Improvisation: the State of the Art

Malcolm Barry

doi:10.1017/s0265051700004782

Improvisation: the State of the Art

British Journal of Music Education ◽

10.1017/s0265051700004782 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 171-175

Author(s):

Malcolm Barry

Keyword(s):

State Of The Art ◽

The State ◽

Political Implications ◽

Improvised Music

The writer examines the development of improvisation in Britain and especially jazz. The administrative and political implications of improvised music are explored and problems are identified to do with the freedom and excitement of such music and the dangers of education in improvisation.

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Iain M. Banks – Human, Posthuman and Beyond Human

ELOPE English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries ◽

10.4312/elope.15.1.69-81 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 69-81

Author(s):

Antonia Leach

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Science Fiction ◽

State Of The Art ◽

The State ◽

Current Debate ◽

Political Implications ◽

The Social ◽

Space Opera ◽

The Relationship

Iain M. Banks has been at the forefront of the space opera science fiction scene since the publication of the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas, in 1987. Upon Banks’ death in 2013, the culture series became a complete body of work. Whilst some criticism has focused on the social and political implications of the culture universe, little has engaged with the philosophical concepts that underpin it in relation to the current debate regarding our posthuman future. This paper seeks to show how Banks problematises the relationship between the human and posthuman through an exploration of the representation of the posthuman body. Furthermore, it also seeks to address the implications of current concepts of what it means to be human by exploring the relationship between the posthuman and form of Artificial Intelligence that Banks presents. to illustrate these arguments, three culture texts will be discussed: The Player of Games (1988), Excession (1996), and “The State of the Art” (1989).

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Practical Picture Processing

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100051700 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 338-339

Author(s):

T. A. Welton

Keyword(s):

Radiation Damage ◽

Coherence Length ◽

Spatial Information ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Coherent Radiation ◽

The State ◽

Energy Spread ◽

Electron Micrograph ◽

Picture Processing ◽

Molecular Skeleton

Various authors have emphasized the spatial information resident in an electron micrograph taken with adequately coherent radiation. In view of the completion of at least one such instrument, this opportunity is taken to summarize the state of the art of processing such micrographs. We use the usual symbols for the aberration coefficients, and supplement these with £ and 6 for the transverse coherence length and the fractional energy spread respectively. He also assume a weak, biologically interesting sample, with principal interest lying in the molecular skeleton remaining after obvious hydrogen loss and other radiation damage has occurred.

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