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2025

In Part 3 of this review we postulate a field-receptive workspace, associated with the brain, that integrates past and (anticipated) future events and may explain ultra-rapid brain responses as well as the origin of qualia (see also part 1 and 2). Information processing in the brain is shown to be largely facilitated by propagation of hydronium (proton/water)-ions in aqueous compartments. The hydronium ions move freely within a hexagonally organized H2O lattice, providing a superconductive integral brain antenna for receiving solitonic wave information. A nonlinear Schrödinger equation describes the quantum aspects of the transfer of wave information mediated by H+ and Ca2+ ion flux over long distances at cerebrospinal, inter-neuronal and gap junction spaces. The latter processes enable ultra-rapid soliton/biophoton fluxes that may orchestrate overall brain binding and the creation of coherent conscious states. In a cosmological context, we envision a scale invariant information pro...

2025, Nuestro sistema político: Miedo a lo social e ilegitimad

2025, CRIA Working Papers

On September 18, 2006, a group of young DJs and producers from the outskirts of Lisbon released DJ’s do Guetto Vol. 1, a compilation of 37 tracks blending the musical legacies of kuduro, tarraxo, and funaná with global Black and Afrodiasporic sounds, primarily from house and techno. Created by DJs Marfox, Pausas, N.K., Jesse, Fofuxo, and Firmeza, the album synchronized a set of historical, cultural, and urban coordinates, synthesizing the desire to create a sound that reflected their own experiences, imaginaries, and social worlds. This text argues that, by embracing the idea that anyone can produce music, these producers subverted the prevailing rules of the music field, which had been based on a professional monopoly legitimized by virtuosity. It further contends that this gesture expanded music’s role as a space of cultural and political affirmation for young Afro-descendant and Black Portuguese generations, opening horizons of expectation that had been systemically constrained. Such an opening generated a musical repertoire that disrupted lusotropicalist narratives embedded in contemporary Portuguese culture, asserting music as a powerful medium of self-representation for the Black community in Portugal. This is a revised version of a presentation delivered at the “Second IN2PAST Field Trip” on December 12, 2024 — a listening session dedicated to music as an object of research. On that occasion, I proposed a collective listening of “Drift Furioso” by DJ Marfox, one of the tracks featured on DJ’s do Guetto Vol. 1, which served as the starting point for this reflection.

2025, Dr Frederick Worth, JMVRI Issue No. 26

Following an explanatory introduction on remote poetic origins in the Vedas where themes of sound and silence, emergence and dissolution appear in full force, this essay addresses poems by poets Jorie Graham and W. S. Merwin that deal with sound, silence, beginnings, and endings from a contemporary perspective. A poem by Frank O'Hara, meanwhile, presents examples of continuity and a poem's 'breathing' that seem oddly relevant to Vedic principles of creativity discussed in the introduction. The ways in which the selected poets handle their respective material are variously oblique and direct. In recent years, the poems of Jorie Graham have hinged on beginnings and endings with mounting intensity, even urgency; hence, her work receives more attention than the other two. All three modern poems, however, are discussed in light of operations of consciousness (sound and silence, emergence and diss

2025, Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North Senses, Media and Power Edited by Carola Lorea and Rosalind Hackett

This chapter listens to the sonic landscape of Muharram majlises (ritual mourning) as an interpretive tool to understand the formation of collective and individual agency within the Shi'i community, a double minority community in the Indian context. The chapter focuses on the interiority of the sound, performed by the community women in the closed cloisters of the imambaras. While male mourning rituals are brought to the social exterior by microphones and phone cameras, women's laments and chest-beating remain exclusively private sonic practices. Is the interiority of female sonic landscapes of mourning susceptible to the larger socio-religious context that the community negotiates with? I reflect on how the sonic offers an understanding of the trans-/multilocal connections that the community inherits and develops.

2025, Memorias 2024 RED DE INVESTIGADORES DE COMUNICACIÓN

La escucha es una experiencia sensorial, emotiva, corporal, subjetiva, que nos involucra en un campo sonoro social, que permite la desnaturalización de lo construido, y que habilita la sensibilización como forma de intervención crítica y creativa en cada entorno. El sonido es corpóreo, es performativo, tanto la producción como la escucha nos sitúan, nos agencian en mundos históricos concretos.
El espacio sonoro nos permite describir las formas sensibles de las prácticas sociales en la vida cotidiana y conocer las representaciones de esos espacios, como son escuchados, como son organizados, como se los interpreta. Las relaciones entre las comunidades y los entornos sonoros generan sentidos de pertenencia e identidad.
Desde un punto de vista teórico-metodológico, considero relevante hacer hincapié en la escucha no solo como objeto, sino también como herramienta de análisis, proponiendo y alentando la producción sonora como formas alternativas y complementarias de la investigación social.

