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Music, Image and Nostalgia

John Parish | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: The Wire, Film Music, Winter's Bone, UK Music, Once Upon a Time in the West, Klute, Filmic Fest, UK Film, Film Scores, Scoring, Tom Waits, Noise, Sound, UK Entertainment News
John Parish

What I love about good film music is the use of silence and space. The medium allows for that. When you're writing to accompany an image you can stretch a piece in ways that wouldn't work in stand alone music; maybe leaving gaps of twenty or thirty seconds between phrases, using background sounds, or bits of dialogue as connectors.

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The Sense of Sound, in French and Wardwesan

Richard O'Brien | Posted 27.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Poetry Reading, Invented Language, Frederic Werst, Poet, Poetry, Sound, National Poetry Competition, Home News
Richard O'Brien

So what can we get from a Wardwesân reading? It either sounds good, or it doesn't; without the expert guidance of Frédéric Werst, the sense of the sounds is a closed book. It's an anti-intentionalist's nightmare. It's also, perhaps, in one reading - and whether you find this liberating or disturbing will depend on a number of criteria - a logical extension of what we do as writers when we put together sounds into words, and those words into poems.

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Tinnitus - We've Raised Our Game, Can GPs Do the Same?"

Eddy Temple-Morris | Posted 08.04.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Tinnitus, Health Care Reform, Royal-College-of-General-Practitioners, Tinnitus Awareness Week 2012, UK Lifestyle, Doctors, UK Health News, UK Health, UK Impact, British Tinnitus Association, Eddy Temple-Morris, Sound, UK Lifestyle News
Eddy Temple-Morris

This week is Tinnitus Awareness Week 2012 and, as ambassador for the British Tinnitus Association, I am bound to tell you that this year our focus is on GPs... there are GPs out there who really need to raise their games when it comes to this condition.

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