author: Doris Schattschneider, Moravian College
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Showing posts with label Art and Architecture lecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art and Architecture lecture. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Symmetry in the works of M. C. Escher
Book-Adaptive and Book-Dependent Models to Accelerate Digitization of Early Music
Optical music recognition (OMR) enables early music collections to be digitized on a large scale. The workflow for such digitisation projects also includes scanning and preprocessing, but the cost of expert human labour to correct automatic recognition errors dominates the cost of these other two steps. To reduce the number of recognition errors in the OMR process, we present an innovative application of maximum a posteriori (MAP) adaptation for hidden Markov models (HMMs) to build book-adaptive models, taking advantage of the new learning data generated from human editing work, which is part of any music digitization project. We also experimented with using the generated data to build book-dependent models from scratch, which sometimes outperform the book-adaptive models after enough corrected data is available. Our experiments show that these approaches can reduce human editing costs by more than half and that they are especially well suited to highly variable sources like early or degraded documents.
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Abiding Issues in the Study of North American Indian Music
Abiding Issues in the Study of North American Indian Music
author: Bruno Nettl, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignCLICK HERE TO VIEW
Monday, February 23, 2009
The Mental Representation of Music: A Neural Darwinist Perspective
In this presentation, I review the perceptual research related to auditory representation for music. The research suggests that multiple representations exist concurrently in the auditory system, and that the dominant representation is shaped by the specific auditory environment. I note that the research is consistent with theories of competitive representations, such as Edelman's neural Darwinist approach. I propose that the difference in predictive accuracy for different representations provides the feedback mechanism by which competing representations are selected. Repercussions for cognitive modeling of music are discussed.
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Ethnomusicology of the Nineties: Perspectives of the History of Research
Bruno Nettl, rojen v Pragi leta 1930, je "profesor emeritus glasbe in antropologije" na University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, ZDA. Doktorat je pridobil na Indiana University. Čeprav je njegov domicil že desetletja University of Illinois, je kot gostujoči profesor deloval na številnih univerzah v ZDA in drugje po svetu. Prejel je vrhunske nagrade za dosežke s področij etnomuzikologije, muzikologije, antropologije in folkloristike Med njegove najpogosteje citirane knjige sodijo: North American Indian Musical Styles (1954); An Introduction to Folk Music in the United States (1960); Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology (1964); Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents (1965); Eight Urban Musical Cultures [ed.] (1978); The Study of Ethnomusicology: 29 Issues and Concepts (1983); The Western Impact on World Music (1985); The Radif of Persian Music: Studies of Structure and Cultural Context (1987); Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives (1989); Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology [co-ed.] (1991); Excursions in World Music [co-ed.] (1992); New Perspectives on Improvisation [ed.] (1992); Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music (1995); Encounters in Ethnomusicology, a Memoir (2002) and The Study of Ethnomusicology: 31 Issues and Concepts (2005). Marsikatera med njimi je bila prevedena v druge jezike.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Complex Systems Art Performance
The tasks of the artist in between this self-organizing process is firstly in the preparation of the used objects which are mostly liquids. The objects are put into physical relation in certain amounts and in certain configurations. This is equivalent to the initial state of the self-organizing. Proceeding from this initial state develops the process of creating a form, while the artist can influence the self-organization by regulations, like for example adding new objects or physical reconfigurations of existing objects.
Interview with Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava, Architect; Visuals of Milwaukee Art Museum, City of Science, and various buildings/bridges
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WTC Lecture - collapse of WTC Buildings
BYU Physics professor and founder of SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH Steven E Jones presents his presentation on the collapse of WTC Buildings 1,2 and 7 on 9/11. A very informative and scientific presentation that raises serious questions about the official account of the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers and Building 7.
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Introduction to Art History
John Kenfield, State University of New Jersey
Survey of major monuments and trends in the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from pre-history to the Middle Ages.
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Survey of major monuments and trends in the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from pre-history to the Middle Ages.
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Introduction to the History of Art
Elizabeth Zenker, Rice University
These are very extensive course notes on Medieval Art history. Everything from Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Art, to Romanesque Sculpture to Art of the Migrations (Early Medieval Art) is covered.
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These are very extensive course notes on Medieval Art history. Everything from Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Art, to Romanesque Sculpture to Art of the Migrations (Early Medieval Art) is covered.
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Art History: Medieval and Prehistoric
Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Sweet Briar College
This course includes the introduction of Art History and the various art histories of different countries during the prehistoric and medieval period.
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This course includes the introduction of Art History and the various art histories of different countries during the prehistoric and medieval period.
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Boston Athenaeum History Essays
Stanley Ellis Cushing, curator, rare books, Boston Athenaeum
James Reid-Cunningham, chief conservator, Boston Athenaeum
Conservation concerns are frequently heard in libraries, as time and use take their toll on treasured holdings. Collections assembled over decades, or centuries as in the case of the Athenaeum, offer daunting challenges. Few libraries can boast of the long history of tackling these problems that is apparent in the history of the Athenaeum. This lecture tells the story of the rise of book conservation as a profession not only at the Boston Athenaeum but also at American libraries in general, and outlines the conservation issues facing the library at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Rare books curator Stanley Cushing discusses the development of the artists' books collection over the last seven years, building upon the library's earlier acquisitions of fine bindings, printing, and illustrated books. He discusses examples of avant garde design, structure, and materials that are pushing the accepted limits of the concept of the book.
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James Reid-Cunningham, chief conservator, Boston Athenaeum
Conservation concerns are frequently heard in libraries, as time and use take their toll on treasured holdings. Collections assembled over decades, or centuries as in the case of the Athenaeum, offer daunting challenges. Few libraries can boast of the long history of tackling these problems that is apparent in the history of the Athenaeum. This lecture tells the story of the rise of book conservation as a profession not only at the Boston Athenaeum but also at American libraries in general, and outlines the conservation issues facing the library at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Rare books curator Stanley Cushing discusses the development of the artists' books collection over the last seven years, building upon the library's earlier acquisitions of fine bindings, printing, and illustrated books. He discusses examples of avant garde design, structure, and materials that are pushing the accepted limits of the concept of the book.
File type: mp3
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