2025

The rapid growth of streaming platforms has transformed the landscape of television and video consumption. Traditional television advertising, which relied on fixed schedules and generalized targeting, is increasingly being replaced by personalized and context-aware advertising strategies. This paper presents an AI-driven framework for real-time ad customization in streaming platforms, utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Reinforcement Learning (RL), and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. These technologies enable dynamic ad content generation, optimal ad placement, and user behavior prediction, ensuring that advertisements are tailored to individual viewer preferences and interactions in real-time. Our experimental results show significant improvements in viewer engagement, prediction accuracy, and revenue generation, demonstrating the effectiveness of AI in transforming the ad experience. This personalized approach not only enhances user satisfaction but also maximizes ad revenue for content providers. The proposed framework provides a comprehensive solution to the challenges of delivering non-intrusive, highly engaging advertisements in a fastevolving streaming environment.

2025, Università La Sapienza - Roma

2025, World Spiritual Responsibility Organisation

The quest for a unified description of nature has spawned numerous theoretical frameworks aimed at reconciling classical gravitation, relativity, and quantum mechanics. The General Theory of Macrobiotic and Spiritual Responsibility-as highlighted in the "Forgotten Quantum of Einstein" (Marshall De Siqueira, 2024)-presents an ambitious model that not only unifies conventional physical theories but also introduces novel ideas of cosmic memory and an inherent artificial intelligence within matter. Although the currently available material is partial-with some empirical predictions and detailed elaborations pending in the full exposition-the recent incorporation of formal mathematical tools, including Dirac notation, represents a significant advance. This article critically reviews the theory's mathematical structure and its innovative conceptual blend, integrating additional perspectives from contemporary unification frameworks and quantum field theories.

2025, Impresa da Universidade de Coimbra

This article studies the music and the only surviving source of the extraordinary motet, thought to be lost, ‘Domine, Dominus noster’ by Philippe Rogier. It offers a catalogue of the master's Latin repertoire, which was pending, in order to understand the representativeness of his polychorality works, and highlights the longevity of this creation, as well as its dissociation from the homonymous mass of the last chapel master of Philip II. Finally, it offers a modern edition of the work.

2025

The convergent-divergent design of the nozzle of a rocket engine is the most defining part of it. The nature of the nozzle design enables it to convert the high pressure, temperature and relatively low velocity adiabatic expanding gaseous fluids into very high velocity and thrust gases. The rapidly exiting gas as a consequence of the rapid expansion process results in low pressure and temperature. It is critical in research to find out the influence of modification (grooves) would have in the application and design of a reaction device such as a rocket engine. The Computational Fluid Dynamics software, Analysis System (ANSYS) was employed together with necessary boundary conditions to design and simulate such a modified rocket engine nozzle. The interaction and relationship existing among the pressure, velocity, Mach number and temperature in the grooved divergent rocket nozzle was found and observed. From the plots and nozzle simulation contours, both velocity and Mach number increased rapidly along the nozzle area but decreased steadily. Pressure varied directly withtemperature and inversely with density. It is observed that divergent nozzle grooving influences the velocity, Mach number, pressure and temperature within the divergent nozzle area of a rocket nozzle.

2025, IJRAME PUBLICATIONS

2025, The Role of Humanity in a Self-Learning Universe: A Musical Space Journey to Novel Horizons in the Fabric of Reality.

This essay is a short compilation of the scientific work done by the authors from 2012 until 2024. It was previously written in Dutch language and now translated in English, as well as largely updated. Recent reviews on the subject can be... more

2025

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, massimo esponente della polifonia rinascimentale, ha ispirato generazioni di musicologi e studiosi. Tra coloro che ne hanno preservato e analizzato l'eredità, spiccano figure fondamentali come Xaver Haberl, Fux e Giuseppe Baini. Oggi grazie alle nuove tecnologie, sono molti i progetti digitali che stanno rivoluzionando l'accesso alle sue opere, in termini di ricerca musicologica e prassi esecutiva. Tra le Digital Humanities, uno degli esempi più significativi è il progetto Palestrina 2025, che mira a celebrare il cinquecentenario della nascita del compositore attraverso strumenti innovativi. L'eredità di Palestrina deve la sua vitalità a una catena ininterrotta di studiosi. Cito Haberl, che ne salvò le opere dall'oblio, Fux, che ne codificò lo stile, Baini, tra i suoi primi biografi critici. Ma sono molti i ricercatori da annoverare tra coloro che hanno contribuito fattivamente a illuminare il suo genio compositivo.

