NJ Auditor » popular culture http://njauditor.com Uncovering the auditor within ... Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:50:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Auditor’s Piano Lessons http://njauditor.com/archives/190 http://njauditor.com/archives/190#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:03:48 +0000 J. Termine http://njauditor.com/?p=190 The Mundelein Society of Ethnomusicologists is conducting a study on an iPhone application called ProChord and its use in teaching others to play the piano.  ProChord allows users to select a key signature and select a chord.  It subsequently accesses a database of popular music to show which chords are most likely to occur after the first chord in popular music.  ProChord does this using a statistic’s engine popular among auditors — the Benford Curve to identify the chord that is most likely to occur out of the sequence.

MSE is also providing free piano lessons in Princeton to interested parties as part of the study.  Prospective students have to fill out a “pre-test” of music knowledge and complete an application.  They are even paid a small fee for their time working through the pedagogy lessons.  If you are interested in working through a MSE pedagogy lesson with me, please let me know.

]]> http://njauditor.com/archives/190/feed 0 The search for auditors in popular culture & literature… http://njauditor.com/archives/171 http://njauditor.com/archives/171#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:37:19 +0000 J. Termine http://njauditor.com/?p=171 Auditors can be an elusive bunch. Ask any stranger to the world of audit about what an auditor is, and many will describe a world of IRS officials who go after people for unpaid taxes. Though these IRS revenue agents do exhibit some of the characteristics of auditors, they do not represent the entire concept of what it means to be an auditor. See my written definition of what an auditor is here.  I would blame the public’s misconception on this due to there being a shortage of auditors appearing in popular culture and literature. I have been searching for some time to find a book written about the life of an auditor or find one playing a significant role in a film or play. This search has not yielded any results thus far prompting me to consider writing something. So if I’m just missing out, though, please correct me and I will post the name of that literary work or pop culture artifact on this site.

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