Superabundance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
International Travel

Thanks to developments in particle physics, astronomy, and genetics, as well as international travel, finance, and communication the cultural horizon of the 21st century is acquainted with both the immensely large and the sub-atomically small. Composers responded to this new imaginative horizon with works that express both extremes of scale, and of superabundant resources and extravagance. This chapter considers these responses in a number of ways, from the musicircus-type spectacles of Lisa Bielawa and Alvin Curran to the electroacoustic microsound compositions of Horacio Vaggione and Barry Truax, from Glen Branca’s massed guitars to Pierre Boulez’s proliferating elaborations, and from Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf’s complexism to the extrahuman augmentations of the electronic music studio.

scholarly journals The BlipVert Method

Intonations ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
William Northlich
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Acoustic Instruments ◽  
Movement Building ◽  
And Performance

The confluence of composition and performance is a compelling phenomenon which confronts many 21st century electronic music artists, brought about primarily through an independent “DiY” ethos to creativity and the ubiquity of advanced musical, and non-musical, technology. Techniques of software programming, improvisation, reconstitution of electric and acoustic instruments, sampling, and manipulation of audio in a live setting (to name a few) may all find a place in an artist’s methodology regardless of style. It may be even be said that the techniques employed by an artist delineate the style itself, e.g. “controllerism,” “turntablism,” “live PA,” etc. The following paper offers an in-depth structural analysis of the composition and performance fundamentals of BlipVert, a pseudonym under which I have been presenting electronic music to the general public for almost two decades. The BlipVert composition “New Choomish,” from BlipVert’s 2010 release “Quantumbuster Now” (Eat Concrete Records, NL), is examined as a construct which manifests an expressive faculty in both live and studio environments, consequently demonstrating a profoundly synthesized framework of sonic and gestural principles. Keywords: composition, performance, improvisation, movement, building-blocks, Northlich, BlipVert, New Choomish

PROSPECT OF PARTICLE PHYSICS IN CHINA

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (29) ◽  
pp. 4669-4676
Author(s):  
HESHENG CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Synchrotron Radiation ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Multiple Discipline ◽  
Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility ◽  
The Many

The nuclear physics and particle physics researches in China have a long tradition. BEPC is a milestone of the particle physics in China. The many interesting physics results were obtained from BEPC. Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility based on BEPC became the major synchrotron radiation facility in China. The upgrade of BEPC, which will increase the luminosity by two orders of magnitude, is going smoothly. The nonaccelerator based experiments were promoted also. Professor Yang made very important contribution to Chinese physics, especially to promote the large science facilities for the multiple discipline researches. The particle physics faces the great challenges, and meets the great opportunities in the 21st century. The medium-term plan of the particle physics in China was discussed.

scholarly journals TRANSMIGRATION, MULTICULTURALISM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN EUROPE

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Christian Grililo La Torre ◽  
Katerine Francesca Montalto
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Structural Feature ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
International Travel ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Relationship

All European societies are ethnically and culturally plural. Historically, the most significant source of cultural (not necessarily synonymous with ethnic) diversity in European nation-states has been regional, often a result of conjoining economically, socially, culturally, linguistically - and indeed ethnically - disparate places into single polities, and (certainly in Northern and Western Europe) engaging them in what the French call nationalization. This paper discusses the relationship between cultural diversity in Europe, and that international movement described as “transnational” (transmigration). Though not as new or as homogeneous as some have proposed, transmigration will grow in importance in the 21st century. Groups or individuals may return to places of origin or “assimilate” into receiving societies, but without resort to unacceptable levels of control of the movement of people, goods and ideas, transmigration will be a prominent structural feature of European societies for the foreseeable future: do we really wish to monitor every exchange between receiving and sending societies? In any case, modern systems of communication (e.g. the Internet), and the cheapness and rapidity of mass international travel make such surveillance difficult, even impossible in a transnational, globalizes world.

Population Aging and Japanese International Travel in the 21st Century

2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Sakai ◽  
Jeffrey Brown ◽  
James Mak
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
International Travel

Microfabrication research at the National Submicron Facility

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 86-89
Author(s):  
E.D. Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Speed ◽  
New Technology ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Particle ◽  
New Science ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Intermediate Domain ◽  
Circuit Function

Most microelectronics devices and circuits operate faster, consume less power, execute more functions and cost less per circuit function when the feature-sizes internal to the devices and circuits are made smaller. This is part of the stimulus for the Very High-Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) program. There is also a need for smaller, more sensitive sensors in a wide range of disciplines that includes electrochemistry, neurophysiology and ultra-high pressure solid state research. There is often fundamental new science (and sometimes new technology) to be revealed (and used) when a basic parameter such as size is extended to new dimensions, as is evident at the two extremes of smallness and largeness, high energy particle physics and cosmology, respectively. However, there is also a very important intermediate domain of size that spans from the diameter of a small cluster of atoms up to near one micrometer which may also have just as profound effects on society as “big” physics.

Indirect measurements in micro-space with the EM

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 598-599
Author(s):  
Sterling P. Newberry
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Storage Space ◽  
Indirect Measurements ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Adequate Information ◽  
Compelling Reason ◽  
The Standard Model

At the 1958 meeting of our society, then known as EMSA, the author introduced the concept of microspace and suggested its use to provide adequate information storage space and the use of electron microscope techniques to provide storage and retrieval access. At this current meeting of MSA, he wishes to suggest an additional use of the power of the electron microscope.The author has been contemplating this new use for some time and would have suggested it in the EMSA fiftieth year commemorative volume, but for page limitations. There is compelling reason to put forth this suggestion today because problems have arisen in the “Standard Model” of particle physics and funds are being greatly reduced just as we need higher energy machines to resolve these problems. Therefore, any techniques which complement or augment what we can accomplish during this austerity period with the machines at hand is worth exploring.

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