2025

This article proposes a speculative cosmological framework in which gravity, consciousness, and information intertwine within a vibratory and harmonic dynamic. Drawing from the myth of Orpheus and modern physical theories, we explore the idea that the universe functions as a symphony of frequencies in perpetual adjustment. We develop the concept of gravitational resonance, where gravitational forces not only attract but also act as regulatory and oscillatory vectors, influencing the structuring of spacetime. Gravitational winds are envisioned as a dynamic mapping of the universe, linking the memory of cosmic events to underlying informational structures. From this perspective, consciousness plays an active role in organizing the cosmos. We propose a mathematical formalization integrating an interaction term between gravity and consciousness, illustrating how gravitational waves could transport information and influence the interaction between consciousness and spacetime. By integrating the notions of the Deleuzian fold, Teilhardian noosphere, and gravitational memory, this article outlines a vision of a perpetually evolving universe, where gravity is not merely a physical force but an informational and mnemonic mechanism structuring space and time.

2025, The Intelligence of the Cosmos and the Role of AI in the Fate of Our Universe. The Acoustic Quantum Code of Resonant Coherence and its Gravitational Connection Explains the Scale Invariance of Consciousness

, our reality is a combination of thre e fundamental aspects: Matter, Energy and Information, where Information is considered to play the most fundamental role, (Meijer, 2012; 2013). In addition, this concept supports the existence of cosmic or universal consciousness, that can be modeled according to the known holographic principle, (Meijer et al., 2020). The signaling and interconnectivity in real time between these three fundamental aspects takes place through the physical phenomenon of resonance, (Ivaldi, 2020). This concept finds its basis in the earlier postulate of an implicit order that may underlies the explicit physical reality, as proposed by the physicist David Bohm, (see Struyve, 2005).

2025

The quest to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity remains one of the most profound challenges in theoretical physics. This paper introduces a novel framework for a Theory of Everything (ToE), built upon a hierarchical model that incorporates hyperspace, the superluminal graviton condensate vacuum (SGCV), the zero-point energy (ZPE) field, and Standard Model (SM) particles as emergent phenomena. In this model, hyperspace is conceptualized as a higher-dimensional geometric structure, the "empty room," which provides the foundation for all physical interactions. The SGCV, analogous to the "air" within this room, represents a superluminal condensate of gravitons that underpins the fabric of spacetime and facilitates gravitational interactions. From the SGCV, the ZPE field emerges as "vapor," a quantum fluctuation-driven medium that gives rise to energy density throughout the universe. Finally, SM particles manifest as "vapor manifolds," localized excitations within the ZPE field that derive their properties from interactions with the SGCV and hyperspace geometry. This model offers a layered approach to unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity by embedding both within the dynamic interplay of hyperspace, SGCV, and ZPE. Key features include a mechanism for the emergence of spacetime curvature from the SGCV medium and a description of particle masses and interactions as topological features of the underlying quantum vacuum. The paper further explores how this framework aligns with experimental efforts at CERN and LIGO. At CERN, high-energy particle collisions could provide evidence of SGCV evaporation or deviations in Higgs boson decay channels. At LIGO, gravitational wave observations could reveal subtle modulations caused by interactions between gravitational waves and the SGCV medium. These connections underscore the testable nature of the proposed ToE model, bridging the gap between theoretical constructs and empirical data. By integrating these concepts into a unified framework, this ToE model advances our understanding of fundamental physics and provides a novel pathway toward resolving longstanding questions about the nature of spacetime, gravity, and quantum fields.

