Beyond the Studio: Embedding the island in music production on the Isle of Eigg

Shima The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures ◽

10.21463/shima.108 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah MacKinnon ◽

Matt Hill

Keyword(s):

Cold Water ◽

Original Compositions ◽

Warm Water ◽

Small Islands ◽

Traditional Role ◽

Music Production ◽

Residency Programme ◽

Emotional Geographies ◽

The Tropics

Over the last four decades a number of recording studios have been developed on small islands. The first group of these were in warm water locales, exploiting the standard appeal of the tropics as places of rest and tranquillity. More recently a number of studios have developed in cold water islands, promoting the natural environment (and sometimes less than temperate weather) as encouraging reflection and creativity. This article analyses one aspect of the latter, in the form of the Visitations artist- in-residency programme run by Lost Map Records on the Scottish Isle of Eigg. Several of the musicians who have participated in residencies collected sounds from around Eigg that were embedded in original compositions. This has involved the extension of the studio space into the landscape in a process that stands in contrast to the traditional role of studios to insulate recordings from the external world. This article identifies that the first series of Visitations residences produced musical engagements with Eigg that represent the emotional geographies experienced by the musicians in relation to the landscape, providing more locally grounded projects than those produced in more traditional studios on warm water islands.

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Temperature Is Sufficient to Condition a Flavor Preference for a Cold-Paired Solution in Rats

Chemical Senses ◽

10.1093/chemse/bjaa050 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (7) ◽

pp. 563-572

Author(s):

Kristen E Kay ◽

Laura E Martin ◽

Kimberly F James ◽

Sashel M Haygood ◽

Ann-Marie Torregrossa

Keyword(s):

Home Cage ◽

Cold Water ◽

Cold Temperature ◽

Warm Water ◽

Flavor Preference ◽

Different Temperatures ◽

Stimulus Temperature ◽

Preference Tests

Abstract Increasing evidence suggests that stimulus temperature modifies taste signaling. However, understanding how temperature modifies taste-driven behavior is difficult to separate as we must first understand how temperature alone modifies behavior. Previous work has suggested that cold water is more rewarding and “satiating” than warm water, and water above orolingual temperature is avoided in brief-access testing. We explored the strength of cold water preference and warm water avoidance by asking: (1) if cold temperature alone was sufficient to condition a flavor preference and (2) if avoidance of warm stimuli is driven by novelty. We addressed these questions using custom-designed equipment that allows us to monitor and maintain solution temperatures. We conducted two-bottle preference tests, after pairing Kool-Aid flavors with 10 or 40 °C. Rats preferred the flavor paired with cold temperature, both while it was cold and for 1 day while solutions were presented at 22 °C. We then examined the role of novelty in avoidance of 40 °C. Rats were maintained on 10, 22, or 40 °C water in their home cage to increase familiarity with the temperatures. Rats were then subject to a series of brief-access taste tests to water or sucrose at 10 to 40 °C. Rats that had 40 °C experience licked more to 40 °C water, but not sucrose, during brief-access testing. In a series of two-bottle preference tests, rats maintained on 40 °C water had a decreased preference for 10 °C water when paired opposite 40 °C water. Together, these data contribute to our understanding of orosensory-driven behavior with water at different temperatures.

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Predicting cold-water bleaching in corals: role of temperature, and potential integration of light exposure

Marine Ecology Progress Series ◽

10.3354/meps13336 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 642 ◽

pp. 133-146

Author(s):

PC González-Espinosa ◽

SD Donner

Keyword(s):

