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Damien Cirotteau | 20 Apr 2006 23:28

Re: [S2S^2-Consortium] Work on the context

Dear Alain, dear all,

A few comments on the tools and the roadmap workflow.

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:17:51PM +0200, Alain de Cheveigne' wrote :
> Dear All,
> 
> We posted a contribution on the [Discuss] list for the 
> Science/Technology section, as per instructions, but it is not yet on 
> the site.
It is now on
http://www.soundandmusiccomputing.org/roadmap/context/scientific-technological
with the other context contributions.

> 
> Concerning the weak level of interaction, perhaps things might go 
> more smoothly if there were fewer channels and tools to deal with? 
> The new site is nice, but there is overlap with the old, and together 
> they offer many opportunities for the visitor to get lost. 

I understand your concerns about the tools. Nevertheless let allow me 2
considerations:

- the goal of the new site is  not to double the S2S² one but to replace
  it for what concern the roadmap  part, the news from the community and
  the  summer  school  part.  The  S2S²  will  be  pruned to  a  minimal
  institutional  site   with  the  presentation  of   the  project,  the
  consortium, the  advisory board,  etc... Of course,  www.s2s2.org will
  link to www.sounandmusiccomputing.org (where it is clearly stated that
  the roadmap  is coming from  the S2S² project) and  provide up-to-date
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Giovanni De Poli | 26 Apr 2006 18:09
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[Fwd: Invited session]

Is someone intereted in partecipating to this meeting?
Giovanni

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Subject: Invited session
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:50:52 +0200
From: Bozena Kostek <bozenka@...>
To: Giovanni De Poli <depoli@...>
References: <43F0C767.4060007@...>

Dear Giovanni,
Thank you for all the communication from your s2s2 project. We observe it
with a great interest.

I have a kind request to you. There is being organized an invited 
session at
the ASA-ASJ Joint Meeting, Hawaii in December this year. The title of this
session is: Music Information and Communication
I am coorganizer of this session along with the counterpart from Japan, Dr.
Masuzo Yanagida.
I wonder if you or anyone from your consortium plan to attend this event,
because it could a very good opportunity to show your research to American
and Japanese audience.
If you remember the conference in Kassel, the very international event 
was a
real success. I think that on a smaller scale we still  can achieve such an
event in ASA conference.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, 30 June.
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Davide Rocchesso | 27 Apr 2006 07:05
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two annotated entries in biblio.s2s2.org

in

http://biblio.s2s2.org/index.php?view=_latest

Science-Technology-Industry Links and the "European Paradox": some  
notes on the dynamics of scientific and technological research in Europe

Author(s)
Giovanni Dosi and Patrick Llerena and Mauro Sylos Labini
Title
Science-Technology-Industry Links and the "European Paradox": some  
notes on the dynamics of scientific and technological research in Europe
Year
2005
Month
may
Series
LEM Working Paper Series
Institution
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Url

 http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/2005-02.html
Entry type
Technical Report
Group
S2S^2

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Nicola Bernardini | 27 Apr 2006 08:43

Re: two annotated entries in biblio.s2s2.org

Dear Davide,

thank  you  very  much  for  the  reading  and  the  *very*  interesting
annotations. I'd like to add a couple of comments to your annotations.

If you look at the last  EC  Science  and  Research  Commissioner  Janez
Potocnik's address speech[0] to the commission  aimed  at  not  reducing
funding for the European Research  Council  (ERC),  you  will  certainly
notice that Potocnik makes a sharp distinction between 'basic  research'
and 'frontier research'. Quoting (almost) directly his speech:

   '[T]he ERC should not simply be understood as a funding mechanism for
   'basic research' in the traditional  sense  of  the  term,'  said  Mr
   Potocnik. The Commissioner uses the term 'frontier  research'  rather
   than 'basic research', to make a  clear  distinction  for  the  ERC's
   role, and to give the ERC a '21st century connotation', as opposed to
   one 'captive to the dynamics of research in the mid-20th century'.