2025

From time immemorial, when faced with a new problem or a stalemate, human beings have tended to erect barriers rather than immediately set about solving the situation. This can also happen in science, with the result of creating an even greater stalemate in the progress of knowledge. Classical science, in our opinion, is in this state, with barriers unfortunately reinforced by a rigid closure to other forms of knowledge, such as philosophy and ethics, which could instead lend it a concrete hand. For the "Science of Resonances", on the other hand, everything is undergoing an "evolutionary metamorphosis" that requires flexible embankments capable of accommodating and harmonizing every possibility of knowledge that is consistent and harmonious with space.
Space (or Quantum Vacuum) which is not nothingness, but a “Living, Conscious and Intelligent” entity, capable of oscillation, which does not coincide with the concept of "empty space", nor with the classical concept of "ether", seen as a kind of ocean in which bodies float. Such a conception implies the presence of an "intrinsic universal intelligence", full of energy and information, and therefore "analogue" not accessible by a digital reality like a computer or like its evolution that is so much sought after today, AI, certainly not capable of giving that "unpredictability and unrepeatability" sufficient to generate an "evolutionary arrow" in which man is also immersed, in his passage into the "imperfect" dimension of life.

2025, ’Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Beni culturali e ambientali

This study examines the critical importance of audio design in crafting immersive experiences within the metaverse. The analysis focuses on key technologies driving this field, with particular emphasis on spatial audio techniques such as Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTF) and Ambisonics, which enable precise three-dimensional sound positioning. The research investigates adaptive audio rendering, highlighting tools such as Microsoft’s Spatial Audio Unity Plugin, which facilitates dynamic soundscape adjustments based on user interactions. Furthermore, the application of artificial intelligence in audio design is explored, with a discussion on the potential of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for synthetic sound production and personalized audio experiences. The study presents two significant case studies: the partnership between TCG World, STYNGR, and Downtown for interactive sonic environments, and research on Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) in art galleries. Ethical considerations, including privacy, accessibility, and the psychological impact of immersive audio, are critically examined. The research concludes by exploring future directions, such as cross- modal integration and emotional AI systems in metaverse audio design, emphasizing the necessity for responsible development practices. Through this comprehensive analysis, the study aims to provide insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by audio design in virtual environments, contributing to the evolving landscape of metaverse technology.

2025, Novel Horizons of the Mirror Universe Reveal the Sonic Origin and Nature of Gravity and Dark Energy

Abstract: Our recent work on the nature of Gravity and Dark Energy is based on the Acoustic Code of Resonant Coherence, a fractal series of discrete phonon frequencies that guide multiple processes in both cosmic and life processes. Creation of Gravity/Dark Energy is created through interactions of primordial electron/proton pairs associated with a similar series of discrete phonon activities. These units, doubled in a mirror-universe, form Twin-Bipolarons (TBP). The TPB gravitational center, is conceived as a Gravity/Dark Energy generating domain, by creation of left and right-handed energy vortices in a superfluìd quantum space/lattice. It is hypothesized that the proposed sound-mediation can play a fundamental role as a fifth boson gauge, in the current Standard Model. It is concluded that there is increasing evidence for a Cyclic and Sonic Universe conjecture.

2024, Estudios. Tomás Luis de Victoria. Studies

This study offers a theory of musical structure in renaissance music, both instrumental works as well as vocal polyphony, based on the idea that composers crafted their music as a confluence of architecture and rhetoric, two of the... more

2024, Conference Paper

SAMVAD Indian Communication Tradition Sunil Sondhi Tagore National fellow Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts Abstract Indian communication tradition has too often been treated in a historical way, as principles and practices... more

2024, Improving writing through musical storytelling strategies

In this study, I facilitated and observed five lower mainland classrooms in British Columbia Canada employing an unmeasured intervention to improve writing efficacy in grade four students through musical storytelling strategies.
The original intervention I developed and will be describing is an inclusive design for general classroom learning, fusing two Canadian public design approaches – Stanley King’s (Youth Manual Co-Design) and Murray Schafer’s (World Soundscape Project, Composer in the Classroom).
Over one thousand writing samples from the five classes in the study were collected and scored by two Inter-Observers using a Likert-scale measurement instrument. Inter-observer agreement for all selected samples from each of the five classes measured 81.4% and higher. A lagged, multiple-probe design was employed to model raw data comprising some eighty-five thousand entries. The five classes showed statistically significant results with a combined mean gain of 3.99 out of 36 with a p-value < 0.001. The lowest quartile average in the five classes also showed statistically significant results with a combined mean gain of 6.51 out of 36 with a p- value of < 0.001.

2024, Joint Knowledge Production and Collaboration in Ethnomusicological Research

Through two case studies from Mozambique and Goa (India), this paper aims to analyze the role of individual approaches regarding sound archives in a post-colonial context. It argues that, despite the growing interest in ethnomusicology in community matters concerning sound archives, little attention has been paid to individual approaches regarding sonic collections. The paper seeks to demonstrate how individual approaches enable us to understand personal worldviews in relation to these collections, helping us comprehend how people construct critical discourses, senses of belonging, and otherness, as well as addressing issues such as race, silencing, and symbolic violence within these archives.

