‘Making Life Lively’: Co-estrangement in live electroacoustic improvisation

The use of live electronic processing to extend, modify or transform an acoustic musical instrument has its roots in the recording and broadcast technologies that were developed in the first few decades of the twentieth century. In the second half of the century these tools were adopted by composers and musicians in many musical genres and have become commonplace and in some musics, ubiquitous. The perceived musical relationship between instrument and its electronic ‘other’ has been discussed largely from the point of view of listener and composer. This paper focuses on the performers’ perspective through reflection on and discussion of the author’s working methods in improvising duo contexts. The author suggests ‘estrangement’ as a term to describe and understand aspects of the performer’s experience of live transformation and discusses how this estrangement might influence the relationship between musicians and the resulting musical interaction in improvisation, and finally offers ‘co-estrangement’ as a description of his shared experience in such improvising duos.

Full Adder for Low Power Applications

In an electronic processing system, addition of binary numbers is a fundamental operation. A one bit low power hybrid FA(full adder) is shown in showing performance improvisation by analysis and comparing with other conventional adders. 1 bit low power hybrid full adder is considered as a good way for enhancing the speed of the circuit in comparison with other conventional circuits of full adders. In that analysis paper, one bit low power hybrid FA(full adder) is implemented by EDA tool and the simulation is analysis by using generic 90nm CMOS technology at 5 volts and comparison is done at various voltages with other conventional full adders. For comparing 1 bit low power hybrid full adder with other conventional adders at various parameters such as static and dynamic power usage, delay & pdp (power delay product) are taken into consideration to show that 1 bit low power hybrid full adder is most suitable for various low power applications.

Sistem Pengelolaan Arsip pada Biro Sekretariat Dan Umum Kantor Lembaga Pendidikan Perkebunan Medan

The purpose of archiving is to find archives easily and quickly if at any time it is needed again. This research was conducted at the Medan Plantation Education Institute office. The formulation of the problem in this study is how the file management system, and the obstacles in managing the records of the Medan Plantation Education Office. This research uses qualitative research that describes the records management system. Informants in this study were employees of the Medan Plantation Education Office. Based on the results of the study, the archive management system carried out at the Medan Plantation Education Office office covers how the implementation process starts from recording, storing, maintaining, structuring and transferring, to destroying the archive. The obstacles in managing archives are the absence of a special room for storing archives and also the absence of special staff to manage the archives. Efforts made in managing archives are to add facilities and infrastructure of archives to make it easier and orderly, making proposals to provide special staff to handle archives, as well as implementing an automation system in records management, namely electronic processing using computer facilities and other information technology.

Hyperfiction and Reading, with Examples of Electronic Processing of Grimms’ Fairy Tales

Hypertext is suitable for conducting literary experiments. It deconstructs the temporal sequence of narration, and lessens the author’s authority. The author of hyperfiction, in some way, loses control over how his or her work influences the reader. On the other hand, the belief that the reader of hyperfiction is at the same time its author, for he or she chooses which way to navigate the text, which hyperlinks to mark and in this manner create a new text, can be challenged. Using as its basis the networked and the non-networked versions of some Grimms’ fairy tales, this paper presents the results of the study, which was conducted with the aim of determining whether and how works of hyperfiction will change ways of reading, or even thinking, or, on the contrary, whether traditional ways of thinking and reading, and their sequence (beginning, middle, end) are so deeply rooted in our processing that they cannot be changed.

VP36 Benefit Cost Analysis Of Electronic Claims Processing System In Ghana

Introduction:Since the inception of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), it has been pursuing a number of provider payment mechanisms that could not only control the continuous escalating costs of claims payout, but also facilitate the claims processing time. In lieu of this, electronic processing of claims (E-claims) was introduced in 2013 as part of the World Bank supported Health Insurance project that sought to facilitate the financial and operational management of the NHIS. It was piloted in 29 health facilities up to March 2014. They reported cost savings made by the NHIS using E-claims, creating interest in scaling it up. However, the comparative effectiveness and cost effectiveness of E-claims to the health system compared to manual claims processing is unknown. Therefore, to provide decision makers with the appropriate information to choose between manual and E-claims processing, this study sought to evaluate the cost-benefit of E-claims.Methods:A benefit-cost analysis was used to evaluate the efficiency of E-claims from the perspective of the health system. Health providers and the purchaser (NHIS claims processing center) were the study population. Resource use and costs were obtained from the study population. The volumes and values of claims reimbursed and the claims rejection rate were used as the benefits of claims processing. The incremental benefit-cost ratio (IBCR) was estimated for the provider, purchaser and the entire health system. Analysis was conducted in Microsoft Excel.Results:The total cost per claim for providers were USD 1,177.04 and USD 1,240.65 for E-claims and paper claims respectively. The total cost per E-claims and paper claims for the purchaser were 592.17 and 502.19 respectively. Total benefit per E-claim and paper claim processing for the providers were USD 8,562.90 and USD 8,888.37 respectively while that for the purchaser was USD 11,037.62 and USD 8,737.60 respectively. Processing claims electronically led to incremental gains by both providers and purchasers. Providers gained additional USD 2008.51 while the purchaser gained USD 2,300.02. The IBCR was estimated at −19.75, 25.56 and 5.10 for all providers, purchaser and both providers and purchaser of the health system respectively. Thus the IBCR was less than 1for the providers and more than 1 for purchaser and both purchaser and providers.Conclusions:The electronic processing of claims is more efficient compared to manual processing in the Ghana NHIS. This provides decision makers with evidence for scaling it up to all the facilities in Ghana.

Transformed Sound as Personal Construct

To better understand the function of sound within electronic music it is inevitable to consider the way composers and performers talk about such sound and its different qualities. An attempt to classify sound is a logical consequence of the desire to orient oneself in a vast field of possibilities. It remains difficult, however, to relate such a classification to the intuitive way we talk about sound. Heavily influenced by our individual upbringing, cultural and musical environment and, perhaps most strongly, by our peers in the creation and performance of music, words verbalised in relation to sound and music invite a systematic investigation. This article exemplifies such an investigation, attempting the elicitation and structuring of a vocabulary from eight musically trained individuals in a two-stage experiment. The words examined here are concerned with sounds created by transformation of acoustic sources through electronic processing methods.