Donohue+: Developing performer-specific electronic improvisatory accompaniment for instrumental improvisation

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
Sam Gillies ◽  
Maria Sappho Donohue
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Electronic System ◽  
Instrument Design ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Free Improvisation ◽  
Music Making

Electronic systems designed to improvise with a live instrumental performer are a constant mediation of musical language and artificial decision-making. Often these systems are designed to elicit a reaction in a very broad way, relying on segmenting and playing back audio material according to a fixed or mobile set of rules or analysis. As a result, such systems can produce an outcome that sounds generic across different improvisers, or restrict meaningful electroacoustic improvisation to those performers with a matching capacity for designing improvisatory electroacoustic processing. This article documents the development of an improvisatory electroacoustic instrument for pianist Maria Donohue as a collaborative process for music-making. The Donohue+ program is a bespoke electroacoustic improvisatory system designed to augment the performance capabilities of Maria, enabling her to achieve new possibilities in live performance. Through the process of development, Maria’s performative style, within the broader context of free improvisation, was analysed and used to design an interactive electronic system. The end result of this process is a meaningful augmentation of the piano in accordance with Maria’s creative practice, differing significantly from other improvising electroacoustic instruments she has previously experimented with. Through the process of development, Donohue+ identifies a practice for instrument design that engages not only with a performer’s musical materials but also with a broader free improvisation aesthetic.

Music of Tragedy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi A. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Dramatic Action ◽  
Instrumental Accompaniment ◽  
And Performance

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Drawing on the ancient conception of mousikē, in which words, song, dance, and instrumental accompaniment were closely linked, Naomi Weiss emphasizes the interplay of performance and imagination—the connection between the chorus’s own live singing and dancing in the theater and the images of music-making that frequently appear in their songs. Through detailed readings of four plays, she argues that the mousikē referred to and imagined in these plays is central to the progression of the dramatic action and to ancient audiences’ experiences of tragedy itself. She situates Euripides’s experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousikē within a broader cultural context, and in doing so, she shows how he both continues the practices of his tragic predecessors and also departs from them, reinventing traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage.

Piano+: An Approach towards a Performance System Used within Free Improvisation

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Sebastian Lexer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Computer Performance ◽  
Free Improvisation ◽  
Technical Realization ◽  
Acoustic Instruments ◽  
Performance System ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Computer Operation

This article explores the author's strategy for developing a computer performance system designed for free improvisation with acoustic instruments following a non-idiomatic approach. Philosophical considerations on potentiality and personal and social space and research into the psychology of motivation and behavior have inspired and enabled a different approach to integrating technology with improvisation. The technical realization of a parameter space, in particular utilizing contingent behavior emerging from the convergent mapping of a mixture of controller types, has proven effective for the spontaneous creative decision making required to extend the sonic potential of an acoustic piano while minimizing direct computer operation, as applied regularly in practice by the author.

scholarly journals Administrasi Pendidikan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa fadhila
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Staff Management ◽  
Final Goal

Writing this article aims to create educational activies to develop capabilities in the fields of administration, science, learning theory and skills aimed at making administrative staff, management able to develop the knowledge that has been learned and practiced in schools. Educational administration itself is a collaborative process of two or more by utilizing all available personnel and materials in accordance to achieve the educational goals that have been set effectively and efficiently. The educational administration process generally involves forecasting and decision making. Furthermore, organizing deals with efforts to develop a working link in the organization, then planning with the intention that workers carry out work in the manner desired, then each person is guided by the idea of what he did.Finally, the assessment is related to monitoring, control and supervision. Thus having the same goal is to further improve the implementation of an organization or institution’s program. The assessment is not only about the outcome or final goal as planned. The assessment must be carried out on an ongoing basis and regarding the life aspects of the organization or institution.

scholarly journals Experiencing Folk Music in Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstanca Zalar
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Symbolic Play ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Slovene Language ◽  
Social Competences ◽  
Phenomenological Case Study

