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Wild Sonic Blooms
No full textWild Sonic Blooms - A live multimedia performance
Haco (Vocalist/lyricist-composer/multi-instrumentalist/sound-artist) from Japan will be joining local composer/performers Kent Macpherson, Jeremy Mayall, Megan Berry and visual artist Paul Bradley to share a brand new work in the RAMP gallery space.
"Wild Sonic Blooms" is a live semi-improvised textural multimedia work that has been developed through the process of an international research fellowship.
MORE INFO ABOUT HACO:
At her studio, Mescalina, in Kobe, Japan, she has created numerous recordings both as producer and engineer. As a musician and sound-artist, Haco has also given performances and created live installations throughout Japan and the world. With her unique sensibility, Haco has developed her own genre of art based on principles of post-punk, electroacoustics, the avant-garde, improvisation, post-rock, environmental sound, and technology. Haco also frequently lectures and gives workshops on various sound-related topics. In 2005, her CD Stereo Bugscope 00 was awarded a prize in the digital music category at Prix Ars Electronica in Austria
Towards more meaningful measures in healthcare
No full textMost health systems continue to be restructured and modified without much thought to underlying public policy. Patient safety, quality and innovation are monitored through a range of agencies while performance measures are regularly measured and the results published. Primary healthcare in many systems remains fragmented. To achieve value of the whole health system as well as its component parts, the development of an outcomes-based approach to performance measurement is required to guide teh delivery of constantly improving health services. This is a critical issue in health systems management
Jarvis's Physical Examination & Health Assessment 2e
No full textThis is an Australian and New Edition Assessment Textbook. Peer reviewed the manuscript for the new addition
Caring for colleagues: noticing factors leading to disciplinary action
No full textArticle submitted to Nursing Review for publication January/February 2016
Using Bisect K-Means Clustering Technique in the Analysis of Arabic Documents
No full textIn this article, I have investigated the performance of the bisect K-means clustering algorithm compared to the standard K-means algorithm in the analysis of Arabic documents. The experiments included five commonly used similarity and distance functions (Pearson correlation coefficient, cosine, Jaccard coefficient, Euclidean distance, and averaged Kullback-Leibler divergence) and three leading stemmers. Using the purity measure, the bisect K-means clearly outperformed the standard K-means in all settings with varying margins. For the bisect K-means, the best purity reached 0.927 when using the Pearson correlation coefficient function, while for the standard K-means, the best purity reached 0.884 when using the Jaccard coefficient function. Removing stop words significantly improved the results of the bisect K-means but produced minor improvements in the results of the standard K-means. Stemming provided additional minor improvement in all settings except the combination of the averaged Kullback-Leibler divergence function and the root-based stemmer, where the purity was deteriorated by more than 10%. These experiments were conducted using a dataset with nine categories, each of which contains 300 documents
MESH Sculpture Hamilton; curatorial board member. 2011 - 2016
Get PDFMESH Sculpture Hamilton is bringing the best of contemporary public art to the Waikato through projects that tell local stories, stimulate a culture of generosity and inspire community involvement and collaboration
Online project collaboration and on-campus implementation
Get PDFDistance learning students in the Electrical strand of the NZDE complete projects as part of their summative assessment. One project requires collaboration with team mates via online environment, with the final implementation of the project when the students meet on-campus near the end of the semester
Nothing but time: Bergson’s duration, systems theory and musical creativity
Get PDFAbstract: Traditionally creativity was explained as a mysterious force issuing from a deity, or, in the case of artistic creation, from the intuitive “genius” of the human mind. More recently it has been demystified and theorised as a mechanism – ranging from materialist accounts of evolution in science to theoretical reflections on art and culture as the product of complex cultural systems – creative systems theory. Such systems theories, as applied to popular music, will be the focus of this article. Bergson can be used to argue that neither model (systems theories or the “genius’ model) is adequate, because both assume that “all is given” – i.e. either that there is a first cause or author, or that phenomena can be adequately understood as determined by a set of mechanical laws that arise from scientific observation. What both accounts omit, according to Bergson, is time. Time means that all is not given: the future is unknown, which is both frightening (because human knowledge is not absolute) and exciting, because it makes novelty possible. Rather than understanding the world in terms of fixed, eternal truths, Bergson argued for the primacy of change and difference, and this is one with his insistence on time, or as he called it, duration. Duration is not clock time, divisible, measurable, linear, predictable, spatial, but more like time as experienced, though not reducible to experience. Rather it is a way of linking “psychical existence” or “psychical life” to continuous, indivisible, open-ended processes of change. Bergson proposed that creativity is a fundamental life process, and that human creativity provides the best means to participate in, if not understand, it. Creativity is a differentiating movement in time. Examples discussed include research questions that typically frame practical music projects at postgraduate level, framed in terms of genre analysis – it is argued that analytical questions are more suitable to assess finished work than that in process. Also discussed is musician Brian Eno, the role of duration in his work and its relation to discourses of creativity
Professional Boundaries & Relationships Workshop
Get PDFThese workshops are designed to help nurses to define and explore professional relationships within the clinical, cultural and social communities in which they work and live. Being involved in caring and advocating for other people can involve complex and challenging personal and professional situations. Workshop sessions will assist participants to explore issues that they have experienced in their professional lives and examine practical and effective ways to manage challenging situations
International Festival del cartel de la Habana 4x3 Poster Project
Get PDF4×3 is an exhibition, a memory-bank, and a game. Conceived and organised by Xavier Meade and John Mandelberg, this project draws on the personal archives of four artist/designers who have been active in creating and collecting politically inspired posters during the past four decades: Chris McBride (Auckland), John Mandelberg (Hamilton), John Phillips (London) and Xavier Meade (Raglan). Our personal archives became both the subject, and content, of the game and the exhibition