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Chapter 9: Electronics

Description: Sophisticated front-end electronics are a key part of practically all modern radiation detector systems. This chapter introduces the basic principles and their implementation. Topics include signal acquisition, electronic noise, pulse shaping (analog and digital), and data readout techniques.
Date: December 19, 2006
Creator: Grupen, Claus & Shwartz, Boris A.
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Job Opportunities and Employment Requirements for a Person Entering the Field of Electronics as a Technician in the Dallas Metropolitan Area

Description: The problem involved in this study was twofold. The first was to ascertain what the employment requirements were for a person seeking employment in the field 6f electronics as a technician in the Dallas Metropolitan Area. The second was to determine what the job opportunities were for those individuals.
Date: January 1965
Creator: Abney, Horace Ray
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First high-temperature electronics products survey 2005.

Description: On April 4-5, 2005, a High-Temperature Electronics Products Workshop was held. This workshop engaged a number of governmental and private industry organizations sharing a common interest in the development of commercially available, high-temperature electronics. One of the outcomes of this meeting was an agreement to conduct an industry survey of high-temperature applications. This report covers the basic results of this survey.
Date: April 1, 2006
Creator: Normann, Randy Allen
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Managing Electronic Waste: Issues with Exporting E-Waste

Description: This report looks at issues specifically related to export for recycling of electronic waste (e-waste). Particularly, it discusses documented impacts to human health and the environment that have been tied to unsafe recycling practices in developing countries, as well as issues that have motivated certain stakeholders to divert e-waste from landfill disposal and, hence, increase recycling.
Date: October 7, 2009
Creator: Luther, Linda
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Days of dreams: yester yesr faded

Description: Recording of Adrian Carr's, Days of Dreams: yester yesr faded. This piece uses sampled instrumental sounds and the piano part is performed live using digital effects of delay and reverb.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 8 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Carr, Adrian
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Wals van Kwart voor Middermacht

Description: The "Wal...." is an interactive composition for two computers and flute. Musical information, initially produced by the flutist, is transcribed to midi-code and digital loudness information. On basis of this information, the computers assemble a structural and harmonic environment in which the music is laid. Because the composer chooses the initial musical information, he knows this environment and is able to produce a score. In the composition an attempt is made to produce a balance between th… more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 34 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Grosfeld, Geurt
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Tiempos magneticos

Description: Recording of Oscar Pablo Di Liscia's Teimpos magneticos. For piano, flute, tape, live electronics, and electronic sounds produce different kind of combinations. This composition explores the continuum from the perception of a series of short pieces with various degrees of relations to the perception of one piece with several sections. The dialogue between instruments and electronic sounds is stated as the main feature to shape the macro and microform, and it uses several possibilities of combin… more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Di Liscia, Pablo, 1955-
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888: Acht minuten achter acht netten vissen

Description: Recording of Paul Geladi's 888: Acht minuten achter acht netten vissen. This work is for 8 mono soundtracks, supplied as 4 stereo pairs. The soundtracks are in finished form and should be mixed according to a set of instruction given by the composer, on an 8 channel mixer to stereo or quadro configuration loudspeakers. The piece is for live performance. The 8 mono tracks are to be reorganized in 2 groups of 3 and 5 tracks each and the tracks do not have to start synchronously, allowing for an i… more
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Date: 1992/1993
Duration: 8 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Geladi, Paul
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Tavola IV

Description: Recording of Michele Biasutti's Tavola IV. This work is for amplified viola and electronics. This work is one of a series of pieces called Tavole where timbre and dynamic possibilities of music instruments were studied. The organization of the piece is developed by starting from a single note. The technical set-up is made up of reverb, delay, two voice harmonizer's, pitch change program, and the Yamaha SPX 1000; was used in this recording.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 11 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Biasutti, Michele, 1963-
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The screech

