Pub Date : 2022-03-17DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2022.2035107
R. Mountain
ABSTRACT The article traces the author's research into auditory and temporal perception to probe the strategies useful to a composer for portraying illusions of multiple layers in music, then to a secondary exploration of cross-disciplinary terminologies and strategies, and subsequently to a focus on variables in the listener profile as influencing the potential discernment of meaning in music. Further exploration, tracing the millennia of primitive sound-processing strategies as well as the many contexts which involve body movements and rhythms, leads to the realization that a composer who ventures outside traditional stylistic conventions of music-making will benefit from attention to these factors. In conclusion, the author points out that music is created not only for portraying emotions and moods, but, like all art forms, with an infinite variety of manifestations, subject matter, and research modes.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-17DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2022.2035108
Jason Noble
ABSTRACT The career of metaphor hypothesis advanced by Gentner et al, which describes differences in cognitive processing between metaphors encountered for the first time (novel metaphors) and metaphors encountered frequently (conventional metaphors), is applied to diverse relationships between instrumental music and the voice. A general account of musical metaphors hypothesizes that historical controversies over music’s capacity to communicate extramusical meaning are rooted in the problematic conceptual metaphor Meaning is Content and may be allayed by adopting an alternative, Meaning is Mapping. Historical practices of modelling instrumental performance and composition on the voice (e.g. cantabile, The Singing Style) are conceived as conventional metaphors and various contemporary approaches to voice-based instrumental and electroacoustic composition are conceived as novel metaphors. A brief survey of contemporary practices illustrates some of the ways recent music has exploited vocality with examples from recent repertoire, and points of comparison between conventional and novel approaches to vocality are summarized.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2022.2031659
W. McCarty
Readers will be aware that ISR publishes both unsolicited submissions and thematic collections. At the last meeting of the Editorial Board, with ISR’s criteria for interdisciplinary research in discussion, one of the members asked what unit is used to determine whether a submission is interdisciplinary, and so whether it qualifies for review. This question proved fruitful, as it raised the matter of the journal’s structure, or I should say, structures, according to which answering the question varies. At the meeting, I responded with a straightforward division into unsolicited submissions and contributions to guest-edited, thematic collections. Pondering further, other interesting problems arise. But first the criteria. For an individual, unsolicited submission, we look for an approach to its research question that attempts to find or negotiate common ground between the author’s native discipline (rarely, disciplines) and at least one other. Merely poaching a technique or result from one field and applying it to a question in another is not merely insufficient but acts on the wrong idea of interdisciplinary research. In other words, interdisciplinary research is crosscultural: it seeks common ground between different intellectual cultures, crucially not assuming but making visible the different assumptions inherent to them. The structure of a thematic issue varies but usually fits one of three kinds. It may be a relatively un-orchestrated collection from diverse perspectives, the theme brought out and discussed by the guest-editor’s initial essay. The next issue, The continuous in motion: Music and/as science, is an example. For the second kind, contributors from different disciplines or specialisms are asked to comment on an essay written beforehand by a senior scholar, who may then reply in an afterword. For the third, contributors respond to the interdisciplinary work of such a scholar (but not in the manner of a Festschrift). Examples of these three kinds are to be found in issues of ISR from the last dozen or so years. The structures I describe, that is, were not invented beforehand but came from proposals, or in at least one case, from an explicitly