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  • › Wellbeing and Integration through Community Music

    22/Feb/2020
    Natural Voice News member, Laura Bradshaw, was one of the authors of an academic paper on the role of improvisation in a music group of refugees, asylum seekers and local community members, inspired by Dr Sofia Vougioukalou who attended the Oasis World Choir and Band project she facilitates. This is in…
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  • › Music is a vital urban resource. How do we plan for it?

    23/Nov/2019
    Music is a vital urban resource. How do we plan for it? Written by: Shain Shapiro, Founder and CEO, Sound Diplomacy. Music, like any other resource, is not infinite. If we do not teach, invest and support it, it disappears. When something is wedded into the fabric of everyday life, we ignore…
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  • › Just Sing Rounds now available in Braille

    21/Mar/2019
    The songbook "Just Sing Rounds" by Jane Coker and Val Regan is now available in Braille, thanks to Debra Lewis and the volunteers at the Statewide Vision Resource Centre. The book can be supplied in either dbx or brf file format ready for embossing or for use with a braille device.…
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  • › Jon Madin: The man behind the Marimbas

    04/Dec/2018
    The inventor Jon Madin has sparked a "marimba mania" in schools with his instruments made from everyday materials. Trained as a high school teacher, Madin has run over 2,000 workshops at primary schools making marimbas and a range of other original and fascinating instruments. The Central Victorian harp-maker Andy Rigby…
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  • › The effect of music on the brain

    11/Oct/2018
    A  talk by Alan Harvey on the effect of music on the brain was given at a TEDx event on Remembrance Day, November 2017, using the TED conference format but independently organised by a local community. https://youtu.be/MZFFwy5fwYI.
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  • › What Happens to your Brain when you Sing?

    22/Sep/2018
    Singing in the shower makes your voice sound great, but is it also good for your mental health? We asked Professor Sarah Wilson from the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. You can view/hear the video at https://youtu.be/lSvY_oIIwMM or at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvY_oIIwMM&feature=youtu.be. Wilson suggests that yes, singing offers a range…
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  • › Group singing “can improve mental health”

    25/Jan/2018
    Group singing "can improve mental health"- Community singing 'improves mental health and helps recovery' = an article by Philippa Roxby, a Health reporter, BBC News, dated 21 December 2017. You may be interested in this item from the BBC News website from 21st December, which describes how community singing can…
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  • › Learning Music Can Help Critical Thinking

    09/Apr/2017
    Article by Graham Strahle · March 27, 2017 https://musicaustralia.org.au/author/grahams/ Quite apart from the merits of teaching music for its own sake, there is a view being increasingly voiced among education researchers that music can be used to promote critical thinking in children. This was a topic that surfaced…
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