The field of human-computer interaction is rapidly expanding. Alongside the extensive technological developments that are currently taking place, is the emergence of a ‘cottage industry’ culture, where a polyphony of new theories, methods and concerns have been imported into the field from a diversity of disciplines and backgrounds. An extensive critique of recent theoretical developments is pr...

The notions of ‘voice’, as well as, homophony and polyphony, are thought to be well understood by musicians. Listeners are thought to be capable of perceiving multiple ‘voices’ in music. However, there exists no systematic theory that describes how ‘voices’ can be identified, especially, when polyphonic and homophonic elements are mixed together. The paper presents different views of what ‘voic...

Search engines often employ techniques for determining syntactic similarity of Web pages. Such a tool allows them to avoid returning multiple copies of essentially the same page when a user makes a query. Here we describe our experience extending these techniques to MIDI music les. The music domain requires modi cation to cope with problems introduced in the musical setting, such as polyphony. ...

Sirens evoke images of alarm, public service, war, and forthcoming air raid. Outside of the music of Edgard Varése ([8], [9]), sirens have rarely been framed as musical instruments. By connecting air hoses to spinning disks with evenly-spaced perforations, the siren timbre is translated musically. Polyphony gives our instrument an organ-like personality: keys are mapped to different frequencies...

Bakhtin’s work has been appropriated not only for linguistics but also for different areas of knowledge such as Psychology, Education and Arts. Approximating this author’s work to the field of human development, it can be understood how dialogism and the Arts. In approaching this author’s field of language and human development, we can understand how the dialogism and polyphony can be evoked in...

We introduce the vsti-poly.cpp architecture for the Faust programming language. It provides several features that are important for practical use of Faust-generated VSTi synthesizers. We focus on the VST architecture as one that has been used traditionally and is supported by many popular tools, and add several important features: polyphony, note history and pitch-bend support. These features t...

This paper presents and discusses the idea that one reason for the success of collaborative problem solving is the polyphonic character of work in small groups. Polyphony, a concept taken from music, may occur in chats for problem solving, transforming dialog into a “thinking device”: Different voices jointly construct a melody (story, or solution) and other voices adopt differential positions,...

Abstract Under the reign of Duke Bolesław V, Poland lived through a period cultural prosperity with several newly founded monastic centres and productive scriptoria. Particularly important were two convents Order St Clare, by duke’s sister, blessed Salomea, his wife, Kinga. Both cloisters led in spirit royal foundations repositories medieval chant polyphony. While Stary Sącz (founded 1280) is f...