Imaginative immersion in the Cistercian Cloister

The imaginative mind.

The astounding capacity for the human imagination to be engaged across a wide range of contexts is limitless and fundamental to our day-to-day experiences. Although processes of imagination are central to human psychological function, they rarely occupy center stage in academic discourse or empirical study within psychological and neuroscientific realms. The aim of this paper is to tackle this ...

Lively Discussions Behind Cloister Walls

From the technical side, ro bust speech re c ognition is one o f the most important issues for multi-modal dialog u e s, e s p e c i a l ly in mobile (and noisy) env i ro n m e n t s. In the firs t session of the wo rk s h o p, various ap p ro a ches to this ch a l l e n ge we re pro p o s e d : l i p re a d i n g, mu l t i channel noise re d u c t i o n , and exploiting stru c t u res in langu...

Active imaginative listening—a neuromusical critique

The parallel study of music in science and creative practice can be traced back to the ancients; and paralleling the emergence of music neuroscience, creative musical practitioners have employed neurobiological phenomena extensively in music composition and performance. Several examples from the author's work in this area, which began in the 1960s, are cited and briefly described. From this per...

Introduction to EMF 11: The Cloister and the World

Starting the CENOBIUM Project: The cloister of Monreale (Sicily) Revealed

The paper presents the guidelines of the CENOBIUM project and the first results on the capitals of the cloister of Monreale (Sicily). The CENOBIUM project aims at demonstrating the strength of the integration of modern representation and analysis technologies in the context of the knowledge, documentation and fruition of 3D cultural heritage. The wonderful capitals of the cloister of Monreale a...