scholarly journals The Experience of Sound: An Interview with Thomas DeLio

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Thomas Licata
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Compositional Approach ◽  
Musical Thinking ◽  
Over 40 Years ◽  
Early Influences ◽  
New England Conservatory

Abstract Thomas DeLio is a composer and theorist of international renown in both fields and especially noted for his work in computer music. In this conversation he discusses his musical thinking with over 40 years in the field. His compositions have been performed worldwide and are recorded on numerous labels. Neuma recordings has recently released five volumes of his recorded compositions in an ongoing series of his collected works. The interview itself, conducted over a series of phone conversations in the summer of 2020, begins with a look at his early student years at the New England Conservatory of Music in the late 1960s and early 1970s and navigates through to his current work and thinking today. Numerous aspects of his compositional approach and aesthetics are discussed, including his early influences, his illuminating thoughts on time and silence in his music, his applications of various technologies, and spatial projection, particularly at it relates to his work with sound installations.

scholarly journals Compositional Distributional Semantics with Syntactic Dependencies and Selectional Preferences

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 5743
Author(s):  
Pablo Gamallo
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Distributional Semantics ◽  
Compositional Model ◽  
Compositional Approach ◽  
Sentence Similarity ◽  
Selectional Preferences ◽  
Syntactic Dependencies ◽  
Compositional Distributional Semantics

This article describes a compositional model based on syntactic dependencies which has been designed to build contextualized word vectors, by following linguistic principles related to the concept of selectional preferences. The compositional strategy proposed in the current work has been evaluated on a syntactically controlled and multilingual dataset, and compared with Transformer BERT-like models, such as Sentence BERT, the state-of-the-art in sentence similarity. For this purpose, we created two new test datasets for Portuguese and Spanish on the basis of that defined for the English language, containing expressions with noun-verb-noun transitive constructions. The results we have obtained show that the linguistic-based compositional approach turns out to be competitive with Transformer models.

Young Man With a Sax

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Con Chapman
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Duke Ellington ◽  
New England Conservatory

The chapter describes Hodges’s musical household, along with his limited instruction on the piano and saxophone. He received instruction on the saxophone formally, from (among others) a student at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and informally, from other young men in his neighborhood, which came to be known as “Saxophonist Ghetto” because of the large number of musicians who played the instrument living there. Hodges’s youthful introduction to Sidney Bechet at a Boston burlesque show, at which he played a soprano sax, is described. The chapter recounts the saxophone’s history and its development in the jazz genre, as well as Hodges’s early public performances in the Boston area at a very young age. Hodges begins to develop a reputation both in Boston and throughout New England, and he eventually comes to the attention of Duke Ellington in a Boston nightclub.

‘Sound is the interface’: from interactive to ecosystemic signal processing

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
AGOSTINO DI SCIPIO
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Autonomous System ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Dynamical Behaviour ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Live Electronics ◽  
Coupling Noise ◽  
System Components ◽  
Self Organisation

This paper takes a systemic perspective on interactive signal processing and introduces the author's Audible Eco-Systemic Interface (AESI) project. It starts with a discussion of the paradigm of ‘interaction’ in existing computer music and live electronics approaches, and develops following bio-cybernetic principles such as ‘system/ambience coupling’, ‘noise’, and ‘self-organisation’. Central to the paper is an understanding of ‘interaction’ as a network of interdependencies among system components, and as a means for dynamical behaviour to emerge upon the contact of an autonomous system (e.g. a DSP unit) with the external environment (room or else hosting the performance). The author describes the design philosophy in his current work with the AESI (whose DSP component was implemented as a signal patch in KYMA5.2), touching on compositional implications (not only live electronics situations, but also sound installations).

The New England Conservatory auditions

1972 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-106
Author(s):  
Gunther Schuller
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New England Conservatory

Boston: Gunther Schuller's ‘Encounters’

Tempo ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 58 (228) ◽  
pp. 62-63
Author(s):  
Rodney Lister
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Chamber Music ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Concert Halls ◽  
New England Conservatory

Boston's Symphony Hall is celebrated as one of the finest concert halls in the world. It is generally less well known that Boston also has the smaller and equally fine Jordan Hall, located in the New England Conservatory. A fixture of Boston's musical life, Jordan Hall is also literally the heart of the Conservatory, being the venue not only of visiting celebrity solo and chamber music recitals, but of a multitude of the whole range of the Conservatory's student concert activity.

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