Listening with Displacement

Listening with Two Ears

Machine Listening : Interview with

Washington and Lee Law Review Online; Molly Jackman and Lauri Kanerva (Facebook) from June 14, 2016 Increasingly, companies are conducting research so that they can make informed decisions about what products to build and what features to change. These data-driven insights enable companies to make responsible decisions that will improve peoples’ experiences with their products. Importantly, com...

Tablet-based English Listening practice with longer listening materials

When teachers introduce listening and speaking activities in school education, they are no choice but use relatively short materials due to short class-time length. But the ordinary length of lectures or talk shows is more than 20 to 30 minutes.It implies that in real world, people are required to have the ablitiy to listen to longer English materials. In this paper, we examine the speech items...

Listening to the Mind Listening

The following explains what mappings have been chosen for a sonification of several data channels from set containing a recording of the neural activity of a person listening to a piece of music. This piece, and also the sonification, is exactly 300 seconds long. My aim is to provide a sonification/composition that can be created in (near) real-time and takes its title literally. This is done b...

Listening with the creative ear.

Herein I explore creativity as a prime force in the evolution of consciousness, a fundamental motivating energy related to a need to maintain or regain spontaneity and freedom, and having rudimentary existence from the beginning of life. It has its own developmental progression, throughout life makes its demands on the mind, is subject to dissociation and repression, and can be defended against...