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...