In 1962 Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Concept of Unity in Electronic Music” introduced a connection between the parameters of intensity, duration, pitch, and timbre using an accelerating pulse train. In 1973 John Chowning discovered that complex audio spectra could be synthesized by increasing vibrato rates past 20Hz. In both cases the notion of increased speed to produce timbre was critical to disc...

OMPrisma is a library for the control of sound source spatialization and spatial sound synthesis in the computer-aided composition environment OpenMusic. In this article we describe the basic concepts underlying this library and its integration into compositional workflows ranging from high-level symbolic control structures to spatial sound synthesis and reproduction. A generic framework is pre...

This paper sheds light on the changing perspective of historiographic time in postmodernism and its tendency towards spatialization, as displayed Don DeLillo's Libra (1988). The suggests that Branch’s room theories leads to spatialization narrative, considering this is space where history leaves imprints past intersects with present. Noting spatialistion means simultaneous juxtaposition differe...

This paper presents a system for controlling the sound spatialization of a live performance by means of the acoustic localization of the performer. Our proposal is to allow a performer to directly control the position of a sound played back through a spatialization system, by moving the sound produced by its own musical instrument. The proposed system is able to locate and track the position of...

We examine representations of time among the Mianmin of Papua New Guinea. We begin by describing the patterns of spatial and temporal reference in Mian. Mian uses a system of spatial terms that derive from the orientation and direction of the Hak and Sek rivers and the surrounding landscape. We then report results from a temporal arrangement task administered to a group of Mian speakers. The re...

syntax for Horn-like rules. The SWRL as the form, antecedentconsequent, where both antecedent and consequent are conjunctions of atoms written a1^ ... ^ an. Atoms in rules can be of the form C(x), P(x,y), Q(x,z), sameAs(x,y), differentFrom(x,y), or builtIn(pred, z1, …, zn), where C is an OWL description, P is an OWL individual-valued property, Q is an OWL data-valued property, pred is a dataty...

In 2011 van Dijk and Fias with an innovative working memory paradigm showed for the first time that words to-beremembered, presented sequentially at the center of a screen acquired a new spatial dimension: the first words of the sequence acquired a left spatial value while the last words acquired a right spatial value. In this article, we argue that this spatialization which putatively underpin...