Video/ Dance & Theatre The extraordinary physical and mental demands of performing Sichuan opera 5 minutes
Essay/ Beauty & Aesthetics Against popular culture For Adorno, popular culture is not just bad art – it enslaves us to repetition and robs us of our aesthetic freedom Owen Hulatt
Essay/ Philosophy of Mind Getting in the groove Music reminds us that the mind is more than a calculator. We are resonant bodies as much as representing machines Jenny Judge
Video/ Design & Fashion From carving the wood to the final varnish, crafting a violin has a musicality all its own 6 minutes
Video/ Music How life under apartheid taught a jazz master to be nimble on the street and on stage 3 minutes
Essay/ Music Music is not for ears We never just hear music. Our experience of it is saturated in cultural expectations, personal memory and the need to move Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Video/ Cultures & Languages The reverence and revelry of a New Orleans jazz funeral procession 2 minutes
Video/ Physics The mathematics of music means piano strings can never be in perfect harmony 4 minutes
Idea/ Cognition & Intelligence We could all do with learning how to improvise a little better Stephen T Asma
Essay/ Music Now THAT was music One grim day (when youth is over) you find that new music gets on your nerves. But why do our musical tastes freeze over? Lary Wallace
Essay/ Wellbeing Tripping in the ICU For those suffering the trauma of intensive care, the soothing swoosh of otherworldly ambient music can be a welcome gift Charles Fernyhough
Video/ Dance & Theatre Passion, precision and swagger: join an Oscar®-winning flamenco masterclass 29 minutes
Video/ Music Melody, rhythm and piety: the rich forms and meanings of Indian classical music 17 minutes
Video/ Dance & Theatre Stephen Fry loathes dancing. To understand better, see it performed – in dance 2 minutes
Video/ Neuroscience Music of the mind: a stunning string quartet created through brainwaves 9 minutes
EXCLUSIVE Video/ Music A Bach cello piece played atop a mountain is as exhilarating as you’d expect 8 minutes