Embarkation: Reimagining a Taoist Ritual Ceremony

The white coat ceremony: a contemporary medical ritual.

T he white coat ceremony is a common practice at many American and European medical schools. Current justification for the ceremony is mainly based on the good will felt by participants and an assumed connection between the ceremony and encouraging humanistic values in medicine. Recent critiques of the ceremony faults its use of oaths, premature alignment of students and faculty, and the select...

The Ps?-kf and the 'opening of the Mouth' Ceremony: a Ritual of Birth and Rebirth1

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Reap a destiny: divagations of a Taoist

physical state, arrangement and access to the records. Some of the historical sketches are tantalizingly incomplete, since so little is known ofthe firms. Descriptions vary from single items to quantities of material-often completely unsorted. Archives of many firms are scattered in several locations: those of British Xylorite Co. Ltd. (for example) are at Hackney Archives Dept., Suffolk Record...

Antony: A Reimagining

We present a re-realization of David Wessel’s Antony (1977). Antony was originally composed using a novel set of additive synthesis techniques developed for the 4A and the PDP 11/40. Those techniques continued to play a role throughout Wessel’s life as an improviser, and inspired many of his students and colleagues. Our re-realization of Antony involves using those same techniques to reinterpre...

Secret Ceremony