What are canons? How do they come into existence and how develop? Is the idea behind them different from that of a paradigm? canons permeate architectural history narratives to frame educational professional fields? Why is this felt be problem? Are an inevitable trait our field? Can we move forward just by shuffling, expanding or regionalizing them? Or would cure made poison stronger rather tha...

This article provides an intellectual archeology of how the term "respect" has functioned in the field of bioethics. I argue that over time the function of the term has shifted, with a significant turning point occurring in 1979. Prior to 1979, the term "respect" connoted primarily the notion of "respect for persons" which functioned as an umbrella which conferred protection to autonomous perso...

A musical rhythm pattern is a sequence of note onsets. We consider repeating rhythm patterns, called rhythm cycles. Many typical rhythm cycles from Africa are asymmetric, meaning that they cannot be broken into two parts of equal duration. More precisely: if a rhythm cycle has a period of 2n beats, it is asymmetric if positions x and x + n do not both contain a note onset. We ask the questions ...

This thesis defines novel and efficient methods for the design of stacked canons and their use in imitative polyphonic structures. Chapter 1 discusses the development of canonand fugue-techniques and their connection in stretto-fugues such as found in Bach’s ‘Kunst der Fugue’. Several examples show that larger polyphonic structures are sustainable by a main theme which can appear in many differ...

With recent advances in score-following capabilities, it has become possible to envision new timing strategies, to realize previously impractical methods of coordination between a live performer and electronics. Our work centers on the challenge of synchronizing at the end of a musical phrase, where events and processes are timed not from an initial trigger, but occur according to a relative di...