scholarly journals Electroacoustic Music and the Digital Future

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Barry Truax
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Electroacoustic Music ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Digital Audio Workstation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Definition Of

This article outlines the author's views on the contemporary social and economic situation of electroacoustic music and digital technology in general. The dominance of commercial interests in shaping the listener, the artist, and the definition of culture is examined. Issues associated with digital technology, such as standardization, de-skilling, and upgrades, are discussed with respect to artistic practice. It is argued that marginalized artforms such as electroacoustic music have benefited from the windsurfer availability of the digital audio workstation (DAW) for production and the Internet for distribution, but no analogous avenue exists for the creation of the consumer.

scholarly journals UNDERSTANDING THE MEME TERM FROM A GENERAL AND ARCHITECTURAL POINT OF VIEW

space&FORM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (44) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Alina Holovatiuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Genetic Environment ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Definition Of

This article deals with the notion of meme from the general, web and architectural point of view. The history of the creation and the process of further transformation of the term meme, which gradually penetrated from the initial genetic environment into the environment of media and technologies, is described. The disagreements are mentioned both in the interpretation of the concept of a meme and in the definition of a meme as a certain useful or harmful element of culture. By comparing the Internet meme and its main properties with the architectural meme, the characteristics of the last one are indicated.

A Beamformer to Play with Wall Reflections: The Icosahedral Loudspeaker

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Zotter ◽  
Markus Zaunschirm ◽  
Matthias Frank ◽  
Matthias Kronlachner
Keyword(s):  
Computer Music ◽  
Electroacoustic Music ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
Pierre Boulez ◽  
Acoustic Equations ◽  
Digital Audio Workstation ◽  
Beam Patterns ◽  
Auditory Objects

The quote from Pierre Boulez, given as an epigraph to this article, inspired French researchers to start developing technology for spherical loudspeaker arrays in the 1990s. The hope was to retain the naturalness of sound sources. Now, a few decades later, one might be able to show that even more can be done: In electroacoustic music, using the icosahedral loudspeaker array called IKO seems to enable spatial gestures that enrich alien sounds with a tangible acoustic naturalness. After a brief discussion of directivity-based composition in computer music, the first part of the article describes the technical background of the IKO, its usage in a digital audio workstation, and psychoacoustic evidence regarding the auditory objects the IKO produces. The second part deals with acoustic equations of spherical beamforming, how the IKO's loudspeakers are controlled correspondingly, how we deal with excursion limits, and the resulting beam patterns generated by the IKO.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CREATION AND APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.V. Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
International Rule

The review presents the debatable positions of scientists on the influence the digital technology spread on the international law and international relations. The review describes transformations in international law influenced by algorithms in international decisionmaking. The author reveals the impact the Internet and social networks platforms has on international rule.

Computational Designing of Sonic Morphologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
David Worrall
Keyword(s):  
Music Composition ◽  
Computer Code ◽  
Electroacoustic Music ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Digital Audio Workstation ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Sound Transformation ◽  
Musical Sounds

Much electroacoustic music composition and sound art, and the commentary that surrounds them, is locked into a materialist sound-object mindset in which the hierarchical organisation of sonic events, especially those developed through abstraction, are considered antithetical to sounds ‘being themselves’. This article argues that musical sounds are not just material objects, and that musical notations, on paper or in computer code, are not just symbolic abstractions, but instructions for embodied actions. When notation is employed computationally to control resonance and gestural actuators at multiple acoustic, psychoacoustic and conceptual levels of music form, vibrant sonic morphologies may emerge from the quantum-like boundaries between them. In order to achieve that result, it is necessary to replace our primary focus of compositional attention from the Digital Audio Workstation sound transformation tools currently in vogue, with those that support algorithmic thinking at all levels of compositional design.

Songwriting, Digital Audio Workstations, and the Internet

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Broadband Internet ◽  
Internet Connectivity ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Digital Audio Workstation

This chapter investigates the interrelationship between songwriting process and product, focusing on two digital tools that became available to songwriters toward the end of the twentieth century: the digital audio workstation (DAW) and broadband internet connectivity. Two songwriter case studies are used—a “digital immigrant” who began to write songs professionally before either of these tools were available, and a “digital native” who has always used DAWs and an internet connection in his songwriting. The participants were asked to describe their creative processes in detail, and to reflect on how these tools may have influenced their decision making and artistic direction. From these and other studies the author attempts to describe behaviors and affordances engendered by digitally enabled songwriters and to speculate regarding these tools’ influence on the creative product.

