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
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Music The night when straight white males tried to kill disco Hadley Meares
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
EXCLUSIVE Video/Music A Bach cello piece played atop a mountain is as exhilarating as you’d expect 8 minutes
ORIGINAL Video/History of Ideas Music is marvellous, but not mysterious: an interview with Lydia Goehr 6 minutes
Essay/Music The story trap We use neat stories to explain everything from sports matches to symphonies. Is it time to leave the nursery of the mind? Philip Ball
Essay/Data & Information Sonifying the world When Chris Chafe translates data into music, listeners sway to the beat of seizing brains, economic swings and smog Carren Jao
Video/History How the vocoder went from military tech to an instrument of the counterculture 11 minutes
Video/Mood & Emotion What does a classical musician do when she starts losing her hearing? 12 minutes
Video/Cultures & Languages A flamenco guitarist shares the rich intensity of his city and his music 13 minutes
Video/Consciousness & Altered States A jazz-inflected, stylishly expressive take on the experience of blindness 8 minutes
Essay/Dance & Theatre The music in you You might not be a virtuoso, but you have remarkable music abilities. You just don’t know about them yet Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Essay/Human Rights A change is gonna come The great civil rights song turns 50 – the political made personal, and heartbreak transmuted into fiery action Manjula Martin
Video/Human Rights An anthem of the Civil Rights movement is powerfully relevant 50 years later 3 minutes
Video/Poverty & Development The children of Cateura’s Recycled Orchestra refuse to be defined by poverty 4 minutes
Essay/Art Going to the chapel Paul Simon’s album ‘Graceland’ is a joyous political statement. Does it strike the same chord in the sombre Rothko Chapel? Nathan Dunne