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escape having to sit in silence with nothing but their own thoughts. Often times when the mind is left alone to wander it stumbles upon things that people try to push out of their memory and avoid. By using strong imagery, structural devices and sound effects song writer Tyler Joseph of Twentyone Pilots discusses this theme in the song “Car Radio”. All throughout the song Tyler manages to incorporate striking diction and phrases that set in place the impact that sitting in silence has on a…

I snap my fingers and the air around me shifts then vibrates. When the air vibrates, it creates a sound wave. Our ears pick up this wave and translates it so we can understand and comprehend what amazing intangible creation is before us. A middle C key is pushed on a piano, the hammer hits the tuned wire, the wire vibrates and creates the sound humans recognize as a simple C. As time has passed, humans have progressed from single note instruments, to handwriting sheet music for orchestras, to…

ranked amongst the most rapid and complex developments in Diagnostic Imaging and healthcare. With this growth have come concerns, primarily the concerns of the effects of the sound waves on the biological tissues. These hazards derive mostly from the heating of the tissue by the absorption of the sound energy, from the mechanical effects (cavitation) arising from the presence of gas, and from radiation pressure. The mechanisms that result are Bioeffects. Bioeffects are an…

piece when the entire brass or the woodwind section would come together on rhythms and play chords together creating a fool smooth sounds that glided over the audience. However, though this piece may have sounded easy and laid…

Columbia University, this was undeniably the case. While the film was produced at an undeniably high caliper, with every detail ranging from lighting to shot development being nearly without flaw, the sound design above all else drove the mood of the production forward. Of all the elements of the sound design of a production, likely the first to appear and additionally the first which is noticed by the audience is the music. The plot of the film “Nocturne in Black” centers on a piano…

Sound Engineer Everyone loves anyone who can play music, and not everyone can do so. For those, world has something called, Studio Engineering or being a "roadie" where one is a part of a team who needs these few of many skills. A sound engineer must have field experience or a degree in sound and audio tech, and a good estimation for the positioning equipment to give the best possible sound for everyone. One needs a lot of field experience or a degree in sound and audio tech, and a good…

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…

Brunel, Vallet & Versace(2009) created a study to examine the effect cross-modal priming presents when interrupted by visual and auditory simulations/masks, in order to prove that the priming effects is contingent to intuition/knowledge. Two experiments were conducted; each consisted of twenty-four students from Lyon 2 University in France, who were all right-handed and had normal/corrected vision. The first experiment focused on visual priming, which consisted of six practice trials and six…

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…

Therapeutic listening is a novel concept that also provides musical stimulation for increasing various skills, as described by Frick and Montez (2005): Therapeutic listening uses developmental and sensory integration frameworks, uses the organized sound patterns inherent in music, uses music that is electronically altered to elicit a specific response, focuses on postural organization and breath regulation (core), and provides a catalyst for eliciting emergent skills (p. 2). Therapeutic…