scholarly journals Sonification: A Prehistory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Worrall
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Western Music ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Data Sonification ◽  
Modern Era

The idea that sound can convey information predates the modern era, and certainly the computational present. Data sonification can be broadly described as the creation, study and use of the non-speech aural representation of information to convey information. As a field of contemporary enquiry and practice, data sonification is young, interdisciplinary and evolving; existing in parallel to the field of data visualization. Drawing on older practices such as auditing, and the use of information messaging in music, this paper provides an historical understanding of how sound and its representational deployment in communicating information has changed. In doing so, it aims to encourage a critical awareness of some of the sociocultural as well as technical assumptions often adopted in sonifying data, especially those that have been developed in the context of Western music of the last half-century or so.

scholarly journals R. PLEČKAIČIO FILOSOFIJOS ISTORIJOS TYRIMŲ METODOLOGIJA

Problemos ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Gintaras Kabelka
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Problematic Situation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

Straipsnyje nagrinėjami Romano Plečkaičio filosofijos istorijos tyrimų metodologijos svarbiausi elementai: filosofijos istorijos kaip problemų sprendimų kaitos samprata – filosofiją sudaro nuolat kintantys problemų sprendimai; problema yra ir tyrimo prieiga, tyrimo medžiagą konceptualiai struktūruojantis veiksnys; probleminės situacijos (istoriniu momentu susiklosčiusi teorinių elementų konsteliacija, lemianti naujos teorijos sukūrimą) istorinė rekonstrukcija; objektyvaus istorinio supratimo prieiga, kuri filosofiją traktuoja kaip objektyviai ir visuotinai galiojančių žinojimo elementų visumą. Plečkaitis kuria filosofijos pažangios raidos vaizdinį, kurį papildo paradigmų kaitos elementais: radikalus problemų sprendimų pokytis vaizduojamas kaip visiškai naujos probleminės situacijos susiformavimas. Ši traktuojama kaip paradigminė, lemianti visus kitus problemų sprendimo būdus.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: Plečkaitis, problemų istorijos metodologija, probleminė situacija, objektyvus istorinis supratimas.R. Plečkaitis’ Methodology of Historical-Philosophical ResearchGintaras Kabelka SummaryThe article analyzes the methodology of Romanas Plečkaitis’ research, in which the most important ele-ments are: the conception of the history of philosophy as a process of transformation of philosophical problems, which initiates the historical study and provides the material and structures of the interpreta-tion of results; the historical reconstruction of the problematic situation as a constellation of theoretical elements motivating the creation of a new theory; the objective historical understanding, which treats philosophy as the totality of objectively and universally functioning cognitional elements and excludes from the interpretation of the history of philosophy all subjective and metaphysical factors. The picture of progress of philosophy presented in the works of Plečkaitis involves the elements of paradigm shifts. He presents the radical modification of the solution of problems as the formation of a new problematic situation, which is regarded as paradigmatic for the solution of other remaining problems. Keywords: Plečkaitis, methodology of history of problems, problematic situation, objective historical understanding   ine-height: 18px;"> 

scholarly journals DataScape: Cartógrafos aficionados y comunidades digitales

AusArt ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Blanca Montalvo Gallego
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

Los mapas nos fascinan porque cuentan historias. Las corrientes bottom up facilitan la multiplicidad de narradores, y la creación de comunidades que fomentan el intercambio y reafirman la autoridad de los esfuerzos individuales al margen de la institución y las grandes compañías. Frente a los mapas que han definido el mundo durante décadas, ahora cada uno somos el centro de nuestros paisajes cartográficos: todas las distancias se miden desde el punto en el que nos encontramos, y a partir de ahí el todo se reorganiza y cambia de escala. Esta situación promueve un nuevo paisaje tecnológico, en ocasiones mediante la reivindicación de territorios o la visualización de datos, que hablan más del que mira que del objeto contemplado.Palabras clave: PAISAJE; LUGAR; MAPAS; ARTE; CARTOGRAFÍA Datascape: Amateur cartographers and digital communitiesAbstractThe maps tells us stories that fascinate us. The bottom up currents facilitate the existance of multiple narrators, and the creation of communities that foster exchanges and reaffirm the authority of individual efforts outside the institution and large companies. The maps have defined the world for decades, but now each of us are the center of our cartographic landscape: the distances are measured from the point where we are, and from there the whole reorganizes and changes of scale. This situation promotes a new technological landscap, sometimes by reclaiming territories or data visualization, speaking more of the beholder that the object contemplated.Keywords: LANDSCAPE; PLACE; MAPS; ART; CARTOGRAPHY

Political Practices of Progressivism

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10 (108)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Maria Fyodorova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Bright Future ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Modern Era

The main subject of the article is progress as a concept and as a political practice. Starting from the idea of a close relationship between the historical and political sections of the social consciousness of the era, the author shows how the emergence and evolution of the concept of progress in the modern era influenced the formation of political practices in the era of modernity through the creation of political projects within the framework of various ideologies. It is shown that changes in the perception of historical time in the second half of the twentieth century led to a significant transformation in the understanding of progress and its transformation from one of the central categories into “myth”, “utopia”, etc. and, accordingly, to the modification of political practices. Today's progressivism is a very complex interweaving of political concepts and practices that are gradually losing their historical optimism and are turned rather not to creating a utopian project for a bright future, but to developing specific programs to minimize the risks of modern civilization.

