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SYNCHRONICITY and VISUAL MUSIC a Senior Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Department of Music Business, Entrepreneurship An
SYNCHRONICITY AND VISUAL MUSIC A Senior Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Music Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology The University of the Arts In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE By Zarek Rubin May 9, 2019 Rubin 1 Music and visuals have an integral relationship that cannot be broken. The relationship is evident when album artwork, album packaging, and music videos still exist. For most individuals, music videos and album artwork fulfill the listener’s imagination, concept, and perception of a finished music product. For other individuals, the visuals may distract or ruin the imagination of the listener. Listening to music on an album is like reading a novel. The audience builds their own imagination from the work, but any visuals such as the novel cover to media adaptations can ruin the preexisted vision the audience possesses. Despite the audience’s imagination, music can be visualized in different forms of visual media and it can fulfill the listener’s imagination in a different context. Listeners get introduced to new music in film, television, advertisement, film trailers, and video games. Content creators on YouTube introduce a song or playlist with visuals they edit themselves. The content creators credit the music artist in the description of the video and music fans listen to the music through the links provided. The YouTube channel, “ChilledCow”, synchronizes Lo-Fi hip hop music to a gif of a girl studying from the 2012 anime film, Wolf Children. These videos are a new form of radio on the internet. -
Swarm Intelligence
Swarm Intelligence Leen-Kiat Soh Computer Science & Engineering University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 [email protected] http://www.cse.unl.edu/agents Introduction • Swarm intelligence was originally used in the context of cellular robotic systems to describe the self-organization of simple mechanical agents through nearest-neighbor interaction • It was later extended to include “any attempt to design algorithms or distributed problem-solving devices inspired by the collective behavior of social insect colonies and other animal societies” • This includes the behaviors of certain ants, honeybees, wasps, cockroaches, beetles, caterpillars, and termites Introduction 2 • Many aspects of the collective activities of social insects, such as ants, are self-organizing • Complex group behavior emerges from the interactions of individuals who exhibit simple behaviors by themselves: finding food and building a nest • Self-organization come about from interactions based entirely on local information • Local decisions, global coherence • Emergent behaviors, self-organization Videos • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDsmbwOrHJs • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbUPfMXXQIY • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M028vafB0l8 Why Not Centralized Approach? • Requires that each agent interacts with every other agent • Do not possess (environmental) obstacle avoidance capabilities • Lead to irregular fragmentation and/or collapse • Unbounded (externally predetermined) forces are used for collision avoidance • Do not possess distributed tracking (or migration) -
FACT Magazine Music & Art News, Upfront Videos, Free Downloads
FACT magazine: music & art news, upfront videos, free downloads, classic vinyl, competitions, gigs, clubs, festivals & exhibitions - End of year charts: volume 5 04/01/10 19.08 Home News Features Broadcast Blogs Reviews Events Competitions Gallery search... Go Want to advertise? Click here Login Username End of year charts: volume 5 Password 1 FACT music player 2 Friday, 18 December 2009 Remember me Login 3 4 Lost Password? 5 No account yet? Register (2 votes) Open player in pop-up ACTRESS (pictured) 1. Cassablanca – Mzo Bullet [CD-R] Latest FACT mixes 2. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue [Warp] 3. Keaver & Brause - The Middle Way [Dealmaker] 4. Thriller - Freak For You / Point & Gaze [Thriller] 5. Nathan Fake - Hard Islands [Border Community] 6. Hudson Mohawke - Butter [Warp] 7. The Horrors - Primary Colours [XL] 8. Actress – Ghosts Have a Heaven [Prime Numbers] Follow us on 9. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo [Hotflush] 10. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion [Domino] 11. Leron Carson - Red Lightbulb Theory '87 - '88 [Sound Signature] 12. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx 2 [H2o] Last Comments 13. Darkstar - Aidy's Girl's A Computer [Hyperdub] 14. Zomby - Digital Flora [Brainmath] 1. FACT mix 112: Deadboy 15. Thriller – Swarm / Hubble [Thriller] by mosca 16. Peter Broderick - Float [Type] 2. Daily Download: Actress vs... by coxy 17. Rick Wilhite - The Godson EP [Rush Hour] 3. FACT mix 58: Untold 18. The xx - The xx [XL] by beezerholmes 4. 20 albums to look forward to... 19. Rustie – Bad Science [Wireblock] by tomlea 20. Cloaks – Versus Grain [3by3] 5. 100 best: Tracks of 2009 by jonhharris Compiled by Actress (Werk Discs), London, UK. -
