Islamization Through the Sound Arts

The Trend Analysis of Islamization in Malaysia Using Islamization Index as Indicator

This paper empirically analyses the trend of Islamization in Malaysia using the Islamization Index as an indicator to determine whether the time series dataset of the Islamization index possess deterministic trends or stochastic properties. The result determines the appropriateness of the employment of the Islamization index as a proxy of Islam in the empirical study of Islam and economic perfo...

Experimenting with Sound Immersion in an Arts and Crafts Museum

Technical museums are goods targets for experimenting with sound immersion and soundscape authoring. This paper presents an immersive sound system emitting audio content. Experimentations were conducted with a wired, proof-of-concept prototype and two wireless devices. Our system takes into consideration the position of museum visitors as well as their orientation and visual vector. In contrast...

Sound Sculpting: Manipulating Sound through Virtual Sculpting

We have prototyped sound sculpting, an environment in which a sound artist or musician can create, edit or perform sounds by changing parameters, like position, orientation and shape of a virtual object as input device, that can only be perceived through its visual and acoustic representations. We implemented sound sculpting by extending a realtime, visual programming language called Max/FTS, w...

Cancer and the arts: metastasis—as perceived through the ages

The Islamization of English Literary Studies: A Postcolonial Approach

In today’s world where the former colonized are reshaping their relation with the colonizer, the concept of decolonizing or indigenizing education is widely discussed in postcolonial studies. Decolonizing/indigenizing education counters the western systems of knowledge’s hegemony over those of non-western systems of thought and requires the development of a new approach to education that keeps ...