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? Suggested new areas for clinical / musical research coming out of our experience in the NNU: ESMBH site (for parents) And a question: How can a musical […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]