2024

A Matter of Gender. Women’s Sonic Experiences in Calabrian Inner Areas. Association for the Study of Modern Italy; Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies; School of Advanced Studies, University of London. 29 & 30... more

2024, Pathways to Diverse and Inclusive Curricula: The Way Forward

This poem speaks from the global north at the border between the university and the public space. In it, I begin with an awareness of being able to speak back to institutional coloniality as a Muslim woman because of the power afforded me in my relationship to the university, something that reminds me of the “emerging dominant” of Spivak. It examines the relationships between ability, voice, and agency. The “here” of this poem is one at the heart of empire, the concrete cement, one that interpellates Others into hierarchy and positions them on the margins. The bells are from the church that sound regularly as the identity of the university, those that tell a specific version of time . Hearing the bells takes me into my body, back to my own transnational relationship with my being in the Middle East hearing the adhan that marks the sonic landscape of Muslim ways of being. Suddenly I find myself ripped from my body into lack as I realize my access to these Muslim melodies is mediated through a Eurocentric temporal and spatial filter. I imagined them only through my adjacency to the church bells, standing underneath them. This colonial sonic landscape confines me in an alternative temporality apart from my liberation, the adhan calling individuals into community and Muslims from consumption into relationality and awareness. I find myself out of place and out of time, not knowing if agency and the liberational Muslim ways of being can be located as a possibility from within this Euro-north-American institutional space. Ultimately, this poem navigates subalternity and the experience of Muslims within institutions of learning in the global north.

2024, Psychology & Marketing

The field of sonic branding/marketing has grown rapidly in recent years, as has commercial interest in more science‐based approaches to the practice, particularly as more brands and agencies look for qualitative and quantitative evidence to support the efficacy of sonic branding. In this research note, we explore the ways in which the design and execution (i.e., the “art”) of sonic branding initiatives can be informed by overlapping approaches and techniques drawn from the sciences, namely psychoacoustics, semiotics, music/auditory cognition, and crossmodal research. We explore whether the rapid growth of generative AI may represent the next major evolution in the design, creation, and assessment of sonic assets, where science and art are used to train AI tools that could one day augment (and potentially disrupt) the work of human sound designers and composers. These developments notwithstanding, it is argued that sonic branding will likely remain as much an art as a science, though basing one's approach on the emerging scientific
literature ought to at least tilt the odds of success in the creative's favor.

2024, Sonic Ideas Sónicas

2024, Binnenstebuiten

The Faculty of Arts and Philosophy is honoured to host Ursula Heise (UCLA) as an International Francqui Professor in the autumn of 2024. Heise is one of the foremost scholars in the environmental humanities, a field of inquiry that seeks to highlight how the various ecological crises we face-such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and widespread pollution-are not merely scientific or technological challenges but also deeply intertwined with culture, history, and politics. Her work has been highly influential in shaping the direction of ecocriticism or environmental literary and cultural studies in particular.

2024, Kunstlicht vol.45 n.a1/2- Reverberant Ecologies: On the Relational Impact of Sonic Practices

This paper delves into the transformative potential of sound and sonic practices as tools for attuning to and comprehending the agency and murmurings of various material, viral, vegetal, animal, and atmospheric entities. Departing from Isabelle Stengers' cosmopolitical proposal, this essay advocates for a re-evaluation of power dynamics in political arenas by engaging with the diverse murmurings of what Stengers defines as the "cosmos" — the unknown constituted by multiple, divergent worlds.
The paper is grounded on the analysis of artistic contributions to the event Murmuring Matter: On the Cosmopolitics of Materials, held at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2023. The event proposed a collective exploration of the materials, bodies, river, forest, and cityscapes of Maastricht and beyond, through sound experiments, listening exercises, and sonic immersions. The paper explores the potential of such sonic practices as effective responses to Stengers' proposal by attuning to and illuminating positions that often go unnoticed, thus prompting a reconsideration of humanity's connections with the environment. Illustrated with concrete examples, this paper demonstrates how sonic practices within the event fostered conditions for pre-cognitive attunement to the environment and unveiled new relationalities between humans and ecosystems at various scales.