Description: Recording of Paul Geladi's The screech. This work is manily bases on the live recording of the screeching sound made by rubbing 2 pieces of metal together. This sound creates a lot of variation in the tonal, rhythmic, and envelope spaces. There is four parts: Start, a stereo recording; Mid, a quadrophonic part supplied as two stereo tracks; End, another stereo recording. live electronics can be added by the experienced performer. Screeching sounds from live animals are preferred. Screeching so… more
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Date: 1993
Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Geladi, Paul
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Conversations with Myself

Description: Recording of Charles Bestor's Conversations with myself. For clarinet and interactive electronics.
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Date: 1994/2000
Duration: 20 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Bestor, Charles
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L'invisible

Description: Recording of François Giraudon's L'invisible. This piece is for strings, live processing, and tape. L'invisible is based on the transfusion and possibilities of concrete sounds of double bass, violin, and synthetic sounds.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 9 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Giraudon, François
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Final Technical Report - 300ĂƒÂƒĂ‚Â‚ĂƒÂ‚Ă‚Â°C Capable Electronics Platform and Temperature Sensor System For Enhanced Geothermal Systems

Description: A silicon carbide (SiC) based electronic temperature sensor prototype has been demonstrated to operate at 300ĂƒÂƒĂ‚Â‚ĂƒÂ‚Ă‚Â°C. We showed continuous operation of 1,000 hours with SiC operational amplifier and surface mounted discreet resistors and capacitors on a ceramic circuit board. This feasibility demonstration is a major milestone in the development of high temperature electronics in general and high temperature geothermal exploration and well management tools in particular. SiC technology offers… more
Date: November 30, 2012
Creator: Chen, Cheng-Po; Shaddock, David; Sandvik, Peter; Saia, Rich; Amita Patil, Alexey Vert & Zhang, Tan
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Incantations and Dances

Description: Incantations and Dances was written during the summer and winter of 1989-90, largely at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation and the Electronic Music Studio of Sweet Briar College. The work was premiered in March of 1990 by the contrabassist Salvatore Macchia, for whom the work was written, and the keyboardist Jeffrey Holmes. The work is a study in real-time interaction between, on the one hand, a pair of live performers, one of whom is playing a conventional acou… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 10 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Bestor, Charles
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Donna che si copre le arecchie per proteggersi dal rumore del tuono

Description: Recording of Roberto Doati's Donna che si copre le arecchie per proteggersi dal rumore del tuono. This work is for flute sounds, synthetic sounds, and live electronics. This work is divided into three parts and uses many techniques: slaps, jet whistles, roaring, timbral trills, multiphonics, and tongue rams. The computer is use to modify the original sound, the flute is processed through stretching, compression, and pitch transposition.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Doati, Roberto
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Flood Gate

Description: The computer tries to make sense of what the violin and piano are playing. The humans play from a score or improvise within some notated constraints derived from the other material in the composition. In either case, the computer characterizes the music it is hearing and uses that information to generate a musical response. There are no sequences in the computer part : the only stored musical gestures are the frequently recurring chord sounds and the timbral combinations used for different part… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Rowe, Robert, 1954-
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Taking the Gliss...

Description: Recording of Simon Hall's Taking the Gliss... This work is for bass trombone, tape, and live electronics. The intention of this piece for bass trombone is to explore some of the different kinds of possible glissandos and the role electronics can play. The tape part is exclusively from brass and vocal sounds, which are electronically manipulated using a range of analogue and digital techniques. Yet most of the piece focuses on the instrumental domain through out the piece.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 20 minutes 01 second
Creator: Hall, Simon, 1964-
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Trying to translate

Description: Recording of Katharine Norman's Trying to Translate. In this piece, the polarity between the instruments and tape is explored. During the performance the piano is processed live to enhance independence. The instruments used are tape, piano, voice, and electronics.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 25 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Norman, Katharine
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Inijimi

Description: Recording of Frederick L. Malouf's Inijimi. This work is a timbral improvisation in dedication to Jimi Hendrix and "...And Gods Made Love" is a sample featured in the work. The improvisational aspect of this work is crucial, the composer is being lead by the feeling of listening to Jimi Hendrix, while playing guitar and electronics.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Malouf, Frederick L.
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