Structuring subjectivity: Pain of Salvation’s The Perfect Element: Part I (2000)

This article examines how Pain of Salvation’s album The Perfect Element: Part I (2000) develops narrative subjectivity through a range of compositional and performative parameters. We reveal a myriad of ways in which the music contributes to the expression of human subjectivity and offers significant moments of interpretive clarity. Attending to the expressive aspects of music, we focus in particular on how the song structures are articulated through the following elements: formal, harmonic, temporal, thematic and textural/timbral content. Contextualizing the concept album narrative within the genres of progressive rock and heavy metal and offering a framework for analysis derived from narrative theory, we interpret how the musical parameters convey the song lyrics and overall album concept. Pain of Salvation’s narrative of human trauma emerges through musical structures that are channelled to shape storyworld and subjectivity. Presenting analytic snapshots of the twelve album tracks, our aim is to create a sense of analytic ‘immersion’, whereby the reader engages actively with the multifaceted expressive content of words and music.

State and development directions of systems and methods for electrode metal transfer, joint and surfacing layer formation control during electric arc mechanized and automatic welding—surfacing

The problems that are associated with solving the problems of energy saving, improving in the quality of welded seams and deposited layers in mechanized arc welding and surfacing processes are considered. Shown is wide range of technical and technological methods, influences, techniques that allow to greater or lesser extent to solve these problems with the use of basic and additional hardware, and with the use of new electrode materials, protective media and activating materials. Particular attention is paid to equipment using pulse algorithms of functioning, as well as combined systems of influence on the arc process, which will allow covering wider range of effect on the formation of welded seams and deposited layers. Some of the technical and technological solutions require further researches in terms of specific tasks of welding and surfacing production, as well as the choice of affordable and perfect element base and material resources.