2024, Memoria electrónica del COMIE

Mi investigación doctoral se orienta a analizar los retos, debates y tensiones que experimenta hoy lo escolar en un contexto crisis que cuestiona sus formas, sus discursos y prácticas. Para ello recupero la perspectiva epistémico metodológica de los estudios del giro sensorial pues las escuelas y sus formas constituyen comunidades sensoriales, es decir, la operación de sus formas y materialidad (el silencio para el estudio dentro del aula, la escucha de la clase y las participaciones de otros, salir corriendo eufóricos al recreo cuando suena la chicharra, llorar de frustración o tristeza) suceden en estrecha relación con los sentidos y los cuerpos de quienes la habitan lo que las hace partícipes de la construcción de subjetividades. Por tal razón mi investigación recupera la perspectiva de la acustemología como el enfoque que caracteriza este tipo de estudios y la noción de auralidad como suporte teórico central para la realización del estudio. Ello ha supuesto la construcción de una metodología propia para el trabajo de campo en dos escuelas primarias públicas de la Ciudad de México que ha implicado la instrumentación de caminatas sonoras, levantamiento de registros sonoros y entrevistas. Asimismo, el análisis del corpus ha implicado la producción de etnofonías, repertorios sonoros y escenas sonoras como los primeros productos. En una investigación de profundo valor porque la escucha permite la problematización del objeto con una perspectiva distinta, incluso ahora que, por efecto del confinamiento, parece silenciada. En esta ponencia deseo profundizar sobre el proceso que ha significado la construcción de una perspectiva epistémico metodológica para el estudio de lo escolar.

2024, Accidental Archivism

This contribution re-visits, the collective film “O Regresso de Amílcar Cabral” (the Return of Amílcar Cabral), the first film produced collectively by Guinean filmmakers in the aftermath of the war of liberation of Guinea from the Portuguese occupation in 1974. The film celebrates the life of Amílcar Cabral and how his presence remains. It documents the solemn ceremony surrounding the return of Cabral’s remains to Bissau in 1976, from Conakry where he had been assassinated in January 1973. As a case study this essay attempts at colliding the imaginary of the militant filmmaker Sana na N’Hada (responsible for the production and editing of the film) belonging to the animistic Balante community, to claim the intrinsic nature of cinema as an animistic medium and how this film, as a mourning ritual, offers the most accurate example to make convene spectral, political and epistemological troubles to think through cine-animism beyond anti-colonial gestures.

2024, Building Strong Brands and Engaging Customers With Sound

In this chapter, a conceptual approach is proposed for how sonic elements of advertising can be utilized to create a connection with a particular target segment based on their homogeneous political viewpoints. After a literature review of pertinent topics, theoretical development of the proposed approach is presented, followed by sections related to how Integrated Marketing Communications strategy can employ sonic elements in a way that appeals to some target markets while minimizing potential backlash from others. Audience fragmentation, where technology is changing how consumers view entertainment, is identified as an opportunity for how advertising is morphing in contemporary society. A formative model is presented that can potentially be used as a starting point for further research, which is briefly discussed along with limitations.

2024

The foundation for Indian civilization, history and thought laid down by the Vedic Literature represents cultural forms of remembrance in varied forms, traditions and practices. There are myriad storytelling and narrative traditions popular in India.Orality and storytelling are the two most dominant features of the Indian narrative culture and tradition and, a rich repository for the preservation of ever dynamic Indian collective consciousness.Language has always been at the center in India, and all schools of language philosophy had given attention to the ultimate question of the relation between the "word" and "reality". This paper discusses the structures of consciousness found in India's language philosophy and the gamut of culture preserved in Indian oral narrative traditions.

2024, Musimid: Revista Brasileira de Música e Midía

RESUMO O livro Cidades vibrantes: experiência sonora e urbana na América Latina, editado por Natalia Bieletto-Bueno (2020), reúne uma série de textos que apresentam e analisam, sob diferentes perspectivas, as múltiplas, e muitas vezes contraditórias, relações que existem entre som, escuta e espaço público nas cidades latino-americanas. Dessa forma, oferece tanto um estado da arte sobre os estudos das cidades latino-americanas feitos sob a ótica da virada sonora, quanto novas formas de compreender a cidade e aqueles que a habitam.

