Videoscenografi – en kvalitativ studie om det digitala teknikskiftet inom scenkonstnärliga insitutioner

I dagens medievana samhälle blir det allt vanligare att använda avancerad digital teknik inom scenkonstnärliga institutioner. Modern teknik möjliggör användandet av videoscenografi som ett scenografiskt element inom scenkonst. Det vanligaste är att projicera en förinspelad video, film eller ljus över scenen. Med djupintervjuer som metod var syftet att beskriva hur det digitala teknikskiftet inom olika scenkonstnärliga institutioner har sett ut samt att försöka förstå hur denna påverkan tagit sig uttryck. Avsikten var även att få reda på vad personer inom branschen kallar sig till yrket då det finns oklarheter kring benämningen. Studien har visat på att yrkesbenämningen som personer aktiva inom branschen väljer att använda är ett individuellt val som även beror på bakgrund och aktuella arbetsuppgifter. Vidare visar studien att användandet av videoteknik inom scenkonstnärliga institutioner är vanligare än vad vi tror och att branschen är ung och ännu inte har formaliserats. Videoscenografi i kombination med traditionella metoder är även något som förhöjer det konstnärliga uttrycket. Slutligen visar studien på att trots att tekniken fortfarande är dyr så används den allt mer då den underlättar processen i att flytta föreställningar mellan olika arenor då det inte krävs så mycket traditionell scenografi och rekvisita, vilket skapar ökad frihet till personer aktiva inom branschen. I framtiden kommer mer ny teknik att användas vilket kommer innebära att yrken som exempelvis dekormålare inte kommer behövas i samma utsträckning som förr.

Arbetsprocesser i scenkonstnärliga projekt : En kvalitativ studie på videoscenografer verksamma inom opera

Syftet med denna kvalitativa undersökning är att bidra med kunskap om hur scenografiska projekt organiseras, i första hand inom operakonsten. Resultatet är användbart för forskning inom organisation samt användbart för branschen. Huvudfrågan är: hur ser arbetsprocessen ut för konstnärliga projektgrupper verksamma inom operakonst? Delfrågorna är: vilka faktorer påverkar vilka kriterium videoscenografer har för skapande? Vilka faktorer är viktigast för gott styrande av konstnärliga projektgrupper verksamma inom operakonst? Analysprocessen består av sammankopplingar mellan respondenternas svar och Pierre Bourdieus teorier om det kulturproducerande fältet samt jämförelse med tidigare forskning. Intervjuer med tre videoscenografer har legat till grund för analysen om hur vi organiserar oss i konstnärliga projekt på operascenen. Resultatet av den kvalitativa undersökningen är att den verksammes bakgrund, intressen och utbildning har påverkan på de arbetsmässiga val som tas. Ett gott ledarskap av en konstnärlig grupp som skapar videoscenografi innebär att visa på tydlighet och respekt till alla medarbetare. Diskussionen handlar om studiens styrkor, svagheter och förslag till fortsatt forskning. Styrkan i undersökningen är respondenternas karakteristiska svar som med tydlighet kunde förklaras med hjälp av Bourdieus teorier samt tidigare forskning. Svagheten i undersökningen är att den endast byggs på den empiri som samlats in genom intervjuer. Förslag till fortsatt forskning är således att undersöka om samma resultat kan erhållas med en annan metod.

Elevers syn på teknikundervisningen : En undersökning av elevers intresse för teknik

Tidigare studier har visat att elevers intresse för teknikundervisningen är låg och därför är det av vikt att forskning bedrivs för att få kunskap om hur skolan kan verka för att väcka intresset för teknik. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vad elever är intresserade av att lära sig om på tekniklektionerna, hur de upplever teknikundervisningen och vilken nytta de anser sig ha av teknikkunskapen. Undersökningen genomfördes med både kvalitativ och kvantitativ metod. I undersökningen ingick elever från årskurs 3 och årskurs 5. Totalt besvarade 38 elever en enkät och 5 elevgrupper deltog i fördjupande fokussamtal. I resultatet framkom att majoriteten av eleverna hade en positiv inställning till teknikundervisningen. De visar ett intresse för att lära hur modern teknik, exempelvis datorer, fungerar och anser att det är kunskap som de behöver i vardagslivet. Resultatet visar dock tendenser till att eleverna i årskurs 5 var något mer negativt inställda till teknikundervisningen än eleverna i årskurs 3. Slutsatsen är att eleverna anser att de har nytta av teknikkunskaper för att det finns teknik överallt och de behöver kunna använda denna för att klara sig i samhället. Eleverna har dock svårt att koppla den teknik de möter i skolan till teknik de använder i vardagen.

