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Portfolio of Works: Exploring Multimovement Structure, Storytelling through Large Ensemble Orchestration, and Creating Music with Social Impact
Get PDFThis portfolio includes three original music compositions that explore long forms with multimovement construction, storytelling through large ensemble orchestration, and writing music that has social impact. Instrumentation for these pieces range from a minimum of two to seventy performers and include writing for a saxophone quartet, a large wind ensemble, and various combinations of open instrumental chamber works where one of which includes fixed electronics.
The first piece, Twenty-Six Punctographic Preludes, explores long form through twenty-six short musical snapshots, one for each letter in the braille alphabet. Through exploring the writings of her grandfather and saxophonist, Arthur George Lacey, the author was interested in Lacey’s experience of losing his sight and the impacts this change had on his relationship to music. The sonic shaping, extended techniques, colouring, and timbral choices for each piece were inspired by the relationship of six dots within each braille cell. The braille letters are then categorized into ten groups that explore elements of the process of losing one’s sight such as disconnect, time, space, sensations, subconscious, limited world, and the body and introspective consciousness.
The second work, the mountains rend themselves apart, is a large ensemble piece written for wind ensemble and explores storytelling through sound depicting the tragic rockslide event that occurred in the small town of Frank, Alberta in 1903. Specific compositional elements include utilizing and manipulating the number nine through intervallic shapes and rhythmic groupings as well as harmonic elements in chord clusters, polychords, and drones. Colouration, timbre, and instrumental and ensemble glissandi were also explored.
The last work, Six Arctic Experiments, is a collection of six pieces designed for developing musicians that explore the social issue of climate change. Inspired by elements from an expedition to Canada’s High Arctic, the piece reflects on the delicacy and urgency of the climate crisis and curates a platform for youth to explore, engage, and participate in this issue through the experience of music-making. Compositional elements explore forms of improvisation, graphic scores, score creation, hands-on experimental creative components, open instrumentation, movement, spatialization, electronics, audience participation, sonification, sound art, and poetry.
Supplemental audio recordings can be found at: https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/r/z892806c7r
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
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
atmospheric etudes: no 1, troposphere
No full textAs a fourth-year music composition major at MacEwan University, Mari Alice Conrad was interested in exploring the concept of vulnerability. She was particularly inspired by her recent vulnerable experiences returning to school as a mature student and sought to understand these existential experiences in more depth. This curiosity led Conrad to design a research-creation project in her Ethnomusicology course that utilized her skills in composing a musical work that explored vulnerability on three distinct levels: personal vulnerability, societal vulnerability, and global vulnerability.
The first level, personal vulnerability, plunged into Conrad\u27s personal experiences as a mature student who, by age and life experience, had been socially segregated to a minority group, and how she was processing those experiences. The second level, sociological vulnerability, specifically focused on addressing societal traditions of classical music and notational conventions for the piano. Conrad sought to displace the customary approach she had developed with the instrument since childhood and considered ways to make the piano (an inanimate object) and its notated music vulnerable. The third level was a more global, ecological, or environmental vulnerability of the weather systems found in the troposphere, the first layer of the atmosphere. Conrad wanted to understand why this layer was extremely volatile and susceptible to multiple variables and how humans interacted with the vulnerability of this force. This third level was also an area that she could universally connect with her audience (hence the title of the composition) and acted as a bridge to explore the other two levels of vulnerability in her work.
Throughout the research-creation process, Conrad was able to explore the three levels of vulnerability in tremendous depth, express her interactions and discoveries of these three levels, and further disseminate her findings through notating a graphic score, recording the composition, and crafting an audiovisual representation. The final result of the research-creation composition project (music score and video) brilliantly weaves together concepts of vulnerability in a compelling and meaningful way and shares insight into how these ideas influence and encapsulate Conrad\u27s budding artistic practice
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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