Through everyday exposure to language and music, individuals within a nation become sensitive to the melodic and rhythmical structure of their folk musical culture. It represents improvisational abilities of individuals and groups as well. Despite all changes, it indisputably maintains all characteristic of music parameters as inheritance of past ages. Due to its social role, it appears throughout everyones life and it also represents an important part of childrens life. In the study that was carried out with two groups of children between six and nine years of age, we were interested in determining how do children experience music making with elements of folk music and how it is possible to create the circumstances which can provide the spontaneity of folk music within the structured environment (like primary school). The research was designed as a phenomenological case study. This method allowed us to gather data which provided a deeper insight into the ways in which participants are able to play using elements of folk music and the way they feel while using such material. The results show that, contrary to the basic fact of spontaneity in folk music, 6 and 7 year old participants were not able to use music parameters to play with and had yet to learn how does the symbolic play on the basis of communication in musical language work out. The most natural way to bridge the gap between learning songs and experiencing individual musical expression in a manner of folk music in children seems to be a creative work with lyrics in Slovene language. We also found that children develop social competences of a great value, when they are involved in a symbolic play with folk music elements in the improvisational mode. Key words: folk music; improvisation; music language; music making

On the Thermal Interaction Between an Isothermal Cylinder and Its Isothermal Enclosure for Cylinder Rayleigh Numbers of Order 104

2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (6) ◽  
pp. 1052-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. T. Newport ◽  
T. M. Dalton ◽  
M. R. D. Davies ◽  
M. Whelan ◽  
C. Forno
Keyword(s):  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Electronic System ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Thermal Interaction ◽  
Cubical Enclosure ◽  
System Temperature ◽  
Nusselt Number Distribution ◽  
Complex Fluid ◽  
Digital Moiré ◽  
Rayleigh Numbers

An experimental investigation is made of the thermal interaction between a horizontal isothermal cylinder centrally located in a water-cooled isothermal cubical enclosure. The study is restricted to laminar flow and cylinder Rayleigh numbers of order 104. The application of interest is the cooling of electronic systems. This field is currently lacking in techniques that can measure the complex fluid phenomena encountered in real systems. The paper therefore begins with an experimental review of interferometry to assess its applicability as a potential solution to this need. Based on this review, a real time Digital Moire´ Subtraction interferometer is used to measure temperature profiles, and local Nusselt number distributions in two regions of interest: the plume impingement on the ceiling of the enclosure, and the upper corner region of the enclosure. A Mach-Zehnder interferometer is used for the cylinder Nusselt number distribution. Results are compared both qualitatively and quantitatively with a numerical simulation run on a commercial CFD package widely used for electronic system temperature predictions. The paper gives considerable insight into the nature of the enclosure heat transfer and an indication of the accuracy of a widely used predictive code.

Electrochemical treatment of metal inserts for subsequent assembly injection molding of tight electronic systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 675-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Kleffel ◽  
Dietmar Drummer
Keyword(s):  
Injection Molding ◽  
Electronic System ◽  
Electrochemical Treatment ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Automotive Applications ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Metal Insert

Abstract One method to produce electronic systems with high resilience is the encapsulation of metal inserts, for example, lead frames, using assembly injection molding. Such parts are exposed to different mediums, such as water and oil, which can infiltrate and damage the electronic system, especially in automotive applications. Hence, one challenge is to ensure the tightness. The research covered in this paper focuses on the assembly injection molding of tight electronic systems using microstructured metal inserts, manufactured by a two-stage electrochemical treatment. The effects of the electrochemical treatment on the tightness and the bond between metal and polymer of the electronic system are investigated. Furthermore, the influence of the electrochemical treatment on the surface and geometry of the metal insert is evaluated.

Unrecognized posterior dislocation of the humeral joint – a case report in the electronic decision-making system

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Dygut ◽  
Wiktor Boroń ◽  
Maria Gołda ◽  
Monika Piwowar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Correct Diagnosis ◽  
Electronic System ◽  
Medical Problem ◽  
Posterior Dislocation ◽  
Medical Procedure ◽  
Joint Dislocation ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Decision Making System

AbstractThe paper presents a description of a humeral joint dislocation case placed in full version in the electronic system of presenting content and making decisions. The purpose of the publication is to draw the attention of especially young, inexperienced adepts of medical art to the fact of making mistakes in the medical art. The process of dealing with the correct and incorrect procedures that occur while trying to identify a medical problem is discussed. The presented case gives the opportunity to have a broad view of the issue and is also faced with the need to make decisions by choosing the course of action, at every stage of analyzing the case. Mistakenly made decisions are explained. Finally, the correct diagnosis and medical procedure about the case of a humeral joint dislocation is presented.

