Quarterly publication discussing various topics in environmental ethics, including features, discussion papers, book reviews, editorial commentaries, and other text related to environmental philosophies. Some issues also include announcements and other news related to the environmental studies community.

Quarterly publication discussing various topics in environmental ethics, including features, discussion papers, book reviews, editorial commentaries, and other text related to environmental philosophies. Some issues also include announcements and other news related to the environmental studies community.

Night time view of the facade of Center Green is visible behind a portion of Center Blue.

The view is a floodlit view across the landscaped plaza with some Center Green facade visible behind Center Blue.

The atrium, floodlit at night, of Center Blue is visible.

Design of the floor and ceiling of the interior of the atrium of Center Green is seen.

Escalators in cylindrical escalator tower are part of Center Green.

View upward shows floors and cylindrical escalator tower.

The purposes of this study were to determine 1) the tasks that the Nigerian university vice-chancellor should perform personally, 2) the functions that the vice-chancellor should delegate to other university staff to achieve effective administration, 3) the factors that should be considered in the selection of a vice-chancellor, and 4) the criteria that should be considered in the evaluation of the vice-chancellor's job performance effectiveness. Chapter 1 includes a statement of the problem, purposes, research questions, background, significance of the study, definition of terms, limitations of the study, and basic assumptions. Chapter II is a review of related literature, and Chapter III presents information on the procedure followed in the collection and treatment of data. The analysis and evaluation of the findings are presented in Chapter IV; and the summary, findings, implications, and recommendations of the study are presented in Chapter V.

Quarterly publication discussing various topics in environmental ethics, including features, discussion papers, book reviews, editorial commentaries, and other text related to environmental philosophies. Some issues also include announcements and other news related to the environmental studies community.

Quarterly publication discussing various topics in environmental ethics, including features, discussion papers, book reviews, editorial commentaries, and other text related to environmental philosophies. Some issues also include announcements and other news related to the environmental studies community.

Recording of Jonathan Berger's An Island of Tears.

Subterranean Network, commissioned by Hartt School of Music, is an electronic work which seeks to evoke a sense of the experience of the tunnel fighting in Cu Chi during the Vietnam War. These tunnels, from which the Viet Cong fought much of the war, were dark, narrow, poorly ventilated hell holes, filled with booby traps and inconceivable real and psychological terrors which plagued the American soldiers, known as tunnel rats, whose duty it was to explore them. These men, if not killed by booby traps, snakes, spiders or scorpions, were in constant threat of ambush in the tunnels.

Music for Viola, Cello, and Tape was written and premiered in Paris in 1985. This work brings together two extremely different aspects of my musical experience: improvisational music and music involving computers. These two musical domains, representing intuition and rationale - opposites yet complements - hold a great deal of interest for me. This trio explores the interactions among three soloists, one being a tape of computer-generated sounds; in which no part plays a secondary role. The two-channel tape, was composed at the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht, The Netherlands. A computer, using stochastic procedures, was involved on every level of the composing process, from sound-synthesis algorithms to higher-level compositional decision-making. All programs were written by the composer in an assembly or high-level language and used in a real-time context. The compositional algorithm is based on an elaboration of Brownian movement, also known as a random walk. A tendency controlling pitch and duration of sound events delineates overall formal characteristics of the tape. Duration and pitch are tied parameters during the first section. At a certain point in the development of the tendency the two parameters, pitch and duration, become independent of one another. In time, the duration/pitch tendency becomes clearly …

It is a piece for 4-track tape, composed between November 1985 and August 1986 at CEMAMu (Centre d'Etudes de Mathématiques et Automatique Musicale) in Paris, using the UPIC, a graphically oriented computer system designed by Iannis Xenakis. The mixing was done in October 1986 at the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio and Television in Warsaw with Ewa Guziolek as sound engineer. With the UPIC system, the composer is able to design all aspects of the music by means of an electro-magnetically sensitive drawing table. By means of a digital tape drive and D/A converters, data and sounds can be heard and stored, and higher level mixing of sounds and sections of the score can be done digitally. In "Voyage", there is a concentration on continual transformations of all parameters of the musical material; waveforms, dynamic forms, pitches, textures. For large sections of the piece there are five 'voices', which are similar but independant, and with rhythmic structures which are related to each other with the proportions 9:10:11:12:13. In the spatial projection, the four channels are divided into left and right, each side being in stereo (i.e front and back). Voices 9 and 11 are heard on one side, and …

Composed in the Laboratory of Investigation and Musical Production (LIPM) of the Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Was composed with a Synclavier II. The original mixture was composed in four channels. The sonorous material was elaborated from 34 basic timbres generated from sinusoidal sounds, harmonic, inharmonic spectrum or colored noise bands. The different structures happen one after another, without stopping.

A universe. Self-contained. Where timbre were the principal item. To force it into another state; apart; and let it, in accordance with its own laws, return to its rest; and then to begin to compose. Bend and vary, change and break. To alter some kind of perfection in order to attain something else. Two main items shared the conception of this piece: the possible richness in perception provoked by the duality: whole versus parts; and the possibility of mapping into musical events the behaviour of an abstract system of interrelated objects when following an stochastic process towards its equilibrium. My first step was to define, in terms of a macro-static situation, the final state of my system. This final structure defined the harmonic, dynamic and timbrical aspects of nine different "objects" (fundamental, formant areas, subharmonics,modulations and relative microcomportment of these characteristics within one instance). The relative durations in the equilibrium of these objects, as well as the whole duration of the piece, the structural points defining the macroform, and other characteristics of the whole (hierarchies, symmetries...) were evolved from this final state of the system. {I was careful to define very colourful and individualistic microbehaviours for these objects, whilst, on …

"Sound recycling" would be the perfect term for Gerald Trimmel's composition cycle called "Palimpsest". When Trimmel performed his first "Palimpsest" in 1985, he did not consider this work as a final result. The following compositions were characterized by various procedures of sound accumulations and structural rearrangements. A lot of acoustic ready mades and complex structured sound elements were inserted, which first covered up and by and by extinguished the older ones. So the shrinking and dissolving fragments and the "young" and powerful soundscapes appear as antagonists of something like "aesthetics of dissapearance." The composition principle is based on the Palimpsest-technique (from the greek "palimpsestos"), which was used until the Middle Ages: manuscript pages or books, that have been written on, were scraped off, and used again.

"Alternances" for violin, clarinet, piano, percussion, cello and tape was written in 1985, the electroacoustic effects being made in the studio of Romanian Radio-Television. The room consists of seven sections, including sections 2, 4 and 6 on tape. The 6th section on tape and "life" is the recurrence of the second section, of the same existing correspondence between sections 1 and 7, 3 and 4. The dominant idea of ​​the work is that of the imbsication of parallel music, with particular character and evolution. The music "life" is transformational, while that recorded in advance is non-transformational and has the appearance of a sound plasma; the first is discontinuous and the second - continuous. From the expressive point of view, the sounds "life" suggest belonging to the world of appearances; on the contrary, the sounds recorded on tape suggest a world of essences, permanence.

The sculpture is created from bronze pieces shaped like parts of violins and other similar instruments. They are stacked and piled one upon another to create a vertical sculpture.

keywords: panorama ; View towards San Lorenzo complex w. Duomo façade (right)

keywords: panorama ; View towards Santa Maria Novella and railroad station

keywords: panorama ; View N of Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo degli Uffizi

None