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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Sound objects"”.
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Ancestral sound. Archive and study of pre-hispanic Ecuadorian sound objects
… focus on the archiving and analysis of ancient sound objects. It stems from curiosity about the sound/musical activities in pre-Hispanic societies, addressing a notable gap in previous research. Historically, the study of ancient sound objects has progressed very slowly, largely due to the lack …
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Soundscape composition and relationship between sound objects and soundscape dimensions of an urban area
Previous studies of soundscape have tried to understand the relationship between sound objects and soundscape rating, resulting in the categorisation of general sound objects according to positive or negative perceptions. This study tries to determine the relationship and interaction between …
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Merging 20th Century Art Music and Pre-recorded Sound: 17 Pieces
… Is it possible to generate a series of original sound compositions that explore and provide potential solutions to the problematic at the core of the research? The pieces that where investigated and referenced were: Claude Debussy: Nuages, movement 1 from Trois Nocturnes Arnold Schoenberg: String …
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Stories Of The Wind
… of an audiovisual performance, with images, sound objects and interactive works. The production of this work was informed by artistic-scholarship, which involved the combination of aesthetic education and aesthetic experience with research and analysis in the process of artistic and academic …
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Stories of the Wind
… of an audiovisual performance, with images, sound objects and interactive works. The production of this work was informed by artistic-scholarship, which involved the combination of aesthetic education and aesthetic experience with research and analysis in the process of artistic and academic …
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Cognitive Audio: Enabling Auditory Interfaces with an Understanding of How We Hear
… define the interaction between our minds and the sounds around us. Some of these processes, particularly at the lowest levels of abstraction relative to a sound wave, are well understood, and are easy to characterize across large sections of the human population; others, however, are the sum of …
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A portfolio of acousmatic compositions
… work is the examination and analysis of recorded sounds; these are extrapolated from musical phrases and gestural movement, which form the basis of my musical language. The nine pieces of the portfolio thus explore, emphasise and develop the distinct properties of the recorded source sounds, …
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Sound processing in the mouse auditory and dorsal neocortices
… are two theories of how the neocortex processes sound. The feature detection theory posits that cortical neurons process sound to extract its features, whereas, in the decoding theory, cortical neurons are viewed as the decoders of “sound objects”: specific spectrotemporal patterns. In this …
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Computer assisted application of stochastic structuring techniques in musical composition and control of digital sound synthesis systems
Although many sophisticated computer sound synthesis systems have recently been developed, their use remains significantly under-exploited by composers. This is due to a large extent to the cumbersome and detailed programming invariably necessary in order to produce even the simplest of sounds. So, …
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A recital of compositions
… Gorge Is The Bridge: Synthesized and concrete sounds constitute the palette of this tape piece. In processing the sounds I selected evolutionary characteristics with the intention of exploiting these characteristics in a particular manner - the notes in the piece are of extremely long duration …
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Beyond sound effects: Designing sound for the American theatre in the 1970s
… the engagement between American theatre and sound reproduction technologies in the 1970s. Through an analysis of Abe Jacob’s sound design for Broadway and productions created by experimental theatre practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, and the Wooster Group, I explore how …
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Amplifying Actions - Towards Enactive Sound Design
… aims to set the foundation for Enactive Sound Design. It is focused on sound that engages sensorimotor experience that has been neglected within the existing design practices. The premise is that such a foundation can be best developed if grounded in transdisciplinary methods that bring …
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Avaliação dos efeitos da aplicação de diferentes práticas instrumentais nas aulas de educação musical alunos do 2º Ciclo do Ensino Básico
Este estudo pretendeu investigar as diferenças existentes entre os efeitos da utilização de duas práticas instrumentais na aprendizagem musical de alunos em meio escolar. As práticas instrumentais são aqui denominadas convencional , a que é baseada na utilização de instrumentos Orff, e alternativa …