478 research outputs found
Improvisation and Social Inclusion- invited special double issue on Improvisation and Social Inclusion (edited volume)
No full textAn invited, edited, double special issue for Routledge's "Contemporary Music Review" Journal (chief editor Prof Nelson). The issue is co-edited with Dr Samuels (Queen's University Belfast) and Dr Caines (University of Regina).The contract has been issued. The call went out on 1 February 2018, with over 75 proposals received. Final chapters were shortlisted and invited for a November 2018 deadline, with the envisaged final publication print-ready by May 2019
The Meanings In Making: Openness, Technology and Inclusive Music Practices for People with Disabilities
No full textDigital musical instruments and interfaces can be designed to enable people with disabilities to participate in creative music-making. Advances in personalized, open source technologies and low-cost DIY components have made customized musical tools easily accessible for use in inclusive music-making. In this article, the author discusses his research with the Drake Music Project Northern Ireland on making music-making more inclusive
Of Narratives that are fractured and those that need to be fractured
No full textThis symposium was curated by Dr Franziska Schroeder, Koichi Samuels and Tullis Rennie with Keynote Speaker Cathy Lane, Professor of Sound Arts, University of the Arts London. It was part of Belfast’s longest-running festival of contemporary music, the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music
The Drake Music Project Northern Ireland: providing access to music making for individuals with unique abilities using music technology
No full textAcross the UK, a growing number of charity organisations, social enterprises, academic researchers and individuals have developed music technology-based music workshops and projects in Accessible Music Technology (AMT) design to address the issue of access to music making for people with disabilities. In this article, I discuss my ethnographic study of The Drake Music Project Northern Ireland (DMNI), a charity which provides music workshop opportunities in inclusive ensembles at the community level. My methodology of participant observation involved undergoing the training necessary to become an access music tutor for DMNI, attending workshops and conducting interviews with people throughout the organisation. Key findings were that consumer music technology devices that were not designed to be accessible to a wide spectrum of users could be made accessible through adapting them with other devices or different sensor interfaces more suitable for people with unique abilities and specific needs. Throughout my study I found that it was not in the design of music technology devices that made them accessible. Rather, meaningful music making emerged through the interrelations between the access music tutors, workshop participants and the music technology interfaces in the workshop environment. The broader implications of DMNI music making activities and effects on social inclusion are also discussed. <br/
Metal Complexes Responding to External Stimuli by Using π-Radical Ligands with Photo-Sensitive Anthracene Derivatives
No full textTransformation and continuity of the Argentine welfare state -- evaluating social security reform in the 1990s
No full textBeginning after World War II, Argentina institutionalized a limited conservative corporatist welfare state where occupation-linked social insurance held a central position and social assistance had a residual character. This was called a limited conservative corporatist welfare state, because the huge population within the informal sector was excluded from the main system. A populist government supported by trade unions and the economic model of import-substituting industrialization were the background for the formation of this type of welfare state. During the 1990s, elements of a liberal regime were added to the Argentine welfare state under the reform carried out by the Menem Peronist government. However, social insurance reform and labor reform were not as drastic as the economic reform. They still retained a certain continuity from the traditional systems. The government intended to carry out more drastic social security and labor reform, but was unable to do so due to the legacy of corporatism of the Peronist government.Social security, Social welfare, Argentina
Improvisation and Social Inclusion (special issue for Taylor&Francis). Vol. 38, No. 5.
No full textDigital Media, Live Interfaces and Inclusion: ethnographic perspectives
No full textThis paper discusses the potential of digital media and live interfaces in musical composition and performance for subverting exclusionary structures towards inclusion. Coming from backgrounds in electronic music and ethnography, the authors present two case studies that investigate music making practices with live interfaces. These case studies explore the relation between musical experimentation and the use of digital media in catalysing new forms of practice that move beyond restrictive categorisations and limiting boundaries constructed as a result of historical, social, and political processes. While the cases are differentiated in their approach, they converge in their emphasis on the inclusive potential of the digital media.<br/
Digital Media, Live Interfaces and Inclusion: ethnographic perspectives
No full textThis paper discusses the potential of digital media and live interfaces in musical composition and performance for subverting exclusionary structures towards inclusion. Coming from backgrounds in electronic music and ethnography, the authors present two case studies that investigate music making practices with live interfaces. These case studies explore the relation between musical experimentation and the use of digital media in catalysing new forms of practice that move beyond restrictive categorisations and limiting boundaries constructed as a result of historical, social, and political processes. While the cases are differentiated in their approach, they converge in their emphasis on the inclusive potential of the digital media.<br/
Tokenization, Part-Of-Speech Tagging, Dependency Parsing, Sentencization, and Immediate Catena Analysis for Classical Chinese Texts
No full textIn this paper, the author describes syntactical analysis for classical Chinese texts : tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, sentencization, and immediate catena analysis. MeCab, a morphological analyzer using Conditional Random Fields, is utilized for tokenization and part-of-speech tagging. UDPipe, a natural language processor using Universal Dependencies, is utilized for dependency parsing and sentencization. The author and his colleagues are now investigating an algorithm for immediate catena analysis
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