Kulturtechno

Evolutionary biology solves long-standing philosophical debate.

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Schön – eine Liste mit (schon) über 3000 Namen.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vD-hWsQYvi6j-6NP_HCLRtmLKdPX08IXmCOeAPV7ESY/edit?usp=sharing

Hintergründe: https://adaptistration.com/2018/01/02/an-operational-women-composers-database/

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Fotografiert in Neukölln

Ein Longread für die Feiertage, Thema das mir zentral ist: Die Wahrnehmungsbeziehungen von Musik und Sprache, oder anders gesagt: von Klang und Konzept.

Abstract
Many studies have revealed shared music–language processing resources by finding an influence of music harmony manipulations on concurrent language processing. However, the nature of the shared resources has remained ambiguous. They have been argued to be syntax specific and thus due to shared syntactic integration resources. An alternative view regards them as related to general attention and, thus, not specific to syntax. The present experiments evaluated these accounts by investigating the influence of language on music. Participants were asked to provide closure judgements on harmonic sequences in order to assess the appropriateness of sequence endings. At the same time participants read syntactic garden-path sentences. Closure judgements revealed a change in harmonic processing as the result of reading a syntactically challenging word. We found no influence of an arithmetic control manipulation (experiment 1) or semantic garden-path sentences (experiment 2). Our results provide behavioural evidence for a specific influence of linguistic syntax processing on musical harmony judgements. A closer look reveals that the shared resources appear to be needed to hold a harmonic key online in some form of syntactic working memory or unification workspace related to the integration of chords and words. Overall, our results support the syntax specificity of shared music–language processing resources.

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/2/150685

Quantitative Zunahmen, die zu qualitativen Sprüngen führen.

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Ein launiges Video zur Bewegung der “Big History”. Die ganz große Relativierung tut in diesem Gräuelscheiß, der vor allem im nahen Osten angerichtet wird, doch ganz gut.

Vorgestern hatte ich hier den Ferneyhough-Disco-Bonanza, in den Facebook-Kommentaren wurde ich noch auf folgendes Piece von Jesper Andersen alias Gogaîn hingewiesen.

Contains samples from

Brian Ferneyhough: Lemma-Icon-Epigram
Spillet af Lukas Huisman
Youtube
0’30

Iannis Xenakis: Jonchaies
Luxemborg Filharmonikerne
Arturo Tamayo (conductor)
Timpani Records
1C1158

Manel Ribera Torres: Des Tupies dans l’insinuation
Spillet af Ensemble Martinu
Pladeselskab: Ars Harmonica
AH181
0’40

Richard Ayres: No. 37b: IV. Exit
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Roland Kluttig (Conductor)
NMC Recordings
NMC D162

Chaya Czernowin
The last leaf
Peter Veale
MusikFabrik Label