scholarly journals Speech Melody and the Evolution of the Minimalist Aesthetic in Steve Reich’s The Cave

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-44
Author(s):  
Eric Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Vocal Music ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Verbal Material ◽  
Melodic Contour ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Speech Melody

This paper seeks to explain Reich's use of the "speech melody" technique in his video opera The Cave in terms of the minimalist reliance on impersonal processes and the economical use of musical material. For this piece Reich uses digitally sampled speech fragments with an emphatic melodic contour as the basis for composition. These speech melodies provide the primary building blocks out of which the work is constructed. Because the musical material is actually contained in the verbal material, Reich is able to provide innovative solutions to some of the traditional problems facing the composer of vocal music. This technique not only enables Reich to reintroduce a compelling expressive element into his work, but also enables him to reconcile the composer's search for rigorously autonomous musical structures with his documentary interest in the subjective concerns and social problems of the outside world.

Section 4.a Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia PIZZOCARO ◽  
Pınar KAYGAN ◽  
HARMAN Kerry ◽  
Erik BOHEMIA
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Design Council

Co-design is a process in which designers and users collaborate as ‘equals’ to develop innovative solutions. Co-design methods are increasingly used by professional designers to facilitate and enable users to co-develop innovative solutions for ‘themselves’. For example, the Design Council is advocating the use of co-design methods to support the development of practical innovative solutions to social problems such as increased cost of elderly care and tackling child poverty. The involvement of users in developing solutions acknowledges that their take up is dependent on the ways users create and negotiate meanings of objects and services.

Musical training improves memory for instrumental music, but not vocal music or words

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-159
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. P. Wilbiks ◽  
Sean Hutchins
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Musical Training ◽  
Vocal Music ◽  
Verbal Material ◽  
The Other ◽  
Musical Experience ◽  
Facilitative Effect ◽  
Musical Excerpts ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Brain

In previous research, there exists some debate about the effects of musical training on memory for verbal material. The current research examines this relationship, while also considering musical training effects on memory for musical excerpts. Twenty individuals with musical training were tested and their results were compared to 20 age-matched individuals with no musical experience. Musically trained individuals demonstrated a higher level of memory for classical musical excerpts, with no significant differences for popular musical excerpts or for words. These findings are in support of previous research showing that while music and words overlap in terms of their processing in the brain, there is not necessarily a facilitative effect between training in one domain and performance in the other.

Prosody, melody and rhythm in vocal music

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Teresa Proto
Keyword(s):  
Vocal Music ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
Language And Music ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Linguistic Material

The last decades have witnessed a shift from anecdotal remarks concerning the “marriage” of music and lyrics in songs towards a more scientific approach to the matter. Textsetting has thus become the object of more formal analyses accounting for the regularities observed in individual singing traditions with regard to the mapping of linguistic material on musical structures. This paper illustrates the nature of the problem and reflects the status of the research on textsetting in living traditions. It is addressed to a wide audience of linguists interested in the relationship between language and music and points to the challenges that await the further development of this field of studies under the umbrella of linguistics.

scholarly journals Improving safety of mechanization devices with cardan drives

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-112
Author(s):  
Roman Vladimirovich Shkrabak
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Dynamic Development ◽  
Innovative Solutions

Brief information is given on the need for dynamic development of agricultural production on the basis of solving a number of social problems related to the so-called "optimization" measures in terms of the vital activities of the basis of agricultural production - villages and villages, and rural workers. The possibility of further increasing the level of mechanization and automation of agricultural production and its safety on the basis of innovative solutions of a preventive nature is noted. In relation to the level of safety of mechanization devices, a new scheme is given for protecting employees from injury with cardan shafts by automatically stopping their rotation in the event of no protective locks.

