scholarly journals Captivating and Encouraging Music Experiences ‘Wherever You Are Whenever You Want’, when Symphony Orchestra Performances are Provided Online

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Bergman Bergman
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Health Resource ◽  
Symphony Orchestras ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
Concert Halls ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Text Images

The purpose of the article is to examine what listening practices are constructed when symphony orchestras provide concert performances though streaming services. This is done by paying attention to how listening situations connected to symphony orchestras’ digital performances are characterized, how the audience is positioned in relation to the performances and the involved musicians, and furthermore to how the music is represented in text, images and verbal statements. The empirical data comprises the streaming services of two concert institutions, London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (GSO), and was gathered during spring 2020, i.e. when concert halls were closed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The article demonstrates how online listening practices are characterized as disconnected from constraints of time and space, and free for anyone to use, anytime and for almost any reason, yet also as strongly connected to the temporal and spatial dimensions. Furthermore, it is demonstrated how the listening practices connected to online symphonic performances are constructed in line with discourses on music as a health resource or as a mood enhancer and emotional regulator, but also in line with romantic aesthetic ideals. Even if the romantic aspects are less openly stated, and thus could be understood as being challenged, such ideals seem to remain uncontested as long as they are combined with more recent discourses on music.

An Indigenous Māori Perspective of Rangatahi Personhood

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adreanne Ormond ◽  
Joanna Kidman ◽  
Huia Tomlins-Jahnke
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Colonial Oppression ◽  
Ancestral Landscape

Personhood is complex and characterized by what Avery Gordon describes as an abundant contradictory subjectivity, apportioned by power, race, class, and gender and suspended in temporal and spatial dimensions of the forgotten past, fragmented present, and possible and impossible imagination of the future. Drawing on Gordon’s interpretation, we explore how personhood for young Māori from the nation of Rongomaiwāhine of Aotearoa New Zealand is shaped by a subjectivity informed by a Māori ontological relationality. This discussion is based on research conducted in the Māori community by Māori researchers. They used cultural ontology to engage with the sociohistorical realities of Māori cultural providence and poverty, and colonial oppression and Indigenous resilience. From these complex and multiple realities this essay will explore how young Māori render meaning from their ancestral landscape, community, and the wider world in ways that shape their particular personhood.

Agriculture and Land Transformation. 2. Present Trends and Future Prospects

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette M. Mannion
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
World Population ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Land Transformation ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Forest Lands

Today, agriculture remains a major agent of land transformation, the nature of which varies considerably between the developed and developing worlds. Of particular significance is the transformation of tropical forest lands into agricultural lands. This is causing extensive loss of biodiversity which means a loss of potential benefits in terms of ‘goods ’, and possibly the impairment of ecosystem services. The latter has implications for global climatic change. Such trends will continue beyond the millennium as world population is set to increase from 5.7 × 109 now to 8.3 × 109 in 2025. Part 1 of this series—Temporal and spatial dimensions — appeared in Volume 26 No. 2.

Effect of Various Combinations of Knowledge of Results on Learning a Multi-Dimensional Task

1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 505-506
Author(s):  
Reno J. Ramella
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Motor Skill ◽  
Knowledge Of Results ◽  
Male Volunteers ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Variable Errors

20 male volunteers (M = 22.9 yr., SD = 3.8 yr.) learned a motor skill (moved a slide) with temporal and spatial dimensions. Two groups, determined by specific combinations of knowledge of results (verbal-verbal and verbal-visual) were used. Multivariate analysis and follow-up procedures indicated an over-all reduction of absolute and variable errors over 4 trial blocks for both groups.

The dangers of taking capacity limits too literally

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Avons ◽  
Geoff Ward ◽  
Riccardo Russo
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Capacity Limits ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

The empirical data do not unequivocally support a consistent fixed capacity of four chunks. We propose an alternative account whereby capacity is limited by the precision of specifying the temporal and spatial context in which items appear, that similar psychophysical constraints limit number estimation, and that short term memory (STM) is continuous with long term memory (LTM).

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