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Fabrics Of Change : Trading Identities, Diana Wood Conroy, Emma Rutherford
Fabrics Of Change : Trading Identities, Diana Wood Conroy, Emma Rutherford
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
Fabrics of Change : Trading Identities explores textiles and their intrinsic relationship to texts of law and literature across an historical and contemporary span of British colonisation.
Pocket Gamelan: A J2me Environment For Just Intonation, Gregory Schiemer, Kenny Sabir, Mark Havryliv
Pocket Gamelan: A J2me Environment For Just Intonation, Gregory Schiemer, Kenny Sabir, Mark Havryliv
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper describes on-going exploration of tuning systems through development of mobile instruments appropriate for tlie audition and performance of music composed in just intonatIon tunmgs. 1he project is a response to a transformation in computer music brought about through the introduction of wireless technologies and is motivated by a desire to enable performance of music based on just intonation using hand-held instruments played by large numbers of non-expert players. Handheld technology offers the promise of new forms of musical interaction between people with development of musical applications focused on new modes of group expression that involve non-expert performance. The …
Sibelius Cycle Preconcert And Radio Talks (4), Sydney Symphony/Ashkenazy, Sydney Opera House, Andrew N. Schultz
Sibelius Cycle Preconcert And Radio Talks (4), Sydney Symphony/Ashkenazy, Sydney Opera House, Andrew N. Schultz
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
It Is interesting to consider the connection between hardship, suffering and turmoil in a composer's life and the capacity to create superb symphonic work. The three great symphonists of the early twentieth century show this even though they had radically different approaches to their work. Mahler was not crippled by his numerous personal tragedies but drew on them to create symphonies of transcendent scale. Shostakovlch lived through vast social and political upheaval and had to struggle to survive the Soviet system yet created public statements in his symphonies that are by turns bizarre, Ironic and triumphant. Sibelius also lived through …
Roman Wall Paintings In The Pafos Theatre, Diana Wood Conroy
Roman Wall Paintings In The Pafos Theatre, Diana Wood Conroy
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
The fragments of painted plaster were first found in the 1996 and 1997 Pafos Theatre seasons in trenches lR and 1J on the south side of Wall 108 (the analemma), where the parodos provides an entrance to the orchestra on the western side of the theatre. Encrusted plaster with faint indications of colour and pattern still adhered to Wall 108. Other coarser fragments of red on cream were found in 1999 in the IR-IJ extension to the west. The extensive excavation of the western parodos area in 2001 (Trench IFF) revealed many more painted plaster fragments, some on curved sandstone …