Fostering Social Innovation through E-Collaboration

2014 ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Ayla Esen
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Increasing awareness in social problems and the high complexity of social challenges has boosted social innovation efforts in recent years. Social innovation refers to new and innovative solutions to social problems that create social value, involve public good, and affect the society, mostly developed by participation of stakeholders who have interests in the problem. Social innovation leads to social value created through a series of collaborative efforts of public, private, and non-governmental organizations. This chapter highlights the importance of collaboration in social innovation and examines the role of e-collaboration as a group coordination and communication mechanism in the social innovation processes. The first part of the chapter presents evidence on what social innovation is and describes how social innovation intertwines with collaboration. The second part of the chapter defines the key conceptual elements of e-collaboration and explores how e-collaboration can foster social innovation concerning each conceptual element.

scholarly journals Social Innovation: Integrating Micro, Meso, and Macro Level Insights From Institutional Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 887-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakomijn van Wijk ◽  
Charlene Zietsma ◽  
Silvia Dorado ◽  
Frank G. A. de Bakker ◽  
Ignasi Martí
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cycle Model ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Innovation Processes

Social innovations are urgently needed as we confront complex social problems. As these social problems feature substantial interdependencies among multiple systems and actors, developing and implementing innovative solutions involve the re-negotiating of settled institutions or the building of new ones. In this introductory article, we introduce a stylized three-cycle model highlighting the institutional nature of social innovation efforts. The model conceptualizes social innovation processes as the product of agentic, relational, and situated dynamics in three interrelated cycles that operate at the micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis. The five papers included in this special issue address one or more of these cycles. We draw on these papers and the model to stimulate and offer guidance to future conversations on social innovations from an institutional theory perspective.

Fostering Social Innovation through E-Collaboration

2017 ◽  
pp. 54-67
Author(s):  
Ayla Esen
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Increasing awareness in social problems and the high complexity of social challenges has boosted social innovation efforts in recent years. Social innovation refers to new and innovative solutions to social problems that create social value, involve public good, and affect the society, mostly developed by participation of stakeholders who have interests in the problem. Social innovation leads to social value created through a series of collaborative efforts of public, private, and non-governmental organizations. This chapter highlights the importance of collaboration in social innovation and examines the role of e-collaboration as a group coordination and communication mechanism in the social innovation processes. The first part of the chapter presents evidence on what social innovation is and describes how social innovation intertwines with collaboration. The second part of the chapter defines the key conceptual elements of e-collaboration and explores how e-collaboration can foster social innovation concerning each conceptual element.

scholarly journals The City of Digital Social Innovators

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Chiara Certomà ◽  
Mark Dyer ◽  
Antonella Passani
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
The City

The concept of digital social innovation (DSI) refers to a fast-growing set of initiatives aimed at providing innovative solutions to social problems and needs by deploying the potential of the social web and digital media. Despite having been often interpreted as synonymous with digitally enhanced social innovation, we explain here why, in consideration of its epistemological and socio-political potentialities, we understand it as an interdisciplinary set of practices able to interpret and support the changes of a society that is more and more intrinsically virtual and physical at the same time. Notably, we briefly discuss how DSI processes can be functionally mobilized in support of different socio-political projects, ranging from the mainstream neoliberal to the revolutionary ones. Eventually, we provide a synopsis of the articles included in this thematic issue, by aggregating them accordingly to the main stakeholders promoting the DSI projects, being more bottom-up oriented or more institutional-based.

scholarly journals Discovering the Latest Scientific Pathways on Tissue Spheroids: Opportunities to Innovate

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 331
Author(s):  
Marisela Rodriguez-Salvador ◽  
Baruc Emet Perez-Benitez ◽  
Karen Marcela Padilla-Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Technology Intelligence ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Tissue Models ◽  
Rapid Transformation

Tissue spheroids consist of a three-dimensional model of cells which is capable of imitating the complicated composition of healthy and unhealthy human tissue. Due to their unique properties, they can bring innovative solutions to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, where they can be used as building blocks for the formation of organ and tissue models used in drug experimentation. Considering the rapid transformation of the health industry, it is crucial to assess the research dynamics of this field to support the development of innovative applications. In this research, a scientometric analysis was performed as part of a Competitive Technology Intelligence methodology, to determine the main applications of tissue spheroids. Papers from Scopus and Web of Science published between 2000 and 2019 were organized and analyzed. In total, 868 scientific publications were identified, and four main categories of application were determined. Main subject areas, countries, cities, authors, journals, and institutions were established. In addition, a cluster analysis was performed to determine networks of collaborations between institutions and authors. This article provides insights into the applications of cell aggregates and the research dynamics of this field, which can help in the decision-making process to incorporate emerging and innovative technologies in the health industry.

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