scholarly journals The BlipVert Method

Intonations ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
William Northlich
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Acoustic Instruments ◽  
Movement Building ◽  
And Performance

The confluence of composition and performance is a compelling phenomenon which confronts many 21st century electronic music artists, brought about primarily through an independent “DiY” ethos to creativity and the ubiquity of advanced musical, and non-musical, technology. Techniques of software programming, improvisation, reconstitution of electric and acoustic instruments, sampling, and manipulation of audio in a live setting (to name a few) may all find a place in an artist’s methodology regardless of style. It may be even be said that the techniques employed by an artist delineate the style itself, e.g. “controllerism,” “turntablism,” “live PA,” etc. The following paper offers an in-depth structural analysis of the composition and performance fundamentals of BlipVert, a pseudonym under which I have been presenting electronic music to the general public for almost two decades. The BlipVert composition “New Choomish,” from BlipVert’s 2010 release “Quantumbuster Now” (Eat Concrete Records, NL), is examined as a construct which manifests an expressive faculty in both live and studio environments, consequently demonstrating a profoundly synthesized framework of sonic and gestural principles. Keywords: composition, performance, improvisation, movement, building-blocks, Northlich, BlipVert, New Choomish

scholarly journals Synthesizers, Virtual Orchestras, and Ableton Live: Digitally Rendered Music on Broadway and Musicians’ Union Resistance

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 273-304
Author(s):  
LIAM E. GIBBS
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Production Values ◽  
Downward Pressure ◽  
Acoustic Instruments ◽  
Union Local ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Industry Professionals ◽  
Previous Scholarship

AbstractAs Broadway musicals embrace contemporary popular music styles, orchestrators must incorporate the digital technologies necessary for producing convincing simulations of genres like hip hop and electronic music. At the same time, as production values soar, producers work to minimize their budgets, often putting downward pressure on the size of the orchestra. Although digital and electronic music technologies can expand the sonic register of the Broadway orchestra, they can also replace traditional acoustic instruments and save money. The Broadway musicians’ union, Local 802, has regularly sought to control the use of digital technologies and ensure that live musicians produce as much music as possible. Thus, Local 802's advocacy for the employment of their members can limit the sounds heard on Broadway.The following narrative considers three digital technologies—synthesizers, virtual orchestras, and Ableton Live—and examines case studies and controversies surrounding their use in Broadway orchestras and implications for liveness in performance. Informed by interviews with industry professionals, author observation of pit orchestras in rehearsal and performance, archival research, popular and industry media, and previous scholarship, I argue that the union's entrenched interests and antiquated regulations can stifle musical innovation on Broadway by resisting the use of digital music technologies.

Structural Analysis and Performance in a Dual‐Mechanism Conductive Filament Memristor

2021 ◽  
pp. 2100605
Author(s):  
Shu‐Chin Tsai ◽  
Hong‐Yang Lo ◽  
Chih‐Yang Huang ◽  
Min‐Ci Wu ◽  
Yi‐Tang Tseng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Conductive Filament ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Dual Mechanism

scholarly journals TESSA: design and implementation of a platform for situational sea awareness

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-196
Author(s):  
Mario Scalas ◽  
Palmalisa Marra ◽  
Luca Tedesco ◽  
Raffaele Quarta ◽  
Emanuele Cantoro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
End User ◽  
Performance Requirements ◽  
Platform Architecture ◽  
Front End ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Key Aspects

Abstract. This article describes the architecture of sea situational awareness (SSA) platform, a major asset within TESSA, an industrial research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research. The main aim of the platform is to collect, transform and provide forecast and observational data as information suitable for delivery across a variety of channels, like web and mobile; specifically, the ability to produce and provide forecast information suitable for creating SSA-enabled applications has been a critical driving factor when designing and evolving the whole architecture. Thus, starting from functional and performance requirements, the platform architecture is described in terms of its main building blocks and flows among them: front-end components that support end-user applications and map and data analysis components that allow for serving maps and querying data. Focus is directed to key aspects and decisions about the main issues faced, like interoperability, scalability, efficiency and adaptability, but it also considers insights about future works in this and similarly related subjects. Some analysis results are also provided in order to better characterize critical issues and related solutions.

High Yield Assembly of Compliant MEMS Snap Fasteners

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Murthy ◽  
Aditya N. Das ◽  
Dan O. Popa
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Deformation Energy ◽  
High Yield ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Lab Experiments ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Robotic Cells ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Important Design

Heterogeneous assembly at the microscale has recently emerged as a viable pathway to constructing 3-dimensional microrobots and other miniaturized devices. In contrast to self-assembly, this method is directed and deterministic, and is based on serial or parallel microassembly. Whereas at the meso and macro scales, automation is often undertaken after, and often benchmarked against manual assembly, we demonstrate that deterministic automation at the MEMS scale can be completed with higher yields through the use of engineered compliance and precision robotic cells. Snap fasteners have long been used as a way to exploit the inherent stability of local minima of the deformation energy caused by interference during part mating. In this paper we assume that the building blocks are 2 1/2 -dimensional, as is the case with lithographically microfabricated MEMS parts. The assembly of the snap fasteners is done using μ3, a multi-robot microassembly station with unique characteristics located at our ARRI’s Texas Microfactory lab. Experiments are performed to demonstrate that fast and reliable assemblies can be expected if the microparts and the robotic cell satisfy a so-called “High Yield Assembly Condition” (H.Y.A.C.). Important design trade-offs for assembly and performance of microsnap fasteners are discussed and experimentally evaluated.

