The Performer as Analyst

The Professional Learner and Performer

This study investigates the field of higher education and expertise development for learning and performing the double bass. The aim is to draw a picture of how the double bass is currently learned and performed by the learning student, the supervising professor and the performer working in a symphony orchestra, to find out whether if there were any significant differences between the three gro...

The Behavior Analyst Today

The Behavior Analyst Today

The Behavior Analyst Today

Previous approaches to functional assessment of tic and habit disorders have centred largely around environmental contingencies or interceptive sensory processes as positive reinforcers. The current article argues rather that ongoing telic behavioral activity is functionally linked to tic onset and so type of behavioral activity and overall action plan at the time of ticcing should also be asse...

An Artificially Intelligent Jazz Performer

This paper presents a computational model for simulating the behavior of a jazz bass player during live performance. In jazz performance there is a strikingly large gap between the actually played music and the instructions given in a chord grid. Making use of several artificial intelligence paradigms, we try to bridge this gap by considering the two critical points: the experience acquired by ...