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What Is Music Without Silence?

Phil Evans | Posted 06.06.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Silence, Autism, Music Therapy, Nordoff Robbins, O2 Silver Clef Awards, UK Music, Radio, UK Impact, UK Entertainment News
Phil Evans

Silence, perhaps counter-intuitively, is one of the most powerful tools in a music therapist's armory. Because through the journey from silence into music and back again, comes meaning. And often our job as music therapists is to help clients find a balance between the two; for example with clients on the autistic spectrum.

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MEPs Sounded Out Over Anti-traffic Noise Plan

European Parliament Web Team | Posted 03.04.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Traffic, European Parliament, European Commission, Meps, Electric Car, Cars, Silence, Traffic Noise, Noise Restrictions, Noise, UK Politics News
European Parliament Web Team

Noise is one of the scourges of modern life and one of the main causes is traffic noise. Research by the European Environmental Agency shows that half of the people living in urban areas suffer from unbearable traffic noise.

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Why's Martin Scorsese Being Sued?

WENN | Posted 23.08.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Video, Martin Scorsese Sued, Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese, Silence, UK Film, Slideexpand, Hugo, UK Entertainment News

Director Martin Scorsese has been hit with a lawsuit over allegations he has stalled a film project for over 20 years. Bosses at Cecchi Gori Pictur...

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When the Olympics Fail to Honour Olympic Values

Noam Schimmel | Posted 28.07.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: Israel, Silence, Memorial, Britain, Equality, UK Sport News
Noam Schimmel

To its credit, the opening night of the Olympics honoured those who lost their lives in terrorist attacks in Britain in a moving video tribute to those killed in the bombings of the London Tube and buses in 2005.

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Murder and Mayhem in London - My Father, the Tourist Who Cannot Hear

Sorab Shroff | Posted 15.08.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: London, Tesco, St. Paul's Cathedral, Disability, Silence, London Underground, Deaf, Father's Day, Tourists, London Tourists, UK Lifestyle News
Sorab Shroff

My father has never left the tiny corner of Mumbai in which he lives. He was born deaf, at a time when being disabled meant you were condemned to a limited formal education. His trip, stressful and unforgettable, helped me see London - and my father - differently. With Father's Day coming up, it helped us look at my dad through clear, unsentimental eyes of grown up adults.

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The Killing. Drive. The Artist. An Appetite for Silence.

Lorenzo Belenguer | Posted 18.05.2012 | Home
Read More: Ryan Gosling, Mute, Silence, Drive, The Artist, The Killing, Home News
Lorenzo Belenguer

The Killing, Drive and The Artist might seem like a random choice of films or TV series, but they show a growing tendency: an appetite for silence with The Artist taken to the extreme.

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Nothing: A Centenary to Celebrate

Paul Kilbey | Posted 10.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Classical Music, Mozart, John Cage, Woodie Guthrie, Silence, The Value of Nothing, Anniversary, Nothing, Contemporary Music, Video, Home News
Paul Kilbey

Our poetry now is the realisation that we possess nothing. 2012 does not only mark the hundredth anniversary of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and the...

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