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Like an operatic quartet
Get PDFAny reader drawn to this first edition’s cover image of summer catalogue pastels, sand dunes and deck chair, or by Catherine Robertson’s happy association with the romance genre, is bound for a deeper richer read than expected. Bookended by a literal eye of dog, from the perspective of King, the resident black Labrador of Gabriel’s Bay the township, ‘Gabriel’s Bay’ wisely refrains from the picturesque or breaking wave scenario so popular in beach art. Robertson‘s town is an anywhere and everywhere coastal New Zealand settlement; familiar ribbon development along the stretch of bay, with supermarket, two pubs, one closed, a petrol station, doctor’s surgery and pop-up café. The nearest town is Hampton, just ‘over the hill’, by a windy and precipitous country road
Assorted performances: The colourful piano event
Get PDFPerformances as a solo pianist of:
- Suspended Time (composed by Nick Braae)
- Refract (composed by Jeremy Mayall)
- Pastorale (composed by Martin Lodge)
- Red Kites (composed by Steph Singer)
At The Colourful Piano concert, presented by the Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville, 21 March 2018
Intrapsychic response to secret music
No full textA collaboration with Paul Bradley
Intrapsychic Response to Secret Music
window mural in response to an unheard piece of music.
Paul and Jeremy have collaborated on a range of projects over the past few years. A mutual curiosity about how the senses connect inspires their fusing of visual and sonic art forms.
There are many words that are used to describe both visual art and sound - decay, colour, gesture, wet/dry, hard/soft, texture, and patterns. These similarities create entry points for the exploration of shared concepts across different media.
This latest collaboration is a process-driven work in two phases. The first phase is Jeremy’s composition of a unique piece of music. This serves as a provocation for phase two, Paul’s interpretation of the music as imagery.
The sonic element remains purely for the ears of the two collaborators. The audience will only ever experience the visual work; the sounds are accessed through the eyes and imagination.
The development of a menthol solution for use during sport and exercise
Get PDFMenthol mouth-swilling has been shown to improve performance across differing exercise modalities, yet no work has been conducted to ascertain the preferred concentration of menthol within a swill. Colour has also been shown to influence psychophysiological outcomes, and may influence the efficacy of ergogenic aids. We conducted two experiments: one to ascertain preferred menthol concentration (0.005–0.105% menthol), the second to assess colour preference (Light Blue, Dark Blue, Light Green, Dark Green, Red). Participants rated swills for Smell, Taste, Freshness, Mouth Feel and Irritation (plus Appearance in the second trial) via 15 cm Visual Analogue Scales (VAS), having swilled and expectorated 25 mL of fluid. Both trials employed a crossover design, with tasting order assigned by Latin squares. Differences were assessed for statistical significance (p < 0.05) using one-way repeated measures ANOVAs. Standardised mean differences ±90% confidence intervals were calculated to assess the magnitude of any observed differences. No significant differences were found between concentrations for total VAS score, but higher concentrations demonstrated a greater number of small effects. Similarly, no significant differences between colours were found. Small effects were found when Light Green was compared to Dark Green and Red. Effects were trivial when Light Green was compared to Light Blue (0.05 ± 0.20) and Dark Blue (0.19 ± 0.32). We recommend athletes employ a Light Green or Light Blue 0.1% menthol mouth-swill
How to improve and manage effective and efficient online customer service
Get PDFThe aim of this research is to help improve and manage effective and efficient online customer service and from the literature two main research questions were found. The reason for this research is to help online customer service and this idea was generated through the researcher as they want to have their own online business in the future. The key findings of the research is that the longer participants have been shopping online the more trust they have with online stores and the longer they have been shopping online the more they would be affected by negative feedback about an online store. One major recommendation is to build relationships with customers, online stores need to have an online live chat so customers can ask questions at any time while shopping. Another major recommendation is maintaining service recovery, by having service recovery procedures in place and offering unhappy customer with a small gesture so that they know they are being valued which should increase customer loyalty
Shepherd: Premiere [with live score performance]: HGAF2018
No full textLive performance of the score for the premiere of the feature film.
'Shepherd' - a film by Julia Reynolds.
World Premiere of New Zealand Science Fiction Feature Film SHEPHERD accompanied by live string quartet soundtrack.
The Green family, travelling home to Earth encounter a phenomenon. The star system disappears leaving them without navigation. A light appears and 13 year old Eden Green believes this light will lead them home. With options running out, Eden’s parents release the cargo and set a course to follow the light.
However, back on Earth, no record of the stars disappearing exists – Her parents are convicted of treason. Years later, Eden stumbles on an old travel brochure. She is stunned to see an image of a beach - a location she has seen in a recurring dream. She leaves her life and ventures out to find this beach. The journey is fraught with isolation and self-doubt. Eden returns to her past, her memories and follows what she has always been given - the guide.
The film is accompanied by a live performance from Jeremy Mayall’s beautifully composed film score.
Score for string quartet, piano and electronics.
(notated score and audio recording)
Conducted by Jeremy Mayal
From one world to another
No full textA live structured improvisation.
Jeremy Mayall, Kent Macpherson, Yotam Levy, Horomona Horo and Paul Bradley.
Building upon explorations that began with the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival, this new work introduces interpretations of cosmic ideas into a soundworld firmly based in the natural ambience of New Zealand.
A brand new show FROM ONE WORLD TO ANOTHER will take audiences on a journey with a mesmerizing multimedia experience like no other
Stalled momentum
Get PDFJeremy Mayall: Stalled Momentum
world premiere - a sense of momentum built around small repeating
parts.
A minimalist compostion for four pianists.
(Performed on two pianos by David Hall, Nick Braae, David Sidwell
and Jeremy Mayall
What are the chances? - Wallace Digital 2018
No full textA collaborative audio-visual installation with James Sutherland.
What Are The Chances?
Synchronicity: The experience of two or more events that are causally unrelated, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner.
Apophenia: the human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns within random data.
The images and music in this piece are related, or at least they seem to be. There is a beginning, a middle and an end. They last for roughly the same amount of time; there is a crescendo as the clouds combine, crashing inexorably in soft collision and from this, we find parallels and create meaning. We have expectations of how this should play.
All is not as it seems.
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Stakeholder disclosure in the consumer and finance industries
Get PDFDisclosures of information are important for disseminating information and the functioning of profit and non-profit organisations. The organisation is required to disclose information to stakeholders through different ways such as interim quarterly reports, and annual reports, with much additional information provided voluntarily. The annual report is found to be the most vital source of information about an organisations activities, financial and non-financial. By using annual
reports, stakeholders are getting updated with the company’s quarterly and annually performances. To measure the level of information disclosed in annual reports, disclosure indices measure and assess the level of information. By using a disclosure index, researchers can determine which information companies find the most important and which are the least important. Past research indicates that disclosures vary across industries due to stakeholder influences in the respective industries. This study investigates the level of disclosure in annual reports of the consumer service Industry and the financial Industry. For this research, eight companies were sampled and analysed using 20 selected disclosure items relative to four stakeholder groups. Disclosure indices were used to measure and compare the level of disclosures for both industries. The results of this study showed that consumer services industry disclose more information to stakeholders than the financial industry. The stakeholder disclosed to most by both industries was the shareholder while community was the least disclosed to. The lack of disclosure to some stakeholders indicates a stakeholder management
phenomenon. Disclosure could be improved by all industries and more disclosure to particular stakeholders