Too Many Notes: Computers, Complexity and Culture in Voyager

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
George E. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Music Composition ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
And Function ◽  
Independent Behavior

The author discusses his computer music composition, Voyager, which employs a computer-driven, interactive & “virtual improvising orchestra” that analyzes an improvisor's performance in real time, generating both complex responses to the musician's playing and independent behavior arising from the program's own internal processes. The author contends that notions about the nature and function of music are embedded in the structure of software-based music systems and that interactions with these systems tend to reveal characteristics of the community of thought and culture that produced them. Thus, Voyager is considered as a kind of computer music-making embodying African-American aesthetics and musical practices.

Reimagining the archive as thick sound: A case study of Dhrupad from Bettiah and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58
Author(s):  
Sumitra Ranganathan
Keyword(s):  
Complex I ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Indian Classical Music ◽  
And Function ◽  
Archival Work

The ephemerality of music is a consuming philosophical problem; it is also a practical dilemma for archivists and researchers. For oral traditions such as Indian classical music, notations, recordings and transcriptions fail to capture much of what is communicated in musical performance, which problematizes the creation and function of archives. This article explores an approach to archiving musical practices in relation to constitutive processes of emplacement, a complex I denote by the term ‘thick sound’. Using a rich and historic Dhrupad tradition as a case study, I discuss how I used documentary, material, aural, embodied and sensory performance data to construct my archive. I investigate the ways in which such documentation captures ecologies of music-making and the challenges posed for the analysis of histories of (thick) sound. I conclude by discussing the implications for theorizing archival work as active intervention, mediating relationships of past, present and future.

Bodies of Music / Songs of Magic

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-199
Author(s):  
Guthrie P. Ramsey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Compositional Techniques ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Religious Dimensions ◽  
Musical Practices

Rev. John F. Watson published a tract in 1819 meant to discourage black Methodist congregants from musical practices that they obviously enjoyed but that he loathed. Despite Watson’s bias, his words provide modern-day readers with a sense of how the music sounded, its communal nature, and its in-real-time compositional techniques—with striking clarity. Unbeknownst to him, these qualities would constitute foundational principles for future music-making in black communities. Drawing on modern theorists, the Fields’s study of “racecraft,” and Sylvan’s on “the religious dimensions of popular music,” Ramsey examines a range of archival documents and images from the nineteenth century to illustrate how fresh readings can provide useful reinterpretations of what was seen in an earlier era as negative assessments of black artistry

Composing the Spectrum

2021 ◽  
pp. 449-474
Author(s):  
Victor Lazzarini
Keyword(s):  
Computer Music ◽  
Music Composition ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Spectral Music ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Technical Point ◽  
Music Making

This chapter is dedicated to the exploration of spectral music composition. It begins with a general introduction to fundamental aspects of spectral music-making. This discusses the role of metaphors in supporting the realisation of musical ideas, as well as concepts such as space, both physical and virtual. This is followed by a complete analysis of the processes in the composition of Mouvements, a piece of pure spectrally-oriented computer music. The discussion is fully illustrated with code examples taken from the composition, and spectrograms detailing important elements of the piece. The volume concludes with a summary of what the term spectrum signifies from both a musical and a technical point of view.

Real-Time Craving Differences Between African American and Caucasian Smokers

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan M. Paris ◽  
Brian L. Carter ◽  
Andrew J. Waters ◽  
Jason D. Robinson ◽  
Cho Y. Lam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Real Time

Online Measurement of Glucose Consumption from HepG2 Cells Using an Integrated Bioreactor and Enzymatic Assay

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Adams ◽  
Radha Krishna Murthy Bulusu ◽  
Nikita Mukhitov ◽  
Jose Mendoza-Cortes ◽  
Michael Roper
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Glucose Concentration ◽  
Hepg2 Cells ◽  
Glucose Consumption ◽  
Microfluidic System ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Online Measurement ◽  
Fluorescent Assay ◽  
And Function ◽  
Integrated Bioreactor

In this work, we developed a microfluidic bioreactor for optimizing growth and maintaining structure and function of HepG2, and when desired, the device could be removed and the extracellular output from the bioreactor combined with enzymatic glucose reagents into a droplet-based microfluidic system. The intensity of the resulting fluorescent assay product in the droplets was measured, and was directly correlated to glucose concentration, allowing the effect of insulin on glucose consumption in the HepG2 cells to be observed and quantified online and in near real-time.

Online Measurement of Glucose Consumption from HepG2 Cells Using an Integrated Bioreactor and Enzymatic Assay

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Adams ◽  
Radha Krishna Murthy Bulusu ◽  
Nikita Mukhitov ◽  
Jose Mendoza-Cortes ◽  
Michael Roper
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Glucose Concentration ◽  
Hepg2 Cells ◽  
Glucose Consumption ◽  
Microfluidic System ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Online Measurement ◽  
Fluorescent Assay ◽  
And Function ◽  
Integrated Bioreactor

In this work, we developed a microfluidic bioreactor for optimizing growth and maintaining structure and function of HepG2, and when desired, the device could be removed and the extracellular output from the bioreactor combined with enzymatic glucose reagents into a droplet-based microfluidic system. The intensity of the resulting fluorescent assay product in the droplets was measured, and was directly correlated to glucose concentration, allowing the effect of insulin on glucose consumption in the HepG2 cells to be observed and quantified online and in near real-time.

Could There Be Deleuzian Assessment in Music Education?

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
Lauren Kapalka Richerme
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Continuous Assessment ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Contemporary Education

Authors of contemporary education and arts education policies tend to emphasize the adoption of formal, summative assessment practices. Poststructuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s emphasis on ongoing differing and imaginative possibilities may at first glance appear incompatible with these overarching, codified assessments. While Deleuze criticizes the increasing use of ongoing assessments as a form of control, he posits a more nuanced explanation of measurement. This philosophical inquiry examines four measurement-related themes from Deleuze’s writings and explores how they might inform concepts and practices of assessment in various music teaching and learning contexts. The first theme suggests that each group of connective relations, what Deleuze terms a “plane of immanence,” demands its own forms of measurement. Second, Deleuze emphasizes varieties of measurement. Third, those with power, what Deleuze terms the “majority,” always set the standard for measurement. Fourth, Deleuze derides continuous assessment. His writings suggest that music educators might consider that assessments created for one musical practice or style should not transcend their own “plane of immanence,” that a variety of nonstandardized assessments is desirable, that the effect of measurement on “minoritarian” musical practices must be examined carefully, and that it is essential to ponder the potentials of unmeasured music making.

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