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Joe Corneli

I earned my doctorate at The Open University in Milton Keynes, with a thesis focused on peer production and peer learning in the mathematics domain. The main case study was planetmath.org; the ideas also informed the development of “Peeragogy”. I was a postdoc at Goldsmiths, University of London and then the University of Edinburgh, then a Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. After that, I worked at Brookes on a national Open Research Programme while developing an AI consultancy/advisory service through with Hyperreal Enterprises.

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In 2019 I started Hyperreal Enterprises, Ltd. to begin to develop some of my ideas in a commercial context.

I play upright bass and other instruments in the Oxford-based band X’ed Road of Dreams.

Recent preprints on Arxiv, and OSF, and Zenodo.

double bass: tuned in fifths (C1, G1, D2 and A2), currently with one steel (Pirastro Obligato C rope core, item 343490) and three gut strings. Top two strings are sourced from a supplier to Sarangi players.
viola: drop-tuned (G2 D3 A3 E4) to the viola profonda range. My viola has dual resonators, which is a design feature I haven’t seen in other Stroh-type instruments. I play it in a cross-body position, similar to a cello da spalla. Strings are Gamut equal tension Pistoys.
harmonicas: built into a ten-hole body, tuned in minor thirds (C4, Eb4, Gb4 and A4, etc.; and G3 Bb4 Db4 E4, similarly), AKA diminished tuning.
chromatic accordion: C system
5-string banjo: “Chicago tuning” (D4, C3, F4, A4 and D4 — or, now that I'm running nylgut red strings, C4 G2 C3 E3 A4), to learn something about guitar chords.
upright piano: I recently acquired a piano made by the Thürmer Pianofortefabrik, co-branded Allan and Co., Melbourne.