OMaxist Dialectics: Capturing, Visualizing and Expanding Improvisations

Dialectics as Method and Approach in Educational Research

Real - Time Recognition of Improvisations with Adaptive Oscillators and a Recursive Bayesian Classifier

Understanding and following musical improvisations with a computer requires methods different from those needed when following score-based musical performances. This paper discusses questions related to interactive music systems for the recognition and accompaniment of tonal improvisations. This includes discussion about rhythmic parsing and harmonic analysis with a recursive Bayesian classifie...

Understanding Music Improvisations: A Comparison of Methods of Meaning-Making

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the value of different methods of making meaning in music therapy improvisations. Six research participants met with the researcher and created solo and duo improvisations. Each improvisation was subjected to four methods of meaning-making: participant journals, researcher journals, dialogues, and musical analysis using the Improvisation Asse...

Visualizing Data, Visualizing Models: Getting Priorities Right When Analyzing Data

We discuss methods of visualizing data and statistical models. The key innovation underlying these methods is that specialized graphs illustrate underlying patterns in data and they illustrate the properties of the statistical model that are used to analyze the data. These visualization techniques provide ways of understanding the underlying relation between variables, can illustrate how the st...

Geographic dialectics ?

As radical geography, inflected by Marx, has transformed into critical geography, influenced by poststructuralism and feminism, dialectical reasoning has come under attack from some poststructural geographers. Their construction of dialectics as inconsistent with poststructural thinking, difference, and assemblages is based, however, on a Hegelian conception of the dialectic. This Hegelian imag...