72 research outputs found
Spontaneous music : the first generation British free improvisers
No full textThe British free improvisation scene originated in London and Sheffield during the
mid 1960s. In groups such as AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Joseph
Holbrooke, a distinctive and ambitious musicality developed that still occupies most
of its protagonists forty years later.
Marked stylistic contrasts developed within the genre, notably the `atomistic' and
`laminar' methods of interaction. Nonetheless, a consistency of principle and practice
was also apparent that defined British free improvisation as unique. In some respects
the genre resembled its German, Dutch and American counterparts, and also the jazz
and classical avant-gardes that had inspired them. Both conceptually and practically,
however, clear differences remained.
The British free improvisers refined a method and an aesthetic of musical creativity,
which suggested an intimate perspective and a detailed analysis of that which we
accept as `music'. Its techniques and results were unconventional, but remained
consistent with music's defining concepts and experiences. As such, British free
improvisation suggested a more inclusive model of musicality than is common, and
implied a broad critique of the cultural values that define `music' at all. Though the
free improvisers themselves did not explicitly state the connection, their work may be
viewed in the context of Deconstruction: the post-structuralist analytical strategy
associated with philosopher Jacques Derrida.
British free improvisation culminated from innovations within the twentieth century
avant-garde. Referencing styles such as atonality and free jazz, it challenged the
aesthetic, technical and hierarchical standards of Western tradition in a form that was
striking and extreme, but also of logical development and focus. Free improvisation
owed explicit debt to a variety of other musics; its most singular achievement
however, was the redefinition of `rhythm' by which it disguised this fact.
The music of the first generation British free improvisers is reliant upon precise
conceptual and practical execution. But though this has enabled the genre to be
musically innovative, in the long term it has also become a logical problem. With
British free improvisation as its subject, the scrutiny of Deconstruction reveals
significant discrepancies between what `free improvisation' implies and what it
actually represents
Model Family-Equipping Ministry dan Implikasinya terhadap Peran Gereja untuk Memperlengkapi Orang tua dalam Memuridkan Generasi Muda.
No full textPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengingatkan kembali tanggung jawab orang tua dan gereja dalam pembinaan kerohanian generasi muda. Berdasarkan studi literatur yang dilakukan, didapati sebuah hasil bahwa absennya peran gereja dan keluarga dalam pembinaan kerohanian generasi muda telah menyebabkan sebuah masalah yang mengakibatkan generasi muda masa kini mengidap spiritualitas Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD). Terdapat suatu kebutuhan untuk membukakan wawasan gereja dan memperlengkapi orang tua melalui penerapan sebuah model pelayanan yang tepat. Maka dari itu, diperlukan sebuah model pelayanan yang dapat membantu gereja dan orang tua untuk melakukan peran dan tanggung jawabnya dalam pembinaan kerohanian generasi muda.
Melalui studi literatur yang digunakan untuk menganalisa model “Family Equipping Ministry” secara historis dan teologis, penulis melihat bahwa model ini menjadi sebuah solusi yang baik dalam mengatasi permasalahan yang ada. Model “Family Equipping Ministry” tetap mempertahankan beberapa pelayanan berdasarkan pembagian umur (age-organized ministries), tetapi menyusun ulang jemaat untuk bekerja sama dengan orang tua dalam setiap tingkat pelayanan sehingga orang tua diakui; diperlengkapi; dan bertanggung jawab atas pemuridan anak-anak mereka. Dua hal penting yang dilakukan oleh model ini adalah, mengikutsertakan dan memperlengkapi orang tua sebagai penanggung jawab utama dalam proses memuridkan anak mereka, serta bekerja sama dengan orang tua untuk mengembangkan sebuah rencana yang pasti untuk pembentukan iman anak-anak mereka. Dengan demikian, ketika model pelayanan “Family Equipping Ministry” telah diimplementasikan dengan baik dalam sebuah kehidupan gereja, para orang tua akan menyadari dan melakukan tanggung jawab mereka sebagai penanggung jawab utama dalam pemuridan anak mereka, dan gereja pun dapat melakukan perannya sebagai mitra serta bekerja sama dengan orang tua dalam membina spiritualitas anak muda. Dengan demikian, model ini dapat menjadi solusi dari permasalahan absennya peran gereja dan keluarga dalam pembinaan kerohanian generasi muda
Corrigendum: Proceedings of the 12th annual deep brain stimulation think tank: cutting edge technology meets novel applications
No full textIn the published article, there was an error in the author list and author Sarah-Anna Hescham was erroneously excluded. The corrected author list appears below. “Alfonso Enrique Martinez-Nunez 1*, Christopher J. Rozell 2, Simon Little 3, Huiling Tan 4, Stephen L. Schmidt 5, Warren M. Grill 5,6, Miroslav Pajic 5, Dennis A. Turner 5,6,7, Coralie de Hemptinne 1, Andre Machado 8,9, Nicholas D. Schiff 10, Abbey S. Holt-Becker 11, Robert S. Raike 11, Mahsa Malekmohammadi 12,13, Yagna J. Pathak 14, Lyndahl Himes 14, David Greene 15, Lothar Krinke 16,17, Mattia Arlotti 16, Lorenzo Rossi 16, Jacob Robinson 18,19, Bahne H. Bahners 20,21,22, Vladimir Litvak 23, Luka Milosevic 24,25, Saadi Ghatan 26,27, Frederic L. W. V. J. Schaper 20, Michael D. Fox 20, Nicholas M. Gregg 28, Cynthia Kubu 8, James J. Jordano 29,30,31, Nicola G. Cascella 32, YoungHoon Nho 33, Casey H. Halpern 33,34, Helen S. Mayberg 35,36,37, Ki Sueng Choi 35,36, Haneul Song 35, Jungho Cha 35, Sankaraleengam Alagapan 2, Nico U. F. Dosenbach 38,39,40,41,42,43, Evan M. Gordon 44, Jianxun Ren 45, Hesheng Liu 45,46, Lorraine V. Kalia 47,48, Sarah-Anna Hescham 49,50,51, Dorian M. Kusyk 1, Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora 1, Kelly D. Foote 1, Michael S. Okun 1 and Joshua K. Wong 1.” The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.</p
