Sad songs and a singing apprenticeship
The pleasure of listening to sad music fascinates researchers. Studies have been designed that measure our heart rate, our breath and our...
Everyday pleasures: Songs, invisible dancing, imagined passions and a bigger life without the boring
I’ve just been reading Paul Bloom’s 2010 popular science book, How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like, looking...
This Gift: sketching 'The Singer's Anatomy' part 1
What are songs for? What do they do? Songs have been with us since long before we started to write or record history. In more traditional...
An Education
That haunting combination of brutal concrete and subtle Australian bush: that was Griffith University but now it’s just Nathan Campus. In...