Browsing Performing and Screen Arts Journal Articles by Type of Research "Journal Article"
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Creating interspaces for live octophonic spatialisation of sound
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)This essay will detail the process and creation of elle – an octophonic drone interface for the CMPO 381 – Interface Design for Live Electronics paper at Victoria University of Wellington. elle – an octophonic drone ... -
‘Death to Videodrome’: Cronenberg, Žižek and an ontology of the real
(Department of Media, Film and Communication, University of Otago, 2016)The closing frames of David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983) show us the protagonist, Max Renn, seemingly in the act of suicide, his mutated flesh-hand-pistol pressed firmly against his head. Looking directly at us, Max ... -
Embracing Western music via Japan : Chinese intellectuals, Japan, and the beginnings of modern music education in China
(Music in China, Inc with Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory in Beijing, 2018)The last decade of the Qing dynasty (1902-1912) saw the emergence of the first generation of Chinese champions of Western music.1 In Japan at the turn of the twentieth century a small number of Chinese students became ... -
Evocations of the other : treatments of the exotic and the feminine in nineteenth-century music - The redemption of Sheherazade
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)The concert hall, as much as the operatic stage, is a theatre – a place for viewing, and the observation of narratives. Music can be and often is read as the latter, whether overtly programmatic or not, and though abstracted ... -
Examining sex and climaxes in Blue is the Warmest Colour and Carol
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)This essay uses the films Blue is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013), and Carol (Haynes, 2015) to examine the challenges and questions which arise when a male filmmaker directs a film with a queer female relationship at ... -
Five Bodies
(2016)A note on the poems: In 2004, the Los Angeles Police Department released images from its archives of crime-scene photography. The titles of the poems in the Five Bodies sequence are taken from photographs from the LAPD ... -
"Floating Islanders: Pasifika theatre in Aotearoa"
(Peter Lang, 2020)As you read this, somewhere in Aotearoa New Zealand a Pasifika theatre maker will be crafting a performance that reflects the unique experiences borne of the artist who navigates new domain. In doing so, this act of creation ... -
Heart, Honesty and Discipline: Mask Training and the Foundation of Lab: Research Theatre Company
(2010)The culture of actor training is central in the work of LAB: Research Theatre Company. This paper explores the principles behind the development of the company’s own theatre language and the ethos that informs the utilization ... -
Hymnals and hymnody in Late Qing and Early Republican China
(Music in China, Inc with Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory in Beijing, 2016)"That Christian hymn-singing played an important role in the daily life of many China missionaries and therefore was instrumental in the transmission of Western music in China is here plain to see. Speaking of "all the ... -
(Li Timotai furen yu Zhongguo yinyue) 李提摩太夫人与中国音乐 [= Mrs Timothy Richard's study of Chinese Music]
(Music in China, Inc with Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory in Beijing, 2021)１８７６年来华、１９０３年在沪病逝的李提摩太夫人是中国现代音乐教育史和中西 音乐交流史上一位重要的人物，她的名字，对于任何一位从事中国音乐研究的人来说都不 会陌生。因为在２０世 纪 上 半 叶 以 前，她是有关中国音乐主题被引用最多的西人著者之 一。她有关中国音乐的一系列文章，以及她的《中国音乐》一书，直到２０世纪５０年代依然 是欧美学界研究中国音乐者必读书目。但是，尽管自２０世纪８０年代起，国内外学者开始 对李夫人在华的事工进行研究， ... -
Louis Laloy and His La Musique Chinoise
(Zhongyang Yinyue Xueyuan,Central Conservatory of Music, 2013)French musicologist Louis Laloy, author of the first biography of Debussy and his study of Chinese music. -
Missionaries and Chinese Gongche Notation
(Sichuan Yinyue Xueyuan,Sichuan Conservatory of Music, 2013)Gongche is the traditional and ancient form of musical notation in China. -
Missionaries and the beginnings of Western music in China : the Catholic prelude, 1294-1799
(Music in China, Inc with Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory in Beijing, 2018)"Next to the Word of God, only music deserves being extolled as the mistress and governess of the feelings of the human heart" — Martin Luther (1538) The history of modern China is closely intertwined with the global ... -
Mixing methods : creative collaboration in mobile moviemaking
(2017)This article is a reflection on creative collaboration and synergy, using a tertiary course in mobile moviemaking to explore ways in which collaborative projects involving people from different creative ... -
Orchestrating film : the contrasting orchestral-compositional approaches of Bernard Herrmann and John Williams and their modern legacy
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)Music is one of the most powerful forces in film, and composers’ varied use of orchestration and sound is fundamental to the impact of music in this medium. From the live accompaniments of the earliest silent film, to the ... -
Post-colonial New Zealand cinema : Gothic aesthetics and the repression of Pākehā violence in New Zealand in Fantail
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)Fantail (2013), written by Sophie Henderson and directed by Curtis Vowell, has not yet received scholarly attention for its relationship to several dominant trends in New Zealand cinema. This essay examines Fantail’s ... -
Post-modern Westerns and the endangered woman
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)This research essay explores the increasing scarcity of female roles in post-modern western films due to changes that have occurred over several decades since the origination of the genre. A string of highly-acclaimed ... -
Post-Web 2.0 Pedagogy: From Student-Generated Content to International Co-Production Enabled by Mobile Social Media
(IGI Global, 2013-10)The advent of web 2.0 has enabled new forms of collaboration centred upon user-generated content, however, mobile social media is enabling a new wave of social collaboration. Mobile devices have disrupted and reinvented ... -
Protestant Missionaries and Chinese Music: The Case of George T. Lay (1800-1845)
(Chinese Music Society of North America, 2013)George Tradescant Lay was a British naturalist, mssionary and diplomat.