Interactive Robots in Experimental Biology 3 4 5 6 Jens Krause1,2, Alan F.T
1 2 Interactive Robots in Experimental Biology 3 4 5 6 Jens Krause1,2, Alan F.T. Winfield3 & Jean-Louis Deneubourg4 7 8 9 10 11 12 1Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Department of Biology and 13 Ecology of Fishes, 12587 Berlin, Germany; 14 2Humboldt-University of Berlin, Department for Crop and Animal Sciences, Philippstrasse 15 13, 10115 Berlin, Germany; 16 3Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol 17 BS16 1QY, UK; 18 4Unit of Social Ecology, Campus Plaine - CP 231, Université libre de Bruxelles, Bd du 19 Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels - Belgium 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Corresponding author: Krause, J. ([email protected]), Leibniz Institute of Freshwater 29 Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Department of the Biology and Ecology of Fishes, 30 Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany. 31 32 33 1 33 Interactive robots have the potential to revolutionise the study of social behaviour because 34 they provide a number of methodological advances. In interactions with live animals the 35 behaviour of robots can be standardised, morphology and behaviour can be decoupled (so that 36 different morphologies and behavioural strategies can be combined), behaviour can be 37 manipulated in complex interaction sequences and models of behaviour can be embodied by 38 the robot and thereby be tested. Furthermore, robots can be used as demonstrators in 39 experiments on social learning. The opportunities that robots create for new experimental 40 approaches have far-reaching consequences for research in fields such as mate choice, 41 cooperation, social learning, personality studies and collective behaviour. -
Self-Organized Flocking with a Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Swarm
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by PUblication MAnagement Self-Organized Flocking with a Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Swarm Alessandro Stranieri Eliseo Ferrante Ali Emre Turgut Vito Trianni Carlo Pinciroli Mauro Birattari Marco Dorigo Universite´ Libre de Bruxelles, 1050, Belgium fastranie, eferrante, aturgut, vtrianni, cpinciro, mbiro, [email protected] Abstract orientation of neighboring robots or, as explained in this pa- per, a communication device. Therefore, understanding if a In this paper, we study self-organized flocking in a swarm of behaviorally heterogeneous mobile robots: aligning and non- swarm can achieve flocking with only a few aligning robots aligning robots. Aligning robots are capable of agreeing on can support the design of swarms with minimal hardware a common heading direction with other neighboring aligning requirements. robots. Conversely, non-aligning robots lack this capability. We conduct simulation-based experiments and we mea- Studying this type of heterogeneity in self-organized flock- sure self-organized flocking performance in terms of the de- ing is important as it can support the design of a swarm with minimal hardware requirements. Through systematic simu- gree of group order, group cohesiveness and average group lations, we show that a heterogeneous group of aligning and speed. With respect to these criteria, we found that the non-aligning robots can achieve good performance in flock- swarm achieves good flocking performance when the pro- ing behavior. We further show that the performance is af- portion of aligning robots is high. Conversely, this perfor- fected not only by the proportion of aligning robots, but also mance decreases as the proportion gets lower. -
Nov./Dec. 2007 VOL.57 TOTAL TIME: 73'37” 01 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Peacebone TBTF 03 STARS the Night Starts Here 04 the GOOD
01 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE 07 CARIBOU 13 REVEREND & THE MAKERS Peacebone Melody Day Heavyweight Champion of the World (Remix Edit) Nov./Dec. 2007 VOL.57 アニマル・コレクティヴ「ピースボーン」 カリブー「メロディー・デイ」 レヴァランド・アンド・ザ・メイカーズ「ヘヴィウェイト・チャ (Animal Collective)5:14 (Dan Snaith)4:11 ンピオン・オブ・ザ・ワールド(リミックス・エディット)」 taken from the album STRAWBERRY JAM taken from the album ANDORRA (McClure, Cosens, Smith)4:02 [Domino / Hostess]>030 [City Slang / Merge / Hostess]>012 original version is taken from the album THE STATE OF THINGS [Wall Of Sound / Hostess]>018 02 BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS KEVIN DREW 08 BRICOLAGE 14 ENON TBTF Flowers Of Deceit Pigeneration ブロークン・ソーシャル・シーン・プレゼンツ・ ブリコラージュ「フラワーズ・オブ・ディシート」 イーノン「ピージェネレーション」 ケビン・ドリュー「ティービーティーエフ」 (words by Wallace Meek; music by Bricorage) (Enon)3:33 (Kevin Drew)3:50 2:49 taken from the album GRASS GEYSERS... CARBON taken from the album SPIRIT IF... taken from the album BRICOLAGE CLOUDS [Arts & Crafts / Pony Canyon]>022 [Memphis Industries / Kurofune]>090 [Touch And Go / Traffic]>053 03 STARS 09 EIGHT LEGS 15 PINBACK The Night Starts Here Tell Me What Went Wrong From Nothing To Nowhere スターズ「ザ・ナイト・スターツ・ヒア」 エイト・レッグス「テル・ミー・ホワット・ウェ ピンバック「フロム・ナッシング・トゥ・ノーホ (Stars)4:54 ント・ロング」 エア」 taken from the album IN OUR BEDROOM AFTER (words by Sam Jolly; music by Eight Legs)2:32 (The Rob And Zach Show)3:28 THE WAR taken from the album SEARCHING FOR THE SIMPLE LIFE taken from the album AUTUMN OF THE SERAPHS [Arts & Crafts / Pony Canyon]>026 [Weekender / Kurofune]>088 [Touch And Go / Traffic]>050 04 THE GOOD LIFE 10 JEAN-MICHEL 16 LIARS You Don’t Feel -
