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Networking concert halls, musicians, and interactive textiles: Interwoven Sound Spaces
Full text linkInterwoven Sound Spaces is an interdisciplinary project which brought together telematic music performance, interactive textiles, interaction design, and artistic research. A team of researchers collaborated with two professional contemporary music ensembles based in Berlin, Germany, and Piteå, Sweden, and four composers, with the aim of creating a telematic distributed concert taking place simultaneously in two concert halls and online. Central to the project was the development of interactive textiles capable of sensing the musicians’ movements while playing acoustic instruments, and generating data the composers used in their works. Musicians, instruments, textiles, sounds, halls, and data formed a network of entities and agencies that was reconfigured for each piece, showing how networked music practice enables distinctive musicking techniques. We describe each part of the project and report on a research interview conducted with one of the composers for the purpose of analysing the creative approaches she adopted for composing her piece.Validerad;2024;Nivå 2;2024-05-21 (joosat);Full text license: CC BY;Funder: Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation); Programme for Digital Interactions [grant number DIV.0725]; Einstein Center Digital Future;</p
Hamburg premiere of Speechless Opera by Cat Hope
No full textSpeechless is a wordless, animated notation opera intended as a personal response to the experiences of refugees around the world. The opera premiered at the Perth Festival in 2019 and the performance at the Ligeti Festival was the European premiere of the chamber concert edition. The starting point for the opera was Hope's observation of the political response to the Australian Human Rights Commission's 2014 report "The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention". A close examination of this document and the damning facts it contained inspired a radical idea for a libretto about the voicelessness of asylum seekers and refugees seeking protection. Rather than setting the words to music on the 315 pages, as one would expect from an opera, the material was extracted from the account to create an animated, graphic score. Colour schemes, drawings, tables and photos from the report were copied and manipulated to create the score, leaving the singers without words. In this way, the score provides the libretto and the music at the same time. The opera is responsive to the environment and people in each place where it is performed, but the soloists are always women or non-binary people preferably from different cultural backgrounds.
The animated digital score of the opera was both a central system of cues and controls for all the various parts such as lighting, spatialization and video as well as the distributor of individually animated parts to the musicians, diffusion engineer, live electronics musician and lighting operator. The original parts of the animated score were created in Illustrator but with help from Python script programming by Aaron Wyatt, the score and parts were distributed in Decibel ScorePlayer to individual players’ iPads via AirDrop. The music features long, pulseless tones, and as such many 'lines' feature in the score. The Decibel ScorePlayer facilitates reading this information as music notation. The score is made up of a range of colours (as parts). Performers choose a pitch, but the movement of that pitch is described in the score. In addition, the conductor is required to guide the musicians in their interpretation of the score, giving them cues and breath marks for entry as well as shaping the content of musical lines
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Virtuosity Knowledge and Violence
No full textThis chapter, published in the book Contemporary Musical Virtuosities, edited by Louise Devenish and Cat Hope, responds to their call to reconsider virtuosity in a contemporary context. As its contribution the chapter develops unfinished, imperfect and in-progress thoughts on the relationship between virtuosity, pleasure and violence. It considers virtuosity as a pleasure in perfection and discusses the violence of its exlusiveness. In response it shifts the discourse from finding virtuosity and quality in a work and its performance, to the pleasure of the body, as a plural body and a local body, that does not obey the politics of perfection but experiences its own pleasure beyond foundational lines of judgment
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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