Engineering and Music "Human Supervision and Control in Engineering and Music"
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31. August 2001

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Kansei Information and Kagura 
in Iwami district
Hiroshi Tamura
Department of Kansei Information,
Faculty of Human Environment, Hiroshima International University
hitamura@dd.iij4u.or.jp
 
 1. Introduction
Kansei is a human faculty, extra to rational reasoning, essential in intuitive judgement, personal preference, selecting attractive combination, satisfaction and maintaining design conformity. Kansei is important in understanding customer preference of commodities, including information and services. The department is established in April, 2001 to meet social needs in research and education of Kansei information fields. 

Logical truth might apply to everybody, whenever, unless other conditions are equal. Kansei judgments might different depending on individual, time and place. Some people might like to dress in same color, while others do not. It is good for every individual to have different Kansei, different preference depending on the situation.

In the course of developing modern technology, many of the requirements are categorized, complex structured objects are built up from standardized parts. Variety of objects meeting the variety of needs are assumed to be provided by suitable combinations of standardized parts. Regulation of parts is an essential part of modern engineering.

Art and music are also under the influence of standardization or regulation. Classic European music introduced 12 codes and their combinations. Each tone step is theoretically defined. If tones are in accordance to the regulation of tone code, harmony among various tones can be assured by theory. Key board instruments enables everybody to play music at the minimum efforts. And talented musicians might add more impression playing something beyond the score.

2. Art of uncertainty
3. Iwami Kagura
4. Conclusion
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