Bookstore Blues
Jacksonville State University JSU Digital Commons Chanticleer Historical Newspapers 2007-09-13 Chanticleer | Vol 56, Issue 3 Jacksonville State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_chanty Recommended Citation Jacksonville State University, "Chanticleer | Vol 56, Issue 3" (2007). Chanticleer. 1479. https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_chanty/1479 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Historical Newspapers at JSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chanticleer by an authorized administrator of JSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I Volume 56, Issue 3 * . Banner may be toI . blame for mis'sing checks JSU remembers 911 1, By Brandon Hollingsworth was not in the mailbox," Ellis said. confirmed that students who d~dnot six years later. News Editor "So I go the financial aid office to get their checks would have to wait Story on ge, make an inqu~ry." for manual processing to sort through Many JSU students received finan- There, Ellis said, workers told the delay. cia1 aid refund checks on Monday, him that due to a processing glitch, Adams indicated that JSU's new Sept. 10. his check would not be ready until Banner system is partly responsible SGA President David Some put the mmey in the bank, Wednesday, Sept. 12. for the problem. Jennings joins other sofrle spent it on booka, some on At the earl~est. "There were some lssues ~n the, student presidents in less savory expen&we$. , Another student, Kim Stark, was [older] Legacy system," Adams said, an effort to fight book However, some students, mostly tdd to Walt up to two weeks for her "But with the new Banner system, prices. -
Malte Andersson 30.10.2019
Social evolution, and levels of selection Malte Andersson 30.10.2019 1 Social evolution, Malte Andersson, 30.10. 2019 Fitness: an individual’s expected genetic contribution to the next generation Direct fitness: numbers of surviving own offspring A behaviour leading to higher fitness is favored by selection and will spread over the generations 2 1 Mobbing a raptor is risky for a crow 3 A honey bee dies after stinging an enemy 4 2 Costly helping: how can it evolve and persist? Does it benefit the donor of help via: 1) direct fitness (individual selection) ? 2) delayed direct fitness, by reciprocity ? 3) donor’s relatives: kin selection ? 4) a larger community: group selection ? These questions are debated. They were first asked by Darwin (1859), about sterile workers in eusocial insects. Some individuals can not reproduce, but offer their lives for the colony (for instance honey bee workers). Can natural selection lead to such behaviour? 5 Altruism (meaning in ecology): Helpful behavior that raises the recipient’s but lowers the donor’s direct fitness 6 3 Alarm signals - selfish or altruistic? Black-throated Shrike-Tanager, Springbok stotting, Kalahari Belize Stotting tells a predator it is detected Warning flock members, also using by a gazelle in good condition. Better the signal for own feeding advantage to hunt another prey (Caro 1986) 7 Is sentinel behavior in meerkats altruistic? Probably not. Sentinels are safer and have a direct benefit from their behavior. (Clutton-Brock et al. 1999) 8 4 0.5 0.4 0.3 Females 0.2 Males 0.1 0 Without close With With offspring genetic relatives nondescendant relatives Black-tailed prairie dogs Individuals give alarm calls mainly with relatives (offspring and others). -
Punk Aesthetics in Independent "New Folk", 1990-2008
PUNK AESTHETICS IN INDEPENDENT "NEW FOLK", 1990-2008 John Encarnacao Student No. 10388041 Master of Arts in Humanities and Social Sciences University of Technology, Sydney 2009 ii Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisor Tony Mitchell for his suggestions for reading towards this thesis (particularly for pointing me towards Webb) and for his reading of, and feedback on, various drafts and nascent versions presented at conferences. Collin Chua was also very helpful during a period when Tony was on leave; thank you, Collin. Tony Mitchell and Kim Poole read the final draft of the thesis and provided some valuable and timely feedback. Cheers. Ian Collinson, Michelle Phillipov and Diana Springford each recommended readings; Zac Dadic sent some hard to find recordings to me from interstate; Andrew Khedoori offered me a show at 2SER-FM, where I learnt about some of the artists in this study, and where I had the good fortune to interview Dawn McCarthy; and Brendan Smyly and Diana Blom are valued colleagues of mine at University of Western Sydney who have consistently been up for robust discussions of research matters. Many thanks to you all. My friend Stephen Creswell’s amazing record collection has been readily available to me and has proved an invaluable resource. A hearty thanks! And most significant has been the support of my partner Zoë. Thanks and love to you for the many ways you helped to create a space where this research might take place. John Encarnacao 18 March 2009 iii Table of Contents Abstract vi I: Introduction 1 Frames -
