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Birds Of A Feather (Les Oiseaux De Même Plumage): Dynamic Soundscapes Using Real-Time Manipulation Of Locally Relevant Birdsongs, William Walker, Brian Belet
Birds Of A Feather (Les Oiseaux De Même Plumage): Dynamic Soundscapes Using Real-Time Manipulation Of Locally Relevant Birdsongs, William Walker, Brian Belet
Brian Belet
This paper and live audio demonstration explores the capabilities of using Web Audio API as a digital audio workstation (DAW) to manipulate sounds from massive server-side databases. Sonic source material comes from a database of birdsongs recorded worldwide by volunteer recordists at xeno-canto.org. Sounds from xeno-canto are chosen to match recent, nearby bird sightings submitted by volunteer birders at eBird. The result is a virtual soundscape derived from the sounds of birds currently present in the user’s geographical region. Our client-server architecture delegates database queries and archival storage to the server, leaving the client to concentrate on the aesthetic context …
Barth, Barthes, And Bergson: Postmodern Aesthetics And The Imperative Of The New, Paul Douglass
Barth, Barthes, And Bergson: Postmodern Aesthetics And The Imperative Of The New, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
No abstract provided.
Rediscovering Bartolomeo Montagna: A Fresh Look At The Altarpiece For The Parish Church Of Sandrigo, Vicenza, Elizabeth Carroll Consavari
Rediscovering Bartolomeo Montagna: A Fresh Look At The Altarpiece For The Parish Church Of Sandrigo, Vicenza, Elizabeth Carroll Consavari
Elizabeth Carroll Consavari
New documentation on Bartolomeo Montagna’s altarpiece The Virgin and Child with Sts James and Philip (c.1492) in Glasgow Museums.
System Of Shadows, An Interactive Performance Environment For Trumpet/Flugelhorn And Kyma, Brian Belet, Stephen Ruppenthal
System Of Shadows, An Interactive Performance Environment For Trumpet/Flugelhorn And Kyma, Brian Belet, Stephen Ruppenthal
Brian Belet
This paper summarizes our history with designing coherent real-time processing algorithms within Kyma that enable the spontaneous processing of acoustic instruments using the Capybara-320 and Pacarana synthesis engines in interactive real-time performance. Compositional and performance issues for the current work, System of Shadows, are examined, discussed, and performed during the demonstration, focusing on the composer’s Kyma processing algorithms and the musical score used by both performers. We posit relevant data surrounding the interactive performance issues involved in a complex real-time processing work of this nature, and discuss our collaborative creative process. Real-time performance choices by the trumpeter, directed improvisation and …
On Constructive-Engagement Strategy Of Comparative Philosophy, Bo Mou
On Constructive-Engagement Strategy Of Comparative Philosophy, Bo Mou
Bo Mou
In this journal theme introduction, first, I explain how comparative philosophy as explored in the journal Comparative Philosophy is understood and how it is intrinsically related to the constructive engagement strategy. Second, to characterize more clearly and accurately some related methodological points of the constructive-engagement strategy, and also to explain how constructive engagement is possible, I introduce some needed conceptual and explanatory resources and a meta-methodological framework and endeavor to identify adequacy conditions for methodological guiding principles in comparative studies. Third, as a case analysis, I show how the constructive-engagement reflective practice bears on recent studies of Chinese and comparative …
Twisty Little Passages: The Several Editions Of Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon, Paul Douglass
Twisty Little Passages: The Several Editions Of Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
A literary criticism of the book "Glenarvon," by Lady Caroline Lamb is presented. It presents the symbolic significance of the characters. It outlines the consequences of denying true love and the importance of aristocratic leadership and self-control. It examines the preface of the book in which the author states that the novel is not immoral even with the inclusion of crimes and she asks readers to recognize that her intention of writing the book is to describe human nature.
