Procesos creativos en entornos musicales inmersivos: un estudio de caso a través del análisis de metaversos. La Avatar Orchestra Metaverse en Second Life

La virtualidad se presenta como un espacio de creación y expansión de la realidad física. La percepción y la relación de los procesos creativos que giran en torno a lo virtual en lo referente a la música, la performance y la experimentación rigen e interaccionan nuestras realidades físicas, aún estando offline. Dichos procesos creativos son estudiados en la Orquesta virtual Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. Hemos navegado a través de la realidad creada por la Orquesta en el ciberespacio, bajo una metodología de estudio de caso -al que hemos llamado cybercase-, asistiendo y participando durante un tiempo en sus ensayos, junto a una posterior actuación. A través de un enfoque interdisciplinar basado en un proceso de análisis de material audiovisual y textual mediado por la presencia, entendida desde lo físico y lo virtual, exponemos los procesos creativos encontrados que subyacen bajo los miembros de la Orquesta, de modo descriptivo, y mediante el empleo de la teoría fundamentada. Como marco teórico mostramos los conceptos de música, espacio, tiempo y los procesos de comunicación gestados por la máquina y la virtualidad, todo ello mediado desde la percepción del ambiente y el interaccionismo simbólico. Presentamos dentro de este marco una revisión teórica del concepto de la creatividad enfocado desde la mecánica cuántica...

Sarah Caldwell, Symphony Orchestra Conductor

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Fest-Chor zur Enthüllung des Mozart-Denkmals in Salzburg: aus Compositionen des Gefeierten

zusammengestellt, instrumentirt, und mit einem passenden Texte versehen von dessen Sohne W.A. Mozart..

The Influence of the Guatemalan Municipal Orchestra's Curriculum on the Social Relations of its Members

The purpose of this case study is to determine the influence of the curriculum used by the Guatemalan Municipal Orchestra (GMO) upon the social interactions of its members. Social interactions include relations with families, teachers, and music colleagues. To determine this influence, the researcher framed the study using three main components: the impact of music in the development of children’s social skills; the curricula forming educational processes; and the characteristics of the Venezuela musical program, El Sistema. These foundations are explored via the tenets of participatory literacy. The data collection included interviews, surveys, and observation of students, parents, teachers, and administrative personnel. Two primary themes emerged from the data analysis: the development of a sense of community and the presence of intrinsic and external motivators implicit in the GMO environment. The final analysis suggests that curricular practices in the GMO positively influenced the development of students’ social interactions.

Hermes, a Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra

This thesis consists of a large composition for violoncello and orchestra, together with an analytical paper in which I discuss my compositional techniques and some of their historical antecedents. The composition draws on the genres of imaginary musical theater, the symphonic poem, and the concerto. It was also inspired by the story of Hermes, the messenger god from Greek mythology. While the myth partially informs the compositional structure, the work is ultimately meant to showcase the versatility of the cello, the coloristic range of the orchestra (in some cases emulating the orchestral styles of previous composers), the balance of cello and orchestra together, and the eclectic invocation of many compositional techniques separately and simultaneously. These techniques encompass set theory (the use of unordered pitch collections), polytonality, and serialism. It is composed in a post-romantic style.

TRPV4: Molecular Conductor of a Diverse Orchestra

Transient receptor potential vanilloid type 4 (TRPV4) is a calcium-permeable nonselective cation channel, originally described in 2000 by research teams led by Schultz (Nat Cell Biol 2: 695-702, 2000) and Liedtke (Cell 103: 525-535, 2000). TRPV4 is now recognized as being a polymodal ionotropic receptor that is activated by a disparate array of stimuli, ranging from hypotonicity to heat and acidic pH. Importantly, this ion channel is constitutively expressed and capable of spontaneous activity in the absence of agonist stimulation, which suggests that it serves important physiological functions, as does its widespread dissemination throughout the body and its capacity to interact with other proteins. Not surprisingly, therefore, it has emerged more recently that TRPV4 fulfills a great number of important physiological roles and that various disease states are attributable to the absence, or abnormal functioning, of this ion channel. Here, we review the known characteristics of this ion channel's structure, localization and function, including its activators, and examine its functional importance in health and disease.

The Welsh Marches: Resilient Farmers? Exploring Farmers' Resilience to Extreme Weather Events in the Recent Past

In the 21st century climate change will cause a significant increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events across Europe. Investigating farmers’ resilience to extreme weather events in the past can be used to establish the inherent level of resilience farmers’ will have to respond to comparable events in the future. The Welsh Marches has experienced a range of extreme weather events including: heatwaves, flooding; prolonged rainfall; and heavy snowfall. To identify the resilience of farmers in the Marches farmers’ apparent vulnerabilities, coping capacity, social capital and adaptive capacity that have been exposed in past events are discussed. Rural isolation is identified as an exacerbating factor of farming vulnerability. Yet, this is also an apparent source of resilience as farmers are found to rely on high social capital to assist each other in emergency and challenging situations during extreme weather events. The paper concludes by indicating that more localised studies are required, situated within unique farming cultures. This will enable a more complete picture of farmers’ resilience across Europe to be established.

Map of the upper part of the Island of Manhattan above Eighty-Sixth Street arranged to illustrate the Battle of Harlem Heights.

Relief shown by hachures.

Orchid hybrids. Sander's complete list. Containing the names and parentages of all the known hybrid orchids whether introduced or artificially raised. Arranged in tabular, alphabetical form ...

Published originally as a supplement to the author's Orchid guide. cf. Naturae novitates, 28. Jahrg., 1906, p. 377.

Rosarum monographia; or, A botanical history of roses to which is added, an appendix, for the use of cultivators, in which the most remarkable garden varieties are systematically arranged ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Whisper our futures

Whisper Our Futures was an invited design proposal to produce a major public artwork for the State of Queensland’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations. It involved a network of 100 individual scrolling digital text boxes each with individual audio systems arranged together in a tessellated format. This form (specified by the originating brief) both mimicked the soaring gothic arches typical of Queensland cathedrals and was also suggestive of their stained glass windows. Each text module presented a message in both visual and audible forms for Queenslanders living 150 years hence - spoken both by the general public aw well as prominent figures. In this way the work was designed as a focus of future hope, historical reflection and inspiration to visitors to Queensland cathedrals throughout the entire year of celebrations (2009). The work was planned to premiere at Brisbane’s main Anglican Cathedral and then tour to nine other state cathedrals throughout 2009.---- Two staged proposals and budgets were invited throughout 2007. After the second successful proposal stage the State Premier and cabinet changed, ultimately leading the public art components to be dropped from the program. The proposal currently remains on file at the Queensland Premiers Office.