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marta badia-marin
clinical psychologist with a background on creative therapeutic approaches to mental health. also aspiring musician
Location London
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thanks for such good advice - to remember about audio is so important and easily forgotten! I need to check mine for sure.
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another great video!
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that was a great presentation, thank you
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I liked to hear that his approach is to be 110% himself, quite a liberating take on it.
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I agree, that was such fun to watch and to listen to, great energy!
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@AlexanderRefsumJensenius hi there.. so any news about your findings on this paper? it would be interesting to hear more. thank
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It is now over two weeks I finished this course... and still enjoying all the learning... I wish we were still learning more together, it was a great course.
Today I want to share a beautiful video called FOLI - translation of 'there is no movement without rhythm" - A short video on MUSIC MOVES :...
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here is a link to a beautiful 10 video on FOLI - "there is no movement without rhythm" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPLIuBy9CY&list=LLTe7jnyXHj6D--QqgTgw2Rw&index=55&t=0s -
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Thank you all so much for putting this course together, a great introduction to a very exciting field. I have learned so much unexpected stuff, really great.
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@AlenaClim ...I am seriously considering a career here : )
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I have never made a version of something.. time to think about it and give it a go. Although on second thoughts, I probably have overlooked me doing it...
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I play african percussion with a couple of groups and do it weekly, also sing sometimes to the rhythms - some dancing too : )
Also I play bass guitar with my partner, and we both have a Studio One reggae thing going and do some performances.
And I still play classical piano which I learned as a child.
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I feel very fortunate to know many musicians. Partly because I have met an awful lots of them throughout the years by attending african percussion classes - as it is a great skill to practice, which is likely to improve your musical skills generally.
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I have lacked confidence playing with other people, as much as I enjoy it - and gradually over the years I am overcoming my anxieties, so I look forward to more music making with others.
I am a good manager and organiser so in the past, when I play with bands, I have made up my lack of confidence in the playing with my other strengths.
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I've got my reflective diary... and look forward to next week.
I have to share this below - I'm sorry I'm not trying to sell anything, but I find it quite coincidental as I have just prepared a training course with a colleague of mine on REFLECTIVE PRACTICE.. jajaja.. So I am supposedly be quite good at it.. but I so look forward to learning more about it,...
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Thank you for an interesting week, I enjoyed the play list, well, some more than others, but definitely a great list.
I'd like to offer a favourite of mine, from Amadou and Mariam (with Manu Chao) in "Politic Amagni" or "La Politique, C'est Pas Bon" . A contemporary African take on protest song
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@CarolineWalker-Gleaves I so like your comments - they feel right and enough
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It is very interesting to think about the parts of your body, the coarticulation of movement with different sounds.. and songs.
I found Radiohead's song almost annoyingly difficult to dance to, even slow.
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marta badia-marin replied to Luis Felix
I felt a similar hit with Fela.
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Exploring the concepts groove and gesture was very exciting this week. I look forward to having a look at some of your references, and will be checking for more new 'groovy' music from fellow students.
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And it is such pleasurable research ... : )
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"...because our research is not meant to be useful in the first place. But sometimes seemingly “useless” developments can have an impact elsewhere"
I am so glad to hear this - because it is certainly true, history has proofed it consistently. I may not be particularly interested in this 'technical' stuff : ) but the ideas explored and some of your...
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Coarticulation is indeed a good concept to get hold of, that was a clear video, thanks.
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Disembodied versus embodied music cognition I found a helpful concept that explains differences in experiences in music. Also the idea of gesture bypassing the gap between mind and body - from a psychologist perspective resonates with the ideas that non-verbal communication often carries more truth than verbal production.
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marta badia-marin replied to John C
thanks for this, I did enjoy the chicken in the corn, sooo groovy and just one string
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And here are some other groovy things:
This is groovy to me because it moves me to dance and to sing along, and to feel the lyrics too: Amadou & Mariam, Polic Amagni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khZzuA3pP0oAnd here is Fode Seudu Bangoura and his band playing rythm Djaa - for a good dance workout... analyse...
