Musical Consonance and Dissonance: The Good, Bad and Beautifully Ugly What makes a piece of music challenging, bland, intriguing, beautiful...
The Geopolitical Risks of Climate Change Climate Change is predicted to spark increasing threats to food...
Twentieth-Century Divas: Shirley Bassey The Black Welsh singer started out recording cover versions of...
Climate Tipping Points in Oceans, Ice, Forests The impacts of climate change that probably worry people the...
The Colour Spectrum of Scales and Modes A musical scale – a hierarchical collection of pitches spread...
The Art and Science of Tuning This lecture presents the rich history of musicians’ engagement with...
How is Climate Change Affecting The Weather Now? Climate change is already affecting us all, regardless of where...
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Anatomy of a Christmas Classic This lecture investigates how and why the song ‘Have Yourself...
The Poetry of Prediction: Musical Time, Rhythm and Groove Music is a temporal art, unfolding like a ribbon and...