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Effective Practice – a snapshot of the ESMBH project 2 Oct 2013

This is a project to encourage mothers to bond with their babies through shared music in the Neonatal Unit at Gloucester Hospital, UK What has made this effective? Playing without a written score: focus of attention is on the audience, the environment and our relationships; focus on the dynamics of the room, response, baby movement; […]

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2 October, 20138 October, 2013 markharmer2 Comments

Music and the Heart (as opposed to the brain)

This article says everything about our own thinking although it’s based on heart research. I’d add two things: not for nothing did we call our programme “Early Start – Music by Heart” and when it comes to producing clinical proof of the effectiveness of music on babies, I’m not sure that’s going to be that […]

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16 September, 201316 September, 2013 markharmerNo Comments

Self-promotion – turn-off or essential?

After struggling with the shameless ways some people promote their work online, I have come to accept that there is a legitimate place for promoting myself. I speak as someone with a very British reluctance to do anything in public that I didn’t deem perfect, and over the years (my Carolan’s Dream video in 2006 […]

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21 May, 20134 June, 2013 markharmer1 Comment

Seeing from multiple angles

Recently I visited Derby Children’s Hospital for some practical music-making as part of the Opus Music in Healthcare course. Within the Children’s areas there is plenty of visually very witty design to make the environment as fun and stress-free as a hospital can be. For example, the big lifts are decorated floor to ceiling. Go […]

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17 May, 201317 May, 2013 markharmerNo Comments

Cheltenham Festival of Performing Arts

Fantastically pleased to have won a cup! This was in the Adult class for people who make their living from / largely from music, and I spent quite a while considering various options for pieces, because my music is often either my own arrangement, or pieces I’ve written, or pieces by others that I’ve learned […]

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9 May, 201317 May, 2013 markharmerNo Comments

Folk art vs Formal art

This extract was extremely influential in my thinking about how folk music differs from formal music I only today found this piece of paper again, and googled a phrase from it, thus was able to find that it is part of a paper by Teshome H. Gabriel. Actually, he was looking at Third World Cinema, […]

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4 May, 201317 May, 2013 markharmerNo Comments

Music in Healthcare

I’m delighted to have been accepted on the Opus Music in Healthcare 5-day course. The first two days have already been great – looking at different ways to vary the music we play, and getting us as a group sensitive to each other and to the change of pace required in a hospital setting – […]

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14 April, 201317 May, 2013 markharmerNo Comments

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