Ian Fredericks in interview: ideas of an Australian spatial synthesis and mixed media innovator

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-67
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Computer Music ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Media Composition ◽  
Performance Group ◽  
Visual Composition ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Way

Ian Fredericks played a prominent role in the development of Australian electronic music and mixed media composition from the mid 1970s until 2001. His work in establishing both the SEUSS electronic music studio at Sydney University and the subsequent founding of the computer music and audio-visual composition and performance group watt with Martin Wesley-Smith in 1976, paved the way for the generations of artists that have since explored this field. The author presents lightly edited excerpts from the last interview with Ian Fredericks before his passing on 15 March 2001.

Transformed Sound as Personal Construct

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-353
Author(s):  
Peter Plessas
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Music ◽  
Logical Consequence ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Processing Methods ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Electronic Processing ◽  
The Way

To better understand the function of sound within electronic music it is inevitable to consider the way composers and performers talk about such sound and its different qualities. An attempt to classify sound is a logical consequence of the desire to orient oneself in a vast field of possibilities. It remains difficult, however, to relate such a classification to the intuitive way we talk about sound. Heavily influenced by our individual upbringing, cultural and musical environment and, perhaps most strongly, by our peers in the creation and performance of music, words verbalised in relation to sound and music invite a systematic investigation. This article exemplifies such an investigation, attempting the elicitation and structuring of a vocabulary from eight musically trained individuals in a two-stage experiment. The words examined here are concerned with sounds created by transformation of acoustic sources through electronic processing methods.

Strategic threats to energy security as risks of quality of people's life

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 730-744
Author(s):  
V.I. Loktionov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Economic Well Being ◽  
The Way

Subject. The article reviews the way strategic threats to energy security influence the quality of people's life. Objectives. The study unfolds the theory of analyzing strategic threats to energy security by covering the matter of quality of people's life. Methods. To analyze the way strategic threats to energy security spread across cross-sectoral commodity and production chains and influences quality of people's living, I applied the factor analysis and general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. Results. I suggest interpreting strategic threats to energy security as risks of people's quality of life due to a reduction in the volume of energy supply. I identified mechanisms reflecting how the fuel and energy complex and its development influence the quality of people's life. The article sets out the method to assess such quality-of-life risks arising from strategic threats to energy security. Conclusions and Relevance. In the current geopolitical situation, strategic threats to energy security cause long-standing adverse consequences for the quality of people's life. If strategic threats to energy security are further construed as risk of quality of people's life, this will facilitate the preparation and performance of a more effective governmental policy on energy, which will subsequently raise the economic well-being of people.

Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance

Notes ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
R. K. ◽  
Charles Dodge ◽  
Thomas A. Jerse
Keyword(s):  
Computer Music ◽  
Music Synthesis ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Synthesis Composition

scholarly journals “You Go, Girl:” How Facebook and Instagram impacted the post-feminist construction of Electric Forest’s Women’s Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Krauss
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Media Applications ◽  
The Way

In February of 2016, Electric Forest — a four-day electronic music festival from June 23-26 in Rothbury, Michigan —announced a women’s only program called Her Forest. The initiative’s aim was to facilitate feelings of “connection, inspiration, and comfort” (Weiner, 2016) amongst the festival’s female guests. This MRP draws from past research on influence and postfeminism to consider how the Electric Forest brand, as well as its online followers, constructed and discussed Her Forest via Facebook and Instagram. A directed qualitative analysis was applied to 21 of Electric Forest’s Facebook and Instagram posts and 110 associated user comments. The analysis emphasized the powerful impact that social media applications have on the way in which corporate messages are expressed, received, reshaped, supported, and challenged.

The principles of feminist dramaturgical thinking in dance and performance

Maska ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (203-204) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Ana Dubljević
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Negative Capability ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Way

This text is offering an overview of principles of feminist dramaturgical thinking, that have been identified and used in research on feminist dramaturgy through theoretical and practical work on the performance Still to Come, a Feminist Pornscape. Some of the principles are: the principle of bell hooks, the principle of relationality, the principle of significant otherness, the principle of negative capability, the principle of critters, and they can be related to a variety of aspects of politics and ethics in artistic practice. The text is an ending chapter of The Feminist Pornscapes, on Feminist Dramaturgical Thinking in Dance and Performance Practice book and is intentionally only sketching the current reach of the proposed principles with the wish to welcome the reader into a conversation, to pave the way for more thorough elaborations that are still to come.

