"Music calms the beast". This popular expression has its origin in the legend of Orpheus, a Greek poet and musician who had a song and a way of playing the lyre that appeased the wildest beasts and that, with the passage of time, has been used to refer to the calming capacity of music for aggressive or nervous behaviors.
If in the musical world there are styles that stand out for their improvisation, those are jazz and rap. We imagine a jazz band in which apparently everyone goes their own way and yet produces a sound that the slightly more expert ears experience as harmonic.
It's called "TransProse" and its function is as simple as it is interesting: it "translates" literature into music. Those responsible are Hannah Davis, programmer, artist and musician from New York (USA) and scientist Mohammad Saif from the National Research Council of Canada. Both of them merged their areas of interest to achieve that a novel could be translated into music.
Fibromyalgia patients face chronic and widespread pain that, along with many other symptoms, complicates their lives and reduces their functionality. Researchers and health professionals are constantly trying to find ways to improve the quality of life of these people, since today the disease has no cure.
Who says animals can't have a sense of rhythm? Despite the fact that until now it was believed that only parrots (and similar birds) had the capacity for rhythm and that this musical ability was the exclusive preserve of human beings, a sea lioness that goes by the name of "Ronan", from the laboratory Long Marine of the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) in the United States, has defeated this thesis.
Robert Gupta is a virtuoso violinist who, at the young age of 20, already has numerous achievements both as a musician and as an activist for mental health problems. His story shows that music therapy can succeed where conventional medicine fails.
According to the IBERICTUS study recently published by the Spanish Neurology Society, the prevalence of stroke in our country is close to 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and it is estimated that the figure will increase as the population ages. One of the most striking consequences after a stroke is what is called 'Hemineglect' or 'Unilateral negligence'.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