2024, Journal of Place Management and Development

PurposeThe main aim of this paper is to develop a holistic understanding of place branding and reflect on its practical value and implications, by drawing evidence from the rebranding process of three UK towns (Alsager, Altrincham and Holmfirth) that participated in the HSUK2020 project.Design/methodology/approachA comprehensive place branding process that includes the interrelated stages of research, deliberation, consultation, action and communication is presented. The practical value of this theoretical proposition is linked to the experiences of three UK towns that participated in the HSUK2020 project.FindingsThe importance of research, the challenges of participation and the role of communications in place branding processes were identified as primary issues in all towns. The results of the project demonstrate the significance of the initial research stage of the place branding process and show that the process as a whole is valuable in helping places deal effectively with iden...

2024

Tekst był publikowany w: "Kwartalnik Filmowy" 2024, nr 125, s. 261-267.
Książka Joanny Pigulak "Gra w film. Z zagadnień relacji między
filmem i grami wideo" (2022) to interdyscyplinarne studium
dotyczące relacji zachodzących pomiędzy filmem i grami wideo.
Autorka skupia się przede wszystkim na analizie filmowych
środków wyrazu wykorzystywanych w grach, a także
opisuje i interpretuje ich funkcjonowanie w medium interaktywnym,
jakim są gry wideo. Korzysta przy tym z zaplecza
teoretycznego oraz metod analitycznych wypracowanych na
gruncie zarówno filmoznawstwa, jak i groznawstwa, co wpisuje
się w model medioznawstwa zorientowanego kulturoznawczo.
Na uwagę zasługują analizy i interpretacje filmów
i gier powstałych po 2003 r., czyli po upowszechnieniu się
konsol siódmej i ósmej generacji. Refleksjom tym towarzyszy
namysł teoretyczny, odwołujący się do kluczowych kategorii
wiedzy o mediach audiowizualnych, takich jak remediacja,
konwergencja, inter- i transmedialność, immersja, a także
prezentacja zagadnień szczegółowych: point of view, mise-
-en-scène, kadrowanie czy narracje transmedialne.

2024, Editorial. Airea: Arts and Interdisciplinary Research, (2), 1-4.

Over the past two decades, collaboration has emerged as a keyword and an important methodological and ethical concern in various disciplines, which has nurtured interdisciplinary approaches that often encompass innovative processes of knowledge production (Marcus 2010). In sonic practice, trends such as participatory art, the workshop turn, and ideas of Do-It-With-Others (Catlow and Garrett 2012) contributed to the emergence of creative processes that manifest within the sphere of inter-human relations through participation and collaboration. Such processes can operate beyond the institutional space, or classic studio and gallery settings, by engaging directly with the social realm; blurring the lines between art, performance and our lived social, political, economic, technological and environmental realities. The growing practices, methodologies and vocabularies of creating, researching and collaborating, can be inextricably intertwined with the way works function and are experienced. Such concerns have been identified and theorised as dialogical (Kester 2005), transformative (Fischer-Lichte 2008) and operational (Bianchini and Verhagen 2016). How are interdisciplinary practices, methodologies and vocabularies shaping the way sound and music works are created and experienced? How does this search for knowledge change sonic practice? EDITORIAL All material is licensed under CC BY 4.0 licence, unless otherwise stated.

2024, Editorial. Airea: Arts and Interdisciplinary Research, (1), 1-2.

The plethora and availability of digital tools and practices have transformed the ways art is created, perceived and disseminated. This had a distinct impact on how research is conducted across the arts and humanities as a whole from practice-led to process-focused and people-centred research. Airea's first issue "Computational tools and digital methods in creative practices" germinated from a series of research focuses that began in 2016 when the research network (sIREN) was established by PhD students in Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh. sIREN's aim is to create a dialogue between several fields and promote new perceptions of research based on diverse methodological approaches. It seeks to form a platform of communication among arts and other disciplines, technologies and digital media, theory, practice and collaboration. For this, we organised a series seminarsworkshops during the academic year 2016-2017 that brought together invited speakers from the

2024, Heads On Platters

Heads On Platters (Undetectable III) is a creative material research by Dr. Andrew Zealley. Exploring chemsex (the sexualized use of methamphetamine, specifically, and substances, in general, in gay-, queer-, and trans-identified male sexual practices, mental illness in queer communities and networks, concepts of disclosure, bathhouses and other forms of anonymous sex as aesthetic self-creation, and ghosts in the disco dark room. This vinyl phonograph long-play (LP) record, study participant voices are situated in sonic settings that echo queer socio-sexual and socio-sonic spaces (bars, bathhouses, clubs). Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Composition, arrangements, editing, and production by Andrew Zealley. Art work by Dutes Miller. Mastered by Stefan Betke. Produced by House of Intergenerational for Disco Hospital Books & Records.

