Published in Feminist Review
Nineteenth-century Bengal was a period of change, conflict and accommodation both among the bhadralok – literally translated to mean the gentle folk, the middle classes – as well as between them and the British rulers. The world view of the bhadralok and its search for a new paradigm had its material basis in changes in existing land relations, the...
This dissertation presents research in the field ofautomatic music performance with a special focus on piano. A system is proposed for automatic music performance, basedon artificial neural networks (ANNs). A complex,ecological-predictive ANN was designed thatlistensto the last played note,predictsthe performance of the next note,looksthree notes a...
The difference in tuning (mistuning) between the three strings of a unison group is the parameter used by the tuner to adjust for each note the double ecay of the sound, characteristic of piano tones, generally from the notes F1 to C5. However, in the case of important irregularities in hammer stricking, increasing the mistuning to adjust the doubl...
A characteristic of the piano tones is their double decay (the initial sound followed by the " aftersound "), related to the existence of two polarizations. The goal of this study is to understand and to compare more quantitatively than the previous work, the influence of parameters which are under the control of the piano tuners: the mistuning and...
Two Australian composers, Elena Kats-Chernin and Robert Davidson, discuss techniques and concepts in a number of prominent works.
"Can't Buy Me Love" is an interpretation of the Lennon-McCartney classic performed on piano. It is from "Beatle Jazz," released by Mastersound Recordings in 1998.
Music score and audio recording of: There's Just One Thing You Need To Know by Christopher DobrianFor computer piano and computer-mediated synthesizerPremiered by Daniel Koppelman
"Let It Be" is an interpretation of the Lennon-McCartney classic performed on piano. It is from "Beatle Jazz," released by Mastersound Recordings in 1998.
"A Mighty Fortress is Our God" is from a private release CD, "Bright Morning Stars are Rising", made as a fundraiser for the Unitarian-Universalist Society. It features hymns from diverse religions and traditions around the world and reflects my interest in a diversity of musical styles including Americana, jazz and world musics.
In all string instruments, the sound is radiated as a result of the coupling of the strings with a plate. In the case of the piano the energy given by the hammer to the string, flows through the bridge to the soundboard which dissipates it into internal losses and sound power. Thus the soundboard acts like a mecano-acoustic transducer. In this stud...