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Here is my list:
1.Fela Kuti - Jungle Fire
2.James Brown - Get on up
3.Buena Vista Social Club - El Cuarto de la Tula
4.Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick
5.The Meters - Just Kissed my Baby (I didn't know this tune, love it!)I was very sorry to leave Esperanza Spalding behind this list, but it's very jazzy nature makes it too changing for it to feel...
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I think I'm gonna try to get a job researching what 'groove' is... you guys there in Oslo are very clever.
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very closed to my list
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marta badia-marin replied to Jo B
I agree with you about Rebirth of Slick, a strong cool groove to it. I find the hi hat cymbals very laid back yet driving.
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Yes, your English is good - I enjoyed your writing very much
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that's inspiring
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marta badia-marin replied to Ana González
I could not have named a better bunch that this one.
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Oh, yes! the environment where I play has a great influence in my playing and my attitude towards it - how easy or difficult, enjoyable or painful: i.e. playing a gig to an small uninterested audience or an audience where everyone starts dancing and cheering within a few bars of your start.
Another big yes - I tend to practice more and with more...
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I'd like to be more confident in my own playing when in a group, especially when improvising. I do some work facilitating therapeutic music interventions and I'm sure I will learn some interesting things here, so I am quite looking forward to know what I don't know.
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Hello, I enjoy music making / playing, particularly with other people, so I thought this course will provide us with some good ideas and further skills and understanding about this.
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it was a great analysis, amazing. and a great tune too.
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Yes, as I get up and start dancing I do notice my arms moving upwards with the top hat straight away, so I dance for a little, when I tried to do the opposite I had almost to stop and start... but quickly got comfortable and more abled to connect with melodic and dynamic elements of the piece with my dancing, more fluidic and fun I'd say; many of them seem to...
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I was just reading about the Vagus Nerve and Sound Therapy. The link below discusses the important role that Sound has us, much before birth and its role in 'shapping' in some ways our lives everyday.
Do any of you know much about this subject? I really don't so not sure.
https://thesoundhealer.org/sound-therapy-and-the-vagus-nerve
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marta badia-marin replied to Anne Rogers
Yes, I also find it a little hard to hear, the speech is clear but the volume was too low.
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This week was very interesting again, with lots of interesting concepts to reflect upon. After all I like percussion and so I find pulse and entrainment fascinating. I particularly enjoyed listening to the piece from Franz Ferdinand and its analysis.
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marta badia-marin replied to Tomko Settgast
Wow, I could not put it better myself, thanks.
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1) The rhythm guitar seems to lead this change, but all the instruments do it too.
Zooming out of main image, marking pulse with images of foot tapping, drum stick and machinery, change from image to image becoming slower too, showing different moves on the musicians themselves.
2) My nodding was affected by the change with the hi hat, it made me move more... -
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I did not know this norwegian music/ dance - so different. It was interesting to notice that bodily upward movement marking the pulse.
There seemed to be quite a lot of humour in it too : )Cultural differences in music / pulse are certainly noticeable. I look forward to looking into your reading list for more on this. I find it fascinating.
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A friend of mine enjoys playing Chopin, she does it beautifully, with lots of rubattos, etc.. such feeling and drive at the same time - I gave her a Fantasie in Dminor by Mozart and she said it was too difficult for her as Mozart needs lots of time accuracy and exactness.. funny enough I enjoy playing Mozart and find it much easier than her pieces by Chopin....
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marta badia-marin replied to Liz Lawrence
At my drumming lessons, Pulse is obviously the star of the show, it is all about the pulse. There seems to be marked differences between certain cultures / ethnic / people ? backgrounds on how the pulse is attacked and felt. Is the pulse containing a binary or trinary feeling?
Sometimes, as we learn some new rhythm, finding the pulse can be a challenge.... -
marta badia-marin replied to Liz Lawrence
I like your metaphor, the stronger the pulse the more powerful the ripples.
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I've really enjoyed this video. Particularly the parallels drawn between our nervous system and the pulse in music.
