Breathing Race Into the Machine
'When you press the button, you're actually making the idea of race and racial difference' Lundy Braun discusses how racism is literally built into th...
Life of Breath
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This series explores the research themes, events and activities of the Life of Breath project. Life of Breath is an research project exploring breathing and breathlessness at the interface of arts, humanities and medical practice. It is a collaboration between the Durham University and University of Bristol, and is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Breath in Classical Singing
“Breath is the beginning and end of what we do as classical singers” Miranda Wright In this episode we turn our attention to the importance of breath ...
Breath in Visual Art
‘Art changes human experience as it reorders our perceptions and engages our emotions’ (Starr, 2013) Artist Jayne Wilton has spent the last 10 years e...
Breath, Pulse and Measure
In his manifesto ‘Projective Verse’ (1950) the poet Charles Olson proposed a new view of poetic structure based on the breath. Olson’s ideas were take...
Under The Surface
Under the Surface is a choral piece composed by Toby Young which was specially commissioned for, and premiered at, the Feel It Festival in November 20...
To Breathe Ourselves into Some Other Lungs
A cappella singing, a lone rower in the Pacific Ocean, fungal spores, clairvoyance and a baby’s cries…what could possibly tie these things together?...
It Felt Like Drowning
‘It Felt Like Drowning’ is the winner of our recent Inspired musical composition competition. Entrants were invited to attend the Feel It Festival i...
10 Years Smoke Free
On 1st July 2007 England banned smoking in enclosed public places. Although contentious at the time it has gone on to become one of the most popular...
Letter to your Breath
If you were invited to write a letter to your breath, what would you say? Bristol anthropologist Alice Malpass and letter-revivalist Elspeth Penny h...
Living with Breathlessness, Learning from Experience
SUBSCRIBE: iTunes | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | RSS Discover the work our researchers are doing to try and understand what it is like to live with a ...