Creativity: Technology and Music: In collaboration with Susan Schmidt Horning

by Hans-Joachim Braun (Editor)

Overview

This volume features essays on creative processes in invention, engineering design, architecture, music composition, improvisation, sound recording, authenticity in music, and computer music. It explores what these processes have in common and how they can be investigated and modelled.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631543658
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	08/31/2016
Series:	Studien zur Technik-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte , #16
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hans-Joachim Braun is Professor Emeritus of Modern Social, Economic and Technological History at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. He is the former President of the International Committee for the History of Technology. His interests are inventions and innovations, technology and music, sound studies, creative processes, and soccer tactics.

Table of Contents

Computer-aided drafting – Successful design in engineering and architecture – Sketches – Cognitive science – Neo-Darwinism – Embodied cognition – Introspection – Musical composition – Improvisation – Action theory – Sound recording – Authenticity in music – Collaborative creativity – Computer music – Computational creativity

Editorial Reviews

«As a résumé of the book, one might use the metaphor of a mosaic. Like an image made from the assemblage of small pieces of different coloured materials, so is this volume composed of heterogeneous essays featuring different aspects, perspectives, and multidisciplinary approaches to creativity. But despite or probably for exactly that reason, the reader is able to get a glimpse of the essence of creative processes by composing an image of creativity by himself. Perhaps it is simplest to describe this book by remembering the definition of creativity which is given in the introduction: with this collaborative book something new, original, and valuable was formed – with positive connotations.»
(Sonja Neumann, ICON 23/2017)

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