A Riddle-Song for Duke Ellington

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Abrams, Muhal Richard, 272 Absinthe, 191 Acht O’Clock Rock, 176 Across the Track Blues, 123, 176 Ad Lib on Nippon, 62, 162, 178, 207, 208, 258 Adams, Stephen, 215 Adler, Richard, 158 Adventures in Jazz (television), xvii Aesthetic Realism, 1, 4, 14, 17 Afro-Bossa (LP), xviii, 38, 158, 257 Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, The, xx, 52, 64, 165, 210, 222, 259 After All, 190 Agnew, Spiro, 164 Agra, 194, 258 ...

Andrew D. Ellington

Andrew Ellington received his BS in Biochemistry from Michigan State University in 1981, and his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard in 1988. As a graduate student he worked with Steve Benner on the evolutionary optimization of dehydrogenase isozymes. His post-doctoral work was with Jack Szostak at Massachusetts General Hospital, where his lab developed methods for the in vit...

Tom Duke

Pure riddle

A small set of extensions to the PureData architecture and to its external API is proposed, which will facilitate the creation of audio feature detectors (pitch followers, beat trackers, onset detectors, etc.) as Pd patches. An experimental implementation is discussed, and two application examples are demonstrated.

Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: A Paragon of Trauma Fiction

Morrison’s Song of Solomon could be viewed as a paragon of trauma fiction. Since no narrative of trauma can be told in a linear way, Morrison tries to depict the overwhelming power of trauma through a non-linear narrative, episodic delivery, and flashbacks. Accordingly, the readers are compelled to concoct the disjointed and fragmented memories in order to solve the riddle of the text, in which...