A Conceptualization of Music Sound Recordings and Its Representation in an Ontology

Anthropological Study of Folk Music in Gilan Province in Iran (Instrumental Music)

Ethno-musicology is an academic field encompassing various approaches to the study of music that emphasize its cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts instead of its isolated ‘sound’ component or any particular repertoire. The term ‘Ethno-musicology’ became common in1950, although the emergence of the field can be traced back to the late nineteenth ce...

Critique of Research Books (Art) / Voices to See: A Review of Sound and Music in Documentaries, Mohammad Nasr Ahadi

An Aesthetics of Nature Consequences of Merleau-Ponty’s embodied ontology

In his courses on Nature, the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty clearly does not agree with Kant's antropocentrism. In particular the Kantian notion of the disinterestedness of aesthetic perception is untenable in an aesthetics of nature which is inspired by Merleau-Ponty's thought. Nature and human embodiment are seen as separated in this Kantian tradition. In Merleau-Ponty’s pheno...

روش‌شناسی ساخت و طراحی هستی‌نگاشت‌ها:مورد پژوهی حوزه علم‌سنجی

Ontology is a useful tool for organizing resources and on the other hand is a useful tool for the knowledge representation. With the development of Semantic Web technologies, build and create ontologies to expedite the process, it is necessary. The aim of study is explaining the situation methodology, designing scientometrics conceptual model, and steps of its ontology construction as Scientome...

Music, Recording, and the Art of Interpretation

For millennia, music has been a performance-based artform open to continuous variation and reinterpretation. More recently however, industrialisation has allowed for the mass-production of sound recordings, in turn bringing conjecture about the changed nature of music reception in society. This article reflects on related practice-based work by its authors and examines aspects of music producti...