The Response-able Performer
Shelagh Sutherland looks at the complex issue of training musicians' ears.
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The black holes of musical experience
Silence is never quiet. As John Cage discovered in the 1950s, and scientists have known for centuries, there is no such thing as pure silence, a complete lack of sound.
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"The times they are a changing"
Vivienne Michael, Chief Executive of Deafness Research UK looks at the current state of research into deafness.
The Scientist and The Musician
In this special podcast, Dame Evelyn Glennie, international percussionist and Prof. David McAlpine, Director of UCL Ear Institute, talk to Tom Hutchinson about what listening means to them.
Tinnitus: a whistling and distorted nightmare
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Lost in Transmission
Read through articles and interviews about how deafness, hearing impairment and silence influence how we listen.
I like what I know!
Read through articles and interviews about how memory, familiarity, change and preconceptions influence the way we listen.
An outburst of the soul
Read through articles and interviews about the relationship between listening, music and emotion.
Concert Halls in our pockets
Read through articles and interviews about how recording technology influences the way we listen.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Read through articles and interviews about the concert experience.
Notes into Letters
Read through articles and interviews about how we describe listening in language.
I came to see your concert...
Read through articles and interviews about how vision impacts on our listening.
Surrounded by sound
Read through articles and interviews about how different environments impact on our listening.
A finely tuned organ
Read through articles about how the ear works, what sound is, and listen to compositions inspired by the workings of the ear.
Lend us your ears
Read articles about listening and try the music 'spot the difference' test!
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