Also to see baby's dance to music... !Out of the Parkinson's Foundation (UK) website: "...music therapy helps people with Parkinson's Disease maintain function, express creativity and experience a better quality of life"... " " Why is...
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@PaulWinter I am in your age bracket and like yourself I am enjoying having overcome that threshold, but I was under the impression that younger generations enjoy a much freer and expressive stance - self-expression and individuality are much more encouraged.
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thanks again for an interesting week
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When I ask myself why sounds/music make me move, I cannot but refer to the physical vibrations that hit our ears and bodies, entirely, like the ripples that form in the water when there's vibrations... and we are made of a high % of water.
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I am surprised by the older one being less inhibited as well...
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Just ears, I sensed that sounds had been put together from other sources so I enjoyed the sounds and was making up some visuals, and was intrigued to see..
Both senses, I enjoyed seeing the piece in its entirety, how the artist had put together the images and how he had protrayed sound distorsions and mixing visually.
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I actually found the last viewing, without the sound, the one that delivered the message more powerfully for me - the music element had somehow stopped me from becoming impacted emotionally from the destruction portrayed - those images without the sound I found quite distressing.
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McGurk effect is very interesting, fascinating in fact...
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I have also enjoyed this week again. Particularly learning about the concept Affordance, and a bit of theory of sound.
I am generally finding the emphasis on motion /movement and its relation to music quite revelatory about music itself, and it is helping me a great deal to self-reflect on my own playing. -
similarly here, I'd pictured a church tower and surrounding landscape
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1. metal material not that small with impulsive actions. I also hear a background sustain sound that could be fast-moving or mechanical things far in the distance.
2. makes me think of stone material, quite rounded and bolded in shape but rough texture, producing iterative actions by being stroked.
3. ... I didn't hear till the end.. hate it! back at... -
@DirkAlbrodt I did not know that word but it has named a kind of relational mode with the world that I feel 'moved' to reflect upon it.
Possibilities, potential, expectations are perhaps similar ones more at hand to use instead when talking to our friends and families... : )
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could not agree more... tears would not be tears without it
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The very upbeat and strong rythmic structure of the piece affords rapid and decisive movements that add an element of 'risk' to the video, a sense of acceleration and sharp silences affords a very uneasy experience to the poor man seating down.
- I would probably preferred being shaved alongside some relaxing adagio or even a waltz.
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Following from what we have been learning so far… the beginning of this video could include those musical airwaves hitting the whole person, not just the ear – as we know the perception of the sounds is carried out by our whole bodies, not just the ear, and so resulting cognitions would be a result of the sum of all those perceived stimuli.
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Embodied Music Cognition: so here is the term to describe the experience
of the body 'listening'....
Affordance is an interesting concept, I had not come across this word, but it feels like a very helpful and pragmatic way to understand some of our relationships and creative endeavours. -
these 'out of awareness' vibrations are possibly responsible for much of those movements we find so difficult to resist.
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As I have started focussing on music and movement, I am noticing how much I move to music... and sounds in general, in many ways, unconscious, mechanic, responsive, expressive. I have also noticed that perhaps because I am now paying attention to this, I am moving more, as I have become intrigued.
I have also paid attention to when sound vibrations...
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That's a great video you've put together, I like the flow of information and its wreadth, you cover lots of ground there. I think I"ll share it : )
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thank you ! very interesting so far, and a great bunch of interesting people too.
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@AlenaClim so you have experienced both sides of the coin... Nicole's flute teacher sounds great : )
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I like what Jim, the self-employed gardener says:
Self- awareness and personal development are important. Why does the British Education System not formally value and develop these?Many more educational systems in the world do not support these! more and more so unfortunately.
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Constrains are helpful
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@TomkoSettgast Somehow instinctively it feels the opposite, that motion is only possible through an external mover, whereas movement can be self-generated.
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Motion seems devoid of an intrinsic ability to move - whereas Movement sounds to me to imply an intrinsic ability to originate and create the move.
A person makes a movement, a bottle is moved to be in motion.
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Hi everyone, I look forward to spending some time reading about you all.. so interesting!
