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Efficient Transformers: A Survey Open
Transformer model architectures have garnered immense interest lately due to their effectiveness across a range of domains like language, vision, and reinforcement learning. In the field of natural language processing for example, Transfor…
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Psychology for Musicians : Understanding and Acquiring the Skills Open
"Psychology for Musicians examines the processes that underlie the acquisition of musical skills, Lehmann, Sloboda, and Woody provide a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to psychological research for musicians. The authors e…
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Efficient Transformers: A Survey Open
Transformer model architectures have garnered immense interest lately due to their effectiveness across a range of domains like language, vision and reinforcement learning. In the field of natural language processing for example, Transform…
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Subjective well-being and engagement in arts, culture and sport Open
This paper explores the relationship between engagement in arts, culture and sport, and subjective well-being, contributing to our understanding of the leisure experience, and cultural value, of these activities. Ordered probit analysis of…
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Discrimination in the age of artificial intelligence Open
In this paper, I examine whether the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) aggravates issues of discrimination as has been argued by several authors. For this purpose, I first take up the lively philosophi…
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Collaborative Musical Creativity: How Ensembles Coordinate Spontaneity Open
Music performance is inherently social. Most music is performed in groups, and even soloists are subject to influence from a (real or imagined) audience. It is also inherently creative. Performers are called upon to interpret notated music…
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The Role of a Leader in Stimulating Innovation in an Organization Open
Many organizations seek ways to stimulate and encourage staff innovation. One ofthese is leadership that can boost staff innovation behavior. The aim of thisarticle is to reflect on leadership and its contribution to stimulating innovation…
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Artificial intelligence in fiction: between narratives and metaphors Open
Science-fiction (SF) has become a reference point in the discourse on the ethics and risks surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Thus, AI in SF—science-fictional AI—is considered part of a larger corpus of ‘AI narratives’ that are anal…
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Moving to Communicate, Moving to Interact: Patterns of Body Motion in Musical Duo Performance Open
Skilled ensemble musicians coordinate with high precision, even when improvising or interpreting loosely-defined notation. Successful coordination is supported primarily through shared attention to the musical output; however, musicians al…
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Coordinated Interpersonal Behaviour in Collective Dance Improvisation: The Aesthetics of Kinaesthetic Togetherness Open
Collective dance improvisation (e.g., traditional and social dancing, contact improvisation) is a participatory, relational and embodied art form which eschews standard concepts in aesthetics. We present our ongoing research into the mecha…
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The Gothic Novel and the Stage: Romantic Appropriations Open
Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction: The Transforming Muses: Theorizing Stage Appropriation Part One - The Gothic Stage 1. A Stage of Tears and Terror: Introducing the Gothic Stage 2. Uncloseting the Gothic Monster 3. …
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Untangling performance from success Open
Fame, popularity and celebrity status, frequently used tokens of success, are often loosely related to, or even divorced from professional performance. This dichotomy is partly rooted in the difficulty to distinguish performance, an indivi…
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The Experiences of Mid-career and Seasoned Orchestral Musicians in the UK During the First COVID-19 Lockdown Open
The introduction of social distancing, as part of efforts to try and curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, has brought about drastic disruption to the world of the performing arts. In the UK the majority of professional orchestral musi…
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Theory and Practice in Late Nineteenth-Century Violin Performance: An Examination of Style in Performance, 1850–1900 Open
With most of Western art music, it can be argued that music-making requires performers to interpret a composer's original, notated ideas. Often, an informed and perceptive reading of the score needs to be combined with the inspiration to c…
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The reappearing tool: transparency, smart technology, and the extended mind Open
Some thinkers have claimed that expert performance with technology is characterized by a kind of disappearance of that technology from conscious experience, that is, by the transparency of the tools and equipment through which we sense and…
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The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies Open
The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies is the first publication to offer a scholarly overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their prac…
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ChatGPT: deconstructing the debate and moving it forward Open
Large language models such as ChatGPT enable users to automatically produce text but also raise ethical concerns, for example about authorship and deception. This paper analyses and discusses some key philosophical assumptions in these deb…
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The Ethnography of Scribal Writing and Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Scribe as Performer Open
What is the nature of writing and what is the role of the scribe in a culture in which speech has not lost its primacy? If we think of Anglo-Saxon scribal writing in terms of "ethnopoetics," we can think of human responses to the voice, of…
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Small Influence of Performing from Memory on Audience Evaluation Open
This study investigates the influence of an actual music stand on the evaluation of a videotaped audio-visual solo instrumental performance. Previous research has provided evidence that the presence of a score or music stand (obstructing t…
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The averaged inter-brain coherence between the audience and a violinist predicts the popularity of violin performance Open
Why is some music well-received whereas other music is not? Previous research has indicated the close temporal dependencies of neural activity among performers and among audiences. However, it is unknown whether similar neural contingencie…
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Freud, Frankenstein and our fear of robots: projection in our cultural perception of technology Open
This paper examines why robots are so often presented as monstrous in the popular media (e.g. film, newspapers), regardless of the intended applications of the robots themselves. The figure of the robot monster is examined in its historica…
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On the creativity of large language models Open
Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing several areas of Artificial Intelligence. One of the most remarkable applications is creative writing, e.g., poetry or storytelling: the generated outputs are often of astonishing quality. H…
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The Global Jukebox: A public database of performing arts and culture Open
Standardized cross-cultural databases of the arts are critical to a balanced scientific understanding of the performing arts, and their role in other domains of human society. This paper introduces the Global Jukebox as a resource for comp…
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On trans-, glitch, and gender as machinery of failure Open
his paper develops an understanding of gender as something fundamentally technological, and as such broken. Drawing on the technological undercurrent in current posthumanist feminist theory, it puts into play a vocabulary of malfunctioning…
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From Porn Performer to Porntropreneur: Online Entrepreneurship, Social Media Branding, and Selfhood in Contemporary Trans Pornography Open
Drawing on ten months of ethnographic field work in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, this article reflects on how transgender pornography performers navigate various economic, technological, and social changes confronting the industry. From the …
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Robot Comedy Lab: experimenting with the social dynamics of live performance Open
The success of live comedy depends on a performer's ability to "work" an audience. Ethnographic studies suggest that this involves the co-ordinated use of subtle social signals such as body orientation, gesture, gaze by both performers and…
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Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data Open
We study a program designed to encourage learning from coworkers among school teachers. In an experiment, we document gains in job performance when high- and low-skilled teachers are paired and asked to work together on improving their ski…
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Measuring changes in subjective well-being from engagement in the arts, culture and sport Open
This paper considers change in subjective well-being from engagement in leisure activities, encompassing the arts, culture and sport. Using UK data from waves 2 (2010–2011) and 5 (2013–2014) of Understanding Society, ordered logit, general…
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Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts Open
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to longstanding questions…
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Traces of performance in early fifteenth-century musical attributions Open
The manuscript Chantilly, Bibliothèque du Château, ms. 564 presents some intriguing cases of unusually-placed attributions – either in one of the voices, or in the text residuum. Re-evaluating Allan Atlas’ hypothesis that double attributio…