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Toward Algorithmic Composition Of Expression In Music Using Fuzzy Logic, Wendy Suiter
Toward Algorithmic Composition Of Expression In Music Using Fuzzy Logic, Wendy Suiter
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper introduces the concept of composing expressive music using the principles of Fuzzy Logic. The paper provides a conceptual model of a musical work which follows compositional decision making processes. Significant features of this Fuzzy Logic framework are its inclusiveness through the consideration of all the many and varied musical details, while also incorporating the imprecision that characterises musical terminology and discourse. A significant attribute of my Fuzzy Logic method is that it traces the trajectory of all musical details, since it is both the individual elements and their combination over time which is significant to the effectiveness of …
The Art Collection Ecosystem: Discovering Art Using Formal Concept Analysis, Tim Wray, Peter Eklund, Amanda Lawson
The Art Collection Ecosystem: Discovering Art Using Formal Concept Analysis, Tim Wray, Peter Eklund, Amanda Lawson
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We describe an application and case study in the design and evaluation of the Art Collection Ecosystem (ACE) | a Rich Internet Application that supports the ability of users to browse and explore art collections using Formal Concept Analysis. With a view of a system that allows browsing of tagged content, 25 participants conducted a usability study within the context of a popular social media website - Flickr. We describe key design elements within its user interface and incorporate re- visions of its design based on user feedback. We incorporate these results into a framework called CollectionWeb - a set …
The Promise Of Fuzzy Logic In Generalised Music Composition, Wendy Suiter
The Promise Of Fuzzy Logic In Generalised Music Composition, Wendy Suiter
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Abstract. The paper outlines the rationale for using Fuzzy Logic, and Granular Computing, to emulate compositional decision making processes. Significant features of this Fuzzy Logic framework are that ambiguity in the music is maintained, while allowing the evolution of unfolding processes which reflects the temporal nature of music as performed. Granular Computing and Fuzzy Logic have been designed for physical and IT engineering applications to automate complex tasks. Fuzzy Logic is not only useful as an analytical concept, but also, can be generally applied to the production of music itself through a Fuzzy Logic control system. As artificial intelligence design …
Ludwig Van Beethoven: String Quartet F-Major: Introduction, Wendy Suiter
Ludwig Van Beethoven: String Quartet F-Major: Introduction, Wendy Suiter
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On 25 June 1799 “Carl Amenda gewidmet” was written on the first version of Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major. Yet when the revised version was finally published in June 1801 it was dedicated to Prince Josef von Lobkowitz. What clues does this thought provoking change provide about Beethoven and his music? Indeed it points to significant aspects of Beethoven's professional career, his personal life, and his music, which were already taking shape at the age of 29 years.
Expression In Process Music: Possibility Or Paradox?, Wendy Suiter
Expression In Process Music: Possibility Or Paradox?, Wendy Suiter
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Algorithmic composition progressed throughout the 20th century, as modernism became the dominant aesthetic, until finally ‘process music’ arrived, where the single remaining compositional decision related to what sonic resources to use. Composition pedagogy in the late 20th century did not explicitly include ‘expression’. This raises a second question, as repeatedly, musical discourse refers to ‘expression’, which seems to be something that audiences desire and to which they respond. Addressing these questions has lead me to reconsider the way music itself, and compositional processes, are characterised in music analysis. The outcome of my research is a new theory of music, using …
Breathing Space, Liz Jeneid, Diana Wood Conroy, Stephen Ingham
Breathing Space, Liz Jeneid, Diana Wood Conroy, Stephen Ingham
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‘Breathing space’ is about marking time through breath. When breath stops, time stops for each individual chronology. Re-iteration, repeating with variation again and again, in and out, is the rhythm of craft, of skill in drawing and making. Reiteration mirrors the arduous patterns of ancient textiles, ceramics, or inscriptions, patterns derived from images of feathers, scales, or leaves.
