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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Soundtracks"”.
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Moodtrack : practical methods for assembling emotion-driven music
… works based on a target emotional contour. Film soundtracks provide an ideal testing ground for organizing music around strict timing and emotional criteria. The approach to media analysis applies Minsky's ideas of frame-arrays to the context of film music, revealing musical and emotional cue …
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Overlapped speech and music segmentation using singular spectrum analysis and random forests
… however, neglect the fact that real audio soundtracks may have either speech or music, or a combination of the two, and this is considered the major hurdle to achieving high performance in automatic audio classification, since overlapping can contaminate relevant characteristics and …
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A Game of Musical Layers: An Investigation into the use of a Vertical Layering Soundtrack as an Integral part of the of the Information System of a Video Game
… game levels, featuring vertical layering soundtracks and in-built testing mechanics, in order to produce both quantitative results and qualitative feedback from a small group of research participants about the effectiveness of the information transfer achieved by these vertical layering …
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Social dimensions of Hollywood movie music
… and styles heard in live accompaniments and on soundtracks, shaping the structures, idioms, instrumental media, and conventions that have evolved in mainstream film music over its century-long history. Finally, various residual and emergent elements are shown to challenge and redefine dominant …
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Leave any noise at the signal : participation art online
… in which multiple participants collaborate on soundtracks in real-time, modifying existing online videos; OpenBrand, a system that allows participants to rewrite advertisements; Emma On Relationships, a video blog inviting participants to call in for love advice; and several other projects, …
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Collaboration and Integration: A Method of Advancing Film Sound Based on The Coen Brothers' Use of Sound and Their Mode of Production. Volume 1.
… and as way of generating more integrated soundtracks. As such, filmmakers should build upon their mode of production; a notion supported by other professionals and educational institutions. By advocating this alternative way of working, future filmmakers can be encouraged to reassess …
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Collaboration and Integration: A Method of Advancing Film Sound Based on The Coen Brothers’ Use of Sound and Their Mode of Production. Volume 2.
… and as way of generating more integrated soundtracks. As such, filmmakers should build upon their mode of production; a notion supported by other professionals and educational Institutions. By advocating this alternative way of working, future filmmakers can be encouraged to reassess …
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Pop goes the theory: incorporating popular music into the undergraduate music theory curriculum
… occasional forays into film scores, video game soundtracks, Christmas carols, musical theater, patriotic songs, even television jingles and nursery rhymes. The target audience for this project are theory teachers who want to integrate popular music into their classes but who are unfamiliar with …
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Learning visual models from paired audio-visual examples
… by training an algorithm to produce plausible soundtracks for videos in which people hit and scratch objects with a drumstick. Then, with human studies and automated evaluations on recognition tasks, we verify that the sounds produced by the algorithm convey information about actions and …
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Totality of experience: sound, music and mythology in Gus Van Sant’s “Death Quartet”
… experience of, and reveal the nuances in, the soundtracks themselves. This thesis aims to contribute to a growing body of work within filmmusic scholarship concerned with resisting a traditional bias in the field: that film music should be understood as a means of characterisation and as …
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Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia
… of these artists through contemporary television soundtracks, which have preserved the legacy of twentieth century musicians, we can glean moments where a soundtrack of liberal nostalgia begins to form. Drawing on sound studies, gender and race theory, and postmodern media critique, “Audiovisual …
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Towards an end-to-end music transcription system using neural networks
… purpose, as in motion picture and video game soundtracks. It has notable parallels with the task of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and indeed from this connection arises some natural Machine Learning-based approaches. However, these methods usually involve carefully designed preprocessing …
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Audiovisual spatial congruence, and applications to 3D sound and stereoscopic video
… content is presented with three different soundtracks. These soundtracks differ by their spatial rendering quality, from stereo (low spatial coherence) to Wave Field Synthesis (WFS, high spatial coherence). The original stereo version serves as a reference. Results show that the sound …
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The "New" sounds of the slap-of-the-stick : Termite Terrace (1937-1943) and the slapstick tradition
… (music, voices, sound-effects) in complex soundtracks. Finally, an audiovisual analysis of seven animated shorts reveals a sonic vocabulary for depicting the cartoon body and shows the schizophonic mimesis that takes place when using it. All in all, the study of the Looney Tunes and Merrie …
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The legacy of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen as reflected in select late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century film media
… used musical examples from the Ring in their soundtracks. Works given particular focus will include Apocalypse Now (1979), the Japanese anime series Princess Tutu (2002-2003) and Terrence Malick's historical romance The New World (2006). The examination will discern both how film media has …
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Endangered species : the harpsichord and its new repertoire since 1960
… Bruynes Schrootsonate (1990) for harpsichord and soundtracks, and Iannis Xenakis's Khoar, for the modern pedal instrument. Finally, it examines Elliott Carter's Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1961), the most elaborate harpsichord work to date. The detailed …
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Visual Musicality and the Moving Image
… published increasingly on film music and soundtracks, there is very little sense in the literature that musical elements of some sort might be discerned within the image track. The City Symphony film genre appeared to be a good starting point for the identification of any such elements, …
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From popular music to the film score: innovation, interrogation, corporeality
… and felt on a visceral, embodied level. In the soundtracks examined over the course of the thesis this is achieved by diverse musical means, from beehive string swarms and menacing microtonal tunings to portentous percussive heartbeats, and from inventive sound design praxes to galaxy-bending …
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The Representation of Mexican Identity through Music in the Films of Emilio ‘Indio’ Fernández (1940-1950)
… also central in Emilio Fernández’s work, but the soundtracks have only been passingly addressed by the critical literature devoted to Fernández's films. This thesis attempts to address this issue through a discussion of the role of music in three movies that span Fernández’s main nationalistic …
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Un Chien Andalou – An Orchestral Film Score
… is anachronistic. Since most contemporary soundtracks created for this film are rife with stylistic dissonance, I wanted to create an alternative and more stylistically appropriate response. I created the score in four stages. I spotted the film to calculate all hit points and tempos, then …
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