Sound design

a visual representation of the piece. This is very helpful because it shows you the expressive plane. This also opens you up to other ways to listen to music. When listening to music you notice the composer use different elements of sound. Composer’s use of the sound element forms an integral part of his or her style (University of Calgary 1). We experience the expressive plan in terms of feeling we get from what’s happening when watching a movie at a theater. We become aware of everything that…

A sound is the oscillation of pressure in materials such as the atmosphere, water, or the earth. In spite of the fact that the domain for the pressure oscillations of sound is rather small, there is a significant difference in pressure between the weakest sound heard by a human being (such as the sound of the rustling of leaves), and the strongest sound heard by them (such as the launching of a missile, or an explosion). The size of such difference is measured by the range of the oscillations…

mood, meaning and illusion through sound. Sound for a moving image also gives the production an opportunity for additional creative input and to help an audience understand the storyline in greater detail. In film, television and even radio, a soundtrack is made up of audio components that are all used together simultaneously to create effect. Typically in any production there has to a base layer track throughout, and this could be room tone or ambient sound otherwise known as a wild track.…

Impersonal Communication: I worked for Hallmark at Jordan Creek Mall for roughly two and a half years. I started working at the end of my sophomore year of high school where I thought I would start to learn about the real world. I had a simple, short interview that consisted of only three basic questions. The manager that had interviewed me was going to be gone for two weeks on vacation the following weekend. The manager wanted me to be done with school before I started working in the summer. At…

parent and family, coaches, teachers, activities/sports etc have shaped me,” but, for some reason I couldn’t put into words how they’ve shaped me. So, I chose one thing about me that people in my life have shaped, and that’s my misophonia or selective sound sensitivity syndrome. My parents and brother are the reason that I have acquired misophonia, and from time to time I resent them for that. I think my brother almost enjoys getting me going by making all of the…

For as long as I can recall I have enjoyed the ability to observe society and those that live within it, henceforth, recently in the past weeks I have enjoyed spending time with a few close acquaintances from going to a public restaurant to enjoying a motion picture flick. In all these activities I was able to not only observe the public but the environment around us and found some interesting aspect that stood out to me. Observing while spending time socialize is anything from easy as I felt…

spatial memory task. The participants in this study consisted of 46 undergraduate volunteers, 21 men, 26 women, with ages raging from 18-23. Eleven to twelve participants were assigned to four different conditions, one with no music, one with natural sound, and one with instrumental music, and one with vocal music. There were three tasks the participants had to complete, one was a verbal memory task, one was a spatial memory task, and one was a mental arithmetic task. For the verbal memory task…

The Role of Sound and Music in Medicine Touch, sight, taste, smell, and sound; these are the means in which we interact with the world. I ask the question; which one is more important? We have all been asked this before, but has it been given enough thought? Enough research and time? Obviously this is a loaded question, filled with more subjective thoughts and personal preferences than researchable facts. In any case; all the senses are instrumental in our perception of the world. The…

Sound is an essential element that encircle our world, information can be gained through listening, which listening is a more advanced sense in that are fundamental to human. According to Helen Keller, hearing is the soul of knowledge and information of a high order. The disable of listening as if detached from the world, sound is also a factor built this nature, as Max Neuhaus mentioned sound has given context to a place. Sound is that important but in the same time too fundamental, the…

beginning, silence in the middle section with only the clarinets playing, that too in their lower octave, and a feeling of triumph and heroism as the ensemble comes together as one and all of the instruments accompany each other in layering their sounds to convey various emotions to the audience as a…