Coral Bleaching ◽

Cold Water ◽

Light Exposure ◽

Light Attenuation ◽

Florida Keys ◽

Cold Temperature ◽

Warm Water ◽

Coral Tissue ◽

Effect Of Temperature ◽

Type I

Warm-water growth and survival of corals are constrained by a set of environmental conditions such as temperature, light, nutrient levels and salinity. Water temperatures of 1 to 2°C above the usual summer maximum can trigger a phenomenon known as coral bleaching, whereby disruption of the symbiosis between coral and dinoflagellate micro-algae, living within the coral tissue, reveals the white skeleton of coral. Anomalously cold water can also lead to coral bleaching but has been the subject of limited research. Although cold-water bleaching events are less common, they can produce similar impacts on coral reefs as warm-water events. In this study, we explored the effect of temperature and light on the likelihood of cold-water coral bleaching from 1998-2017 using available bleaching observations from the Eastern Tropical Pacific and the Florida Keys. Using satellite-derived sea surface temperature, photosynthetically available radiation and light attenuation data, cold temperature and light exposure metrics were developed and then tested against the bleaching observations using logistic regression. The results show that cold-water bleaching can be best predicted with an accumulated cold-temperature metric, i.e. ‘degree cooling weeks’, analogous to the heat stress metric ‘degree heating weeks’, with high accuracy (90%) and fewer Type I and Type II errors in comparison with other models. Although light, when also considered, improved prediction accuracy, we found that the most reliable framework for cold-water bleaching prediction may be based solely on cold-temperature exposure.

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FAITHâ€“BASED COMMUNITIES AND POLITICS IN DULLSTROOM-EMNOTWENI: LOCAL STORIES OF IDENTITY

Oral History Journal of South Africa ◽

10.25159/2309-5792/1594 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 45-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christina Landman

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Service Delivery ◽

Special Focus ◽

Traditional Role ◽

Cultural Conflicts ◽

Local Identities ◽

Political Interests ◽

Local Municipality ◽

The Face

A majority of the black community of Dullstroom-Emnotweni in the Mpumalanga highveld in the east of South Africa trace their descent back to the southern Ndebele of the so-called â€˜Mapoch Grondenâ€™, who lost their land in the 1880s to become farm workers on their own land. A hundred years later, in 1980, descendants of the â€˜Mapoggersâ€™ settled in the newly built â€˜townshipâ€™ of Dullstroom, called Sakhelwe, finding jobs on the railways or as domestic workers. Oral interviews with the inhabitants of Sakhelwe â€“ a name eventually abandoned in favour of Dullstroom- Emnotweni â€“ testify to histories of transition from landowner to farmworker to unskilled labourer. The stories also highlight cultural conflicts between people of Ndebele, Pedi and Swazi descent and the influence of decades of subordination on local identities. Research projects conducted in this and the wider area of the eMakhazeni Local Municipality reveal the struggle to maintain religious, gender and youth identities in the face of competing political interests. Service delivery, higher education, space for women and the role of faith-based organisations in particular seem to be sites of contestation. Churches and their role in development and transformation, where they compete with political parties and state institutions, are the special focus of this study. They attempt to remain free from party politics, but are nevertheless co-opted into contra-culturing the lack of service delivery, poor standards of higher education and inadequate space for women, which are outside their traditional role of sustaining an oppressed community.

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Music publications in Galicia in the 19th — beginning of the 20th centuries: production, advertising, pricing

Proceedings of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv ◽

10.37222/2524-0315-2019-11(27)-20 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 481-499

Author(s):

Olga Osadtsia

Keyword(s):

Book Publishing ◽

Initial Form ◽

Music Production ◽

Bibliographic Information ◽

Financial Factor ◽

Determining Factors ◽

Book Selling ◽

The Cost ◽

Import Trade

The main forms and methods of distribution of music publications in Galicia in the XIX — early XX centuries are scrutinized. The demand for the relevant music production is one of the determining factors in the formation of the musical publishing repertoire, its structure and special features in the process of the existence of music publications in society. It is noted that export-import trade in books has become especially widespread in Galicia; there are facts about the links between publishers and booksellers in Lviv and Warsaw. The basic types of presentation of book advertising of music products, its regional peculiarities, and ways of its placement are considered. Special emphasis is placed on the role of specialized press in the advertising of music products, typical examples of press advertising. The registration bibliographic information as the initial form of music bibliography and the forms of its compilation are distinguished. The emphasis is placed on the importance of thorough critical articles as a separate typological group of bibliographic publications under the conditions of formation of the Ukrainian bibliography, in which the main importance is given to the disclosure of the content and evaluation of the reviewed work. The combination of article genres and reviews on examples of separate publications by Stanislav Lyudkevych and Ivan Franko is traced. Special book-selling and book-publishing catalogs are characterized. While executing the marketing and advertising function, these directories were addressed primarily to foreign consumers and distributors (the so-called commissioners).One way to distribute music is to subscribe through libraries. A significant financial factor in the distribution of any printed matter was the price that depended primarily on the cost of each process associated with its publication. Keywords: music publications, bookstore, book-trading enterprise, advertising of publications, pricing.

