The Fragmented Orchestra

The Sense of Loss: Postmodern Fragmented Identity in Three Plays of Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard is one of the foremost living American Playwrights. He has always been concerned with the problem of identity, specifically the fragmented identity of man living in the postmodern era. Such characterization is evident in his plays: True West, Fool for Love, and A Lie of the Mind. Thus, the present article is to demonstrate the fragmented identity of Lee and Austin, Eddie and May, an...

J-Orchestra: Automatic Java Application Partitioning

J-Orchestra is an automatic partitioning system for Java programs. J-Orchestra takes as input Java applications in bytecode format and transforms them into distributed applications, running on distinct Java Virtual Machines. To accomplish such automatic partitioning, J-Orchestra uses bytecode rewriting to substitute method calls with remote method calls, direct object references with proxy refe...

Evaluation of the Mobile Orchestra Explorer Paradigm

The Mobile Orchestra Explorer paradigm enables active experience of prerecorded music: users can navigate and express themselves in a shared (physical or virtual) orchestra space, populated by the sections of a prerecorded music. The user moves in a room with his/her mobile phone in his/her hand: the music performed by the orchestra sections is rendered according to the user position and moveme...

The Unstoppable Orchestra: a responsive distributed application

Responsiveness, the ability to provide real time behavior even in presence of faults, is becoming one of the most sought after properties in distributed computing systems. We present a framework for ‘‘High-Performance Responsive Computing’’ in networked systems whose current implementation works on a network of five NeXTSTEP (Mach 2.5)-based HP workstations. ‘‘The Unstoppable Orchestra’’ is a d...

Musician Participation in Symphony Orchestra Management : The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Experience