1921–2015 Harry C. Gatos: Musician and interdisciplinary pioneer

Gómez Alfaro: Pioneer of Interdisciplinary Studies on the Relationships Between Journalism and Literature in Spain

The article rescues and analyzes the work done in 1960 by Antonio Gómez Alfaro, the first Spanish author that carried out a study on relations between journalism and literature using a multidiscipline perspective. The tradition documents the emergence of comparative approaches at the end of the 1990s, but the revision of Gómez Alfaro’s proposal is an exceptional advance, because this intellectu...

Los gatos: Gómez-Arcos's Spectacle of Sacrifice

The surgeon and the musician.

These two quotations encapsulate my personal thinking about music. I cannot imagine my life without listening to music most of the time. Being both a surgeon and an amateur musician, I have been, for a long time, intrigued by the potential relations between medicine and music (Fig. 1). Indeed there have been in history, many famous people who were both musicians and physicians or surgeons [1]. ...

2 Harry Crane and

Superposition is a mapping on point configurations that sends the n-tuple (x1, . . . , xn) ∈ X into the n-point configuration {x1, . . . , xn} ⊂ X , counted with multiplicity. It is an additive set operation such the superposition of a k-point configuration in X is a kn-point configuration in X . A Poisson superposition process is the superposition in X of a Poisson process in the space of fini...

Multimodal Musician Recognition

This research is an initial effort in showing how a multimodal approach can improve systems for gaining insight into a musician’s practice and technique. Embedding a variety of sensors inside musical instruments and synchronously recording the sensors’ data along with audio, we gather a database of gestural information from multiple performers, then use machine-learning techniques to recognize ...