Using Open-Source Platforms For Digital Media Production, Brogan Bunt
Using Open-Source Platforms For Digital Media Production, Brogan Bunt
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
Media art, like contemporary art generally, has a strong critical aspect. Media art practice involves a crucial dimension of interrogating the cultural, social-political and material-aesthetic conditions of media. From Dada photographic collage through to contemporary hardware hacking there is a clearly evident concern to unsettle the representational transparency and taken-for-granted character of media. How does this inform the teaching of media art? It has obvious thematic importance, indicating paths of conceptual access and orientation, but what of the dimension of practice? What of the technical frameworks that we employ and the skills that we teach? How do they obtain a …
Literary Communities: Writers' Practices And Networks, Catherine Cole, Anitra Nelson
Literary Communities: Writers' Practices And Networks, Catherine Cole, Anitra Nelson
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper discusses a new direction for research on creative writing: exploring the formative contexts within which writers develop, receive recognition and are celebrated, our approach centres on literary networks and activities that characterize well-recognised literary communities. By studying the UNESCO Cities of Literature network, our research aims to identify and analyse key formative experiences for contemporary creative writers, although in this paper we simply refer to one of those cities — Melbourne. We hypothesize that the notion of a ‘community of practice’ has potential to be a constructive way to interrogate writers’ practices within literary communities to inform arts …
The Force Of Dreaming: Review Of 'Once Upon A Time In Papunya' By Vivien Johnson, Ian A. Mclean
The Force Of Dreaming: Review Of 'Once Upon A Time In Papunya' By Vivien Johnson, Ian A. Mclean
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The most widely known story of Australian art is about the beginnings of Papunya Tula. It has, says Vivien Johnson, been 'retold so often that it almost has the force of Dreaming'. Its force is not just due to the story's frequent telling, but also to the crime with which it begins, which was the making of prohibited images.
Editorial: Curiosity, Su Ballard
Editorial: Curiosity, Su Ballard
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
Some things are best seen at a distance. In Eric Carle's book Papa Please Get the Moon for Me (1986), a father silently obliges his daughter by building an enormous ladder on top of a mountain. Once captured, the moon slowly fades as its beauty is found to be contingent and relative. Carle introduces young children to different forms of knowledge; experiences constructed between the discoveries of Galileo and Kepler and tuned by the wonders of phenomena behaving badly.
The Virtual Museum Of The Pacific: New Context, New Knowledge, New Art, F. Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis
The Virtual Museum Of The Pacific: New Context, New Knowledge, New Art, F. Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
In a post colonial world, traditional representations of cultural artifacts in museums are challenged by rapidly proliferating online presence of collections and associated narratives. The Virtual Museum of the Pacific (VMP) project, which can be characterised as a digital ecosystem, is developing a social media platform designed to enable a variety of user communities to engage with the Pacific Collections of the Australian Museum. This engagement has the potential to disrupt the museum’s control over the display and interpretation of its ethnographic collections. There is a growing trend for artists from Indigenous or creator communities, whose cultural heritage is heavily …
Composing For Improvisation With Chaotic Oscillators, Mark Havryliv
Composing For Improvisation With Chaotic Oscillators, Mark Havryliv
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This paper describes a novel method for composing and improvisation with real-time chaotic oscillators. Recently discovered algebraically simple nonlinear third-order differential equations are solved and acoustical descriptors relating to their frequency spectrums are determined according to the MPEG-7 specification. A second nonlinearity is then added to these equations: a real-time audio signal. Descriptive properties of the complex behaviour of these equations are then determined as a function odifference tones derived from a Just Intonation scale and the amplitude of the audio signal. By using only the real-time audio signal from live performer/s as an input the causal relationship between acoustic …
P[A]Ra[Pra]Xis: Towards Genuine Realtime ‘Audiopoetry’, Josh Dubrau, Mark Havryliv Mh675@Uow.Edu.Au
P[A]Ra[Pra]Xis: Towards Genuine Realtime ‘Audiopoetry’, Josh Dubrau, Mark Havryliv Mh675@Uow.Edu.Au
