RELAXATION
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'IN THE OPEN'
SOUND PIECES
Image designed by Maeve Redmond
This Common Guild (Glasgow) project comprises six new works by Glasgow-based artists Luke Fowler, Lauren Gault, Ashanti Harris, Sulaïman Majali, Duncan Marquiss, and Margaret Salmon, each working from different points of reference and experience to explore geographies, histories and globally linked emotions, with Glasgow’s parks, green spaces, and other walking routes of the city in mind.
CLICK HERE for the project website.
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BBC MUSIC MEMORIES
Browse sounds of the decades from the 1940s. "This website is designed to use music to help people reconnect with their most powerful memories. Evidence shows that music can help people - including those living with dementia - to feel and live better. Create a playlist and take part in our survey to help us discover the nation’s favourite music memories."
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HOAR FROST
Written and performed by Daisy Richardson and Simon Shaw.
Image by Daisy Richardson
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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
David Foster Wallace‘s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College, is a timeless trove of wisdom. The speech was made into a thin book titled This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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KONCH POETRY PODCAST
Sonnet, by Dante Alighieri, translated by Kenneth Koch, read by Carol Rhodes.
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MORNING BIRD MEDLEY
Audio and photograph courtesy of Rebecca Wilcox
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EMAHOY TSEGUÉ-MARYAM GUÈBROU
Born in 1923, in Ethiopia, Emahoy grew up in one of the country’s most privileged families. She and her sister were the first girls to be sent abroad for their education – she remembers travelling by train, aged six, from the highlands of Addis to the port of Djibouti then onwards by boat to Marseille, en route to a Swiss boarding school. That’s where she first encountered western classical music. She took piano and violin lessons and turned out to be a special talent.
(The Guardian)
Courtesy of Fikre Selam Entertainment
CLICK HERE for an article about Emahoy's fascinating life. And HERE for a BBC Radio 4 programme about her.
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ALICE COLTRANE
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
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OSCAR PETERSON
HYMN TO FREEDOM
Hymn to Freedom
Live in Denmark, 1964. Oscar Peterson on Piano Ray Brown on Bass Ed Thigpen on Drums