Music – Zoe Cormier

How Psychedelic Music Can (Literally) Transform Your Mind

The unsung hero of the psychedelic experience is music: research has consistently shown that the nature of the musical experience is more important than the intensity of the drug.

6 September 2023

Psychedelics.com

Stone Nest w/ Max Cooper: May 13 2023

Ancient Echoes

The amplification of music with electronic technology has allowed us to become lazy. The ancients, on the other hand, with only, stone, rock and their imaginations to use, were the true masters of amplified sound...

1 April 2022

Off Magazine

Future Is Sound: April 5 2022

Future Is Sound

My Psychiatrist Is A DJ

London-based startup Wavepaths is creating a new kind of music technology explicitly designed for psychedelic therapy.

17 March 2022

Neo Life

Music As Medicine

Music and psychedelics go hand-in-hand. Could both have a healing effect?

17 March 2022

Neo Life

Why We Dance

"Life is a rhythm - and I am the rhythm."

1 November 2021

Off Magazine

Future Is Sound: March 3, 2020

The Haptic Baton

How do you play in an orchestra if you are visually impaired?

15 January 2019

BBC World Service

Hot Digital Shaman: New App Wavepaths Guides Users Through Therapeutic Trips

Brian Eno teamed up with neuroscientist Mendel Kaelen to create an app for therapeutic music – and it ended up expanding both their minds

8 November 2017

Rolling Stone

The Matthew Herbert Brexit Big Band @ The Barbican

From destroying The Daily Mail to setting Article 50 to music, The Matthew Herbert Brexit Big Band turn referendum blues into a show-stopping extravaganza.

27 October 2017

The Monitors

Hauschka explores pianistic possibilities on ‘What If’

Key phrase: “Exploded keyboard.”

11 May 2017

The Monitors

And on the MiMu gloves … the ingenious devices helping disabled musicians to play again

How can a trumpeter paralysed from the neck down play music again? With a little help from tech. Meet the players whose careers have been reignited by the HiNote, the Headspace and the Quirkitar

27 May 2016

The Guardian

The Power of Music for Health

The more we learn about the power of music, the more medical applications we discover for it.

8 January 2016

BBC Focus

The Soft Moon @ Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen

I don’t have a music collection titled “Music To Slit My Wrists To”, but if and when I ever start one, The Soft Moon will definitely feature prominently.

19 June 2015

The Monitors

Your Baby Knows Music Better Than Most Adults

Each and every one of us is born with perfect pitch

24 April 2015

Medium

Squarepusher @ The Barbican

The last time I saw Tom Jenkinson, a.k.a techno-jazz originator Squarepusher, it was at The Glade at Glastonbury 2004. At the time, one of the most highly-regarded platforms for electronic music worldwide, at one of the most influential festivals on earth. And it was awful.

15 April 2015

The Monitors

How to see your music

Why settle for your standard music visualiser on your computer when you can create a three-dimensional one simply by filling an old speaker with baking soda?

14 January 2015

Wired

Keeping my ear to the ground: On getting music lessons at a ‘deaf rave’

It has been spectacularly enlightening to discover that I could learn more about the nature of sound from those who cannot hear than from anyone else.

12 December 2014

National Post

The good vibrations helping the deaf experience music

A slew of new music-listening devices for the deaf are on offer.

30 November 2014

Wired

Hats off to Chapelier Fou – the violinist taking us through the looking glass…

Every once in a while a musician comes along who reminds you of the redemptive power of music. Why sonic combinations make life worth living.

13 November 2014

The Monitors

What Does a Deaf Rave Sound Like?

Sencity has put on raves for the deaf in Mexico, Brazil, Finland, Spain, and South Africa, with Montreal on the agenda for 2012. What, no Toronto?

6 December 2011

Toronto Standard