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P[a]ra[pra]xis is an ongoing collaborative project incorporating a two-piece software package which explores human relations to language through dynamic sound and text production. Incorporating an exploration of the potential functions and limitations of the ‘sign’ and the intrusions of the Unconscious into the linguistic utterance via parapraxes, or ‘Freudian slips’, our software utilises realtime subject response to automaticallygenerated changes in a narrative of their own writing to create music. This paper considers the relative paucity of truly interactive realtime text and audio works and provides an account of current and future potential for the simultaneous production of realtime poetry and …
Naked To All But Ourselves: Some Notes On Actor Training And Phenomenology, Janys E. Hayes
Naked To All But Ourselves: Some Notes On Actor Training And Phenomenology, Janys E. Hayes
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
Just as an audience can critically view the synthesised structure of any performance, evaluating the component elements which create meaning, so too each performing body in itself reflects nuances of embodied cultural meanings. Merleau Ponty’s phenomenology (1962; 1965; 1968) argues that human consciousness is ‘caught up’ in the ambiguity of the corporeal body so that any human body is both materially of the world that at the same time it is consciously directed towards (Merleau-Ponty 1962, p. 146). The body that is in action is already immersed in a subjective reality of its own and others making. For the actor, …
Dumb Living, Brogan Bunt
Dumb Living, Brogan Bunt
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
No abstract provided.
Collectionweb Digital Ecosystems: A Semantic Web And Web 2.0 Framework For Generating Museum Web Sites, Peter Eklund, Peter Goodall, Amanda Lawson, Tim Wray
Collectionweb Digital Ecosystems: A Semantic Web And Web 2.0 Framework For Generating Museum Web Sites, Peter Eklund, Peter Goodall, Amanda Lawson, Tim Wray
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
CollectionWeb is a development platform for Web-based social media sites that distribute, display, annotate and management digital collection content. CollectionWeb is based on an approach that generates semantic navigation interfaces that induces pages from collection metadata using Formal Concept Analysis.
Talking Heads, Thompson Peter, Sue Woolfe, Gordon Graham, Wendy Suiter
Talking Heads, Thompson Peter, Sue Woolfe, Gordon Graham, Wendy Suiter
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
This transcript of the broadcast program includes interview with Wendy Suiter, discussing the collaborative project- an opera based on one of Sue Woolfe's books, for which I am writing the music which will use virtual instruments created digitally from sampled found sounds.
Scientific Concepts In Singing: Do They Belong In A Student Toolbox Of Learning, Lotte Latukefu, I. Verenikina
Scientific Concepts In Singing: Do They Belong In A Student Toolbox Of Learning, Lotte Latukefu, I. Verenikina
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This article presents part of an Australian study the purpose of which was to look at learning singing in a pedagogical environment designed using sociocultural theory. The classroom environment was transformed over 5 years in consultation with other staff members and used the reflective journals that students wrote during that time, as a way of refining and changing the design. Themes emerging from the journals were analysed to inform changes to the design. One of the main themes to emerge was student reflections about the scientific concepts they were taught and the ways the concepts were introduced. These reflections became …
Peer Assessment In Tertiary Level Singing: Changing And Shaping Culture Through Social Interaction, Lotte Latukefu
Peer Assessment In Tertiary Level Singing: Changing And Shaping Culture Through Social Interaction, Lotte Latukefu
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
In 2008, peer assessment was introduced into the singing component of a tertiary level undergraduate creative arts performance course within an Australian regional university. The study investigated what effect changing the role of the actor/singer in an assessment has on the culture of the course as well as individual development of graduate qualities, such as critical thinking and responsibility. It also looked at what process was involved in order to integrate peer assessment into the subject, and what kind of support was needed to achieve this. Results suggested that students saw themselves as agents of their own assessment activities by …
A Golden Garment? A Preliminary Report Of Textile Fragments From The Pafos ‘Erotes’ Sarcophagus, Diana Wood Conroy, Adriana Garcia
A Golden Garment? A Preliminary Report Of Textile Fragments From The Pafos ‘Erotes’ Sarcophagus, Diana Wood Conroy, Adriana Garcia
