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Morriña (pronounced more-een-ya) explores notions of identity as seen through the lens of the diasporic Galician-British community. Galicia is a rural region in the North West of Spain that depends economically on fishing and agriculture. The word morriña has no direct English equivalent but can be described as the despondency caused by the nostalgic longing for one’s lost homeland. The word is intimately linked to large numbers of Galicians who were driven by poverty or lack of opportunity to migrate in successive waves from the mid-19th Century onwards. The piece features music, dance and film. and refers to the gestural and musical aspects of baile Gallego. This is a traditional social folk-dance form of Galicia and features musical instruments such as the gaita (Galician bagpipe). Baile Gallego experienced something of a revival in...
This creative interdisciplinary research project extends current audiovisual practice by developing new strategies for the integration of music, dance and film. Through the digital manipulation and re-contextualisation of audiovisual materials the piece explores the role of embodied actions and interactions in dialogic exchange. Morriña (pronounced mour-een-ya) examines notions of identity as seen through the lens of the diasporic Galician (north-west Spanish) community. The word morriña has no direct English equivalent but can be described as the despondency caused by the nostalgic longing for one's lost homeland. It is intimately linked to large numbers of Galicians who were driven to emigrate in successive waves from the mid-19th Century onwards. The struggle to preserve a Galician identity has, consequently, been at the forefront o...
Ian Pace studied piano, composition and percussion at Chetham’s School of Music from 1978 to 1986, followed by Oxford and Cardiff universities and the Juilliard School in New York. He has a dual career as concert pianist and historical musicologist, and is lecturer in music and head of performance at City University London. He writes here in a personal capacity.
The one-dimensional (1D) conduction analytical approaches for a semi-infinite domain, widely adopted in the data processing of transient thermal experiments, can lead to large errors, especially near a corner of solid domain. The problems could be addressed by adopting 2D/3D numerical solutions (finite element analysis (FEA) or computational fluid dynamics (CFD)) of the solid field. In addition to needing the access to a conduction solver and extra computing effort, the numerical field solution based processing methods often require extra experimental efforts to obtain full thermal boundary conditions around corners. On a more fundamental note, it would be highly preferable that the experimental data processing is completely free of any numerical solutions and associated discretization errors, not least because it is often the case tha...
We present results from a hypothetical framed field experiment assessing whether risk preferences significantly differ across the health and financial domains when they are elicited through the same multiple price list paired-lottery method. We consider a sample of 300 patients attending outpatient clinics in a university hospital in Athens, during the Greek financial crisis. Risk preferences in finance are elicited using paired-lottery questions with hypothetical payments. The questions are adapted to the health domain by framing the lotteries as risky treatments in hypothetical healthcare scenarios. Using Maximum Likelihood methods, we estimate the degree of risk aversion, allowing for the estimates to be dependent on domain and individual characteristics. The subjects in o...
