Remember dear beings through songs and stories

People behind a new musical project say they hope that it will help keep memories of dear after their death.

Music to die for was founded by Hazel Harrison and Phillipa Anders and aims to explore the connection of music with memories and emotions.

They ask people to share a piece of music that connects them to “someone you have lost and the story behind”.

Ms. Anders said: “A little over four years ago, I lost my husband very suddenly, and this project and meeting Hazel created this incredible way to be able to use music in an incredibly powerful way.”

Music to die is described as a space for people who have been bereaved “to honor their memory, keep their history alive and explore the role that music plays in your link with them”.

There is a guide To help people submit their stories with four games:

• About music
• Connect
• Find a meaning
• Move forward

These are then shared on the website and via social media.

The project is supported by a creative health residence by Britten Pears Arts in Suffolk.

Dr. Harrison said: “As a clinical psychologist, I’m really interested in emotion and how we understand and explore our experiences and improve our well-being, and music for me is a really key ingredient for that.

“Music allows us to sit in a particular emotion that we feel.

“We feel all this range of disorderly emotions, as human beings, and sometimes we just need a piece of music to stand in this space.

“It can be a cheerful piece of music, sometimes which can be a deeply emotional or sad piece of music that allows us to connect with this loss and this sad feeling.

“In addition, this can help us map our trip – we know that sorrow is not a linear process, we will pass through a range of different experiences which are linked to desire and loss.

“But also with the sweetness-bitter nature of remembering the joyful parts.”

Ms. Anders said: “I always had a life and a career in music, so every minute of my day was filled with music in one way or another.

“After my husband’s death, Rob, for a good number of months, I just couldn’t listen to music.

“I couldn’t see it live, I couldn’t listen to it at home, I just didn’t want music.

“Then, very gradually, I started to reintroduce it.

“But what happened now is that the music I listen to is almost completely separated from what I was listening to before.

“My tastes have really developed and grew up, I listen to things now that I would not have listened before.

“I will have concerts that I would not have been previously went, he opened a new relationship with music that seems healthy.

“There is a saying” to cry completely and live fully “.

“It allows me to stay connected to fly, but at the same time, it is the way before everything by connecting to what I had.”