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The most challenging duty for a columnist, blogger, or anyone who writes about popular music is appealing to a demographic of musos and die-hard admirers. It’s one thing to venture off into the skeptical world of music aficionados alone, granted that you’ve taken a class or two on how to speak their technical language, but it's another thing to venture off without being able to communicate why an artist’s musical choices are, in fact, artistic. Take, for example, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A…

Sam Pollard The Senses (Journal) Audition A busy street. A jet in the sky. A child crying. These are just some of the millions of sounds that you encounter on a daily basis. But, how do these sounds go from one object to another? How do our ears work? How do we perceive sound and do we perceive sound differently than others? Even though we cannot see the inside of our ears to find out what is going on, we do know that hearing is triggered by certain physical stimuli. Pressure waves are one thing…

___________________________________________________________________ Low vs. high sound waves 2nd Hypothesis: We believe that a low-frequency wave has a longer wavelength than a high-frequency wave.…

can be a freelance audio engineer. Sometimes musicians and voice actors will also be outsourced for the game but an Audio engineer will have to assist in the recording and editing of these sounds. As well as syncing the voice actors with the game characters. There is no set hours for an Audio Engineer or Sound designer, because of this these job roles can result in long, irregular hours. These roles would usually be working in recording studios. Working times for these roles could be either…

While listening to the first piece of music, which I am familiar with, "What Child Is This?" that is written by William Chatterton Dix, in 1865, using the method of active listening I have given my full attention. The more closely I have listened into, the more I felt it affecting me emotionally more than usually, because of the engagement the variety of different areas of the brain. Paying attention to the details in the well-known music like rhythm, melody, dynamics, harmonies, has helped me…

Hello Beautiful People of the interweb, How are you this week? We've come to the time where I summarize and relate another chapter of Groundswell: Winning in a world transformed by social technologies. So this week I read chapter 5, which is all about listening. The Chapter begins with the importance of brands and how brands play a huge factor in the business world. They state "brand is whatever your customers say it is"(Li & Bernoff, 2011, Pg. 79) which is important to understand. Companies…

According to (skillsyouneed) listening interpersonal skills are key to effective communication, which that can eliminate being misunderstood when information is conveyed. The first rule of mastering listening is you must stop talking, put your focus on what the speaker is saying without interruption. Secondly, show the speaker that you are engaged in the conversation by maintaining eye contact and use nods or other gestures that show you are interested and listening. Show empathy with the…

hung?” the princess asked happily. “No, darling, of course he won't be hung, but he is going to be hanged,” The king said cruelly. “Father, we could be so happy together. We could be like a Taylor Swift song.” The princess started to cry. “That sounds all fine and dandy until he kills you to rule Delamína alone,” The king told his daughter in a knowing tone. Well, at least he knows what's up, I thought to myself. “But dad he wouldn't do that. I bet he came here to propose to end the feud,”…

Tinnitus is the ringing in the ear, which is an unwanted sound that one can hear. The sounds can be constant or comes and goes, soft or loud, and in one ear or both. There are three ways to distinguish the symptoms of the patient’s tinnitus sound: tonal tinnitus, pulsatile tinnitus, and musical tinnitus. Tonal is a near continuous sound that are affiliated with subjective tinnitus, which is just the normal ringing sound, pulsatile is pulsing sound that one hears from their heartbeat and for some…

At 5:30, after the minor procedure, I got off of the operating table and the sounds around me were… different. Weirdly vivid. My life became a little less different. While my hearing is still a little imbalanced, things are easier. Junior year was a struggle and memories from my AP Biology class still haunt me, but senior year…