Acousmatic Foley: Son-en-Scène

Fracturing the Acousmatic: Merging Improvisation with Disassembled Acousmatic Music

This paper questions whether it is possible to integrate free (or controlled) improvisation with electroacoustic materials with pre-composed soundfiles in a ‘live’ performance. It contributes to the on-going debate about the role of the performer and the advantages and disadvantages of working live. At the heart of this paper is a compositional drive that remains rooted within the acousmatic tr...

Mise-en-scène Applied to Level Design: Adapting a Holistic Approach to Level Design

As game developers strive to introduce a stronger sense of emotion into their games, new opportunities are presented to the level designer to imbue their virtual spaces with deeper symbols and meaning. Since the very beginning of film, the exploration of the concept of miseen-scéne (literally “put in the scene”) has allowed filmmakers to convey sub-text to the viewer by the careful consideratio...

Using Mise-En-Scène Visual Features based on MPEG-7 and Deep Learning for Movie Recommendation

Item features play an important role in movie recommender systems, where recommendations can be generated by using explicit or implicit preferences of users on traditional features (attributes) such as tag, genre, and cast. Typically, movie features are human-generated, either editorially (e.g., genre and cast) or by leveraging the wisdom of the crowd (e.g., tag), and as such, they are prone to...

MISER: Mise-En-Scène Region Support for Staging Narrative Actions in Interactive Storytelling

The recent increase in interest in Interactive Storytelling systems, spurred on by the emergence of affordable virtual reality technology, has brought with it a need to address the way in which narrative content is visualized through the complex staging of multiple narrative agents’ behaviors within virtual story worlds. In this work we address the challenge of automating several aspects of sta...

Monieziose des ovins en Iran et son traitement par l'arseniate de plomb