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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"musical improvisation"”.
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A conversation-based framework for musical improvisation
… governing navigation through that structure. ImprovisationBuilder, an object-oriented framework written in Smalltalk-80, supports this model for musical improvisation. The framework demonstrates how computers can participate in musical improvisation, and how the study of conversation can …
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GENERIC: Musical Improvisation with Machine Learning and Generative Composition
… intelligence (AI) techniques in the field of musical creativity. This task is first approached through an examination of selected existing musical works involving humans and AI systems, beginning near the advent of the digital computer and progressing through contemporary works. The project …
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Musical improvisation as the place where being speaks : Heidegger, language and sources of Christian hope
… point for a re-emergent understanding of musical improvisation as a metaphysical principle (Chapter 5). Improvisation in music will be seen to be linked to the centrality of hope in human experience, and this will be exemplified in relation to certain cultures and twentieth-century …
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A Phenomenological Enquiry of Perceived Mental Representations in Thematic Musical Improvisation: Case Studies of Two Professional Pianists
… importance in increasing the quality of a musical performance, yet its nature and roles in music learning remain poorly understood. Although they are generally seen as conscious and quasi-perceptual experiential phenomena involving the imagination of events, objects, and settings, music …
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Using the expressive arts to facilitate group music improvisation and individual reflection: expanding consciousness in music learning for self-development
… explores the participatory practice of free musical improvisation coupled with reflective art response as a means for individuals to create self-knowledge and cultivate self-referential awareness. Drawing upon integral theory (Wilber, 2000a, 2000b), this research is concerned with aspects of …
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USING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE AS A CONCEPTUAL TOOL: AN EXAMINATION OF COGNITION IN IMPROVISED MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Viewing musical improvisation in the light of psychology and cognitive science, this thesis will explicate the rationale behind the development of a software based audiovisual interface for use in improvised solo instrumental performance. The evolution of the performance environment is presented …
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An Ethnographic Study into the Musical Interaction of a Young Man with an Intellectual Disability and his Music Teacher
… study contemplates and analyses the musical interaction of a young man, G, who has a diagnosis of Down’s syndrome, intellectual disability and a visual impairment, and myself, his music teacher. Video footage of weekly music sessions was accumulated over the course of one year, and …
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Play It Loud: A Creative Music Program For Youth In Regina
… can promote healing and growth in youth. I used musical improvisation as the pedagogical foundation to create the opportunity for participants to teach themselves through experimentation and enable their creative expression. In response to the diverse identities of the participants I took what …
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Evaluating computational creativity: a standardised procedure for evaluating creative systems and its application
… detailed comparisons of the creativity of three musical improvisation systems, identifying which systems are more creative than others and why. In a second case study, SPECS is used to capture initial impressions on the creativity of systems presented at a 2011 computational creativity research …
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Tabletop Tangible Interfaces for Music Performance: Design and Evaluation
… interfaces (TTIs) for music performance or musical tabletops. Musical tabletops are designed for professional musical performance, as well as for casual interaction in public settings. These systems support co-located collaboration, offered by a shared interface. However, we still know …
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Making Music Sustainable: The Case of Marketing Summer Jamband Festivals in the U.S., 2010
… venues. The jamband genre of music emphasizes musical improvisation and borrows from other styles of music: rock, electronic, jazz, blues, folk, and bluegrass.</p> <p>In addition, any impacts these festivals have upon the local environment are evaluated. Sustainability is a topic often used as …
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Listening at the Edges: Aural Experience and Affect in a New York Jazz Scene
… and topics of jazz scholarship: the nature of musical improvisation, and relatedly, the dynamics of listening and aural perception, as well as the complex, changing, but continuing relationship between African American cultural practices and jazz.</p><p>This project makes several contributions …
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Computational Modelling of Jazz Improvisation
… elements that contribute towards defining musical style in jazz. Third, we refine the scope of the previous study to focus on modelling the relationship between rhythm and musical style. We extract a range of rhythmic features (including those relating to “feel”, “swing”, and “interaction”) …
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Friend Me Your Ears: A Musical Approach to Human-Robot Relationships
… social presence, which, along with an engaging musical interaction, will allow us to move towards something that could be called a human-robot relationship. First, we conducted a large online survey to gain insight into relationships based in regular music activity. Using these results, we …
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The refusal of the work of art: aesthetics and autonomy in Italy, 1965-1985
… self-managed social centers, collective musical improvisation and cooperatives, counter-cultural publications, and mail art networks. Grouped under the name Italian Actionism, as they all downplay the work of art as object in favor of action, these collective practices are construed as …
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Investigating the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation: Experimental case studies using a novel application of the subsumption architecture
… the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation. To explore the cognitive underpinnings of the collaborative process, a series of experimental case studies was undertaken in which expert improvisors performed with an artificial agent. The research connects ecological …
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Improvisation, Computers, and Interaction : Rethinking Human-Computer Interaction Through Music
… was a result of rediscovering the power of improvisation as a method for organizing and constructing musical content and is not to be understood as an opposition: It is rather a broadening of the more common paradigm of direct manipulation in Human-Computer Interaction. Improvisation is at …
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The Effects of Free Play As an Instructional Tool on the Quality of Improvisation of First, Second, and Third Grade Children
To look at the effect of free play on the musical improvisations of first, second and third grade children, 108 children were randomly assigned to either a control or treatment group. Subjects were tested using a researcher-designed instrument to elicit an improvisatory response. The control group …