Theoretical And Formal Continuity In James Tenney's Music, Brian Belet
Theoretical And Formal Continuity In James Tenney's Music, Brian Belet
Brian Belet
James Tenney created much of his music and theoretical writing as an objective experimenter, observer and codifier. This article examines Tenney's traits of curiosity, experimentation and honest self-evaluation through a subset of his compositions from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Although quite diverse in many ways, these compositions share his mark of intense individuality, integrity and compositional rigor, which creates a macro-unity and formal continuity between works. Perhaps this is his ultimate ‘clang’ and conceptual ‘temporal gestalt-unit’. Each composition grows out of the need to address one or more specific formal questions: each work is indeed an experiment designed to …
Lady Caroline Lamb’S Revisions To Her Novel Glenarvon: Some Observations, Paul Douglass
Lady Caroline Lamb’S Revisions To Her Novel Glenarvon: Some Observations, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
No abstract provided.
An Interview With Corinne Cooke, Paul Douglass
An Interview With Dr. James D. Watson, Paul Douglass
An Interview With Dr. James D. Watson, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
No abstract provided.
This Bridge Called Imagination: On Reading The Arab Image Foundation, Dore Bowen
This Bridge Called Imagination: On Reading The Arab Image Foundation, Dore Bowen
Dore Bowen
No abstract provided.
The Function Of Dysfunction, Dore Bowen
An Unpublished Letter Of Lord Byron To Lady Caroline Lamb, Paul Douglass
An Unpublished Letter Of Lord Byron To Lady Caroline Lamb, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
Lord Byron took a highly ambivalent attitude toward female authorship, and yet his poetry, letters, and journals exhibit many proofs of the power of women's language and perceptions. He responded to, borrowed from, and adapted parts of the works of Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Lee, Madame de Stael, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth lnchbald, Hannah Cowley, Joanna Baillie, Lady Caroline Lamb, Mary Robmson, and Charlotte Dacre. The influence of women writers on his career may also be seen in the development of the female (and male) characters in his narrative poetry and drama. This essay focuses on the influence upon Byron of Lee, …
Lord Byron’S Feminist Canon: Notes Toward Its Construction, Paul Douglass
Lord Byron’S Feminist Canon: Notes Toward Its Construction, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
Lord Byron took a highly ambivalent attitude toward female authorship, and yet his poetry, letters, and journals exhibit many proofs of the power of women’s language and perceptions. He responded to, borrowed from, and adapted parts of the works of Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Lee, Madame de Staël, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah Cowley, Joanna Baillie, Lady Caroline Lamb, Mary Robinson, and Charlotte Dacre. The influence of women writers on his career may also be seen in the development of the female (and male) characters in his narrative poetry and drama. This essay focuses on the influence upon Byron of Lee, …
Paradise Decomposed: Byron’S Decadence And Wordsworthian Nature In Childe Harold Iii And Iv, Paul Douglass
Paradise Decomposed: Byron’S Decadence And Wordsworthian Nature In Childe Harold Iii And Iv, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
No abstract provided.
What Lord Byron Learned From Lady Caroline Lamb, Paul Douglass
What Lord Byron Learned From Lady Caroline Lamb, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
Lady Caroline Lamb fictionalized the Byronic persona in Glenarvon (1816) and gave voice to the female characters that remain largely silent in Byron’s early work. Byron responded to her mimicry and to the female perspective of Glenarvon by creating a feminized hero and strong speaking roles for women in Don Juan, though his stated purpose was to undermine, not uphold, feminine power.
Lady Caroline Lamb Before Byron: The Godfrey Vassal Webster Affair, Paul Douglass
Lady Caroline Lamb Before Byron: The Godfrey Vassal Webster Affair, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
This article provides an overview of the love affairs of Lady Caroline Lamb. Before she met Lord Byron, she had a long messy affair with Godfrey Vassal Webster. Their affair was known through letters which was held in the British library, the public records office in Chichester, and the like. Caroline cannot or will not adapt to the complicated social milieu of regency London.
Isaac Nathan And Lady Caroline Lamb: A Response To Graham Pont, Paul Douglass
Isaac Nathan And Lady Caroline Lamb: A Response To Graham Pont, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
No abstract provided.
A Re-Examination Of The Structure And Content Of Confucius’S Version Of The Golden Rule, Bo Mou
A Re-Examination Of The Structure And Content Of Confucius’S Version Of The Golden Rule, Bo Mou
Bo Mou
No abstract provided.
Asian American Literary Studies At Maturity, Angela Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literary Studies At Maturity, Angela Noelle Brada-Williams
Angela Noelle Brada-Williams
No abstract provided.
