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Body Experience and Human Body as a Relationship of Music and Object
Pálka-Plachká, Michaela ; RATAJ, Michal (advisor) ; TROJAN, Jan (referee)
This thesis is focused on the field of art in which there is an organic connection of music/ /sound structure and another types of art. It tries to bring these specific art forms in the context of the area Klangkunst and see them in relation to the broader historical tradition. It tries to answer how the music/sound was interconnected with other types of art, and how this development took place in the 19th century to intermediate art. It explains the key concepts of Klangkunst, especially in their German context, and tries to incorporate them into the Czech context. An important level of the subject is body experience and sensory perception. The work tries to answer the specifics of hearing and visual perception, the synergy of both senses, as in the creation of selected authors the phenomenon of whole-body perception and perception of the work of art through its own movement. Various philosophical and musical insights are divided into categories of space, time and silence, and these categories are explored in the work of selected authors – Heiner Goebbels, Christina Kubisch and Bernhard Leitner. The aim of the analyzes is to show how the perception of these categories is shifting in the context of the traditional composition tradition. In the next part I analyze my own work Hmaty… doteky, which was created by connecting the electroacoustic composition with the inputs of a living artist in coexistence with the artistic and movement action and is a common work of several authors.
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Composition and Computation
Hejl, Matouš ; RATAJ, Michal (advisor) ; TROJAN, Jan (referee)
The text proposes to descirbe a few conceptual areas associated with the philosophy of technics and media through which it then interprets certain aspects of the role of technics in music. By doing so, it attempts to suggest a framework for understanding the computer and algorithmic musical thought. Reflections on the continuity of human technicity seek to unveil some facets of the digital computer – which can be seen for example as a dynamic cumulation of logical thought. At the same time, the text stresses the role of the composer as an organizer and living interpreter of the computational machine.
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Numerický systém v elektroakustické hudební kompozici se zaměřením na numerické systémy starověké Číny Yin Yang a Wu Xing
Wan, Yuk Bun ; RATAJ, Michal (advisor) ; MRKVIČKA, Luboš (referee)
Tato práce se soustřeďuje na výzkum různých numerických zařízení starověkého čínského číselného systému, jako je sekvence Wu Xing a související funkce, za účelem generování různých kompozičních materiálů pro hudební složení podle výsledku trigramu (Gua / 掛).
Mým celkovým přístupem je vyvinout metody, které nám dávají svobodu volby různých kompozičních materiálů, protože můžeme generovat velmi odlišný kompozitní materiál, jako jsou váhy a akordy, výsledkem Bagua (八 掛) místo operace změny Johna Cagea, Který pouze splňuje určité výsledky, generalizuje celý kus automaticky. Proto můžeme vybrat nejvhodnější materiály pro hudební kompozici a lépe řídit kompoziční proces. Uvedené prvky jsou velmi jednoduché; Nicméně, numerické vztahy mezi nimi mohou být velmi složité. Přestože to nabízí atraktivní potenciál pro jejich použití při tvorbě nových kompozičních materiálů, musíme vyřešit komplikaci procesu a vyhnout se chybě výpočtů. S odkazem na tento problém můžeme použít několik způsobů, jak správně přispět k procesu generování: Aplikace počítače pro výpočet, zabránění použití složitých vzorců v systémech a křížová kontrola jinou osobou.
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Music as Film, Film as Music
Klusák, Martin ; RATAJ, Michal (advisor) ; BARTOŇ, Hanuš (referee)
The core of this work is to search for analogies between different aspects of music composition and film speech in relation to music and film theories and my own compositions and art works.
The initial chapter focuses on the terms visual music and synaesthesia. The second chapter is the principal part of the thesis, and compares different parameters of musical composition and film speech and tries to find inspirational influences between these two. In the third chapter I use the previous research to analyze chosen own works.