Stigmergic Epistemology, Stigmergic Cognition Action Editor: Ron Sun Leslie Marsh A,*, Christian Onof B,C
CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Cognitive Sciences ePrint Archive ARTICLE IN PRESS Cognitive Systems Research xxx (2007) xxx–xxx www.elsevier.com/locate/cogsys Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition Action editor: Ron Sun Leslie Marsh a,*, Christian Onof b,c a Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Sussex, United Kingdom b Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom c School of Philosophy, Birkbeck College London, United Kingdom Received 13 May 2007; accepted 30 June 2007 Abstract To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality. If social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex communities of knowers as its subject matter, then its third party character is essentially stigmer- gic. In its most generic formulation, stigmergy is the phenomenon of indirect communication mediated by modifications of the environment. Extending this notion one might conceive of social stigmergy as the extra-cranial analog of an artificial neural network providing epi- stemic structure. This paper recommends a stigmergic framework for social epistemology to account for the supposed tension between individual action, wants and beliefs and the social corpora. We also propose that the so-called ‘‘extended mind’’ thesis offers the requisite stigmergic cognitive analog to stigmergic knowledge. Stigmergy as a theory of interaction within complex systems theory is illustrated through an example that runs on a particle swarm optimization algorithm. Ó 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. -
An Exploration in Stigmergy-Based Navigation Algorithms
From Ants to Service Robots: an Exploration in Stigmergy-Based Navigation Algorithms عمر بهر تيری محبت ميری خدمت گر رہی ميں تری خدمت کےقابل جب هوا توچل بسی )اقبال( To my late parents with love and eternal appreciation, whom I lost during my PhD studies Örebro Studies in Technology 79 ALI ABDUL KHALIQ From Ants to Service Robots: an Exploration in Stigmergy-Based Navigation Algorithms © Ali Abdul Khaliq, 2018 Title: From Ants to Service Robots: an Exploration in Stigmergy-Based Navigation Algorithms Publisher: Örebro University 2018 www.publications.oru.se Print: Örebro University, Repro 05/2018 ISSN 1650-8580 ISBN 978-91-7529-253-3 Abstract Ali Abdul Khaliq (2018): From Ants to Service Robots: an Exploration in Stigmergy-Based Navigation Algorithms. Örebro Studies in Technology 79. Navigation is a core functionality of mobile robots. To navigate autonomously, a mobile robot typically relies on internal maps, self-localization, and path plan- ning. Reliable navigation usually comes at the cost of expensive sensors and often requires significant computational overhead. Many insects in nature perform robust, close-to-optimal goal directed naviga- tion without having the luxury of sophisticated sensors, powerful computational resources, or even an internally stored map. They do so by exploiting a simple but powerful principle called stigmergy: they use their environment as an external memory to store, read and share information. In this thesis, we explore the use of stigmergy as an alternative route to realize autonomous navigation in practical robotic systems. In our approach, we realize a stigmergic medium using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology by embedding a grid of read-write RFID tags in the floor. -
Animating Predator and Prey Fish Interactions
Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Computer Science Dissertations Department of Computer Science 5-6-2019 Animating Predator and Prey Fish Interactions Sahithi Podila Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cs_diss Recommended Citation Podila, Sahithi, "Animating Predator and Prey Fish Interactions." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2019. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cs_diss/149 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Computer Science at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Computer Science Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ANIMATING PREDATOR AND PREY FISH INTERACTIONS by SAHITHI PODILA Under the Direction of Ying Zhu, PhD ABSTRACT Schooling behavior is one of the most salient social and group activities among fish. They form schools for social reasons like foraging, mating and escaping from predators. Animating a school of fish is difficult because they are large in number, often swim in distinctive patterns that is they take the shape of long thin lines, squares, ovals or amoeboid and exhibit complex coordinated patterns especially when they are attacked by a predator. Previous work in computer graphics has not provided satisfactory models to simulate the many distinctive interactions between a school of prey fish and their predator, how does a predator pick its target? and how does a school of fish react to such attacks? This dissertation presents a method to simulate interactions between prey fish and predator fish in the 3D world based on the biological research findings.