VERSATILITY IN THE MODERN PERFORMER: THREE DIVERSE OPERA ROLES

This dissertation project consisted of performances of three diverse operatic roles. The goal was to examine the challenges and benefits of performing diverse repertoire (baroque, classical, and romantic opera, in this case) and to observe how vocal and acting techniques might adjust to different styles and voice classifications. On December 3, 5, 11, and 13,2003, I performed a composite role in Fatal Song, directed by Leon Major, in the Robert & Arlene Kogod Theatre. This opera pastiche, premiered in 1996, contains spoken dialogue, and the music originates from famous eighteenth and nineteenth-century operas. I explored the challenges and benefits of playing three different, well-known opera characters within the same opera, performing four different languages within the same opera, and performing spoken dialogue in an opera. My roles in this pastiche of famous opera included Lucia from Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti, Manon from Manon by Jules Massenet, and Pamina from Die ZauberJlote by W.A. Mozart. On January 28 and 29, 2005, I performed the role of Nice in Eurilla e Alcindo, a serenata by Antonio Vivaldi, in Homer Ulrich Recital Hall; musical direction by Joseph Gascho and stage direction by Kate Vetter Cain. I explored the challenges and benefits of preparing baroque ornamentation, singing without a conductor, performing an unknown work, staging a work that is not traditionally staged, singing with minimal sets and costumes, and singing with period instruments. On April 16,20, and 24,2005, I performed the role of Musetta in Giacomo Puccini's La BohBme, directed by Pat Diamond and conducted by Jeffrey Rink, in the Ina & Jack Kay Theatre. I examined the challenges and benefits of singing with a large orchestra of modem instruments, singing Puccini rubato and coordinating this with the conductor, and singing a role in one of the most well-known operas in today's repertoire. As a result of this investigation, I concluded that singing different styles, and singing outside one's voice classification, within reason, is beneficial. The knowledge, skill, confidence and insight I acquired by becoming more versatile benefited me as a performer and as a teacher.

The lyrical drama. Essays on subjects, composers, & executants of modern opera.

Extinction of the ballet. Operatic management. Musical agents. Libretti. Operatic and theatrical anomalies. The literary maltreatment of music. Dictionaries of music. Grove's musical dictionary. Quartett concerts and the classical in music. Reasonableness of opera. Tatra Füred, and the music of the Hungarian gipsies. The byeways of bookmaking.

Finlandssvenska åsikter om och attityder till modern språkpåverkan

The study describes and analyzes Finland Swedes attitudes to modern-day linguistic influence, the relationship between informants explicitly reported views and the implicit attitudes they express towards language influence. The methods are primarily sociolinguistic. For the analysis of opinions and attitudes I have further developed and tested a new tool in attitude research. With statistical correlation analysis of data collected through a quantitative survey I describe the views that Swedish-language Finns (N=500) report on the influence of English, on imports, and on domain loss. With experimental matchedguise techniques, I study Finland-Swedes (N=600) subconscious reactions to English imports in spoken text. My results show that the subconscious reactions in some respects differ markedly from the views informants explicitly report that they have: informants respond that they would like English words that come into Swedish to be replaced by Swedish replacement words, but in a matched-guise test on their subconscious attitudes, the informants consider English words in a Swedish context to have a positive effect. The topic is further dealt with in interviews where I examine 36 informants implicit attitudes through interactional sociolinguistic analyses. This study comes close to pragmatic discourse analysis in its focus on pragmatic particles and modality. The study makes a rather strict distinction between explicitly expressed opinions and implicit, subconscious attitudes. The quantitative analyses suggest that the opinions we express can be tied to the explicit in language. The outcome of the matched-guise test shows that it is furthermore possible to find subconscious, implicit attitudes that people in actual situations rely on when they make decisions. The discourse analysis finds many subconscious signals, but it also shows that the signals arise in interaction with one s interlocutor, the situation, and the norms in the society. To account for this I have introduced the concept of socioconscious attitude. Socioconscious attitudes reflect not only the traditions and values the utterer grew up with, but also the speaker s relation to the social situation (s)he takes part in.

