It takes intention to listen to instrumental music. Without rhymes and narratives to direct the imagination, the mind is left to wander among sounds and textures. Singer-songwriter Dave Desmelik ...

Sam Carr, reader in education and psychology at the University of Bath, has written three Insights articles exploring people’s struggles with loneliness and ‘tiredness of life’. One major benefit of ...

In the previous instalment of this series, we listened to instrumental compositions set to the nine-matra Matta taal to understand the way in which the tabla is introduced when such compositions or ...