scholarly journals Semiological Interpretation of the Electroacoustic Music Phenomenon

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Marius Salynas
Keyword(s):  
Sound Source ◽  
Electroacoustic Music ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
Open World ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Way

As evolving technologies become more massive and more easily accessible to virtually every user, as the speed of the global Internet grows faster and more, the composer’s relationship with these capabilities takes on new meanings. It was not so much the issues of accessibility and quantity that became relevant, but rather the issues of quality, artistic value, and the uniqueness of creation. This article attempts to review the principles of composing electroacoustic music based on semiological theory. Music, as a message, passes through the various stages of creation, transforming the consciousness of both its sender and receiver. It is important to capture, highlight and define these processes. The identification of oneself as a creator and a clear, unambiguous perception of one’s work provides a clear ideological and esthetic basis for new means of composition. Electroacoustic music opens the way to hear any possible sounds, infinity of sounds — from realistic to surreal. The listener’s traditional connection to physical sound is often severed: electroacoustic sound forms and qualities usually do not reveal the original sound source and cause. Composers face the dilemma of how to ground a new esthetic field in the wide-open world of sounds, how to develop more clearly defined methods of sound creation, how to understand and explain electroacoustic music.

scholarly journals English Phraseological Research on Until By/ Before Working as Complex Prepositions

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ai Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Prepositional Phrase ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Way

This corpora-based study shows that until by and until before, which are newly observed phraseological units (PUs) in contemporary English, function as complex prepositions (CPs). As an interesting phenomenon of present-day English, two prepositions are put together with a single meaning. Specifically, the prepositions in and on co-occur with various other prepositions, and each resulting prepositional phrase becomes established as a new CP with a single meaning like in at or in on. The combinations until by and until before have not been widely acknowledged and have been regarded as mistakes in previous studies. This study shows the meanings of the two phrases, the process of their establishment as new CPs and the way they gained their new meanings. To this end, the study carries out the following research procedures: (i) showing the frequencies of until by and until before in corpora from the synchronic and diachronic perspectives; (ii) differentiating until by and until before by semantically and syntactically clear regarding how until by and until before are used in context; and (iii) showing the kinds of prepositions that are used with until to form PUs as well as CPs.

scholarly journals The Advent of the Internet of Things in Airfield Lightning Systems: Paving the Way from a Legacy Environment to an Open World

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (21) ◽  
pp. 4724
Author(s):  
Enrico Buzzoni ◽  
Fabio Forlani ◽  
Carlo Giannelli ◽  
Matteo Mazzotti ◽  
Stefano Parisotto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Third Party ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Monitoring And Control System ◽  
Representational State Transfer ◽  
Open World ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
The Way

This paper discusses the design and prototype implementation of a software solution facilitating the interaction of third-party developers with a legacy monitoring and control system in the airfield environment. By following the Internet of Things (IoT) approach and adopting open standards and paradigms such as REpresentational State Transfer (REST) and Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) for message dispatching, the work aims at paving the way towards a more open world in the airfield industrial sector. The paper also presents performance results achieved by extending legacy components to support IoT standards. Quantitative results not only demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed solution, but also its suitability in terms of prompt message dispatching and increased fault tolerance.

scholarly journals R. Bukharaev’s poem “Prayer for the Cup” as a transcultural text

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 290-299
Author(s):  
Venera R. Amineva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Flow Transitions ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
Homogeneous Culture ◽  
The Way

The characteristics of a new type of literary discourse having a feature of transculturality is given on the material of a poem “Prayer for the Cup” (1989–1991) a significant work by R. Bukharaev. A global, multicultural and international world is reconstructed in the poem, the existence of which is determined by the idea of transitivity — simultaneity and continuous flow, transitions from one into another: epochs, events, topos, languages. The hero of this world — is a lonely stranger, walking along the road of life, linearly opening the autonomous world of his “I”. the history of his spiritual travel correlates with the way of Christ full of suffering. The poem is full of historical and literary allusions and reminiscences from the world literary works, performing an identifying function. It is stated that identification performed by different elements of a literary text is carried out both “on the borders”, “in the interval” between different traditions, as well as “within the limits”, “inside” a homogeneous culture. Therefore, it is multiple, and meanwhile fundamentally incomplete, “split”, “fluid”, “intermediate”, “flickering”, probabilistically multiple, constantly questioning its status and revealing the growing plasticity of the subject, who is in the process of constantly recreating its own “I”. A new form of worldview, the product of which is a phenomenon of transcultural literature, is formed by synthesizing tendency. It functions within the artistic world of the poem and overcomes the boundaries between different types of culture and traditions, demonstrating the way new meanings overcome it, tolerant in their content and functions, can be appear from confrontation. An ability of an artistic image to endless mutual overflowing and transformations of meaning is a new quality of poetic language corresponding to the peculiarities of the transcultural type of artistic consciousness.

