale and the women who supported the war effort in Crimea, Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, creates a new version of the classic story ballet, Raymonda.

England, 1854. Raymonda runs away from her comfortable life to become a nurse in the Crimean War. There, she becomes engaged to a soldier, John, but soon develops feelings for his friend Abdur, a leader of the Ottoman army. As turmoil grows around and inside her, who will she give her heart to?

Starring a huge cast of dancers and a full orchestra, this lavish adaptation keeps the best of the 19^th-century original – its glorious and sensuous score by Alexander Glazunov and the classical choreography of ballet genius Marius Petipa – and updates it with a dramatic new story.

Introducing a heroine in command of her own destiny, and celebrating the courage of nurses and women who fought for emancipation, this beautiful production is guaranteed to thrill, move and inspire.

The original Raymonda is very rarely performed in the UK, where no dance company performs it in its entirety. This highly-anticipated version marks Tamara Rojo’s debut in directing and choreographing, building on her illustrious career as dancer and artistic director.

..."

https://www.ballet.org.uk/production/raymonda/

The Trailblazing Nurses of the Crimean War

My source: RCN Bulletin 394: Winter 2021, p.26.

 

"... Two beds and a coffee machine ..."

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"Wonder how I ever made it through And there are children to think of Baby's asleep in the back seat Wonder how they'll ever make it Through this living nightmare But the mind is an amazing thing Full of candy dreams and new toys ..."	"Another ditch in the road You keep moving Another stop sign You keep moving on And the years go by so fast ..."
	"Another bruise to try and hide Another alibi to write ...."

savage garden

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Hayes Darren Stanley / Jones Daniel

Two Beds and a Coffee Machine lyrics © Rough Cut Music Pty Ltd.

 

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BBC Radio 3 The Listening Service "What makes the organ so mighty?" To play: memory and use four limbs - unique organs, how to play ...

"The brain controls thoughts, memory and other organs. The heart pumps blood around the body. The lungs separate oxygen from the air and remove carbon dioxide from the blood. The stomach helps to digest food. The intestines absorb nutrients from food. The liver removes poisons from the blood. The kidneys filter blood and produce urine. The bladder stores urine. The skin protects and contains the other organs." BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znyycdm/articles/zbpdqhv

"Tom Service takes on the largest instrument created by human hands: the organ. With the help of organist Anna Lapwood, Tom asks: what makes the organ so mighty? Why has it fascinated musicians from Bach to Procol Harum? Along the way, Tom will delve into the Delphian roots of the organ and we’ll hear what its ancestor the Hydraulis sounded like, created in ancient Egypt. And we’ll drop in on Madison Square Garden where Gladys Gooding entertained huge audiences at sports events for over thirty years, starting in the 1930s. Finally, we’ll hear what makes the organ timeless and immortal in music by John Cage and Olivier Messiaen. All hail: the organ!"
BBC 3 The Listening Service