interdisciplinary lecture series unified by its theme. The problems I’ve called ‘interesting’ have to do precisely with that common ground, or as Marilyn Strathern put it in the title of a book, Commons and Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountability and the Flow of Knowledge (2004). Three painful truths: professional reward for genuinely interdisciplinary research is rare, understanding of what it entails hard to come by and doing it well exceedingly difficult. Once you eliminate the imperial panoptic illusion, as Stanley Fish instructed (1989) – that from a neutral stance all disciplines can be contemplated and drawn from at will – you are faced with the job of bridge-building, of ‘becoming interdisciplinary’, as I wrote some years ago (2016a, citing excellent writings o
读者将会意识到，ISR出版了未经请求的投稿和主题合集。在编辑委员会的上次会议上，在讨论ISR的跨学科研究标准时，一位成员问用什么单位来确定一篇论文是否跨学科，从而确定它是否有资格进行审查。这个问题被证明是有成效的，因为它提出了杂志结构的问题，或者我应该说，结构，根据回答问题的不同而不同。在会议上，我直截了当地将其分为主动提交的稿件和嘉宾编辑的专题文集。进一步思考，还会出现其他有趣的问题。但首先是标准。对于一个单独的，未经请求的提交，我们寻找一种方法来解决其研究问题，试图在作者的原生学科(很少，学科)和至少一个其他学科之间找到或协商共同点。仅仅从一个领域窃取技术或成果并将其应用于另一个领域的问题不仅是不够的，而且是对跨学科研究的错误观念的行为。换句话说，跨学科研究是跨文化的:它在不同的智力文化之间寻找共同点，关键是不假设而是使它们固有的不同假设可见。主题问题的结构各不相同，但通常符合三种类型之一。这可能是一个从不同角度出发的相对松散的合集，这个主题是由客座编辑最初的文章提出和讨论的。下一期《连续运动:音乐和/作为科学》就是一个例子。对于第二种，来自不同学科或专业的投稿人被要求对一位资深学者事先写的文章进行评论，然后这位学者可能会在后记中回复。对于第三种，贡献者对这样一位学者的跨学科工作做出回应(但不是以一种方式)。这三种类型的例子可以在过去十几年左右的ISR问题中找到。我所描述的结构，也就是说，不是事先发明的，而是来自建议，或者至少在一个案例中，来自一个明确的跨学科讲座系列，由其主题统一。我称之为“有趣”的问题恰恰与这种共同基础有关，或者正如玛丽莲·斯特拉森(Marilyn Strathern)在2004年出版的一本书《公地与边疆:跨学科、问责制和知识流动的工作论文》(Working Papers on interdisciplinary, Accountability and Flow of Knowledge)中所说。三个令人痛苦的事实:真正的跨学科研究很少得到专业奖励，很难理解它需要什么，而且把它做好极其困难。一旦你像斯坦利·费什(Stanley Fish, 1989)所指示的那样——从中立的立场出发，所有学科都可以被随意地思考和借鉴——消除了帝国全景错觉，你就面临着桥梁建设的工作，“成为跨学科”的工作，正如我几年前写的那样(2016a，引用了关于这个主题的优秀著作)。我在这里使用分词形式有两个原因。第一，智力的增长永远不会完成，只有继续或放弃。第二点(考虑到我们现在拥有的资源，实际上是触手可及的)是，旧的方式已经被新的方式所取代。历史学家罗伊·罗森茨威格(Roy Rosenzweig)将其称为“丰富问题”(2011)，这不仅是数量的问题，也是使用的问题:如何公平地取样并被理解为这样做?就在我写博士论文的时候
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Pub Date : 2021-11-25DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2021.1996066
The Editor-in-Chief and the Publisher are cognisant of evidence that the research had a number of similarities throughout to a previously published paper which had not been properly acknowledged and cross-referenced: Clements, L., E. Redding, N. Lefebvre Sell, and J. May. 2018. “Expertise in Evaluating Choreographic Creativity: An Online Variation of the Consensual Assessment Technique.” Frontiers in Psychology 9:1448. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01448
主编和出版人认识到，有证据表明，该研究与之前发表的一篇没有得到适当承认和交叉引用的论文有许多相似之处:Clements, L.， E. Redding, N. Lefebvre Sell和J. May. 2018。“评估编舞创造力的专业知识:共识评估技术的在线变体”。心理学前沿9:14 . 48。doi: 10.3389 / fpsyg.2018.01448
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2020.1868684
Fabio Fossa
ABSTRACT Artificial agents are commonly described by using words that traditionally belong to the semantic field of life. I call this phenomenon the game of semantic extension. However, the semantic extension of words as crucial as ‘autonomous’, ‘intelligent’, ‘creative’, ‘moral’, and so on, is often perceived as unsatisfactory, which is signalled with the extensive use of inverted commas or other syntactical cues. Such practice, in turn, has provoked harsh criticism that usually refers back to the literal meaning of the words to show their inappropriateness in describing artificial agents. Hence the question: how can we choose our words appropriately and wisely while making sense of artificial agents? This paper tries to answer by sketching the main features of the game of semantic extension in relation to artificial agency, reviewing the related opportunities and risks, and advancing some practical suggestions on how to play the game well.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2021.1877502
Sébastien Plutniak
ABSTRACT Community detection is a major issue in network analysis. This paper combines a socio-historical approach with an experimental reconstruction of programs to investigate the early automation of clique detection algorithms, which remains one of the unsolved NP-complete problems today. The research led by the archaeologist Jean-Claude Gardin from the 1950s on non-numerical information and graph analysis is retraced to demonstrate the early contributions of social sciences and humanities. The limited recognition and reception of Gardin's innovative computer application to the humanities are addressed through two factors, in addition to the effects of historiography and bibliographies on the recording, discoverability, and reuse of scientific productions: (1) funding policies, evidenced by the transfer of research effort on graph applications from temporary interdisciplinary spaces to disciplinary organizations related to the then-emerging field of computer science; and (2) the erratic careers of algorithms, in which efficiency, flaws, corrections, and authors' status, were determining factors.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2021.1894545