Homology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Comparative Anatomy ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
History Of Biology ◽  
Theoretical Context ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Primitive Structure ◽  
Animal Anatomy ◽  
The Way

This article examines how the concept of homology is used as an expression of generality in the life sciences. Throughout its long history, homology expressed a quest for generality in the understanding of animal anatomy by suggesting that a diversity of forms resulted from modifications of a single ‘primitive’ structure. However, the meaning of this quest as well as the practices associated with it changed considerably with the different theoretical context of the life sciences. Thus, homology was an element of continuity in the history of biology and played a central role in some developments, particularly the emergence of evolutionary theory. This article first considers the use of homology in pre-transformist comparative anatomy and how it paved the way for the conceptualization of evolutionary theory before discussing the rise of new meanings of homology in genetics.

Theology and Catastrophe: A (Girardian) Semiotics of Re-Humanization

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Anthony W. Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Slow Motion ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Bible ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
The Way

Girardian anthropology tells us that the birth of human meaning and its signs are the result of a primitive catastrophe. But if these origins are exposed by the biblical record it is because another, transformative semiosis has opened in hu- man existence. Girard’s seminal remarks on the Greek logos and the logos of John, endorsing Heidegger’s divorce of the two, demonstrate this claim and its source in the nonviolence of the gospel logos. In effect, there is a second catastrophe, one embedded in the bible and reaching its full exposition in the cross, generating a new semiosis in humanity. The transformation may be measured by viewing the original semiosis in a Kantian frame, as a transcendental a priori structured by violence. The second catastrophe generates an equivalent new a priori of nonviolence. The work of Charles Peirce illustrates both the way in which interpretants (of signs) open us progressively to new meanings, and how this process may ultimately be conditioned by love. The catastrophe of the gospel, therefore, works both on the dramatic individual level, with Paul of the New Testament as the great example, but also in slow-motion over semiotic history, changing the meaning of existence from violence to nonviolence.

scholarly journals Aldo Rossi

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (61) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Alexandra Dias Fortes
Keyword(s):  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Internal Relation ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Georg Trakl ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Aldo Rossi offers a captivating account of the relationship between human life and material forms. Rossi says that he came to “the great questions”, and to his discovery of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Georg Trakl through Adolf Loos (Rossi 1982: 46). I will outline some connections between Loos, Trakl, and Wittgenstein that might help us to grasp the way in which Rossi’s assertive attitude concerning architecture gradually leans towards “forgetting architecture”. (The goal is not to try and justify how they might have influenced Rossi; rather the aim is to try to understand Rossi’s work with those connections as a backdrop; to outline a constellation of affinities.) The running thread being the internal relation between the object and the subject, i.e., “construction and the artist’s own life” (Lombardo 2003: 97). I will conclude by considering architectural form on the page, that is to say, in Rossi’s plans, “a graphic variation of the handwritten manuscript”, and drawings, “where a line is no longer a line, but writing” (Rossi 1981: 6), and finally by considering what he says about his architecture, namely, that it stands “mute and cold,” though it will still “creak” (Rossi 1981: 44), and give rise to “new meanings”.

scholarly journals A morte como um ritual dos vivos. Emoções, deslocamentos, influência médica e processos de higienização

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (290) ◽  
pp. 342-363
Author(s):  
Magda Luíza Mascarello
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

Este artigo é resultado de uma pesquisa, cujo objetivo foi o de identificar as representações sobre a morte e seus rituais que circulam em nossa sociedade e os significados que se mobilizam nesse processo. Para isso, foram utilizados os mecanismos de marketing e comercialização de objetos fúnebres em funerárias da região central de Curitiba/PR e a etnografia de um velório. A morte é compreendida como um ritual que condensa simultaneamente a separação, a passagem e a agregação. O estudo revela como os significados, que emergem desses rituais, foram se transformando ao longo da história das sociedades ocidentais, passando por importantes processos de medicalização e, inclusive de higienização, que agora são mobilizados e comercializados pelas funerárias. Esses processos incidiram diretamente na forma como as pessoas expressam seus sentimentos frente à morte de alguém e à inevitabilidade de seu próprio morrer, bem como na maneira de organizar e compreender os cerimoniais fúnebres. Estas transformações estabelecem novos significados para as noções de público e privado, redefinindo suas fronteiras e constituindo novas configurações semânticas sobre a morte.Abstract: This article is the result of a piece of research the objective of which was to identify the representations about death and its rituals that circulate in our society and the meanings that are mobilized in this process. For this purpose, we used the marketing and commercialization mechanisms surrounding funereal objects in undertakers in the central region of Curitiba/Paraná and the ethnography of a wake ceremony. Death is understood as a ritual that condenses separation, passage and aggregation simultaneously. The study reveals how the meanings that emerge from these rites gradually changed along the history of the Western societies, going through important medicalization processes, (including hygiene) that are now mobilized and commercialized by the undertakers. These processes influenced directly the way people express their feelings when confronted with someone’s death and the inevitability of their own dying, as well as the way they organize and understand the funereal ceremonies. These changes established new meanings for the notions of public and private, redefining their borders and developing new semantic configurations about death.Keywords: Death. Funereal rites. Emotions. Medicalization.

