Sonic Playground: The Influence of the Recording Studio on Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells

O'Halloran, Emma Mary Princeton University ProQuest Dissertations & Thes 2019 해외박사(DDOD)

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Featuring a combination of folk, rock, and minimalist influences, Tubular Bells is the 1973 debut album of English composer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield. Not only was this album a huge commercial success, but it is fascinating on an artistic level being one of the first instances of a large-scale multi-instrumental record largely performed by a single person. Using a detailed original transcription, this dissertation will examine how Tubular Bells was created, why it works, and how Oldfield's studio-based composition process foreshadowed a working method that is now widespread amongst contemporary composers and producers.The original composition that completes my dissertation, Mary Motorhead, is a thirty-minute operatic monodrama for lyric mezzo-soprano and amplified chamber ensemble. The work is adapted from a play by my uncle Mark O'Halloran about the secret life of an incarcerated woman who travels through her memory in search of freedom from her past. In many ways, Mary Motorhead represents the culmination of the studio-based writing process I developed over the course of my time at Princeton. Although it sounds very different from Tubular Bells, I approached the composition process in a similar way, using the recording studio as a compositional tool and this has allowed me to include all the disparate musical elements that make up who I am as a composer.

A classification of Academic and Student Affairs collaboration in higher education from a Student Affairs perspective

O'Halloran, Kim C New York University 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

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Review of previous research and related literature of collaboration between academic and student affairs indicated that collaboration activities were valued by both groups as a means to enhancing student learning, and that collaboration was taking place, most often led by student affairs. While collaboration between academic and student affairs has been a frequent topic in the literature during the past decade, the research has been narrowly focused, limited to examining specific types of collaboration, the process of developing collaboration activities, and the factors that influence the success or failure of such partnerships. While studies have delved deeply regarding specific instances, there has been no comprehensive look into how collaboration is defined, the differences and similarities among types of collaboration, or their connection to various types of higher education institutions. In addition, despite variation in the impetus, method of adoption, funding, and organizational responsibility, no study has examined the similarities and differences between collaboration activities and these components. This study aimed to explore these missing gaps in the literature and develop a theory that explains collaboration between academic and student affairs on a larger scale. An online survey was developed, tested and distributed to Chief Student Affairs officers at 395 colleges and universities. This survey included questions to ascertain the types of collaboration that was taking place on each campus, the scope and degree of collaboration, and the ways in which such collaboration activities were implemented. The research questions that guided the study aimed to determine the feasibility of developing a classification of collaboration between academic and student affairs, the groups that would cluster into distinct types, the similarities and differences among the groups, and the variables that most contributed to the formation of such groups. The study resulted in a classification of collaboration between academic and student affairs, which included five distinct types of collaboration. These categories ranged from institutions with limited collaboration between academic and student affairs to strong partnerships between the two groups, most led by academic affairs and some by student affairs.

Accelerated imaging with constrained reconstruction and undersampled radial acquisition: Applications to hyperpolarized helium-3 MRI

O'Halloran, Rafael L The University of Wisconsin - Madison 2009 해외박사(DDOD)

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Hyperpolarized helium-3 (HP He3) provides a unique contrast agent for imaging the airspaces of the lungs with high contrast to noise. However the signal decays back to thermal polarization levels at a rate determined by T1 and is also partially consumed without recovery by each applied RF excitation. The short breath hold times required to accommodate patients with compromised lung function (<20 s) imposes additional time constraints on the technique. Because of these limitations, accelerated imaging techniques can provide a tremendous advantage over existing methods and may enable applications that are otherwise impossible. The combination of constrained reconstruction techniques such as HYPR and I-HYPR with undersampled radial acquisition enables reconstruction of more images per repetition time. This has the effect of reducing both scan time and the number of RF pulses that must be applied, saving magnetization. This technique is applied to HP He-3 q-space imaging of the lung and rapid dynamic imaging of ventilation.

From Boucicault to Beckett: Irish modernism and the myth of Mother Ireland (Samuel Beckett, Dion Boucicault)

O'Halloran, Eileen T The University of Wisconsin - Madison 2004 해외박사(DDOD)

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Although primarily associated with the Irish Literary Revival (roughly 1880s through 1920s) and with Irish cultural nationalism, the figure of Mother Ireland functions as a controversial source of debate for writers, activists, and feminists in both the Republic and in Northern Ireland today. In context of contemporary theories regarding nationalism and feminism, this dissertation turns to early literary sites of resistance to, and appropriation of, the trope of woman-as-nation. Instead of interpreting Mother Ireland, Cathleen ni Houlihan, and The Poor Old Woman as having fixed political meanings, my work demonstrates that these tropes have had both limiting and liberating effects on Irish writers as they struggled to imagine a new nation. This dissertation begins with Dion Boucicault's immensely successful melodrama, The Colleen Bawn (1860), in orderto introduce and contextualize the trope of woman-as-nation. Chapter Two, "'Rebel Maid': The Irish Nation and The New Irish Woman," engages with the first active rewriting of the trope of the cailin (young woman). An examination of popular and "feminist" newspapers such as The Shan Van Vocht (1896--1898) (Poor Old Woman) and Bean na hEireann (1908--1912) (Woman of Ireland) demonstrates that Irish women writers utilized and undermined this nationalist trope as they offered a conception of "The New Irish Woman"---the "rebel maid"---in contrast to the British New Woman. Chapter Three, "Corrupt Cathleens and 'Frisky Frumps': Aging Irish Womanhood and Ulysses" explores both Ulysses's well-known hags (the milkwoman of "Telemachus" and the crones of "Circe") as well as the overlooked old woman figures of Stephen's parable (Florence MacCabe and Anne Kearns). I argue that Florence and Anne are modernist Mother Ireland figures who are key to Stephen's aesthetics and to nationalist narratives in Ulysses. Chapter Four, "'Some Ancient Horror:' Beckett and the Myth of Mother Ireland" reappraises Beckett's critical writings on Irish culture and explores the persistence of hags and cailins in Beckett's oeuvre, from Dream of Fair to Middling Women (written in 1932) to Ill Seen Ill Said (1981).