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- Clinic (Flute Hacks) for Flute Day of the Youth Orchestras of Central Virginia.Crone, E. L. (2016-11-19)Invited guest artist for the Flute Day of the Youth Orchestras of Central Virginia. Flute Hacks, Improve Quality of Tone and Embouchure Flexibility clinic for high school area flutists. Supported by Yamaha Corporation.
- A Continuum of Library Publishing in Music: First-time Musical Score Publishing to Establishing a Music LabelWalz, Anita R.; Grey, Kindred; Shapiro, Derek; Caldwell, Jonathan; DeLaurenti, Kathleen (Virginia Tech, 2023-05-08)This panel discussion features two library publishing projects, one a Creative-Commons licensed and first-time musical-score supplement publishing project intended to “expand the canon” of études available for conducting courses. The other an in-copyright music label with distribution of original in-copyright works via major streaming platforms. Panelists from three universities representing these two projects will describe project goals, disciplinary, technical, and project design issues, decision points, and perceptions regarding their respective projects. The panel will conclude with a discussion of gaps and aspirations for future involvement in music publishing. This session will be of interest to beginning music publishers as well as library publishers already involved in music publishing. Featured projects Original Études for the Developing Conductor https://doi.org/10.21061/conducting Peabody Premieres https://peabodypremieres.bandcamp.com A recording of this presentation is available at: https://youtu.be/h0gUq8B7HZk
- Ensemble in Action: Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action CompanyRosin, Jordan (2018-09-28)This essay is intended to provide an overview and detailed investigation of a contemporary ensemble theatre company which inspires me and whose work I intend to integrate into my own practice-as-research thesis project. In this case, while technically a dance company, STREB provides an excellent portrait of what the human body is capable of achieving (a great concern for those engaged in “physical theatre”) and a unique example of how hierarchy and inquiry can be a part of an ensemble based creative process. The data collection for this project was inspired by classical ethnography. In particular, for this project I employed the methods of observing activities of interest (like rehearsal and day-to-day operations for the company over the course of one week in 2015 and two weeks in 2018), participant observation (as I undertook during their Adult PopAction classes and Kid Action Summer Camp), and semistructured interviews (which I made with over 16 current and in one case former company / staff members).
- Miss MackenzieBigler, Dwight (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2012-02)Dwight Bigler discusses selections from his opus. “Miss Mackenzie” is the third movement of “Glimpses,” a five-movement work for choir and chamber orchestra: I. Prelude (orchestra), II. Mrs. Brooks (SATB, text by Henry David Thoreau), III. Miss Mackenzie, IV. Dear Sir (TTBB, text by Jeremy Taylor), V. Glimpses (SATB, text by Owen Feltham). Instrumental parts are available from the composer (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, strings, 2 percussion, and harp). Recordings can be heard at www.dwightbigler.com
- Reimagining Human Capacity For Location-Aware Aural Pattern Recognition: A Case For Immersive Exocentric SonificationBukvic, Ivica Ico; Earle, Gregory D. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-06)The following paper presents a cross-disciplinary snapshot of 21st century research in sonification and leverages the review to identify a new immersive exocentric approach to studying human capacity to perceive spatial aural cues. The paper further defines immersive exocentric sonification, highlights its unique affordances, and presents an argument for its potential to fundamentally change the way we understand and study the human capacity for location-aware audio pattern recognition. Finally, the paper describes an example of an externally funded research project that aims to tackle this newfound research whitespace.
- Studies In Spatial Aural Perception: Establishing Foundations For Immersive SonificationBukvic, Ivica Ico; Earle, Gregory D.; Sardana, Disha; Joo, Woohun (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-06)The Spatial Audio Data Immersive Experience (SADIE) project aims to identify new foundational relationships pertaining to human spatial aural perception, and to validate existing relationships. Our infrastructure consists of an intuitive interaction interface, an immersive exocentric sonification environment, and a layer-based amplitude-panning algorithm. Here we highlight the system’s unique capabilities and provide findings from an initial externally funded study that focuses on the assessment of human aural spatial perception capacity. When compared to the existing body of literature focusing on egocentric spatial perception, our data show that an immersive exocentric environment enhances spatial perception, and that the physical implementation using high density loudspeaker arrays enables significantly improved spatial perception accuracy relative to the egocentric and virtual binaural approaches. The preliminary observations suggest that human spatial aural perception capacity in real-world-like immersive exocentric environments that allow for head and body movement is significantly greater than in egocentric scenarios where head and body movement is restricted. Therefore, in the design of immersive auditory displays, the use of immersive exocentric environments is advised. Further, our data identify a significant gap between physical and virtual human spatial aural perception accuracy, which suggests that further development of virtual aural immersion may be necessary before such an approach may be seen as a viable alternative.