Browsing by Author "Ferreira-Lopes, Paulo"
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- Arte pública: o gesto urbano na representação do imaginário coletivoPublication . Lamounier, Slavisa; Ferreira-Lopes, Paulo
- Arte pública: o gesto urbano na representação do imaginário coletivoPublication . Lamounier, Slavisa; Ferreira-Lopes, Paulo
- DIGITAL SOCK - Study and Development of a Digital Musical InstrumentPublication . Lamounier, Slavisa; Ferreira-Lopes, Paulo
- El Cuerpo y el Sonido en el desarrollo de las potencialidades interaccionales de niños y jóvenes con Necesidades Educativas EspecialesPublication . Lamounier, Slavisa; Gomes, Ana Maria Paula Marques; Ferreira-Lopes, PauloEste artículo propone los resultados de la intervención psicopedagógica, denominada "El Cuerpo y el Sonido: identificando interacciones y nuevos lenguajes". Surge en lo Postgrado en Educación Especial de la Escuela Superior de Educación de Paula Frassinetti (2017), donde investigamos de qué forma los recursos sonoros y sensoriales pueden estimular los procesos de interacción en los niños y jóvenes con Necesidades Educativas Especiales. Este trabajo constituye, incluso, una investigación preliminar para estudiar los ciclos clínicos interaccionales, integrados dentro del Doctorado en Ciencia y Tecnología de las Artes (Universidad Católica Portuguesa – Escola das Artes), donde estamos desarrollando, el prototipo instrumental Digital Sock como estímulo interactivo en intervenciones psicopedagógicas. El marco teórico aborda diferentes modelos psicopedagógicos envolviendo el cuerpo y el sonido, en los que nos basamos para desarrollar un modelo de actuación que vendrá a soportar esta fase de la investigación y el propio prototipo instrumental en desarrollo. Con una combinación metodológica de carácter cuantitativo y cualitativo, asienta esencialmente en la metodología de investigación-acción, donde se priorizó la observación participante como técnica de investigación. Los resultados de la intervención psicopedagógica provienen de niños y jóvenes con necesidades educativas especiales, indicando cuáles son los recursos sonoros y actividades psicomotoras que se configuran como facilitadoras para el desarrollo y expresión comunicacional. Se concluye de la importancia de estas actividades se desarrollaren en un programa a medio y largo plazo, donde la acción colectiva siempre será la más adecuada, proporcionando resultados internacionales más promisorios.
- Expresión, comunicación y desempeño: El análisis del gesto en el contexto del estudio y el desarrollo de un instrumento musical digital - Digital SockPublication . Lamounier, Slavisa; Ferreira-Lopes, Paulo
- Generative face from random data, on 'how computers imagine humans'Publication . Moura, João Martinho; Ferreira-Lopes, PauloIn the recent years, face detection technologies have been widely used by artists to create digital art. Face detection provides new forms of interaction, and allows digital artefacts to detect the presence of human beings, through video capture and facial detection, in real-time. In this paper we explore the algorithm proposed by Paul Viola and Michael Jones, presented in 2001, in order to generate imagined faces from visual randomness.
- HASGS: Hybrid augmented system of Gestural Symbiosis Generating Visual InformationPublication . Portovedo Marques, Henrique; Ferreira-Lopes, PauloThis paper discusses how an augmented instrument, HASGS in the context of interactive electronic music, motivates the generation of different graphical user interfaces taking in consideration the repertoire being composed for it. New composition aesthetics are deeply influenced by electronic materials and sonic repositories at the same time as new mediums are currently seen as possible extensions of instrumental practice. These mediums are available for creative purposes during composition and performative processes. While the aesthetics of acoustic and electronic sounds are creating mutual influences, composers and sound designers are developing new languages, new gestural attitudes, new extended techniques, new notation methods, new performative paradigms including the creation of graphical interfaces for visual feedback. This augmented system for saxophone was motivated by the need to perform pieces with a common aesthetic that have been written using electronic environments. Those pieces shared the need for the control of external devices in order to be performed. The repertoire for saxophone and electronics is growing in a huge scale, from pieces using stomp boxes or control pedals for different triggering or fading, to pieces requiring the manipulation of knobs. These controllers, by their nature, devices that separate sound production (synthesis) and performer gesture (control), have subsequently generated an increased interest in the study of compositional mapping strategies for computer music. From our experience, we conclude that the graphical user interface (GUI) is fundamental for the understanding of the individuality of each piece, as well as to understand the relation between the augmentation system and the piece itself. If this project started with the idea of contributing to a new performative paradigm regarding the existing repertoire, new repertoire and improvisational performance situations led to the development of a hybrid system contributing to bio-feedback incorporation in the work of art, while creating new graphical user interfaces for visual feedback.
- HASGS: Hybrid augmented system of Gestural Symbiosis Generating Visual InformationPublication . Portovedo Marques, Henrique; Ferreira-Lopes, Paulo
- Narrativas musicais e o digital sock: um novo modelo de atuação em educação musicalPublication . Lamounier, Slavisa; Ferreira-Lopes, PauloEste artigo registra os resultados da intervenção prático-pedagógica denominada Narrativas Musicais e o Digital Sock, no qual investigamos a capacidade estimuladora do protótipo instrumental Digital Sock durante a construção de narrativas cênico-musicais, tendo como modelo de atuação, um conjunto de atividades envolvendo os gestos e os sons. Constituí¬do por um eixo teórico e outro prático, o modo de agir priorizado durante a intervenção esteve ancorado nos pedagogos da Reforma Educativa Musical, nomeadamente Dalcroze (1920); Orff & Keetman (1954) e Murray Schafer (1977). Com foco na investigação-ação, o eixo prático esteve centrado na criação de narrativas sonoras com o Digital Sock e a reflexão sobre a prática. Os resultados indicaram que um modo de agir centrado na dualidade gesto-som, na improvisação e na ludicidade, tendo como estí¬mulo sonoro o Digital Sock e outros artefatos cênicos-musicais, permite a aprendizagem musical; estimula a criatividade e promove a comunicação em processos interativos envolvendo corpo-instrumento-ambiente.
- Saxophone augmentation: an hybrid augmented system of gestual symbiosisPublication . Portovedo, Henrique; Ferreira-Lopes, Paulo; Mendes, RicardoThis paper discusses a two-layer augmentation strategy applied to a saxophone. Augmented instruments are defined as "acoustic (sometimes electric) musical instruments extended by the addition of several sensors, providing performers the ability to control extra sound or musical parameters". The first layer of augmentation is directly connected to the instrument and is based on several sensors (ribbon, trigger, pressure, accelerometer, gyroscope and keypad). The second layer is associated to the performer, who wears a MYO Armband. The second layer, devised initially to capture gestural data, is used to provide information for musical communication and creation, as performer gestures are perceived by the audience at the same time as they characterise and distinguish performer strategies. This paper also explores how this system can serve for the adaptation of existing pieces using electronics and external devices. Finally, we discuss how notation and composition are affected by this type of instruments.