Timbral Heuristics and the Sonorous Presence of Steven Jesse Bernstein

In recent years, music analysts have grappled with the sonic strategies from popular expressions that evade traditional notation. Their approaches often rely on harmonic spectrographs or various textual tools to decode the creative mechanics of these art forms. But for many practices with innate musicality—such as spoken-word poetry—these common techniques make limited explanatory headway. This article proposes an alternate path to fill the gaps: Adopt an analytic perspective, grounded in phenomenology, that listens for the musical subject’s negotiation of embodiment through their calculated treatment of timbre in the voice. Here, the analyst traces their perception of the subject’s bodily resonance through diagrams called timbral maps. And through these maps, two key concepts are discovered that structure the creator’s interior logic: timbral surfaces and timbral moments. Surfaces and moments are built into recognizable patterns, which in turn disclose the methods of these artists as lucid on their own terms. This “surface-moment” model is prototyped using a recorded performance of “This Clouded Heart” by the grunge-era Seattle poet and performance artist Steven Jesse Bernstein. The model reveals several stylistic tactics honed by Bernstein through his play with resonant shifts, but more significantly, argues for recasting timbre in analytic contexts: first, as a sustained and winding musical dimension, able to unfurl like other large-scale organizing principles; and second, as a heuristic capable of engaging listeners in an empathetic web between themselves and the subject through the mimetic connection of their bodies.

Electrode Classification and Retrieval Using Supported Vector Machine

Due to the similarities between electrode model and their CNC machining process, process design could be finished efficiently using the electrode automatic classification system as well as the existed standard process template. This study developed an automatic classification retrieval system of electrode model by applying a statistical approach, namely SVM model, to the classification of electrode model, where 3D Polar-Radius Surface Moment was used to extract the feature vector of the electrode model. Experiments showed a promising result with an average classification accuracy up to 85.72% in addition to the high efficiency and usability. Most important, the developed approach is capable of reusing existing knowledge and experience and as a result it makes the CNC programming process easier.

The surface properties of Alcohols containing sterically hindered Hydroxyl groups

The surface properties of several alcohols containing sterically hindered hydroxyl groups have been studied. Tricyclohexyl carbinol formed monolayers having a surface moment considerably greater than that of long-chain alcohols. It is suggested that this is due to the virtual inaccessibility of the C-O bond to a water molecule. The collapse phenomenon of tricyclohexyl carbinol is quite different from that expected for a compound of m.p. 91-92 �C. It appears that the molecules collapse to form a lens or glass, rather than a crystal. 1,1,3,3-Tetraphenyl propanediol-1,3 gave monolayers of similar surface properties. The other compounds tested did not give films of measurable stability.