Musical Development Through Personal Growth: A Workshop Approach

Personal development through research

At present, hobbies and values are becoming more diversified in Japan. Diversity also means dispersion: What does it really mean to the society? Although it appears to be a common phenomenon among advanced nations, the child population has markedly decreased, particularly in Japan, because of a declining birth rate, and the estimated average life expectancy is increasing almost every year, resu...

Good Vibrations: Music Discovery through Personal Musical Concepts

We present here Good Vibrations, a tool for music tagging, exploration and discovery, shaped as a media player plugin, and intended for home users. The plugin allows the quick ”invention” of concepts and properties that can be tagged to songs. After some hours of active tagging, the plugin starts automatically proposing the proper tags to the user, who is also allowed to correct them. The plugi...

Musical alexia with recovery: a personal account.

I describe the experience of an acute loss of ability to read music and play the piano accurately and expressively following an embolic infarct of the right angular and supramarginal gyri in a setting of chronic migraine. Other parietal deficits included a small visual field defect, visual hallucinations, prosopagnosia, topographical disorientation, disturbance of perception of velocity of movi...

WORKSHOP REPORT Workshop on Evaluating Personal Search

The first ECIR workshop on Evaluating Personal Search was held on 18 April 2011 in Dublin, Ireland. The workshop consisted of 6 oral paper presentations and several discussion sessions. This report presents an overview of the scope and contents of the workshop and outlines the major outcomes.

Outdoor Adventure Camps: Personal Development through Challenge