Beginning Improvisation

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Michael Treat
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Internal Sense

An improvised jazz solo is constructed from rhythmic and harmonic vocabulary. It requires the player to have an internal sense of melody, harmony and form that he or she relies on to create musical ideas in real time. This chapter outlines an approach to teaching beginning improvisors that can develop these concepts. It articulates principles of improvisation that students must learn before progressing to advanced theoretical concepts, which include communication; phrasing; tension and release; and the ability to simultaneously create, perform, and respond to music. Throughout the chapter, exercises, activities, and repertoire are provided that effectively lay the groundwork for learning to improvise in the jazz idiom.

The Systemic Image

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Hinterwaldner
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Art History ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Real Time Simulations ◽  
The Relationship

In media art history as well as in science studies an intensified reception of cybernetic and system-theoretical concepts can be seen in the last few years. In the book a conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in interactive real-time simulations is proposed. To this end, the author differentiates between four main strata of form-giving design decisions: perspectivation, modelling, iconization, interaction. The particular images – ephemeral, changeable and open for interventions – fulfill the conditions of all these layers and, as a necessary consequence, they exhibit characteristic aesthetic features. With a close reading of the chosen example works, the variations within the repetitive cycles become evident as does the reason why the narration remains ‘flat’ (with only a few consecutive steps), contributing to the general impression of being confronted with a situation rather than a story. How are the borders of simulations either artificially marked or hidden and extended with images or other models? What role does the sensuous interface play for the degree and mode of user participation in the simulated scenery? The book assembles some basic preconditions and main features of image worlds based on computer simulations.

Design of Remote Laboratory Experiments Using LabVIEW Web Services

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serdar Tumkor ◽  
Sven K. Esche ◽  
Constantin Chassapis
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Specific Method ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Remote Laboratory ◽  
Batch Mode ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Experimental Apparatus

Laboratory experiments are an important and integral part of the learning experience for undergraduate engineering students. They help the students in getting hands-on experience and in better understanding theoretical concepts. In recent years, a significant number of remotely accessible experiments have been developed and integrated into engineering laboratory courses at many educational institutions worldwide. There exist several approaches and technologies for making experimental hardware accessible via the Internet. This paper will discuss some of the available technologies and a specific method for acquiring data from experimental setups via LabVIEW Virtual Instruments over a network. As an example, a remote experimental apparatus that was developed by upgrading a commercially available air flow rig with remote control and monitoring capabilities is presented. This system is used in a junior-level mechanical engineering course on fluid mechanics. It enables the students to access the experimental setup via the Internet either in real-time or batch mode. For real-time use of the experimental setup, remote panels are used. These remote panels are exactly the same as those that would be used on a local on-site server. They can be run under LabVIEW’s Web server to be observed and controlled by the client via any Internet browser. For the batch-mode use of the experimental setup, on the other hand, simple HTML pages in conjunction with forms are used to generate experimental requests that are sent to the LabVIEW server. This server then places these experimental requests in a queue and executes the appropriate LabVIEW scripts on a first-come first-served basis. This paper will discuss and compare both methods for performing remote laboratory experiments.

A DSP and FPGA Testbed for Teaching and Research of Wireless Communications

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Webber ◽  
Toshihiko Nishimura ◽  
Takeo Ohgane ◽  
Yasutaka Ogawa
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
System Development ◽  
Radio Channel ◽  
Digital Signal ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Real Time System ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Field Programmable

This paper describes the teaching and research of signal processing and communications systems that took place during the development of a real-time transceiver and radio channel testbed at Hokkaido University, Japan. Digital signal processing (DSP) concepts were taught and learnt during both the testbed system development and also the results gathering and analysis stages. The performance of a modern multiple antenna communications system is dependent on a number of key parameters, and the student interaction with such a real-time system can assist in the understanding of key but often abstract theoretical concepts. The communications algorithm and architecture overview on a signal processing board containing a Xilinx field programmable gate array (FPGA) and Analog Devices TigerSharc DSP is detailed. The lessons learned and potential uses of the testbed in both teaching and research are also described.

scholarly journals Men’s Work-Related Stress and Mental Health: Illustrating the Workings of Masculine Role Norms

