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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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EVALUATION OF RESIDUAL STRAINS ON ACOUSTIC QUALITY OF GUITAR [PDF]
This paper aims to assess how the residual deformations of the guitar neck influence the quality of the musical instrument, knowing that wood is a material whose rheological behavior is influenced by many factors, including humidity, temperature ...
Mariana Domnica STANCIU +3 more
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This work identifies a size‐dependent shrinkage effect that arises during polymer pyrolysis and uses it to embed residual stress into tensegrity‐inspired nanoarchitectures. By adjusting the dimensions of the structural elements, controlled prestress can be introduced in a simple and repeatable manner, enabling mechanically tunable nanostructures with ...
Amitha R. Mulastham +6 more
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Blind extraction of guitar effects through blind system inversion and neural guitar effect modeling
Audio effects are an ubiquitous tool in music production due to the interesting ways in which they can shape the sound of music. Guitar effects, the subset of all audio effects focusing on guitar signals, are commonly used in popular music to shape the ...
Reemt Hinrichs +3 more
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Guitar effects are commonly used in popular music to shape the guitar sound to fit specific genres, or to create more variety within musical compositions.
Reemt Hinrichs +3 more
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Food Waste as a Property Problem
Within a more general context of ‘overconsumption’, the United Nations estimates that annually 11.39 per cent of total global food production is wasted by households, and UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 declares thoroughgoing ambitions to halve food waste by 2030. This article argues that existing efforts to address this global challenge are
Bróna McNeill, Robin Hickey
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Two violins were investigated. The only intentionally introduced difference between them was the type of varnish. One of the instruments was covered with a spirit varnish, the other was oil varnished.
Ewa B. SKRODZKA +2 more
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Analysis and Performance Suggestions of Frank Martin’s Quatre Pieces Breves
Swiss composer Frank Martin’s Quatre Pieces Breves for solo guitar composed in 1933 has a very important place in the classical guitar repertoire. Modern compositional methods which were frequently used by composers especially in the early 20th century ...
Serkan Ağır
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Arthur Kampela and the Exoskeletons: the gesture and the guitarist
This article analyzes Arthur Kampela's Percussion Studies IV and V, where the guitarist's technique and posture are transposed to the guitar. Both pieces deal with and question the guitar technique, blending characteristic fingerings with the use of a ...
Ledice Fernandes Weiss
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