I am clinical psychologist and musician who loves art too. Trained in classical piano 'very classically', I left it for many years and then I started learning african percussion and music about 15 years ago, and the bass guitar mostly for studio one reggae. I think I... -
I hope so : ) thank you for sharing
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This sounds like a good start for interesting conversations ahead.
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I agree, it is painful to resist moving to it.
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@SusannaBese This connection between movement and sound is so physical and natural! It is remarkable who in our society we've managed to keep it so underwraps to the detriment of music itself.
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As some of you I found very difficult to sit still completely, as I notice head nodding, feet , hand... quite difficult, I only managed to 'just listened' if I close my eyes too. It was much easier to move, and my movements were quite different for Mozart than Hancock and Metheny's : ) this is such a good piece!
What I noticed is that when I just listened,...
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'...in line with the classical conventions, attentive listening was the only way of showing respect for the musicians."
When we move to music, we are not only being attentive, we are actively engaging with it. In my experience I am more attentive to music when I can dance to it, I notice much more. -
"What the blacks used their music for was to communicate with each other. For us, it was to get rich and famous" ..... Quite taken by this sentence... so true. Just as the Western world has done for centuries with African countries, steal their riches.
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And another thought... I have just been reminded that my piano teacher's first and ongoing lesson was to avoid moving while playing. No tapping feet, or moving of torso, as little emotion to be conveyed through my body.... my god it was so difficult to put some feeling in the music ! All in the head!!!
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On a few occasions that I've been to Kora recitals (west african style music) or together with an ensemble, there's always some 'westerner' that starts 'shussing" people to be quiet and not make a sound, as one would do in a classical music venue. Out of context it feels ridiculous and hilarious!!! The musicians - just like Mozart did a few centuries ago -...
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It was interesting to hear this bit of history and how our Western culture has worked so hard to 'Intellectualise' music - our emphasis on noticing the structure of music, its form rather than its emotion and feeling in a way.
Noticing how that last movement from the piano player (equally the movement from the director at the end) gives the queue to the... -
Nice to meet you Dirk, I look forward to hearing more from you. I have also been a therapist - psychologist - for many years and I'm wanting to 'move' towards using music and art in my work - I also have found that it is a very helpful vehicle for healing.
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@MontserratComellasBarri Hi, Montse, I'm from Barcelona too : ) although I live in London
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... yes, there's a difficult to express something that comes from this link between music and movement, is it the vibrations? we don't see them, but they are there
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So inspirational!
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I look forward to the next chapter...
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I enjoyed that talk - the idea that ideas are rather a network.
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I was trained in classical piano playing, trained to appreciate music from that hierarchical standpoint. However, for over 15 years I have been learning from West African musicians a different approach, and I'd say even function, on music.
'Westerners' think of silence during a music performance as the right approach - not for an african musician! they... -
Nice to meet you all and look forward to sharing this course with you guys. I am a psychologist and musician in my spare time. I play piano, bass guitar and african percussion. Movement is intrinsically linked with the music in african drumming/ music, linked to everyday live and celebrations, work, activities.
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Nice to meet you all, I look forward to hearing more about your work and research, it sounds quite intriguing.
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The Act of Creation - By Koestler, a wonderful book exploring such a world
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I've learned that initial ideas, passion and decision to want to try to make something out of what you enjoy and feel is right for you as well as others, is a good beginning.
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creative / focused / doer
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Entreprenurial I am, as I like doing things, new projects, collaborations, bringing things together, looking at something once its finished and smile. I believe one needs curiosity and enjoy making / doing, challenging oneself, never satisfied : ) and wanting to develop more.
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Hello.... although I fear I might be the only one here - last comment is from 2016. I look forward to makes things happen.
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Thanks! I do need the values shown, I have set myself to study this course because I am trying to develop better reporting of outcomes at work, as well as do something with all the data we have collected over the last few years. This course is adding real value (pun intended) towards these developments, fantastic learning.
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Im not sure where to click to Get Values... as suggested : "Again, the endpoints of the lines are available (if you really need them) by clicking Get values"... Please help!
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really excited with the possibilities of exploring and learning from data so simply!