Lessons learned from ecological and engineering approaches to flood resilience around three U.S. rivers
No full textThesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-100).There is increased interest in flood resilience around U.S. cities, especially following devastating flooding from recent intense storms. These events have demonstrated challenges associated with both riverine and coastal flooding, involving surface drainage and storm surge. Climate change is anticipated to exacerbate these types of events due to observed and projected sea level rise and increased frequency and intensity of precipitation events. With that context, flood resilience projects are often categorized as either following an engineering approach with hardened, 'gray' infrastructure like berms that seek to keep water out, thus blocking floods, or an ecological approach with soft, 'green' infrastructure around natural systems, like wetlands, that allow water in, absorbing floods and buffering adjacent communities. However, terms such as these, as well resilience itself, often have varying and overlapping definitions in different disciplines. Further, while engineering approaches and ecological approaches may seem at odds with one another, with associated tradeoffs, in reality, projects often integrate elements of both approaches, especially in urban settings. This paper reviews these approaches by comparing case studies around three U.S. urban rivers and understanding the ways ecological and engineering approaches have been integrated into flood resilience projects. Because of the differences between ecological and engineering approaches, this paper first presents a review and comparison of the existing literature on flood resilience and ecological and engineering approaches, along with associated terminologies, utilizing that literature to understand the approaches presented in the case studies. Further, this paper incorporates commentary from existing practitioners involved in these topics and cases to analyze and understand their perspectives. In particular, the paper's focus is on approaches and processes, as project elements most relevant to planners, arguing that the key lessons learned and common features from these projects are the integration of ecological and engineering approaches, collaboration across disciplines, the importance of political and social contexts, the role of non-governmental actors, implementation challenges and strategies, opportunities and limitations presented by reacting to flooding disasters, and sources of funding. Such key common features and lessons learned particularly highlight the critical role of planners in these types of projects.by Nicholas E. Cohen.M.C.P
Does the Supreme Court Know What's Best for us? Potential Mediators of Public Support for Three Surveillance Techniques
No full textabstract: Very little experimental work has been done to investigate the psychological underpinnings of perceptions of privacy. This issue is especially pressing with the advent of powerful and inexpensive technologies that allow access to all but our most private thoughts -and these too are at risk (Farah, Smith, Gawuga, Lindsell, &Foster;, 2009). Recently the Supreme Court ruled that the use of a global positioning system (GPS) device to covertly follow a criminal suspect, without first obtaining a search warrant, is a violation of a suspect's fourth amendment right to protection from unlawful search and seizure (United States v. Jones, 2012). However, the Court has also ruled in the past that a law enforcement officer can covertly follow a suspect's vehicle and collect the same information without a search warrant and this is not considered a violation of the suspect's rights (Katz v. United States). In the case of GPS surveillance the Supreme Court Justices did not agree on whether the GPS device constituted a trespassing violation because it was placed on the suspect's vehicle (the majority) or if it violated a person's reasonable expectation of privacy. This incongruence is an example of how the absence of a clear and predictable model of privacy makes it difficult for even the country's highest moral authority to articulate when and why privacy has been violated. This research investigated whether public perceptions of support for the use of each surveillance technique also vary across different monitoring types that collect the same information and whether these differences are mediated by similar factors as argued by the Supreme Court. Results suggest that under some circumstances participants do demonstrate differential support and this is mediated by a general privacy concern. However, under other circumstances differential support is the result of an interaction between the type of monitoring and its cost to employ -not simply type; this differential support was mediated by both perceived violations of private-space and general privacy. Results are discussed in terms of how these findings might contribute to understanding the psychological foundation of perceived privacy violations and how they might inform policy decision.Dissertation/ThesisM.S. Psychology 201
Voices from the “Heart” : Understanding a community-engaged festival in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside : [infographic]
No full textThis infographic is based on the following article : Li, J., Moore, D., & Smythe, S. (2018). Voices from the “Heart”: Understanding a community-engaged festival in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 47(4), 399-425. This undergraduate student work is a product of a collaboration between the Making Research Accessible initiative (MRAi), researchers, Dr. Evan Mauro and the students of ASTU 100 at UBC. This student work has been reviewed by the lead author of the original item. Revisions provided by the lead author have been incorporated into the student work with support from the UBC Learning Exchange and members of the MRAi. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student research report and is not an official document of UBC.Arts, Faculty ofUnreviewedUndergraduat