Cloud Monitoring

2012 ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Peer Hasselmeyer ◽  
Gregory Katsaros ◽  
Bastian Koller ◽  
Philipp Wieder
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
State Health ◽  
Cloud Monitoring ◽  
Cloud Environments ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Cloud Infrastructures ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

The management of the entire service landscape comprising a Cloud environment is a complex and challenging venture. There, one task of utmost importance, is the generation and processing of information about the state, health, and performance of the various services and IT components, something which is generally referred to as monitoring. Such information is the foundation for proper assessment and management of the whole Cloud. This chapter pursues two objectives: first, to provide an overview of monitoring in Cloud environments and, second, to propose a solution for interoperable and vendor-independent Cloud monitoring. Along the way, the authors motivate the necessity of monitoring at the different levels of Cloud infrastructures, introduce selected state-of-the-art, and extract requirements for Cloud monitoring. Based on these requirements, the following sections depict a Cloud monitoring solution and describe current developments towards interoperable, open, and extensible Cloud monitoring frameworks.

Context Matters

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-263
Author(s):  
Jeanette N. Cleveland
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Applied Psychology ◽  
Situation Assessment ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Situational Strength ◽  
Key Features ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Way

Contexts shape the way the performance appraisal (PA) and performance management (PM) systems are designed and utilized. Yet, the analysis of situations, especially more macro-context, including cultural, economic, and political/legal values, is one of the most underresearched areas in applied psychology despite the fact that context is likely to be critical to understanding the success and the failures associated with individual and team PM in organizations. To date, most research on situations has focused on proximal factors that impinge directly on raters’ and ratees’ motivation and goals, with less attention given to variations in macro and meso context across and within organizations, nations, and cultures. In the present chapter, the current research linking context with PA and PM is reviewed. Drawing from both situational strength and institutional theories, the mechanisms (e.g., norms and constraints) by which situations can shape the design and process of PA/PM within and across organizations are discussed. The chapter concludes by translating key features from the context and situation assessment literature into action that can be taken by industrial and organizational psychologists to help improve PA/PM research and practice in organizations.

scholarly journals Paving the Way to Eco-Friendly IoT Antennas: Tencel-Based Ultra-Thin Compact Monopole and Its Applications to ZigBee

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (13) ◽  
pp. 3658
Author(s):  
María Elena de Cos Gómez ◽  
Humberto Fernández Álvarez ◽  
Alicia Flórez Berdasco ◽  
Fernando Las-Heras Andrés
Keyword(s):  
Dielectric Permittivity ◽  
Frequency Band ◽  
Loss Tangent ◽  
Relative Dielectric Permittivity ◽  
Iot Applications ◽  
Half Wave ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Dielectric Permittivity And Loss ◽  
Range Test ◽  
The Way

An ultrathin, compact ecofriendly antenna suitable for IoT applications around 2.45 GHz is achieved as a result of exploring the use of Tencel fabric for the antenna’s design. The botanical ecofriendly Tencel is electromagnetically characterized, in terms of relative dielectric permittivity and loss tangent, in the target IoT frequency band. To explore the suitability of the Tencel, a comparison is conducted with conventionally used RO3003, with similar relative dielectric permittivity, regarding the antenna dimensions and performance. In addition, the antenna robustness under bent conditions is also analyzed by measurement. To assess the relevance of this contribution, the ultrathin ecofriendly Tencel-based antenna is compared with recently published antennas for IoT in the same band and also, with commercial half-wave dipole by performing a range test on a ZigBee-based IoT testbed.

Clouds Gather, and the Band Plays On

2021 ◽  
pp. 166-199
Author(s):  
Rachel Anne Gillett
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
Pan African ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on the way cultural production was mobilized to fight fascism and racism in the early 1930s. Yet it simultaneously illustrates how different constituencies in “Black Paris” related to colonialism very differently. The two events that anchor this exploration are the celebration of the tercentenary of France’s colonization of the Antilles and the campaign against Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia. Various coalitions used music and performance to celebrate the tercentenary. Others made music to generate solidarity and financial support for Haile Selassie and Ethiopia in the face of the Italian invasion. In both cases music and performance became a way of gathering people together and raising money for political causes. The strong support for the pan-African campaign on behalf of Ethiopia was present at the same time as the divided responses to the tercentenary. The conjunction illustrates Paul Gilroy’s characterization of Black identities in the Atlantic region as showing both solidarity and difference.

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