Mario Verdicchio
The widespread adoption of GIS technology around the world and the fact that GIS systems are based on GML mean that the OGC has substantial control over how geographical data are expressed and treated in most computing machines. A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a type of software for gathering, managing and analysing geographic data in the form of layers visualized on top of maps or inside three-dimensional scenes. This thematic issue of I Interdisciplinary Science Reviews i , titled "Computing in the World", stems from the Fifth International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC), which took place in the end of October 2019 in Bergamo, Italy, a few months before that town and the surrounding province became one of the regions hit the hardest in the world by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2020.1865662
M.P. Vianna
ABSTRACT In the 1970s, Brazil sought to establish State policies aimed at technological autonomy in the field of Informatics, resulting in the origin of a national industry of computers. This paper will explore another measure that has been little explored by historiography: the control over imports of data processing equipment. Our research intends to show the control exerted by the Commission for Coordination of Electronic Processing Activities (CAPRE) and to discuss how its technicians performed the analysis of user requests, resulting in decisions that either allowed or not the installation of the requested systems. When analysing computer purchase contracts and evaluating the intended uses for the imported systems, they defined the ‘merit' of each order and sought to raise users' awareness on the problem of technological dependence. They reveal different discourses on the technological modernization (‘efficient/lowercost' imported technologies versus ‘self–determination/autonomy' views influencing society’s perceptions on Informatics in the country.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2020.1865659
Crystal Hall, E. Chown, Fernando Nascimento
ABSTRACT The Faculty of Digital and Computational Studies (DCS) at Bowdoin College proposes a critical, analytical framework, referred to as the ‘4As,’ as an interdisciplinary means to interpret, evaluate, and create the data, operations, and devices of computing across all domains of knowledge production. Following other disciplines that have developed in symbiotic relationships to one another, DCS puts computation in conversation with fields from across the arts, humanities, physical, and social sciences. Our foundational premise is the bidirectional influence between these disciplines and digital artifacts and computation. The 4As (artifact, architecture, abstraction, and agency) benefit from both the scepticism of the liberal arts in the face of ubiquitous digital processes and the analytical opening for examining questions pertaining to creative and imaginative alternatives to the digital and computational status quo. We provide an ultra-contemporary case study to demonstrate the framework in use.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2021.1890484
Juan Luis Gastaldi, L. Pellissier
ABSTRACT The recent success of deep neural network techniques in natural language processing rely heavily on the so-called distributional hypothesis. We suggest that the latter can be understood as a simplified version of the classic structuralist hypothesis, at the core of a programme aiming at reconstructing grammatical structures from first principles and corpus analysis. Then, we propose to reinterpret the structuralist programme with insights from proof theory, especially associating paradigmatic relations and units with formal types defined through an appropriate notion of interaction. In this way, we intend to build original conceptual bridges between computational logic and classic structuralism, which can contribute to understanding the recent advances in NLP.
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