【Music】Article four: 'Digital music and critical music literacy'
The Society of Music Analysis report indicated that digital music often sits uncomfortably within a curriculum where the main focus is on the non-digi... [more]
【Music】Music-making for music teacher identity: perspectives from novice music teachers in South Korea
Music teacher identity is constructed at the intersection between musician and teacher. This study investigated the meaning of music-making among Kore... [more]
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Archives of the Dance (28): Chisenhale Dance Space
This contribution to the 'Archives of the Dance' series explores Chisenhale Dance Space's collection and my work with it as a PhD researcher. My re...
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Dance matters: dancing in Tunisia
A Tunisian youth movement, Dancers Citizens South (DCS), founded on 31 May 2015, encourages young people to find agency in their communities by creati...
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Play it again: did this melody occur more frequently or was it heard more recently? The role of stim
Episodic recognition of novel and familiar melodies was examined by asking participants to make judgments about the recency and frequency of presentation of melodies over the course of two days of testing. For novel melodies, recency judgments were poor a
The effect of music type on running perseverance and coping with effort sensations
Objectives. To examine: (a) the effect of music type on running time and on sensations and thoughts experienced by the runners under high physical exertion, and (b) the role that music plays in the use of two distinct self-regulation techniques during hig
Musical instrument classification and duet analysis employing music information retrieval techniques
The aim of this paper is to present solutions related to identifying musical data. These are discussed mainly on the basis of experiments carried out at the Multimedia Systems Department, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland. The topics present
Modeling and control of expressiveness in music performance
Expression is an important aspect of music performance. It is the added value of a performance and is part of the reason that music is interesting to listen to and sounds alive. Understanding and modeling expressive content communication is important for
Designing for intimacy: Creating new interfaces for musical expression
Contemporary musical instrument design using computers provides nearly limitless potential for designing the mapping between gesture and sound. When designing effective and expressive musical instruments, the types of relationship between musician/player
Effects of Education Programs on Dance Sport Performance in Youth Dancers
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of education programs on dance performance in youth sports dancers. Fifty-four subjects (aged 9-11 years) volunteered to participate in a 12 wk education program and were randomly assigned to three grou
Dance as Experience Field of the Body: A Contribution to Aesthetics
I will focus on dances as performances that bring a knowledge of man and his body to the representation, which would not be visible and comprehensible without it. Dances will be conceived of as patterns in which collectively shared knowledge and collectiv
Site dance as activist methodology: Creating performance/protest in sites of assembly
To date, there has been minimal discussion of site dance's ability to foster discourse addressing large-scale geo- and sociopolitical issues in public and civic spaces. In this article, I examine a certain site-adaptive project, Rooms (2015-16), to consi
Decolonising Indian classical dance? Projects of reform, classical to contemporary
Now contained under the rubric 'classical', several dance practices in India underwent significant 'reconstruction' in the heyday of twentieth-century anti-colonial politics reliant upon the nationalist claim of a cohesive cultural identity. Such rest
TRADITIONAL VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE IMAGE OF A HERO IN TUVAN DANCE
The main idea of our work is that the image of a Hero in Tuvan culture, the maadyr, is being studied in the space of the dance culture that exists on the territory of the republic. Kinetic and artistic identity, preserved in the plastics of ritual dance a
Robotic interface for embodied interaction via dance and musical performance
A substantial robotic interface is proposed for collaborative work between humans and machines in a multimodal musical environment. The robotic interface is regarded as a moving instrument that displays the reactive motion on a stage,while producing sound
Music via motion: Transdomain mapping of motion and sound for interactive performances
This paper presents a framework called Music via Motion (MvM) designed for the transdomain mapping between physical movements of the performer(s) and multimedia events, translating activities from one creative domain to another-for example, from physical
Human-technology interaction and music perception and performance: Toward the robust design of socio
A common framework for studying perception and performance in both human-technology, interaction and music is presented. The framework represents the cognitive challenges faced by both musicians and human operators in technological systems. In the percept
Teamwork in the performing arts
This paper addresses the nature of teams and teamwork in the performing arts, including symphony, chamber orchestra, chorus, and jazz, as well as musical theater straight theatre, improv, ballet, and puppetry. The results of an interview study of performi
Musings on music making and listening: Supervisory control and virtual reality
This paper offers two perspectives on the relation between music and supervisory control. The first is that music making can be viewed as a three-level hierarchy of control and feedback interactions. The top level is the composer or conductor interacting