03973oam 2200661I 450 991045086530332120200520144314.01-351-21785-21-351-21786-01-351-21784-41-281-09929-597866110992990-7546-8680-910.4324/9781351217866 (CKB)1000000000406712(OCoLC)503443191(CaPaEBR)ebrary10211348(SSID)ssj0000193467(PQKBManifestationID)11167639(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193467(PQKBWorkID)10226267(PQKB)10483084(MiAaPQ)EBC429715(Au-PeEL)EBL429715(CaPaEBR)ebr10211348(CaONFJC)MIL109929(OCoLC)476277921(OCoLC)1011104087(EXLCZ)99100000000040671220180706d2017 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLiving Electronic MusicFirst edition.London :Taylor and Francis,2017.1 online resource (214 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7546-5548-2 0-7546-5546-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-185) and index.Living presence -- The reanimation of the world : relocating the live -- The human body in electroacoustic music : sublimated or celebrated? -- Playing space : towards an aesthetics of live electronics -- To input the live : microphones and other human activity transducers -- Diffusion-projection : the grain of the loudspeaker."Drawing on recent ideas that explore new environments and the changing situations of composition and performance, Simon Emmerson provides a significant contribution to the study of contemporary music, bridging history, aesthetics and the ideas behind evolving performance practices. Whether created in a studio or performed on stage, how does electronic music reflect what is live and living? What is it to perform 'live' in the age of the laptop? Many performer-composers draw upon a 'library' of materials, some created beforehand in a studio, some coded 'on the fly', others 'plundered' from the widest possible range of sources. But others refuse to abandon traditionally 'created and structured' electroacoustic work. Lying behind this maelstrom of activity is the perennial relationship to 'theory', that is, ideas, principles and practices that somehow lie behind composers' and performers' actions. Some composers claim they just 'respond' to sound and compose 'with their ears', while others use models and analogies of previously 'non-musical' processes. It is evident that in such new musical practices the human body has a new relationship to the sound. There is a historical dimension to this, for since the earliest electroacoustic experiments in 1948 the body has been celebrated or sublimated in a strange 'dance' of forces in which it has never quite gone away but rarely been overtly present. The relationship of the body performing to the spaces around has also undergone a revolution as the source of sound production has shifted to the loudspeaker. Emmerson considers these issues in the framework of our increasingly 'acousmatic' world in which we cannot see the source of the sounds we hear."--Provided by publisher.Electronic musicHistory and criticismMusicPhilosophy and aestheticsElectronic books.Electronic musicHistory and criticism.MusicPhilosophy and aesthetics.786.7Emmerson Simon987000FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910450865303321Living Electronic Music2255534UNINA07222nam 2201885Ia 450 991078110690332120200520144314.01-283-00150-097866130015041-4008-3815-010.1515/9781400838158(CKB)2550000000031078(EBL)664632(OCoLC)713010093(SSID)ssj0000467317(PQKBManifestationID)11277283(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467317(PQKBWorkID)10467246(PQKB)10106189(OCoLC)713363227(MdBmJHUP)muse43131(WaSeSS)Ind00023153(DE-B1597)453746(OCoLC)979593677(DE-B1597)9781400838158(Au-PeEL)EBL664632(CaPaEBR)ebr10448512(CaONFJC)MIL300150(PPN)199245002(PPN)187957177(MiAaPQ)EBC664632(EXLCZ)99255000000003107820100730d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe blind spot[electronic resource] science and the crisis of uncertainty /William ByersCourse BookPrinceton Princeton University Pressc20111 online resource (334 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-14684-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The Revelation of Uncertainty -- 1. The Blind Spot -- 2. The Blind Spot Revealed -- 3. Certainty or Wonder? -- 4. A World in Crisis! -- 5. Ambiguity -- 6. Self-Reference: The Human Element in Science -- 7. The Mystery of Number -- 8. Science as the Ambiguous Search for Unity -- 9. The Still Point -- 10. Conclusion: Living in a World of Uncertainty -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- IndexIn today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers--and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by embracing science's inherent ambiguities and paradoxes can we truly appreciate its beauty and harness its potential. Crackling with insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas, from climate change to the global financial meltdown, this book challenges our most sacredly held beliefs about science, technology, and progress. At the same time, it shows how the secret to better science can be found where we least expect it--in the uncertain, the ambiguous, and the inevitably unpredictable. William Byers explains why the subjective element in scientific inquiry is in fact what makes it so dynamic, and deftly balances the need for certainty and rigor in science with the equally important need for creativity, freedom, and downright wonder. Drawing on an array of fascinating examples--from Wall Street's overreliance on algorithms to provide certainty in uncertain markets, to undecidable problems in mathematics and computer science, to Georg Cantor's paradoxical but true assertion about infinity--Byers demonstrates how we can and must learn from the existence of blind spots in our scientific and mathematical understanding. The Blind Spot offers an entirely new way of thinking about science, one that highlights its strengths and limitations, its unrealized promise, and, above all, its unavoidable ambiguity. It also points to a more sophisticated approach to the most intractable problems of our time.ScienceSocial aspectsUncertainty (Information theory)Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences).Algorithm.Ambiguity.Analogy.Approximation.Axiom.Axiomatic system.Basic research.Big O notation.Calculation.Certainty.Chaos theory.Circumference.Computation.Concept.Conjecture.Consciousness.Consistency.Contingency (philosophy).Continuous function.Continuum hypothesis.Contradiction.Counting.David Bohm.Dynamism (metaphysics).Emergence.Euclidean geometry.Explanation.Feeling.Fermat's Last Theorem.Geometry.Gestalt psychology.Gregory Chaitin.Gödel's incompleteness theorems.Human behavior.Human intelligence.Hypothesis.Ideology.Inference.Integer.Irrational number.Learning.Logic.Logical reasoning.Mathematician.Mathematics.Measurement.Methodology.Modernity.Molecule.Natural number.Nature.Paradigm shift.Paradox.Participant.Phenomenon.Philosopher.Philosophy of mathematics.Philosophy of science.Philosophy.Platonism.Prediction.Principle.Probability.Pythagoreanism.Qualitative property.Quantification (science).Quantity.Quantum mechanics.Randomness.Rational number.Rationality.Real number.Reality.Reason.Reductionism.Relationship between religion and science.Result.Science.Scientific method.Scientific progress.Scientific theory.Scientist.Self-reference.Set theory.Special case.Subatomic particle.Subjectivity.Suggestion.Technology.The Philosopher.Theorem.Theoretical physics.Theory of everything.Theory.Thomas Kuhn.Thought.Uncertainty.Universality (philosophy).Writing.ScienceSocial aspects.Uncertainty (Information theory)500Byers William944438MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781106903321The blind spot3731036UNINA