Acoustics Sound category: 434 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
This book presents seven chapters examining selected noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) topics that are highly relevant for automotive vehicle development. These include applications following the major trends toward increased passenger comfort, vehicle electrification and lightweight design. The...
Access All Areas
A Real World Guide to Gigging and Touring
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
From the paperwork to the practical aspects, Access All Areas gives you an excellent insight into the live music and touring industry. Drawing on a vast range of real-world experiences Wilkins provides you with the key technical aspects of gigging and touring in an easily understood manner. Whether...
Acoustic Metamaterials
Negative Refraction, Imaging, Lensing and Cloaking
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
About the book: This book is the first comprehensive review on acoustic metamaterials; novel materials which can manipulate sound waves in surprising ways, which include collimation, focusing, cloaking, sonic screening and extraordinary transmission. It covers both experimental and theoretical aspects...
Audio Production Principles
Practical Studio Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
With this all-in-one manual, students and teachers have an easy-to-read reference that provides a reliable and current rundown of the world of sound production, from planning a recording session to mastering the final product. Organized by four main topics - pre-production, recording various instruments,...
Loudspeakers
For Music Recording and Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Loudspeakers: For Music Recording and Reproduction, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide, offering the tools and understanding needed to cut out the guesswork from loudspeaker choice and set-up.
Philip Newell and Keith Holland, with the assistance of Sergio Castro and Julius Newell, combine...
Vocal Projections
Voices in Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Vocal Projections: Voices in Documentary examines a previously neglected topic in the field of documentary studies: the political, aesthetic, and affective functions that voices assume. On topics ranging from the celebrity voice over to ventriloquism, from rockumentary screams to feminist vocal politics,...
by Thomas Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Sonoluminescence is the transformation of sound into light. To most who know how to do sonoluminescence, it's just a little glowing bubble levitating in a flask of water. But it holds some surprises that have been overlooked. This book looks to reform our scientific understanding of sonoluminescence and explore the practical applications as an energy source.
Mathematical Music Theory
Algebraic, Geometric, Combinatorial, Topological and Applied Approaches to Understanding Musical Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Questions about variation, similarity, enumeration, and classification of musical structures have long intrigued both musicians and mathematicians. Mathematical models can be found from theoretical analysis to actual composition or sound production. Increasingly in the last few decades, musical scholarship...
by
Language: German
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Dieser Band der Reihe Fachwissen Technische Akustik beschreibt die Grundlagen der Schallanalyse sowie die wichtigsten psychoakustischen Kenngrößen. Der heute in zahlreichen Regelwerken überwiegend zur Messung und Beurteilung von Schallpegeln verwendete A-bewertete Schalldruckpegel stellt nur eine...
by Holger Waschinski
Language: German
Release Date: March 20, 2002
Language: German
Release Date: March 20, 2002
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Tontechnik, Note: 2,0, Mediadesign Hochschule für Design und Informatik GmbH Berlin (-), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Vor fast 20 Jahren wurde die CD-Audio als erster digitaler Massentonträger auf den Markt gebracht. Seitdem hat sich die Digitaltechnik...
Bad Singer
The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Author and journalist Tim Falconer — a self-confessed “bad singer” — is one of only 2.5 percent of the population that has been afflicted with amusia, ie: he is scientifically tone-deaf.
Bad Singer chronicles his quest to understand the brain science behind tone-deafness and to search...
This Is Your Brain on Music
The Science of a Human Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain.
Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing...
by Matthew Josephson
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
A great folk hero in American history, Edison is viewed by the public as a facile inventor, the electrical wizard and the perfect symbol of the self-made and practical creator. But he was also a paradoxical figure: deaf, impoverished and with no formal education as a youngster, Edison nevertheless...
by Paul Allen
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Anyone managing an artist’s career needs to be well versed and have a savvy understanding of the moving parts of the music business. You’ll learn how and why those moving parts "move," as well as how to manage and navigate a music-based career.
Artist Management for the Music...