Live Performance Interaction For Humans And Machines In The Early Twenty-First Century: One Composer's Aesthetics For Composition And Performance Practice, Brian Belet
Brian Belet
Technology influences all art, and therefore all music, including composition, performance and listening. It always has, and it always will. For example, technical developments in materials, mechanics and manufacturing were important factors that permitted the piano to supersede the harpsichord as the primary concert Western keyboard instrument by about 1800. And with each new technical development new performance issues have been introduced. Piano performance technique is quite different from harpsichord technique, and composers responded to these differences with new music ideas and gestures. The multiple relationships between technology and composer and performer are dynamic and of paramount importance to each …
Compositional And Programming Issues Within Lyra, A Fully Interactive Performance Environment For Violin And Kyma System, Brian Belet
Brian Belet
Meaningful real-time interaction between human performers and computer processing is an important aesthetic issue for many composers. With the advent of computer systems that are actually fast enough to permit real-time algorithmic sound realizations based on the analysis of live performance data the issue now facing composers is how to utilize these tools in a meaningful and artistic way. Lyra, composed in 2002 for violin and Kyma, is an environment in which the acoustically generated sounds and the computer generated and processed sounds are mutually dependent upon each other for a unified ensemble performance. All of the computer music layers …
Photography In The Mix: Flora-Fauna-Photo, Dore Bowen
Photography In The Mix: Flora-Fauna-Photo, Dore Bowen
Dore Bowen
The article examines the SF Camerawork exhibition Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process, which was co-curated by the author.
Philosophizing With Teenagers, Susan Verducci
Philosophizing With Teenagers, Susan Verducci
Susan Verducci
Part of a special section on connecting with adolescents. Although few adolescents are ever formally exposed to philosophy at middle or high school, almost all are philosophers in the sense that they ask and seek answers to questions that are fundamentally philosophical. Furthermore, studying philosophy can be quite useful for adolescents as it requires that they practice developing clear and coherent reasons for believing or doing something, provides the tools with which they can follow the logic of any ideological stance, and provides models of alternative answers and a way of examining how the historical period in which one lives …
The Madness Of Writing: Lady Caroline Lamb's Byronic Identity, Paul Douglass
The Madness Of Writing: Lady Caroline Lamb's Byronic Identity, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
No abstract provided.
Reading The Wreckage: De-Encrypting Eliot's Aesthetics Of Empire, Paul Douglass
Reading The Wreckage: De-Encrypting Eliot's Aesthetics Of Empire, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
The writer examines an aesthetics of empire evident in Eliot's The Waste Land. He contends that though this work's formal innovations appear “revolutionary,” its aesthetics fit into modernism's reactionary character and reflect the cultural politics of the British conservatism that Eliot had adopted. In decoding the poem's fragments and allusions, he illustrates Eliot's preoccupation with empire. He also shows how The Waste Land may be seen as part of a British literary tradition of “reading the wreckage” that goes back at least to Edward Volney's Ruins (1791).
Bionic Eye: The Resources And Limits Of The Cinematic Apparatus, Paul Douglass
Bionic Eye: The Resources And Limits Of The Cinematic Apparatus, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
No abstract provided.
Applying Lmprovisationbuilder To Interactive Composition With Midi Piano, William Walker, Brian Belet
Applying Lmprovisationbuilder To Interactive Composition With Midi Piano, William Walker, Brian Belet
Brian Belet
In this presentation we will show how the ImprovisationBuilder framework was adapted to our compositions for pianists and computers. Software design issues include: capturing, transforming, and realizing MIDI piano data, and an easy-to-use graphical interface for altering parameters during performance. Compositional issues include: the causal responsorial aspect of the ImprovisationBuilder output, and varying the small-scale event and gestural levels while preserving the large-scale structure among multiple performances. The presentation will discuss the compositional and performance importance of these issues and show how each of these issues was handled within the ImprovisationBuilder framework. Work on this project suggests the advantages of …
Loose Canon On The Deck, Paul Douglass
Modernism And Science: The Case Of Pound's Abc Of Reading, Paul Douglass
Modernism And Science: The Case Of Pound's Abc Of Reading, Paul Douglass
Paul Douglass
No abstract provided.