The sport of synchronized swimming is unique, because it combines speed, power, and endurance with precise synchronized movements and high-risk acrobatic maneuvers. Athletes must train and compete while spending a great amount of time underwater, upside down, and without the luxury of easily available oxygen. This review assesses the scientific evidence with respect to the physiological demands...

This article aims to explore the sociomaterial relational activities within digital music composition education via posthumanist concepts compositionism and assemblage. The study is an attempt at a nonlinear non-reductivist understanding of educational where matter, nature, culture shape performative practices. Engaging with Latour Actor-Network Theory (ANT) its onto-epistemological manifest as...

Todd Soukup Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0425 We describe a recurrent connectionist network, called CONCERT, that uses a set of melodies written in a given style to compose new melodies in that style. CONCERT is an extension of a traditional algorithmic composition technique in which transition tables specify the probability of the n...

In the framework of the double-pushout approach to graph grammars, we propose a new notion of parallel composition, called synchronized composition, of production applications. Our aim is to allow (pairs of) productions which are possibly not parallel independent, to be applied in parallel, provided that they are not mutually exclusive.The notion of synchronized composition we propose is not co...

This article seeks to investigate the multimodal affordances presented by music software and how it can provide new opportunities for students to engage with composition work in the classroom. It aims to broaden the scope of current research into classroom composition using technology, through a study of students’ environments and compositional processes as seen from these new perspectives. The...

The application of computers in music has focused almost exclusively on problems of sound synthesis. The application of computers in the process of music composition, ie. the generation of sound structures, remains largely unexplored. This thesis describes a computer software system designed to usefully aid composers in the process of music composition by automating part of the composition proc...