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Four Stories - Contextual Statement
No full text2019 / Composition & Performance
w/ Jon Aveyard
Four Stories is a collaboration between Dr Joshua Horsley and Dr Jon Aveyard that constitutes a practice-based research output across the disciplines of music and sound art. A new site-specific composition performed by string quartet and tuned percussion throughout the 4-storey atrium of the Harris Museum, this innovative work represents the continuation of Horsley’s practice-based research into dialogues formed between music and sound art, and immersion and interaction.
Composed with a mixed-method approach over a two-year period, traditional notation, digital audio, acoustic, and interior architectural studies were all employed as part of the compositional process. Through these methods, a unique composition and performance is created that invites an audience to explore sonic interactions and musical arrangement through their spatial positioning throughout the 120ft high performance space. Indeed, the piece is completed by this audience interaction. The composition and performance’s unique use of space interrogates architecture qua music. Consonance, dissonance, melody, rhythm, and timbre are approached from the perspective of verticality whereby the acoustic spatialisation and diffusion of musical qualities meet the quantities and allowances of the architecture.
Contextually, the work continues the relationships between music, sound art, and architecture. The research’s exploration of listening through architecture has commonality with the work of Korinsky Studio’s Volum (2014) and 3845 m/s (2013). Through verticality, it finds association with Espen Sommer Eide and Signe Lidén’s Vertical Studies (2017). Four Stories innovates through its triangulation of principles of music, sound art, and architecture. It integrates spatiality, verticality, immersion and acoustics into its score and performance.
Produced by Into a Better Shape with support from Arts Council England, the University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire County Council, and Preston City Council, Four Stories was performed alongside Steve Reich’s Pendulum Music on 28th April 2019 at the Harris Art Gallery, Museum and Library, UK
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Music Improvisation Magic
Get PDFThis book builds on Partridge’s successful doctoral thesis on group musical improvisation (2023) which reported on a sustained period with a single participant group. Aiding the research’s long-term aims to articulate functionality beyond technique in order to assist musicians and music educators in their improvisations, it translates thesis findings into accessible language and is updated to incorporate initial trialing of findings with a wider range of players through his ongoing public workshops.
Responding to extensive pedagogical experience, the format is innovative, not telling musicians what to do, rather, informing, inspiring and challenging. Intended as a primer, with heavy emphasis on practical exercises, diagrams, colour and original paintings, focused text gives potent advice on 34 key points. Prominence is given to Partridge’s ‘Offers System’ - providing a method to engage group improvisation. Whilst such systems are not unheard of (see Philip Morton’s ‘System 50/50’). Offers provides a unique six element breakdown - Active Listening, Engaging the Idea, Developing the Idea, Realizing an Idea is Tired, Finding a Way Out or to Move on and Ending. Ideal for teacher/facilitator use, this approach methodically develops individual and group practice. The text reinforces that how musicians learn vitally impacts their improvisations, particularly their work with pitch. Also highlighted is the need for improvisers to audiate – meaning to think in music. Partridge acknowledges the possibility within improvised music of what he labels ‘place’ - periods of time where the music identifiably stays around a musical idea, sound, rhythm or mood.
The book’s production significantly enhances research dissemination, enabling worldwide access via eBook and mail-order. Further aiding significance and contextual framing are interviews with 22 improvisers, from Partridge’s band members to Carl Palmer of ELP. Impact enhanced by a public launch in the Preston Jazz Festival, workshops inc. Blackburn College and a presentation at Huddersfield University
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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