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Tag: recording

Comparing piano keys sounds with earthquakes [study]

September 28, 2020 Martin Gardiner

Can the recorded sound of a single note played on a piano be compared to the seismic records of an earthquake? If so, how much (so)? A 2020 research project from the Golestan Institute of Higher Education, and the Department of Civil Engineering, Islamic Azad University of Kish Iran, has investigated. “The comparison between near-field […]

Research Newsearthquake, Music, piano, recording

“Dumbness” as a musically authentic asset (new study)

March 4, 2019 Martin Gardiner

  Hector Qirko is not only Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Department Chair at the College of Charleston, US – he’s also, as can be appreciated above, a recording artist. As such, he’s noticed that when it comes to popular music, “dumbness” in performances can sometimes be regarded as a musically authentic asset. “I […]

Research Newsdumb, guitar, Music, pop, recording

Forge a head: Two ears bad, Four ears good

July 17, 2015 Martin Gardiner

A dummy head (or Kunstkopf) is sometimes used to create ‘binaural’ recordings. There can however, be a problem with this approach – in the sense that from the listener’s point of view, it’s not always completely clear which way is the head facing, could it be back to front? Researchers at the Virtual Acoustics and […]

Arts and Sciencedummy, head, listen, microphone, Music, recording, Sound

Karaoke Reversal: A technical approach

September 11, 2013 Martin Gardiner

Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, was awarded the 2004 Ig Nobel peace prize for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other. For the very few of our readers who might not know what karaoke is – we offer this description : ‘It’s a form of interactive […]

Arts and Science, Research NewsKaraoke, Music, pop, recording, singing, song, vocal

Whistlers with Orchestra [from Russia to Germany to you]

September 8, 2012 Marc Abrahams

This photo shows a recording of “whistlers with orchestra” labeled in Russian, reproduced in Germany in English, sort of. Follow the link to hear this scholarly treasure and see more detail about it: [Source: Russian-Records.com]

Arts and ScienceGerman, Music, orchestra, recording, Russian, whistlers

Strained moon sound on a distant night

February 6, 2010 Marc Abrahams

This recording, from about the year 1860, of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville singing “Au Clair de la Lune” is now but a ghost of whatever it sounded like as the song left the man’s mouth. Think of it, if you like, as a song attempted on a distant night about a moon that maybe have […]

Arts and Sciencemoon, recording, song
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