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[KNTU DJ]
No full textPhotograph of KNTU DJ in booth holding headphones. The back of the photograph is stamped with "Public Information North Texas State University Denton, Texas 76203." Handwritten on the back are the words "Speech + Drama.
Rethinking live electronic music: a DJ perspective
No full textThe author critiques the conventional understanding of live electronic music through empirical research on his own DJ practice and investigates others working in the field. In reviewing the opinions of theorists and practitioners in both the live electronic music genre and DJ-ing he argues against the body/machine dialectic that has determined much of the thinking in the former. The author forms a notion of the DJ as a real-time composer working beyond traditional binary distinctions who brings the human body and machine into a mutual relationship. Through practice-led research he charts an investigation beginning in physical human gesture and culminating in digital machine repetition. He concludes that mechanical and digital repetition do not obscure human agency in the production of live works and that this concern is imaginary
MiX.mi booth. A space for experiencing electronic music
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALEQuesto lavoro consiste nella progettazione di un booth da posizionare nei festival di musica elettronica per l'incubatore di DJ miX.mi. MiX.mi è uno spazio collaborativo, situato a Milano, che mira a supportare i DJ emergenti ad affermarsi nel mondo della musica. È uno spazio di interazione dedicato agli attori del business della musica elettronica, il che lo rende un terreno veramente fertile per lo sviluppo professionale e l'accelerazione dei suoi membri. L'obiettivo principale di questo booth è la diffusione della proposta dell'incubatore e dei talenti emergenti che ospita, attraverso un'esperienza immersiva.
Lo sviluppo del progetto di tesi si basa sull'esplorazione degli spazi esperienziali temporanei, con particolare focus sul campo della musica, quali strumento di branding e promozione. A questa esplorazione è seguita l'analisi di casi studio di ispirazione per il progetto. Sulla base di queste fasi preliminari, è stata sviluppata la proposta progettuale, illustrata nella tesi.
miX.mi booth si compone di tre spazi principali che offrono tre esperienze alternative rivolte a 3 diverse tipologie di utenti: un'area lounge, collegata a un infopoint, in cui l'utente è invitato a prendersi una pausa dal festival, stimolato nei sensi da effetti di luce e musica; 4 recording capsule, in cui l'utente può registrare una traccia e mettere in pratica ciò che i dj fanno ogni giorno; e infine un live stage che ospita le performance dal vivo dei DJ ospitati dall'incubatore, e di altri dj amatoriali.
Come risultato finale, la proposta trasmette l'identità dell'incubatore in modo immersivo, coinvolgendo gli utenti, promuovendo i suoi servizi e adattandosi perfettamente all'ambiente della musica elettronica e dei festival musicali.This work consists on the design of a project for a booth to be located at electronic music festivals for the Dj incubator miX.mi. MiX.mi is a collaborative space, located in Milan, which aims to support emergent Djs to succeed in the music world. It is a space of interaction between most of the actors of the electronic music business, what makes it a truly fertile ground for the professional development and acceleration of its members. The main objective of this booth is the dissemination of the company's proposal and the emerging talents it hosts, through an immersive experience.
The development of the thesis is based on an investigation on the role of 'ancillary' experiential spaces in the music field for branding and promotion. This stage is followed by an analysis of case studies that are relevant to the project and inspiring to its concept. Finally the design of the booth is carried out.
It consists of three main spaces that provide three alternative experiences. These are: a lounge area connected to an infopoint where the user is stimulated in his/her senses by light effects and music; capsules where the user can record a track and get hands on with what djs do every day; and a live stage that hosts performances both from attendees and djs incubated at miX.mi, giving the possibility to visualize amateur work and spread the production of the incubator.
As a final result, the proposal conveys the identity of the brand, involves the users, promotes its services, and adapts correctly to the environment of electronic music and the environment of music festivals
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[DJ at 2008 Carnaval]
No full textA photograph of a DJ at the sound booth during Carnaval, a UNT Multicultural Center event. He has his hands on the controls and a pair of headphones partially on. His t-shirt reads "I am Joaquin" and there are paper flags and balloons decorating the space
[DJ at 2008 Carnaval]
No full textA photograph of a DJ at the sound booth during Carnaval, a UNT Multicultural Center event. He has his hands on the controls and a pair of headphones partially on. His t-shirt reads "I am Joaquin" and there are paper flags and balloons decorating the space
hpDJ: An automated DJ with floorshow feedback
No full textMany radio stations and nightclubs employ Disk-Jockeys (DJs) to provide a continuous uninterrupted stream or “mix” of dance music, built from a sequence of individual song-tracks. In the last decade, commercial pre-recorded compilation CDs of DJ mixes have become a growth market. DJs exercise skill in deciding an appropriate sequence of tracks and in mixing 'seamlessly' from one track to the next. Online access to large-scale archives of digitized music via automated music information retrieval systems offers users the possibility of discovering many songs they like, but the majority of consumers are unlikely to want to learn the DJ skills of sequencing and mixing. This paper describes hpDJ, an automatic method by which compilations of dance-music can be sequenced and seamlessly mixed by computer, with minimal user involvement. The user may specify a selection of tracks, and may give a qualitative indication of the type of mix required. The resultant mix can be presented as a continuous single digital audio file, whether for burning to CD, or for play-out from a personal playback device such as an