OP29 The Impact Of Individual Patient Input; Strengthening The Evidence

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (S1) ◽  
pp. 12-12
Author(s):  
Heidi Livingstone ◽  
Chloe Kastoryano ◽  
Lizzie Thomas ◽  
Vassilia Verdiel ◽  
Kevin Harris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interventional Procedures ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Electronic System ◽  
Efficacy And Safety ◽  
Published Evidence ◽  
Committee Decision Making ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Patient Opinion

Introduction:The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) assesses the efficacy and safety of interventional procedures for use in the National Health Service (NHS). Since 2006, NICE's Public Involvement Programme (PIP) has obtained ‘patient commentary’ to inform committee decisions, using a questionnaire asking patients about their experience of the procedure including benefits, disadvantages and side effects. Commentary is considered by the committee alongside other evidence. The PIP has piloted a project to: capture the impact of the patient commentary on the committee's decision-making; explore patterns of impact; and identify criteria that indicate when patient commentary may not be required.Methods:The pilot included all interventional procedures guidance started between February 2016 and February 2017. Committee members’ views were captured using a form completed whenever patient commentary was considered. Responses were anonymized, entered into an electronic system, analyzed, and correlated against ‘committee comments’ in the published guidance. After twelve months, there was an unrepresentatively narrow spread of conditions, and most topics were updating previously published guidance rather than novel topics. The pilot was therefore extended by six months.Results:Patient commentary commonly had an impact on decision-making; however, no discernible patterns have yet been identified, nor criteria for when it may not be required. Key findings were: (i) patient commentary is equally useful for guidance updates as novel guidance, and (ii) interpretation and assessment of ‘impact’ varied across committee members but the majority agreed it reinforced the other evidence.Conclusions:Patient commentary has a measurable impact on committee decision-making. Very occasionally it provides new evidence and routinely provides reassurance that the published evidence is substantiated by real-world patient opinion. Measuring the impact of commentary seems to have raised its profile, with more committee comments about patient issues included in guidance during the pilot than in preceding years. The project needs to be extended to identify which procedures are least likely to benefit from patient commentary and why.

Time–space structuring in spontaneous play on educational percussion instruments among three- and four-year-olds

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Young
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Instrument Design ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Percussion Instruments

This article reports on a study which investigated the spontaneous instrumental music-making of three- and four-year-olds in typical pre-school educational settings in London, UK. It argues that many prior studies of children's music-making have analysed and evaluated such activity against models drawn from the practices of Western art music and its conventions of analytical theory, and suggests that this approach has certain drawbacks. The study adopted a grounded theory methodology moving through three phases in different nursery classrooms. Each phase was characterised by successive focusing and refinement of methodological tools in response to the emerging findings. Data were collected on videotape which was then repeatedly reviewed, transcribed and categorised. The children's music-making was analysed as relational processes in time and space involving the two-way interplay of child and instrument. Structures in space delineate the child's movement within the spatial potentials and constraints of the instrument design. Structures in time describe how movements and movement ideas were strung together in ever-lengthening portions.

Interactivity for Mobile Music-Making

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Essl ◽  
Michael Rohs
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Interactive Music ◽  
Interactive Performance ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Mobile Music

Mobile phones offer an attractive platform for interactive music performance. We provide a theoretical analysis of the sensor capabilities via a design space and show concrete examples of how different sensors can facilitate interactive performance on these devices. These sensors include cameras, microphones, accelerometers, magnetometers and multitouch screens. The interactivity through sensors in turn informs aspects of live performance as well as composition though persistence, scoring, and mapping to musical notes or abstract sounds.

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