Sorry if I'm being naïve, but I am not sure what this difference  really
means in practical terms, and whether it is a general  EC  position  tha
extends beyond the role of the ERC itself. Any  comment  is  welcome  on
this. Indeed, the article you comment on is an interesting and important
point of view. The "fight against communism" has  indeed  leveraged  the
essential foundations of what Castells  call  the  "informational  era".
Among these foundations, internet  is  certainly  a  core  item,  but  I
maintain that avant-garde art is indeed another important element.  Does
the paper you comment imply that society  needs  "figthing  targets"  in
order progress at a brisk pace? If that was the case, we should probably
focus on the next "fighting targets" in order to understand  what  could
be the next driving force for research (with all its corollaries).
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Davide Rocchesso | 27 Apr 2006 11:46
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Re: two annotated entries in biblio.s2s2.org


On Apr 27, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Nicola Bernardini wrote:

> Dear Davide,
>
> thank  you  very  much  for  the  reading  and  the  *very*   
> interesting
> annotations. I'd like to add a couple of comments to your annotations.

thanks for your comments!

>
> If you look at the last  EC  Science  and  Research  Commissioner   
> Janez
> Potocnik's address speech[0] to the commission  aimed  at  not   
> reducing
> funding for the European Research  Council  (ERC),  you  will   
> certainly
> notice that Potocnik makes a sharp distinction between 'basic   
> research'
> and 'frontier research'. Quoting (almost) directly his speech:
>
>    '[T]he ERC should not simply be understood as a funding  
> mechanism for
>    'basic research' in the traditional  sense  of  the  term,'   
> said  Mr
>    Potocnik. The Commissioner uses the term 'frontier  research'   
> rather
>    than 'basic research', to make a  clear  distinction  for  the   
> ERC's
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Davide Rocchesso | 28 Apr 2006 17:48
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Fwd: Summer school on The making and playing of musical instruments



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Date: April 28, 2006 4:18:24 PM GMT+02:00
Subject: Summer school on The making and playing of musical instruments

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Summer school on The making and playing of musical instruments


Texte du mail:
Dear colleague,

An international summer school on The making and playing of musical instruments will be held in Udine in the north of Italy from 17th to 21st July 2006. The course is aimed at students and researchers in the field of music and musical acoustics as well as players and makers who wish to acquire a more thorough understanding of this subject matter.  The course will involve descriptions of the acoustical and mechanical action of the major families of western musical instruments. More importantly, it will investigate how the playing and tonal qualities of instruments can be manipulated by the maker or musician.

The course will be presented by a team of internationally-renowned musical acousticians and involve both theoretical and practical instruction. For further details, please see the following web sites:



We look forward to seeing you in Udine this summer,
Bernard Richardson, Xavier Boutillon, Anders Askenfelt, Murray Campbell, Benoit Fabre, and Joel Gilbert.

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Davide Rocchesso | 28 Apr 2006 22:09
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connexions presentation in video.google

Perhaps some of you remember that in our project meeting in Helsinki,  
about 16 months, ago I would have liked to give a presentation-demo  
about http://cnx.org , but unfortunately there was no time.

Well, Richard Baraniuk has recently given a presentation at google  
that is much better than what I could ever do. You might want to see  
it at
http://video.google.com/videoplay? 
docid=6852287090518403675&q=baraniuk&pl=true

Now that we are working on contexts for s2s2, what I find interesting  
is how sound and music are widely present in the contents of  
connexions, and how Baraniuk is using an analogy from the music  
industry and practices (create, rip, mix, burn) to base his  
presentation and view of connexions.  More precisely, he says

"What is it so special about music that allows anyone in the world to  
create [...] their own music [...] The create, rip, mix, burn  
culture. [...] Why doesn't the same thing happen with books?"

So, this seems another case of music driving technology and society,  
that might be worth mentioning in some of our contexts.

ciao
d

Davide Rocchesso - Universita' di Verona
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