iPod, or for play-out to rooms full of dancers in a nightclub. Results from an early version of this system have been tested on an audience of patrons in a London nightclub, with very favourable results. Subsequent to that experiment, we designed technologies which allow the hpDJ system to monitor the responses of crowds of dancers/listeners, so that hpDJ can dynamically react to those responses from the crowd. The initial intention was that hpDJ would monitor the crowd’s reaction to the song-track currently being played, and use that response to guide its selection of subsequent song-tracks tracks in the mix. In that version, it’s assumed that all the song-tracks existed in some archive or library of pre-recorded files. However, once reliable crowd-monitoring technology is available, it becomes possible to use the crowd-response data to dynamically “remix” existing song-tracks (i.e, alter the track in some way, tailoring it to the response of the crowd) and even to dynamically “compose” new song-tracks suited to that crowd. Thus, the music played by hpDJ to any particular crowd of listeners on any particular night becomes a direct function of that particular crowd’s particular responses on that particular night. On a different night, the same crowd of people might react in a different way, leading hpDJ to create different music. Thus, the music composed and played by hpDJ could be viewed as an “emergent” property of the dynamic interaction between the computer system and the crowd, and the crowd could then be viewed as having collectively collaborated on composing the music that was played on that night. This en masse collective composition raises some interesting legal issues regarding the ownership of the composition (i.e.: who, exactly, is the author of the work?), but revenue-generating businesses can nevertheless plausibly be built from such technologies
Characterisation of DJ1 (PARK7) in human brain: possible involvement in idiopathic Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
No full textMutations in the DJ‐1 gene can induce the development of early‐onset Parkinson's disease
(PD) through a loss of protein function. Currently any possible role for DJ‐1 in sporadic PD
remains undetermined. To address this, we have studied the characteristics and activities of
DJ‐1 in post‐mortem human brain tissue in order to gain insights into its contribution to the
development of PD and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Western blotting revealed DJ‐1 protein expression to be reduced in several brain regions
associated with PD pathology including nigra, striatum and frontal cortex. Similarly levels of
DJ‐1 mRNA were also shown to also be lower in PD striatum and frontal cortex suggesting a
transcriptional regulation of protein expression in human brain. Further analysis of DJ‐1
gene expression showed PD related changes to be variable throughout the brain, with
regions like the amygdala and entorhinal cortex displaying an up‐regulation. DJ‐1 protein
was also shown to undergo increased oxidation in PD cases, highlighting the elevated
oxidative stress conditions in PD. By using immunoprecipitation to investigate a possible role for DJ‐1 as an in vivo regulator
of translation, we found DJ‐1 protein associates with RNA transcripts for selenoproteins,
PTEN/Akt pathway components and mitochondrial subunits of complex 1. Protein levels for
a number of these transcripts were altered in PD tissue without any parallel change in
mRNA levels. DJ‐1 is reportedly involved in a diverse range of cellular activities and its
proclivity to associate with multiple RNA species provides a simple biochemical mechanism
for this. Moreover it demonstrates that under conditions of elevated oxidative stress, DJ‐1
can instigate a rapid and compartmentalised up‐regulation of pro‐survival proteins in a
transcriptionally independent manner.
Analysis of DJ‐1 in tauopathies showed co‐localisation with 3R and 4R tau, implicating a
possible chaperone function for DJ‐1. Unlike in PD, no altered expression of DJ‐1 mRNA and
protein was observed
Interview of author Phenderson Dj\ue8l\ued Clark at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida
No full textAward winning author and founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine, Phenderson Dj\ue8l\ued Clark, is interviewed by Grace Chun, project coordinator at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, as part of the 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. Mr. Clark shares how his time in Trinidad, his exposure to afro-creole folktales, Hindu stories, Muslim festivals as well as his exposure to Twilight Zone and old horror movies from his parents nurtured a deep interest in the fantastic. Mr. Clark defines afrofuturism as something to do with the future, whether it is how Black people will exist in the future or futuristic ideas. He describes how his writing fits more with retro-afrofuturism, where you imbue the past with future elements and explore a past that never was. Mr. Clark says that afrofuturism offers a way to resist the kind of future in a world like now and how to form a resistance against it; it empowers people to imagine a different future, a possibility of a different future. He also talks about how afrofuturism extends beyond literary work into music and other creative forms
Identification of the recognition sequence and target proteins for DJ-1 protease
No full textDJ-1, the product of familial Parkinson's disease gene and an oncogene, is a cysteine protease which plays a role in anti-oxidative stress reaction. In this study, we identified the recognition sequence for DJ-1 protease by using recombinant DJ-1 and a peptide library. Protease activity of DJ-1 lacking C-terminal alpha-helix (DJ-1 Delta H9) was stronger than that of full-sized DJ-1, and the most susceptible sequence digested by DJ-1 Delta H9 was valine-lysine-valine-alanine (VKVA) under the optimal conditions of pH 5.5 and 0 mM NaCl. Divalent ions, especially Cu2+, were inhibitory to DJ-1's protease activity. c-abl oncogene 1 product (ABL1) and kinesin family member 1B (KIF1B) containing VKVA were digested by DJ-1 Delta H9. Structured summary of protein interactions: DJ-1 cleaves IUF1B by enzymatic study (View interaction) DJ-1 cleaves ABLI by enzymatic study (View interaction) (C) 2013 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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