There are unique auditory processes that are very important to help the listener deal with simultaneous, often competing audio signals or sources such as competing speakers or musical instruments/instrumental sections within an orchestra. To be able to distinguish the individual sounds and more importantly, the individual superimposed vibrations travelling to the listener, the auditory system, and the architecturally designed environments, have specific methods that allow the listeners ears to hear a reliable impression of what is going on around us, be that musical or simply auditory (Plomp, n.d.).
There are factors that can alter the way that sound is heard by the listener in various environments. One main occurrence is reflection, when …show more content…
Békésy’s ‘Improved Musical Dynamics by Variation of Apparent Sound Source’, discusses attribute of volume describing the way lower tones are more voluminous than high tones, which are more compact and dense sounding resulting in a lower volume. Emphasis on lower tones or bass pitches results in a higher volume, found in rock concerts in particular.
In a performance setting, it is very difficult for a performer to determine what the music will actually sound like to the listener. There is only so much rehearsal you can do to make small adjustments such as placement on stage, to enrich the performance as much as possible.
When recording live concerts or music we have to be very careful with how it is executed. Many modern recordings have an almost unnatural ‘clarity’ to them, including the unavoidable noises that are involved with the playing of the instrument, e.g. sliding of fingers over strings, which is not quite realistic of how the playing of the piece would be perceived if the listener was sat at a standard distance from the player. (Beament,
There are factors that can alter the way that sound is heard by the listener in various environments. One main occurrence is reflection, when …show more content…
Békésy’s ‘Improved Musical Dynamics by Variation of Apparent Sound Source’, discusses attribute of volume describing the way lower tones are more voluminous than high tones, which are more compact and dense sounding resulting in a lower volume. Emphasis on lower tones or bass pitches results in a higher volume, found in rock concerts in particular.
In a performance setting, it is very difficult for a performer to determine what the music will actually sound like to the listener. There is only so much rehearsal you can do to make small adjustments such as placement on stage, to enrich the performance as much as possible.
When recording live concerts or music we have to be very careful with how it is executed. Many modern recordings have an almost unnatural ‘clarity’ to them, including the unavoidable noises that are involved with the playing of the instrument, e.g. sliding of fingers over strings, which is not quite realistic of how the playing of the piece would be perceived if the listener was sat at a standard distance from the player. (Beament,