The specifics of mergers and acquisitions of innovative and technological companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 1186-1204
Author(s):  
A.V. Fedorov ◽  
Zh.S. Peredera
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Comparison Study ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Subject. The article reviews distinctions of M&A deals in innovation and technology. Objectives. We determine the specifics of innovative and technological companies and its impact on the synergy, process, finance, valuation of M&A deals. Methods. The article employs methods of generalization, comprehensive analysis, systematization, specification, comparison, study into trends and the structure. Graphics and tables are used to display the findings. Results. We conducted the content analysis of the term Mergers & Acquisitions, thus finding the divergence of foreign and the Russian approaches. We provide our own definition of the concept and analyzed the dynamics of the overall M&A market and the innovation and technological sector. The article describes operational distinctions of innovative and technological companies and compares them with conventional sectors. The article determined the specifics of synergy, process, finance, valuation of M&A deals in innovation and technology. Conclusions and Relevance. The innovation and technology sector saw M&A deals become more frequent for the recent five years. What distinguishes them is the number of startups and infant businesses, large M&A deals in order to develop their ecosystems, involve digital technology companies. Traditional approaches should be adapted for structuring M&A deals, their arrangement, financing and valuation of target companies. The findings can lay the groundwork for further studies into the specifics of the innovation and technology sector, M&A deals, and set up the methodological framework for the valuation of innovative and technological companies. The findings can also immediately support parties of M&A deals from theoretical perspectives.

Understanding the Functions of Jurisdictional Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Jerker B. Svantesson
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
Important Concept ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter takes us into the domain of legal theory and legal philosophy as it places the questions of Internet jurisdiction in a broader theoretical, and indeed philosophical, context. Indeed, it goes as far as to (1) present a definition of what is law, (2) discuss what are the law’s tools, and (3) to describe the roles of law. In addition, it provides distinctions important for how we understand the role of jurisdictional rules both in private international law and in public international law as traditionally defined. Furthermore, it adds law reform tools by introducing and discussing the concept of ‘market sovereignty’ based on ‘market destroying measures’––an important concept for solving the Internet jurisdiction puzzle.

Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 649-666
Author(s):  
Andrea Renda
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Expert Group ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Ethics Guidelines ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level

This chapter assesses Europe’s efforts in developing a full-fledged strategy on the human and ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI). The strong focus on ethics in the European Union’s AI strategy should be seen in the context of an overall strategy that aims at protecting citizens and civil society from abuses of digital technology but also as part of a competitiveness-oriented strategy aimed at raising the standards for access to Europe’s wealthy Single Market. In this context, one of the most peculiar steps in the European Union’s strategy was the creation of an independent High-Level Expert Group on AI (AI HLEG), accompanied by the launch of an AI Alliance, which quickly attracted several hundred participants. The AI HLEG, a multistakeholder group including fifty-two experts, was tasked with the definition of Ethics Guidelines as well as with the formulation of “Policy and Investment Recommendations.” With the advice of the AI HLEG, the European Commission put forward ethical guidelines for Trustworthy AI—which are now paving the way for a comprehensive, risk-based policy framework.

Analysing and Transcribing Electroacoustic Music: the experience of the Portraits polychromes of GRM

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
ÉVELYNE GAYOU
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Electroacoustic Music ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Internet Site ◽  
Multimedia Documents ◽  
Multimedia Tools ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
The 1950S

Portraits polychromes are a series of books associated with multimedia documents presented on the Internet site of the GRM since 2001. In releasing this collection, our primary concern was to increase awareness of the electroacoustic repertoire and the reserves in the GRM archives. The GRM, being a pioneering centre of electroacoustics, is fortunate to possess a consistent and significant reserve dating back to the beginning of the 1950s. At present, the catalogue contains around 2,000 works, accompanied with supplementary documents: composer's biographies, reviews, photographs, documentary movies, radio broadcasts, recorded public lectures, theoretical research work, transcriptions and analyses. In addition to the heritage value of the GRM's collection, the enterprise of the Portraits polychromes, with the aid of multimedia tools, aims to advance the progress of research on analysis and the transcription of musical works.

The Case for a Law against the Online Distribution of Non-Consensual Intimate Images in Uganda

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-128
Author(s):  
Ronald Kakungulu-Mayambala ◽  
Rukundo Solomon ◽  
Victor Phillip Makmot ◽  
Diana Rutabingwa
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
The Creation

The distribution of sexually graphic or intimate images of individuals on the internet without their consent is on the rise in Uganda. Several female celebrities and lesser-known individuals have fallen victim to this phenomenon in recent years. This article examines the civil and criminal remedies currently available to the victims. The article argues that these remedies are insufficient to deal with the challenge posed by the non-consensual distribution of these intimate images in the online environment and argues for the creation of a new law that specifically addresses this issue.

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