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Applications of Energy Beams in Material and Device Processing

MRS Proceedings ◽

10.1557/proc-23-25 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

Author(s):

G.J. Galvin ◽

L.S. Hung ◽

J.W. Mayer ◽

M. Nastasi

Keyword(s):

Ion Beam ◽

High Energy ◽

Ion Beams ◽

Traditional Role ◽

Near Surface ◽

Device Processing ◽

Composition Modification ◽

Directed Energy ◽

Transistor Fabrication

ABSTRACTEnergetic ion beams used outside the traditional role of ion implantation are considered for semiconductor applications involving interface modification for self-aligned silicide contacts, composition modification for formation of buried oxide layers in Si on insulator structures and reduced disorder in high energy ion beam annealing for buried collectors in transistor fabrication. In metals, aside from their use in modification of the composition of near surface regions, energetic ion beams are being investigated for structural modification in crystalline to amorphous transitions. Pulsed beams of photons and electrons are used as directed energy sources in rapid solidification. Here, we consider the role of temperature gradients and impurities in epitaxial growth of silicon.

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Evaluating the role of contracting and expanding rainforest in initiating cycles of speciation across the Isthmus of Panama

Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspb.2012.0706 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 279 (1742) ◽

pp. 3520-3526 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Brian Tilston Smith ◽

Amei Amei ◽

John Klicka

Keyword(s):

Bird Species ◽

Tropical Regions ◽

Isthmus Of Panama ◽

Species Pairs ◽

The Matrix ◽

High Species Richness ◽

The Rich ◽

The Tropics ◽

The Impact

Climatic and geological changes across time are presumed to have shaped the rich biodiversity of tropical regions. However, the impact climatic drying and subsequent tropical rainforest contraction had on speciation has been controversial because of inconsistent palaeoecological and genetic data. Despite the strong interest in examining the role of climatic change on speciation in the Neotropics there has been few comparative studies, particularly, those that include non-rainforest taxa. We used bird species that inhabit humid or dry habitats that dispersed across the Panamanian Isthmus to characterize temporal and spatial patterns of speciation across this barrier. Here, we show that these two assemblages of birds exhibit temporally different speciation time patterns that supports multiple cycles of speciation. Evidence for these cycles is further corroborated by the finding that both assemblages consist of ‘young’ and ‘old’ species, despite dry habitat species pairs being geographically more distant than pairs of humid habitat species. The matrix of humid and dry habitats in the tropics not only allows for the maintenance of high species richness, but additionally this study suggests that these environments may have promoted speciation. We conclude that differentially expanding and contracting distributions of dry and humid habitats was probably an important contributor to speciation in the tropics.

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Outside the Box: How Building Relationships Within your Organisation can Help Develop Your Information Service

Legal Information Management ◽

10.1017/s1472669606000041 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 12-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Janine Bryant

Keyword(s):

Strategic Planning ◽

Information Service ◽

Traditional Role ◽

Building Relationships ◽

Modern Library ◽

Outside The Box

The modern Library or Information Service (IS) cannot, and should not, operate in isolation from the strategic planning of its wider organisation. Most IS units already tie their aims and objectives to the organisation's strategic mission, but how can the IS move from the confines of its traditional role to have greater influence and responsibility within the wider organisation? How can building relationships with key individuals/departments strengthen the overall role of the IS?

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