ION, OPERA IN SEVEN SCENES, BASED ON EURIPIDES ORIGINAL PLAY

The opera ION serves as my Doctoral Dissertation at the University of Maryland School of Music. The librettist of the opera is Nick Olcott, Opera Assistant Director at the University. My interest in this little-known play of Euripides began with my work with Professor Lillian Doherty of the University's Classics Department. Since I am fluent in Greek, I was able to read the play in original, becoming aware of nuances of meaning absent in the standard English translations. Professor Leon Major, Artistic Director of the University's Opera Studio, was enthusiastic about the choice of this play as the basis for an opera, and has been very generous of his time in showing me what must be done to turn a play into an opera. ION is my first complete stage work for voices and constitutes an ambitious project. The opera is scored for a small chamber orchestra, consisting of Saxophone, Percussion (many types), Piano, a Small Chorus of six singers, as well as five Soloists. An orchestra of this size is adequate for the plot, and also provides support for various new vocal techniques, alternating between singing and speaking, as well as traditional arias. In ION, I incorporate Greek folk elements, which I know first-hand from my Balkan background, as well as contemporary techniques which I have absorbed during my graduate work at Boston University and the University of Maryland. Euripides' ION has fascinated me for two reasons in particular: its connection with founding myth of Athens, and the suggestiveness of its plot, which turns on the relationship of parents to children. In my interpretation, the leading character Ion is seen as emblematic for today's teenagers. Using the setting of the classic play, I hope to create a modern transformation of a myth, not to simply retell it. To this end, hopefully a new opera form will rise, as valid for our times as Verdi and Wagner were for theirs.

Reclaiming the Vocal High Ground: Performing Baroque Repertoire in a Modern World

The early music revival of the late twentieth century revolutionized music with the birth of historically lnformed performance. With this revolution came a stereotype of the "early music singing voice" as small, bright, straight-toned, and unfortunately, often inferior techrucally to the mainstream opera singer. An assessment of the validity of this stereotype was made though readings of treatises and modern manuals of performance practice, and through listening to recordings. Sources on ornamentation, recitative, dance rhythm, and baroque gesture were examined, resulting in the finding that these issues are far more important to historical accuracy than are voice timbre and size. This dissertation is comprised of three historically informed performances intended to satisfy both the early music specialist and the mainstream voice teacher. Program One (May 15, 2004) is a performance of The "Peasant" Cantata, BWV 212, by J.S. Bach, with The Bach Sinfonia at the Washington Conservatory of Music. Program Two (January 29, 2005) is the role of Eurilla in a staged production of Antonio Vivaldi's serenata, Eurilla e Alcindo. The performance is a collaboration with the Baltimore-based ensemble, La Rocinante, and is conducted from the keyboard by Joseph Gascho. Program Three (March 14, 2005) is a solo recital entitled, Fairest Isle: Music of Baroque London. All three programs are documented in a digital audio format available on compact disc, with accompanying programs and notes also available in digital format.

Teknik för en flerskiktadwebbapplikation

The report analyses if some common problems can be avoided by using modern technology. As a reference system “Fartygsrapporteringssystemet” is used. It is an n-tier web application built with modern technology at time, 2003-2004. The aim is to examine whether ASP.Net MVC, Windows Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation and SQL Server 2005 Service Broker can be used to create an n-tier web application which also communicate with other systems and facilitate automated testing. The report describes the construction of a prototype in which the presentation layer uses ASP.Net MVC to separate presentation and business logic. Communication with the business layer is done through the Windows Communication Foundation. Hard coded processes are broken out and dealt with by Workflow Foundation. Asynchronous communication with other systems is done by using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Broker. The results of the analysis is that these techniques can be used to create a n-tier web application, but that ASP.Net MVC, which at present only available in a preview release, is not sufficiently developed yet.