scholarly journals Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Martin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Games ◽  
Touch Screen ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Carnal hermeneutics claims that the body makes sense of the world by making distinctions and evaluating those distinctions in a non-predicative mode. This article makes the case that ludohermeneutics can be enriched by attending to the way in which the body makes sense of digital games and advances carnal hermeneutics as a way of theorising this process. The article introduces carnal hermeneutics, argues for its relevance to ludo-hermeneutics, and outlines three examples of how carnal hermeneutics can be used to theorise sense-making in digital games. The first example demonstrates the capacity for touch-screen games to put us in a new relationship with the image. The second example shows how generic control schemas can take on new meanings in different games. The third example shows how marketing of game controllers draws on conventional attitudes to touch to make digital game touch meaningful.

scholarly journals Making Everything Available. British Library Research Services and Research Data Strategy

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-169
Author(s):  
Rachael Kotarski ◽  
Torsten Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Research Data ◽  
British Library ◽  
Digital Service ◽  
Open World ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Service Portfolio ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

The way that researchers generate, analyse and share information keeps evolving at a rapid pace. To ensure that it is well equipped to serve its global user base for years to come, the British Library is transforming the way it works too, from the physical buildings to its digital service portfolio. One key programme, Everything Available, will ensure the Library’s continued support for research with services to enable access to information in an open and timely manner. This paper will describe the activities planned within Everything Available, with a particular focus on the aims of the Library’s recently refreshed Research Data Strategy. It will give an insight into the challenges and opportunities faced by a National Library in providing relevant services in an ‘open’ world.

scholarly journals Rosa e a vida das plantas: a metafísica da mistura no Grande Sertão: Veredas

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-134
Author(s):  
Renata Sammer
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Working Hypothesis ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Living Species ◽  
Ontological Turn ◽  
The Way

Resumo: O propósito deste artigo é investigar a filosofia da forma na escrita rosiana a partir das referências ao mundo natural encontradas no Grande sertão: veredas. Desse modo, busca-se não apenas iluminar a característica invenção rosiana, mas também descortinar uma metafísica, ou melhor, uma compreensão da metafísica que, em parte, afina-se com a contemporânea “virada ontológica”, que hoje instiga os estudos antropológicos, filosóficos e literários. Como identificado na ficção rosiana, a formulação de metafísicas distintas visa desconstruir a tradicional metafísica da representação de modo mais eficaz do que a crítica “pós-moderna” a ela dirigida. De fato, a variedade das espécies viventes que marca a escrita de Rosa termina por aproximar comparativamente metafísicas, perspectivas que se reúnem ao redor de um núcleo poético comum, “vital e irrepresentável” (ROWLAND, 2011, p. 18). Logo, este artigo privilegia a vida das plantas a fim de ressaltar a forma movente ou, ainda, o informe, que Rosa cultiva como ser da ficção. Como hipótese de trabalho, notamos que a variedade das formas das flores é aproximada do amor, assim compondo uma morfologia, e que a vingança, que conduz à guerra que entrecorta o mato, é o modo como essa cultura das formas moventes constrói sentidos e dá origem a novas formas. Como conclusão, veremos que a metafísica das plantas, tal como trabalhada no Grande sertão, ilumina a proposta filosófica de Rosa e coloca sua obra sob uma nova luz.Palavras-chave: metafísica da mistura; poesia; ontologia; Guimarães Rosa; filosofia da natureza.Abstract: The purpose of the present article is to investigate the philosophy of form in Rosian writing contained in the references to the natural world found in Grande Sertão: Veredas. Thus, we seek not only to illuminate the characteristic Rosian invention, but also to unveil a metaphysics, or rather an understanding of metaphysics which, in part, is tuned to the contemporary “ontological turn,” that presently instigates anthropological, philosophical, and literary studies. As identified in Rosian fiction, the formulation of different metaphysics aims to deconstruct the traditional metaphysics of representation in a more effective way than the “postmodern” critique addressed to it. In fact, the variety of living species that characterizes Rosa’s writings ends up comparatively approaching different metaphysics, perspectives that gather around a common, “vital and unrepresentable” (ROWLAND, 2011, p. 18) core. Thus, the emphasis given to the life of plants in this article seeks to emphasize the moving form or, likewise, what is formless, that Rosa cultivates as the nature of fiction. As a working hypothesis, we note that the variety in the form of flowers is approximated to love, thus composing a morphology, and that revenge, which drives the war that cuts through the bushes, is the way in which this culture of moving forms shapes new meanings and originates new forms. As a conclusion, we will see that the metaphysics of plants, as suggested in Grande Sertão, illuminates Rosa’s philosophical proposal and places his work under a new light.Keywords: metaphysics of mixture; poetry; ontology; Guimarães Rosa; philosophy of nature.

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