scholarly journals A Discrete-Choice Experiment to capture public preferences on the benefits of home-visiting programme for teenage mothers

F1000Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 677
Author(s):  
Eugena Stamuli ◽  
Gerry Richardson ◽  
Michael Robling ◽  
Michelle Edwards ◽  
David Torgerson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Discrete Choice Experiment ◽  
Discrete Choice ◽  
General Public ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Public Preferences ◽  
Health And Social Care

Background: Complex health and social care interventions impact on a multitude of outcomes. One such intervention is the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme, which was introduced to support young, first-time mothers. Our study quantified the relative values that the general public place on the outcomes of FNP, as they were identified and measured in the relevant randomized trial, Building Blocks trial (BBs). Methods: A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was employed. Respondents chose between two scenarios describing hypothetical sets of trial outcomes. BBs compared FNP care for teenagers expecting their first child with standard NHS care. 14 attributes covered three areas: pregnancy and birth, child development and maternal life course. Due to large number of attributes, a “blocked attributes” approach was adopted: the attributes were split across four designs which contained two common attributes. Data were analysed separately for each design as well as pooled across four designs. Random effects probit model was employed for the analysis. Results: Over 1000 participants completed four designs. The analyses on the separate designs and those on pooled data yielded broadly similar results. Respondents valued higher the outcomes related to child development and their needs, followed by the outcomes related to maternal life course. Preferences varied by the age of the respondents but not by their guardianship/parentship status.  Conclusions: Individual preferences were consistent with a priori expectations and were intuitive.  The DCE results can be used to incorporate the general public preferences into the decision making process for which public health and social care policies should be adopted.

A Study on the Characteristics of Bogie Frame Materials

2013 ◽  
Vol 420 ◽  
pp. 144-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung Cheol Yoon ◽  
Yeon Su Kim ◽  
Joon Hyung Ryu ◽  
Sung Hyuk Park ◽  
Geun Soo Park
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Performance Test ◽  
Structural Safety ◽  
Combined Stress ◽  
Bogie Frame ◽  
Test Standards ◽  
Rail Vehicles ◽  
Urban Rail ◽  
Load Tests ◽  
And Performance

This paper describes the structural analysis, load tests and combined stress of the bogie frame. It seeks to identify the structural safety of the bogie frame when the bogie is assembled on the train and a train service is implemented. The bogie consists of the bogie frame, suspension, wheels, brakes and transmission, etc. The bogie frame can be considered as the most important part of the bogie. The analysis and tests were evaluated using JIS E 4207 standards and performance test standards for urban rail vehicles.

Drawing with Performance Prediction

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Schwenn ◽  
George Hazen
Keyword(s):  
Design Optimization ◽  
Performance Prediction ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Programming Environment ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Surface Stability ◽  
Performance Constraints ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The One

We describe some advances in Performance Prediction Programs - "PPP"1 for sailing yachts2 - primarily integrating PPP analysis into drawing and providing new sculpting operations in which fairness and desired hydrostatic and on her performance determining characteristics are maintained - the shape remains a boat or a ship of the desired kind during reshaping. Our building blocks for such an integration are: a thousand-fold increase in PPP speed3, new editing tools which maintain Boatness4 , and an accessible modularization of the engineering physics of the PPP within a new programming environment which allows immediate changes by designers. Specifically, these new functions are introduced at the boundary of Drawing and the PPP: - A live knotmeter is displayed with each design variant on the drawing boar, - alongside it's antagonist - Rating. - Continuously updated hydrotatics (including the speed determining factors LSM, wetted surface, stability, prismatics, .. ) are displayed with the knotometer, with the 'positive' factors (like length) graphically opposing the 'negative' (like wetted surface.) Dimensions for PPP use are calculated automatically from the shape at hand - in particular: appendage dimensions, hydrostatics, and so forth. - Bounding limits are set for a design optimization by drawing two or more outlier yacht forms. The space in between can be explored by hand or automatically. - Local optimums of Speed against rating are provided as a 'Snap' function. This is the one dimensional version of automatic exploration for optima. - Intermediate shapes are also controlled during design optimization to maintain realism and performance constraints on type, fairness, 'look', speed producing shape measures like prismatic and displacement etc., and even handicap. - Immediate feedback is available if one chooses to exploit the new programming environment to make aero hydro model changes or extensions to the internal PPP mechanisms while drawing and exploring.

Superabundance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
International Travel

Thanks to developments in particle physics, astronomy, and genetics, as well as international travel, finance, and communication the cultural horizon of the 21st century is acquainted with both the immensely large and the sub-atomically small. Composers responded to this new imaginative horizon with works that express both extremes of scale, and of superabundant resources and extravagance. This chapter considers these responses in a number of ways, from the musicircus-type spectacles of Lisa Bielawa and Alvin Curran to the electroacoustic microsound compositions of Horacio Vaggione and Barry Truax, from Glen Branca’s massed guitars to Pierre Boulez’s proliferating elaborations, and from Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf’s complexism to the extrahuman augmentations of the electronic music studio.

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