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Would you like to strengthen your memory and your ability to problem-solve? If you can already hear music in your head even when you're not even listening to it, then you're already on your way. And if you can't, then I have a few tips for how you, too, can learn how to 'audiate' 😎 To find out what I'm talking about, go to the latest issue of the Discovering Music newsletter 🎵 https://lnkd.in/ecu7nUEZ __________________________________________________________________ 🎵I’m Dr Kate Paine. I bring the world of music and creativity to you, with a special focus on engagement, body/brain, storytelling, and innovation. 🎵You can follow me, send me a message, and sign up for my Discovering Music newsletter (link up top) __________________________________________________________________ #discoveringmusic #creativity #howtothinkaboutmusic #play #creativethinking

Why are we horrified the first time we hear a recording of our own voice? Why does it sound different to other people? And is there nothing in this world we can actually take at face value? 😉 #discoveringmusic #discoveringcreativity #creativethinking #howtothinkaboutmusic #findingyourvoice #creativefirststeps __________________________________________________________________ 🎵I’m Dr Kate Paine. I bring the world of music to you, with a special focus on creativity, body/brain, storytelling, and innovation. 🎵You can follow me, send me a message, and sign up for my Discovering Music newsletter (link up top) __________________________________________________________________

When I watch scary movies I spend a lot of time holding a cushion in front of my face. Pathetic, I know. And the music doesn't help. It's designed to have us jumping up out of our seats or looking towards the dark corners of the room. For more on what it is about scary music that has this effect, go to the latest edition of my Discovering Music newsletter 👻 https://lnkd.in/ehgPdC2i _________________________________________________________________ 🎵I’m Dr Kate Paine. I bring the world of creativity to you through the lens of music and writing. 🎵You can follow me, send me a message, and sign up for my Discovering Music newsletter (link up top) _________________________________________________________________ #discoveringmusic #creativity #creativeprocess #howtobecreative

What do a triangle, a pentagon, and an octopus have in common? Sounds like the beginning of a joke, right? The answer is that they all contain prefixes that are found in the world of music. To find out more, go to the latest edition of the free Discovering Music newsletter, out every Thursday 🎵 https://lnkd.in/e-RrB4S9 __________________________________________________________________ 🎵I’m Dr Kate Paine. I bring the world of music and creativity to you, with a special focus on engagement, skill-building, storytelling, and innovation. 🎵You can follow me, send me a message, and sign up for my Discovering Music newsletter (link up top) __________________________________________________________________ #discoveringmusic #creativethinking #creativity #howtothinkaboutmusic #worldofmusic

What do you do if your creative engine needs restarting? When I was a kid playing piano and it wasn’t going my way, I’d sometimes smash my hands down on the keys in frustration. Porridge music, my mother used to call it! Not very nice for anyone in the vicinity, but it certainly served a purpose, which was to give me a jolt and hit the refresh button. The key, I’m convinced, is all to do with play and just a little bit of chaos. For more, read today’s edition of my Discovering Music newsletter. #creativity #creativeprocess #howtobecreative #discoveringmusic #discoveringcreativity #creativefirststeps ________________________________________________________________ https://lnkd.in/e9Ci4ssa _________________________________________________________________ 🎵I’m Dr Kate Paine. I bring the world of music to you, with a special focus on creativity, body/brain, storytelling, and innovation. 🎵You can follow me, send me a message, and sign up for my Discovering Music newsletter (link up top) _________________________________________________________________

A very big piece of this is the ongoing assessments of patients. Just popping a pair of headphones on grandma isn’t going to do anything except perhaps annoy her. Selecting the music, determining how it is going to effect and affect, setting the volume, the orchestration, the spatial location of speakers… To motivate movement and most importantly to motivate engagement with singing and making sounds. Breathing, articulation, pronounciation of words, the complexity of the narrative and what memories are being evoked. The level of precision determines the resulting benefits- and that data needs ongoing analysis to fine tune the resulting neuroplasticity and growth of new brain. BrainSing is a technology platform being worked on to do these things and more. We are seeking music therapist partners to aid in the development of a system to achieve specific documented results. Its been 10 years since Oliver Sacks introduced us to the power of music. Its time we started doing something about it at scale. #BrainSing

📚 There was a book about a famous composer that still reverberates with me today. This fictional composer had slowly lost their ability to create new and exciting music and had turned away from the public eye, becoming more and more reclusive. Still loved and revered they were awarded a special score, something like the Olympics and set out to regain their reputation as a prolific and honored artist. The book goes through their struggle and the making of the score. Working privately, and digging deep to avoid distraction the composer shuts out the world and finds the energy to complete something they feel is exceptional, groundbreaking. They tell the producers it’s their greatest work something completely new and visionary, something that no one has ever heard before. The final chapter of the book the piece is ready for opening night, the world is waiting for something epic to start the show, millions around the world are tuned in, except what comes from the orchestra is mostly just Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on repeat. Brutal. Even if you have all the artificial corporate white label cloud tools in the world to do the actual work for you, remember to get a second opinion. Don’t work in a bubble. Don’t live in a bubble. Humans literally walk in circles when they are presented with a field without any direction. Digital tools are still mostly tools. Band together, work strong. Two heads really are better than one. #workstrong #worksmart #worktogether

When I was a kid, my brother and I entertained ourselves on long car journeys by poking each other or looking out the window. But Japan came up with a very novel way to combine music and safety, keeping people entertained while driving on certain roads and making sure they keep within the speed limits. Music and engineering at their best, and just one more example of the way music is integrated into just about everything we do. To read more (and to hear an example), go to this week's edition of the Discovering Music newsletter 🎵 https://lnkd.in/eNewVfxY ___________________________________________________________________ 💡I’m Dr Kate Paine, and under the umbrella of The Creativity Helm I bring the world of creativity to you through the lens of music and writing. 🎵You can follow me, send me a message, and sign up for my Discovering Music newsletter (link up top) ___________________________________________________________________ #discoveringmusic #creativity #musicandengineering #howmusicworks #creativeprocess #music

Timeless advice from Ray Dalio: " Your greatest challenge will be having your thoughtful higher-level you manage your emotional lower-level you. The best way to do that is to consciously develop habits that will make doing the things that are good for you habitual. In managing others, the analogy that comes to mind is a great orchestra. The person in charge is the shaper-conductor who doesn’t “do” (e.g., doesn’t play an instrument, though he or she knows a lot about instruments) as much as visualize the outcome and sees to it that each member of the orchestra helps achieve it. The conductor makes sure each member of the orchestra knows what he or she is good at and what they’re not good at, and what their responsibilities are. Each must not only perform at their personal best but work together so the orchestra becomes more than the sum of its parts."