Constructing Contrast: Juxtaposition as a tool for formal construction in my own creative practice, explored through the music of Stravinsky and Donatoni

<p>Juxtaposition and Superimposition are two techniques that I have adopted as a core feature of my creative practice. This exegesis examines the origins of these techniques through the analysis of two 20th century works, Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920/1947) and Franco Donatoni’s Tema (1981), examining how the role all musical parameters, including timbre, pitch, rhythm and gesture, combine to create unique and perceptible shapes which can be purposefully juxtaposed, recombined and shuffled to create musical form. The influence and effect of these compositions is then discussed in relation to an analysis of the major work of my accompanying portfolio: Hot Coals for orchestra (2016/2017), demonstrating how ideas taken from the preceding analyses are developed further, and influence not just the resulting aesthetic, but also the construction and process of composition itself.</p>

Constructing Contrast: Juxtaposition as a tool for formal construction in my own creative practice, explored through the music of Stravinsky and Donatoni

<p>Juxtaposition and Superimposition are two techniques that I have adopted as a core feature of my creative practice. This exegesis examines the origins of these techniques through the analysis of two 20th century works, Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920/1947) and Franco Donatoni’s Tema (1981), examining how the role all musical parameters, including timbre, pitch, rhythm and gesture, combine to create unique and perceptible shapes which can be purposefully juxtaposed, recombined and shuffled to create musical form. The influence and effect of these compositions is then discussed in relation to an analysis of the major work of my accompanying portfolio: Hot Coals for orchestra (2016/2017), demonstrating how ideas taken from the preceding analyses are developed further, and influence not just the resulting aesthetic, but also the construction and process of composition itself.</p>

Diseño gráfico para los materiales multimedia en los EVEA

El objetivo de esta investigación es elaborar una descripción argumentada sobre la aplicación de los fundamentos del diseño gráfico y audiovisual en los materiales multimedia para los entornos virtuales de enseñanza-aprendizaje, mediante el método de Cartografía Conceptual; investigación de tipo cualitativa por la cual es posible construir una explicación formal como resultado del análisis de artículos científicos, libros y ensayos que abordan el tema. El hallazgo principal sugiere que los fundamentos citados deberían tener mayor presencia en los materiales multimedia para ambientes educativos, de manera que el estudiante sea el centro de atención en el diseño, producción y evaluación de dichos materiales. Abstract The objective of this research is the development of an argumentive description of the application of graphic design and audiovisual rationale within multimedia materials in virtual learning/teaching environments, through conceptual mapping methods. This research is qualitative, thus allowing a formal construction of results from the analysis of scientific articles, books and essays which study this issue. The main finding suggests that the rationale above mentioned should have a greater presence in multimedia materials withing educative environments, so that the design, production and evaluation of said materials evolve around students.

Fluctuations and growth in Ragnar Frisch’s rocking horse model

Ragnar Frisch's famous "rocking horse" model has been the object of much praise and even controversy since its publication in 1933. This paper offers a new simulation of the model to show that there exists cyclical trajectories in the propagation mechanism. By building an analytical solution taking the same form as Frisch's original solution, we can provide new insights into the ideas encapsulated in his model, in particular the fact that the author constructed a model combining cycles and growth. The exploration of Frisch's formal construction of the model leads us to link his statistical work on the decomposition of time series with his economic insights on investment cycles, which both led to the 1933 model. We contrast Frisch’s approach to that of other econometricians who used similar equations, showing that their different mathematical solutions were the product of what they wanted to show with their models.

Gappy, glutty, glappy

According to the Determinable Based Account (DBA) of metaphysical indeterminacy (MI), there is MI when there is an indeterminate state of affairs, roughly a state of affairs in which a constituent object x has a determinable property but fails to have a unique determinate of that determinable. There are different ways in which x might have a determinable but no unique determinate: x has no determinate—gappy MI, or x has more than one determinate—glutty MI. Talk of determinables and determinates is usually constructed as relative to levels of determination. In this paper I first (1) provide a formal construction for determinables and determinates that pays crucial attention to intermediate levels of determination, and then (2) explore the consequences for the DBA of introducing such intermediate levels. In particular, I argue that intermediate levels of determination highlight crucial differences between gappy and glutty cases of MI, and allow one to introduce a third way of indeterminacy, glappy MI.

