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Synapsense
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<i>Synapsense</i> is a performance/installation work that investigates personal and interpersonal spatial awareness using contemporary dance and audience participation. The work consists of a space configured with a combination of floor and ceiling mounted load cells attached to ropes, and conductive touch plates arranged on the floor and walls. As participants pull and climb on the ropes, the load cells convert the tension on the ropes into control data which determines musical and lighting outcomes within the space. By making exposed skin contact simultaneously with two or more plates, participants can also trigger musical elements. The plates are arranged in a way that encourages participants to make touch connections between each other in order to reach distant plates and realise the full sonic possibilities of the space. \ud
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The project aims to heighten the awareness of one’s own physical presence and the presence of others in space, through an environment that invites the exploration of the intersections between movement, touch, light, and music. The project was a transdisciplinary collaboration between QUT researchers and students from several disciplinary backgrounds, and emerged from the 2017 Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy QUT program. The musical and lighting environments, technical control systems, and performative dimensions of the space were created as a collaboration between QUT researchers. This environment was then inhabited by students who choreographed a series of short dance works that highlighted the interactive components of the space. This created an awareness of the space that encouraged the audience to become part of the developing dance work and explore interactive possibilities with the performers.\ud
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The project contributes to the field of performance research by examining how musical forms can be developed in response to collaborative interactions between performers and audience members. Synapsense also required the design and fabrication of custom hardware to convert the Wheatstone force readings produced by the load cells, and the binary conductive signal from the touch plates into scalable Open Sound Control (OSC) messages (1) suitable for network broadcast. The custom hardware was originally prototyped using the Arduino platform (2) in collaboration with performers and composers. The prototypes were then transitioned to a final design that used AVR microcontrollers (3) in custom 3D printed enclosures. This process situated the project in a genuinely transdisciplinary space at the intersection of dance, design, electronic engineering, and interactive music composition. \ud
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<b>Research Significance</b>\ud
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<i>Synapsense</i> was chosen to be a work in the opening night program of the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. The Ars Electronica festival is the world’s premiere media arts festival, with 2017 attendance figures of approximately 100,000 people. Repeat performances were included in each day of the program and also in the closing night artist’s function. High levels of audience participation were observed for every performance. Of particular note was the varied demographic of the audience. Within a single performance, participants regularly ranged from small children, through to curious adults; casual observers, through to experienced media artists. The inclusion of Synapsense in the festival program also strengthened links between QUT and the Ars Electronic Futurelab Academy, and drew invitations to present the work from numerous other research institutes. The work also highlighted several areas for further enquiry related to how to increase the scale and richness of audience led gestural control over audio and visual components.\ud
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1. Open Sound Control is a communication protocol developed by researchers at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (<a href="http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/research">CNMAT</a>) \ud
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2. <a href="https://www.arduino.cc/">Arduino</a> is an open source electronics platform designed for rapid prototyping\ud
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3. <a href="http://www.atmel.com/tools/atmelstudio.aspx">AVR</a> is a microcontroller development environment for integrated electronic
The Interactive Dynamic Stochastic Synthesizer
No full textThroughout musical history new sounds and instruments have opened new opportunities for music making. In this paper we outline a new interactive digital instrument that implements the dynamic stochastic synthesis algorithm devised by Iannis Xenakis. We discuss the history and operation of this synthesis process, previous implementations of it, and how our implementation is the first we know of designed specifically for live performance. Finally, the behaviour tendencies of the synthesis system and how these impact upon interactivity are discussed
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
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only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
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Jenkins, Greg (FA 33)
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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
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