The Reading of Rotated Text - An Embodied Account
No full textabstract: Individuals engaged in perceptual tasks often use their bodies to lighten the cognitive load, that is, they replace internal (mental) processing with external (body-based) processing. The present investigation explores how the body is used in the task of reading rotated text. The experimental design allowed the participants to exhibit spontaneous behavior and choose what strategies to use in order to efficiently complete the task. The results demonstrate that the use of external strategies can benefit performance by offloading internal processing.Dissertation/ThesisM.S. Psychology 201
Methodology for Inexpensively Creating, Recording, and Producing Studio-Quality Original Music
No full textabstract: Due to increasing lack of resources and funding for budding student musicians, it is often not possible for this demographic to create, record, and produce their original music in the same high-budget studio environment in which music has been traditionally made. The objective of this project is to explore alternatives which are more accessible to young independent musicians and reveal the most cost-efficient routes to obtain a high-quality result. To make this comparison, the group created budget recordings of their original music in a bedroom in true DIY fashion, and then recorded the same songs in a professional music studio using the best music and recording equipment available. The DIY recordings were mixed and mastered by the group members themselves, as well as separately by a professional audio engineer. The studio recordings were also mixed and mastered by a professional audio engineer, resulting in three final products with varying costs and quality. Ultimately, the group found that without mixing and mastering experience, it is very difficult to achieve high quality results. With the same budget recorded tracks, the group found that quality of the final product vastly increased when a professional audio engineer mixed and mastered the tracks. As far as the quality of the result, the studio recorded tracks were by far the best. Not only was the quality of the sounds from the high-end music and recording equipment much higher, the band had more freedom to be creative without the responsibility of simultaneously serving as recording engineers as was the case in the low budget recordings. The group concluded that this project was highly successful and demonstrated that high quality results could be obtained on a budget. The DIY recording techniques used in this project prove that independent musicians without access to expensive equipment and resources can still produce high quality music at the cost of more effort to serve as audio engineers in addition to musicians. However, recording in a studio with the help of a producer and professional audio engineers affords creative freedom and an increase in sound quality that is simply not possible to reproduce without the equipment and expertise that money can buy
The Apostelesse's Social Network: The Meaning of Mary Magdalene in Fifteenth-Century East Anglia
No full textThis dissertation examines how the construction of Saint Mary Magdalene as a symbol participated in a network of political, social, and religious practices in fifteenth- century England. That symbol both changed and was changed by shifting understandings of lay piety. In the second half of the fifteenth century the saint as a symbol became affiliated with the Yorkist side in the War of the Roses in ways that would have repercussions for her interpretation well into the early Tudor period.
Rooted in an analysis of relationships among medieval artifacts and the cultures of their production, my argument employs a synthesis of Actor-Network Theory and Peircian semiotics. This theoretical approach enables my analysis of a network of relationships among individuals, objects, and concepts through which Mary Magdalene travels as a semiotic ���packet��� of linguistic, visual, and conceptual signs. Only part of this packet���s intended information is transferred while it travels through the network, however. This process of change, stemming from differing emphases regarding the saint, allows new ideas to be deliberately added to the packet over time. The author or authors��� immediate needs regarding the saint are always reflected, but elements of previous interpretations of Mary Magdalene���s symbolism remain.
I trace uses of the Middle English term apostelesse throughout the dissertation as a means to follow fifteenth-century ideas regarding Mary Magdalene as they evolve. I begin my analysis of the status of the saint is by considering the interactions of Julian of Norwich���s Revelations of Divine Love, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Nicholas Love���s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Christ. Next, I examine the transplantation of the word into a contemporary, politicized context in Osbern Bokenham���s mid-century Lyf of Marye Mawdelyn. I then turn to the Digby Mary Magdalene play to discuss Mary Magdalene as an apostelesse due to her personal authority and evangelical mission to Marseilles. Finally, the dissertation concludes by noting how the specific changes analyzed in each chapter reflect the changing role of the saint over the course of the fifteenth century and by looking briefly ahead to her symbolism in two early modern works: the Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene and An harborowe for faithful and trewe subiectes
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