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Abstract A golden garment? A preliminary report of textile fragments from the Pafos ‘Erotes’ Sarcophagus Diana Wood Conroy and Adriana Garcia Remnants of very fine gold thread and reddish fibre were found among bone fragments in the ‘pillow’ end of the interior of the Pafos marble sarcophagus in 2001. The placement of the threads suggested a cloth laid over the upper part of the body. The excavator, Dr Eustathios Raptou has described how the sarcophagus had been looted in antiquity, leaving only one jewel and a finial from what must have been rich funerary goods. The textile fragments demonstrated the …
Travelling Partners: Using Literary Studies To Support Creative Writing About Real Spaces, Joshua M. Lobb
Travelling Partners: Using Literary Studies To Support Creative Writing About Real Spaces, Joshua M. Lobb
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper investigates the ways in which literary studies and critical theory can be used to provide writers with productive creative models for representing ‘real spaces’: that is, the incorporation of real locations within a creative work. Many new creative writing students begin with the premise ‘write what you know’, but often overlook the implications of including the names of real places in their work—whether it be Paris, Paddington Station or Prahran. The paper argues that the examination of existing creative work allows writers to understand the practical and the political ramifications of this activity. The paper will outline the …
Vernon Ah Kee - Sovereign Warrior, Garry Jones
Vernon Ah Kee - Sovereign Warrior, Garry Jones
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
If I didn't have art as an outlet, I would be angry, really angry, and frustrated. Aboriginal people in this country are angry to varying degrees. Some are very, very angry; some have it on a low simmer; some hardly sense it at all. At different times, I experience all those things.
Researching Journalists And Vulnerable Sources: Issues In The Design And Implementation Of A National Study, Stephen J. Tanner, Mark Pearson, Jolyon Sykes, Kerry Green
Researching Journalists And Vulnerable Sources: Issues In The Design And Implementation Of A National Study, Stephen J. Tanner, Mark Pearson, Jolyon Sykes, Kerry Green
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper reports upon the design and implementation of a study of the way Australian newspaper journalists and their publications have dealt with vulnerable sources, particularly those from groups already identified as ‘vulnerable’ in Australian society. The Australian research into so-called ‘vulnerable’ sources has reinforced international studies identifying disability, post-trauma, mental illness, age and indigeneity as characteristics signalling individuals as worthy of special care when news events prompt journalists to seek their comments or portray them visually or textually in a story (see literature discussion below). Whole journalistic support and training packages have centred upon the reportage of people from …
Swallow - Illustration For Cover Of Poetry Monograph By Claire Potter, Lucas M. Ihlein
Swallow - Illustration For Cover Of Poetry Monograph By Claire Potter, Lucas M. Ihlein
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Illustration for Cover of Poetry Monograph by Claire Potter, entitled Swallow, published 2010. An image of this can be seen on this website. Big Fag Press.
Html Colour Codes, Su Ballard
Html Colour Codes, Su Ballard
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
The HTML Color Codes exhibition features a selection of internet based artwork that address the topic of digital color. The central question that the exhibition poses is whether or not artists working with the internet are in fact limited to a "ready-made" color palette, a premise that many artists working with film, photography, and mass produced, standardized paint sets have assumed. The rationale for this question stems from theories of perception that argue that color is a not ready-made object found in a paint set or machine, but rather it is an experience that results from a complex process of …
Contemporary Art, Craft And The Audience Management Report, Jennie A. Lawson
Contemporary Art, Craft And The Audience Management Report, Jennie A. Lawson
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
No abstract provided.
Artworks Exhibited In The Exhibition "Zeitbytes", Brogan Bunt
Artworks Exhibited In The Exhibition "Zeitbytes", Brogan Bunt
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Two algorithmic print works included in the ZeitBytes group show at Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong. The exhibition had a local digital arts focus. It included work by the following artists: Roz Batten, Brogan Bunt, Warren Burt, Kurt Brereton, Gino Chiodi, April Griffiths, Dulcie Dal Molin, Andrew Netherwood and Lea Williams.