Video- och Projektions-design : En fallstudie i videoscenografi

Denna uppsats har för avsikt att beskriva och redogöra för området videoscenografi och hur en videoscenograf arbetar. Videoscenografer har 90- och 00-talets snabba utveckling av prestanda inom datakraften att tacka för sin funktion, i en värld som kräver alltmer av kreatören frågar jag mig hur videoscenografen ser på sin omvärld. Videoscenografen verkar i området mellan det konstnärliga, scentekniska och grafiska. Deras position är fortfarande under förvirring just eftersom deras arbetsfält är så brett. Uppsatsen klargör för läsaren vad det är de sysslar med inom en scenkonstproduktion och varför videoscenografin är en sak för framtiden. Video inom scenkonstproduktioner blir allt viktigare, samtidigt som dekormålares arbete blir allt mindre, men endå tvingas videoscenografen att utföra sitt arbete under trängda förhållanden, med full ljussättning på scen, eller samtidigt som repetitioner pågår där de riskerar att störa en kreativ process. Insynen i vad de sysslar med är högst begränsad eftersom det är ett ungt yrke, med så pass få utövare. Denna uppsats klargör för varför videoscenografens arbete är viktigt och varför de bör ges mer tid att utföra sitt arbete.

Beethoven’s Influence on Modern Musical Thought

Ludwig van Beethoven is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential composers of Western art music. From a young age, he exhibited considerable talent, independence, and willful nonconformity. Over the course of his life, these themes came through both in his compositions, and in his attitude towards social norms regarding music. Composing symphonies, sonatas, string quartets, concertos, and one opera, Beethoven shattered musical boundaries and set the stage for how musicians and listeners would think about music for the next 200 years, up to modern day. This afternoon I will explore various ways in which Beethoven’s conception of music continues to influence our thinking about music, even rock, through analysis of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life,” off their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

L' "opera mondo" di Paolo Volponi fra satira e morale

Nella mia tesi di dottorato mi propongo di indagare la metamorfosi del romanzo nella letteratura italiana contemporanea attraverso il lavoro di Paolo Volponi, che può essere descritto come un’«opera mondo», in accordo con la formula critica coniata da Franco Moretti. Volponi intende superare il divario fra l’io e il mondo e ricomporre il corpo come una mediazione umanistica di ragione e sensi. La sua opera può essere definita ‘epica’ perché recupera la tradizione del romanzo cavalleresco e la parodia esercitata su questa tradizione letteraria da Cervantes nel Don Chisciotte. Ma, come l’Ulysses di Joyce, è un’epica «moderna» perché fondata su una totalità disgiunta e sul conflitto dialogico, in una linea che accomuna la moltiplicazione dei punti di vista, propria del romanzo polifonico secondo Bachtin, alla pluralità di prospettive del discorso scientifico. Dopo un primo capitolo teorico, nel secondo e nel terzo capitolo della tesi i romanzi di Volponi vengono studiati in rapporto al filone dell’«epica moderna» e al genere satirico, che ha un suo modello fondativo nell’opera di Giacomo Leopardi. Il quarto capitolo si focalizza sulle ultime raccolte poetiche, che mostrano la tendenza a recuperare il linguaggio formulare e la matrice orale della poesia delle origini, servendosene per rappresentare in funzione contrappuntistica l’universo globale dell’età contemporanea.

HTML5, Javascript and modern browser technologies: toward a web based framework for device fingerprinting

Mentre navighiamo siamo veramente certi che i nostri dati e la nostra privacy siano al sicuro? I browser e le tecnologie di cui fanno uso possono rivelare una miriade di informazioni. Al crescere delle informazioni reperibili, si inizia a superare una massa critica che può permettere l'identificazione. Il device fingerprinting è proprio il rilevamento di questa tipologia di dati. HTML5 e le nuove API che esso mette a disposizione aumentano a dismisura le modalità per fare fingerprinting. Durante lo sviluppo della presente tesi è stato realizzato un framework molto potente che verrà mostrato nel dettaglio. Come a seguito di un disastro aereo, l'ingegneria aeronautica si mette all'opera per scovare i punti deboli allo scopo di rendere più robusti gli aerei di nuova generazione, noi con la presente tesi vogliamo dare il nostro contributo al miglioramento del web del futuro. Affinchè la nostra privacy sia veramente nelle nostre mani e possiamo essere artefici del nostro domani.

Modern music and musicians.

Head and tail pieces.

Nicolai de Clemangiis... opera ominia qua' partim ex antiquissimis editionibus, partim ex ms. v. cl. Theodori Canteri,

Republished in 1967 by Gregg Press, Farnborough, Hants., Eng.