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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"field recordings"”.
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Exploring the relaxation potential of nature soundscapes and photography through field recordings and meditation nature walks
This thesis investigates the potential of nature soundscapes, paired with nature photography, to promote relaxation. The research opens with the context of the soundscape and R. Murray Schafer’s notion of acoustic ecology. Schafer’s work from the 1970s onward examines how individuals interact with …
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Experiential Encounters with Architecture and Sound: The Use of Styli in Urban Field Recording and Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis
… between sound and space in architecture through field recording practices, live performance, sounding artifacts (vinyl), DJ performances, crowdsourcing, community-based projects, mindfulness, and visual art. It provides examples of research practices undertaken, touching on psychogeography, …
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Modern Spoken Coptic and Community Negotiation of Linguistic Authenticity
… surrounding the use of either standard. Field recordings of the liturgy as recited according to both standards are analyzed in order to describe the phonology of the standards, and interviews with users of both standards are analyzed in order to describe the language attitudes of the …
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The Multiphonic Fens
… narratives through the practice and process of field recording in the East Anglian Fens. The field recordings are transformed into unique compositions that reflect the subjective perspectives of the field recordist witnessing changes in the four traditional British seasons in the Fens. By …
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Fish Vocalisation: Understanding its biological role from temporal and spatial characteristics
… of fish are poorly understood. Utilising sound recordings taken from a reef in the Cape Rodney to Okakari Point Marine Reserve, the present study described the vocalisations of two dominant fish vocalisations, the croak and the purr. These sounds dominated the soundscape at frequencies below 500 …
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Jaw mechanics and muscle behavior in adolescents with different craniofacial morphologies
… when subjects did biting tasks to calibrate field recordings. Muscle duty factors were calculated for magnitude (%electromyography/20N bite) and duration thresholds and between-group differences evaluated using repeated measures ANOVA and Tukey-Kramer post hoc tests. Ipsilateral TMJ loads …
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Artist Designed Systems in Community Radio
… Park, and includes oral histories, music, poems, field recordings, archive material and fragments of bespoke music. Skylark is also a public service and research project that intends to offer an innovative way forward for community radio in the UK. Such stations are intended to respond to their …
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Effect of chemically induced mGluR-dependent long-term depression on dendritic spine volume
Based on extracellular field recordings and stimulations at the Schaeffer collateral-CA1 synapse, the synaptic tagging and capture (STC) model has hypothesized that at synapses that express any form of LTP and LTD (long-term potentiation and depression, respectively) are tagged in a protein …
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Music in Haiti: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide
… folk traditions for inspiration exists as well. Field recordings of Haitian music, first compiled by Alan Lomax in 1936 and 1937 for the Library of Congress, are underrepresented. Though the coverage of Haitian music has increased in scope in recent years largely due to the contributions of …
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The Composer Isn't There: A personal exploration of place in fixed media composition
… sound materials at a given time whether they are field recordings or synthesised materials. The way in which sound material is subsequently processed and structured reflects this. Place and the compositional practice inform each other in a two-way process. This results in what Katharine Norman …
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Beyond Batá: Documenting the Folkloric Lucumí Drumming Traditions of Matanzas, Cuba
… to Cuba (2018-2024), it combines ethnographic fieldwork with contextual analysis of historical recordings, such as the 1957 Carera/Tarafa field recordings and the 1981 Música iyesá LP.The study situates Matanzas as a primary center of Afrodiasporic cultural preservation, with emphasis on the …
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At the Conflux
… bass lines are decorated with snippets of field recordings captured in Tokyo and Osaka.</p><p>2. Craft and Expression Entwined in the Music of Martin Bresnick</p><p> The music of Martin Bresnick is filled with allusions to literature, history, politics, and music of the past. These …
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Sounding Severn: Landscape and music
… has been a personal project. It has involved field recordings of the sound of the river, both under and above the water, and the recording of sounds activated by interaction with the landscape; studying aspects of the river itself, its history, underlying geology, and the complex social, …
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Red Lake / Black Mine: Affective Bodies and Material Complicity in Sound Art Practice
… operates at the intersection of field recording, electroacoustic composition and sound art. It investigates how material—often considered inert—possesses agency, drawing the body of the artist to other affective bodies (sounds, objects, and actions) that exert influence on the …
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Resource management in sensing services with audio applications
… and signal-to-interference ratios, and also on field recordings (with areas under the receiver operating characteristic and precision-recall curves being 91% and 87%, respectively).
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An Evaluation of Laboratory and Test Road Environments and Electric Vehicle Warning Sounds and Systems
… by tests were then replicated using 3D sound field recordings played in a high-fidelity immersive reality lab. Results were used to verify the accuracy of lab environment and its potential applicability to future testing. The exciter transducer acoustic warning system was found to created more …
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Jews and Mappilas of Kerala: A study of their history and selected song traditions
… the history and selected archival musical recordings relating to the Jews and Mappila Muslims on the Malabar coast of Kerala, India. These two communities arose out of transoceanic migrations and interactions over the longue durée, and in reconstructing their past, this work aims to uncover …
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Acute Physiological Effects of Brain-Generated 17β-Estradiol in the Rodent Primary Auditory Cortex
… and primary visual cortex (V1). Next, in vivo field recordings were used to determine the effects of acute, bidirectional E2 manipulations on short- and long-term synaptic plasticity (paired-pulse responses and long-term potentiation; LTP) in A1. E2 significantly reduced the threshold for LTP …
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Reactive oxygen species involvement in gabaergic dysfunction in neuropathic pain
… induced pain behaviors in normal mice. Field recordings demonstrated that the spinal cord dorsal horn neurons were sensitized in SNL mice, and scavenging ROS reduced central sensitization. Blocking GABA neurotransmission significantly reduced this desensitization, indicating that ROS …
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An Omnivorous Ear: The Creative Practice of Field Recording
“An Omnivorous Ear - The Creative Practice of Field Recording” offers new insights into the history of recording outside of the studio in North America, challenging the various working definitions of field recording in music studies, anthropology, and communications. I examine recording …
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