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Genetic polymorphism in the NBS1 gene for diagnosis and treatment of patients with cervical carcinoma
Rataj, Michal ; Beránek, Martin (advisor) ; Šimůnek, Tomáš (referee)
Charles University in Prague Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department of Biochemical Sciences Candidate: Bc. Michal Rataj Supervisor: Doc. PharmDr. Martin Beránek Ph.D. Title of diploma thesis: Genetic polymorphism in the NBS1 gene for diagnosis and treatment of patients with cervical carcinoma The aim of this diploma thesis is to find optimal methods for screening of mutation 657del5 and estimate frequency of heterozygotes and homozygotes for the mutation 657del5 in population of the Czech republic. In the first section of the theoretical part is comprehensively pointed out the effect of factors affecting the integrity of genetic information and the formation of mutations in DNA. On the contrary, the second section devotes to the ability of cells to respond to this damage. In detail, the thesis devotes to the NBS1 gene and its product nibrin. In the complex MRE11/Rad50/NBN nibrin is an important member of the mechanisms of repair of double strand breaks NHEJ (non-homologous end joining) and HR (homologous recombination). The thesis is focused on nibrin and its functions, but also to mutations that prevent these functions and causes genetic disease Nijmegen breakage syndrome. Nibrin is translated from the sequence of the NBS1 gene. Gene NBS1 appears in population with several various...
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Transmission of human body's movement into sound using sensors
Rataj, Jakub ; RATAJ, Michal (advisor) ; TROJAN, Jan (referee)
This work treats about the permeation of two different compositional approaches (real time technologie and instrumental composition) in proper piece of art - music and dance performance The Art of Manipulation. First I treat about the development of interactive motion sensing systems in the last fifty years and further I describe to different possibilities of their categorisation. In the next part I describe the performance The Art of Manipulation in terms of its dramaturgy and musical content. Further I deal with compositional methods that I used in the instrumental and electroacoustic musical plane and concurrently I analyze their relationship. In the end I describe the architecture and function of the virtual instrument used for real time sound recording and processing.
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Randomness in music: an overview of the current possibilities
Dos Santos Agostinho Filho, Gilberto ; MRKVIČKA, Luboš (advisor) ; RATAJ, Michal (referee)
Randomness has become an integral part of the contemporary composer's technical pallet. From trivial dice rolls to complex stochastic systems, there is an enormous amount of different methods that can be used in order to apply randomness in music: the results of simple coin tosses can be translated into any sort of binary data (e.g. note/silence), probability distributions may be use to control musical parameters or even musical form, Markov chains can be used to generate the path which a composition will take, etc. To emphasize the importance of these indeterminate techniques, this work will first take a historical look on randomness in the 20th century music, puncuated by relevant musical examples. These techniques are then discussed from a contemporary point of view, focusing on their relevance for the music today, dealing both with acoustic and electroacoustic music, generated with or without the aid of computers.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen and The Beatles
Hejl, Matouš ; RATAJ, Michal (advisor) ; TROJAN, Jan (referee)
The text proposes to describe the relationship between Karlheinz Stockhausen and the work of The Beatles in the late sixties regarding especially their album Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It compares how they worked within the same technnical system and it shows changes that occured in music with the conception of studio as a musical instrument. On a more general level, one theme of the text is the difference between so called serious, or avantgarde music and popular music. Through comparing the way Stockhausen and The Beatles approached a few selected aspects of music making, it presentes them next to each other rather than against each other. Another general theme is the relationship between technical inovation and music creation.
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Vstupování nehudebních prvků do hudebních struktur
Cílková, Eliška ; RATAJ, Michal (advisor) ; TROJAN, Jan (referee)
Since the beginnings of musical art, composers have been reflecting on the social topics of their time. We can mention the great industrial revolution and Honneger's composition inspired by the Pacific 271 steam locomotive. Radioactive decay is one of the basic phenomena in the universe thanks to which our Earth is kept in balance. The first part of this work deals with a brief history and current trends in working with numbers as well as with generative music and reflections of the natural environment in music. The second part explores the history of radioactivity in conjunction with music and presentes a few examples of direct evidence that throughout the history of music, radioactivity has already been dealt with by composers. It also outlines a possible linkage of the two themes and refers to the art form of soundscape. The third part describes scientific measurements and shows on a few specific musical examples the practical possibilities of using radioactive data in compositional practice.
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