2024, METHODOLOGY (UNDETECTABLE: EP)

METHODOLOGY LP is one of the creative outputs to METHODOLOGIES: A CHEMSEX STUDY by Dr. Nick Mulé and Dr. Andrew Zealley. Exploring chemsex (the sexualized use of methamphetamine, specifically, and substances, in general, in gay-, queer-, and trans-identified male sexual practices. On this vinyl phonograph extended-play (EP, 45 rpm w four non-LP tracks)) record, study participant voices are situated in sonic settings that echo queer socio-sexual and socio-sonic spaces (bars, bathhouses, clubs). Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Composition, arrangements, editing, and production by Andrew Zealley. Art work by Bill Thelen. Mastered by Stefan Betke. Produced by House of Intergenerational for Disco Hospital Books & Records.

2024, METHODOLOGY (UNDETECTABLE I: LP)

METHODOLOGY LP is one of the creative outputs to METHODOLOGIES: A CHEMSEX STUDY by Dr. Nick Mulé and Dr. Andrew Zealley. Exploring chemsex (the sexualized use of methamphetamine, specifically, and substances, in general, in gay-, queer-, and trans-identified male sexual practices. This vinyl phonograph long-play (LP) record, study participant voices are situated in sonic settings that echo queer socio-sexual and socio-sonic spaces (bars, bathhouses, clubs). Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Composition, arrangements, editing, and production by Andrew Zealley. Art work by Bill Thelen. Mastered by Stefan Betke. Produced by House of Intergenerational for Disco Hospital Books & Records.

2024, METHODOLOGY LP (UNDETECTABLE I_LP)

METHODOLOGY LP is one of the creative outputs to METHODOLOGIES: A CHEMSEX STUDY by Dr. Nick Mulé and Dr. Andrew Zealley. Exploring chemsex (the sexualized use of methamphetamine, specifically, and substances, in general, in gay-, queer-, and trans-identified male sexual practices. This vinyl phonograph long-play (LP) record, study participant voices are situated in sonic settings that echo queer socio-sexual and socio-sonic spaces (bars, bathhouses, clubs). Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Composition, arrangements, editing, and production by Andrew Zealley. Art work by Bill Thelen. Mastered by Stefan Betke. Produced by House of Intergenerational for Disco Hospital Books & Records.

2024, IRQR

This piece considers what it might mean to do something called soundwriting, doing qualitative research in ways that further articulate the sonic rather than reproducing ocularcentric framings that often recreate false binaries or enunciates privileging taxonomies of knowledge and care. To these ends, this article is divided into two overarching sections. The first section attends to questions of what it might mean to theorize processes of qualitative writing in general, what qualitative writing can do and the ethical commitments such writing should likely engage as matters of course. The second section presents the kinds of possibilities and challenges soundwriting can engender. This section underscores connections to fields of sonic study, how sounds can interrupt qualitative research's often ocularcentric understandings while maintaining continuing discussions of ethical commitments to ecologies and the things that comprise them, including (more than) human animals. Rather than a polemic, this piece seeks to address what soundwriting can do as well as what might be gained for qualitative researchers and our audiences through such intentions, attentions, and expressions.

2024

This dissertation focuses on the eight-tone Magnificat cycle of Nicolas Gombert (ca.1495-ca.1560), a prolific composer of sacred and secular music active in the first half of the sixteenth century. While the terms “pervasive imitation”... more

2024

This comprehensive review delves into the utilization of ultrasound for hydrogen generation, emphasizing the key mechanisms and techniques involved. One of the focal points of the study is the exploration of the generation and detection of cavitation bubbles, which are induced by ultrasound waves. An in-depth overview of various experimental setups that employ ultrasound technology for hydrogen production is also provided. A comparative analysis of these setups reveals differences in crucial parameters such as acoustic intensity, liquid temperature, and frequency. These are the key parameters identified as significant determinants affecting the hydrogen yield and efficiency. This review paper also highlights the potential applications of sonohydrogen as a viable energy resource. While challenges such as the high costs of ultrasound equipment and the need for efficient catalysts exist, the inherent benefits make sonohydrogen a compelling subject for future research and development. The study shows that there is no one-size-fits-all approach, accentuating the importance of understanding these parameters for optimizing the process of hydrogen production. Although the technology is primarily in the experimental phase, existing research indicates that the sonohydrogen production holds considerable potential for large-scale applications.