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 155798831983841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Boettcher ◽  
Jennifer Mitchell ◽  
Bonnie Lashewicz ◽  
Erin Jones ◽  
JianLi Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Masculine Role ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Internal Sense ◽  
Role Norms

Although a strong relationship between employment and men’s mental health has been identified, theoretical linkages between masculinity, employment, and mental health are not well developed and mental health supports that account for gender and employment are correspondingly inadequate. The purpose of this study is to contribute to theoretical understandings of men’s employment-related mental health experience and raise possibilities for gender-responsive employer supports for men’s mental health. Specifically, this study is a secondary analysis of narrative accounts from 18 men employed in male-dominated occupations about their employment-related mental health. Results of this study present evidence of processes by which theoretical concepts of masculine role norms influence work-related stress and mental health including: (a) injunctive norms, which operate through an internal sense of the cultural “shoulds” and “should nots”; (b) descriptive norms, which are communicated through the behaviors that a man sees other men enacting in his immediate environment; and (c) cohesive norms, which exert influence through observations of how men who are leaders, behave. Men’s insights into the complexity of employment-related stress and mental health according to masculine role norms related to work demands and leadership modeling and messaging are discussed. This study concludes with potential ways forward for employer support for men’s mental health.

scholarly journals An integrated approach to teaching and learning logistics: A case study

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus N. Cronjé
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Approach To Teaching

Business managers and students often criticise university teaching for not addressing real-life problems. Furthermore, professors are dissatisfied with the research capabilities of postgraduate students. This paper advocates an integrated approach to teaching and learning based on the features of project-based learning aimed at enhancing the practical and research skills of undergraduate students in Logistics. A case study is presented where third-year students were engaged in a real-life project in collaboration with industry, exposing them to collaborative learning, questionnaire design, surveys, analysing and evaluating results, literature review and report writing. The project was carried out in phases where students were assessed after each phase. The paper analyses the assessment of students and their perception of the value of the project. It is concluded that an integrated teaching and learning approach will increase students’ interest in the subject, understanding of theoretical concepts, research skills, business skills and life skills.

scholarly journals MIGC 2019 SYMPOSIUM: STRENGTH IN CREATING DIVERSIFIED SPACES IN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ON AGING

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S360-S361
Author(s):  
Adrienne T Aiken Morgan ◽  
Candace Brown ◽  
Gregory R Samanez-Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Real World Learning ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Minority Aging

Abstract Populations of minority older adults will continue to increase at an accelerated pace in the coming decades. As such, it is increasingly important to disseminate minority aging education and research topics in spaces that will prepare gerontology scholars to address the needs of diverse elders. This symposium will highlight efforts to diversify academic spaces by scholars engaged in minority aging education and research. The first presentation describes a service-learning pedagogical approach to teaching minority aging topics to graduate students. It will discuss how a gerontological social work course seeks to offer real-world learning experiences through community partnership. The second presentation discusses an experiential learning pedagogical approach to teaching social determinants of health to graduate students at a historically Black university and highlights how to apply theoretical concepts to creating community needs assessments and health promotion programming for the local community. The third presentation discusses efforts to teach undergraduate students about older LGBT individuals, who represent a growing group of minority elders. This presentation advocates for the use of various strategies for integrating both research and pedagogical approaches to increase knowledge and awareness of LGBT aging topics. The last presentation focuses on the promotion and dissemination of scholarship produced at minority-serving institutions (MSI) through the creation of a new open-source journal. This presentation describes publication challenges for tenure-track MSI faculty and developed opportunities for inclusiveness of such scholarship. The symposium discussant will summarize these challenges, opportunities, and implications to promote minority-focused gerontological topics in academia.

Time Will Tell

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Riess Jones
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Time Patterns ◽  
Environmental Events ◽  
Similar Dynamic ◽  
The Way

This book is about time and synchrony and the roles these constructs play in our everyday encounters with events in our world. It focuses on auditory events in music and speech with the aim of demonstrating the potential of concepts such as entrainment and resonance for explaining how we interact, in real time, with these events. The book is divided into two parts. Part I is devoted to introducing basic theoretical concepts such as entrainment and resonance as they apply to rhythmical properties of fast and slow environmental events. Part II applies these concepts to events in music and speech. An overarching theme holds that similar dynamic attending concepts underlie the way we attend to and perceive communicative time patterns in domains of music and speech.

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