It Felt Like Drowning
Elan Higueras shares the story behind his winning composition competition entry.
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Heart Failure
The header image shows a viola, also called heartsease. Music therapist and writer Kate Binnie writes: I am in the hospital.…
It Felt Like Drowning
The header image shows ‘In the same breath’, a 2008 artwork by artist and glass-blower Kate Williams (borosilicate glass /…
Singing Away Shyness
Singing teacher Deborah Hudson writes: There I was, lying on a couch with a whole lot of acupuncture pins in…
Under the Surface
Composer and academic Toby Young writes: ‘Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living and art…
‘Out of his nostrils goeth smoke’: whales, whaling and breathing fire
In the second of a series of posts on cetaceans (see also ‘The cetaceans may give rise to some perplexity‘),…
The First and Last Breath: reflections from palliative and neonatal care
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, writes: In his brilliant book Being Mortal (2015) Atul Gawande calls for all…
Metaphysics and heavy breathing (or Tippett’s Fourth Symphony)
How can art (in this case, music) illuminate human experience? Here project collaborator Toby Young contemplates Tippett’s Symphony No. 4 (1977), a ‘birth…
Metaphysics and Heavy Breathing (or Tippett’s Fourth Symphony)
Composer Toby Young writes: Tippett’s Fourth Symphony is a vast and complex tone poem, concerned with life, death and the…
Breath of Life on Radio Scotland
First broadcast on Good Friday 2016, the Breath of Life radio programme featured our principle investigator Jane Macnaughton in conversation with Anna…
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