“Everybody can persecute anybody”

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-180
Author(s):  
Amy Feinstein
Keyword(s):  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Current Wave ◽  
Vichy France ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
Modern Era

Chapter 6 discusses the interpenetration of Stein’s experience as a Jew in Vichy France with the non-Jewish experiences of war and persecution in Europe. In the 1930s, Stein happily deemed the modern era Jewish; by the 1940s, she condemns the current wave of antisemitism as a hateful archaism. In her memoir, Wars I Have Seen, Stein writes as openly about the Jewish question as she had in her college essay a half-century earlier. She criticizes Pétain, Vichy’s head of state, for persecuting Jews, paints Hitler as a monster, and strives to understand the forces that brought such figures to prominence. Though purportedly protected, she recounts being threatened with internment in a concentration camp. Continuing from her earlier wartime novel Mrs. Reynolds, Stein, in the memoir, worries over situations of persecution, imprisonment (recalling Dreyfus), deportation, refugeeism, and resistance, as they afflict the Jews and non-Jews of her acquaintance. At a time when Vichy decrees were sharply demarcating Jewish and French identities, she rebelliously suggests that the persecution to which Jews historically were subject now has become general. By Judaizing the experience of occupation, Stein affirms the specificities of Jewish experiences while imagining the symbolic import of such experiences for gentiles.

Introduction

Love, Inc. ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Laurie Essig
Keyword(s):  
Color Line ◽  
New Class ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Modern Era

Modern love developed alongside capitalism to sell us the idea that love is all we need, even though we also need to buy a lot of things to have love. This chapter explores how romance developed as one of the most important ideologies of the modern era and how it relies on many other modern developments—like the drawing of the color line, the birth of the homosexual, and the creation of new class hierarchies—to make sense.

Glanmor Williams 1920–2005

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERAINT H. JENKINS
Keyword(s):  
Half Century ◽  
Modern Era

Glanmor Williams, by dint of intellectual brilliance, far-sighted vision, and exceptional personal charm, achieved towering eminence in the field of Welsh historical studies. Few Welsh scholars in the modern era have served their profession, university, and country as admirably as him, and the flourishing condition of Welsh historical studies during the last half century is in considerable measure attributable to his influence. Yet, in spite of his unrivalled standing as a Welsh historian and the weight of honours he accumulated over the years, Williams remained unspoilt by his academic successes and public achievements.

Knowledge and Power in the Discourse of Modernity: The Campaigns against Popular Religion in Early Twentieth-Century China

1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasenjit Duara
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Religion ◽  
Western World ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
The West ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Transition ◽  
Modern Era

Ever since the enlightenment—the dawn of the modern era—historical understanding has been much concerned with the passage to modernity. In our present century, questions and dilemmas of the transition to modernity and the evaluation of “tradition” in the non-Western world have been central to the historical problematique the world over. I have chosen to analyze the modernist understanding of this historical transition in China not only among professional historians in the West, but among Chinese advocates of modernity. Specifically, I will examine the campaigns attacking popular religion during the first three decades of this century. As a movement advocating the establishment of a rational society, these campaigns offer a view of the understanding of this transition, not just in theory and historiography, but in practice.

The Potters' Wheel in Minoan Crete

1988 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 83-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Evely
Keyword(s):  
Centrifugal Force ◽  
Object Type ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Minoan Crete ◽  
Individual Accounts

The large numbers and variety of forms of this object type that have gradually accumulated in the last half century permit now of an overall review, drawing in part on earlier and more individual accounts. Following the Catalogue, five broad typological classes are discussed, analysed in detail, and manufacture and method of employment deduced, as far as possible. Geographical and chronological distribution is looked at. The Pre-Palatial period sees only the use of ‘mats’ – turned manually merely as the potter desired in building up his pot by hand; centrifugal force is harnessed at the perioid of the creation of the First Palaces – the freely-revolving wheel appears. Rapidly, before the construction of the Neo-Palatial buildings, a wheelhead incorporating a fly-wheel effect was devised, probably set low on the ground, pivoting in a fixed basal socket.

scholarly journals ‘Roots’?: the relationship between the global and the local within the Extreme Metal scene

Popular Music ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Harris
Keyword(s):  
Developing World ◽  
Western Music ◽  
The West ◽  
Extreme Metal ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Developed World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Musical Forms

Music's ‘malleability’ (Taylor 1997) has always facilitated its export and import from one location to another. Indeed, such processes are central to the creation and dissemination of new musical forms. Yet in our contemporary globalised world, such processes occur ever more extensively and rapidly giving rise to new forms of appropriation and syncretism. Record companies from the developed world find new audiences in the developing world (Laing 1986). Musicians from the West appropriate non-Western music, sometimes collaboratively (Feld 1994; Taylor 1997). Non-Western musicians and musicians from subaltern groups within the West create new syncretic forms drawing on both Western and non-Western music (Mitchell 1996; Lipsitz 1994, Slobin 1993). The resulting ‘global ecumene’ produces considerable ‘cultural disorder’ (Featherstone 1990, p. 6) whose results cannot easily be summarised.

Mei Lanfang and Stanislavsky: The (De)construction of an Intercultural Myth on the International Stage

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-280
Author(s):  
MIN TIAN
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Chinese Theatre ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Lasting Influence

Mei Lanfang's contact with Stanislavsky during his 1935 tour in the Soviet Union and the latter's often-cited ‘appraisal’ of the acting of traditional Chinese theatre have exerted a profound and lasting influence on the Chinese understanding and evaluation of the art of their traditional theatre. Through extensive research into the related archival material, as well as contemporary records, this article investigates the historical facts and circumstances that underlie this historic intercultural moment on the twentieth-century international stage. It unweaves the historical construction of this remarkable intercultural phenomenon and exposes its political and ideological underpinnings as well as its theatrical and artistic placements and displacements. It underscores the necessity of deconstructing the creation of such an intercultural myth for today's historical understanding of the art of traditional Chinese theatre and, by implication, in a larger context, of the global making of twentieth-century intercultural theatre.

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