TIMBRE-BASED COMPOSITION, MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES AND AMBIGUITY IN REBECCA SAUNDERS’ COMPOSITIONAL STYLE

This article takes up Rebecca Saunders’ comments on the significance of timbre in her work to develop a timbre-centred analytical technique for two of her compositions, Ire (2012), for cello and ensemble, and Still (2011), for violin and orchestra. Two overarching principles are identified: the organisation of the pieces’ sounds into clearly differentiated categories, which can also overlap in different ways, and the use of a phrase-based logic in the pieces’ formal construction. Alongside the timbral construction, stable pitches acquire formal significance by virtue of their rarity and conspicuousness. I also elaborate on the ways in which perceptual ambiguity is fruitfully exploited in these works.

Substantiation of the mechanism for the development of the general education sphere of the Ryazan region on the basis of the principle of hierarchy

В статье приведены результаты исследования итогов реализации современных механизмов государственного управления, подтверждающие использование формального подхода к исполнению задач и мероприятий. На примере системы общего образования Рязанской области показано, что формальное построение процессов не приводит к повышению эффективности функционирования отрасли. Предложена иерархия целей, задач и мероприятий, обеспечивающих эффективное функционирование отрасли. Для контроля процесса сформирована иерархия показателей непосредственного и конечного результата. Analysis of the results of the implementation of modern mechanisms of public administration, confirming the use of a formal approach to the implementation of tasks and activities presented in this article. On the example of the general education system of the Ryazan region, it is shown that the formal construction of processes does not lead to an increase in the efficiency of the industry. A hierarchy of goals, objectives and activities that ensure the effective functioning of the industry is proposed. To control the process, a hierarchy of indicators of direct and final results has been formed.

The Urban Dimension of the Albanian Cities of Transition Was Damaged as a Result of the ‘Big Government’ and Not Its Absence: An Assessment in Relation to the Construction Permit!

The main Albanian cities and inhabited centers have suffered great damage of urban and environmental dimension in the years of transition. These implications of rapid and intensive development have produced cities that offer a very low quality of urban life to their citizens. What requires immediate political and legal intervention is to create the preconditions for Albanian cities to change by improving their potential in relation to the quality of urban life they offer to their citizens. One of the basic aspects, where this political goal can be achieved, is the function of controlling the construction development in these cities, in other words the function of building permits. Formal construction, or construction that has been subject to political-administrative decision-making, has faced increased pressure from the government to obtain a building permit. The performance of the government, regarding the function of construction permitting, is presented as very bureaucratic and corrupt. The technical, administrative and legal rules through which the administration exercises in the construction permit process have been very difficult for private entrepreneurs to implement. This has produced, firstly, the phenomenon of informal construction, and secondly, the change in the focus of entrepreneurs in the formal construction sector. In great administrative difficulties and obstacles, private entrepreneurs have shifted their focus from the aim of offering high quality products and low price in the market, to the goal of obtaining a building permit while ignoring the quality of the buildings they have developed. In this sense, what is required is the facilitation of technical, administrative and legal procedures and rules for obtaining a construction permit, which would ensure the reduction of the informal sector and refocus of the formal sector on quality and competitive price in a free market. This is a basic precondition for the situation of cities not to deteriorate further, and that paves the way for the improvement of their situation in the future.Keyword: big government, small government, classical liberalism, modern liberals, the left, the right, development control, construction permitting.

The Principles of the Formal Construction of the Lexical-Semantic Field in Modern Chinese

The article presents an attempt to formally construct a lexical-semantic field for the Chinese language, taking into account the fact that the concept of such a field presupposes a certain classification system of the vocabulary, which is divided into large and small groups ordered in relation to each other. Due to the presence in the Chinese language of a large number of copulative complexes, paradigmatic relations of semantic proximity are expressed in syntagmatic relations of juxtaposition, which allowed the authors of the article to construct semantic fields based on the data of normative dictionaries and vocabulary lists. This article presents formal methods for constructing a semantic field for the modern Chinese language, a semantic method for fixing the language. It is based on a graphical representation of combinations of symbols (synographic images) and their explanations in dictionaries and wordlists of the modern Chinese language. As typical examples, the sphere of designations of emotions and verbs with the meanings of purchase and sale was chosen. The article defines the features of the structure of the lexical-semantic field of the verbs of sale and purchase, reveals the lexical units that are included in the core, near and far periphery. The material presented in the article indicates that in the case of the Chinese language, a similar method of constructing a lexical-semantic field can be applied both to tokens with an abstract meaning and to tokens with a specific meaning.

Lightning Protection for Metal Air Vents and Similar Objects Installed on the Roof of Building

Lightning hazard occurring when metal air vents connected with installations inside building are installed on the roof without consulting an expert on lightning protection has been analysed in this paper. The application of accepted designs eliminating this hazard has been described (these designs may be found in rules for formal construction of LPS). In the case of technical project which might significantly impact the safety of operation of constructed systems, thorough expert consultation and harmonisation has been suggested.