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Item Bass Guitar Anatomy Game(Merlot, 2004-01) Janke, ThomasThe Bass Parts Anatomy game is a simple interactive drag and drop interface that helps students to correctly indentify the various components of an electric bass guitar.Item Technology in the Piano Lab: Band-in-a-Box—An Interview with E. J. Choe(Sage Publications, http://gmt.sagepub.com/, 2010-04) Choe, EJ; Nardo, RachelE.J. Choe is Director of the Music Academy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. This community-based music school annually serves more than 200 children aged 5- to 18 years in after-school music classes and private lessons.Item Interactive High Performance Computing for Music(Michigan Publishing, 2011-07-31) Smith, Benjamin D.; Garnett, Guy E.The origins of computer music are closely tied to the development of the first high-performance computers associated with major academic and research institutions. These institutions have continued to build extremely powerful computers, now containing thousands of CPUs with incredible processing power. Their precursors were typically designed to operate in non-real time, “batch” mode, and that tradition has remained a dominant paradigm for high performance computing. We describe experimental research in developing the interactive use of a modern high- performance machine, the Abe supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, for real-time musical and artistic purposes. We describe the requirements, development, problems, and observations from this project.Item Advancing Expert Human-Computer Interaction Through Music(Michigan Publishing, 2012-09) Smith, Benjamin D.; Garnett, Guy E.One of the most important challenges for computing over the next decade is discovering ways to augment and extend human control over ever more powerful, complex, and numerous devices and software systems. New high-dimensional input devices and control systems provide these affordances, but require extensive practice and learning on the part of the user. This paper describes a system created to leverage existing human expertise with a complex, highly dimensional interface, in the form of a trained violinist and violin. A machine listening model is employed to provide the musician and user with direct control over a complex simulation running on a high-performance computing system.Item Enabling Live Presence: Dynamic Video Compression for the Telematic Arts(Michigan Publishing, 2012-09) Smith, Benjamin D.Telematic performance, connecting performing artists in different physical locations in a single unified ensemble, places extreme demands on the supporting media. High audio and video quality plays a fundamental role in enabling inter-artist communication and collaboration. However, currently available video solutions are either inadequate to the task or pose extreme technical requirements. A new solution is presented, vipr (videoimage protocol), which exposes a number of popular, robust video compression methods for real-time use in Jitter and Max. This new software has successfully enabled several inter-continental performances and presents exciting potentials for creative, telematic artists, musicians, and dancers.Item Power Up Pedagogy with Technology: iPads in Music(2013) Choe, EJTechnology is having an enormous impact on music instruction today, and we must train our students accordingly. To be an educator in today’s teaching profession, we must of course have taken numerous courses in methodology, pedagogy, and education case studies. But most educators make the mistake of teaching the way they themselves have been taught. This will not work with today’s students, who are savvy with technology and therefore learn differently from the way we were taught. This paper gives a snapshot of one application of the new technology to music teaching in the classroom: how iPads can be used to enhance the results for students in Theory, Aural Skills, and Composition.Item ML.* MACHINE LEARNING LIBRARY AS A MUSICAL PARTNER IN THE COMPUTER-ACOUSTIC COMPOSITION FLIGHT(Michigan Publishing, 2014-09) Smith, Benjamin D.; Deal, W. ScottThis paper presents an application and extension of the ml.* library, implementing machine learning (ML) models to facilitate “creative” interactions between musician and machine. The objective behind the work is to effectuate a musical “virtual partner” capable of creation in a range of musical scenarios that encompass composition, improvisation, studio, and live concert performance. An overview of the piece, Flights, used to test the musical range of the application is given, followed by a description of the development rationale for the project. Its contribution to the aesthetic quality of the human musical process is discussed.Item Revitalization Plan for Character Education through Education in Music(2014-10) Cho, Sung-gi; Min, Kyung-Hoon; Choe, EJItem Moritz Moszkowski’s Quinze Études de Virtuosité pour Piano, OP. 72: Intermediate Technical Etudes and Their Value in Solving Pianistic Problems(2014-10) Choe, EJThis book focuses on the pedagogical approach to technical problem-solving found in the Quinze études de virtuositè pour piano, Op. 72, by Moritz Moszkowski (1852–1925). Extremely popular as a pianist in his day, Moszkowski was also well known as a composer, teacher, and conductor. His Études were chosen because as a composer, in exploring multiple aspects of piano technique, he never loses sight of the poetic content. One of the problems of the hundreds of technical exercises similar to those of the Clementi and Czerny schools is that they are not inspired as pieces of music. No one would ever program them for public performance. Of course, there are other effective etudes that are also great pieces of music. To name a few, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Scriabin each wrote a couple of dozen, Debussy wrote twelve, Prokofiev, Bartók, and Stravinsky about four each. Most of these etudes are quite complex and more difficult for an aspiring student. Because of the complexity of the music alongside the technical challenge, these are beyond the capability of pre-college and early undergraduate students.Item Music Therapy Clinical Practice in Hospice: Differences Between Home and Nursing Home Delivery(Oxford, 2015) Liu, Xiaodi; Burns, Debra S.; Stump, Timothy E.; Unroe, Kathleen T.; Department of Music and Arts Technology, School of Engineering and TechnologyBackground: Hospice music therapy is delivered in both homes and nursing homes (NH). No studies to date have explored differences in music therapy delivery between home and NH hospice patients. Objective: To compare music therapy referral reasons and delivery for hospice patients living in NH versus home. Methods: A retrospective, electronic medical record review was conducted from a large U.S. hospice of patients receiving music therapy between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2010. Results: Among the 4,804 patients, 2,930 lived in an NH and 1,847 patients lived at home. Compared to home, NH hospice patients were more likely to be female, older, unmarried, and Caucasian. For home hospice patients, the top referral reasons were patient/family emotional and spiritual support, quality of life, and isolation. The most frequent referral reasons for NH hospice patients were isolation, quality of life, and patient/family emotional and spiritual support. Differences in music therapy delivery depended mainly on patients’ primary diagnosis and location of care. Conclusions: Results suggest differences in referral reasons and delivery based on an interaction between location of care and patient characteristics. Delivery differences are likely a result of individualized assessment and care plans developed by the music therapist and other interdisciplinary team members to address the unique needs of the patient. Thus, it is important to have professionally trained music therapists assess and provide tailored music-based interventions for patients with different referral reasons and personal characteristics. This study also supports staffing decisions based on patient need rather than average daily census.