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Predicting Music Therapy Clients’ Type of Mental Disorder Using Computational Feature Extraction and Statistical Modelling Techniques
2009
Background. Previous work has shown that improvisations produced by clients during clinical music therapy sessions are amenable to computational analysis. For example, it has been shown that the perception of emotion in such improvisations is related to certain musical features, such as note density, tonal clarity, and note velocity. Other work has identified relationships between an individual’s level of mental retardation and features such as amount of silence, integration of tempo with the therapist, and amount of dissonance. The present study further develops this work by attempting to predict music therapy clients’ type of mental disorder, as clinically diagnosed, from their improvisat…
L’insondabile bellezza del “silenzio” nei paesaggi del domani
2023
Il contributo intende affrontare il tema del rapporto tra architettura e natura attraverso il ruolo strutturante che il paesaggio antropizzato svolge per quel tipo di progetto che fonda la sua essenza costitutiva sulla dimensione fisica e trascendente dei luoghi, nel senso della nozione kantiana di Stimmung. Una nozione sussunta all'interno di una condizione più ampia di tonalità emozionale che pervade il paesaggio inteso come scopo principale dell'architettura. Ovvero l'area privilegiata della riflessione teorica, della ricerca della poiesis, intesa come actio transiens, e della práxis, intesa come processo operativo che trova il senso del suo sviluppo all'interno dell'azione progettuale s…
The Lord’s Resistance Army and the arms that brought the Lord
2019
This article develops the notion of polyphonic silence as a means for thinking through the ethical and political ramifications of ethnographically encountering and writing about silenced violent pasts. To do so, it analyses and contrasts the silence surrounding two periods of extreme violence in northern Uganda: 1) the northern Ugandan war (1986–2006), which is contemporarily often shrouded by silence, and 2) the early decades of colonial and missionary expansion, which the Catholic church silences in its commemoration of the death of two Acholi catechists in 1918. Employing the notion of polyphony, the article describes how neither of these silences is a mere absence of narration. Instead,…
Religion, Religiosity, Sex, and Willingness to Express Political Opinions: A Spiral of Silence Analysis of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
2014
This study analyzes the extent to which an individual's sex, religion, and religiosity influence their willingness to voice an opinion about Barack Obama's ethnicity in the 2008 election. Results from 569 college students surveyed reveal sex to be a nonsignificant predictor, whereas religion and religiosity significantly influence willingness to voice an opinion about Obama's ethnicity. More religious individuals were more likely to voice an opinion about Obama's ethnicity as a voting issue in the campaign. There were significant differences among religious groups and their willingness to voice an opinion on this issue.
SPEECH AND SILENCE IN CICERO’S FINAL DAYS
2014
Composed in spring of 46 BC, Cicero’s Brutus emphasizes oratorical silence, in stark contrast with the prominence of the speech act found in the Pro Marcello and first Philippic. Yet in the face of those difficult times and amidst the silence that such times engender, Cicero ironically finds his voice. This paper will demonstrate Cicero’s acute awareness, in his final days, of the need to employ his rediscovered voice in light of eloquence’s changed role in Rome’s new political climate.
Embedded Knowledge-based Speech Detectors for Real-Time Recognition Tasks
2006
Speech recognition has become common in many application domains, from dictation systems for professional practices to vocal user interfaces for people with disabilities or hands-free system control. However, so far the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are comparable to human speech recognition (HSR) only under very strict working conditions, and in general much lower. Incorporating acoustic-phonetic knowledge into ASR design has been proven a viable approach to raise ASR accuracy. Manner of articulation attributes such as vowel, stop, fricative, approximant, nasal, and silence are examples of such knowledge. Neural networks have already been used successfully as de…
Salvatore Sciarrino. The Sicilian alchemist composer
2012
Salvatore Sciarrino (Palermo, 1947) began his career in the fervent climate of the six Settimane Internazionali Nuova Musica. Still very young he attracted the attention of the musical world, with his sonorous invention full of startling innovation that was to make him one of the protagonists of the contemporary musical panorama. Sciarrino is today the best-known and most performed Italian composer. His catalogue is a prodigiously large one, and his career is dotted with prestigious prizes and awards. Alchemically transmuting sound, finding new virginity in it has for fifty years been the objective of his music. Timbric experimentation is the goal of his virtuosity. The prevailing use of ha…
Silenzi e parole. L'esercizio dell'autoaffermazione femminile in Orgoglio e Pregiudizio
2015
The essay focuses on the main character of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bennet, who possesses beauty, virtue and intellect and who uses silence, historically intended as a form of gender and social repression imposed by the social system to women, discoursively constructed as an essential component of women's behaviour and social experienced, and aimed at silencing them, as an instrument to path to her auto-assertion. The young woman, through her strategical discoursive skills based both on words but especially on silence tells the story of a heroine who must learn, over the course of her narrative, how to harness the powers of discoursive sophistication in order to circum…
Il silenzio come pratica di cura nella relazione educativa
2014
In un tempo, come quello in cui agiamo e viviamo, consegnato all’effimero e alla fugacità, il silenzio si riafferma come bisogno formativo e acquista un ruolo di primo piano all’interno del dialogo educativo, come una pratica di cura attraverso cui l’uomo contemporaneo possa contrastare la banalità della chiacchiera e di un’esistenza vissuta in modo inautentico. Se il Novecento pedagogico ha riscoperto il valore educativo del silenzio, oggi tale pratica viene riproposta non solo come atto di tacere, ma anche come apertura di un nuovo orizzonte di senso dentro cui accogliere l’altro, cioè ospitarlo. Vincendo la paura del vuoto, da sempre identificato col nulla, il silenzio non viene più inte…
The Croatian view of the Katyn crime
2021
The murder of Polish prisoners of war in Katyn and other places of massacre was covered by a conspiracy of silence for decades.1 1 In 1990, the suspicions that Polish prisoners of war from the camp...